The War Upon Religion: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in EuropeCunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
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The War Upon Religion: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe
Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
Catholic Church -- Europe; Catholic Church -- History; Church and state -- Catholic Church
Article 6. Recourse to the Council of State shall be had in
every case of abuse on the part of superiors and other
ecclesiastical persons.
The cases of abuse are as follows: Usurpation or excess of
power, contravention of the laws and regulations of the
Republic; violation of the rules which are consecrated by the
Canons received in France; any attack on the liberties,
privileges, and customs of the French church; and every
undertaking or proceeding which, in the exercise of worship,
might compromise the honor of citizens, trouble their
consciences unnecessarily, or which might degenerate into a
source of oppression or injury to them, or become a public
scandal.
Article 7. Recourse to the Council of States shall also be
permitted whenever an attack is made upon the public
exercise of worship, and the liberty which the laws and
regulations guarantee to its ministers.
Article 8. This recourse is the privilege of all persons
interested. In default of a particular complaint, this duty
will devolve upon the prefects. Public functionaries,
ecclesiastics or other persons who wish to make use of this
appeal, will address a memorial, detailed and signed, to the
counsellor of State charged with all matters concerning
religion, whose duty it will be to obtain, in the shortest
time possible, all proper information, and upon his report
the affair will be taken up and finished in the
administrative form, or sent, as the case may demand, to the
competent authorities.
Article 11. The archbishops and bishops may, with the
authorization of the Government, establish in their dioceses
cathedral chapters and seminaries. All other ecclesiastical
establishments are suppressed.
Article 12. Bishops shall be permitted to add to their names
the title of Citizen or that of Monsieur. All other
qualifications are interdicted.
Article 16. No one may be nominated to bishopric who has not
attained the age of thirty years, or who is not of French
origin.
Article 18. The priest nominated by the First Consul shall
make haste to obtain institution from the Pope.
He cannot exercise any function before the bull containing
such institution has received the seal of the Government, and
before he has taken personally the oath prescribed by the
convention made between the French Government and the Holy
See. This oath shall be taken before the First Consul: a
formal attestation of the same shall be drawn up by the
Secretary of State.
Article 19. The bishops shall name and install the pastors;
nevertheless they shall not publish their nomination nor give
canonical institution until that nomination has been approved
by the First Consul.
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