Chapter III: Book I

FROM THE ISSUE OF THE SYLLABUS TO ITS SOLEMN CONFIRMATION,
DECEMBER 1864 TO JUNE 1867

CHAPTER I

The First Secret Command to commence Preparations for a General
Council, December 6, 1864--Meeting of Congregation--All but
Cardinals sent out--Secret Order--Events of the 8th--Solemn
Anniversary--A historical _coup de soleil_ 1

CHAPTER II

The Encyclical _Quanta Cura_, December 8, 1864--Causes of
the Ruin of Modern Society: rejection of the "force" of the
Church--Religious Equality--Pretensions of Civil Law and of
Parents to Control Education--Laws of Mortmain--Remedies--Restoration
of the Authority of the Church--Connecting Links between Encyclical
and Syllabus--Retrospect of Evidences that all Society was in
Ruins--The Movement for Reconstruction 5

CHAPTER III

Foundation of a Literature of Reconstruction, Serial and
Scholastic--The _Civiltá Cattolica_: its Views on Education
and on Church and State--Tarquini's Political Principles of Pope
and King--Measures Preparatory to the Syllabus 14

CHAPTER IV

Further Measures Preparatory to the Syllabus--Changes in
Italy since 1846--Progress of Adverse Events--A Commination
of Liberties--A Second Assembly of Bishops without Parliamentary
Functions--The Curse on Italy--Origin of the phrase "A Free
Church in a Free State"--Projected Universal Monarchy 28

CHAPTER V

The Syllabus of Errors, December 8, 1864--Character of the
Propositions condemned--Disabilities of the State--Powers of the
Church 43

CHAPTER VI

The Secret Memoranda of the Cardinals, February 1865 57

CHAPTER VII

A Secret Commission to prepare for a Council, March 1865--First
Summons--Points determined--Reasons why Princes are not
consulted--Plan for the Future Council 62

CHAPTER VIII

Memoranda of Thirty-six chosen Bishops, consulted under Bond of
Strictest Secrecy, April to August, 1865--Doctrine of Church and
State--Antagonism of History and the Embryo Dogma--Nuncios
admitted to the Secret--And Oriental Bishops 65

CHAPTER IX

Interruption of Preparations for Fourteen Months, through the
consequences of Sadowa--The French evacuate Rome--Alleged
Double Dealing of Napoleon III--The _Civiltá_ on St.
Bartholomew's--Change of Plan--Instead of a Council a Great
Display--Serious Complaints of Liberal Catholics 70

CHAPTER X

Reprimand of Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, for disputing the
Ordinary and Immediate Jurisdiction of the Pope in his
Diocese--Sent in 1864 Published in 1869 76

CHAPTER XI

Great Gathering in Rome, June 1867--Impressions and
Anticipations--Improvements in the City--Louis Veuillot on
the Great Future 83

CHAPTER XII

The Political Lesson of the Gathering, namely, All are
called upon to recognize in the Papal States the Model State
of the World--Survey of those States 87

CHAPTER XIII

Solemn Confirmation of the Syllabus by the Pope before the
assembled Hierarchy, and their Acquiescence, June 17, 1867 110