Chapter IV: Book II

FROM THE FIRST PUBLIC INTIMATION OF A COUNCIL TO THE EVE
OF THE OPENING, JUNE 1867 TO DECEMBER 1869

CHAPTER I

First Public Intimation of the intention to hold a Council,
June 26 to July 1, 1867--Consistory--Acquiescence in the
Syllabus of the assembled Bishops--The Canonized
Inquisitor--Questions and Returns preparatory to Greater
Centralization--Manning on the Ceremonies--O'Connell on
the Doctrines of the Papists--The Doctrine of Direct
and Indirect Power 113

CHAPTER II

Six Secret Commissions preparing--Interrupted by
Garibaldi--A Code for the Relations of the Church and Civil
Society--Special Sitting with Pope and Antonelli to decide
on the Case of Princes--Tales of the Crusaders--English
Martyrs--Children on the Altar--Autumn of 1867 to June 1868 131

CHAPTER III

Bull of Convocation--Doctrine of the Sword--The Crusade of
St. Peter--Incidents--Mission to the Orientals, and
Overtures to Protestants in different Countries--June 1868
to December 1868-69 143

CHAPTER IV

Princes, Ministers, and their Confessors--Montalembert's
part in the Revival--His Posthumous Work on Spain--Indignation
against the New Assumptions--Debate of Clergy in Paris on
the Lawfulness of Absolving a Liberal Prince or Minister--Wrath
at Rome--True Doctrines taught to Darboy and his Clergy 153

CHAPTER V

What is to be the Work of the Council--Fears caused by
Grandiose Projects--_Reform of the Church in Head and
Members_--Statesmen evince Concern 164

CHAPTER VI

Agitation in Bavaria and Germany--The Golden Rose--Fall of
Isabella--The King of Bavaria obtains the opinion of the
Faculties--Döllinger--Schwarzenberg's Remonstrance 176

CHAPTER VII

Intention of proposing the Dogma of Infallibility
intimated--Bavarian Note to the Cabinets, February to April,
1869--Arnim and Bismarck 182

CHAPTER VIII

Indulgences--Excitement--The Two Brothers Dufournel--Senestrey's
Speech--Hopes of the Ruin of Germany--What the Council will
do--Absurdity of Constitutional Kings--The True Saviour of
Society--Lay Address from Coblenz--Montalembert adheres to
it--Religious Liberty does not answer--Importance of keeping
Catholic Children apart from the Nation--War on Liberal
Catholics--Flags of all Nations doing Homage to that of the Pope 186

CHAPTER IX

Publication of _Janus_--Hotter Controversy--Bishop Maret's
Book--Père Hyacinth--The Saviour of Society again--Dress--True
Doctrine of Concordats not Contracts but Papal Laws--Every
Catholic State has Two Heads--_Four National Governments
condemned in One Day_--What a Free Church means--Fulda
Manifesto--Meeting of Catholic Notables in Berlin--Political
Agitation in Bavaria and Austria--Stumpf's Critique of the
Jesuit Schemes 197

CHAPTER X

Conflicting Manifestoes by Bishops--Attacks on
Bossuet--Darboy--Dupanloup combats Infallibility--His relations
with Dr. Pusey--Deschamps replies--Manning's Manifesto--Retort
of Friedrich--Discordant Episcopal Witnesses 215

CHAPTER XI

Diplomatic Feeling and Fencing in Rome, November 1869--Cross
Policies on Separation of Church and State--Ollivier, Favre,
De Banneville--Doctrines of French Statesmen ridiculed at
Rome--Specimens of the Utterances approved at Court--Forecasts
of War between France and Prussia--Growing Strength of the
Movement in France for Universities Canonically Instituted 231

CHAPTER XII

Mustering, and Preparatory Stimuli--Pope's Hospitality--Alleged
Political Intent--Friedrich's First Notes--The Nations cited to
Judgment--New War of the Rosary--Tarquini's Doctrine of the
Sword--A New Guardian of the Capitol--November and December,
1869 239

CHAPTER XIII

Great Ceremony of Executive Spectacle, called a Pro-Synodal
Congregation, to forestall Attempts at Self-Organization on
the Part of the Council--The Scene--The Allocution--Officers
appointed by Royal Proclamation--Oath of Secrecy--Papers
Distributed--How the Nine had foreseen and forestalled all
Questions of Self-Organization--The Assembly made into a
Conclave, not a General Council--Cecconi's Apology for the Rules 249

CHAPTER XIV

The Eve of the Council--Rejoicings--Rome the Universal
Fatherland--Veuillot's Joy--Processions--Symbolic
Sunbeams--The Joy bells--The Vision of St. Ambrose--The
Disfranchisement of Kings 262