Chapter V: Book III

FROM THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE
QUESTION OF INFALLIBILITY

CHAPTER I

The First Session, December 8, 1869, or Opening
Ceremony--Mustering--Robing--The Procession--The Anthem and
Mass--The Sermon--The Act of Obedience--The Allocution--The
Incensing--Passing Decrees--The _Te Deum_--Appreciations
of various Witnesses 271

CHAPTER II

First Proceedings--Unimportant Committees and All-Important
Commissions--No Council if Pope dies--Theologians discover
their Disfranchisement--Father Ambrose--Parties and Party
Tactics--Were the Bishops Free Legislators?--Plans of
Reconstruction--Plan of the German Bishops--Segesser's Plan--New
Bull of Excommunications 308

CHAPTER III

Further Party Manoeuvres--Election of Permanent
Committees--Bull of Excommunications--Various opinions of
it--Position of Antonelli--No serious Discussion
desired--Perplexities of the Bishops--Reisach's
Code suppressed--It may reappear--Attitude of Governments 333

CHAPTER IV

First open Collisions of Opinion--Pending Debate--Fear of an
Acclamation--Rauscher opens--Kenrick--Tizzani--General
discontent with the Draft--Vacant Hats--Speaking by
Rank--Strossmayer--No permission to read the Reports, even
of their own Speeches--Conflicting Views--Petitions to Pope
from Bishops--Homage of Science--Theism 358

CHAPTER V

The Second Public Session--Swearing a Creed never before
known in a General Council--Really an Oath including
Feudal Obedience 379

CHAPTER VI

Speech of the Pope against the Opposition--Future Policy
set before France--Count Arnim's Views--Resumed
Debate--Haynald--A New Mortal Sin--Count Daru and French
Policy--Address calling for the New Dogma--Counter Petitions
against the Principle as well as the Opportuneness 391

CHAPTER VII

Matters of Discipline--Remarks of Friedrich on the Morals of the
Clergy--Also on the War against Modern Constitutions--Morality
of recent Jesuit Teaching--Darboy's Speech--Melcher's Speech--A
Dinner Party of Fallibilists--One of Infallibilists--Gratry--Debate
on the Morals of the Clergy 411

CHAPTER VIII

Church and State--Draft of Decrees with Canons--Gains
Publicity--Principles involved--Views of Liberal
Catholics--The Papal View of the Means of Resistance possessed
by Governments 431

CHAPTER IX

The Courts of Vienna and Paris manifest Anxiety--Disturbances
in Paris--Daru's Letters--Beust moves--His Despatches--His
Passage of Arms with Antonelli--Daru's Despatch and
Antonelli's Reply--Daru's Rejoinder--Beust lays down the
Course which Austria will follow--Arnim's Despatch--The
_Unitá_ on the Situation--Veuillot on the
Situation--Satisfaction of the Ultramontanes 442

CHAPTER X

Personal Attack on Dupanloup--Attempts at a
Compromise--Impossibility of now retreating--Daru
Resigns--Ollivier's Policy--Feeling that the Proceedings
must be Shortened--The Episode of the Patriarch
of Babylon--Proposal for a New Catechism--Michaud on
Changes in Catechism--The Rules revised--An Archbishop
stopped--Protest of One Hundred Bishops--Movement of Sympathy
with Döllinger--The Pope's Chat--Pope and M. de
Falloux--Internal Struggle of Friedrich 457