[32] Schrader, Pius IX, als Papst und als König, p. 21. Idcirco summo pere optamus novos apud Deum habere patronos, qui in tanto rerum discrimine validissimis suis precibus impetrent ut, tam horribili discussa malorum procella optatissimam Catholica Ecclesia et Civilis Societas assequatur pacem.
[33] Papst und König, p. 23.
[34] Civiltá Cattolica, Serie V, vol. ii. p. 721. Their words are: "In nobili, tranquilla, et alma libertate catholicam fidem tueri," etc.
Monsignor Nardi proudly referred Mamiani, in the summer of 1869, to the folio volumes in which 835 bishops had inscribed their adhesion to the necessity of the temporal power. (Stimmen, Neue Folge, v. p. 153.)
[35] Civiltá, Serie V. vol. ii. pp. 719, 723. "Tu populis lumen indeficiens.... Tu Petra es, et ipsius ecclesiæ fundamentum.... Te loquente, Petrum audimus, Te decernente, Christo obtemperamus." The text even of the Vulgate is changed in the words, Tu Petra es.
[36] Life of Pius IX. Frond, vol. i. p. 102.
[37] Il Genio Cattolico Periodico Religioso—Scientifico, Litterario, Politico di Reggio Nell' Emilia, 1873.
[38] This is briefly and well put in the Acta Sanctæ Sedis (V. 146), where an article of the Times on the bull of convocation of the Vatican Council is belaboured through twelve pages of double-column Latin. That journal had the audacity to set up conscience against Pope, and to name Luther. "What do you understand by conscience? for it is solemnly held by Catholics that we may not and cannot act contrary to conscience. Indeed, we confess that, in point of fact, we may be bound to act even against the sentence pronounced by an ecclesiastical authority, seeing that the external tribunal, as we say, does not always concur with the internal tribunal, and whenever the internal tribunal is in opposition to the external tribunal, we are bound to follow the internal. On this point consult our Catholic authors when they treat of moral theology. Immo fatemur, posse in re facti contingere, ut agere teneamur contra ipsam latam auctoritatis ecclesiasticæ sententiam; quandoquidem forum externum, ut loqui solemus, non semper cohæret cum foro interno: et quoties forum internum in oppositione sit cum foro externo, primum sequi tenemur. De qua re consulendi sunt auctores nostri Catholici de morali theologia agentes."
[39] Vatican Decrees, p. 67.
[40] Ibid. p. 82.