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December 24, 1871 in The Cairo Daily Bulletin

Foreign News December 24, 1871

The Cairo Daily Bulletin

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Father Hyacinthe, Religious Position, Catholicism, Protestantism, Church Traditions, Ultramontane Papism

Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois

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Father Hyacinthe outlines his religious views in a letter to the New York Independent, favoring Catholicism over ultramontane papism and Protestantism for upholding both scripture and church traditions based on universal teaching.

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In a recent letter to the New York Independent, Father Hyacinthe sets forth his religious position with great clearness. While preferring Protestantism to the ultramontane papism of the adherents of infallibility, he objects to the former that while exalting the bible it rejects the traditions which complement and explain the sacred writings. He will therefore remain a Catholic, because Catholicism, rightly understood, upholds the whole of Revelation, written and spoken, and is founded not on the individual conscience but the universal and constant teaching of the church. Whether the good father can find anywhere, except in his own imagination, any such consistent teaching, is for him to determine.

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Religious Affairs

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Father Hyacinthe Religious Position Catholicism Protestantism Church Traditions Ultramontane Papism

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In a recent letter to the New York Independent, Father Hyacinthe sets forth his religious position with great clearness. While preferring Protestantism to the ultramontane papism of the adherents of infallibility, he objects to the former that while exalting the bible it rejects the traditions which complement and explain the sacred writings. He will therefore remain a Catholic, because Catholicism, rightly understood, upholds the whole of Revelation, written and spoken, and is founded not on the individual conscience but the universal and constant teaching of the church. Whether the good father can find anywhere, except in his own imagination, any such consistent teaching, is for him to determine.