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Show I JURISDICTIONS ORDER Mutually, Though Separate, Related Civil Civ-il and Spiritual Jurisdiction Emanate I Fram an Authoritative Source How it Descends in the Catholic Church Civil Power Could Not Confer Spiritual Jurisdiction Juris-diction New Bishoprics Founded in England by Acts of Parliament Prime Minister Gives Spiritual Jurisdiction Contradictions That Follow. (Written for The Intcrmountain Catholic.) Thp mutual relationship between Order anl Jurisdiction is so close that whilst the power oi Order may exist without any prescribed Jurisdie- Jon. the inverse, iamely. Jurisdiction without Or-; Or-; irr. cannot exist. According to the Roman civil a Jurisdiction ivas confined to the judicial authority, au-thority, which meant the power to take cognizance , ' causes by judicial tribunals or judges of courts In spirituals Jurisdiction means the entire legisla-'ive, legisla-'ive, judicial and executive power which resides in . t ;he church and which Peter received in its plenitude pleni-tude from Christ when told to ""feed the lambs and .hern.'' Both in civil and spiritual matters Juris- I diction must emanate from a legitimate authority. Hence all acts of Jurisdiction performed by per-I per-I sons without being properly deputed to act are null I end void. When a Bishop is appointed to a dio- cse he has no Jurisdiction in his See till he is officially of-ficially notified by the Pope's letters termed i -Bulls." When a new diocese is erected, the Bishop's Bish-op's Jurisdiction is prescribed by the letters which j: Mrk tha boundaries of his See. Xone but the i Pope, whose Jurisdiction is universal, can erect now sjiceses and bestow on Bishops-elect Jurisdiction, or power and authority to govern and rule their iioceses. If the congress and senate of the United States assumed that power, namely, of erecting a new diocese, and appointing a Bishop, no sane person per-son would consider that the newly appointed IJish-i IJish-i op. though he be in possession of Order, had any : Jurisdiction. Yet this precisely is what happened i in England after the Reformation. When a new ; See was founded it was done by an act of parlia- mcnt, and the Bishop appointed by the premier. Lord Bejicon6field appointed the first Bishop of Liverpool after its erection into a diocese. The civil power founded the diocese, and a tcnipovul lord bestows Jurisdiction. At the time of the appointment ap-pointment it was and had been for a long time a Catholic diocese. Here the question would natur- ; ally suggest it6elf, Who was the true Bishop, i. e., the real successor of the Apostles? If the former, then the civil power, i. e., the English parliament, had more right than the Pope to found new Sees, and Lord Beaconsf ield more right Jx) confer spiritual spir-itual Jurisdiction than the Holy Father, notwithstanding notwith-standing that the former was a layman and the. latter the successor of St. Peter. Here the absurd conclusion would follow that, on the supposition that the appointee of the crown was the true Bish- ' if. ihen Queen Victoria, reigning at the time. Par-j Par-j Haniont and the prime minister must be in possesion posses-ion of the Apostolic authority which alone would enable them to confer spiritual Jurisdiction. On j iins theory, and the only one to guarantee the usur- j ration of spiritual power and Jurisdiction by tha vi pyu-pr, if justifiable, then, logically, President JwK'Sovolt could claim Jurisdiction in spirituals s orer Christian churches in the United States and I appoint Bishops wherever his civil Jurisdiction is ? ''wigmzed. I To escape these logical inconsistencies Angii-. Angii-. .;, ''Ms claim that their Bishops do not derive their I 'urwii.-tion from the civil authorities, but from I ''".e itself. But where does the See get it? a-hinp t on. the seat of government, is not a dio-' dio-' being a part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, j "Pposing it was erected into a new diocese, from "J:at source, would the Jurisdiction of its first . j fcwhr.p rmanale? According to Catholic teaching, tif-rp ic 110 difficulty in answering the question, s muing ije divine mission of Christ, and the com- ihi'-mOm given by Him to His apostles, with Peter i their Ijpad. the Catholic position is not only logi- I'Ui it is unanswerable. According to her teach-I teach-I a new diocese derives the right of being a See I ''JJm the authority of the Pope who founded it, and I e newly appointed Bishop's Jurisdiction is also "-nvr-d from tle pope; but in the Anglican the-! the-! '''y. and oji the supposition that President Roose-u''. Roose-u''. t't add dignity and eclat to the capital of the i "fion, made the recommendation, and that it was a,' d upon, the new See of Washington would de-; de-; !!vp Jurisdiction from the civil magistrate. This eV( ) V instance has been the case in England ' 'li,r' Qnoen Elizabeth ascended the throne. Add ; !,7 pother historical fact which is as undeni- 8f s absurd, namely, that Jurisdiction as v i a" ror n the Anglican church was the re-; re-; rul.r r'f Klizabeth's illegitimate birth. To begin, i 1h.was born of Henir VIII and Ann jdloyn, hi8 second wife; Mary Tudor was the lc-K'tiinatP lc-K'tiinatP offspring of his first marriage, with Cath-n? Cath-n? cf A, agon. Edward VI, Henry VHP's imme- la,r Hiecessor (1547), was the son of Jane Sey-; Sey-; r. Ilmry's third wife. After his death (1553) k f iVl,s I)rota'"nicd queen at Norwich and crown- f1 " -minster. After her death (1558) Eliza-r Eliza-r beramp qUpen 0f England. During Mary's Arel'rllm'Ufrh ih' influciice of Cardinal Pole, frt!' Mfn cstminster England was absolved cf.,',',1- s,'hism and heresy caused by Henry' li-ii.it li-ii.it l''l'sVPS!- Elizabeth, because the church would : " "dm it the legitimacy of her birth, followed in i ' I i the steps of her father and broke once more the unity of the Catholic faitrTby demanding of her subjects an oath of royal supremacy, which was granted by a bare majority of three. This sacrilege sacri-lege was opposed by bishops, priests, heads of universities uni-versities and the humble and pious laity, who steadfastly stead-fastly clung to the faith of their fathers, for which many suffered death. Here we have the unity of the Catholic faith, which dated back a thousand years, broken by a very small majority of three in a packed parliament, and all the ceremonies of the Catholic ritual exchanged for those of the Angli-" can church by the English parliament. At this point we reach the, origin of spiritual Jurisdiction in the Anglican church, also the contention between be-tween it," and the validity of the Sacrament of Order. Or-der. Elizabeth had among her spiritual advisers six consulting theologians, who, when asked regarding regard-ing the validity of the orders conferred under the new regime, answered that, "in a case of such urgent ur-gent necessity, the queen possessed the power of supplying every defect through the plenitude of her ecclesiastical authority as head of the church.!?. The question and answer clearly imply a doubt as to the Jurisdiction through which the new orders were conferred, and as that of the Pope's was denied, de-nied, henceforth it must rest in all its plenitude on the reigning sovereign, and that, too, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the opposition of the most learned and saintly bishops of England at the time. The idea that any nation could found a Catholic (universal) church which, irr its formation, is restricted, is a contradiction, contra-diction, or that a civil government, denying the hitherto universally acknowledged source of spiritual spirit-ual Jurisdiction, could itself become the source of a new spiritual Jurisdiction, is so absurd that no one could fail to see that "it is giving to Caesar what belongs to God." F. D. |