“A History of the Movement to make the Pope governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council.”

From the Introduction:

Contents

• Epigraph
• Titlepage
• Editor’s Preface
• Preface
• Postscript to the Preface
• List of Works
• Contents

Book 1: From the Issue of the Syllabus to its Solemn Confirmation, December 1864 to June 1867

• 1. The First Command
• 2. The Encyclical “Quanta Cura”, 1864
• 3. Foundation of a Literature of Reconstruction
• 4. Measures Preparatory to the Syllabus
• 5. The Syllabus of Errors
• Summary: The Disabilities of the State
• 6. The Secret Memoranda of the Cardinals, February 1865
• 7. A Secret Commission
• 8. Memoranda of 36 Chosen Bishops, under Bond of Strictest Secrecy, April to August 1865
• 9. Interruption of Preparations
• 10. Reprimand of Darboy
• 11. Great Gathering in Rome, June 1867
• 12. The Political Lesson of the Gathering
• 13. Solemn Confirmation of the Syllabus by the Pope, June 17, 1867

Book II: From the First Public Intimation of a Council to the Eve of the Opening, June 1867 to December 1869

• 1. First Public Intimation of the Intention to Hold a Council, June 26 to July 1, 1867
• Note: Dr. Newman on the Syllabus
• 2. Six Secret Commissions Preparing
• 3. Bull of Convocation
• 4. Princes, Ministers, and their Confessors
• 5. What is to be the Work of the Council
• 6. Agitation in Bavaria and Germany
• 7. Intention of Proposing the Dogma of Infallibility intimated
• 8. Indulgences
• 9. Publication of Janus
• 10. Confliction Manifestos
• 11. Diplomatic Feeling and Fencing in Rome
• 12. Mustering and Preparatory Stimuli
• 13. Great Ceremony of Executive Spactacle
• 14. The Eve of the Council

Book III: From the Opening of the Council to the Introduction of the Question of Infallibility

• 1. The First Session, December 8, 1869
• 2. First Proceedings
• 3. Further Party Maneuvers
• 4. First Open Collision of Opinion
• 5. The Second Public Session
• 6. Speech of the Pope Against the Opposition
• 7. Matters of Discipline
• 8. Church and State
• 9. The Courts of Vienna and Paris Manifest Anxiety
• 10. Personal Attack on Dupanloup

Book IV: From the Introduction of the Question of Infallibility to the Suspension of the Council

• 1. Joy of Don Margotti
• 2. Threat of American Prelates
• 3. Important Secret Petition of Rauscher and others
• 4. To the End of the General Debate on the Decrees
• 5. The Great Debate
• 6. To the Close of the Special Debate on Infallibility
• 7. To the Eve of the Great Session
• 8. Grief of M. Veuillot
• 9. From the Great Session to the Suspension of the Council
• 10. How far has the Vatican Movement been a Success?

Appendices

• Appendix A: The Syllabus with the Counter Propositions of Schrader
• Appendix B: Relation of the Church to the Baptized, and especially to Heretics
• Appendix C: The Constitutions “Dei Filius” and “Pastor Aeternus”
• Appendix D: The Pope Personally Preparing Children for War
• Index

Publication Information

• Originally published: 2023-10-23
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0