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CONTENTS.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES.

Galileo and his Condemnation, 1.
Historical Sketches of Devotions to the
Blessed Sacrament, 307, 341, 427.

Kate Gearey; or, Irish Life in London,

100, 185, 283, 349, 437.

Masters and Workmen in the Middle
Ages, 264.

Monsignor Parisis on Catholic Jour-
nalism, 87.

Murder in England and in Ireland, 179.
The Addolorata, 139.

The Doctrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception, 451.

Choir, the, a Collection of Sacred Mu-
sic, 424, 512.

Cholmondeley's (C.) Letter to the
"Times" and its "Englishman," 512

Clissold's Spiritual Exposition of the

Apocalypse, 421.

Cole's Cape and the Kafirs, 410.
Controversy on the Infallibility of the

Church of Rome and the Sixth
Article of the Church of England,
between Bishop Brown and the Rev.
J. Baylee, 512.

Crawley's Reasons for leaving the
Church of England, 512.

Dalton's (Rev. John) translation of the

Life of St. Theresa, 211.

Translation of St. Theresa's

Way of Perfection, 339.

Duties and Responsibilities of Writers
of Fiction, 477.

Edinburgh Review, the, 392.

Emily Howard, by Mrs. Dunlop, 477.

Exeter (Bp. of) Letter to Sir Robert

Inglis, 392.

-Letter to the Arch-

deacon of Totnes on the Necessity of

Episcopal Ordination, 392.

Faber (Father), Mayall's Portrait of,338

Ferguson's Poland and other Poems, 340

First Catechism, with Illustrations, 424.

Fitzgerald (George Robert), his Life
and Times, 154.

Formby's (Rev. H.) Village Carol

Singers, 339.

Lecture on the March of

Intellect, or the alleged Hostility of

the Catholic Church to the Diffusion

of Knowledge examined, 509.

Freeman's Preservation and Restoration

of Ancient Monuments, 425.

Gavazzi, Father, 236.

Gladstone's (Rt. Hon. W. E.) Letter to

the Bishop of Aberdeen on the Func-

tions of Laymen in the Church, 483.

Gondon's (M.) Letter to Mr. Gladstone,

in answer to his Two Letters to Lord

Aberdeen, 85.

Gospel Stories for Catholic Children,167

Grace's Outlines of History, 166.

Greswell's Fasti Temporis Catholici et

Origines Kalendariæ, 509.

Heroic Virtue, taken from the work of

Benedict XIV., 422.

Hervey's (Mrs. T. K.) Pathway of the
Fawn, 338.

Holy Week, the Offices of, 339.

Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and
China in 1844-46, 488.
Hughes' (Abp.) Catholic Chapter in
the History of the United States, 510.

Ireland Sixty Years ago, 154.

Jesuits, the, 339.

Josephine, a Tale, 166.

Journal of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine,

Syria, and Greece, by J. Laird Pat-

terson, M.A., 469.

Kenrick's (Bp.) New Testament, 85.

Lamartine's History of the Restoration

in France, 68.

Langdon's Translation of Lacordaire's

Conferences, 167.

La Rivoluzione Romana al giudizio
degl' Imparziali, 55.

Lawson (Mrs. Dorothy), Life of, 383.
Letters from Italy and Vienna, 421.
Life of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 511
London Labour and London Poor, 228.
Maclachlan's The Rock, 85.

Maitland's (Rev. S. R.) Illustrations and
Inquiries relating to Mesmerism, 510

Manual of the Order of Penance of St.

Dominic, 339,

Mayhew (Mr.) among the Thieves, 228.

Mesmerism considered, 340.

Method of honouring the Sacred Heart

of Jesus, from the Life of the Ven.

Margaret Alacoque, 423.

Missal (the Roman) for the use of the
Laity, 338.

Montgomery's (Rev. Robert) Church

More (Sir Thomas), Household of, 333.
Morris's (Rev. J. Brande) Jesus the
Son of Mary, 140.

Murray (Dr.) and Dr. Whately, 327.
Murray's (Dr.) Essays, chiefly Theo-
logical, 327.

O'Brien's (Protestant Bp. of Ossory)
Charge to his Clergy, 340.
O'Donnell's (Rev. M.) Lecture, The Ca-

tholic Church favourable to the Pro-
gress of Education in all Ages, 510.
Pagani's (Dr.) One Thing needful; or

the Attainment of Our Last End, 423.

Papal Aggression in Thibet and Tar-

tary, 488.

Phillpotts (Dr.) and the Edinburgh
Review, 392.

Pilgrimages to Jerusalem, 469.

Poe's Tales of Mystery and Humour,422
Ponte's (Ven. Louis de) Meditations on

the Mysteries of our holy Faith, 423.
Practical Piety, set forth by St. Francis
of Sales, 167.

Protestant Justice and Royal Clemency,

79.

Raby's Translation of Müller's Jour-
neys of the Popes, 167.

Readable Books, 422.
Rockliff's Translation of Yriarte's Lite-
rary Fables, 220.

Septenary to St. Joseph, 424.

Sham Biographies: the Household of

Sir Thomas More, 333.

Statement of Facts relative to the Case

of Mr. Wm. Weale, Master of the

Poor School at Islington, 79.

Strickland's (Miss) Queens of Scot-

land, 85.

Strickland's (Rev. W.) Jesuit in India,

The Authority of the Pope in England,

512.

Thebaud's (Rev. A. J.) Pius VII. and
Napoleon, 510.

The Catholic Church and the Holy
Bible: Protestantism and its Varie-

ties: choose which you will, 423.
The Catholic Directory for Scotland, 167
The Children of Mary instructed, 338.
The Church Manual, 510.

The Clifton Tracts, 85, 167, 340.

The Dream, or the Feast of the Guar-

dian Angels, 166.

The Dublin Review, 167, 423.

The Family Almanac and Educational

Register, 167.

The Lamp, 166, 511.

The Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guyl-

forde to the Holy Land, A.D. 1506,469.
The Restoration of Belief, 509.

The Roman Revolution, 55.

The Study of Saints' Lives, 211.

The Virgin Mother and the Child
Divine, 511.

Thomson's Dictionary of Domestic
Medicine, 167.

Upham's (Rev. C. W.) Life of General
Washington, 403.

Walford's Little Mary's Hymn Book,339

-Plain Words to Protestants, 339.
Walsh's (Bp.) Catholic Offering, 166.

Lenten Manual and Companion
for Passion Time and Holy Week, 85.
Ward's Sequel of Tractarianism, 339.

-Three Letters to the Guardian, 338.

Washington, the Life of, 403.

Yriarte's Literary Fables, 220.

CORRESPONDENCE.
Oakeley's (Rev. F.) Reminiscences of
Dr. Kirk, 425.

Vox on an Institute for Converts, 168.
ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.
The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and the

Catholic Schools, 250.

The French Cardinals Senators, 252.

The Pantheon at Paris, 86.
The Rev. John Kirk, D.D, 244.

To Correspondents.

A RESPECTFUL INQUIRER.-The important subject involved in our correspondent's question cannot, of course, be properly discussed in a line or two. The key to explain all such difficulties as "A Respectful Inquirer" feels will be found in these two principles: first, that the whole system of devotional practices and phraseology sanctioned by the Catholic Church is designed for the edification of her children, and is not framed with a view to conciliate Protestants; and secondly, that she claims the right of interpreting her own language in her own sense. Such terms as 66 worship" and "adoration" are theological expressions, or (if we may so say) technical. When the Church speaks of the adoration of the Cross on Good Friday, she addresses her children, whom she never ceases to teach that divine honours are to be paid to God alone, and that when the word "adoration" is used towards that which is not God, it necessarily is to be taken as expressing an honour, real indeed, but in no degree divine. The same explanation would be given by the author of the Spanish devotion to which our correspondent specifically refers. Protestants can no more object to our using the terms "adoration" and "worship" in the sense we affix to them, than we can charge them with idolatry because they call a magistrate "worshipful,” and address him as "your worship."

We shall be glad to learn that this explanation is satisfactory to our correspondent.

The Title and Index of Vol. VIII. are unavoidably postponed till our next Number.

Correspondents who require answers in private are requested to send their complete address, a precaution not always observed.

We cannot undertake to return rejected communications.

All communications must be postpaid. Communications respecting Advertisements must be addressed to the publishers, Messrs. BURNS and LAMBERT.

The Rambler,

A CATHOLIC JOURNAL AND REVIEW.

VOL. IX.

JANUARY 1852.

PART XLIX.

GALILEO AND HIS CONDEMNATION.

THE Condemnation of Galileo has now for more than two centuries furnished a fruitful theme for declamation against the Catholic Church; and Protestants say that from whatever point of view we regard it, whether we look at it as a personal matter, involving harsh and cruel conduct towards an old man who had done only that which he had a right to do, or whether we treat it as a question of doctrine, apparently compromising the infallibility of the Church which condemned, or allowed her regular tribunals to condemn, as false, a system which is now a demonstrated truth in nature, we are involved in many difficulties, and have to confront an argument which may to many minds be urged with fatal effect in preventing them from submitting to the teaching of the Church. Of course, the wrongs of Galileo have been ridiculously caricatured by Protestants and Infidels, and on the defensive side we can always count upon shewing up a farrago of falsehood and nonsense. But still, after all that can be said, two great facts remain, that the Congregations of the Index and Inquisition pronounced the earth's rotation and the sun's fixity to be erroneous and contrary to Scripture; and that the latter congregation imprisoned and punished Galileo for holding and teaching the theory, and at last made him renounce it. We may easily make a very good apology, or plea, in extenuation for the two congregations; but how shall we ever be able to refer with satisfaction to this page in the history of a Church which imposes upon us the duty of unhesitating and unquestioning obedience on the ground of her infallibility? Such is the Protestant charge.

On the personal aspect of the case, so far as it relates to the process against Galileo, his imprisonment and alleged torture, and his subsequent penance and confinement, perhaps all has been said that there is to say; we may refer our readers to

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