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reformed cttftes , a circumstance which , in most countries , has had a decidedly beneficial effect in promoting a tacit reform and chastening of Catholic observances . It appears , that complaints becoming general , public efforts have been made for their redress . A petition has been presented to the Prince Bishop of Breslau by several of his clergy , praying a reform of the Missal , the use of the German language , a proper hymn book for the people , and a commission to inquire into the state of the liturgy . This petition has been printed in Hanover , The Bishop , in his answer , denies the grounds of complaint , and complains of the absurdity of asking him for reforms which he has no power to make . He , however , states , a nymn book is in preparation ; that his attention is turned to the diocesan ritual ; and that it is not in his power to introduce the German language . The Bishop ' s answer has found a reply which handles it pretty roughly .
There have been , of late , in Germany , several instances of the spread of inquiry in tue Catholic Church , which are noticed in the article to which we have referred in the Foreign Quarterly . The case of Dr . Klotz , who was a priest of the diocese of Augsburg , is further remarkable from the generosity with which the Catholic King of Bavaria has provided for him on his secession from his church preferment . At a town near Muhlhausen , some of the inhabitants presented a demand to the priest to be allowed to
receive the communion m both kinds , declaring that , unless their request was granted , they wpuld separate from the Roman Catholic Church . The new Archbishop of Munich published , in 1821 , a pastoral letter , in which he states , that in order to re-establish religious principles , and to bring back faith and piety among the laity , a reform must take place among the clergy . Wessenberg , Vicar-general of the diocese of Constance , about the same time , began , in saying mass , to read the Gospel in German . At Warsaw , we learn ,
that a mass is actually said in Polish for the church of the canonesses of St . Andrew . A priest has published , at Breslau , a book called " The Bible , not for Priests , but for Kings and People . " An incumbent in Bavaria , a royal inspector of schools , has published a work with this title , " The public services of Catholic Christians were originally , and ought again to be , quite different from what they are . " On the celibacy of the clergy many works have lately appeared , several on the liturgy , and others on the catechism , the use x > f German , &c .
On the other hand , it should be observed , that the German Catholics have lately become active in endeavours to proselyte . All discussions will tend to good ; and this at least must be borne in mind to our shame , that an Germany , particularly in the south , perfect peace and good-will are maintained between professors of rival faiths , owing , no doubt , to the good sense with which most governments , except those of England and Spain , have discarded the maxims ¦ of bigotry and exclusion , and have learnt to let a man serve his country , without finding it necessary that he should believe , or rather to say he believes , in the established dogmas .
We shall , on a future occasion , notice some further illustrations of the present relations to each other of the ecclesiastical and secular powers in different parts of the Continent .
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158 Catholicism in Slldsia and Germany .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/14/
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