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has retained some privileges which it has lost in Atistriar The BaVaria » bishops have the right of instituting public prayers and other pious works , ( this , of course , means pilgrimages and festivals , ) of holding free communication with Rome on spiritual and ecclesiastical affairs , of punishing clergy according to the decrees of the Council of Trent , and inflicting censures on any transgressors of the ecclesiastical laws and sacred canons .
In the University of Tubingen , both Protestant and Catholic professors have their chairs of divinity ; they maintain with each other the most friendly relations , and even no student is prevented from hearing the lectures of a professor of the other church . In the town of Louisburg ( the present residence of the Queen Dowager of Wirtemberg ) one of the churches is used in common by Catholics and Protestants , their ministers performing divine service by turns . For good preachers , their audience make no
distinction between the two denominations . They hear whoever preaches best ; but what will give a clearer view than even this of the spirit of toleration in Germany is , that when the Protestants , in 1817 , celebrated the centenary of the Reformation by Luther , Catholic priests were seen in their robes , joining in the service in the Protestant church , in which the portraits of the two principal Reformers , Luther and Melancthon , were hung up . The reason they gave for partaking in the solemnization of such an event
was , that their church had derived from the Reformation as much benefit as the Protestants had . The emulation which had been excited by the Refor * rtfatiori had stimulated both parties to vigilance . Errors , by being examined , had been , if not removed , in some degree reformed , or at least prevented from getting worse , and the mother church was indebted to the active vigilance of her rivals for correcter discipline and purer conduct than in thfc common course of events could have been expected from unresisted power *
In the Prussian territories a change m the episcopal seats has taken place ; but , strange to say , it seems that the Pope , although he has lost much , has retained more there than in countries where the sovereigns are Catholics , and certainly more than he has in Hanover , as will presently appear . The Bull of July 24 , 1821 , provides that the chapters shall have the right of administering their own affairs—that the Pope shall always nominate to the dignity called Pravpositura , and to the stalls vacant in the alternate months in all the cathedrals—the bishops having the right of patronage in all the other
months . The chapters of Cologne , Treves , Breslau , Paderborn , and Munster , elect each their bishops by virtue of this bull , which seems to have been previously the case in the other chapters . In all cases the election is to be confirmed by the see of Rome , and the civil power , as far as we perceive , Jias no veto whatever . There is to be an episcopal seminary attached to jevery episcopal seat ; and coadjutor-bishops are to be allowed . The revenues of the bishops are to come from taxes on the woods and forests after the present mortgages are paid off on them , which by law is to be the £ ase in 1833 .
In a convention between the Pope and the King of the Netherlands , signed June 18 , of this year , the Pope gives a veto on the election of the bishops to the King . The list of condidates is to be presented by the chapters who elect , and the King is to strike out any not acceptable to him . The Pope then confirms , if he approves the person , and the election is regular . There is to be a chapter and seminary to each cathedral . The bishops take the same oath as in Bavaria ; and the King undertakes in this convention to provide them with sufficient revenues . So , again , in a bull for Hanover of March 24 , 1824 , the Pope says ex-
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£ 28 Catholicism in Germany .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/12/
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