Bishop Hefele on Pope Honorius [pp. 273-301]

1872.j VON HEFELE ON POPE HONORIUS. 281
the University of Tiibingen says, that the decrees of the Vatican Council were "intended as a bulwark against the annoying progress of German science;" that the Jesuits waged
war unsuccessfully against natural philosophy; "and now it
is the turn of history," the Jesuits everywhere "displacing
the old text books and introducing works fuill of falsehood
and perversion." This is exactly so. It ~& now "the turn of
history," whose sacred rights are to be maintained against
those who falsify the records No wonder that the Abb~
Gratry hurled at these forgers of falsehood that fiery arrow
from Job's quiver: "Nuinquid indiget Deus mendacio vestro?"
No wonder that no one of them could now reply as once did
~Ielchior Canus: "Non indiget Te(ru~ nostro mendacio;
adulatione nostra non egit." For this is just what Peter
must have or die.
Mgr. Maret, in his work already cited, affirms what seems
to us reasonable, in spite of his retraction, that, "in face of
the fact of the condemnation of Honorius, the absolute and
indivisible monarchy of the Pope cannot be sustained."
(i. 292).$) Whether it be a fact will appear from the following
condensed statement, strictly historical and critical, of all the
data in~the case. It is a judicial snmming up.
H. B. S.