Ultralmontane clash shapes Bavarian politics in 1870
The dispute over Ultramontane influence in Bavaria under Count Bray and Bishop Kettler triggers royal action by Prince Bismarck. The government weighs suspending payments to bishops, cancelling the Concordat, or stripping clergy who support July 18 decrees of church representation, while defending Catholics loyal to the state church amid tensions between clergy and state authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kettler
Germany
Bavaria
Dollinger
Dr. Déllinger
Remier
Count Bray
Bray
Bismark
Prince Bismark
Munich
Friedrich
Christ
German bishops launch crusade against liberal Catholic papers
A letter from Dusseldorf details a coordinated campaign by German bishops against liberal Catholic newspapers. It describes injunctions forcing priests to denounce hostile journals, condemn reading of such papers, and report parish readership, alongside excommunications and legal tugs with Prussia’s Education Ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Guardian
Dusseldorf
Germany
Passauer Zeitung
Cologne
Tréves
Ermland
Paderborn
Mayence
Munster
Passau
Passouer Zeitung
Wollmann
Dr. Rothmund
von Schulte
Prague
Catholic Apostolic Church
Pius IX
Allishops
Rome
Debates on church and education issues in 1870s Britain
The article reports on major ecclesiastical and political matters including the Duke of Norfolk funding a new Roman Catholic church at Arundel, a Bristol minister joining the Church of England, Ireland’s universities question, and government plans to use the previous question. It notes the Pope’s anniversary reaction and revisions to church law. It also covers the death of Dean Mansel, validity of bequests to convents, and debates over pulpit access for dissenters and ritual practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Norfolk
Arundel
Surrey
A. J. Harrison
Methodist New Connexion Chapel
Castlegreen
Bristol
Church of England
Ireland
Trinity College
University of Dublin
Fawcett
Lyon Playfair
Rome
Begg
Tme
Charles II
Dr. Mansel
H. L. Mansel
Cosgrove
Northamptonshire
Merchant Taylors’ School
St. John’s College
Oxford
Bampton
Waynflete
Regius
St. Paul’s
Dean Milman
Wickens
England
Frances Manners
Newport
Brighton
Carisbrooke
Sisters of the Charity of St. Paul
Selley Oak
Birmingham
Sisters of Charity
Openine
The
Liberation Society
Cowper-Temple
Lutoy
Luton
Austin
Congregationalists
Society of Friends
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
Baptists
London
Leeds Mercury
Church Association
Privy Council
St. Mary Magdalene
Paddington
Hubbard
St. Alban’s Church
Holborn
Bishop’s
Arches Courts
Canon Liddon
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