Seton, Monsignor Robert, Madison, New Jersey, to James Alphonsus McMaster, New York, New York, 1870 June 15
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Seton states that McMaster's bold stand on the two vital points of Education and Papal Infallability have made him forget some disagreeable things McMaster wrote in the past on Politics, etc. He accuses McMaster of having made a blunder on p. 4, col. 3, of the last issue of the Freeman. In the article on Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, McMaster has translated the words S.R.C. Praefecto as meaning "Prefect of the Congregation of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Seton feels it should be "Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites…Sacrae Rituum Congregationi Praefecto . He feels that the "excellent scholar" who told McMaster that Cardinal Patrizi was the "relator" in the text, actually knows nothing of official Latin Stylus curiae romanae though he may know Tacitus and Tully. Seton points out that "relator" is not exactly "promoter of the cause". Every congregation at Rome has a certain group of distinguished churchmen who compose it and when a question comes up, it is referred to one of these groups for a study and to be reported on. Refero-retuli-relatum-referre He asks that McMaster take this in good part. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.
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- Creation: 1870 June 15
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English.
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