The Liberal Catholics are certainly a little crazed in their
incredulity as to Monseigneur Darboy's submission to the Council. Archbishop Manning has sent to the Times the letter of the French priests who are vindicating the memory of their martyr from what seems to them heresy ; and in this letter is a quotation from the Pope's epistle to the Archbishop, expressing profound satisfaction at his submission. Thereupon comes a rush of letters to the Times to remark that it is very odd the Archbishop's own letter of submis- sion has not been published, and that the whole thing looks very like a deliberate forgery on behalf of the Roman Church. Was the Bishop of Mayence's submission a forgery ? Was the submission now, we believe, given in by Bishop Hefele, a much more bitter enemy of the decree, forged? Why should Archbishop Darboy, who was always comparatively moderate in his opposition, have stood out alone when we know that such bitter adversaries have succumbed? It is surely not a positive pleasure to a Liberal Catholic to imagine that his orthodox brethren lie and forge?
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