which have not been published yet. A recently printed letter of Charles Perraud contains the following important postscript:—
"Father Gratry bids me say that he has just finished a little work in which he explains his reasons and above all the limits of his submission to the Council's decree. He had already given a summary of these explanations in a letter to M. Legouve (who unhappily will not agree to publish it, I cannot imagine why). I was not with Father Gratry when he sent his letter to the Archbishop of Paris. I regret exceedingly that he began with that, whereas he ought to have begun by publishing the writing which I have recently been reading. It contains definitions and distinctions of very great significance, especially in a matter where every shade of meaning has its distinctive worth. They are altogether mistaken who suppose that Father Gratry has treated with contempt the historic evidence. God give him time to say on this matter all that I know he desires to say."
But this document, without which the complete story of Gratry's submission cannot be told, has never been permitted to see the light. For whatever reason, Adolphe Perraud, Gratry's literary executor and biographer, withheld it from history.
But Gratry did not long survive the passing of the new Decree. "And," says his biographer, "most assuredly the trials of this period shortened his days."[1]
II. AMONG ENGLISH SPEAKING ROMANISTS
Archbishop Kenrick of St Louis represented opposition in the American Church. During the Council he had warmly supported Dupanloup against American Ultramontanes.
- ↑ Perraud, p. 44.
