{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 141 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00165-fc305a3ae254c6d915c4.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Padroadoist Rejection of the Brief", "chunk_data": "96. PADROADIST REACTION TO THE PAPAL BRIEF MULTA PRAECLARE (1838 A.D.)\nThe representatives of the Padroado (those under the patronage of the Portuguese King) in India refused to recognise the validity of the brief of Pope Gregory XVI, Multa praeclare, and hence intensified the conflict between the Padroadists and Propagandists that so weakened the Roman Catholic Church in India during the nineteenth century. The Padroadist position was put forward in a Pastoral by the Archbishop-elect of Goa, F. Antonio Feliciano de Santa Rita Carvalho, dated 8th October 1838. An English summation of the original Portuguese is found in Ernest R. Hull, The Bombay-Mission History with a Special Study of the Padroado Question, Vol. I, pp. 245-249.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": 10, "start_date": 8, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": 10, "end_date": 8, "time_display": "8 October 1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI", "F. Antonio Feliciano de Santa Rita Carvalho", "Ernest R. Hull" ], "places": [ "India", "Goa" ], "event": "Padroado representatives in India rejected the validity of the papal brief Multa praeclare.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Colonial India" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 141 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00165-fc305a3ae254c6d915c4.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Rumours About Papal Reorganisation", "chunk_data": "I. A rumour has been spread abroad on all sides by the Propagandists about the recent arrival of an apostolic brief issued by Pope Gregory XVI, abolishing the patronage of the crown of Portugal in the dioceses of Malacca, Mylapore, Cochin and Cranganore, handing them over to certain Vicars-Apostolic, and annulling in them the metropolitan jurisdiction of Goa.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI" ], "places": [ "Malacca", "Mylapore", "Cochin", "Cranganore", "Goa" ], "event": "Propagandists circulated reports that a papal brief had abolished Portuguese patronage and transferred several dioceses to Vicars-Apostolic.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Rumours", "Church Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 3, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 141 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00165-fc305a3ae254c6d915c4.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Rumours About Northern Churches", "chunk_data": "They (the Propagandists) have also given out that within a short time another apostolic brief will be issued, separating from the metropolitan of Goa, and giving over to the Vicar or the Great Mogul, the churches situated in British territories north of Goa on the ground that the Queen of Portugal has lost her right of patronage in these dominions for not maintaining the missionaries sent to these parts.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Queen of Portugal", "The Great Mogul" ], "places": [ "Goa", "British territories north of Goa" ], "event": "Propagandists predicted a second brief transferring churches north of Goa away from the metropolitan jurisdiction of Goa.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Colonial India" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 4, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Accusation of Forgery", "chunk_data": "II. It is quite conceivable that the propagators of this rumour are capable of forging such a document, or of extorting it from the Sovereign Pontiff by trickery and falsehood, in order to gratify their ambition, self-love and avarice.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "The Sovereign Pontiff" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists accused the Propagandists of possibly forging or deceitfully obtaining the papal document.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Conflict", "Church Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 5, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Rejection of the Brief", "chunk_data": "III. When a copy of this apostolic brief came into our hands through the Bishop of Mylapore, we could see at once from certain manifest signs that it deserved to be rejected from the very outset, either as apocryphal, or else as having been obtained surreptitiously. And this for the following reasons:", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Bishop of Mylapore" ], "places": [ "Mylapore" ], "event": "The Padroadoists received a copy of the brief through the Bishop of Mylapore and declared it apocryphal or surreptitiously obtained.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Documents" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Brief Versus Papal Bull", "chunk_data": "IV. First, it is contrary to the ordinary usage of the Holy See to treat of a matter of such importance in a mere brief and not in a bull.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "The Holy See" ], "event": "The Padroadoists argued that an issue of such importance should have been handled in a papal bull rather than a brief.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Documents" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 7, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Lack of Official Transmission", "chunk_data": "V. But passing this over, it is strange that we should depend on a stray copy coming in our way, and that it should not reach us in the official manner, accompanied by an apostolic letter to the metropolitans or ordinaries, and fortified by the royal consent, which is part of the prescriptive right of the crown.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists challenged the brief because it arrived only as an unofficial copy without an apostolic letter or royal consent.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 8, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Absence of Royal Consent", "chunk_data": "VII. The absence of this royal consent, certifying that the brief contains nothing contrary to the rights of the queen, is in itself a sufficient reason why it should be rejected at once.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Queen of Portugal" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists declared the absence of royal consent sufficient grounds for immediately rejecting the brief.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Royal Patronage", "Canon Law" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 9, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Patronage as a Right", "chunk_data": "VIII. Besides these external arguments there are also several internal signs that it is surreptitious.\nFirst, the document calls the patronage a privilege.' This is manifestly false, since it is not a privilege but a right (jus patronatus) resting on the titles of foundation and endowment, and one which cannot be abrogated without the express consent of the king.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists argued that Portuguese patronage was a legal right founded on endowment rather than a revocable privilege.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 10, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 142 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00166-e4bee457d023adce617d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Three Centuries of Possession", "chunk_data": "XI. Secondly it is false to say that this 'privilege' had for its object that the sees should not remain vacant for long.\nXII. The title by which the right of patronage was obtained are, first, the fact of foundation and endowment, as appears in the bulls by which those sees were established; and secondly, prescription or pacific possession for over 300 years. It is a true ownership legitimately obtained, legitimately maintained, and possessed in good faith; nor can it be lost by reason of the sees being left vacant.", "time": { "start_year": 1500, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Over 300 years before 1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists claimed patronage through foundation, endowment, and more than 300 years of peaceful possession.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 11, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 143 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00167-ee40e03f0f55df2bcfd0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Patronage and Natural Law", "chunk_data": "XIII. It is a real ownership based on the natural law, and one which therefore cannot be abolished without the consent of the owner.\nXIV. Hence we wonder at the culpable ignorance shown by the writer of the brief, not only of the principles of canon law, but even of the natural law also.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists maintained that their patronage was protected by natural law and condemned the brief's author for ignorance of canon law.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 12, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 143 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00167-ee40e03f0f55df2bcfd0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Pope and Royal Rights", "chunk_data": "XV. If the rights of the queen are guaranteed by the natural law, it follows that even the existing Pope cannot abrogate them without diametrically opposing the will of Christ who came not to destroy but to fulfil and who said: 'Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.'", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI", "Queen of Portugal", "Jesus Christ" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists argued that even the Pope could not abolish the queen's rights protected by natural law.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 13, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 143 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00167-ee40e03f0f55df2bcfd0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Brief Called Fabricated", "chunk_data": "XVI. It is impossible, therefore, that the Pope should attempt to violate the rights of the queen-rights obtained by legitimate titles and preserved and maintained by immemorial possession-a possession purchased by the shedding of rivers of blood and the expenditure of copious treasure for the spread of the Gospel. It is unthinkable that the Pope should do this; and since he cannot be the author of the pretended brief, it must have been fabricated by sacrilegious men.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI", "Queen of Portugal" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists claimed that the papal brief could not have been authored by the Pope and was fabricated by sacrilegious men.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Conflict", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 14, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 143 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00167-ee40e03f0f55df2bcfd0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Requirements for Abrogation", "chunk_data": "XIX. But these are not the only arguments. Besides this, the pretended brief fails to satisfy the 42nd rule of the Chancellary, which for the validity of a bull of abrogation requires these four conditions :-first, it must specify the time, etc., of the vacancy; second, it must show that the time for presentation has expired; third, it must have the consent of the crown; and fourth, it must specify the previous bulls which are abrogated.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists listed four legal conditions required for a valid bull of abrogation.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Documents" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 15, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 143, 144 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00167-ee40e03f0f55df2bcfd0.webp", "raw\\pages\\00168-d125988fb782a33c8d1d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Failure of the Four Conditions", "chunk_data": "XX. The brief makes no specification of the times, etc., of the vacancies, and hence it fails in the first condition.\nXXI. The time for presentation to these benefices is not specified or limited, and does not expire. Hence it fails in the second condition.\nXXII. Nor does it allege the consent of the crown-no such consent having been given. Hence it fails in the third condition.\nXXIII. There is no mention of the bulls which it is intended to abrogate, and hence if fails in the fourth condition.\n(Here follows a list of 19 bulls ranging from 1442 to recent times, express mention of which ought to have been made in the derogation).", "time": { "start_year": 1442, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1442–1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists argued that the brief failed all four legal requirements for abrogating earlier patronage bulls.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 16, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 144 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00168-d125988fb782a33c8d1d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Alleged Religious Relaxation", "chunk_data": "XXVI. Another collection of falsities in the brief is, first, the alleged relaxation in faith, morals and discipline in the dioceses of the patronage through lack of proper pastors; secondly, the alleged unjust resistance shown to the Vicars-Apostolic by the Padroado bishops; and thirdly, the alleged change of circumstances due to these countries having passed under the dominion of a most powerful king, whose form of government is declared to be incompatible with the maintenance of the Padroado. All these three points are false.\nFirst, as regards the relaxation of faith, morals and discipline, everybody knows how lax the Apostolic missionaries (Propagandists) are, for instance with regard to dispensations for marriages, etc.; and moreover, how they have no scruple in spreading calumnies against us, calling us schismatics and our jurisdiction null; nor have they any scruples in usurping churches and the jurisdiction of others-all with the object of promoting their sinister ends.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "India" ], "event": "The Padroadoists rejected claims that patronage dioceses suffered from religious and disciplinary decline.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Conflict", "Morality" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 17, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 144 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00168-d125988fb782a33c8d1d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Criticism of Apostolic Missionaries", "chunk_data": "XXVII. Even if there be relaxation in the places named in the supposed brief, this is certainly not for want of pastors, but on account of the blunders and relaxed morals of the Apostolics already mentioned. For when our clergy show themselves strict maintainers of discipline, their subjects threaten at once to run off to the Propagandists, where they will easily obtain easier treatment, etc. In general, the charge of lack of proper pastors is false.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists attributed any religious decline to Apostolic missionaries rather than to a shortage of Padroado clergy.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Conflict", "Clergy" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 18, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 144 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00168-d125988fb782a33c8d1d.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Defence of Padroado Rights", "chunk_data": "XXIX. Secondly, as regards the opposition shown to the Vicars-Apostolic by the Padroado bishops: This, being in defence of their proper rights against aggression, ought not to be blamed but praised. In fact they would deserve to be punished as unfaithful ministers if they did not make such opposition in defence of their rights, and against the invasion of foreign prelates.\n(Here follows a long passage from the instructions given by King Jose I. in 1774).", "time": { "start_year": 1774, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1774–1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "King Jose I" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists defended opposition by their bishops to Vicars-Apostolic as a legitimate defence of their jurisdiction.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 19, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "British Treaties and Patronage", "chunk_data": "XXXIX. As regards the third point, viz., the change of circumstances. Even supposing the change referred to, this should not be made a ground for abolishing the right of patronage; which, being founded on the natural law, cannot be abrogated even by the Pope himself. But as to the argument that the British Government is of such a nature as not to allow the Padroado to be exercised, we reply that we have actually been exercising this right in British territory hitherto, and there is no reason why we should not continue to do so. Besides this, it would be a grievous injury to Great Britain to suppose that she should fail in fidelity to the treaties sworn between herself and Portugal, by which she is bound not to interfere with ecclesiastical jurisdiction-besides her principle of extending toleration to all religions alike.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI" ], "places": [ "British territory", "Great Britain", "Portugal" ], "event": "The Padroadoists argued that British rule did not prevent the continued exercise of Portuguese patronage and cited Anglo-Portuguese treaties.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Colonial Politics", "Treaties" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 20, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Rejection of the First Brief", "chunk_data": "XL. With this we may conclude, having shown that the brief is apocryphal, and that it ought therefore to be rejected from the outset.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoists concluded that the brief was apocryphal and should be rejected immediately.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Documents", "Church Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 21, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Expected Northern Brief", "chunk_data": "XLI. And when the Apostolics of the Great Mogul appear with their other expected brief, by virtue of which they intend to claim certain churches under our jurisdiction north of Goa, we shall in like manner examine into the motives on which it is founded, and see whether it is fortified by the royal consent or not, and shall admit it or reject it accordingly. They allege that the queen has lost her right over these churches through failing to give proper support to the pastors. This allegation is quite false.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Queen of Portugal", "The Great Mogul" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Territories north of Goa" ], "event": "The Padroadoists declared that they would review and possibly reject a second brief claiming churches north of Goa.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 22, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Mission Subsidies Suspended", "chunk_data": "XLII. It is well known that suitable subsidies were paid out of the royal treasury without interruption down to the year 1835, when the Prefect ordered them to be suspended till a new and perhaps more regular organisation should be given to the missions which had previously belonged to the religious orders now extinct.", "time": { "start_year": 1835, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1835, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1835" }, "meta": { "people": [ "The Prefect" ], "places": [], "event": "Royal subsidies for the missions continued until the Prefect ordered their suspension in 1835 pending reorganisation.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Missions", "Finance" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 23, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Subsidies Restored in 1838", "chunk_data": "Secondly, it is well known that these subsidies were, with some modification, reestablished in June of the present year 1838.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": 6, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": 6, "end_date": null, "time_display": "June 1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [], "event": "Mission subsidies were reestablished with modifications in June 1838.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Missions", "Finance" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 24, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 145 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00169-412f830b92762e638a82.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Mission Treasury Funds", "chunk_data": "Thirdly, it is well known that under the administration of Goa there were treasuries named after the different missions, e.g., the North, the South, and Canara, from which funds were derived to meet local needs; and we ourselves have often made donations to these churches, as can be proved from our account-books:", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "Goa", "North", "South", "Canara" ], "event": "The Padroadoists cited mission treasuries and their own donations as evidence of continued financial support for the churches.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Missions", "Finance" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 25, "chapter_name": "1838. 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It is well known in canon law that failure of contribution on the part of a secular patron is not sufficient cause even to suspend, still less to abolish such a right.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "Bombay" ], "event": "The Padroadoists denied allegations of financial neglect and argued that even a failure of contributions could not abolish patronage.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Canon Law", "Finance" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 26, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 146 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00170-5688726d64c08dea6a2a.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Challenge to Propagandist Claims", "chunk_data": "*XLV. Hence it is manifest how ill-founded are the views of the Propagandists in Bombay. Should they come forward with some brief passed by the Congregation of Propaganda favouring their unjust pretensions, we have declared already that we cannot admit any such rescript unless it is fortified by the royal consent. Moreover, we shall make known to the Pope through competent channels that his Vicars in this part of the world have deceived him with their arbitrary and false informations; and that such briefs are obreptitious and subreptitious, and therefore he himself ought to approve of their rejection.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Gregory XVI" ], "places": [ "Bombay" ], "event": "The Padroadoists rejected any Propaganda rescript lacking royal consent and accused the Pope's Vicars of misleading him.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Church Politics", "Royal Patronage" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 27, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 146 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00170-5688726d64c08dea6a2a.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Oaths to Church and Sovereign", "chunk_data": "*XLV. We have often made our profession of faith and obedience to the Holy See; but this is not incompatible with another oath which we have also taken, of equal force and solemnity, to maintain fidelity and obedience to our sovereign, and to maintain untouched the prerogatives of the royal patronage and of our metropolitan see.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "The Holy See" ], "event": "The Padroadoists affirmed that obedience to the Holy See was compatible with their oath of loyalty to the sovereign and royal patronage.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Royal Patronage", "Church Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 28, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 146 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00170-5688726d64c08dea6a2a.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Legal Resistance to the Brief", "chunk_data": "And as the supposed brief attacks these royal rights, and offends against the ordinary rights of our suffragans as well as our own, we feel bound to protest against and legally to resist the execution of this or any similar brief-which bears clear signs, external and internal, of being supposititious and false. Moreover by a similar right we protest against its acceptance by the court of the British Government; from whom we respectfully ask the necessary support for the maintenance of our sacred rights, in the name of reason and justice, and on account of the solemn treaties signed between the crowns of Portugal and England.", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "Portugal", "England", "British Government" ], "event": "The Padroadoists protested and threatened legal resistance against execution of the brief while seeking British support under Anglo-Portuguese treaties.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Law", "Treaties" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 29, "chapter_name": "1838. Padroadoist Reaction to the Papal Brief Multa Praeclare", "page_numbers": [ 146 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00170-5688726d64c08dea6a2a.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Order to Reject the Brief", "chunk_data": "XLVII. We order all our subjects not to admit or to give effect to the brief referred to, unless it is fortified by the royal consent of the queen-to whom we have", "time": { "start_year": 1838, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1838, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1838" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Queen of Portugal" ], "places": [], "event": "The Padroadoist authority ordered its subjects not to accept or implement the brief without the queen's royal consent.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Royal Patronage", "Church Politics" ] } } ] }