A Regional Religion
A Regional Religion
Catholic Prelates in the Postbellum South, 1865–1900
In a paper titled “The Vatican Council: Ten Years Later,” Bishop Eduardus Fitzgerald defends the doctrine of the infallibility of the pope as not an invention of the council but an elaboration of divinely revealed doctrines in sacred scripture and tradition, that the Holy Spirit, operating through the papacy, would preserve the church from teaching erroneous doctrines or morals. As a bishop in Arkansas, a southern state overwhelmingly poor and Protestant, Fitzgerald did not believe this new dogma would win many converts to Catholicism. This was the circumstance the prelate already knew, and it was quite common across the South. Just as the South was a peculiar region within the United States, the Catholic bishops ministering there had to live within the confines of this religious culture.
Keywords: Vatican Council, Eduardus Fitzgerald, infallibility, pope, papacy, Arkansas, Catholicism, South, prelate, United States
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