New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-04
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Relations Of TIE Pore 70 The CYL Power
'sg BosTeN, Tuesday, June u, 1850
y NV Dear SRI have received this moment
you're Of thes7 th fnsts With its enclosure am
q little ut d loss TO determine what. course 70
take, There are no numbers Of my Reviews
wherein have maintained the civil authority
of the Pope in this country but g thsrs s
several numbers in which have aisousseo .ps
relations of The two ordera-- temporal ana
snirit1laI-I shink d shall, upon the whole, best
answer your wishes by sending them, wiz
fharsfars order MY publisher to send AL the!
nnmbers of 1853 and 1904 ...,s., j. an-so
I Van yrli End iii tile articles entitled the Two
orders January, 1855, g The spiritual not iol
the Temporal. april, anu aee sPss sssas'.
49, af nv doctrine sthe subject aud N
a's w, "a loo Far,s January 1854 = The
wo.ororsJ Power of the Popss, April, 1908, anu
{ If,aria lack with his Nephew for October o.
he same year, my explanasions and defence OF
4 my doctrine :. -, III q.
I 80 j;nsyhich Ihnye named them II you will,
sissa,,rb Won will doubtless hu fnuch WHICH,
81 Z non Gaiholie, you will object te am sure
g ~ end nosuch doctrine as am accused
I 1osssssine. Fhe subject treat has been mnoh
9. 49,. So controversy, and am -hapAe "
s,ensios BY those who have no. s1aaiea
IL sonsWhat profouI IRON .ne ndsr ce pi,
If view. Itreat the sR slsss p ang ,nany If liza
| aspects and for Catholics ~ Seo5agT ). tech
tesms f.use have "a Catholic so1esy ;.h that
s;aaI sense which. those not Camilla WV
fheoiory may .nisapprehsnas lsaS :snis ~
I ense I'll those VINO haSe fnigrepre ssntee NV none
| eiairr-~and never have denied for the ope:s .
ont Of the ecclesiastical States OF #hlsh ae T.
1.-The temporal sovereign-a 10 .teniposaf o. elsn
jurisdiction, poNsr or authority, properly ~,
called, The only power the Pope has IN 1 z,
i * Gath
/ sijfritnM head Of the Ghurchs II il purely a,
spiritual power, end. can be exercised only for
+ spiriSual end, and even thens only ever Gatho-;
\ lies, fer tire Church does net Judge those who
are Mithont. :.
/ in raatters purely temporal, ], as Catholic,
howe no ebedienee TO the Pope, because he has
4 received from Jesus Christ NO authority as
4 tetnp5raI sovereign over me sHe cannot make
lsar4unmake the right Of the sovereign or the du-
lies of flae subjset-- -abrogate the former, or
! abselve from the LATTER
n Thus fan, ali Catholics, whether the so-called
inltrasMont the So called g dllicans, are
agreed. The dispute Hes not here. All agree
that the State is supreme and independent IN lts
fpSn ord ers THAT lis TO- sayysin The temporal
order. But what ] mean III, that the temporal
4 order is not supreme and independent but, IN
Il, the very hatareAef things, suberdinated to the
n spifituaI, Since the end Aef marl- the end OF
[ (which God mede Him, directs and governs him
by his preyidense-zslies in the not In
n the Temporal Every man who beaevcs any re-
ligion Of all, whsther Catholic Or non Cathoiie'
Il does, and must admit this for it IS only saying
that we must etey God,ss rather than man, and
Il i've afUrIhs Creator rather than thes creature
This preYnised, III think can state to yous IN
n Jew words. the doetrine1 do really hold =.
Jnasnuoh as the temporal order"is subordi
MATED to the spiritual, ii follows that the STATE
i is under the laws Of jnstice, consequently th'
prince holds his powers as trust, not as an IN
idefsssibler right, and therefore forfeits then
sswhen he abuses them, and loses hiss right a
reien. This is the common doctrine held by o.
of Us Arrlerioans and all Catholic doctors feacl
y and always have it. 1T lies at the foundation
vi Of all true liberty, and is tho only doctgine tina
III can ever Justify resistance to- the tempora
Il power, when it becomes tyrannical and oppres
;sixe, take it for granted is held by ever
y American esss . s
sE But here i'd q fifficulty The Church, follow
ell ing the Holy Scriptures, make civil alleglane
s1a religious duty, and says with SAINT Pau
4 Romans viii, IL: .Let every soul be subject
? 1.-The higher pewers, fer; thereaissn no power oy
3 \ from God Therefore, he that resisteth %
Iet power resisteth the Ordinances Of God. and tue
N isthat resist purchase .damnation to themselves
8Here you see am forbidden by the law
~ God to resist the power, and commanded, .
= Sperilsof domination, to. obey Here 10 my col
I'd science bound to 0beAisnoe, and my conseien
a. as a Eafhplic can be released only ny q deelarl
EEL ton Of my ichnrch, as the tiiyinely appointt
director Of conscience that the prince Of tgrsl
my autoppression has forfeited his u falts
Y from bis dignity, and ceased toareign Mhat
lsf claim fer the Pope as visible head OF the Ghure
a 1 is the power to releasemy conscience from u
il religious bone, and to place me al liberty 10 \
z sist the prince become d tgrant4 This 10 all
understand by the dispasing power
70 The poweritself, everybody not tyrant Or
as sla4e, asserts. The American Gongressof ~
Of asserted it, and deposed George Hi. The ON
al difference is, some giyeit to the people, some
= the iipiiyidual; and claim. it for the ehuro
.. and the Rope as headof the Church;
sol The Pope does not in this exercise scr
~ power or Jurisdiction, and it is called his tel
81 poral power only because itisa powerexereis
9 hss ~ pm,
Cd Az avon bsra N : Pope does ,,St relieve fre
so oisl aileg;anee, for that the Prince forfeit
he by shiss tyranny. He releases the subject on
from the spiritual OF elagious u.s. saps
est aeaeo ~ " sae orsaa
sof me- bss pans u tns to- decides
stol me whether. the constitution of this eonntry
10 II or is not repuanant to the laws of God IT