Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-06-14
Fear of the Pope.


possessed themselves of an American educa-
tion-becOmes thoroughly indoctrinated with .
American views-understanding the true
spirit and genius of our Constitution and In /
situations, and by renouncing all allegiance to
amy Foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sow |
eregnty whatever. and particularly To the /
Pope of Rome and the 1" Infallible Church,
by their life and works shall show themselves |
worthy of the title Of American citizens
Resolution Of the Ohio Co'HcH Of r. Ms at
CeUeldnd
So it seems that to he entitled to the fell
lowship of the Know Nothings of Ohio. a
man must renounce his religion; and man
who believes in an infallible Church is not
worthy the title of American citizen. But
there is no persecution or prescription in this.
/ This order emblazons legal intolerance on its
banners. voluntarily assumes the badge of
( servitude to the exploded institutions of
dark age, and calls such conduct devotion to
American principles
Those men who believe that the Pope of
Rome will ever exert directly or indirectly
any temporal power in this country are, in
our humble opinion, beyond the reach of
reason. They should have been born about
the time of MARTIN LUTHER. Then, their
arguments would have had some show of
! FEASIBILITY now, they are but the baseless
fabric of distempered vision. Poperv, said
HOBBIES, is the ghost of the old Roman EN-
pire sitting enthroned on the tomb thereof
This remark, if confined to the pretensions
of the Popes to temporal power and not APP
piled to the doctrines of the Catholic church
is true and we should as soon expect to see
the restoration Of the old Roman Empire as
to see the Popes exercising any secular autho-
rity over the kingdoms of the earth.
1t may suit the purposes of a portion of the
clergy to ignore the present history of Eu-
rope but the world will move in spite of Sec
: tarians
The Pope is sovereign only by sufferance
in his own 6ominions; in the remainder of
, Europe the property which once belonged to
the church is in the hands of the Govern
ments, and is doled ont in penurious pittan-
ces to a starving priesthood. In France and
Austria the temperatures of the church have
long been under the control of the State
} and the recent secularzation of church prop
erty in Sardinia and Spain, to say nothing Of
the depredatons of the Catholic republics in
the new world, have reduced the secular au-
1 thority of the Hierarchy to cipher AR
cHIdEDEs said "Give me where to stand and
, will move the world" No organization
. can meve the world in its political affairs
b which has not standing place in the shape
a of material resources from whence TO appl,
= the moral lever.
In contrast with the defamation of tn,
r ntolerant let us hear the language of ARCH
e BISHOP PURCELL in his pastoral, which ex
: presses the sentiments Of our Catholic fellow
; citizens
V "1o the grievous and utterly false charg
0 of disloyalty to this free government, you
! best answer will be, to continue doing -wha
n you have all along sought earnestly and sin
Il cerely to do-discharge faithfully all Won
:, duties as citizens of the republic, rendering
n to Caesar the things that belong to Cesar, with
if out, at the same time, forgetting to render t
V God the things that felOng TO God. The Cath
e Ollie religion exists and fiourishes under al
g forms of civil government; it is the yisibl
l. kingdom of Christ on earth, which is not 0
this world; it is Incompatible with no vel
1t ordered form of human government, becaus
j. it interferes with none. Its sphere of acso
IF is essentially different from, and infnitel,
d higher than that of any merely human or
" ganiZatiOn. Its ends, its means of action, it
E. doctrines, its sacraments and its government
N all belong and look to the spiritual order
f. teaches man the way to heaven, and seeks +
= wean his affections from this earth. Ii wage
a war with the passions, and it incalculates self
II denied obedience to constituted authority
d humility, and charity All that the Catholi
S. Church asks of the world is free passag,
ell through it to her proper home in the heavens
is She increasingly tells all her children to b.
L. subject to the higher powers, for their is II,
" power but from God, and those that are, ar
Z ordained of God; and that therefore he tina
e resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance 0
i God, and they that resist purchase To them
" selves damnation. Her voice is the sam,
ir under whatever form of government he
l. children, scattered over the face of the earth
lie may be found to dwell-to be obedient to tn,
" constituted authorities and TO the laws ofth,
a land which nurtureS and protects them. +,
f the lover of freedom she proposes as model
q a higher and nobler iberty--the liberty O
rs the glory of the children of God.
= 1--WE appeal to You beloved brethren
,e whether these have not been the lessen
o which we have uniformly taught yOu, boil
l. in our public and official communications
lie and in our most private conversations, an,
@ whether we have not always instructed yol
that the power of the sovereign Pontifs
N which is spiritual in its objects and in ii
1t sphere of action, cannot By possibility clash ,oi
n. yolU cicH allegiance, OF nth the different claSse
If Of duties lohich you Oloe as good citizens to III
IF government under ,oLich you happily lice. You
l. will all bear us witness, without one dissent
g. ing voice, that such has been our invariablt
h teaching on this subject, and that thi
= has been also your constant belief AND
V such being obviously the fact, -proclaim
/ ed, both officially and unoliicially, NOR,
It than hundred times,-you may well dis
t. regard the injurious mputations on YOU
i loyalty as citizens, originating with men who
d seek to do you an injury, for their own selfish
1t purposes. God will Judge us all, and his day
e of reckoning is not distant for any one among
e u.s. We should rather pity and pray for the
conversion Of those well-neaning, but mis-
: guided men, who, in endeavoring to iniure
:. our character as citizens are really themselves
h inhicting the greatest injury upon the country
: by marring the social harmony of its citizens
h and impairing that brotherly love which
should bind us all together"
GRAND LODGE OF FREE MAsoNs.-At the
c Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge
= Of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity
of Free and Accepted Masons of the State Of
New York, held at the Apollo Rooms in the
e City of New York, on the 9TH day of June
A. L. 1856, the following brethren were duly
Z elected Grand Officers for the ensuing year
: and subsequently installed and proclaimed a:
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