The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-02-17

reflect, they do MOT consider that they :
preach the liberty Of perdition (St. An. g
justine, Epistle los ii. 1867, and that IT J
( is always free to human constesson tots
discuss, men viii never be- Xnpl|eg who
dsre to struggle against the tfug and 70
rely upon the loquacity OF human Wis.
dom. whss We know BY the example q
our Lord Jesus Christ how faith ana
Christian ssgaeisy ought to avoid this cul'
pable vanity -
SipoerAlas, religion has besn bsaishsd |
from civil government-since the ooc-
tr;ne and suthority of divine revelation
have been repudisted, the ideas iatlmaes-
IL connected herewith ofjustice and hu-
man rights is obscured BY darkness and
lost sight bf, and in place Of truth, justice
and leeiti mate right, brute forcs|is substi-
tinted. which has permitted some, entire.
| " obliviou be Of the plainest principles Of
sound reason, to dare to, proclaim chat
the will Of the people manifested by what
is called public opinion or BY other mesns,
| constitutes supreme law, eupefior to all
divine and human. right and that ac-
complished facts in political affairs, BY the
mere fact Of their having been accom-.
plished, have the force of law" But
who does not perfectly see and under
stand that human society, released from
The ties OF religion and true justice, car
have no further object than to amass
riches, and can follow no other aw in its
| action than the indomitable vickedness Of
heart given up to pleasure and interest =?
7 For this reason, also, the sane men per
secute with so recentless hatred the re-
ligious orders, who have deserve d SO we'll
of religion, civil society, and letters;
they loudly declare that the orders have
!, no right to exist; and, in SO doing. make
common cause with the faisehoods of the
heretics for, as taught by our predeces-
sor, of illustridus memory, Plus vi "the
abolition of religious houses Injuries the
state of public profession. and is contrary
to the counsels of the Gospel. Injuries a
e mode of life recommended by the Church
9 and in conformity with the apostolical
q doctrine, does wrong to the celebrated
founders whom we venerate upon the al
. tar. and VINO constituted these societies
y under the inspiration OF God"
9 In their impiety these same persons
pretend that citizens and the Church
: should be deprived of the opportunity OF
"openly receiving aims from Christian
r charity" and The law forbidding "servile
10 labor on account OF divine worship" up
l. ou..the fsllacious pretext that this oppor-
,s tunity and this law are contrary TO the
principles of political economy. Not con
% tent with Graduating religion from public
society, they desire further to bauish il
% from families and private life. Teaching
aud protesting those most fatal errors o.
g socialism aud communism they declare
ic that domestic society," or the entire ia
u mily, derives the right of existence solely
ar from civil laws, whence is to be conelud
ed that from civil law descend all til,
rights of parents over their children, ant
We above all the right of instructing and edu
re eating them
&c by such impious opinions and machi
If nations do these false spirits enheavor Il
eliminate the sslutary teaching and influ
ence of the Catholic Church from the in
1t struc,ion aud education of youth, and t
re infect and miserably deprave by their per
&c nieious errors and their vices the tende
and plain minds of youth. All tbos,
who endeavor to trouble sacred and publi
0i things, to destroy the good order Of socie
u ty, and to annihilate all divine and humal
I. rights, have always concentrated thei
=, criminal schemes. attention, and effort
upon the manner in which they mig ID
&c above all deprave and delude unthinkins
'e youth, as we have already shown 1t il
| he G Il
Or place all theirshopes. Thus they neve
- cease to attack the clergy, from WHOM
= have descended to US In SO authentic .
a. manner the most certain records Of bis
'e tory, and by whom such considerable bene
fit has been bestowed in abundance upos
Christian and civil society and upon let
tiers. They assail them 10 every shape
0l going SO far as to say of the clergy in
general, sfthat being the enemies of the
10 useful sciences, OF progress. aud of civil
- cation, they ought to be deprived of tn,
= charge Of instructing aud educatin,
,e youth
ID Others. taking up wicked errors man,
b. times condemned, presume, with notori
4 Gus impudence, to submit the authority
y of the Church and of this apostolic See
Sc conferred upon it BY God himself, to the
re judgment of civil authority, and to den,
to all the rights Of this same Church ant
ce this See with regard to exterior order
lie They do not blush to affirm "fhst th,
IT, laws of the Church do not bind the con
OF science it they are not promulgated b
H. the civil power that the acts and dccree
Is, of the Roman pontiffs concerning religion
oy and the Church require the sanction AM
be appreciation, or at least the assent, of til,
We civil power, and that the apostolic con
e. stitutions,, condemning secret societies
IT, whether these exact or do not exact a,
n, oath OF secresy, and branding with ana,h
he ema their secretaries and promoters, hav
ty no force in those regions Of the wor
IA where these associations are tolerated BY
Oh the civil government
ty 1t is likewise affirmed that the excom
a munications launched by the Council O
I'D Trent and the Roman portiffs agains