The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-20
Archbishop PMrcelPs Reply 10 Rev. Thorn as
Vickers.
From the Catholic Telegraph

From the Catholic Telegraph
Catholics have suffered from persecutson for conscience
sake non-C ahoics In Ireland the persecution
has continued for upward OF three hundred years the
present day. But enough has been said this subject
Catholic writer's various written and debates
and In our pastoral letters and Lectures which ars IN tho
hands or all who care to read aud be enlightened The
State not the Church. il to bame as the celebrated
Count de Mastre has shown his letters the Spanish
Inqustoo. INC Popes demonstrated in certain IN,
stances against the enforcement OF those penal
laws BY tho State. As Thomas Aquinas says tQuestio
XII Art Ill. ..Secnnda secunda y :" Err parse amen
r. ceG est Misericordd adj erydntium canrerstonsrf "
rhe part Of the Church mercy unto the conversion
OF the ering." And in this there Is hypocrisy, any
than jury Is hypocritical when IL bands in vc
dict OF murder in the first degree bat appends to il
recommendation for mercy.
The Jesults-who have done for science and true
philosophy than they have done? Who have carried
astronomical sccnce further and higher than they have
OF mathematics in Europe aud China. who out Jesuit
has deserved aud obtained the gold medal for astronomy
in the present Paris Universal ExposonS Shame on
the mon who know not these things or knowing. dare
deny them The Jesuits take no unconditional vows.
They make VOW to obey in anything contrary TO the
obey what the law of God approves, the doors and
windows are open and they leave as Passaglia did
in Rome, and as Others have done in Europe and
America
Now. to show INV good will aud good temper, shall
answer my fortune teer's questionsVcker, IN German
means fortune teiler-ahough have answered them
already in my pastoral on the encyclca anu thesvabus
Cincinnati 6d-ete which, | hope well as the Conf
aercai will publish what write.
l. There is no power, human or divine, that forces
man 10 believe rel gion, any thing else. against his
own honest enlightened convictions. j would commit
a heinous crime II received Mr.. vickers into the
Catholic church. except he first thoroughly convinced
tina, IL And would be guilty Of equally
henous crime II let him continue in it and admins
tered 10 him It's sacraments he was convinced that it
Is not true
2. do not believe that the Church has any right
employ force to coerce conscience; and it Pope who
teaches I" est re0ionis retgioneDs cogere Ia
0',dtim est apngerc fden bocuto." IL 10 no part
Of religion says Pope Gregory quoted by Father Arthur
n Lear IN nuntsh hiEhn In fnrcA
oncl or TO drive faith into man with shillalah.
B. do not want union Of Church and State; de-
g. prefer the condition OF the Church in these United
States TO It's condition in Italy, France spain Austria
s. do imagine aud know that have right to cir
cnate the Bible, and of my first acts reaching
not know bis age-was to publish rofum pro pace
PIT rest forever II could the stale Islander that
the Catholic Church was opposed to the circulation Of
the Holy cripturcsI offered TO subscribe fifty dollars
and join the Bible Society," and place OF the true
Bble-Douay versionin every Catholic house, but the
Bible Society declined accepting the liberal proIDson
g. believe that the Pope has no need 10 reconcile
himself progress irne Christian Evangelical Iber
alism, for he was never and is not now opposed to
either.
l. do not believe that philosophy, ethics civil law
devate without error, from the teaching Of the
Catholic Church They mny deviats from her auhori-
tr, they deviae from and defy the authority OF
God but in doing 20 they are NOT risht The phioso-
ply that does this Ii unsound the ethics immoral the
laws unwise and unjust
do not now for the first time give these answers to
have done. IA child OF the devil, blind and
wicked to the last degree" as Mr.. vickers, his
vile language Is ''impudent, interruptions, treacb
erous malignant I enough to say am. Deuded man,
alse teacher pity him, forgive him and pray for bis
cony crsion. u b. PURCELL.
Archbishop Of Cincinnati.
Operations al the TcmDerance Law in Maine.
At a temperance meeting held recently in Lewiston,
Me- the Chief OF tho State Constabuary gave
OF the operations Of the state police since their appoint
men last April. lie stated that entering upon the
duties Of his Office he did not commence prosecutions
without notice, but sent his deputies first to visit every
man who engaged the runsellipg business
throughout the State, admonishing them that
unless they abandoned IL the law would surely
be executed. There found thirty -four
hundred places where liquor was sold as
Q beverage, but in ninefy-nine ont Of hundred
these men went out Of the business, when they
there determination to enforce the law. The
suit it, according this statement OF the Chief
stable that there open bars in the aieihere is
oue-tcnth much liquor sold and drank there
there two years Wholesale dealers in
New York and Boston say that while last year they sold
aud half million dollars worth Of liquors 20
Maine at the they have sold for the past months
the sales will amount this to two hundred thou
sand dollars worth.