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diverted our gaze from the ocntitical caucus,
and there IS much less attention given TO the
new god than he will reasonably have a right
10 demand hereafter. But no one is in doubt
about the views Of this new accession TO the
god-head-this self-stylcd completion of the
iuartette. He is very pronounced in his
religious and political opinions. He believes
that he is ii the head of State and Church,
and that all owe alie, lance to him. The
Pope is superior 10 President, King or En-
peror, and the true c..,..oi;c must obey him,
10 matter what the President or King may
say, and no matter what the laws of one S
country may be. And the new god Is utterly
opposed TO tho nineteenth century. lie
takes his religion and politics straight, and
will have no mixed drinks forced upon him
or any of his followers. No science, prog
Tcss, agitation, or discussion is recognized in
the Few and infaliibie religion. Ii the
Pope could control the armies and police
of the world, there would he no more
free churches, free schools, free books or free
piS-sSS. we sucuiu pS VI hillSu
for writing such an article as this. Being a
god, his purposes and will are perfect and
divine, and whoever differs from him or OPP
poses him is satanic. We have read the
bulls and the encyclieals, and this is just
what they say. They are at direct war with
the Constitution Of the United States, with
all our States, and with free government
ITSELF Infallibili;y is now thing to be
laughed at and ridiculed and reasoned ito
lis deserved nothingness, because infallibility
Is weak and has not the power to help itself
The Pope, trying to he God, is, like George
Francis Tram trying to I've President The
desire is strong enough, but the means are
contemptibly Inadequate. We all breathe
freely because We know the Pope cannot
become the tyrant he wants to I've. Ii he
could be, dungeons would he the portion of
all men whose thought is free, and the fagot
would again light up all Europe and blaze
with victims all over America. The severity
Of the punishment would be qualified only
by the sincerity OF insincerity of the execu-
toner. We do not exaggerate the matter one
iota. new spiritual and temporal King
has been voted in, and his power is absolute
and admits of no restrictions or qualifications
whatsoever. The true Catholic must he OPP
posed TO free speech and free institutions of
all sorts, to progress, to free schools and to
that progressive tendency which we believe
to I've the highest and divinest element of our
civilization.
We have before lis the Schema approved in
the Vatican making Pope Plus the Ninth
and his s,,ccessors, living and infallible
authority Also the Syllabus, issued by the
Pope in 1864, and on which infallibility is
founded. II embraces eighty ''errors which
have been censured i'm consiStorial allOcu-
lions, encyclicals, and other apostolic letters
of our most holy father, Pope Plus IN" 1t
is needless to say that nearly all the things
condemned as ''errors," are good things and
prliseworthy. Here are a few errors:
Foty-scrcah- The best constitution Of civil
society requires that popular schools which
public institutions i'm general which are de
voted to teaching literature and science and
providing for the education of youth, should
I've Withdrawn from all authority of the
Church and from all her directing influence
and interference, and subjected TO the COM
rlete control of the civil and political au-
thoritv, 50 as to accord with the ideas of the
rulers of the State and the standard Of opin-
ions commonly adopted by the age.
FIiy-ffk-The Church should be sepn-
rated from the State, and the State from the
Church.
ton of the United States contains and sane
tons:
Sirsy-kld-It is lawful to refuse obedience
TO legitimate princes and even 10 rise in re-
bellion against them. .4 r=aa.
That Is an error which the American Col
cnies believed in and tcnsit for when they
rebelled against that Legitimate prince"
George Ill. And here is another error
S,,en.y.c,e.tA--It is no longer expedient
IN this our age that the Catholic religion
should b. considered Is the only religion OF
the State, to the exclusion Of all other forms |
of worship.
We sincerely believe in that "error." We
want no religious mcnopolics Of any sort.
They are worse than railroad mono,olies,
and have stained every page of history with
their bloody prosecutions.
The Pope issued an Encyclical Letter ON
the 18th day Of last December in which he |
denied liberty Of conscience aud If worship
He calls tia "delirium and crash asser-
ton He also said: l'1i Hi! 1f
Others, taking up wicked errors many
times condemned, presume, with notorious |
impudence, to submit the authority of the |
Church and of this Apostolic See, conferred |
upon it by God himself, 10 the iudgmeM Of |
civil authority, and to deny all the rights of |
this same Church and this See with regard to |
exterior order. They do not blush TO affirm |
that the laws Of the Church do not bind the |
conscience if they arc not promulgated by |
the civil power; that the acts and DEGREES OF
the Roman Pontifs concerning religion and
the Church require the sanction and approba-
ton, or, at least, the assent of the civil
power; and that the apostolic constitutions
sondemning secret societies, whether these
exact or do not exact an oath Of secrecy, and
branding with anathema their secretaries and |
promoters, have no force in those regions of
the world where these associations are toler- |
ated by the civil government.
The Papal Bull, Latte Ssaltestie was pub |
lisl.ed at Rome on the 10th of October, 1869.
Ii is bull Of censure, cxcommunication,
suspension or interdid against apostatcs,
h.a>sics3 land other criminals. Here is a |
horn from this bull: -.-
Fcmth-Those who associate their names |
to the sect of Masons or Carbonari, or to |
any other sects of this kind, who openly or !
clandetinely conspire against the Church |
and Its legitimate power; as those also Who
favor these sects, in any way wllntever, and
who do not dencunce the secret agents, and
the chiefs, until they shall have been de-
nounced.
The Pope is as virtnous and conscientious
as old Pomeroy. ifti
From the following We are led to believe |
that We shall not have very piOas funeral;
FTa-Those who order or compel the |
giving of ecclesiastical burial to notorious |
heretics or to persons communicated or in |
terdiced by name.
From the above it will Re seen that the |
Pope is as much interested in politics as reli- |
gion, and that he is an infalliblc politician
as well As pope. He stands at the head Of 1