New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-18

4 ropes are out one cOnuluucu HasOofy wtei
/ but few exceptions of papal int1igues. brib
4 erv.E perjury, and RIGHTEOUSNESS In-the
ninth century there was a female Pope
named Joan who by disguise and native
| shrewdness gaind the papal throne. She
| reigned two years five months and four
days, and died in the pains of labor,
| in procession in the streets OF Rome. Her
! paramount was cardinal who had been her
chaplain. This story was not denied by
Catholics for five centuries. Up to the four
| teenth century there were twenty-nine dis
tinct schisms, when contending parties
strove for the papal chair. On questions OF
4 faith malpractice the popes have differed,
| quarreled and cursed each other for CEN
turtles. Stephen, in 1896, enraged at his pre-
decessor FOrmOsus, uncOffined him, and be-
1 fore a Roman council mutilated his body
| and then pitched it into the Tiber In l044
| there were three claiming to be popes at
once: Sylvester, John and Benedict who,
stationing themselves, at st. Marys, the
Vatican and the Lateran, engaged, by mu-
| tual concessions, in their sensuahtles, until
| Gratian,, a man of rank and authority,
| bought from them their positions with mo-
new and succeeded under the title of
| Gregory VI These are only a few speci-
m ems, in the history of this line, of would-be
| vice-generals of Heaven, who pretend not
TO err, and by their word OF mouth to save
or damn men. s..
Clustered about the pope at Rome are
fifty-seven cardinals tmostly Italians, and
scattered throughout the world are one
thousand and ninety5fOur patriarehs, ARCH
| bishops and bishops, under each of whom
| are large number of priests; each and all,
from cardinal to priest, sworn to accept
| what the pOntitf says as the word of God.
| Here is the oath affixed to the Catholic creed:
/ al promise, vow and swear most con-
stantly to hold and profess the same, and
entire, with Gods assistance, to the end of
my life; and to procure, as far as lies in my
power, that the same shall be held, taught
and preached by all who are under me, or
1 are intrusted to my care by virtue of my
office. So help me God, and these holy
Gospels of God Amen"
81 Such, then, is the papal hierarchy, and
| the oath by which its members and devotees
are bound to its irresponsible head.
What are the claims of popery in matters
of religion Besides claiming lnfalIibility,
it holds the right of interpreting the Scrip
| lures and curses every soul that doubts its
authority. Every Catholic in the creed
affirms under oath: el
| also admit the Holy Scriptures according to the
sense which our holy mother the Church has held
and does hold; to which it belongs to judge of the
| true sense and Interpretation of the Scriptures;
neither will ! ever take and interpret them other
wise than according to the unanimous consent of
| the Fathers.
| mas against those who do not so accept the
Bible. This dogma of the Church might
| once have been properly proclaimed, for the
true church is the cOnservatOr of Divine
truth. But with the accompanying as
sumptions of Rome and her additions to
and mutilations of Gods Word, it can only
be considered the keystone to that fiendish
arch OF papai arrogance by which she
assumes the place of God in human saliva
ton. To, more fully insure its spiritual
despotistn, the Roman papaey keeps the
Bible from the masses. In the Council
of Tolossa IA. ID. 1229), the Bible was re-
fused the people. .-,.,,Y s,,..-,-,,.- .a.
This decree was reafirmed by thu
Council of Trent. However much it may be
denied, the general and free circulation of
Gods word is not only not recommended by
Romanism, but is positively condemned.
The present Pope, in his encyclical letter
of 1864, condemned "Bible Societies as one
of the .'damnable heresiesr of the age.
Not only this, but the Holy Word itself is
tempered with and mutilated. Here are
examples: When Paul speaks of the union
of the Church with Christ as illustrated by
marriage, as being mystery, the Catholic
Bible calls it great sacrament, and there
fore marriage is called a sacrament. Instead
OF repent and believe, the Catholic Bible
says, do penance and believe" To Justify
image worship, the second commandment is
sometimes left out of the decalogue, and the
others divided so as to make up the num-
Der.
Neither is this all. The Bible is not only
interpreted and mutilated in the interest of
pOpery, but traditions, Apostolic and
churchly, together with papal DEGREES, are
placed side by side, and made as authorita-
tive in matters of religion as the Word of |
God. An article of the creed is: Il also |
steadily admit and embrace apostolical and |
ecclesiastical traditions. and other obser-
yances and constitutions of the same
bered that all these assumptions of |
popery must be accepted by the
entire Church under pains of eternal
damnatiOn, and we see how completely this
imam of sin" is armed and equipped for his
work. First, there is infallibility, from
which there is no dissent But if some
fearless Luther doubts this claim, then the
appeal is to Scripture. But who interprets
the Scriptures! The "Holy Catholic
Church., of course. But fearless reform
er again shows that the Scriptures condemn
this so-called "holy church, "Impossible.'
cries the papist, "for are not here church
DEGREES and a long array of traditions sane
tioning the usages of the papacy, which are
themselves equal to the Biblei" And if
again it be shown that these DEGREES and
traditions arose from the superstitions of
dark ages or were framed by cunning priests
to defend the Holy See, the cry is, Hereto
lies; the church can not err" To Roman
lists the argument is complete, and before
this Juggernaut of papal arrogance and
power millions of the deluded and ignorant
have cast themselves and bitten the dust in
their AFFECT slavery of conscience and soul.
Consider here another point: The Bible is
not only kept from the masses, and inter
preted, mutilated and enlarged by traditions
and DEGREES, but this same spiritual tyrant
has Tor ages, and does today, curse and
anathematize every form of free thought
and investigation in the worlds OF litera-
ture, science or government. Whether fol-
lowed and encouraged by churches, nations
or individuals, tending to illustrate and
make plain the blessed work of God to the
people. And these curses and anathemas
have not been merely high sounding words,
but when disregarded this same church has
for centuries, and does now claim the right
TO use the arm of secular power to punish
by sword and flame the so-called heretics |
Thanks to the spirit of the age and the upris-
ng freemen Of Italy, the last vestige OF the
POpe's temporal power is forever swept
tway.
Advancing step further. let us see how
)opery proceeds to palm off and impose its |
and absurdities upon its BODY
II believers. To do this most effectually two
hings are necessary The Pope, bishops
md priests must, by some visible operation,
,e raised to position of supernatural
eyerence and dignity, and the ceremonies
# the church must be of snowy and de-
nonstratiye type, the better to blind the
Judgment and facilitate the covering up of !.
;hurch do these two things. Great stress
5 laid upon them as such. The creed
tates: II also receive admit the received and
approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church | =