The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-02

And SO, the Protestaut logic of thi, world says:
Let us agree to differ" That 10 to say Let
us create unity by making dis1 ,,,!o Now, as
mined that that crown and countersiEn OF
unity should be visible upon His Church, 1t
was absolutely necessary for Him to constitute
sign and guarantee of that unity in the
Church for ever. 1t would not have answered
to have left the twelve Apostles, ,eeqnal in
power, equal tn jurisdiction, For, all holy as
they were, all inspired as they we're, If equal
power and jurisdiction had been left to all, If
no one man amongst them had been brought
forth and made the head of all, with all their
perfection, with all their inspiration, with all
their love for Christ, they would not, being
twelve, have represented the sacred principal
Of unity in the Church. Therefore did Christ,
the Son of God, from amongst the Twelve take
one; called that man forth, He laid His hands
upon him, and said, "Hear him hear his
words~ That, He did not say of any of the
Others, but took care that all the others should
knowledge their chief, He took that man in
the presence of the Twelve, and He said to
him-to them; Hitherto, you have been
called Simon; now say your name is Cephas,
viii su in sSI psae
of language, He said to that man Thou
thou o rock! confirm thy brethren!' In the
presence of all, He demanded of that man the
confession Of his love. "Pster," He said to
him, "You know bow dearly John, my virgin
friend, loves Me. Do you love Ne more You
know how we'll all these around Ne love Me.
Do you love Me more than all !" And until
Peter three times asserted that he loved His
Master with lovo SURPRISING that of all
others, Christ delayed His divine commission.
But when the triple a :.s,a9 was
feed thou My sheepw '.There shall be one
fold" said the Son Of God, "and one shepherd
That was the visible unity of the Church that
was to be the countersign of the divine origin
Of the Church Of God, and that Was to be repre-
sented unto all ages by the one Head and Su-
preme Pastor of oil, the Pope of Rome.
Mark the splendid harmony that is here.
ther by the ineffable union of nature from all
eternity. The Son of God made man, still is
man, and only man, in the hypostatical union
in which the two natures met in one divine
person. The Church that sprung from Christ
the Lord God and man united-is to be one
until the end of time. And, therefore, the
principle Of unity passes, as it were, from
oeediug Pontiff: 50 that the Church Of God is
recognized by its union with it's Head, and
by that, the One Head, which governs ALL
Therefore did St. Ambrose say, Show mo
Church Of Cod"
Now, you see at once the Significance of that
first circle of gold that twines round the papal
crown. It speaks of the Pope as the supreme
the one voice, and the only one, able to fill the
world, and before whose utterances the whole
Christian and Catholic world bows down as
one man. 1t speaks of the Pope as the one
shepherd of the one fold and it tells us that
as We are bound to hear his voice, and as that
voice ever resembling throughout the Catholic
Church, cannot by any possibility proclaim
O le-that when the Pope of Rome speaks to
the faithful as supreme pastor, propouncing
upon and witnessing the Faith of the Catholic
Church-that the selfsame spirit that pre-
serves that Church from falling into error,
preserves her Pastor, SO that he can never pro-
pound to her anything erroneous OF unholy, or
at variance with the sacred morality of the
Christian law.
second great attribute that Christ, our Lord,
emphatically laid upon His Church. As clear
ly as He proved that that Church should be
one, SO clearly did he pray and prophecy that
diction. "All power, He said to His Apostles,
call power in Heaven and upon earth is given
unto Me-" Behold the Head of the Church
speaking to His Church. "Given unto me "
Father sent me, thus endowed with power, SO do
J send YOU" And then he set upon the brows
of his Apostles, and, through them, on the
Church, the crown Of spiritual power: But,
that in the Church of God. whoever represents,
rs vicerey and vicar, supreme Pastor and ruler
of the Church-whoever represents Christ. who
is the source of all power that man has SUI
preme Jurisdiction in the Church, of God, not
only over the Faithful but over the pastors of
the flock and the Episcopacy. James, and
John, and Andrew, and Philip, and the Others,
were all bishops. st. Ignatius of Antioch, and
all the succeeding great names that adorn the
episcopal roll in the Church-all had power,
all exercised power and all were recognized
as the Church recognizes them and their sue
cessors still, as her archbishops and bishops
all had that power by divine institution,
as their episcopacy in the Church is of
divine origin; and yet, that power is so subju-
gated and subordinated that the Pope, as the
supreme bishop of bishops, to- whom Christ
said, Feed not only the lambs, my faithful |;
but "feed my sheep" the matured ones and
holy ones i'll my sanctuary in the Church.
Finally, the third circle of gold twining
around that time-honored crown of the tiara,
represents the temporal power that the Pope
has welded for so many centuries, and which
has been the cause of SO many blessings, and
SO much liberty and civilization to the world.
1t was not in the direct mission of the
Church of God to civilize mankind, but only
to sanctify them. But, inasmuch as no man
can be sanctified without being instructed,
without the elements of civilization being APP
piled to him, therefore, indirectly, but most
powerfully, did Christ, our Lord, confer upon
His Church that she should be the great
former and creator of society that she should
be the mother of the highest civilization of this
world; that she should be the giver of the
choicest and the highest of human gifts; and
therefore, that she should have that power,
that jurisdiction, that position, in her head
amonrst the rulers of the nations, that would