The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-15
TIE CATHOLIC CITIZEN.
Lecture by DIR. }. w. Roger.-Past Glo-
ries Of the Catholic Church and Her
Future Triumph-Its Influence in
Poetry, Painting, Music and Art.

Future Triumph-Its Influence in
Poetry, Painting, Music and Art.
Cooper Union han filed last evening with u
large and appreciative audience who had gathered
70 listen to lecture DISCOURSE upon subject
which is most interesting to the Catholic element
OF the population OF New York, and was therefore
sure TO engage the attention OF the
best class OF our Irish citizens. This was
the ..Catbolic Citizen OF American Dr. Rogers
was introduced by Father Mooney and was ap
plautied frequently and vigorously throughout his
lecture. Before beginning the speaker referred to
the repetition Of Father Burke's popular lecture to
be given on the o0th inst, at ST. Stephens
church. The first proposition presented by the
speaker was that the American. government was
founded perhaps unwilingly, upon Catholic princ
pies. In the feudal law the conqueror was held to
own the c0untry-to parcel IL out TO his
dependents. lie attempted to show that Catholi-
city gave rise to the recognition OF aodial rights
The Church recognized citizenship and thus IN all
parts Of Europe gathered these vast possess
siOns OF the Church, which so strengthened and
upheld it. II was leading Catholic principle that
the Church should be independent Of the State
He believed that all Americans would say that the
rights OF state and Church should be distinct-the
one spiritual, the other temporal. The
Church has always taught from Pope
(eIasus down to the Encyclical Letter
that the state and the Church had different orbits
that the temporal autholileS belonged 10 the adj
mnistraton Of the temporal affairs Of the people,
and the spiritual authorities to that Of the spiritual
affairs. ,,.,x
Every political question resolves Itself intoa ques-
t,on of right and wrong and thus the necessity OF
sound religious teaching. lie found in all his read
ing that 1t the fault 81 humanity ana not the
fault of the Church when she seemed 10 trampe
nm tho rights of man. II was for Lord Baltimore in
the American colonies TO proclaim That the church
was independent OF the state ana tnat no man
should lie prosecuted for hls principles. Has inc
Church elevated the scris, ana taught the world
the truth declared by jesus Inrlst, ,hat IN in
was neither bond nor free Even III MS slender
reading lie had counted nity.siS councils OF tnc
Church upon this subject She had 10 go lne WORK
carefully, for had she acted otherWise her emit
dren might have been more feariully oppressed ana
driven back to the CatacomDs. These councils IN
Europe took rvet after rlvet from the manacles OF
the slave, and without shedding one drop OF hilinan
blood struck the letters from 50.O00,0o0 men our
fOrefathers saw that If there was TO DC freedom
In spiritual well as Ill temporal
matters there must he n plot or land In when
federal representatives could be unmocsted, and
ike circumstance was the ownership 10y the Pope
OF the States of Rome, to preserve the spiritual
government Of the Church The Cathonc Churcl,
Of all sects In the world, says tfat I'VE must nave
union.n She loves At, AMI 1t was perhaps, the
reason that the Catholics stepped forward
AZ they did In the last war. The idea OF
there was here in the Church something great
and glorious In union. Catholicity unitcs all
Municipalities the very moment you toucn tue sacred
arc oil the Church. They all are Tor UNION ana IN
this respect the best citizens OF this great con
try. The second point Of the lecture was that the
art and sciences In the old country were de-
velopcd by the progress OF Cathoicity. When
the barbarians down upon every
part OF Europe the Catholic Church completely con.
quered them NJ that by the twelfth century the