The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-20

wbo lOEW SeCTcC eOclettee, 3ssOclationsp auu
comb ations, for national objects, based
on principles that contradict the principles
OF their faith as Christians, or seek to &C
complish them, by means religion forbids.
All these, though they may not be aware
Of 1t, place a pretended patriotism above
church, and therefore man above God.
All Professionals place the state above the
church, for it 10 of the essence of Protest
autism to subordinate the church to tie
state, or national authority,-to subject
the divine to the human, that 10, God to
man. It was for this the 80 called Reform
alton was made, and the Protestant move
ment 10 cherished solely as q movement in
BEHALF of what its adherepts call the liberty
Of mankind. This is, simply and honestly
stated, because it tends to liberate man
from the authority of God ana Che Pope
make the human supreme, as expressed by
the phrase, private judgment. Protestants,
If In words they assert that God is above
man, in reality and in intention exclude
him from all authority in the government,
as we have said, Of this world. They re.
jees the church, his representative or his
kingdom on the earth, and deny all access
to him in order to hear his oracles, or to
receive his commands. Infidels are on this
question like Protestants, only . little
more open. frank, and less hypocritical and
versy Of the age, and the side opposed to
the side taken by the bishop of Cleveland,
and by all his brother bishops, to the side
taken by the pope their chief, and there
fore to the side of God, the Universal and
Sovereign Lord
Does any one doubt the nature of the
controversy Let him read then the fol-
lowing article from the National Zeitung
of Berlin, in which Prince Won Bismarck
outlined his recent speech in the P1ussian
House of Lords, against the independence
Of the church. We have the speech itself
before us, but this abstract lie equally aut-
hentic, and more outspoken and less dip
lomatic
"If curse and ban possessed an imme-
date magical agency-if the conjuror of
the Vatican could let fly the little stone
that would smash the Colossus-the OPP
pressed church would change itself into q
triumphal one, and that in the proximate
fature: Never have more objurg atoms fa:-
from those of Plus IX. There is no
State with which he has not fallen
out. He has solemnly cursed the fuuda-
mental laws of Germany, of Austria, of
Italy he has commenced open war with
Switzerland j.; he conspres against the con-
his anatbema has fallen upon Spanish ar
engagements: several years have elapsed
since he expelled the Rossian Eu-oy with
violence from his court: such IN atters. even
in Papal history, are not by way of being
rarities-at least during the last three CEN
turtles. The understanding must accom-
modate itself to many incomprehensible
things; but hitherto, when the church's
need has risen to its maximum point
through the vagaries of a pope, help has
always been hard at hand. The savior
death has appeared and has bundled off
the old conjuror /; and, inspired by the
Holy Ghost, the Conclave has raised to
the seat of the Apostle Prince a man of
Numerically opposite principle.
Do not those words exactly fit the present
condition of the world Z Not the temper
ality, but the church itself is fallen, through
syllabus aud dogma Of infallibility, into
far worse and more dangerous position
than under the Pontihcate of the thirteenth
Clement. 1t was, considering the psychic
temper (GeistesstimmunJ) of the age, the
most fatal of all the Roman stupidities to
insist upon the proclamation of these
theories. 1t was a matter of absolute in
difference what the church thought about
them We, who do not belong to her, were
insulted by the impertinence with which
an old and, according to our notions, ig-
norant man dared publicly and soemnly,
in the paragraphs of his syllabus. to curse
sume to himself, in the paragraphs of his
fantastical dogma, lordship over us.
| Werdiness, culture, the state itself were
challenged with an intrepidity only equal
| leu Dy the OlnQHeSS or the rlnSleader not
We evoked the calamity. When the Cd
ponents of nfallibllity, those eighty. four
men who had in all preliminary meetings
declared themselves against the proclama-
ton of the dogma, Quilted Rome before the
de vote of the Council, abandoning
their flag in the most cowardly manner,
the bark Of Christ sprang an irrepara BILE
leak, and twas plainly manifest that those
who sat in it were no martyrs, but hire
lings then society, half incredulous, saw
with astonishment and horror that in the
General Council of Catholic Christendom
there was not one conscientious man to
stand up and say, "Here l stand can do
no other God help me further. Amen ~
This fact condemned the Catholic hierarchy.
The infallible Pope Plus TX was, in ls49,
the ideal of the italian liberals whom to-
day he curses. The transformation which
the world then hoped for at the hands of
the Roman Catholic Church, already cast
widely before it its majestic shadow.
Wherefore secede from a church which in
tends to make its peace with modern cul-
ture and society 7 SO said quiet, thought
full people-and remained. The syllabus.