The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-12-11
CHURCH AND STATE.
The Trouble that is Arising from Mr..
GladstOne's Pamphlet-B0ld Ground
Taken by the Catholic Organs OF Ohio.
WEE H1eHER Law AHoWEp.

Catholic Telegraph, published under the
eye of Archbishop Purcell, and which
may be looked upon as the official organ
of the Catholic church in Ohio, in long
review of the Gladstone pamphlet, uses
this language:
"Whenever the State commands any
actforbidden by the supernatural law, the
State has transgTessed the sphere of its
authority, and must not be obeyed. It is
the unalterable obligation of the civil
power to conform itself to the spiritual
order. The State has no more right TO
place itself in antagonism with the high
er law than the individual. As a conse-
quence of her divine mission, apart and
distinct from the dogma Of papal infalli-
bility, the law she promulgates is Gods
law, sacred and inviolable, against which
the arm of the State can never be raised
without committing a crime both against
its subjects andagainst God. When the
subject, under such circumstances, refu-
ses to obey, there is no disloyalty-for
loyalty presupposes Law. But a human
enactment enioiniDg what God forbids, is
null and void. Its disagreement with the
supernatural law deprives it of any bind
ing force.
This is a bold avowal of all that Glad
stone charges. Its position may thus be
formulated: The State must not be
obeyed when it transgresses Gods laws.
Therefore the State must not be obeyed
when it opposes the DEGREES Of the Rom
an Catholic Church. Can anything be
palmer than this2 But, that there shall
be no mistake, the Catholic Telegraph
puts it in stronger language. The de
crees of the Church, the law it promul-
gates, sis Gods law, sacred and inviola-
bic, against which the arm Of the State
can never be raised, without committing
crime against its subjects and against
God. When the subject, under such CIR
cumstances, refuses to obey, there is no
disloyalty-for loyalty presupposes law. "
IANDREss OF THE POPE ONNR. GLADSTONE
A Telegram from Rome, Nov. 10th, to
the Londan Daily News, contains the
following:
This morning the Pope, who has recov-
cred from his indisposition, after receiv-
ing the Bishop of Bucharest, admitted
several English Catholics to an audience.
In addressing them, he said: ga former
Minister of your country, whom l had
believed rather moderate, and who, to
say the truth, had never while In Office
manifested arrogance or violence toward
the Catholic Church, intoxicated by the
proceedings of another Minister in an
other State, has suddenly come forward,
| like a viper, assailing this bark of st.
Peter. 1 have not read the book, and I
have no great desire to read blasphemies,
but from what understand, the Minis
ter whom they call Liberal fatters the
Catholics Of that nation and leads them
to believe that wish those subjects to
become disloyal to their sovereign and
the laws of their country. Puzzled at
beholding the vast progress made by that
great nation in the path of the true faith,
the fallen Minister hopes to arrest the
luminous triumph of the Church by IN
terpreting, after his own fashion, the viii
of this poor Vicar of Christ. A great
King( Charlemagne) said that even should
the Church impose heavy burdens on the
conscience of the population, the Catho-
hes should bear them from their interest
in the communion of the Church; but
our dognas, far from being burdens, are
light. Those who viii walk astray are
not Catholics, they are worse than inf
dels and PrOtestants, because, calling
themselves Catholics, they daily rebel
against God and the laws of the Church. "
THE DRIFT OF ENGLISH OPINION.
The London Correspondence of the
New York Times, says:
It seems that Mr.. Gladstone's pamph-
let has had a very large sale. One hun
dred and sixteen thousand copies we're
printed and nearly all have been disposed
of. The poor man has been over
whelmed with letters-a sackful twice a.
day-and has written to the papers TO say
that he really cannot answer them. The
Roman Catholics are still splitting fire
and smoke on the subject Of Mr.. Glad
stones pamphlet. That singular pro
duction is only laughed at by Protestants
as a wonderful example of how clever
man can go to sleep ike Rip Van WinkleI
and wake up one day in a fright at dis
covering what everybody else knew years
before. Now would the Catholics prob
ably have cared very much for a general
attack on the system of their Church if
it had been addressed expressly to Prot
estants? What chiefly sngers and exas-
perates them is the suspicion that the
pamphlet Is part Of a conspiracy got up
by the Old Catholics. 1t is known that
the dogma of infalhbilhty was extremely
distasteful to large proportion of the
English Roman Catholics at the time
when it was decreed, and that they ex
erted themselves vigorously In order to
prevent its prOmulgation. twas hoped,
however, that when the question had
once been settled by the Vatican Council,
they would be reduced into mute, ii
not formal, acquiescenoe; and hence the
uneasiness which has been produced by
the readiness of the more moderate Ro-
man Catholics in this country to repudi-
ate any. responsibility for, or submission
to, the infallibity dogma. That Mr..
Gladstone has acted entirely on his own
inspiration will be believed by all who
understand his peculiarities of tempera
ment, and the formal denial which has
Just been given to the allegation that he
has acted In direct concert with DR.. Dol
linger Just before he wrote the pamphlet,
and Lord Acton Immediately afterward,
and that the issue of the pamphlet was
followed within day by Lord Acton's
letter, declaring that many Roman Cath
olics resented quite as much as Dir. Glad