Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19
THE OBJECT IN VIEW.

The newspapers of the country
continue to criticise the manner in
which Cardinal McCloskey took upon
himself the VOWS of the Cardinalate
at New York few days ago. The
pomp and splendor with which he as
sumed his new duties, showed that he
desired to exert an influence in this
country something more than that of
an humble follower of the Meek and
Lowly Nazarine. Even the Irish
World, paper which devotes large
part of it's efforts to the welfare of the
Catholic Church, thinks the carriage
of state and other insignia Of royalty
out of place in this republican Gov
eminent of ours. 1t is believed that
all this parade was for the purpose of
impressing the American people with
sense of the power of the Romish
Church. The current number of
Hdrpe,'S Weekly closes an editorial
on the subject as follows:
His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop
of New York, Prince of the Roman Church
is, as the Herald truly says, in the eye of
American law only Mr.. John McCloskey-
nothing more, nothing less. But that a
cardinal has been created in America shows
that the full organization of the Church has
been completed here. And it is the only
Church in the United States which is polit-
ical, which uses its religious and ecclesias-
tical influence for political ends. The doc
trine of the head of that Church, ackuowl-
edged TO be infallible by his followers, is
that the Church ought to. control the state
The Union of Church and state and the SUI
premacy of the Church are the political
bers, like the Catholic parent we have
mentioned, like Father Hyacinthe like DR..
Dollinger, may protest. But the vast and
memorable organization sweeps over them
resistlessly. They conform, or they are ex.
communicated. The purpose and methods
Of the Roman Church are not to be judged
by the sweetness and gentleness of our in
diyidual Catholic friends Mr.. McCloskey
is described as mild and amiable man.
Is the historic Roman Church mild md
amisble institution? Is the overthrow of
; the American public school system a mild
and amiable policy
In a speech on the 10th of March, 1878,
Bismarck truly described the political At
titude of the Church of Rome:
"The papacy has ever been political
power which with the greatest audacity
and with most momentous consequences
has interfered in the affairs of this world,
which has striven after such encroaohmcnt
and held this in view as its programme
That programme is well understood. The
goal which, like the Frenchmans dream o
an unbroken Rhine boundary, floats before
the papal power the programme which il
the time Of the medieval emperors was neal
Ab' iSoiisoNiohi - WV ohbJSNAiOh VI lut CIV
power to the ecclesiastical: high politica
aim, an endeavor, which, however, is as Ole
as humanity, since there have always beer
either shrewd men or actual priests VIII
: have put forth the pretension that the vii
of God was more intimately known to then
than to their fellows, and that upon tn,
ground Of this pretension they had RICH
; to rule their fellows and that this position
is the basis of the papal pretension to SOW
ereignty is well known
The splendor of the late ceremony wa
calculated to impress the mass Of Catholic
with the visible magnifcence and power o
their Church, and to give additional prestig
to the hierarchy which seeks The destruc
ton Of the schools. Let intelligent Ameri
cans admire as they will the beautiful
dresses and the fine spectacle and resolv,
all the more strongly to prevent the cardi
nal from becoming superintendent Of tn
public schools.