Daily globe., 1879-02-03
POPE. LEO'S ENCYCLICAL.
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| Anethematizing the Socialists, the Com.
munists, and Nihilists as "Death-Deal.
ing Plague that is Creeping into all the
F1bres of Human Soclety"-Said to Have
Been Written by the Supreme Prelate
Himself.
TO tho patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and al
bishops on the face of the earth having favor and
communion with the apostolic see:
VENERABLE Observation-Disclosures AND Apos
POLIO BENED1oT1oN: Promptly after our elevation
In an encycica letter addressed to you, venerable
brethren, as demanded Of us because of our apos.
tono Office, we did not fail to point out the death.
dealing plague that ia creeping into all the bres of
human society," and Is leading it into the greatest
danger.
At the same time, we showed the remedies, most
efhcaoious, by which wholesale state Of society
could be recovered and the dangers most grievous,
that threaten might be avoided.
But those evils we then depored even In SO short
time have increased, so that again we are compelled
to use to you the words of the prophet that tnge
our ears: "ciansa J! ne cesses! Ecolto quasi tuba
vocena tuana.'' (Ory out. Cease not. Raise thy
voice like trumpet-Isaias viii, ~
You readily understand venerable brethren. that
we speak of that sect of men, called by sundry and
almost barbarous names, Socialists, Communists
or N'htlSsts: They are spread all over the world /;
oouno together, most closely, by wicked pact be-
tween them all But 10 longer do they seek cover in
W6st 5eu hsd Openly boldly they
destroy the very foundations Of civil society, Of
whatever kind These they foretold in the words
6. esS S Jude e. Dse the
stons :. % %spsrIan nsajsslats"s ' asfss, SG Sesp1s-
that has been wisely ordered by divine and human
laws, for the welfare and honor of men in this life.
mnose higher powers to whom, as the apostle ad-
ers of right government derived from God are re-
lusea oDedlcnce, and there is proclaimed perfect
equality OF all men in rights and positions
-. me natural union OF man and woman, sacred
even among barbarians, is befouled; and the mar
mage bond, that is the keystone Of society," is re-
!axed, or even broken loose. Decoyed by lust for
the tn 900 GOOD things Of this world which 's the root of
the faith"- (radir est onsaiuns nazorua,, ct
3dem 3de y ngHsaana, !rasu aRpetemtes errayerunt a
G mGthy u, H. ~ They attack the right Of
endng to care for the wants of men and to satisfy
tnelr wishes by huge crime, they aim at robbing
ana mahng common spoil of whatever has been
quired by savings.
And these outrages they proclaim in their meet
!ngs put forth in circulars, and spread among the
Ignorant In swarm of newspapers.
The result is that in short time past the maiestv
and rule OF kings, that should be respected have
met sucn an Ill will on the part of sedtous null
toe, that criminal traitors going loose from all re-
stralnt have sought by impious attacks to assassn-
ate the rulers of many States.
But this outbreak of faithless men, that, day by
day. threatens more awful ruin to civil life in com
mon, and shocks all who think with solcitous fore
btodlng, has its cause and origin from former
umes IN the poisoned doctrines that, bad seeds,
seIeo among many people. For you well have
known, Venerable Brethren, the unbridled war
against the:Catholc faith, from the sixteenth CEN
tury, excited by e innovators that continnalIv
even now, is working, that the way shall be open to
tne inventions say rather the ravngs) of reason left
to ITSELF stripped of ali revelation and OF the super
natural order. eN
:, 1t is all error of the same kind, usurping falsely,
the name OF R1taonat, while coaxing and squirting
.le ueslre Deonslng to man, and giving loose rein
10 al sorts OF luss, that has not only caught many
men, put has infected very widely human society.
Hence. by a ne,U godlessness, unknown even
among pagans, republics form themselves, taking
no account OF God or of the order he has set
Neither public authority majesty nor the power
that God gives rulers is to be maintained but rather
gained from the throng of people, that thinking
themselves tree from all divine sanction accept only
such laws as, al la6it1ta, voted for them [SOi
Wayeoa9 a2sos su6esse passa est, quas iosa ad
The supernatural truths Of faith treated as hostile
20 reason! But the Creator of the race of man,
and its Redeenaer is quietly and softly sought to
pe expeea from the universities, where studies are
the whole routine of human life.
Inc rewards and the punishments of future and
eternal life are forgotten in the heat of lust for
pleasant pleasure. These doctrines, far and wide
SPREAD this freedom everywhere extended, of think
ing and acting with looseness reaching far and
wlde' no marvel that men of the lowest Sort beg
gars at the door, or iders of the shop are eager
get into the houses and wealth of the rich no Won
der that there remains no quietness in public nor
IN private fe or that the human race has come al
most to the point of perditon.
But the chief pastors of the church. on whom it is
u ha Of r
from the snares of the eiemy, have taken care, in
tme to point out the danger and to guard the safety
Of the faithful.
Fo., so the secret societies began to spring
up, from whose breast the seeds have sprung that
We nave spoken T1 Of the popes-olement Kill and
Benedlct AlV-falled not to warn the whole world of
the impous and pernicous character that Law hidden
in all these secret societies.
But, after an unbrided kind of liberty was counted
as belonging to man, by those who glored in being
called as philosophers, and what they styled new law
against natural and divine law, had been sought to
be framed and sanctioned, Pope Plus vi. of blessed
memory forthwith exposed the meaning and false
mood OF their notions in public documents.
And at the same time by an apostolical foreseeinp
t9la the ruins to which the wretchedly deceived peo.
pie would be brought by these intrigues.
And when, notwithstanding, no care was taken
against the spreading of these bad doctrines among
tae people, nor did governments outlaw them, the
popes, Plus VII. and Leo XII. Condemned and.
anew, declared what danger they would.proye to hn
man society.
No needs to be told with what earnest words or
GUS predecessor. Plus H. of blessed memory. in his
allocutions, and in his encyccal letters to the bsb
ops OF the whole world fought against the wicked ef
forts of the secret sects and BY name against the
plague OF socialism that has come out of them.
AS TO GRADES IN SOCIETY.
It is, indeed, deplorable thing that those whose
duty it was to watch the common welfare being
duped by the tricks of impous men and terrified by
their threats should have shown themselves of con-
s,an'y suspicious and even unjust mind toward the
church, not perceiving that the efforts of the secta-
RES would have come to naught the doctrine of the
Catholic church and the authority of the Roman
pontlts both with princes and with peoples had al
ways remained in due honor, for the church of the
nVlng dod, which is 'the pillar and ground of the
truth teaches those very doctrines and precepts by
Whch the safety and quiet of society are to be pre-
served and the horrible plant of socialism plucked
out by the roots.
For although the socialists, perverting the eospel
itself that they may the easily deceive the rn-
wary nave been wont to wrest it to the support of
ther own opinion, yet great is the conflict between
Christ that greater could exist. "For what nar-
tclpation hath justice with injustice what fellow
ship hath light with darkness?'' They indeed do
not cease to repeat, as We admit that all men are
equal Dy nature, one with another and on this ac-
count they contend that neither honor and rever-
ence due to majesty nor obedience to laws, unless
they themselves may have been pleased to
sanction them. Contrarwise according to the evan
gellcal teachings, the equality Of men is this that
having all of them received the same nature thew
are all called to the most exalted dignity Of the
sons of God, also that the same end having
been appointed to all, each is to be judged by the
same law, receiving punishments or reward accord
ing to his desert But inequality in authority an
power flows from the very Author of nature, sof
whom all paternity In heaven and earth is named y
Moreover following the Catholic doctrine and pre-
cepts the souls of princes and subjects are SO linked
together by mutual duties and obligations that both
the lust OF arbitrary power is tempered and the habit
OF obedience is made easy, stable, and ennobling.
Indeed, the church sedulously inculcates upon the
subjected multitude the apostle ical precept 'sThere
Is no power but from God; and those that are or
dained Of God. Therefore, he that resisteth the
power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that
resist purchase to themselves da1nnation.'' And,
again, it bids the "be subjected of necessity not
only for WRATH but also for conscience sake = and