The Hartford herald., 1880-01-28

of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all
Christians, by virtue of his supreme ap-
pOstolic authority, he defines doctrine
regarding faith or morals to be held by
the Universal Church, by the Divine as
sistance promised him in blessed Peter
is possessed of that inflllibility which
the Divine Redeemer willed his Church
should be endowed with for defining doc
trine regarding faith or plOrals and that
therefore, such definitions of the Roman
Pontiff are HrefOrn0bte of themselves,
and not from the consent of the church."
But if any one, which may God avert,
presume to contradict this, our defini-
tions, let him be dndthemd." Upon
this we note: The pope is infallible in
the domain of both faith and morals,
and the domain ofa catholics faith
embraces everything within the range
of human thought, whether of a scien-
tific, philosophical, historic or theOlog-
ic character, a. the pope has often con-
demned errors of each of those charac-
ters, he cOndemnedCalileo for an error in
science, and as their definitions are SIN
fallible," and "Irreformable," j suppose
all the faithful still believe in obedience
to the pope that the world is fiat, or II
the pope should send forth another En-
cyciical letter and condemn as an er-
rOr the idea that the moon was not
made of green cheese, then in order to
avert the fearful anathema, all the faith
full must obey, and steadily believe that
the moon is made of green cheese. Or,
if We turn to the domain of morals, this
embraces the whole duty of man.
whether to his God, his fellowmen, his
church, his country, his wife, or chill
dren, and yet i'm all this the pope is his
infallible guide, and hence, as Cardinal
Manning teaches, is to be implicitly
obeyed. "There is no tribunal to which
appeal from the church (the pope can
be. There is no coordinate witness,
teacher or judge who can revise, ,criticise
or test the teaching of the church (the
pope. 1t is sole and alone in the world
(see 'vatican council, "etc., by Manning
page 12S, so that the pope and priest
come between man and his God, man
and his wife, man and his children, and
last of all between man and his country
his Governor, President and rulers of
any character, and man has no right to
consult his own reason or conscience,
but simply to bow his head and do what
the priest or pope say. so that the priest
is master of the catholics conscience on
every question, politics as well as other
questions, and acting upon this princi-
Pile Archbishop Purcell implicitly con-
trolls the vote of all the Catholic popula-
tion of Cincinnati, Cardinal McGoskey
votes the Catholics of New York as a
unit. On all political questions, where
the interest of the church is concerned
the Catholic gets his politics ready made
whether they fit or not from Rome.
And now, to show that my positions
and conclusions are legitimate, L wish
! to close this article with few quota
tions from the Evangelical letter of
Pope Plus IN, issued from the vatican,
December 8, 1864, and the Syllabus of er-
rors condemned therein, and in this we
shall see in the POpe's own words what
Catholics believe, and what effect
their belief may have upon their
relations to the institutions of
this country, and first, respecting the
purpose for which civil government is
instituted, he says, speaking to Bishops
and priests, Do not omit to teach that the
Royal Powers (meaning civil govern
ment) has been established not only to
exercise the government of the world,
but above all, for the protection of the
church, and that there is nothing more
profitable for Sovereign States and
Kings than to Ieaue the Catholic church
to exercise its laws, and not to permit
any to curtail its liberty. Ii is certain
| that it is advantageous for sovereigns,
when the course of God is in question
to submit their Royal I0iU t0the priests
OF Jesus Christ, and not to prefer it be-
fore Them" And if We wish to know
what the laws of the said church are to
which Sovereigns must submit, we find
it in the Syllabus, Proposition XIV, con-
demns the idea as error "1hdt ereTy
man is free to embrace and profess the
religion he shall beiiere true, guided by
the light Of reason" that is, no man has
the right to profess any other than the
Catholic Religion. Prop. XX condemns
as error the principle that ..The ecclesi-
astical power must not exercise its au-
thority without permission from civil
government" that is the priests have
the right to do what they please wheth-
er ii violates civil law or not. Prop. XXlN
condemns those who assert that "the
church has not the power of availing
herself of force or of any direct or indi-
rect temporal p01cer," which implies
that the pope has the power, anywhere
to employ force to carry out his DEGREES;
if men will not accept them willingly
he will make them do it.
Prop. XXXIX condemns the princi-
pie that "The Republic is the origin and
source of all rights, which are not cir
cumscribed by limits" To condemn
this is to say simply that we are not to
look to the State, but to the church and
pope for our rights.
| TT fha ir.la
that'In case of conflict between church
and State the civil law aught to pre-
vail,r which is simply to say that the
DEGREES and bulls of the pope aught to
override all United States and State
laws.
Prop. LV condemns the principle
that the '.church aught to be separate
from the State, and the State from the
church." To make this an error Is to
say that the Roman Catholic church
aught to be the established church in
this and all other countries and this Is
what the pope indirectly affirms, which
shows what he would do If he had the
power. but he is speaking ear Cuthedrd
here, telling what is to be believed and
what rejected, and hence is infallible,
so that all those monstrous dogmas cited
above are not simply the opinions OF
the pope, but they are matters Of faith
to erery true Catholic ia the United
States, as well as elsewhere. Remem-
Der this, everybody "Give the pope the
power he claims in the United States,
and then farewell to every institution
not subject to the behests of the afore-
said bachelor priests and pope" No
peace pith the pdpdcy, no compromise
tcith the Pope.
Pro Bono PUBLICO.