Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-17
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
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l must come back to the point iron, where we started. ask him again to give the date when the doctrines ol morals or faith, through which the Ro. man Catholic Church was cut off of that Church which Christ ha, founded, or, in other words, when did the a5o,ooo, ,ooc of Roman Catholics spread all over the world, cease to be the Catholic Church and become sect like the Anglican | Church became under Henry VIII, Pope and King of England? The children must have the Bible in school-all right; but which Bible was the question, the only un-Sectarian Catholic Bible or one of the adul,erated Sectarian edition? With this, my Reverend friend thinks, the children can beat for themselves the track to the only true religion of Christ. 1 thought always that this was even too hard work for a booE-worm of ,heologian! How can you require such a task from the gentle brain of a child? And how can you blame its consequences as Mormonism, free love, woman's rights and all subversive morality that passes to-day under the pretence of reli- ! zion and doctrine contained in the Bible. We had some notorious examples already in the sixteenth century in some crowned heads of England.
 You assert that the Bishop Of Rome cannot be the head of the Church, be- cause a part is not equal to whole, What an argument! Why, Reverend and dear friend, the proportions of your head are by far not equal to those of your illustrioas body, and think that it is nevertheless your head.
 You ask: Is Roman Catholic "Catho- lic?" Yes, and nobody else. Simply because the Catholic Church must be- long to aU nations, must teach and guard the entire deposit of all revealed truths, and must have existed from the time of Jesus Chris: till to-day and con tinue as long as there will be man in this world to be saved. Protestantsm is I,soo years too young to be Catholic" also, it has lost too many points of the revealed truth, which the Catholic Church never can lose. All supremacy in the Church of Jesus Christ was given to St. Peter, and resides to-day m the Popes or Bishops AS being the successor of St. Peter.
 To prove this my only trouble is to make a good choice out of the many arguments that lay before me l take the Gospel of St. Matthew XVI, I3-Io; there read And say to thee that thou art Peter and on this rock will build my Church, etc." Now, Jesus founded but one Church, and He was pleased Gin spite of Mir. Haskins,) to found it on Peter the rock. He ap. pointed St. Peter first president ofthe Christian world; therefore any Church that does no. recognize St. Peter as its foundation stone, is not the Church of Christ Just like State or Territory that would not recognize Cleveland as the President, could no longer belong to the Union of America's glorious republic This is plain. fyou have doubt as to whether the other Apostles recognized Peter's supremacy, read the twelve first chapters of the "Acts of the Apostles, where the name of Peter is everywhere pre-emnent. Peter is the first Apostle who performed miracle; he is the first to address the Jews, while his brethren stand around him; he is the first to make converts of the Gentiles; when it is 2 question of electing successor to Juda: Peter alone speaks and the Apostle: silently acquiesce in the instructions O their leader;in the Apostolic council Peter is the first whose sentiments are record ed; before his discourse there wa. much disputing, but when he hat ceased to speak all the multitude helc their peace-no Protestant preacher o modern creeds being among them.
 The Church of Christ did not die witl Peter in the year 6, but was destined t' continue till the end of time. Conse quently, whatever official prerogative
 were conferred on Peter, were not t, cease at his death, but were to be handed down to his successors from generation to generation. The Church is, in al
 ages, as much in need of Suprem
 Visible Ruler as it was in the days 0
 the Apostles-if not more-since wi have to deal with Protestantism. What ever privileges, therefore, were conferre, on Peter, which may be considere , essential to the Government of tn
 Church, are inherited by the Bishops C
 Rome as successors of the Prince ( Apostles, just as the constitutions