The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-04
ANOTHER DEFENSE.


that the CITY school board is catholic
by one majority" Mr.. Pyle, who seems
to be the brains of the order, admits
error and says: This information was
given us by a committee composed of
twelve democrats and nine republicans.
who unauestionably thought it was cor
rect. and was not handed out for po-
ntical effect" Now. if this be true, and
we have no reason TO question it, what
are we to think Of the value Of A. P. A.
investigations? If twenty-one members
conscientiously investigate a matter in
their own city, as to which anyone could
have full information for the asking, and
miss the truth so far as this. what be-
lief can be given to the A. P. A. revela-
lions concerning events in Rome? If
twenty-one members investigate school
board. in whose election the A. P. A.
took an active and aggressive part, and
report six Of the eleven catholics when
in fact there is but one catholic on the
board. and he was supported by the A.
P. A. in the election because he was
thought not so good catholic as his oppo-
nent. why should anyone expect this or
der to secure any important secrets from
the alleged mysteries Of the Vatican?
Could anything be more absurd than the
Dretensions of such ignoramuses? AS
matter of fact. their statements as to
such matters are so utterly absurd and
impossible that they could impose on no
one who was possessed Of common in
telligence.
One example will suffice to illustrate
this. In the A. P. A. paper, the Loyal
American. issued here last week, there
is printed a stupid forgery called an
encyclical letter from Leo XIII. 1t is
well known to all intelligent protestants
that the catholic church lays great stress
on form in all ecclesiastical matters, and
indeed that is one of the chief argu-
ments Of protestants against catholi-
cism. The form of this letter shows abb
solutely that II Is a forgery, because
1t violates the well-established and no
torious rules Of catholic composition, and
this any person may decide for himself
Take the Encyclopedia Britannica and
turn to the article Bulls and Briefs"
You will find that there are two kinds
OF papal letters, bulls and briefs, which
have distinctive characters in form, and
in this forged letter of the A. p. A. they
are mixed up as no catholic clerk
certainly none intrusted with important
work at the Vatican-would mix them.
In the body Of the article it is called
a bull. but it opens with the heading
of an encyclical letter or brief and after
the greeting introduces the heading of
a bull-a place where it would not
be put IL the document Were a bull
It names first Leo XIII, which char
acterizes a brief. Immediately fol-
lowing. it names Leo, bishop and serv-
ant Of the servants Of God" which are
the characteristic words of a bull. The
address of the letter is still more faulty.
1t reads:
To the Jesuits. Patriarch, Primates,
Archbishops and other Ordinaries in
Peace and Communion with the Apos-
tolic See of the Entire World.
No bull or brief would be addressed to
the Jesuits any more than to the Fran
ciscans or Dominicans, unless 1t con-
cerned them especially. They are mere
ly an order of monks. but people of the
A. P. A. class consider them especially
obnoxious. and therefore they are intro
duced here. Moreover, il the pope had
anything TO say to them he would use
their proper title. Society OF Jesus
and not a cant name. And more import
ant still. II he should mention them in
the address of an encychcal he would
not place them first. because in the order
Of precedence, which is more strictly OBJ
served by the catholic church than by
any temporal court, the highest of the
order of Jesuits ranks lower than the
least bishop. The regular form of adj
dress for an encyclical letter is this:
To all the Patriarchs, Primates, Arch
bishops and Bishops Of the Entire
Catholic World. having Peace and
Communion with the Apostolic See.
If the laity are included, as in the
body Of this forged letter, the words
land all the faithful in Christ" would
be inserted after the word Bishops"
Following this address should come the
words. Venerable Brethren, Health and
the Apostolic Benediction." after which
the subject matter of the letter would
follow Immediately. Forms can be seen
in the News of June 81. 1893, or in Henry
Georges 1.-The Condition of Labor"
There is also funny blunder in the
body Of the article. It recites numerous
absurd charges and grants an absolution
from any oath of allegiance to the United
States. which dissolution is to take effect
ION or about the 9Th of September, 1885,"
and Immediately following this, it pro-
ceeds. land on or about the feast of
Ignatius Loyola. in the year of our Lord
1893. it will be the duty of the faithful to
exterminate all heretics found within the
jurisdiction of the United States of
America" 1t is evident from this that
the forger supposed the feast of Igna-
tius Loyola to follow Sept. 5. whereas