Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-29

both oath-bound; both do their work
secretly; and both touch affairs of church
ana State. But there is this radical dis
tlnction between them; the Jesuits labor
to make the Roman Pontiff supreme in
| America, not merely in religion, but also
in government. The A. p. A.. is set to
| prevent the possibility of any such
thing. It is not in the interests of any
church, but of American institutions.
However little sympathy we may have
for the methods with which the A. P.
A. seeks to effect its purposes, we can
have even less for the methods and
ethics OF the Jesuits.
The speaker then went on to show
how that the Jesuts "are both feared
and hated by both kings and popes.
This society has enlisted against itself
the jealous hostility Of both civil and
| ecclesiastical authorities in every Roman
Catholic country of Europe, not less
than of Protestants, against whose ad-
vance it was specially organized It was
| suppressed by Pope Clement XIV. In
| Italy where the order has always found
| It's home the Jesuits have their bitterest
and most uncompromising assalants.
No other Catholic order has aroused
such enmity."
What is the cause of this hatred in
which both the State and the church,
both Catholics and Protestants have
shared alike? The order boasts of it us
an answer to its founders prayer, "that
they might be hated of all men" like
Him whose name they have assumed,
and for His names sake. The truer
| answer is found in the old saying:
"Where good, nothing better; where bad,
nothing worse"
They have been powerful alike for
good and for evil. But always powerful
and always using their power, whether
for well or for i'll, for the aggrandize-
ment of their order. They have acted
all along as an imperium in imperio,
confronting the "white pope" with the
"black pope" and often with, at least
temporary, success.
Nevertheless they have wrought some
good service for their church and for
civilization, as preachers, educators,
and missionaries. But their is still
q darker side. To their ambition,
all considerations, moral and re-
ligious, not excluding their most
cherished theological principles, have
been subordinated. From the first they
have aspired "to shape the whispers OF
the Catholic thrones of Europe"
Here the speaker gave a historic re-
sumo in support cf his statement. That
such a power (the Jesuit Propaganda
numbering thousands of highly trained
men, military in its organization, bound
by oaths in unquestioning obedience,
whose purposes involved the overthrow
of every power which would not crawl
subservient to the Pope of Rome, whose
methods are utterly INSCRIPTIONS, and
whose riches are practically exhaustless
that such power should be viewed
with watchfulness and jealousy In every
land and particularly in Roman Catholic
States is quite natural. Nay it would be
wonderful if the civil power and every
patriotic citizen thus rudely challenged
did not view the church they represent
and have frequently controlled, as an
organization bristling with dangerous
sentiments, and the Jesuit order itself as
the Pratorian guard of dangerous
ecclesiastical Cesarism. However any
may object to such movements as the A.
P. A., it would be folly for us to shut
our eyes to some facts.
The Ultramontane spirit which reaches
its high water mark in these Jcsuits is
at work in this country resoluteiy and
subtilely to oyerturn all of those prin.
ciples upon which our liberties and our
peace SO largely rest. They would abol
ish the separation of church and State
by making the State subseryienE to
Rome. They would destroy the free,
dom of thought and speech by a rigid
Roman censorship. And they aim and
to some extent have succeeded in direct
ing the votes Of both electors and legis
latuts.
The Pope who gathers up in his OWE
person the powers OF the RomisL
Church, claims for himself indepcud
ence of and supremacy over all civil
powers, making the State to have no
right even to existence, except under
papal permission and sanction. 1t il
Rome's ayowed purpose to control the
State.
Next TO the Pope himself there is no
more authoritative exponent of Catholic
doctrine than Cardinal Manning, and
these are the words he puts into the
mouth of the Roman pontitf:
81 acknowledge no civic power.
am the subject OF no prince, and claim
more than that; l claim to be the
supreme judge and director of the con.
sciences of men--of the peasant who
tills the field, and tho prince who sits
upon the throne; of the household that
! sits in the shade of privacy, and of the
legislature that makes laws for king
doms. l am the sole supreme judge o.
what is right and wrong"
The speaker went on to quote tha
the "principle of the full control of thu
State by the Pope IS freely declared BY
, Roman Catholics" The speaker ther
, proceeded in giving other Catholic au
thorities which more emphatieally still
declared, with the force of dogma, thu
doctrine of the submission of monarch
and kingdoms to the Holy See-of do
; minion which extends over secular ant
political matters. Every Catholic Chris
! tian is therefore bound to believe, as
doctrine believed of God, and which
must be taught in every catechism, tina
the popes possess an absolute powe
: over all princes and authorities; owe
+ all States and commonwealths; and tina
by their sovereign power they can inter
, fere at discretion in all State affairs
) depose princes, annul laws, and regu
late war and peace.
I The Catholic World of September
1911, says Vi Ino SoFernniehL, II lnter
preted by the Protestant or non-Catholi,
) principle:
"We do not accept it, or hold it to b.
7 any government at all, or as capable o
/ performing any of the proper function
$ of government. If the American govern
ment is to be sustained and preserved a
9 all, it must be by the rejection of tn
a principle of the Reformation Chat i
e government by the people, and tn
1 | nrcenLnnce of the Cnthnlic nrincinle