New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-29
SERMONS on C1IUOLICISM.
THE REV. ". c. PETERS DELIVERS
TWr.
ARCHBISHOP coRRIGAN AND THE FREEDOM OF
THE PREss-THE THEORY OF
PAPAL SUPREMACY


The following is an extract from the sermon Of
the Rev. Madison c. Peters. delivered last evening
in the Bloomngdale Reformed Church, Boulevard
and West Sxty-elghth-st.:
Freedom of speech and Of the press IS guaranteed
to Us by the First Amendment to ne Constitution:
Congress shall make no law abridgng the free-
Leo Xiii, in letter dated June Il. 1885. said
such a duty--obedi~nce- while incumbent upon all
without exception is most strictly - on journal.
lists who II they were aGt anmascd Win tn M s
Catholic would help 20 ext,ni and greatly ag-
gravate the evils We dcpore. \ writer IN Inc
Catholic World" in article entitled The Catho-
lies Of the Nineteenth Century said: The SUI
premacv asserted by the Church IN matters OF edu-
cation implies the additional and cognate function
OF the censorship OF ideas and the right TO exam
lions writings and utterdnoes intended FOR public
instruction. enlghtenment or entertanment and re
principle upon which the church mas acted in hand
criminals in the world Of IDEAS.
According to recent Roman Catholic authorities
clesiastics. THE Catholic Herald Of New-Yor&.
McGlynn and Archbishop corrigan Immediately .ei.
.l52 AIadson-ave... Nev,.York. h?rll 49, 1887;
ITO the Editors and Proprietors OF TIE C@'holic
"Gentlemen BY this note. which is entirely pri-
attention TO the fact that the Third Penary Coun-
ell of baltimore. following the leadership of Pope
oc press and denoancei tn abuses Of which jour
mails styling themselves Catholic are sometimes
No. 22s. is to be regarded as Catholic that is pre-
thority IL warns ali catholic writer's against pre-
sumng to attack publicly the manner in which
n 'Sa9R F of the cahoc ersd have bess
sRsd IN this diocese hereby warn You that il
YOU continue in this course o. conduct Il will be at
''' M a. a. coRRiG Az. Archbishop of 'New-York"
Amd CoTSpn hSd the ST IN his in f th
land Protestant we'll Catholic: That letter
Of cSrrisans Is National outrage eha an For INSULT hit
journalists of America. that they may write what
the Jesuits they are not MT to be American ci.,-
Free thought and free speech are the I'M
Der that we are Americans FIRST ana declare netors
high heaven that no despotism shall be introd1 y
men Free 70 write to think to act and to control
own affairs. And let US adopt the American r9r
and trust to the mighty power Of truth cast or
ecclesiastical slavery ana et every man go 10 os
fountains OF truth and taste and judge Tor hselt'
Yesterday morning the Rev. Mr.. Peters preached
a sermon to prove that 81. Peter was not the
founder of the Roman Catholic Church; that -.
Peter was never Pope and was never even In Rome.
and that the Greek Church. not the Roman. was
the oldest Christian Church. lie said:
The whole theory OF the Papal supremacy is a
profane gives any mention of Peters residing IN
Rome. OF his even visiting the p, Wes tern
Peter was ever out of Judea. The story or feter
visit 10 Rome did not get into circulation ulith
the end of the second century, and there i not
single authentic trace of Peters presidency over
the Church until the fourth century. There was
church AT Rome I'm the early history of christianity.
but Rornanists cannot give clear testimony from
bishop had any authority than an African.
Greek or Syrian bsnop. The title or once or POPE,
designating the universal iather or the ChuTch,
was unknown by the world for nearly bvD years
after Christ. The first who claimed 10 be the
Catholic or univers II father of the church was
John OF Constantinople. in 5s. and he was de-
ncuncel by Gregory the Great. the Bisnop OF
Rome as proud. basphemOus and diabollca.
The Greek Church not the Roman. Is the oldest
Christian Church The Roman Church Is simply
an apostacy from the Greek Church. and began lis
existence July Is. 1854. At this time Michael the
Patriarch or Pope of Constantinope, excOmmuni-
ratei and ana hema tied the Bishop OF Rome and
MI his adherents: and the said Pope or Bishop or
Rome Leo INth. eXcommunicated and anathena.
tied Michael OF ConstantinOrle. From thls period
and never before. II the Holy Roman catholic
church All the terms freely used by RomanistS
ARE Greek Such words synod. ecclesiastic,
schism hcresy, canon. Catholic, mystery and hier-
archv Rome borrowed from the Greeks. she bor-
rowel the word Universal Bishop or Pope from
the Greeks Romanism is not apostolcal success
sion but baptized Paganism. Writer'S ike Baronlus
confess that the Church transferred 70 pious uses
nople and of Gregory the Great would not know at
ali the present Roman Catholic Church Every in
telllgent man knows that the Latin Church OF the
Middle Ages and the present church have nothing
I'm common. II is certain as truth itself that the
modern Roman catholic Church is not the survivor
of the Apostolic church. but The survivor OF Pagan
and political Rome.