The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25

l1cation where this law was stated. 1 have
produced many. 1 do not wonder that such
damnable tricks have been resorted to by the
priesthood of San Francisco to prevent me from
presenting to the people the righteousness of
my position. But they cannot succeed. Zap
PlauSe.I Let me quote again from BrownSon:
we DO not advocate-far from 1.-THE notion
that the church must administer the civil
government What we advocate is her
supremacy as teacher and guardian of the law
OF God, as the supreme court which must be
recognized and submitted to as such by the
state and whose decisions cannot be disre-
garded, whose prerogatives cannot be abridged
or uSurped by any power on earth without
rebellion against the divine majesty and rob-
ping man of his rights. AS Christians we must
insist on this supremacy, as Catholics it is not
only our duty but our glorious privilege to
assert it,"
Do you wonder, my friends, that the Arch
bishop IS sick in bed? tApplauSe1
''lf religion and the laws come in conflict"
says Brownson, sit is the laws that are to be
reformed, not the religion that is to be sup
pressed"
If religion and the laws come into conflict
it is the laws not religion that is to be re-
formed. Why, it is like getting ready for the
1nqu1sition. They want 70 straighten some Of
us out.
Yorke is contemplate, unmanly thing-a
man brought up from the depths of charity
and he now comes forward pretending he has
come down from heaven. [Applause.l
A voice-Yorke says you are an alien.
Ross, am an American; l am an American
by birth lCheers.l IT is the only SPOT on
america has been over me all my life.
True, was born little farther
north than the forty ninth parallel, but
Washington-was born under the British flag:
the men who signed the Declaration of
ldndepen@aenfe; dade5p and the first Pres,
AdameseS, were born at time when
this country was under the British flag
My home is happy. 1t breathes the air OF the
nl,i - hole
10 the Daughters OF the Revolution. My three
little girls were born here in California and
they are my pledges of loyalty to my country.
viii now quote from "Religious Instruc-
tion." textbook of the Catholic church and
approved by the Propaganda:
"By virtue of this divine institution tie
marriage of Christians is a sacrament. and
will ever remain so. Any matrimonial con-
tract between Christians not having the char
acter of sacrament would not be real mar
riage, nor even a valid contract. The purely
natural contract no longer exists, except
among infdels-that is to say, the unbap-
rZed.
''Q) Marriage consists essentially in a con-
tract formed between two persons, and is
called the contract of marriage; ~ what is
commonly called civil marriage differs essen
TALLY from the ecclesiastical marriage, which
alone Is real marriage, the former having
nothing but a name.
'Civil marriage is a simple legal formality by
virtue OF which the affianced are considered as
man and wife in the eyes of the law, and they
enjoy the rights which the law accords to
married persons and their legitimate children.
This purely nominal marriage in way con-
stltutes the afiianced man ana wife before God,
and II they did not also contract the ecclesias-
tical marriage their living together would be
sin. ."-Rel1giouS Instruction, pages 226-7
matrimonial union once consummated is
indissoluble, and only ceases with the dea tn
OF one OF the two parties. No human power
can break the sacred engagement of marriage
that fresh union may be contracted What
Is called civil divorce leaves the matrimonial
tie in full force. and while the two persons are
alive new marriage is impossible. If at
tempted it would only be detestaole adul-
tery."-Religious Instruction, page 22S.
"a marriage contracted solely before the
civil authorities is not real one in the eyes of
God and the church Such pretended union
called a civil marriage, is nothing but a
shameful concubinage in the sight of God.
Marriage with Jews or infidels is null and
vod.'-Religious Instruc ton, page 37S.
"That what is called the Inquisition con-
sisted of court of justice, which was at the
same time ecclesiastical and civil. 1t was es-
tabllshed to take cogniZance of the crime of
heresy and to punish the guilty. The tribunal
OF the Induisition was called the Holy Office
About the year 1900 it was instituted by Pope
Innocence LII, in order to repress the Abb
genses and the Vandois.. AS these sects
spread together with their errors spirit
of rebellion against the two authorities. in
struction and persuasion were at first tried in
order to reclaim them to sense OF duty but
when these means were found to be Intellectual,
the ecclesiastical and civil powers being
equally menaced, united against the common
enemy; the former lent its authority to dis
cover crime, and the latter to punish it. Hence
the origin OF the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In
structlon, p 1856.
In dealing with the Emperors of Germany
the Popes have been more authoritative than
with other sovereigns, but 1t was because these
princes were exceptionally situated. In re-
susctating the Empire OF the East the
Papacy had established Christian empire.
subject in temporal matters to an
elective chief The election was accompanied
by solemn promise to observe the rules
OF certain constitution, the neglect OF which
should deprive the elected OF his rights. The
Pope OF necessity became his Judge. in this,
and he alone could decide as to his shortcom-
iugs; and thus it happened that in passing
judgment upon such chief the Pope released
his subjects from their oath of allegiance. The
deposition which followed was a legitimate
consequence of the German1c constitution
Religious Instruction, p. 80.
Ii the state is bound to defend the property
OF the citizen from robbery and his life from
aggresSors from within and without. 1t is
equally bound, according to the measure of q
moral possibility, to protect that which is in
fnitely more precious, his intellectual and
moral welfare, from error and corruption; that
is TO say, the state must protect the true prin-
clples of order and true religious and moral
doctrines, and it must defend them from the
public scandals of the press, OF false teaching,
OF the theater and of all pern1cious societies.
-Religious Instruction, p 1Ol.
The sentences which the secular power pro-
nounces in the cases which concern the es-
ing; hence should 1t meet with any of the
faithful so forgetful of their baptism as to be
satisfied with the prohibitions the consent
and the judgments of the secular power, what
ever consideration they may enjoy among
men they shall not escape the opprobrium of
hearing themselvef called before the tribunal
OF GOD fornicators and adulterors. - Mar
riage 80.
The speaker then cites the following as
authorities for his contention:
The Pope in the syllabus prop. s0) condemns
those who say that the Roman Pontiff may and
ought to recon cile himself and come to
terms with progress, liberalism and mod
ern civilization. This is undoubtedly
true; for this so-called modern civiliza-
ton is not a genuine but sham pagan
civilization, which insists on material i'm
provement, and advocates the superiority OF
the temporal over the spiritual order-nay, de-
stroys the letter altogether. The Pope can
never, sanction this; were he TO do SO the
church would cease to be the teacher of man
kind. In upholding, as the Pope is bound TO
do, Independence and supremacy of the
spiritual order, he is a stanch advocate of true
liberty.-Jouin 303.
Now it is evident that the church insti-