The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28


and oblige to Its correction. When Christian
world came into existence the civil society of
man became subject to the spisitual direction
of the church"
saws page 17S: eide penes nos occultaa
uuoque conjunctiones hoe est non Plus abud
eccleciam, professe juxta m3chiam ct forni-
cationem judicarl pr1el1tautur!
.'There are among us unions which are not
made before the church, and they run the risk
of being called adultry and fornication.
Tertullian in his book "Ad Uxorum," )" recon-
meuds "the faithful to receive the nuptial
benediction so to remove all suspicion of
fornication and concubinage which rests upon
those who marry privately"
Is not this having DOMINION over temporal
affairs?
The fifteenth canon of the Council of Clare
mont says: "Ne eplscopus vel sacredos regi
vel alicni laico in manibus ligiam fidelitatem
facat.'
1t is enacted that no Bishop or priest shall
promise under oath liege obedience to any
king or any layman.
elements of Ecclesiastical Law declares:
In whatever things whether essentially or
by accident, the spiritual end-and that is the
end of the church is necessarily involved-in
those things, though they be temporal, the
church may by right exert its power and the
civil state ought to yield. The proposition is
F0m reer next @ ,bn
bull1Unam Sanctum, issued by Pope Boni-
face VIII, in 1902. This bul declares there
is but one true church, and therefore but
IL
that there ere two swords, j. e., the
two powers, the spiritual and the tenn
poral. the latter. must be subject to the
former. The bull finally winds up with
this definition: "And this we declare affirm
define and pronounce that it is necessary for
the salvation of every human creature that he
should be subject to the Roman P6ntiff Z"
This is undoubtedly an utterance ex cathedra
In fact the bull had for its object to
define dogmaticaily the relation of the
church to the state in general that is uni
he of
this bull is that the church, and, therefore,
the Pope, has indirect authority over the
state; that, therefore, the state is subject
they relate to internal salvation or involve
sin. Again, it says the spiritual power q. e.,
the church) has to instruct and Judge the
earthly power If it be not good. 1t is there
fore, defined that the church, and therefore
the Pope has indirect power over the state
and that consequently the state in temporal
things that involve sin is subject to the
In lecture delivered in st. Peters Church,
Barclay street, New York, on Thursday even
ing Nav 23 1872, by Father Burke he said:
1.-THE Catholic church insists in the teeth of
the world and in spite of the worlds pride
and ignorance and bloated self-suff cheney the
Catholic church insists, as she has insisted
come to me; you cannot live with
out me. Don't imagine. YOU can live
by yourselves, or you will fall back into the
slough of your own impurity and corrup-
tion.'" This is fine language to say to the
state. He continues: "The world does not
like to hear this. The Catholic church insists
that she alone understands what education
means; the world does not like to hear that.
But came here tonight to prove it,
| Religious Instruction says: "By virtue OF
| this divine institution the marriage of Chris
tians is a sacrament, and Will ever remain So
Any ma trimonial contract between Christians
not having the character OF sacrament would
not be q real marriage, nor even q valid con-
| tract. The purely natural contract no longer
exists, except among lnhdels--that is to say,
| the unb ptiZed.
-"Q) Marriage consists essentially in con.
tract formed between two persons, and is
called the contract OF marriage: (2) 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 simple legal formality
by virtue of which the affianced are con.
sidered 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 no way constitutes the
affianced man and wife before God, and il
they did not also contract the ecclesi as tical
marriage their living together would be sin u
l thank God am through with this debate
/ am not through with the purposes that
brought 1t about. [Applause.l This question
is before you through the kindness and
| viii publish IL in book form that the world
will know it. [Applause-
Major Sherman explained that the court had
examined all the Catholic authorities rela
by Donald NJ. Ross, and found that the lat
ter had proved everything. He declared tina,
the arming of any sect was dangerous to the
welfare OF the state, and he thought it the
right of every American citizen to arm himSel1
for selfprotection.
The meeting then adjourned,