The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25

REV. DON
leaves to all men not only the complete liberty
OF conscience and worship,Ibut he.unrestricted
privilege OF propagatng whatever opinions
they please, is dangerous error"
Then, again, we have in the ecclesiastical
laws of the church the following:
"If princes and their laws deviate from the
law OF God the church has authority from God
to judge of that deviation and TO oblige to its
correction. When Christian world came into
existence the civil society of man became sub
Ject 10 the spiritual direction of the church"
In whatsoever 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 10 yield. The proposition is
thesis from authority. We refer TO the famous
bull IMAM Sanctum, issued by Pope Boniface
NllIin 1902. This bull declares there is but one
true church, and therefore but one head OF the
church-the Roman Pontiff; that there are
two swords, i. e.. the two powers the spiritual
and the temporal, the latter must be su bject
10 the former The bull finally winds up with
this definition: "Anf this we declare, AFFIRM
define and pronounce that it is necessary for
the salvation of every human ature that he
should be subject TO the Roman Pontif." This
Is undoubtedly an utterance ex cathedra.
In fact the bull had for its object
to define dogmatically the relation of the
versally. The Catholic Interpretation of this
bull is that the church and, therefore, the
Pope, has indirect authority over the state; i;
that, therefore, the state is subject TO the
church in temporal things, SO far as they re-
late to eternal salvation or involve sin. Again,
1t says the spiritual power H. e. the churcll
has to instruct and judge the earthly power If
it be not good 1t is, therefore. defined that
the church, and, therefore. the Pope has in
direct power over the state and that conse-
que ntly the state in temporal things that in
Yolye sin is subject 10 the church.
And thus taking the sacred authority we can
prove our stand in two ways, by reason and
authority. and the authority quoted is the
church itself In seeking for my authority |
have gone through vast amount of matter
and not a statement could | find in Catholic
literature that declares that the Governm ent
Is not subject to the church. The church de-
clares, defines and pronounces that the church
is above the state and that the state ought to
be subject to the church. and that when they
differ there is but one thing to do, that the
state come down and obey the church.
On the 9th of June, 1862. Plus TX delivered
an allocution to 1000 priests and 265 cardinals.
He denounced the prevalent errors of the day,
errors IN religion, errors in philosophy, errors
in politics. He censured the license of the
anti-Christian press. He eXhorted the priests
to watch carefully over the training of the
young.
The Government of the United States says
that the press shall be forever free. The Ro-
man Catholic church says that the press shall
not be forever free. There is but one position
OF the church and the state to take. according
TO this, and that is for the state to be governed
by the church.
Pope Plus said:
'If the church should hesitate or give way
before an opposition of newspapers and OF
governments, its Office witness and teacher
OF revelation would be shaken before the
world"
The constitution must suit the church or the
church will do to the constitution of the State
what Satolli did to it when he came TO the
United States. He trampled on the constitu-
ton and declared to the State what its duties
were. prolonged hisses) And he could not
speak II to the American people without a
translator.
Again quote from Bronson's Review:
The loss must be just or they do not bind;
and the fundamental constitution of State
must be legitimate, for a measure is not justi-
fable simply because authorized by il or nee
essary to preserve 1t.
"Assuredly, then, we may assume it as set
tied American conviction that the spiritual is
supreme and the temporal subordinate. Can
we suppose, then, that they such poor
loglclanS as not to perceive that in case of
conflict between the two, the temporal not
the spiritual, politics not religion, the state
not the church must give way"
"Church property is both by ecclesiastical
and divine right, exempt from the jurisdiction
OF the civil government. Hence, laws enacted
V. g., by Legislatures from the United States
lncapacitating church corporations from ac-
qulring more than a certain specified amount
OF property, are null and void
The Jesuit knows no country, knows no
atriotism, knows nothing of nationality of
loyalty, or anything but obedience to his
church This is from ecclesiastical law.
will now quote from Cardinal Manning In
support OF my contentious. That eminent
Catholic authority SAYS:
1.-THE Catholic church is the highest and final
judge OF what is the faith and what is the law
OF God, and when science and politics come
into contact with the faith and the law it ad-
mits OF no appeal from its own decision to any
tribunal out of itself to any judge of appeal in
the past or in the future"
Again, from Bronson's Review the follow
ing is taken:
"At bottom, then, the question is simply a
question of the rights and prerogatives of the
spiritual order in the lace of the temporal.
That order we have found to be by its
own nature independent and supreme.
man does and must concede it, however by SO
doing he may reflect on his own practice. If then
that order be represented on earth in its plent-
itude by the Pope, he must necessarily be in
dependent and supreme in face of the repre- sem
tatives of the temporal order, that is in face of
the secular authority of the prince of the
state"
"In any question as to the competence of the
two powers" says Cardinal Manning, "either
there must be some judge TO decide what does
and what does not fall within their respective
sphere or they are delivered over to perpetual
doubt and to perpetual conflict. 1t is clear that
the civil powers cannot define how far the cir
cumference of faith and morals extend
But if the church be certain with divine
certainty as to the limits of its jurisdiction its
voice in such matters is final. But an author
ity that can alone define the limits OF its own
and infallible because it knows with divine
certainty the faith which it has received in
charge"
Manning again says
"If then the civil power be not competent to
decide the limits OF the spiritual power and if
hespiritual power can define with divine Ger
tainty its own limits it is evidently supreme.
Or, in other words, the spiritual power knows
with divine certainty the limits of its own
jurisdiction, and it knows, therefore, its limits
and the competence and the limits of the
civil power. 1t is, thereby, in matters of reli-
gion and conscience, supreme. The church,
therefore, is separate and supreme.
"It alone can decide in questions where its
| power is in contact with the civil power"
And the ecclesiastical law declares:
"Ciyil laws derive all their force, so far as
| they are applicable to ecclesiastical matters,
| solely from the authority of the church,
Upon the same point of the supremacy of the
| church Bronson's Review says:
"You may object to us on theological
| grounds If you choose, but not on political
| grounds, for the political law is and must be
| subordinate to the religious law, and we have
| as American citizens the right to practice our
religion without restraint.
whenever the civil law comes in conflict
| with the religious law the civil, not the re-
| ligious must give way"
! l was asked TO produce single Catholic pub