The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-04-07

pre-.Reformation' days! 1t is common
knowledge that the pre- Reformation
centuries witnessed the study of art ana
architecture unparalleled in the ages. ana
again. when Romanism is rampant
speak now only Of the last fifty years--py
common report the ecclesiastical monu-
ments of these days are or will prove;
St. Patrick's, New York; st. Mary's, Sgd
ney; St Patrick's, Melbourne, and the
Westminster Cathedral. And this only
goes to prove the success of any concern
that makes democracy its friend. For
these temples, without exception, are
built on the pennies of the poor.
THE Papal Empire numbers about 2SO,-
0OO 900. This truly is a great number con-
sidering their social standing in the coun-
tries of Europe, in the British colonies
and in the United States of America. A
few millions added or taken away would
not improve or impair the dignity and I'M
portance of that Empire. Neither do these
numbers account for the unity and stabil-
ity of its constitution. The same old
man. the successor of Peter, from the
same old place, the city of Rome, has IS
sued his APPROPRIATIONS and Condemnations
right on from the time when, as the MS
torian tells US, history fades into the twi-
light of fable-so far back, indeed that
MacauIay gave up in despair his attempt
to decide when the Papacy began. Ana
if it be accepted as an historical tact thdI
Rome has been at its work during MS
torical times, then will it demand some
thing more than national press IN hys-
terics TO shake the position which the
Papacy holds today. A number OF men
Joining a party of the same opinions VIII
furnish no sort of Illustration of the uni
tv of the Empire. For human opinion
fades and is known no more, whereas Ro-
manism represents an activity that mas
been maintained throughout the centur-
les. When kings fall out the people gen
orally go to the wall, and the struggles
of the sixteenth century witnessed the
desertion of many of the nations Oh Eu-
rope from the ranks of Romanism
But Rome never lost hope, for the
footstools of her throne are planted III
every land If one fails another is seen
TO draw near TO occupy the vacant place.
official France may forget its allegiance,
but the French missionaries abroad are
fostering new hopes in the islands OF the
Pacific. in Algeria and Madagascar and
on the mainland of Tonquin, China and
Findostan. Whilst Italy dethrones the
King of Rome. Catholic Belgium shakes
off in that country the most plotting enc
nv of the Papacy the incubus % Free
masonry. If England welcomes in London
Garibaldi. who made the breach in the
Roman citadel in 1871, has she not like
wise sent from her shores her fostering
children to build up the mightiest bull
warks Rome now possesses in the young
ireland of America, the young Ireland o.
Australia. the young Ireland Of the broad
earth wherever the English language is
spoken? That the Pope OF Rome has been
in the past moral power in the world
will not be denied.
That his rule has made for peace in
the world, his own empire demonstrates.
But if some village Sunday school teach
er shall. by reciting fables drawn from
benighted history, furnish sickly food for
the minds of children, and to belittle the
mind of the grown-uD man, so that he
minimizes that power, the shortcomings
of that teacher are but as childs weak
ness contrasted with the procedure of the
present crowned heads of Europe, who
called peace-makers to congress and
left out the Pope.