The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-20
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clan, a merchant, a mechanic, accord
ing to your taste. inclination or Judg-
ment marry or not marry, as you re-
gard it most for your temporal good
for none of these things are unlawful
or forbidden by the law of God. The
church here may advise you, but has
no authority to command you. But
suppose you take it into your head to
pursue the profession of a gambler. a
pickpOcket, parite or a highwayman,
all of which are forbidden by the law
IF God she would have a right to in
tervene and prohibit you, and if you re-
fused to desist, to call upon the secu-
lar government to compel you to desist.
1t is the same in regard to the state.
If the state should make unprovOked
war on it's neighbOrs, pursue towards
them course of constant and unpro-
VokeG aggression to their serious in
jury. endangering their independence
and existence or should make war on
religion and humanity. and Cypress its
subjects she would by virtue of her
spiritual jurisdiction have the right to
summon it before her tribunals, be-
cause in all these spiritual good is i'm
pugned, and the law of God is Violated.
The question is not solely temporal,
but also a spiritual question, and as
spiritual question it comes within the
jurisdiction of the spiritual courts.
Your mistake arises from not con-
sidering that, though distinct, the spir-
itual and the temporal are not sepa-
rate or separable in this life. any more
than soul and body. You reason. and so
do my Gallican friends as if the two
orders existed apart. and as if the
church could point to one class of
things and say to the state, these are
spiritual, touch them not; and the
state to another class of things and
say to the church, these are temporals,
exclusively within my domain. touch
them not, on your peril. But such is not
the case. Man is composed of soul and
body, and lives and must live, as long
as a deniSon of this world, a tWOfold
life, the one in relation to temporal
good, and the other in relation to Spir-
itual good. Every act he does or can
perform has relation to both ends, is
under one aspect spiritual and under
the other temporal. No individual act
of man, we are taught by the theolo-
gians, is morally Indifferent, and the
most purely spiritual acts we can per-
form, such as prayer, meditation, rell-
gious VOWS, ETC., have temporal rela-
tions and a bearing more or less di-
rect, more or less remote, on the tenn
poral welfare of individuals and ma
tions. So it happens that often the
cerned with the same matters but I'M
der diverse relations. Hence it is i'm
possible, not to distinguish, indeed, but
to separate the matter of the two pow
ers, so that they may act apart, in
not only distinct, but entirely separate
spheres. The two orders are in ma
ture interlaced, run the one into the
other, and are in reciprocal commerce
with each other, as the soul and the
of f6a
one without in some measure affecting
the other. God has therefore estab-
lished for Christian society two govern
mentS, and ordained their mutual har-
mony and cooperation. 1t is impossi-
BILE to conceive the perfect government
of society without the two powers, or
without cooperation and mutual con-
cert, as the church not obscurely in
sinuates in calling her arrangements
with temporal powers concordatS. The
errors to be avoided are, on the one
hand, the unity or identity of the
church and state, an error to which
Professionalism almost universally tends,
and, on the other, the isolation of the
church and state, to which Gallisanism
tends, when it does not tend to the
subsection of the church to the state
For the complete and normal govern
ment of the society, you must have the
concurrence of the church and. state,
that is, their harmonious cooperation
the church governing all things in the
respect that they are spiritual, and the
state temporal things in the respect
that they are temporal. This, if L I'M
erstand it, is the Catholic doctrine. and
of course supposes the state to be Cath
Ollie and animated by the Catholic
faith and spirit. The state, on this
| supposition, would give civil effect to
L.,
give her consent to all reasonable
measures proposed by the state for the
temporal good of the community Thus
each discharging it's proper functions,
both would move in harmony, for the
common good, temporal and spiritual,
| of society,"
| (To Be Continued.)