The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-08


while it has been on the side of the
government to a certain extent, it has
been against the people never. Two
things are equally cessary-author-
ity and liberty. Authority may degen-
crate into despotism and liberty into
license. Two things are then to be
maintained-liberty and authority; two
things are to be avoided or guarded
against-license and despotism. When
authority tends to despotism the church
opposes it and seeks to restrain it
within its legitimate bounds; when lib
erty tends to license, it opposes
it, and seeks to restrain the peo-
pie in subsection to just au-
thority. AS matter of fact, says
Brownson again in Civilization" the
luton because it sought liberty or
tended to democracy; it opposed 1T not
in the beginning, and not at all till
it transcribed the civil order and in
vaded the spiritual, and even then in
the defense OF the inalienable rights of
conscience and individual freedom. It's
league with monarchies against the
people, imagined by the fanciful apos-
tate De La Mennais, is all in your eye
No such league exists, or ever existed.
The truth is, the church, though she
submits to all forms of government,
and leaves each nation free to estab-
lish the form it chooses, is opposed to
qhS0IIItfSn1 i'm ho tot o
to an effective constitutional order and
would rather deal with the people than
with kings. This much is certain,
where she has had predominating
voice in the founding of states, she has
resisted the introduction of absolutism,
and has given the constitution substan-
TALLY republican character 1t must
not be forgotten that Pope Adrian I
introduced and established, through his
legatees, the noble old institution of
Saxon England, which, though suffer-
ing from the Norman kings. the Tu-
doris, and the Stuarts, to a great ex-
tent still survives, and makes the glory
of the Anglo-Saxon race in both hemis-
pheres, and what is worthy of note sur
wives in greater purity and vigor with
US Americans than it does in England.
Let the Deseret News search history,
and nowhere will it find the church
leagued with tyrants and unfolding
despotism. The church has never ac-
cepted the doctrine of the Gallicans;
nor is she to be held responsible for
the political doctrines of Bossuet, who
so often unhappily sank the Catholic
bishop in the French courtier. Was
the church leagued with tyrants when
she Numbered her anathemas against
the cruel, bloodthirsty and tyrannicaI
iconoclast emperors of Byzantium.
when she withstood Henry w. falsely
called Emperor; Frederick Barbarossa.
Frederick II of Germany, Louis of Ba-
varia, Philip Augustus, Philip the Fair,
Louis XIV and Napoleon 1 of France,
William the Conqueror, Henry II, Ed
ward III, Henry VIII and Elizabeth of
acknowledgement tyrants all?
Perhaps the News may insist upon a
presentation of modern history rather
than recitals from the middle ages. 1t
many point to the world of today to
substantiate its assertion that Cath
olicism can be only imperialism" We
point to the world of today in denial
of such charge. We point to the Latin
races of Mexico and South America
and to France. All these republics do
not live up to the spirit of popular
government such as carried out in this
country, but nobody can see any like
ness to imperialism" in any of them.
And last, we point to the democratic
pope who sits today in the chair of
Peter.