The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

and can drink wine or arrack and eat
pork with any Christian but they have
neither the restraints of the Koran
nor of the gospel, and are the most
licentious, corrupt, and unprincipled
set of rascals on the face of the earth,
infinitely worse than the honest old
believing Turk, who has learned neither
to scott nor to doubt would never dis
turb a heritic in his heresy, without
some reasonable prospect of convert
ing him to orthodoxy. 1 am a Catholic,
but [ for not unsettling the faith of
Others
IN. de Bonneville. presume inter-
rupted OFlanagan, does not consider
it of any vital Importance to a mans
soul whether he lives or dies in one re-
ligion or another"
Il am a Frenchman," replied De
Bonneville, "a loyal Frenchman and
[ am of the religion of ST. Louis. 1t
is un-French not to be Catholic. and
will never renounce my faith nor my
king; but l have nothing to do with
the religion of others. AS a French
man l can be saved only as a Cath
Ole; as for others, 1 do not trouble
myself about them. leave them in the
hands of the good God
'Richlieu, added Diefenbach, -
y,
when he suppressed, as far as he could.
the Huguenots in France and leagued
with the Protestants of the north
against Catholic Germany France,
who boasts of being the eldest daugh-
ter of the church, is chiefly responsible
for the continuance of the Greek
schism, and the existence of the Profess
tant heresy. 1 do not recollect. in the
whole history of France. an instance
in which the government has supported
Catholicity for the sake of Catholicity.
Its policy has always been to use, not
serve, the church, to be a Catholic for
the glory of France, not for the glory
of God; or perhaps, the Frenchman
considers the glory of God is included
in the glory of France "
Perhaps replied Father John, Mr..
Diefenbach is right, as it regards the
government of France, but all civil
governments have either prosecuted the
church or merely sought to use her for
their own purpose, except the govern
ment of the United States. | am aware
of no government that has, as a general
rule, adopted the policy of serving the
church from love of God or devotion
10 spiritual interests. In this respect
France forms no exception, and is far
from deserving to be singled out as a
special object of Censure. Francis /. of
France used the Turks against the EN-
peror Charles v, and the emperor used
the Protestants against the Pope Glenn
ent VII. Phillip IL, whose severity
against the Protestants of the Neither
lands has lost him the sovereignty of
the United Provinces, and has called
forth the condemnation of the civil
lied world. sought in his support of
the Catholic cause to make the church
his stepping stone to universal mon
1rchy. Charlemaghe and a few of the
Anglo-SaXon sovereigns do really seem
to have had some. regard in their policy
to the glory of the church; but as
general rule, temporal princes seek to
subordinate religion to temporal ends
to their personal or national aggran-
dizement, and the princes of France,
not more than the princes of Germany.
Italy, or Spain. France, with all her
faults, has rendered in trying times no
services to religion. and I
am never willing that she should be
spoken against as having been spe-
cially false to her God If she has
done much against the church, she has
done much FOR it.
Il do not agree with Mr.. Winslow
that Americanism is Professionalism. or
that there is necessarily any incompati-
bility between it and Catholocity. The
great majority of our people are non
Catholic and their spirit is, if you will
anti Catholic; but the American sys-
tenn of government and society can ad-
Just itself to Catholocity as well as
Professionalism, and perhaps better.
Catholocity recognizes ana confirms the
law Of nature, that is to say, natural
justice, denied by the stricter forms
of Professionalism, and therefore recog-
nizes the equality of all men before
the natural law-the true basis of lib
erty. Man has no natural right 20
govern his fellow man, and therefore
only a delegated power over him-a
power which he holds as a trust. and
for the exercise of which he is re-
sponsible. All Catholic doctors teach
that power derives from God through
the people or the nation, and that the
king is the first officer of the state,
not, as Louis XIV impudently claimed.
the state itself The right of the ma
tion to depose its chief magistrate and
to bring him to justice was amply
proved by Milton in defense of the
English people against Salmasius. for
be is in reality not the master but the
servant of the nation and responsible
to it-although / regard the trial and
execution of Charles / as eminently I'M
just. These are the fundamental prin-
ciples of civil liberty, and these prin-
ciples are recognized and defended by
all our doctors whose authority is
worth citing. Hence the sovereign
pontiffs, as the ministers of the divine
law of Christian nations as well as
have at various times and
in various countries deposed faithless.
tyrannical and oppressive princes and
a bSolved tneir subjects from their oath
of allegiance.
Now. these. principles are the foun-
dation of what I call Americanism:
they are the basis of our American
order of civilization. and the mission of
the American people is to develop and
realize them in their practice. It seems
to me absurd, then. for either a Cath
Ole or non-Catholic to contend that
an American on becoming a Catholic
must denationalize himself and labor
to introduce Europeanism as the Cath
olic order. The European Catholics
should naturally retain, or wish to re-
tain. here the order to which they have