The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-31

authority under both laws and therefore the sauna
power over princes who hold under the law ~
natural society that she has over princes who hold
from the law OF supernatural society Tho s,,r,.r
natural society may have more. but o,,n1,,t Io
less power than the natural society"
VII. NlnsioW. IN his zeal TO magnify the ar
thorlty of the. Church, forccts' remarked O'Cor-
nor the doctrine we have established that ,IauIi,-
ION Is founded iii the creative act. Gods d,u,:a-
ION rests ON lus creative act, rs first. cause. the
dominion of the delegate or representative uiu.r
then rest ON tn" creative act of that daIogatr .,r
representative as second cause, and thus really
copy or represent the divine dominion As c.ra,a
does not create nature but prcSuppcscs IT, tIe It-
pernaturaI society cannot ever represent the di-
VINE dominion over the natural. and can ONLY rec
ogIIzc and confirm Its rights and powers In re-
gard TO what pertains TO the natural she as s1n-
ceed1ng to the synagogue and the rntriachs may
Judge it, indeed but only by the law of ratIIr1r
society"
Mr.. Wirslows doctrine" objected De Bonnie
Vile "absorb~ III the Church. not only the rights
and powers of The PRINCE. but all the rights and
powers OF the father. and gives TO her tho whole
management oil all public and private life"
Il conccdc willingly said O'Couuor the pIen-
airy authority OF the Church in all that pertains
to religion, or to the interests of religion and she
not |. IS tn" Judge of what does or does not per
tam to religion and what Is is not for or against
the interests of religion. If She tells me such or
such school Is dangerous TO religion and there
tere must not send my child TO it, or if she saws
my religious Gutv requires me 10 send nav child
to such or such another school hold myself
bound TO obey her She intclprcts and defines my
rights a father. but does not create them. and
can neither abrogate nor abridgc. But when and
where only temporal interest, by her own iuIa-
ment, are concerned. | may take the advice of INV
pastor. but | do not recognize his authority tn
command SO in all The affairs Of private
and domestic life. The Church defines what is or
l. not secularIty. but within the limits of what
she defines to be secular 7 am bound only by thu,
law of natural society 1t is the theocracv that de-
mes all natural liberty. that intermediates with
ones whole life. tells authoritativey to what pro-
fessions callings. irrespective Of religious con
siderations. shall breed our children. whom we
may buy or sell. what we shall eat or drink when
we shall lie down, when we shall get up. that
has become Odous TO mankind II was theocracy
in this odious sense that Calvin established i'm
Geneva. and that the PuritauS in England Scot
land and the early New England colonies aftemp-
ted to establish. If -ou wish to DESTROY the re-
naming influence OF the clergy and render re-
ligion universally odious. you cannot do bette.
than to insist q system by which CaIyinistz and
Jansenists have plunged large part Of Europe
into pure naturalism."
Il have nothing to do with consequences. IL
what ] assert be true replied Winslow "Tru.h
is not mine; [ can neither make it nor unmake IL.
If God has given his Church the full powers | al
lege, neither you | can make it otherwise
All truth is good, fair and amiabe. and if men
hnd 1t not so the tault Is IN them. not IN 1T.
Mr. Winslow, | perceive" said Father John.
has as yet cast out all the eaven of the Phari
Sees and retains some traces of his Puritan bath
and breeding. He has rot yet learned. it seems
to me, 70 appreciate the theological maxim "gratia
supponit naturam" If grace supposes nature SUI
pernatural society, founded by grace. supposes
natural society, and can annul alter, or abridgc
none of It's original rights The penary authority
Of the spiritual | assert without qualification or
reserve, whether in supernatural in natural So
eiety, but the Church, presupposing natural soci-
ETY.. recognizes it as co-existing with the super
natural in Catholic or Christian society. She gov1
,rns the natural in the bosom of the supernatural
indeed, but by the laws of the natural and denies
hat grace releases us from a single one of the du-
les imposed, revoles or abridges a single one
# the rights conceded by that law. She can, then
leny none of the rights or powers of princes hold
ng from God through natural society"
TO Be Continued.)