The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17

ligion. will soon provoke a new and
more destructive revoiutionism. In 1S4S
the tendency was to identity Cathol-
lefty with democracy; the tendency
since the coup d'etat of December, 1851,
has been to identify it with caesarism.
AS I opposed the former then, 1 OPP
pose the latter now; for each is an
error, and if suffered to prevail would
be deeply prejudicial to the interests
of religion End society"
Il am glad" interrupted De Bonne-
vile, Ito find that France is still
monarchical and 1 prefer the empire
to the republic. If Henry Cirque were
on the throne instead of Napoleon, 1
should find no serious fault with the
imperial government or its general pol
icy. My objection to Louis Napoleon
| is that he is usurper and not the le-
ultimate sovereign of France"
For. my part" added OFlanigan, L
care little about the question of le-
gitimacy, and it is Indifferent to me
whether the sovereign of France is
| Bonaparte or a Bourbon. if he is only
a good friend OF the church and old
Ireland, the enemy of England. l do
not like the Anglo. French alliance.
which enables England to continue
her nefarious policy toward my native
| country
Forms of government" remarked
! Diefenbach. ARE Indifferent in them
selves. If the French imperial system
grows out of the spiritual life and
| deeper wants of the French, and is
/ their true exponent it is the best sys~
! TEN for Frenchmen, and for that
| reason legitimate The French are a
| light, frivolous people; they live an
outward life and find their pleasure
in outward show. pomp and parade.
and in my view are just fitted to their
present government as it is just fitted
to them
Your Judgment of the French ma
ton" interposed Father John. who
will never allow any sweeping charges
| against any nation, lis neither
liberal nor just. That there is much
frivoity in the French character is
undeniable, and that they are to a
great extent attracted by the snowy,
the external and the theatrical, is no
doubt true, and so in one form or an
other is every people; but the French
character has its graver elements, and
deeper faith or more solid piety can
be found nowhere than in France. But
it seems to me that the real ques-
ton for us lies a little deeper and
should be taken up on a broader
ground National differences, national
peCuliarities, there are the world over
always have been and always will be.
Religion tolerates them and addresses
herself to that which is common to
all men and nations. 1t is Catholic,
not national, and varies not as you
pass from nation to nation or from
age to age. A great struggle is going
on in the bosom of the Catholic peo-
pie of all nations, between the old
order and the modern, and in this
country between Americanism and Eu-
ropeanism. This is not struggle be-
tween one nationality and another, or
between one form of political organ
ization and another, but between one
system of policy, and one order of civ
ilization and another"
81 am an American" said Winslow,
descended from the Pilgrims who
founded the Old Colony, but in becom
ing a Catholic I renowned my Amer
icanism. Americanism is Protestant
ism. and Professionalism is rebellion
against God, involving, in its principle,
the rejection of all authority, human
and divine. There is no compatibility
between democracy and Catholicity.
Democracy asserts the sovereignty of
the people. Catholocity asserts the
sovereignty of God democracy as
serts the right of the people to, elect
and commission their own rulers: |
Catholicity asserts our duty to obey
the prelates whom the Holy Ghost |
places over us. Under democracy the
people have rights and no duties; under |
Catholicity they have duties and no
rights. Hence democracy, wherever |
you find it. is opposed to Catholicity, |
and its friends are everywhere the Bit |
ter enemies of the church. All through |
Europe you find them warning against |
the church as almost the only obstacle |
to the realization OF their wishes In |
this country. you see that Catholics, as
they come under the influence of our
democratic order, cease to be humble, |
submissive Catholics, half lose their
faith, imbibe the licentious spirit of
the country, place their politics above
their religion, and are more intent on
obtaining a place in the customs than
on obtaining for themselves a crown of
life eternal in the heavens"
The American spirit added O'Flan-
igan, lis a prosecuting spirit. 1t hung
witches and Quakers, banished Bap
lists and bored the ears and tongues
of Dissenters. 1t is a Puritanic spirit,
and would Danish music and dancing,
ali joy and u1irthfulness, and forbid us
even to take a social glass to warm
the heart or to make merry with a
friend. 1t puts on long face, speaks
with a nasal twang and wears all its
religion on the outside
(To Be Continued)