The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
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poral monach must. so far as he is
concerned, tolerate, and not undertake
to punish-which he must leave TO the
spiritual physician anu to the spiritual
authority. There are many evils in
This world that authority cannot pre-
vent, cannot cure, and which it must
tolerate. Heresy is to be dealt with
as other sins. and heretics as other
sinners. The temporal authority must
be guided in its action by the church,
which always acts on the principle
that the Son of Man came to save
souls, not to destroy them What
she seeks is the salvation. not the
destruction, of the sinner. Here, Wheth-
er you believe it or not, here, in the
maternal spirit of the holy Catholic
church, is your best security, and as d
matter of fact. Rome has always been
remarkable for her mildness, and her
forbearance toward all classes of sin
ners. When kings and princes would
call down fire from heaven to consume
the adversaries of her heavenly spouse,
she has always rebuked them, and told
them that they knew not what man
ner of spirit they were Of +"
THAT may do to tell the papist, but
believing your church to be nothing
better in relation to the temporal than
the mystery of iniquity' or the man of
sim it will not do for me-
THAT is your fault, not mine, and l
have no consolation to offer you but
your own prediction, that the state will
not become Catholic in your day or
mine, if ever; and till then we are the
party who need security, not you. When
that time comes, if it ever comes, the
Catholic majority, being Catholics, will
have nothing to fear. AS for the
Protestant minority, if a Protestant
minority remain, they will at least have
as ample security as the Catholic gli-
nority have now; for you cannot place
less confidence in Catholicity than We
do in Professionalism. Turn about is
fair play, and l know not that you
Professionals are moulded of finer clay,
or have richer blood in your veins than
we Catholics, that you shall be
entitled to demand stronger guaran-
tees than you are able to give. If
the Protestant minority would be at the
mercy of Catholics, it is no more than
is the case with the Catholic minority
now. If you find yourselves hereafter
under a Catholic state, you will find
nothing worse than Catholics have suf-
fered and still have to suffer in every
Protestant state; and it will perhaps
bring you to your senses and lead you
power when it was in your hands
But the laws protect you here"
Hardly, and you are even agitating
to alter them
But we are not required to perse-
cute you by our religion
IF not by your religion, you contend
you are by your politics, which is as
bad. We are required neither by our
religion or by our politics to prosecute
you, and we are as long as the world
stands much more likely to be perse-
cuted, whether the state be nominally
Catholic or Protestant, than to perse-
cute. We know, indeed, in whatever
land or condition we are, persecution
awaits us. No one who follows Christ
can escape it.
But in the present prevalence of
statolatory, the church can expect from
the state at most only that it will not
Cypress her. The normal government
of Christendom has pretty much every
where been broken up, and there is lit
tie to choose between nominally Cath
Ollie government and others. The
church is today very nearly in the con-
dition she was in under pagan Rome.
The most she can now hope for is lib
erty, and liberty for good, only at the
expense of liberty for evil. l have as
serted her powers and prerogatives de
jure, because it will not do for her chill
dren to forget or to deny them, and be-
cause they have practical Importance
for Catholics in governing their own
conduct. but L do not forget the actual
state of the world, or the actual tri-
umph of Caesar. In practice 1 am con-
tent to give what 1 take, and L would
be among the last to ask of the govern
ment of my country anything more
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lection it ext is to the sectS."
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