The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-25
MRS. PARSONS, MARRIAGE AND THE
CHURCH

Mrs Lucy E. Parsons, widow of the anarchist
and bomb thrower who was executed in Chicago for
murder was in this city last week lecturing in ia
vor of "free love" Mrs. Parsons exhibits letters
! from few labor leaders vouching for her respect
ability and supplements her receipts from her lee
lures by the sale of the speeches of the anarchists
and murderers who were executed in Chicago for
participation in the conspiracy which eliminated
/ in the explosion by which six of the Chicago po-
lice force were done to death in Haymarket Square
in 1885.
Mrs. Parsons in her lectures pleads for the abo-
liton of marriage and of the Catholic church. The
death of the one she argues, would mean the de-
struction of the other. Mrs. Parsons and her SYM
pathzers not students of sacred literature and
are not well informed on the events of the centu
ries. They have not seemingly read of "the stone
cut out of the mountain, without hands, that
smote the colossal image, and broke it to pieces"
1t smote Paganism and Paganism persisted. 1t
met the Goths and Vandals from the north, and
the Huns from the east, and from savage persecu-
tors, made them the bulwark of Christianity. 1t
met the Turk and drove him from all Europe, ex-
cept the effeminate Orient, that had lost its
strength by dsobedence to the See of st. Peter.
That ALL most cherished in civilization
the free-will of man, sacramental marriage, con-
serving the honor and dignity of woman, not
swept away by the fierce onslaught of the false
prophet Mahomet, due to one power alone
the Catholic church. 1t was the Pope, the visible
head of that church, who encouraged Charles Mar
tel, the Frankish King, to drive the Turks out of
France in TAP. And, so in Spain, and then along
the Adriatic sea, by John Corvin the Huniade and
Il, ~, ToL,, G.
bienski, and so on from generation to generation
till, at the naval battle of Lepato, the Turkish
power was buried in the sea, broke and humbled.
It was the Papacy, the bishops of Rome, that,
amid the organizations of temporal princes, held
aoft the Cross, the symbol of the Catholic church
with its glorious civilization, against the Turk
with his unutterable abominations-till the Cres-
cent disappeared from Europe. Then came the lat
er conflicts with the most powerful monarchs, that
had grown weary of the restraints of Christianity
of the Cross-from Henry VIII. to Napoleon
Bonaparte. And again, against the unbridled rage
of the French revolution of 1897, and of the Com
munist anarchy of 1871 All these imprisoned, out
ragged and killed the bishops and priests in mad
attempt to destroy the Church-the "stone cut out
of the mountain" Bismarck, Combes and the athe
ist government of France set themselves the task
of finishing with the Catholic church.
An DID, very old stone was dug up the other
day from the ruins of a pagan temple in Rome.
Cut into it was this inscription: "This year, the
name of the Christian superstition abolished
by the Divine Diocletian." This was in the year
284 when Diocletan was Emperor of Rome 1t
was lie, but error feeds on lies. The same stone
"cut out of the mountain without hands," the
church is still fighting the monster image of Pa
ganism in all its forms golden, silver, brazen iron
or iron mingled with clay. To abolish Christian
Mrs. Parsons and Unity Hall must first
do away with the Catholic church A rather big
contract, we take it.