The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-06
ROME TREMBLES?"

Early this week the sleepless Atlantic cable
Informed us, referring to some misunderstanding
between the Vatican and the Madrid Cortes. that
'the Church trembes with anxiety" Which re-
minds us of the definition of a crab given il the
first edition of Walkers Pronouncing Dictionary
Crab red fish which swims backward" and
which was correct in every particular except that
crab isn't red, it isn't fish, and it does not swim
backward
Why should a Church that has for two thousand
years braved the battle and the storm trembe,
when a breeze blows on the Iberian peninsula
II there is any trembling to be done, depend upon
1t, historic Rome won't do the shaking
We think it is in Tennyson's Queen Mary"
the dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Lord
Paget occurs. Paget tauntingly reminds the Car
dinal that the Church ''trembed" in Henry's and
Edwards time.
What, my Lord, the Church on Peters Rock
Never have seen pine in Italy cast its shadow
athwart cataract firm stood the pine; the cat
aract shook the shadow. To my mind the cataract
typed the headlong plunge and fall of heresy to
the pit The pine was Rome. You see, my Lord,
1t was the shadow of the Church that trembed.
Your church but the shadow of Church"
The imperishable cannot die What cannot die
cannot be wounded; what cannot be wounded can
feel no pain; what can feel no pain cannot tremble
with fear. The Catholic Church cannot die. for
1t is divine in its origin and what is divine is i'm
pe-ishable
The long list of saints who professed and prac-
ticed the Catholic faith, the million martyrs who
died in its defense the host of great scholars who
matured under its auspices and did battle in its
+ba H.,
lives to its service the virtue that it fosters and
the civilization that it has in all parts of the
earth, attest beyond dispute the divinity of its
origin. Error can only exist by the law of change:
lie cannot perpetuate itself forever; fiction fades
from history, but the Church of God is truth.
eternal truth from the Throne of God-and Truth
can never die. Truth is not subject to diminution
decay, what is built on it has ats foundations in
holy places" and it is as enduring and as ever
lasting the heavens themselves
Believing this, we cleave close to our faith to |
this fine old Church of ours. We are proud of our
faith; profess it fearlessly; we live in it, and
when we do not follow its doctrines we know we |
are our enemy 1t is no new-fangled faith !
framed or fabricated yesterday. 1t is the faith
which Christ taught when on earth and with which
he enrches our lives. 1t is the faith of the Apos-
ties and of the elect even from the beginning. It
II the faith for which the martyrs died and for
which the just were prosecuted in every age 1t
is the faith which the proud philosophy of Greece
and of Rome vanly sought to discredit-a faith
at once pure, consoling and apostolic; faith I'M
altered by time, untarnished by decay, untainted
by error indestructible by the sword by worldly
wisdom sophism. 1t is a faith which, as it
antedates all the creeds of Europe, shall survive
ali modern innovations. Such is the faith of our
fathers; the faith for which brave men and pure
women have died and which is destined to resume
that empire over the civilized world which truth
has forfeited Such is the Church built
on Peters Rock, which the lying Atlantic cable
would have us believe is now trembling with fear
because Canalies, the Masonic leader of the Cortes.
threatens to smash the Concordat
We told that the papal nunco has been
given his dmmissoria papers and the represen-
tative of Spain, at the Vatican court recalled.
On December 90, 1910, Spain, through Espartero,
Duke of Victoriaa and prime minister, broke with
the Vatican and Protestant England went wild