The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-20
SPAIN AND THE VATICAN.

There should be no possible misunderstanding
as to the meaning of the irritation now existing
between the Holy See and Spain. 1t is the old bat
tie between Light and Darkness between Truth
and Error. 1t is not a contest about religious Or
ders, between democracy and monarchy, between an
Oligarchy and republic, but it is an open renewal
of the old fight Risen Christ a Christ
yet in the grave 1t is revival of the campaign
of 1910 against Christianity, against the Catholic
Church, against the Pope inseparable from the
Church which, alone, is Christianity.
This war, begun in the Garden of Eden, assumed
p fierce mien at the time of the Crucifxon, waged
ruthessly during the prosecutions of pagan Rome
perpeuated itself at the times of the Reformation
and the French Revolution, localized its battles
lately in Germany and France, and is threat
ening to carry its attacks into Spain and Portugal
All over Europe and America the men of the
red flag, of the oathbound conspiracies, of the
lodges, of anarchy, socialism, of backguardism
and thuggery; the men of the knife of the bomb,
of the stietto and the ''black hand" are striving
more and more
To have done with the Christ and his brood;
With the Church and the Cross on its spire;
With the Mass and its altar of wood,
And the hell with its quenchess fire.
If it were possible for the Church of Rome, the
immutable Catholic Church. to acknowledge the
supremacy of Caesar-of the state-in the super
natural order, she would at once descend to the
level of the Greek and Anglican churches The
Church of England since its inception has been in
bondage to the state, and around the neck of the
Greek Church there has been rivited for centuries
the chains of the Russian Gar and the Moham-
medan Sultan.
This much, at least is certain The Supreme
Pontif, the guardian of the rights and liberties
of the Church of God viii suffer the Punishment
of all the Religious Orders in Spain, the shutting
up of all the Catholic schools. colleges and acade-
mics, the closing of all the churches and the con-
scation of all ecclesiastical property rather than
surrender in the day of battle to the gates of hell
The infdel portion of Spain can go no further
than those of the same tenets in France in
their war on the Church Those now
watching the Titanic struggle between the
Holy See and the French ministry are already be-
ginning fear for France 1t is idle to cite proph
ecy to men who deny or doubt the existence of
God; still the son of Amos, who lived two thou
sand six hundred years ago, has "made good" and
he is, at least entitled to fair hearing. Here is
what Isaias the son Of Amos, wrote in the reign
of Manasseh, who assembled the throne of Israel
six hundred and ninety-eight years before our
Lord and Savior came ON earth:
"No weapon that is formed against Thee (the
Christi shall prosper: and every tongue that re-
sisteth Thee in judgment, Thou shalt condemn"
--Isaias liv, L.
"Behold, all that fight against Thee shall be con-
founded and ashamed: They shall be as nothing;
and the men shall perish that strive against Thee"
is XII, il.
"For the nation and the people that will not
serve Thee shall perish and the people shall be
wasted with desolation"-Is. TX, 70.