The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-09-28
s--PTesf PheLaH
Po SIvE PROOF YuRNIsHED
sY EDITOR PHELAN.
(By Theo c walker)

2 CBy Theo. c. wslker)
' ne Menace makes a photo
s-phic reprint Of Rev. ID. 5.
I 4 hclan's sermon, 10 save time and
space for denisls by the Catholic
press.
We print the text in full. or
20 much Of IL ~ 10 bring into full
view the very heart Of Romanism
and estop every caviler and apollo
gist Of the pope as TO what were
the words the preacher uttered
and what their full import.
Readers Of The Menace will no
tiee, too, the date Of the sermon,
when IL was published, and in
what paper, and that the Western
Watchmsn is printed in 81. Louis
in the very presence Of Archbishop
Glennon, who has given printed
warning TO editors and publishers
not 90 utter anything not fully
approved by the hierarchy.
IL you have read the abovs
electro plate copy with our under
scoring and thoroughly under.
stand that we have put the mat.
ter in such a shape as to preclude
denial or evasion, you are pre-.
pared TO understand the crisis
that confronts America today, and
the menace that threatens free in.
stitutions and liberty, as present.
ed in Priest Phelan's sermon.
We can not understand what
Priest Phelan means when he
makes such astounding statements
concerning the Roman Catholic
church, unless he takes into &C.
count the fact that this organiza.
tion is a rehgio-polihcal institu-
Ition.
"The pope is king" say the
Knights of Columbus. lie wears
a triple crown, and claims by Di-
vine appointment supreme au-
thority on earth, in Heaven and in
He'll. The pOpes have asserted
that all temporal power was sub
ject TO the pope--temporal supre-
macy.
The Council of Trent required
an oath to be taken, which all
eeclesiastics take, that they are TO
receive without doubling all
things delivered, defined and de.
clared in the Canon law.
In the edition of Canon laws
printed only seven years ago il is
boldly asserted that "the kingly
power is subject to the ponti.
fetal that the pope has a right to
depose sovereigns, TO dispose of
their kingdoms. and absOlve SUBJ
jects from their allegiance; that
all oaths TO the prejudice of the
Church of Rome are null and
void; and that Romish eccles;as-
ties may resist their sovereigns
for the good of their church, and
even for their own private sdvan-
tage."
Decret II, pars C. XIV Q. VI
pages 647-64s.
Deeret Greg. TX lib. ii tit XIV
Cap. "a, Vol. III, page 35s; also
Cap. 80, page $50.
Was this doctrine ever carried
QUIT Yes. Pope Gregory VII.
deposed the emperor, Henry ~,
and absolved his subjects from
their allegiance. King Henry VIII.
of England was deposed by Pope
Paul III. and ordered his mobiles
20 rebel against him and Pope
Plus V. pretended TO depose
Queen Elizabeth and declared her
subjects forever absolved from
oath, and commanded them on
pain of accommodation not 10
presume to obey her monition,
mandates and laws, and Clement
X. carried his authority so far as
70 anathematize all Protestant
princes and subjects as hereties
and made them amenable 70 TEN.
poral penalties, and even death.
But do you say this is ancient
history Yes, but remember this
authority of popes, the head of
the church, has never been abro-
gated. II could not be, in the
nature of the case, for does he not
reign by authority Of the Christ
whose vice-gerent he is on earthi
Readers of The Menace, when
the paper was young, will recall
No. IL. containing SThe Enex,.E-