The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-18
ARCHBISHOP GIVES
CATHOLIC DOGMA

The following are extracts from a
recent address delivered by Archbishop
Ireland, of st. Paul, setting forth the
dogmas of the Catholic religion as to
temporal and spiritual matters:
The partition of jurisdiction into the
spiritual and the temporal is a princi.
pie of Catholicism; no less is it a prin-
ciple of Americanism. Catholicism and
Americanism are in complete agree
ment.
The constitution of the United States
reads: Congress shall make no law re.
specting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise there.
of. 1t was a great forward leap on
the part of the new nation towards
personal liberty and the conservation
of the rights of conscience. Not SC
had it heretofore been on the soil OF
America. Save in Maryland while
reigned there the spirit of the Catholic
Lord Baltimore. and in Pennsylvania
under the sweet tempered rule of Will.
lam Penn, religious freedom was barred
by law in the colonies Protestants
creeds warning one with the other, all
warning with the Catholic. But it was
decreed-- new flag must be unsul.
lied by religious persecution, the new
nation must be, on every score, the
daughter of freedom, the guardian an.
gel of personal rights in each and
every American.
The proclamation of the constitution
was as the Milanese edict of the En-.
peror Constantine. Before the time OF
Constantine all things, even the things
of God, were Caesars. The state
made and unmade divinities; it was
itself divinity; its highest represen'
tative, the emperor, claimed place
among the Olympians. and incense was
burned before his statue, as before
that of a god. The personal conscience
was allowed no recognition. The sub
ject must worship, as Caesar ordered
1t was servitude most absolute. But
at last the conqueror of the Milviar
Bridge spoke; liberty trumphed in the
triumph of the Labarunl. 1--WE have
determined, with sound and upright
purpose" said Constantine, that lib
erty is to be denied no one
that to each one freedom is to be giver
to devote his mind to that religion
which he may think adapted to him.
self. " Conscience was made free In
the Roman empire by the Milanese
edict: it was made free in America by
the federal constitution. In the one
and in the other. it is the injunction
of the Master: "To Caesar the things
that are Caesars; to God the things
that are Gods"
By the terms of the federal constitu.
sion as by the teaching of the Catholic
church, no room is given in America
for discord between Catholicism and
Americanism, between my Catholic
faith and my civic and political allegi.
ance.
America is a republic; the spirit, and
form of government is democracy the
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people. Is there not here,
| it is asked, at least touch of conflict
between my religious faith and my
civic and political faith? | tread upon
easy ground, so plain are the teachings
of the Catholic church in favor OF the
rights of the people in matters of civic
and political government. | again
uuOlt bhC iCtICIS VI
Leo XIII. The Pontiff writes: There
is no power but from God. The right
of command, however, is not in itself
linked to any one form of government.
One or the other form of common.
wealth may rightfully give to itself,
provided such be really promotive Of
the common welfare No rea.
son is there why the church should
prefer one form of government to an
other, provided the form that is chosen
be Just in itself and favorable to the
common good. Therefore. the rules of
justice being duly observed, the people
are free to adopt that form of govern
ment which benefits their temper, or
best accords with their traditions and
customs" America declared itself a
republic: its government is organized
democracy. In America, according to