The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-03-11

against. the Church causes her doc
trine to be studied, converts to in
crease in larger numbers and Cath
olics themselves to be strengthened
in the faith.
A veteran in the battle for truth,
right and virtue, the Church of Rome
alone will effectually stay the tide
of moral corruption; liberalism and
unbelief that are openly and defantly
threatening the very basis of social
order. She alone can arrest the cur
rent of immortality in high places
and can compel assent to her teach
ing. The only hope of the modern
world is in the Church of Rome, to
save mortals from the poisonous and
gnawing cancer of infidelity. AS she
has reclaimed the individual, so she
can reclaim society. Unprotected by
human aid, the Church, with God as
her light and strength Christ as her
head and the Holy Ghost as her
teacher, calmly smiles on every
power of hell and earth that strives
to crush her indestructibfe reign.
Confident of the divine promises Of
her security, she continues her
glorious mission Of teaching man
kind divine truth and saving i'm
mortal souls without fear or trembling,
amidst the unrest, turmoil and evils
of the age
The Pope.
At this terrible period of human
misery, the Pope loudly proclaims,
from his throne in the Vatican, the
remedies of the present evils. The
solemn duty of public authority, he
emphasizes, is to protect in their
rights to work or bread the industri-
Gus working class; the charter of
whose rights, Leo XIII of happy
memory announced to the world in
troubles in his immortal encyclicaI.
The papacy has redeemed generations
from discussions, blood and war and
has ever taken labor and science
under it's protection, the papacy,
which ESQ millions of Catholic recog-
nize as the mouthpiece of the infinite
God and to which they bow obediently,
reVerently and gladly and accept it's
ruling and authority, when it defines
doctrine. There is no cause to
mourn, or to express fear for the
preservation of the papacy; the
papacy survives, full of life, youthful
vigor and pristine glory, despite the
thousand and one enemies leagued
together for it's destruction. True,
Peter is dead; but, nevertheless, he
dWells, in. our own day, in Rome in
the person of Benedict XIV. Popes
pass away, but the papal power
remains. Peter lives in his success
sors. They who hear the pope
prosper, they who despise him fail
and die stamped with the odious name
of enemies of the pope Their
graves continue to mark their shame.
The papal enemies of past ages are
no more, but the pope lives, the pope,
the supreme head of the Catholic
Church, which cannot subsist without
the papacy, nor the papacy without the
Church, the supreme shepherd of
Christianity, the supreme teacher of
the Church, the infallible sentinel of
faith, the center of unity, keeping the
Church in its wonderful stability and
unity. Without the papacy divisions,
schismatics, heretics and revolutions
would tear the Church into fragments.
Men of the century, harken to the
voice of the pope of Rome and a
better day will dawn for suffering and
depressed humanity. The sun of
peace will enlighten misled mortals,
dispel the darkness of error and dis
perse the mist of troubles. Justice
will rise for all for the rich and the
poor, and brotherly love will shine
forth on this miserable world. Truth
will dawn in all it's splendor; truth in
religion, truth in education, truth in
society, truth in the family, truth in
the industrial and commercial world,
truth in the nations. Security of life,
peaceful possession and the abolition
of social evils will gain the mastery.
Church of Rome! Terrestrial king
doms are but a shadow in thy pres
ence. Thou, the greatest empire that
ever existed on this earth. Nations
have crumbled into ruins, while thou,
the Church of the eternal God, sur
vivest the sweeping pillows of conquer
ing time. Every age increases your
strength, every generation augments
your numbers and every century feels
the inspiration of your grandeur and
greatness. Church of Christ! Empires
have lasted only for a brief period,
but you have lasted over nineteen
centuries conquering not to enslave
but to give true liberty. Holy Cath
Ollie Church! States have fallen
under the ravages of savage barbar-
ians, while you gloriously outlive all
attacks. Earthly governments are
young compared to thee, the United
States in it's infancy, the French
Republic but of yesterday, England
back to the Magma Charta, the pres
ent German empire to scarcely fifty
years, Russia back to less than three
hundred years, the Church of Rome,
founded and sustained by the infal-
lible God, back to Christ.
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