The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-04-05
Thursday, April 5, 1917.


about Washington. He ran true to pre-
diction and made frst-class Catholic
speech, which unprecedented people recognized as
a Romanist propaganda under the disguise OF pat
riotism. The vocabulary of amazement is enlarged
by his astounding statements For example, ''The
Catholic church is a democracy. Mfablle dlctul
Democracy means the rule of the people. The
Roman Catholic layman is enthusiastically dis
franchised by his own church. Only the cardi+
nails vote when electing the pope. The italian
pope names the cardinals and they name the
pope and this close cooperation thus perpetuates
itself from age to age. The secret rule OF the
hierarchy requires that the infallible head shall
always be an Italian and a majority of italian
cardinals is maintained to secure that object.
democracy! A close corporation which rules
American laymen through priests, bishops, arch
bishops and cardinals appointed by an Italian
corporation. Intelligent Catholic laymen must
have laughed in their sleeves when the senator
called their church democracy. Romanism is
an ecclesiastical monarchy.
Remarkable Statement.
Another remarkable statement was that the
Catholic church advocated the separation Of
Church and State. Can you name one govern
ment founded and controlled by the Romanists
where they had separation of Church and State?
The only semblance to it the colony of Mary
land and Protestant king granted that charter.
COnfning ourselves to recent history ask why
did Plus x. in the year 1911 try to nullify the
laws Of Portugal and to resist their newly adopted
republican form Of government and promulgate
encyclical that the Portuguese have
crowned their evil work by the PRONUNCIATION of
vicious and pernicous decree for the separa-
ton Of Church and State?" More recently, when
the parliament of Peru passed amendment to
the constitution allowing freedom of worship to
all, why did the priest head a riot, snatch the
amendment from the hands Of the president of
the senate, tear to pieces and tramp1e it upon
the floor? Why have the clerical party bitterly
and persstently opposed those clauses in the con-
stitutOns Of the South American republics, cut
ting out ecclesiastical domination, giving freedom
of religious belief establishing the validity OF
civil marriage and putting the schools under secu-
lar control? The speaker insults our Intelligence
who tells us the Roman Catholic church favors
separation Of Church and State. Have not the
Romanists meddled in Mexico until conditions
became unbearable, and the constitution,
published since the patriotic four-dush in the high
school, confscates church schools, erpes all
foreign ministers, completely secularizes educa-
ton, and forbids ministers to be instructors? In
their revolt against the imposition Of Romanism,
Meyico has gone to the extreme and denied just
rights. Pope Plus TX. said in his Syllabus of
Errors: ut is an error to believe that the
church ought to be separated from the State, and
the State from the church?' Leo XIII. in his
Great Encyclical Letters says to American
Catholics: '1t is unlawful to demand, to defend,
to grant unconditional freedom thought,
speech, writing or worship" Again, Civil au-
thOrity must obey his (the pOpe'S) power and
authority" 1t serves their purpose we'll to talk
about separation of Church and State in the
United States where 1t is the popular law, but
they have violated the principle everywhere they
had the power. Bishop OConnor was more frank,
Religious liberty is only to be endured until the
opposition can ne carried lnto eh6CC WlChouC perm
to the Catholic world" I repeat it,
Catholic country where they had separation Of
Church and State
Catholic France!"
The patriotic orator also affirmed, "It was
Catholic France that to the relief of the
colonies, and made victory possible and he told
of those CathOlics-LaFayette, ETC. Did he think
dupes enough to believe him? Catholic
France! The France that shortly after went mad
with revolution, abolished the Sabbath, expected
the priests, confscated the wealth of corpulent
church that preached the beauty of a poverty it
did not practice and defied reason. Their only
resemblance to the ROmanists is that reason"
WAS "gOddess." nerhans an IRONY ON MariOlatrv