The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-24
Quotations from Macaulay, the
FaVOrite Historian of The
PaDSSts.
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The rengcanco Of the priesthood rcd mr.
sued his house to the third generation"
Papal cHcr0achments, persistently making
fierce and bloody war upon civil rights!
Co., Macaulay then refers to the era of
the double-headed Papacy, when, for genera
tons there were two pOpes at the same time,
each with doubtful title, made all Europe
ring with their mutual invectives and anathc
mas"
Macaulay says that the Pope who stayed in
Rome was as corrupt as the Pope who lived
IN France; and these two mutually abusive
Papas were ''worthless priests"
Alas arh5ch Of the tac0 was the lineal sue
cessor of the husband of Mrs Saint Peter?"
(Bl8hop Canevins papal Observer at Pitts
burg thus irreverently dubs the wife of the
Apostle who denied his Master so Justify that
he made the rooster crOW.)
(G.) Macaulay then speaks of the scandal
Gus sale and traffic in pardons for sins. and
relates the story of Rome's attempts to reform
her rotten system.
American papsts, more popish than the
popes, yehemently deny that the Roman
church ever was corrupt and needed reform
a. Macaulay then describes the Jesuits
painting them as zealots of boundless courag
and energy, but profoundly hypocritica1, art
full ambitious, awless, and false. He saws:
''Nor was it less their office to plot against
the thrones and lies of apostate kings, to
spread evil rumors, to raise tumults, TO IN
flame clCH ar0rs, to arm the hand of the as
SOSS5n2.''
Think of such an organization, acithin q
churoh Of Christi
Think Of these Jesuit plotters, stirrers up
of riots and civil wars, instigators of the as
sasslns who murdered King Henry Ill.
4on
Silent, who was the founder Of religious
t0zer0ti0n
Every one of our Irish cardinals belongs
to this terrible secret society described by
Macaulay. Bishop Kelley is Jesuit, and so
is Pope Benedict XIV.
President Wilson'S private secretary, Tu-
multy, as q member Of the organization which,
as Macaulay truthfully says, stirs up strife,
plots acar, and arms the assassin!
(8) Next, Macaulay tells how the Roman
church put down the Protestants in those
countries where the popes were strong enough
to enforce papal laws. He says:
But it was not on moral influence alone that
the Catholic Church relied The civil sword in
Spain and Italy was unsparingly employed in her
support The lnquisition was armed with new
powers and inspired with a new energy. II
Professionalism, the sembance of Professionalism
showed itself in any quarter, it was instantly met
not by petty teasing persecution, but by persecu-
ton Of that sort which bows down and crushes
all but a very few select spirits. Whoever was
suspected of heresy, whatever his rank, his learn
ing, or his reputation, to purge himself to
the satisfaction Of and vigilant tribunal,
or to die by fire. Heretical books were sought
out and destroyed with the unsparing rigour.
Works which were once in every house were so
effectually suppressed that no copy of them now
is to be found in the most extensive libraries.
One book in particular, entitled "Of the benefits
of the death of Christ" had this fate It was
written in Tuscan, was many times reprinted, and
was eagerly read in every part of Italy But the
Inquisitors detected in it the Lutheran doctrine
Of justification by faith alone They prescribed
it: and it is now as utterly lost the second de-
Cade of I.VV