The menace., 1917-01-06


horde Of the north, while from 800 to
1900 the Roman church largely DOM
mated the situation.
In speaking Of the Middle Ages, 1t is
not TO be supposed that the cardinal had
in mind the time Of stress and strain
when the barbarian horde were over
whelming Roman civilization, but rather
that period when the Roman church g
power was becoming, or had become, the
dominant power in world affairs, extend
ing, approximately, from 800 to 1900.
To judge Of this period, manifeStly we
must here consider the approved teqch-
ingS and acts Of tho pope and pGpacy.
Q) since the Roman hierarchy was the
master influence operating through west
ern EUROPE, and (2) since the physician
to our nation who prescribes this
strong dose" is a member of the high
est council in this same papacy, ~ it
would be palpably unfair to the cardinal
or his church to judge tho period by
those acts, opinions and theories that tho
church and state under its sanction ard
control stropc to destroy and suppress.
Hence to find out the nature Of the dose
the cardinal wishes to pour down the
throat Of our liberal Protestant ciyiliza-
ton, we must consider the accepted ut
terances Of the Roman church and the
popes Of this period, and the acts sanc-
toned and promoted by this same Ro.
man hierarchy in which Cardinal 0'Con-
nell 80 glories.
The Cardinals Dose Examined
Erhbis No. 1. The destruction
through the agency Of the papacy Of
Arnald Of Bresica in 1855, was one Of
the most thoroughly Characteristic acts
OF this period when the church had power
to destroy those who offended her.
Arnald was one Of the noblest Christian
thinkers Of bis age, but he encountered
the fierce opposition of Rome because Of
: his fearless battle for purified church.
Henry Charles Lea in his careful and
thoroughly authoritative History Of the
Inquisition Of Middle Ages" well OBJ
serves:
His real oHsnus was the energetic way In
stimulated the laity to repossess the ample
wealth and extended privileges which the
church had acquired. Profoundly convinced
that the evils Of Christendom arose from the
worldliness OF the eeclesiastical body, he
taught that the church should hold neither
temporal possessions nor jurisdiction. and
: should C0NFINE ITSELF RIGIDLY TO ITS
! SPIRITUAL FUNCTIONS. OF austere and
commanding virtue. irrsproaehable in his
self-denying life, trained In all the learning
Of the schools. and gifted with rare persuasive
elOquence, he became the terror Of the hier-
-, archy. (p. 73.)
This noble, austere, and single-hearted
apostate of righteousness was condemned
by Pope Innocent II in 1140 and
bounded by the papacy from before that
date until he miserably perished at the
/ hand Of Rome in 1855. Not content with
destroying the body, his ashes we're not
! permitted to rest in peace but were scat.
tered upon the waters Of the Tiber.
Innocent HI's So-Called Glorious
> Reign
/ Eshibt No. 9. Under what the
. Catholic Encyclopedias calls "the glorious
0 reign Of Innocent" we see the Roman
i church, In the heyday Of imperial sway
!. exercising almost unlimited power anC
arrogating to herself temporal no les,
8 than spiritual functions on every hand
: It was under this so-called "glorioul
Z reign" that we have another historic in
: gredient Of the cardinal 8 "strong dose
u in the merciless persecution Of the AL
bigenses, brave, pure, Christian bod,
o which was the precursor Of the Protes
|. tant Reformation. Under the Leadership
D Of Dominic whom the church has canon
Il lied, this persecution was pushed will
d the utmost ferocity. The prosperous cit,
q of Beziers was first to fall, whereupon
+ to quote again from historian Lea:
d The army followed. and The lsgats's eat
was fulfilled BY massacre almest wlthou
y In arms to tottering age, not one was spare
e seven thousand, Il 10 said, were slaughtere
. In the church Of Mary Magdalen to whic
= they had fed for asylum-and the total mum
e Der Of slain 10 set down By the legstes n
a nearly 10000. A ferveht Cistereian contem
!. porary informs NJ that when Arnaud wa
70 asked whether the Catholics should be Sparet
Is he feared the heretica would escape BY feigr
A. Ing orthodox, and hercely replied, "Klll theI
all. for God knows his ownP In the ma
" and the sun Of that awful July day close
A. on q mass Of smeuldering ruins and blaekene
!, eorpses-a holocaust to . deity Of mercy an
% love. (Higtory Of the Inquisitlon Of the MID
Vt die Ages By Henry Charles Lea. .. l5I.
% The ferocious and inhuman persecr
" tion of these noble children of God wa
1t mercilessly pursued by Innocent III an
er his successors until by 1929 they wer
,e practically extermina@d. Speaking Q
III the effect of this devastating persecutio
ty of the Albigenses in southern Franc,
to Draper in his noble work, ''The Int
w lectual Development Of Europe, (volum
or l, p. 213), observes:
Six hundred years have elapsed since the
he events, and the south Of France has nev,
:, recovered from tho blow.
- This is one Of the notable events con
Is passed by the papacy during the perio
90 81 for which Cardinal o 'Connell is sighinI
81, When Romanism Was In Flu
- Flower
us Exhibit No. s. To appreciate Il
Is. atmosphere of this period perhaps we ca
81 not do better than to quote from "Le
N. ters to His Holiness, Plus x" the schc
IL. arly work of Rev. William L. Sulliva
he who after graduating from tine Jesu
m Boston college and st. Johns Seminar
in Brighton, Mass, received the degr'
Of Licentiate of Theology from d
es Catholic University o. Washington, al
he was for six years Professor Of Nor
he Theology in the Paulist House
%, Studies. On pages 26-29 Of his work '
,te find the following historical citations:
RS, "A. b. liS7--The Council Of Rheims ords
00 branding IN the face for hereties. liee--Ti
w decree adopted BY tire Council Of Oxford. II
al Pope Lasius nu's decree y ths Council Il