The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-05

ration of church and state. Have not
| the Romanists meddled in Mexico I'M
! til conditions became unbearablc. and
the new constitution. published since
| the patriotic four-hush in the high
school. confscates church schools, ex-
pels all foreign ministers. completely
! secularizes education. and forbids
ministers to be instructors? In their
revolt against the imposition of Ro-
| manism, Mexico has gone to the ex-
treme and denied just rights. Pope
Plus x said in his Syllabus of Errors
| 1T is an error ito believe that the
! church ought to be separated from
the state, and the state from the
| church," Leo NH in his Great
/ EncycliCal Letters says to American
Catholics: 1T is unlawful to demand,
to defend, or to grant unconditional
! freedom of thought, speech. writing
! or worship" Again. Civil authority
must obey his (the pope's) power and
| authority" 1t serves their purpose
well to talk about separation of
church and state in the United States
| where it is the popular law. but they
| have violated the principle every
! where they had the power Bishop
oConnor was more frank, Religious
/ liberty is only to be endured until the
/ opposition can be carried into effect
without peril to the Catholic world"
| | repeat it, name one Catholic coun-
try where they had separation of
church and state"
Catholic Erance."
/ The patriotic orator also affirmed.
ut was Catholic France that came
to the relief of the colonies. and made
victory possible and he told OF those
atholics-LaF'ayette. etc Did he
|
lieve him? Catholic France! The
France that shortly after went mad
with revolution, abolished the Sab
| path. expelled the priests. coniiscated
the wealth of corpulent church that
! preached the beauty of a poverty IL
| ala not practice and defied reason
Their only resemblance to the Ro-
maniSts is that reason" was a god
dess' perhaps an irony on Mariolatry
Lar tYette, who had a mortal anti
pathy for Rome. and uttered those
solemn words IF the liberties of the
American people are ever DESTROYED
they Will fail by the hand of the
catholic clergy" a United States
senator ought to know better. Before
ne speaks on the Patriotism of the
Natholics' again he should read Ban
croft history on page 81, volume
| ~. ne may see these lines; "The
members of congress in their ad
dresses to the people of Great Britain.
Inc Roman Catholic religion had
dispersed impiety, blgotry persecu-
lioh, murder and rebellion through
every part OF the world"
1he idea OF any speaker In the TWEEN
tieth century using this government
as an analogy of Romanism! Thomas
JEFFERSON and hts anti-cIerical secre
iary, Tom Paine. stated the exact on
posltes Of the Catholic teaching in the
| preamble TO the Declaration of Ind.-
pehdence. Did not Cardinal Manning
( say NO pledge Is OF any binding force
/ 20 which Rome is not n party? Does
not the priests oath declare the none
! mas the power to depose hereticnl
Kings. princes. states. commemorative
ana governments, ALI being Illegal
/ without his sacred confirmation. ana
/ that they may he safely DESTROYER
Tell me- why there are patriotic.
ffinEs within the church" ring if Rom
ani9m is so loyal to American ideals?
| ny does This foreign monarchy have
| Its imperial secret service and tie
diplomatic agencies in the United
| states Ny friends. the hierarcbv h.
iieves firmly in the decree of the coun.
eli or Trent, that all temporal powe,
belongs to the pope. and that the GOV
''"SH[ ot tue "hoIe earth is his by
divine right. All rulers of the eartn
are ms subjects and must submit to
/ hlm' True Americans hold that all Just
government rests upon the consent IT
the governed. Tho pepacv declares ~
rs inc representative or God and the
/ supreme ruler OF the world These
IDEAS are Incompatible "Ye cannot
serve two masters" Gladstone made
profound study Of Romanism, and
MS book on the Vatican DEGREES demon
/ strates conclusvely that the English
1athoiic is man Of divided allegiance
j es. and Gladstone who is quoted IN
I their paper by one OF the papers sent
! me, said further NO more cunning
/ plot was ever divuiged against the
intelligence the freedom, the happiness
I ana virtue Of mankind. than Roman
! ism, / VIII pay the Catholic senator's
/ expenses TO Richmond and furnish him
TINS or another auditorium in which
/ to speak. if he will justify tho politics
IN the council or Trent, read TO the
audience the syllabus of the pope who
called the Vatican council and who
said. she (the church, las the right
of perpetuating the union Of church
and state and she has the right to
require that the Catholic religion shall
be the only religion of the state. to the
exclusion OF all others; let him make
another visit and read to the public
the pope's curse. with It's shocking
language which | spare YOU; let him
read to the audience this paragraph
from the priests oath. IL do denounce
ana disoNn any allegiance as due to
any Protestant king. prince or state, o.
obedience to any Of their inferior Off
cers. ! do further declare the doctrine
OF the Church OF England. of the CAL
Vinists, Huguenots and other Protes-
tants TO be damnahle. and those to be
damned who will not forsake them.
let him inform the audience how. In
! 1854. the pope issued a syllabus OF
errors. in which. to quote DR.. George
p. Fisher. OF Yale. the ideas at the
basis of the modern state. such as the
validity of marriage by civil contract.
education not subject to clerical con-
troll liberty of conscience. and tolera.
ton of varieties of religious opinion
were solemnly condemned" Yes, we