The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
PART OF ADDRESS DELIVERED
BY ARCHBISHOP IRELAND IN
THE AUDITORIUM, MILWAUKEE,
AUGUST II, 1918.


ing and soul-swaying-the Catholicism,
II am to put it in more positive and
concrete form, taught by the supreme
chieftain of the Catholic Church, the
Bishop, the Pope of Rome.
My civil and political faith is that
of the Republic of the United States of
America-Americani purest and
brightest, yielding in strength and 10y.
atty to the Americanism of none other
American, surpassed in spirit of obed>
fence and sacrifice by that of none
other citizen, none other soldier,
sworn to uphold in peace and in war
Americas star-spangled banner.
Between my religious faith and my
civil and political faith, between my
creed and my country, it has been said,
there is discord and contradiction, so
that / must smother something of the
fire of the one when l bid the other
burst forth into ardent burning, that
must substract something from my
allegiance to the one, when l bend
my full energy in service to the other.
Those who so speak misunderstood
either my creed or my country: they
belle either the one or the other. The
accord between the one and the other
is the theme of the address | am this
evening privileged to make.
Distinction Between the Spiritual and
the Temporal, a Catholic Principle.
No room is there for discord or con-
tradiction. Church and state cover
separate and distinct zones of thought
and action: the Church bushes itself
with the spiritual, the state with the
temporal The Church and the state
are built for different purposes, the
Church for heaven, the state for earth.
The line of demarcation between the
two jurisdictions was traced by the
unerring finger of Him who is the
Master of both: the law of God is
Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesars; and to God the things that
are Gods"
1 rehearse "a vital dogma of Cath
Ollie faith with regard to the mutual
relations of Church and state-the
solemn teachings of Sovereign Pom.
tiff, Leo XIII. The Pontiff writes:
God has divided the government OF
the human race between two princi-
palities, the ecclesiastical and the
civil: the one being set over divine,
the other over human things. Each
is supreme in it's own sphere: each
has fixed limits, within which it moves
Each is circumscribed to it's own orbit,
within which it lives and works in its
own native right Things civil
and political are subject, as reason
and equity demand, to the civil author.
ity, Jesus Christ Himself having com.
manded that the things of Caesar be
given to Caesar, as the things of God
are given to- Cod" Language could
not be palmer, more emphatic, more
authoritative, with regard to the rights
of the civil power, it's independence
within its proper zone of action. The
position of the Catholic Church, con.
sequently of Catholics, towards the
nation or state, is defined in clearest
terms by the highest authority of the
Church. What, then, is to be feared
from the Catholic Church? To priest
to bishop or to pope, who-I am will
ing to consider the ypothesis-should
attempt to rule in matters civil and
political to influence the citizen be
yond the range of their own orbit OF
jurisdiction, that of the things of God
the answer is quickly made-Back tt
your own sphere of rights and duties
back to the things of God! AS il
like manner, should the state, or its
officials, in law or in act, step beyond
the frontier of temporal jurisdiction
and dare lay hand upon things spir
itual and divine, the answer iS-Be
ware; touch not the things which Goo
has reserved to His duly appointed
representatives in the spiritual order!
A recent proclamation from an anti
Catholic association in America reads
1--WE hold that no citizen is true
patriot who owes superior tempora
allegiance to any power above tina
of his obedience to the principles O
the Constitution of the United States.
The shaft is loosed against a sup
posed tenet of the Catholic Church
+ it pierces the vacant air: it is mis-
: sive of pitiable ignorance.
Is the issue that of the tempora
sovereignty exercised for centuries il
a part of Italy by the Roman pontiffs
. still claimed by their successor as al
international right? But in the State
of the Church the Pontiff was kim
as we'll as the Pontiff. To his owl
kingdom his temporal rule was strict
" limited. Beyond the frontier of hi
own States, he claimed no civil O
political power: none was allowed hin
by the most Catholic of nations, b.
the most loyal of Catholic believers.
And now, in America, some do say
T that the Pope of Rome is ambition
of temporal rule over America, o
planting here the yellow and White
instead of the StarSpangled Banner
that priests and bishops are activ'
agents of his yearnings; that Catholic
dream of the day when his command
in civil and political matters will swa.
White House and Capitol; that to thi
intent associations are nightly beft
ting themselves by sanguinary oatl
and secret drillings to murder thei
fellow-eitizens and in the name of ;