The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-07-06
POPERY UN-AMERICAN
AND ANTI-AMERlCAN

gion is to be replaced with Roman Catholic
monopoly Of religion. Freedom of thought,
speech, and writing are to be followed by
papal censorship; and we are to be told what
to think, believe, say, and write by the popes
who know it all because they 'hold upon
this earth the place Of God Almighty"
troit (see page A, this issue) are living up
to this papal teaching.1
And the lamentable part Of this is that
the pope now exercises that asserted author
ity over his subjects in America as well as
elsewhere. Whenever papist, laynan or
priest begins to think, talk, or write in a
manner distasteful to his pope, he must cease
or get out. Where would he 60 If popery
had its desired monopoly in all nations? OF
all autocratic rulers, the popes are most des-
potic to the extent they dare go with their
despotism. Popular opinion has Its restrain
ing effect as yet; but, if that becomes cor
rupted through papist teaching, popery may
blossom into full flower with consequences
comparable only to the days of the Spanish
mquisition. Elsewhere he says:
The liberty of thinking and of publishing what
soever each one likes without any hndrance, IS not
ia itself an advantage over which society can wisely
rejoice On the contrary it Is the fountan-head and
origin Of many evils. (123).
And yet society has wisely rejoiced over
every restraint removed from speech and
the press. Any kind Of freedom can be
abused; but that is no argument against
freedom, or in favor of the censorship that
popes and papists have always favored and
now seek to establish in America. Freedom
of speech and publication was pretty well
regulated by papal agents while the Inquisi-
ton hourished; but we have not heard Of
society rejoicing over it Here is another
gem:
To exclude the Church (Roman Catholic, Of
course) from the power Of making laws
= is grave and fatal error. To wish
the Church to be suject to the civil power in the
exercise Of her duty is great folly and sheer
injustice. 80 The Church Of Christ lRoman
Catholic every time the pope mentions t) Is the true
and sole teacher Of virtue and guardian Of morals
(124)
Get the meaning Of popery's claim to
equal or superior power with or over the
state, and its claim to a monopoly Of virtue;
then note the right Of Rome to control and
direct the voter, in America as elsewhere,
in the following:
Where the Church does not forbid taking part
IN public affairs It Is fit and proper TO give support
to men Of acknowledged worth, and who pledge them
selves to deserve well In the Catholic cause. (198)
And what Is the Catholic cause" but
the conquest Of the earth and it's subjection
to the papal SYSTEM Mark this:
It would be very erroneous to draw the conclu-
sion that in America is to be sought the type Of the
most desirable status Of the Church. that it would
Church to be- as in America, discovered and d.
vorced. 1921.
She (the Roman Catholic Church) would bring
forth abundant fruits If in addition to liberty,
she enjoyed the fayor Of the laws and the patronage
Of the public authority (324).
There Is no doubt about it; and that is
why papists are moving with every power at
their command to capture the law-naling
bodies and the patronage Of public authority.
They give their political support to linen Of
acknowledged worth to Rome; and to men
"who pledge themselves to deserve well In
the Catholic cause And all this that pro-
papal anti-Americanism may triumph to
the glory Of Rome and the ruin Of America.
Is not this conflict and the ruin of Amer
lea, with the program Of popery Of sufficient
Importance to deserve careful attention?
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sQuotations from The DEGREES Of Pope Leo KIN.
as printed IN the foregoing are taken literally from
the volume entitled sIhs Great Encyccsl Letters of
York, Cincinnati and Chicago, sprintsrs 70 the holy
apostolic ssar Third edition With the inprimatuir
Of Arqhbiahop John N. Farley and approval Of
Rsnauius Lafort pspal censor Of books References