The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-09

dependence is absolutely necessary
for the free and funtrammeled exer-
else of the Supreme Pontiff. The Su-
preme head of the Universal Church
cannot consistently with the dignity
of his Office, or the exercise of the
powers of which he is the depositary
be the subject of any government
but must not only possess, but exer-
|cise."
w. ARTHUR'S "The Pope, the
King, and the People," Vol. 2, page
265, says: every Catholic whose act
ions are ruled by faith he processes is
a born enemy to the State, since he
finds himself bound in conscience to
contribute as far as in him lies to
the subsection of all nations, and all
kings, to the Roman Pontiff."
CATHOLIC WORLD, VOL. XII, No.
GA, 1870, says: "While the State has
rights, she has them only in virtue
and by permission of superior author
ity, and that authority can only be
expressed through the Church; that
is, through the organic law, infalli-
bly, announced and unchangeably as
serted, regardless of temporal conse-
quences."
Again it says: "The supreme duty
of Catholics is to obey the Pope, and
seek in every way, and especially BY
means of the ballot, to render the
Catholic policy effective in this coun-
try. Catholics should vindicate this
policy with property, liberty, and life.
If the Pope's authority and that of
any Civil government comes into con-
flict upon any vital point, the Catho-
lie is to act in the 10Th century pre-
cisely as he did in the LIST and End
century"
Again this same paper in a leading
article of September, 1871, entitled
"The Reformation Not Conservative
and referring to the United States
Government, says: eve do not accept
it, or hold it to be any Government
at all, or capable of performing any
of the proper functions of govern
ment, and if it continues to be inter
preted by the revolutionary principle
of Professionalism it is sure to fall
and lose itself either in the supremacy
of the mob or in military depotism;
and doom US, like unhappy France, to
alternate between with the mob up
permost today, and the despot to-
morrow"
Again, this editor writes: "There
has never been a period in American
history when the Church's opportu-
nifty has been so close to her. To a
great extent the old antagonisms have
died. Professionalism is disintegrating
before our eyes. The moment is now
ripe to build a CATHOLIC AMER
ICA, and the strong men are now
laying the foundation"
SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY, a
Roman Catholic paper published at
St. Louis, Mo-, in 1876, under the SUI
pervision of Archbishop Kendrick,
says: ave confess that the Roman
Catholic Church is intolerant; that is
to say, that it uses all the means in
it's power for the extirpation of err
ror and sin; but this intolerance is
the logical and necessary-c consequence
of her infallibility. She alone has
the right to be intolerant, because she
alone has the truth. The Church
tolerates heretics where she is obliged
to do so, but she hates them mortally
and employs all her forces to secure
their humiliation. When the Catho-
lies shall be in possession of a con-
siderable majority, which will certain
ly be the case by and by-then relig-
ious liberty will have to come to an
end in the United States. Our enc
mics say this, and we believe with
them. Our enemies know that we do
not pretend to be better than ou1
Church, and in what concerns her his
tory is open to all. They know, then
\ how the Roman church dealt with
heretics in the middle ages and how
she deals with them today where
she has the power. We think nc
more of denying these historic facts
than we do of blaming the saints OF
God and the princes of the Church for
what they have done and approved
in these matters"
| MORNING STAR: New Orleans
May 81, 1913, says: TWENTY-FIVE
years hence the Catholics of the
United States will not be sixteen
million, but twice that number. The
vote will be in their hands and the
future Republic will depend upon their
use of it,
BRONSON'S REVIEW: DR.. Bron-
son, a renowned prevert from protes-
tantism, now a recognized Catholic
authority, in Bronson's Review, April
1S45, says: "If the Church should di-
rect the Catholic citizens of this
American Republic to abolish the Con-
stitution, the liberty, and the very
existence of the country as a Sow
ereign state, and transfer it to the
crown of Louis Napoleon Bonaparts,
they are bound by a divine ordinance
to obey" ''
This man again says, in his Re-
view, June 1851: aThe Pope has the