Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
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before the personality of Gov. Smith.
And yet-through all this tribute
continues Mr.. Marshall, there is a
note of doubt, sinister accent of in
| terrogation, not as TO intentional rec
titude and moral purposes, but as to
| certain conceptions which your fellow
! citizens attribute to you as a loyal
and conscientious Roman Catholic,
| which. in their minds, are irreconcil-
| able with that Constitution which as
| President you must support and de-
fend, and with the principles OF civil
and religious liberty on which Amerl-
can institutions are based.
ITO this consideration no word OF
yours, on your behalf, has been ad-
| dressed"
Says Cannot Avoid Issue.
Mr.. Marshall says that undoubtedly
a large part of the public would glad
| ly avoid a discussion of the religious
issue. yet, to avoid the subject is
| to neglect the profoundest interests in
our national welfare" he adds.
The time is ripe, Mr.. Marshall says.
and the occasion opportune for a
declaration, if it can be made, that
| shall clear away all doubts as to the
accountability of her status tthe
Catholic church, with American con-
stitutional principles.
with such a statement the only
question as to your proud eligibility
to the presidential Office would disap-
pear, and the doubts of your fellow
citizens not of the Roman Catholic
Church would be instantly resolved in
your favor the letter says.
hot nl11yin1iSlu ia HiCreSy9 Y-d.
ing the prohibition issue and declar-
ing that the religious is. the deciding
factor so far as Gov. Smith is con-
cerned.
Quotes Letter of Pope Leo.
Admitting that Gov. Smith, or
another Catholic, could and would
discharge his oath of office with abb
solute fidelity to his moral standards,
Mr. Marshall asks Gov. Smith whether
those moral standards, which he says
differ from those of men not belonging
to the Catholic Church, would agree
with the standards set up by the Con-
stitution and American institutions.
In support of his contention that the
moral standards of Catholics diner
essentially from those of all men not
of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr..
Marshall says:
"They 1.-THE moral standards of the
Catholics) are derived from the basic
political doctrine of the Roman Catho.
lie Church, asserted against repeated
challenges for 1900 years, that Coo
has divided all power over men be,
tween the secular state and that
church. Thus, Pope Leo XVIII, in his
encyclical letter on The Christian
Constitution of States says: The
Almighty has appointed the charge OF
the human race between two powers
the ecclesiastical and the civil. the
one being set over divine, and the
other over human things.
Mr.. Marshall draws the deduction
that, as power over human analrs
not given to the state by God, is given
hv God to the Roman Catholic Church,
no other churches or religious or
ethical societies have in theory any
direct power from God and are with
out direct divine sanction.
Says Others Are Tolerated.
He quotes Pope Plus TX in his
syllabus of 1864. as saying:
ITO hold that national churches,
withdrawn from the authority OF the
Roman Pontiff and altogether sep
arated, can be established IS an
error"
other churches, Mr.. Marshall con-
tends. are tolerated in the state, not
by right but by favor, from the
Catholic way of thinking.
OF Gov. Smith, Mr.. Marshal asks:
whether such favors can be accepted
in place of rights by those owning the
name of freemen?"
Discussing the doctrine of the Two
Powers" the church and state, Mr..
Marshall insists that many questions
must arise between the state and the
Roman Catholic Church IN Wnich IL
is iYnnossible to determine to the salts
faction of both in which jurisdiction
the matter at issue lies. He sees IN
this situation the "irrepressibie con-
fIict." Again he quotes Pope Plus IN
in the syllabus as saying: To say
i'm the case of conflicting laws enacted
bv the two powers the civn law
prevails. is error" Mr.. Marshall
continues:
"The education of youth. the insti.
tuition of marriage, the international
relations of the state and its domestic
peace. are in certain exigencies
wrested from the Jurisdiction of the
state, in which all citizens share, and
confided to the jurisdiction of single
religious society in which all citizens
cannot share, great numbers being
excluded by the barriers of religious
belief. Do you. sir, regard such claims
as tolerable in a republic that calls
itself free?'
Refers to Marlborough Annulment.
Mr.. Marshall quotes from the
encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII on
Catholicity in the United States, as
follows:
ut would be very erroneous to draw
the conclusion that in America is to
be sought the type of the most desir-
able status of the church" And Mr..
Marshall adds: THE modern world re-
poses in the comfortable reflection
that the severance of the church and
state has ended a long and unhappy
conflict, when the same Pope calls our
attention to the error of supposing
that il would be universally lawful or
expedient for church and state to be
as in America. discovered and di-
vorced.'"
Mr.. Marshall refers to the cele-
brated Marlborough annulment case,
in which the Roman Catholic Church
granted an annulment after the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough had been
married in this country in the EpiS-