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Chosen no: R-1027 c, from: 1888 Year. |
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The Papal Power.
The
Catholic says:
"Protestant
religious sheets inform us that Blaine is in Rome coquetting with the
Pope. The secular press asserts that Gladstone
is guilty of the same misdemeanor, but denies it in the next breath. They all
agree that Salisbury
is guilty of the most pronounced coquetry with the Papal Power. This is
certainly a strong straw. It discloses the current of modern thought on a
question which is undoubtedly wedging its way to the front of political
questions in European circles. The dormant potency of the third ring in the
Papal Tiara [third crown in the Pope's hat] breeds unrest, and well founded
fear, in the hearts of kings and Kaisers.
"The
spirit of the world, and emperors and kings, have battled against temporal
power, because they understand from history that the Papal Power is the
strongest menace against lustful brutality, and violent oppression and tyranny.
It has humbled kings, it has disgraced emperors, it has throttled tyranny, and
it has earned the everlasting enmity of the world for its civilizing influence.
The world bends to the powers that smote it in the past, and disfigured its
fair face with rapine and pillage, and ravishings and blood waste, and fears
the universal sovereign who cemented the discordant elements of paganism and
barbarism into one grand, unitive civilization.
"The
Papacy will regain its temporal sovereignty, because it is useful and
convenient to the Church. It gives the head executive of the church a fuller
liberty, and a fuller sway. The Pope can be no king's subject long. It is not
in keeping with the divine office to be so. It cramps him and narrows his
influence for good. Europe has acknowledged
this influence, and will be forced to bow to it in greater times of need than
this. Social upheavals, and the red hand of anarchy, will yet crown Leo or his
successor with the reality of power which the third circle symbolizes, and
which was once recognized universally."
W.T. R-1027c : page 6 -1888r