The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1909 Page: 24 of 48
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
the faithful must resist him. "
The late Archbishop Spalding wrote in 1855: "The obe-
dience we owe to the Pope is confined to religion and spiri-
tual things; he neither claims nor do we allow any juris-
diction over us in temporal matters affecting our civil al-
legiance." Cardinal Manning wrote in reply to Mr. Gladstone:
"Neither in virtue of the Vatican decrees nor of any
other decrees nor of his supreme authority as head of
the Christian Church can the Pope make any claim upon
those who adhere to his communion of such a nature as
can impair the integrity of our civil allegiance."
Such is the official dogmatic teaching of the Catholic
Church as it proclaims the supreme authority and abso-
lute independence of the State within the territory of civil
and temporal affairs. But was it in the divine plan or in
the nature of things that the Church and the State should
live entirely apart?
UNION OP CHURCH AND STATE.
"If the Church" says Albert de Broglie "were merely
an institution for prayer and the State for police; if reli-
gion confined itself entirely to speculative opinions mysti-
cal feelings and secret meditations while the State had to
do only with the good order and cleanliness of cities and
streets; if the spiritual sphere comprehended only the in-
nermost relations of each soul to God the temporal only
the prevention of misdeeds and plunder among men it
would be then easy to separate completely two spheres
which would neither have nor be likely to have any points
of contact and to preserve freedom to two powers know-
ing nothing of and never coming across one another.
' 'But facts overturn all these imaginary boundary lines.
Religion is by no means a hermit inclosed in a cell; neither
is the State contented with the part of a district policeman
or beadle. Both powers aim far higher and as yet even
without overstepping the sphere transmitted and belong-
ing to each neither of the two have been able to stir a step
without being brought into mutual contact."
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