Infallible Rome In America.
A GOOD many of the leading papers of the country, both religious and secular, have been considerably exercised over the two contradictory decisions made by Cardinal Gibbons of the United States, and Cardinal Taschereau of Canada, upon the way in which the Church of Rome views the organization known as the Knights of Labor. Cardinal Gibbons pronouncing the decree of Rome says, they are all right; Cardinal Taschereau, pronouncing the decree of Rome says, they are all wrong. The query with the papers is, How can both be right? The answer is easy. They are both right, for is not Rome infallible? Is not all the history of the Popes a whole bundle of just such contradictions? and have they not been declared, by a world's Council, to be infallible? This is only an instance of Papal infallibility, brought to the doors of the American people. The matter needs no explanation; Rome has spoken, and the question is settled. But the large discussion of the question, by the prominent papers of the country, and the efforts made by them to find some consistent explanation of the contradiction, shows what a respectable influence Rome is gaining in Protestant circles in this country. It shows how completely the eyes of Protestantism are being closed to all that Rome has been and is. For what Rome has been, that Rome is. And has she not been declared infallible?