The Catholic Church and the Law of Progress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

The Catholic Church and the Law of Progress

The Christian Register says:—

The Catholic Church must recognize the law of progress in the separation of state and church or surrender all hope of becoming the universal church.

The Register does not know the Catholic Church if it imagines that the said church will recognize anything as progress which that church does not originate. According to the words of its own officials, it tolerates what it can not control, looking and working for the time when it shall achieve its own ends in its own way. It expects to be the universal church, but not through recognizing as a law of progress anything that has been accomplished through Protestant influence. It will never be the universal church; for up to the time when the Son of man appears in the clouds of heaven there will be a little band keeping “the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” That is all that will stand in her way; but all the rest of Christendom will acknowledge her supremacy, as saith Revelation 13 and 14.