The Catholic Church and Liberty
By Editor
IN publishing a summary of the pope's encyclical letter, the newspapers give it the sub-head, "The Catholic Church not the Enemy, but the Friend of Liberty." That is undoubtedly true; but the liberty of which the Catholic Church is the friend, is its own liberty, to the exclusion of the liberty of every other body. Here is an extract in proof of this assertion:— "All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of States, and legislation, to be modeled on the principles of the true church, and all Catholic writers and journalists should never lose sight, for an instant, from the view of the above prescriptions." The "liberty" asked for by the Catholic Church, and its relative, the so-called "National Reform" party, means the worse than enslavement of all who do not agree with them.