LET Roman Catholics proclaim their patriotism as much as they will, call themselves patriots excelled by none; at the same time they acknowledge as a "paramount" duty or obligation allegiance to the Roman see, not merely as an ecclesiastical power but as a temporal ruler, deprived of his rights. Here are some declarations of the Catholic Mirror, of November 23, an issue which loudly proclaims Catholic patriotism:— "The absolute independence of the holy see in the city of Rome is the demand of Catholics throughout the world. The temporal power that is desired to secure the fullest immunity of the pope, and to preserve and perpetuate every privilege and right heretofore secured to the Papacy, is, in a word, perfect freedom as against all and every form of authority vested in either State or king." "Whatever of influence they can bring to a solution of the great problem of the Roman question by the creation and development of a public sentiment which will, in union with the Catholic tone of the nations of the world, make more tolerable in the immediate present and finally secure on a lasting foundation the freedom of the holy see and the peace of the entire church, is not only a high obligation, but also a most loving and paramount duty. The Catholic press can have no grander theme, no more lofty mission, than the vindication of the rights of the Sovereign Pontiff." Mr. Bonaparte is quoted as follows, and indorsed: "The pope, to be true to the church and his great office, must inflexibly assert that no living man was his rightful superior. . . . The extent and the form of his power have changed often with the changeful ages, but his liberty must be forever the same, for it must be forever 'absolute.'" What is the difference in principle between the Romanist and the Mormon?