Babel and the Papal System
It is going the rounds of the papers that "the ruins of the tower of Babel have been made to serve as a pedestal for a statue of the Blessed Virgin. The ruins form a hill, at the highest point of which a portion of the ancient wall still remains standing, having resisted up to this all the ravages of time. The Superior of the Carmelite missionaries of Bagdad, after offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, placed the statue on the highest point of the wall." It is eminently appropriate. Babel was to the ancient world a monument of man's folly in trying to save himself, an effort which resulted in confusion. The system of the Papacy is the modern monument of the same folly. It has resulted in confusion, and it will at last go down to utter wreck, confusion worse confounded. The infidelity of France, the confusion of the Protestant world to-day, are the result of the system of the Papacy. It is not the people against which we bring the charge, it is against the system of human devising, human works, and human power in the salvation of men.