WHAT CATHOLICS HAVE SAID.
ALL legislation must be governed by the will of God, unerringly, indicated by the pope.—Priest Hecker, in the Catholic World, July, 1870. I acknowledge no civil power. . . . I am sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong.—Cardinal Manning, in the name of the pope. Let the public schools go where they came from,—the devil.—Freeman’s Journal, Dec. 11, 1869. The Catholic Church has a right to avail itself of force, and to use the temporal power for that purpose.—Encyclical 24, Pope Pius IX. The judicial functionaries must refuse obedience to the State and to the laws of the country which are in contradiction to Roman Catholic precepts.—Syllabus of Pope Leo XIII. The State has no right to educate, and when the State undertakes the work of education, it is usurping the power of the church.—Bishop McQuaid, in Boston, on Feb. 13, 1876. The Catholic religion, with all its votes, ought to be exclusively dominant in such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted.—Allocution of Pope Pius IX, September, 1851. We can have the United States in ten years; and I want to give you three points for your consideration,—the Indians, the negroes, and the public schools.—Archbishop Ireland, in a speech at Rome, 1892. The faithful should always religiously take as a rule of their conduct the political wisdom of the ecclesiastical authority, and the union of mind then requires perfect submission of will to the church and to the sovereign pontiff, as to God himself.—Leo XIII, Jan. 10, 1890. The absurd and erroneous doctrines, or ravings, in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error, a pest of all others to be dreaded in the State.—Encyclical of Pope Pius IX, August 15, 1854. I hope that the Catholic hierarchy will be worthy of this glorious country, which in the future it will religiously rule.—Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, at the annual dinner of the Catholic Club, February, 1893. If Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious freedom is at an end. So we say, so we believe.—Editorial in the Shepherd of the Valley, official organ of Bishop Hughes, Jan. 26, 1852. Go to your homes with the enthusiasm you have shown here, spread it in every State in the Union, and say there is a new departure among Catholics in the United States. Tell them there is a new mission open for laymen. The long-expected day has come when Catholic bishops, priests, and laymen rise up and say, "Henceforth we will act as one man in accordance with our religion."—Archbishop Ireland, at Baltimore Conference.