Church and State by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 4, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 39.

Church and State

By Editor

Church and State.—The Catholic Church still believes in the temporal power and likes to be recognized as one to whom it belongs. For instance, when the papal legate reached Quebec, on his way to the Eucharistic Congress in Montreal, the Western Watchman of September 8 declares: "Cardinal Vannutelli, the papal legate, reached Quebec this afternoon and was received with all the honors accorded to a prince of the church and an ambassador of a reigning power. Representatives of the federal and provincial governments and representatives of the various executive functions, greeted him and bade him welcome to the dominion. The sabers of Canadian troops flashed in welcome. . . . He was received a welcome visitor." But why should the government welcome the papal representative any more than it should the representative of the archbishop of Canterbury, or a delegate of the M. E. Church?