The Spirit of Rome

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 18, 1912

The Spirit of Rome

SPEAKING of the spirit which characterizes the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran of July 4 says:—

The Roman Church does not change. In fact, she can not change any more than can the leopard remove his spots. That Rome is "interested" in politics and watching with jealous eye the trend of political events, the following quotation from the Catholic World of New York bears ample evidence. This authoritative voice of Romanism says: "The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing Catholic ascendancy in this country. All legislation must be governed by the will of God unerringly indicated by the Pope. Education must be controlled by the Catholic authorities, and under education the opinions of the individual and the utterances of the press are included. Many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of the church, even to war and bloodshed."

As proof of the love(?) of Rome for the Protestant church, we quote an editorial utterance of Father Phelan, clipped from the Western Watchman. He says: "We would like to rack and quarter Protestantism; we would like to empale it and hang it up for crows to build nests of; we would like to tear it with pinchers, and pierce it with red-hot irons; we would like to fill it with molten lead, and plunge it into hell-fire a hundred fathoms deep."

Rome seeks temporal power. She will not be overscrupulous as to the means she employs to secure it.