p. 20 | Rome's View of Her Opponents

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1912

Rome's View of Her Opponents

THERE is plainly a grim determination on the part of Roman Catholic leaders to carry out their program “to make America Catholic.” All opposition on the part of Protestants is stigmatized as “bigotry.” The organization recently formed for the defense of the principles of civil and religious liberty, and named the Guardians of Liberty, is dubbed “the Guardians of Bigotry.” The efforts of those opposed to the Roman program are belittled and ridiculed. Witness this extract from a contributed article in America (Roman Catholic), June 15, 1912:—

“There have been here and there some recent anti-Catholic recrudescences in certain obscure journals and magazines that violate the federal laws safeguarding the mails, and some that escape through sealed doors into reputable organs. Some of these attacks on the church, its ministry, purposes, practises, and alleged political machinations, have been so vile that no clean hand may touch them. Nor is it necessary; reproductions, adaptations, or enlargements of the revelations of so-called escaped monks or nuns, they carry their own condemnation to any honest eye that may light on them. Ignorant men, and well-informed but malicious and false witnesses have lately formed a combination to sweep back with their little broom the tide that flows from Rome; and a few excited fanatics, survivals of the anti-Catholic madness of other days, have crept out of their hiding-places to help the bad work along.”

According to this estimate, the man who withstands Rome is either “ignorant” or “malicious” or an excited fanatic. What would Rome do with such persons if she now had the power in this country which she once had in the Old World?