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CONTENTS of the GOLDEN AGE

LABOR AND ECONOMICS Tfce Canal Empire and Labor................. —.—...583

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Enpne and Press ...571

Lining up the Laity.

Jesuit Influence on Educe* tfcm

The Battle in the Schools..578

Empire Schools in Canada 580

Curtly Schools —

“Right” to Control Educe*

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The Methodists in Italy....586

Value of the Lie.------

The Empire and the Lie..587 The Empire ana the "Y'’..588

Fear of Masonry.....

Neglect of the Catf.pli'*

Press ...

Some Personal items

Number. PleaseI .—

An Interesting Family—603

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Help' Assistance! I ________558 Profitable Business ............560

Financial Resources _______559 Economizing Gasoline ........600

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Earth's Oldest Empire.

Not Merely a Church

The Curia Romana.—

Origin of the Empire.™

Its Governmental System 549

The Pa(Mil Bureaucracy

Fire Hundred "Religions'’

Orders ......«

Papal “Americanism”

The Church-State System 551 “Concordats” nr Treaties 553

If the Pope Came to

America ...........-...

A' Good War for the

Empire...........

What Does a Nuncio Do? 554

Tittle Tattle______________

Is the "Church” tn

Politics? ..........._

The Nonpartisan Method....556

Ecclesiastical Political

Ambition —

A Crisis for the Empire....557

Extraterritoriality

Irresponsible Power

New Variety of Democracy 562

Liberty, Patriotism and

Americanism of the

Empire ...

“Make America Catholic” 563

Progress in America.

Princes of the Empire.

Getting Away With It

Papal Empire "Liberty”—.565 “Reasonable” Liberty

What “Reasonable” Liberty is

A Modern Inquisitor™.™.

•We Love Liberty”______

Thought-Controller of the

Empire

Laws to "Protect” Religion

"Busy Rees” of the Empire

Tlic Empire and the Courts ...........-

Jesuits Driven Out....

•Reasonable Patriotism” 572

Temix>rury Patriotism «... 573

Past Disloyalty

Intrigues Against Great

Britain

“No Faith With Heretics” 575

Disloyalty In Italy

“Reasonable” Americanism 577

Despise the Pilgrims.

Empire and Legion™.™___™...578

Empire Progressiveness ....582 .

Empire and Immigrant

The Protestant "Rebellion” 585

The Empire and Socialism 590

Empire and Bolshevism

Empire and Poland..

Fraud and Bluff.......«

Balance of Power.

Dark Clouds in Sight.

Losing Ground ......

Trouble in the "Church” 594 "No Politics from Rome” 595 In Other Lands...

Failing in France.—™™

The Veil Torn Off..

Away From Rome...

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Perfume—95 a Drop........601 Modern Miracles ................602

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Nature’s Lessons in God's Plan the Best Plan 605

Divinity ___— 603 Juvenile Bible Study..........GOT

Advanced Bible Study......605 If I Knew 4poem> ......-.....607

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Earth’s Oldest Empire

IN DAYS when thought turns to leagues and associations of nations, world courts and "super” states, it comes with a slight shock to be reminded that.there exists, and has existed for fifteen centuries, a super-government.

It is not within the scope of this article to delve much into the musty past, but rather, as was the custom two decades ago in all the leading journals—The Forum, the North American Review, etc.—to discuss this subject freely as a matter of current importance, and to bring out into the light the present condition and acts of this Super-State of the World.

'We scarcely need remind our readers that this is an examination of systems, not of individuals. No personalities are intended. Where individuals are mentioned, it is as the well-meaning but deceived agents of systems. There is no thought of malice—nothing but a sincere desire for the time when all will be freed from a great delusion, ami therefore for the genuine well-being of every man.

Concerning 'all truly beneficent movements, it is properly said, as Lowell puts it, that there “standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own”. .

The common people are greatly beloved of God. “God must have loved the common people; He made so many of them,” observed Lincoln. Jesus said. "God so loved the world [of common people],that he save his only begotten Son”. God speaks ofulelivering “th£ poor and needy”. He declares that He will “destroy the oppressor”. The people are the Father's special solicitude.

Behind all evil movements—any that directly or indirectly £ail to result in the common weal— stands another gdd.

He is the adversary of mankind, the master politician of politicians, who plays one group pgainst another, in the determination to maintain and extend his pernicious control of the common people. This master mind is a mighty and super-wise, invisible and evil spirit. He works through an invisible organization of spirits like himself, and through the minds of organized classes who profit through his reign— through Big Business, the politicians, and through the ambitious and unscrupulous clergy. His name is Satan. He is “the god [mighty one] of this world”, or order of things. He is the “prince of this world”. He makes the undisputed claim that the power and glory of the nations of this world are delivered unto him—Luke 4:5,6.

Not Merely a Church .

A GLANCE into history of two thousand years ago shows that the then civilized world was ruled by a super-state, the Roman Empire. When in due time the reins of super-government slipped from the inert hands of the Roman Empire, they were almost immediately taken up by the great empire which to this day exercises or seeks to utilize governmental power, not merely over the hundred millions of peoples, but over the entire world. ’

The papacy is commonly, but mistakenly, regarded solely as a church; but that it manifestly does not correspond with the coinm'only understood definition of a church—“a number of Christians organized for united worship”— is evident from the considerations which follow —not that there is not a number of Christians organized for united worship connected with this system, but that this church is exploited by the super-system and utilized for the purpose of maintaining and extending the world super-government of this political entity.

The degree of culpability of the most of the so-called “clergy” who are implicated in these un-American practices, is much like that of an agent of the Empire under consideration, wh® became informed on the subject, and ceased his activities' in behalf of the Empire.

“I nursed my religion from my mother’s bosom,” says he; "my religion was born and bred in my bones; and I was taught at my mother’s knee that there was no other church that had a ghost of a chance of eternal salvation. . . . Up to a few years ago I was of the opinion that, my life had been well spent, but today I firmly believe that the major part of my life has been spent in erroneous doctrines and nonsensical teachings, as the broad light of wisdom and independent thought has penetrated the dark recesses of my bewildered conception of right and caused me to look upon things in general in an intelligent manner From this time forward I am going to endeavor to undo, as nearly as possible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.”

Upon such’ a man rests little culpability. It is to help many innocent men to understand what they are doing, that this article is written.

The Curia Romana

IN THE dark ages the court of a medieval monarch was termed his 'curia”. The "Curia Romana” is the political court of the world monarch who presides over the affairs of this empire. There is also an ecclesiastical “curia” for religious purposes, which is the center of the Roman system. It is the “Curia Romana”, or political center, with which we are concerned.

The monarch of this empire is the Pope. This title is not an exclusive one. It means "papa”, or "father,” and in the early Christian church was applied to any bishop, and today is the title of any priest in the Greek Church. Like the “Curia” it is one of the many ancient terms brought down from antiquity, and kept in use. However, outside of the Greek Church, the appellation “pope” is now applicable only to the Pope at Rome.

The "Standard Dictionary” recognizes the political standing of the Pope, in the definition, “formerly ruler of the States of the Church, and still recognized as an independent sovereign”. The Pope, in fact, is as much a sovereign as is the king-;Qf England, or of Greece, or the former Kaiser of'Gennany, the late Czar of Rbssia or the present Emperor of Japan. That his is a super-state appears in his title, “King of Kings,” and in his claims to world sovereignty.

Origin of five Erhpire

fT'HE 0 ri gift of the Papal Empire is thus traced by a Catholic writer:

“When the Roman emperor lost Rome and all his possessions in Italy, they were abandoned to the barbarians. The emperors made no effort to recover them, and automatically lost civil authority over the people. The Pope then became civilly independent of the Roman emperors. His relations with them were purely spiritual. He never acknowledged civil subjection to ’ the new states that sprang up in Europe.”

Analysis of this interesting bit of tradition shows that it amounts to the refusal of a church to submit to a new government when a change in government takes place, as though the Methodist church had refused to submit to the Harding administration when Wilson went out of power, and thenceforth had claimed for itself civil independence of the United States. The Methodist church could not defy the national government; but in those days the Roman Catholic church was too strong for the weaker governments of the times, and thus laid the foundation for the existence of the Papal Empire. The power-seeking clergy paid no heed to the apostolic injunction, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers .... The powers that be are ordained of God . . . One must needs be subject . . . for conscience’ sake . . . for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. . . . Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves condemnation.” (Romans 13:1,2, 5, 7) It was therefore in a state of sedition and of insurrection against the powers of early times that the Papal Empire was founded, and it is still seditious.

“To say that the Pope can be subject to a temporal prince, is to say that the soul is subject to the body, heaven to earth, or God to man.” “The Pope has the right to annul state laws, treaties, constitutions, etc.; to absolve from obedience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental to the rights of the church, or those of the clergy.”—Canonical Law at Prague.

Archbishop Mannix of Australia recently stated that “he did not consider himself in the least bound by any of the governments. . . The orders were no more binding on him than if they were made by the Shah of Persia.” The papal Syllabus of 1864 says of the Roman Catholic system: “She has the right to hold kings and. princes to her jurisdiction, and of denying their power as superior to her own in determining questions of jurisdiction”. Pope John says: “Princes have no laws to give, but humbly to expect them from the Church. They have to obey, and make others obey.” Pope Leo

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affirmed :“The Church of Rome is one monarchy ■ over all the kingdoms of the earth, and is, among temporal kingdoms, as the mincTor soul of the body of a man, or as God in the world. Therefore the Church of Rome must not only have the spiritual power, but also the supreme temporal power.” Rev. D. S. Phelan, priest, and editor of the Western Watchman, of St. Louis, says: “The Pope is the ruler of the world. All the emperors, all the kings, all the princes, tdl the presidents of the world, are as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler of the world.” The committee of the conference of the Association for the League of Nations decided that ’ the Holy See ... is a Power, and that there is no important reason for ex-, elusion of the Vatican from representation in ■ the League of Nations”.

Its Governmental System

ACTING in the capacity of a civil sovereign ■ the Pope enjoys sovereign power; is monarch—or was until forced out by war with Italy—of the Papal States in Italy and remains monarch of the remnant of territory at the Vatican; wears a crown; has his sovereignty guaranteed by the laws of Italy; claims preeminent sovereignty; sends and receives ambassadors; makes treaties; has a regal court; has a set of civil laws for the whole world, called the Canon Law, to which all Roman Catholics are, per se, subject; has the world, including every country, divided up systemat • ically into provinces under his rule; and has 1 a complete system of princes, lords, and other governmental officials, including the most perfect espionage system in the world.

The governmental system of the papal empire consists in practice of the following graded officials:

1. The Pope, the actual or nominal head.

2. The so-called “Black Pope”, the head of the powerful Jesuit order, often the power be-1 hind the throne.

3. The Papal Secretary, sometimes more powerful than the Pope.

4. The Cardinals, or Princes of the Church, organized in\a s<^-called "College of Cardinals”, divided into cardinal bishops, cardinal priests, and cardinal deacons.

5. The Archbishops, in charge of provinces called Archdioceses.

6. The Bishops, in charge of territories called Dioceses.

7. The Priests, in charge of territories called Parishes.

A confusing factor is that the same persons act both as government officials for the Papa! Empire and in a religious capacity for tl-.c churches just as the Protestant “clergy” act in a dual capacity, and are both politicians and ministers. Many people know nothing or little about the governmental side of the system and think of the various officials and territories in their religious capacity alone. This misapprehension is cultivated by the Hierarchy, as the system of officials is termed, because it affords a blind or camouflage behind which the civil operations of the Papal Empire are carried on, until such a time as, in a given country’, the system considers itself well established enough to stand unveiled before the public.

The Papal Bureaucracy

HE governmental system of the Papal Empire is rather a bureaucracy than an autocracy. It may operate as an autocracy, with the Pope as sole ruler, the capacity in which he is commonly set forth before the world. If the Pope should chance to be neglectful of his duties, or be imbecile, insane, or relatively weak ' in character, the government functions the same as under a strong Pope—the orders, pastoral letters, buds, and so on, coming forth as though by the Pope, when actually proceeding from the bureaucrats nominally subordinate to the head. Such a bureaucracy was seen in its perfection in the government of the Russian Czar, where the actual rulers were the Grand Dukes and their associates, and the Czar was utilized by them and made responsible for the acts and orders which they originated but which he signed. This fact was finally recognized by the Russian people; and when they deposed the Czar, they made a clean sweep of the Grand Dukes and the entire Russian bureaucracy. A not dissimilar condition existed recently in the United States, during the period when President Wilson was incapacitated to the extent of unconsciousness for some days and of utter incapacity for a longer time and when the Cabinet officers were not permitted to function in charge of affairs. The government seemingly ran on as usual, the orders were given by heads

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The bureaucracy at Rome consists of departmen t s or bureaus termed “congregations”, twenty or more in number and each consisting of cardinals, consultors and officials. The chief departments are:

1. Congregation for interpretation of the decrees of the Council of Trent, which in 1545 condemned the Protestant Reformation.

2. Congregation of sacred rites for decisions regarding- liturgy, rites, ceremonies, and creation of new saints. ’

3. Congregation of the index, to condemn publications deemed prejudicial to the Papal Empire or the churches.

4. Congregation of indulgences and sacred relics, two substantial sources of revenue.

Since the Council of Trent. 1545 to 1563, the system has been able to dispense with general (ecumenical) councils of the entire church. Such councils, composed of bishops from anywhere and everywhere, are liable to bring up matters not wished discussed in public by the Papal Empire, and -prejudicial to its interests”: and for the past few centuries the system has been able to get along very well, with the *'congre-gations” taking the place of the more democratic councils that characterized the early church. .

Five Hundred "Religious” Orders

THERE is a large number of religious bodies, or orders, about five hundred in number, organized to promote or help carry on the political or the religious activities of the Papal Empire of the world. The most important and active order numbers some twenty million members and is known as the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, organized in 1540 for the principal purpose of fighting the Protestant Reforma-tibtjj then strongly under way. The officials from the highest down are: (1) General of the Jesuits, sometimes termed the Black Pope, as distinguished from the regular or White Pope, who is often controlled by the Jesuit head; (2) The Vice-General, next to the General; (3) The Professed, who are priests of mature age and of eminence in learning, to whom alone are committed the important affairs of the order, and who constitute the Society proper; (4) The

Coadjutors, who have no part in the election of a general, but participate in general deliberations, and from whom the heads of Jesuit 1 colleges .and religious houses are chosen. The membership is bound to regard any superior » officer as in the place of God and to obey im- ?. plicitly all orders given them. |

Among the items in the Jesuit vows are the t following, as authenticated in a Paris court of ’ law in 1761, revealing the political attitude of < all Jesuits: J

"The Pope hath power to depose heretical kings, • | princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all ’ being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and may j safely be destroyed. ... I shall and will defend this 1 doctrine to the utmost of my power. ... I do renounce i and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, < prince or state named Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferior magistrates or officers.”

In the oath or vow taken by a cardinal is this:

"I swear ... to try in every way to assert,-uphold, preserve, increase and promote the rights, even temporal, especially those of the civil principality, the liberty, the honor, privileges, and authority, of Holy ; Roman Church, or our lord the Pope and the aforesaid i

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rebelling against our lord the Pope and his successors.” |

The oath of a priest includes the following: |

The Pope . . . has power to depose heretical kings, ■: princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all i being illegal, without his sacred confirmation; and that 1 the v may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost ; of my power I will defend this doctrine and His Holi- -ness’ rights and customs.' ... I do renounce anil disown any allegiance as due to any Protestant king, prince or stare, or olx'dience to any of their inferior officers— . I do further declare that I will help, a.si.-t and advise all or any of His Holiness’ agents, in any place, wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extirpate the Protestant Doctrine and to destroy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise.” •

These portions of the vows cannot be construed as religious, but are political and exhibit the un-American position which those that take them are oath-bound to maintain.

Papal “Americanism”

THE foregoing represents correctly the “regular” attitude for every faithful Roman Catholic to take toward the church, the Papal Empire and eivil governments, as prescribed by the official law of the Empire. No admonition occurs more frequently in Rome’s literature than the adjuration to "think as Catholics", that is, in harmony with the position taken by the clergy.

Among the political professions of Roman Catholics are: "The Catholics of the world are Catholics first and always; they are Americans, they are Germans, they are French, or they are English afterwards”.—Priest D. S. Phelan, St Louis, Missouri. Says the Tablet, of Brooklyn, organ of the bishop of that city: “The Roman Catholic citizen of the United States owes no allegiance to any principle of the government which is condemned by the Pope”. Bishop Gilmore of Cleveland, Ohio, said in a Lenten letter: “Nationalities must be subordinate to religion, and must learn that they are Catholics first and citizens next”. “We do not accept this government,” affirms The Catholic World, “or hold it to be any government at all, or capable of performing any of the functions of a government; if the American government is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principles of the Reformation, and the acceptance of the Catholic principles, which is a government by the Pope”.

In consequence of the attitude required of Roman Catholics under oath to the Papal Empire the Constitution of the Republic of Brazil, adopted 1891, contains the following provision:

“Article 70, paragraph 1: The following shall not be registered as electors (voters) for state or federal elections. . . .

“4. Members of monastic orders, companies, congregations or communities of whatever denomination, subject to vows of obedience or rules or statutes, implying the surrender of individual liberty.”

More than one country which has been troubled by the insistent plottings of Papal Empire agents against the government has been obliged in self-protection to expel from its borders every Jesuit or other person under oath or rule of the kind mentioned. _____ _

The Church - State System

REVIEW of the nature of the Papal Empire and its agents is necessary to a grasp of the significance of the present activities of what the Wall Street Journal has termed "that international nuisance, the church-state”.

Prior to 1914 the number of ambassadors or ministers credited to the papal court—the Curia Romana—was fourteen. This year the countries actually represented, or soon to be, are about thirty. The published list is a little indefinite;' but the five represented by ambassadors are Peru, Chile, Prussia, Brazil and Spain, evidently countries in quite full agreement with the empire in important respects. According to the Catholic Press Association the others are Argentine, Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Germany, Monaco, Great Britain, Hayti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Holland, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, San Domingo, San Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Others expected soon are Finland, Esthonia and Latvia. Some of these are merely hopes. Great Britain sends a representative, but refuses to receive one and is not sure about continuing the arrangement. France has been in the quite doubtful column, as blooming hopes were somewhat wilted by a sudden reaction against the idea. British information is to the effect that the representation of Great Britain and France was. a temporary war measure entered into to counteract the plotting going on at the Vatican. Recent happenings in France disclose a strong coalition in the Government favorable to maintaining reciprocal diplomatic relations with the Papal Empire. •

Owing to British censorship and propaganda, cable despatches emanating from London ure notoriously ■ unreliable, but according to the London Morning Post the proposition that the United States send a representative to the court of the Papal Empire was under consideration, secret negotiations were under way, through the late Wilson-Romanist administration. For quite a number of years this country was represented, until the break between Italy and the Vatican in the seventies. The fact that the 1920 Republican victory at the polls was in no small part a determined effort of the people to free the United States from the measure of Papal Empire interference with Americanism that prevailed during the World War, makes it quite out of the range of probability that the Administration would flout its constituency by so reactionary a proceeding as the establishment of political relations with the medieval Papal Empire. President Harding has definitely repudiated the plan.

*'Concordats” or Treaties

T X THE antiquated and deceptive lingo of this ■*- monarchy, a treaty with a foreign power is termed a "concordat”. Diplomatic relations usually have to be preceded by a concordat on as favorable terms as the Empire is able to ’ exact. These concordats are often drafted in touch a manner as to interfere obnoxiously with the internal affairs of the countries entering them. For instance, before the World War a concordat was made with Servia. Not a few of the people of Servia are educated men, who have attended universities in Europe or 'America or the Roberts College in Turkey, where they have imbibed freely of the spirit of modern liberty. When weak King Milan of Servia, who lost his home standing because of disgraceful love affairs, made a concordat with the Vatican practically giving over the control of the educational system to the Papal Empire and the Jesuits, and placing church property and Romanist ecclesiastics out from under Servian law and courts and under the law and courts of the Papal Empire—the Canon Law, so called — it was too much for some of the liberty-loving Serbs, particularly the young men, who had hoped for a free Servia. Austria, which had been thoroughly under Papal Empire control, had assisted in the intrigues which saddled this reversion to medievalism upon Servia. A Servian college student, fired with indignation and seeking an objective for his wrath. shot and killed the heir to the Austrian throne, the man who had been most conspicuous in the betrayal of Servia. The bureaucratic government of Austria-Hungary, iimler papal management —like the papalized French government of 1921 —made demands upon Servia, impossible for a self-respecting people to comply with, opened war against that unhappy land, and started the fire which promptly became the holocaust of the World War. A staggering price is still being paid for this item of Papal Empire internied-dling.yvith the spirit of the times.

The fact that the Papal Empire is a superstate, above all other countries, appears further in the terms imposed upon any country which makes an exchange of representatives. Ordinarily in the1 circle of diplomats at the capital of a country that ambassador takes precedence who has served longest; but under the rules of the Congress of Vienna—capital of papal Austria — which is recognized in the capitals to which a Vatican ambassador is accredited, that official immediately becomes dean, or head, of the diplomatic corps. It would seem strange indeed to see America, founded by Puritan Pilgrims and dedicated to liberty, giving the supreme place in Washington circles to a Papal-Empire ambassador, while the American Ambassador at the Vatican court took last rank among the ambassadors there, as being the last to begin to serve at the Curia Romana.

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If the Pope Came to America

THE suggestion is sometimes heard that things have been getting warm in Italy, and that in due time the Vatican and the Pope might move to the United States, and occupy that duplicate of St Peter's and the Vatican buildings—the $5,000,000 "Shrine of the Immaculate Conception”—a cathedral now under construction at Washington, on the Catholic University grounds. Most Americans imagine that the coming of the Pope to America would not be different from that of any other very prominent clergyman.

If the Pope were to come to the United States, he would necessarily come as a ruler, king or sovereign, indeed as a super-sovereign, recognizing no equal and no superior. He would retain and exercise in this country all his sovereign power and prerogative. The American people' would behold the anomaly of a separate and distinct sovereignty within the borders of the country, and not in any sense or degree subject to the sovereignty of the government of the United States, or of any State or municipality. Wherever the Pope made his headquarters, say for example at Baltimore, Maryland, the status of his palace and of his church and the grounds connected with the Papal Empire plant, would be that of a separate nation within the nation of the United States.

Within the sacred precincts of the papal plant the legal rule would be that of extraterritoriality, like that of civilized foreigners in certain semi-savage countries whose offenses are not permitted to be tried by the local courts, but only by courts of foreign countries. A criminal escaping from any part of Baltimore to the papal plant could not be touched by the Baltimore police, any more than if he had slipped out to Canada or to Mexico. To get-such an

Spain and countries such as those in South and Central America. For a while after the initiation of the World War the Teutonic empires were actively represented at the Vatican. Then England and France (informally) and other countries which found themselves measurably out of the current of diplomatic affairs unless represented at the papal court, sent representatives to the place where more diplomatic wires crossed than at any other national court Governments of even Protestant countries found tt as inadvisable to stay away as it would be for an individual to attempt to market stocks without a stock exchange—the Curia Romana was the center of so many, of the important currents of world politics. Individual governments have only their ora country as a source of information, with diplomatic representatives helping, but the Papal Empire is a world-wide affair, with thousands or millions of subjects in every land and nation, in business, in finance, in poll-tics, and in every conceivable kind of affairs, and possesses, as a super-state, an advantage overwhelming in character. It is able to bring, internally through its oath-bound local subjects, no small pressure upon governments not yet represented at the Curia Romana, as well as externally by withholding its cooperation and that of its subjects in matters necessary to the welfare of some unrepresented government

Governments, with rare exceptions, are composed of politicians, devoid of real devotion-to principle and ready to grasp at diplomatic —straws or planks; and the Papal Empire is able to offer some quite substantial advantages, for representation at its court—hence the recent scramble to get in. The more numerous and powerful are the governments represented at the Curia Romana, the greater to politicians seems the necessity of being represented—it grows like a snowball rolling down hill. So to quote Current History, “The Vatican is again a great power in world politics".

Everywhere politicians are turning for help to an Empire which by a nod can incite or quiet turmoil, unrest or disorder in almost any country on earth. The politicians of the Vatican, as the assembled departments of the imperial government are termed, being autocratic in tendency, favor autocracy, and have no hesitation in keeping alive the hopes of throneless kings wherever to do so serves their purpose.

offender, papers of extradition would have to be executed; but before they could be served, a treaty of extradition would have had to be made between the government of the United - States and that of the Papal Empire at Baltimore. Demands for surrender of such criminals, if refused, could be enforced only by declaration of war and the siege of the pap*al plant.

• The Papal Empire would maintain at Baltimore its own army, or at least the nucleus of it, equipped with arms and munitions and separate from that of the United States. If the plant fronted the water the empire might have its own navy, composed of one or more war vessels. It would bring to Baltimore the Pope's aerial navy, consisting, according to press reports, of the two airplanes now held at the Vatican for a possible hasty exit from Italy. It would have its own wireless outfit for secret communications with foreign governments. Unless prevented by treaty with the United States, it would have the right to make such alliances with a foreign power, Germany for example, as would arrange for the filling up of the plant

. with German troops fully armed and equipped for war. This was the case with French troops in the Papal States in Italy, when the Italian government made war with the Papal Empire, and on the dead bodies of fallen papal troops found the insignia and identification emblems of regular French troops belonging to regiments then existing in France, part of which had been detailed to service under the Pope.

As ruler of the Papal Empire the Pope would continue to receive the twenty or thirty ambassadors, ministers and representatives that now attend the Curia Romana at Rome, and the United States would be expected to send an ambassador or minister to the Pope and to receive one from him. Conditions like the foregoing actually exist today, and constitute an unsolved problem for the Italian Government.

A Good War for the Empire

AS A world power the Papal Empire suffered l eclipse in 1799 at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte, which lasted until the outbreak of the World War in 1914. During the intervening century-the Curia Romana was for the most part strangely deserted as regards ambassadors from many of the great governments, most of the representatives being those from faithful

When it serves their purpose, they as unhesitatingly cast down an opposing king or government Every professional politician is an opportunist, and will take a present advantage regardless of consequences farther on. This accounts for the recent disloyal betrayal of many countries by political leaders who have turned to the Papal Empire for temporary aid in holding their jobs, as in the case of the French politicians who under Millerand and Briand are seeking to fasten upon the French the chains so effectually broken by Loubet.

What Does a Nuncio Do ?

WHAT is it like to have an exchange of representatives with the court of the Papal Empire! This question arose in 1907 when the British Government was being importuned to take such action. But a nuncio (papal representative) had just left France, and his papers left in charge-of a subordinate were obtained by the French government. The London Nation for April 13, 1907, comments illuminatingly:

“A desire has at times been expressed by English Catholics to see a Papal representative resident in this country. The advantages of such a means of communication between the Catholic body and Rome are obvious. ‘Its disadvantages are even more obvious; and after the light thrown on the methods of Roman diplomacy in France, it is improbable that anyone who takes the .Vatican seriously will wish to see it directly represented among us. The English Catholic bishops are remarkable rather for the moral than the intellectual virtues. But they do not listen at keyholes; their bands are clean.

“The government, if it erred in his [Mgr. Montagnini, the subordinate to the nuncio]regard, erred by overindulgence; for it was notorious that his house was a center of anti-ministerial and anti-Republican intrigue. [France is a republic like the United States] The time came when it was impossible to tolerate this; he was deported as an undesirable alien habitually inciting French citizens to resistance to the law. On his expulsion his papers were confiscated. . . .

“The impression left is one of inconceivable littleness. There is not a word to indicate breadth of view or elevation of outlook. Religion is conspicuously absent; the letters [of the nuncio] suggest the shabby society journalist rather than the diplomatist or the priest. Tike Papal Epvoy peeps and pries; he delates and gossips; he play^ the’-part of a common informer; he has a finger—and-* very clumsy finger—in every pie. His credulity is as amazing as his ignorance of French character and life is crass. His moral standard is below that of the average jockey. He and his employers sec nothing

discreditable in buying politicians in the open market; and though they haggle over his price, they are fatuous enough to believe that M. Clemenceau, of all men, can be bought! Here it seems that they judge others after their own- sort. A substantial sum, ‘to further the work of the Holy See’, was paid over by a recently appointed bishop; and we learn, that rightly or wrongly, the late Nuncio, Mgr., now Cardinal Lorenzelli. had the credit of being notoriously implicated in transactions of this kind. ,

“The agent of the Vatican interests himself actively in French politics, but invariably backs the wrong horse. . . . He notes the crime of those bishop—- the majority, it seems, in^piie .of the repeated 'denials’ of the Vatican ' ■—who wished to make- the best of the situation created by the Law of Separation, but were overridden by Rome. . . . The Archbishop of Besancon is delated as having communicated the secrets of the recent episcopal conference to the Government; another dignitary as having been wanting in courtesy to the aged Cardinal Richard —ineptitudes which prove, rejoins the indignant prelate,

that his information comes, 'not from bishops, through the lamp-lighter and floor-scrubber at Archeveche’. ‘ .

but the1

Tittle Tattle

TTE IS in constant touch with M. Piou—le

bon

-Ll Pion’—President of the Action Liberate Popu-laire—whose election is io be secured at all costs, the Archbishop of Rennes being instructed, to use his influence to the utmost to carry it. The deputy posts him in the latest tittle-tattle of the lobbies. He knews what Ministers have their price, and the sums required to buy them; he meets M. Clemenceau at the house of ‘tine bonne dame Americane*, and reports what he did or did not say. This ambassador has whispered one thing, that another. Both repudiate the indiscretions attributed to them. No matter, the Envoy suits his reports to his employer’s wishes and capacity, and is complimented on his ‘intelligent zeal’. No one high or low is safe. M. Fallieres, M. Loubet, M. Rouvier, M. Delcas-e, play their part in the fantastic puppet show which presents itself to the Envoy’s imagination.

"A contemptible figure, this Paul Pry of the Vatican; *" and his employers-are, if possible, more contemptible than he; yet a menace to the public peace, which no civilized government can afford to tolerate; for he is the mouthpiece of what is ... a power in the world. Its presence is ubiquitous; its hands, its eyes, everywhere; nothing is too great, nothing too small for its interference. At the other end of the wire illustrious personages receive, record and welcome this mass of slander, fabrication and triviality. ‘I have nbt failed to make good use of the articles and books which you have sent me,’ writes the Cardinal Secretary of State; ‘I await further information; talk little; repeat everything; listen well’. . . .

“Three reflections suggest themselves on this miserable business. First, at Rome, truth for its own sake 1 is not a virtue. Not one word that these men say can

, be believed. Solemnly, repeatedly, they have assured

us that the Pope's action in the matter of the Separation Law was taken on the all but unanimous advice of the French bishops. It was not so; and the highly placed ecclesiastics with whom the statement originated, knew that what they were saying was not true. . . .

. "Third, it is impossible that such a system should be lasting; the feet of the colossus are clay. To urge that it represents religion is the merest sophistry. From

: first to last there is not a word of religion in this cv-respondence—of piety, of goodness, of zeal for souls. It is politics, corruption and intrigue throughout; the power behind it is one with which the ideal and material forces at work in society are alike incompatible; whose claims the' development of the conception of the State

1 had made it impossible for any modem Government to admit. The llontagnini papers have at least this merit, that they put the issue clearly; no one can doubt now

1 what Rome means. The conflict is between two ideals of civilization, the dead and the living; sooner or later— sooner, probably than later—the living will win.”

It may now be better understood what may be signified by the presence of an Apostolic Delegate at Washington. The significance is

•' unveiled of the following Canadian press item from the New York World:

"Canada is to entertain a Papal Delegate . . . who has been assigned to service, in Ottawa, with letters crediting him to the Dominion Government. It is not expected that he will seek diplomatic recognition or will obtrude himself upon the politics of the Dominion. His functions are more likely to be similar to those of the various Apostolic Delegates, who have come to this I country at various times, where they have remained as quiet and interested spectators ef affairs without , seeking to take active part in them."

French politicians have reestablished relations with the Vatican! Members of the American Congress have said that they want to con' nect the United States with a super-power which has this record!

With the return of the great embassies to the Curia Romana the popularity of Rome as a city • waxes. Nothing succeeds like success. The

Vatican apparently is in a new heyday of tri-■ umph. Tourists literally in crowds flock to St.

Peter’s again. Never before was the Eternal City so fuk of. hilarious strangers, especially from Germany, spending like water the fruitage of their profiteering. But a shadow creeps over the Italians, who crowd the churches subdued and mournful, because of the tragic events of civil war where Italian blood flows daily.

la the “Church” in Politics ? •

SAINT Antonio Escobar, of Cordova, Spain, a theological authority in the Church, lays down as a guiding principle of conduct for the> faithful, that “a man may swear that he never did such a thing (though he actually did it), meaning within himself that he did not do so on a certain day, or before he was born, or understanding any other such circumstances while the words which he employs have no such sense as would discover his meaning’. It is affirmed by Roman Catholic authorities that the church is not in politics.

In Madrid, Spain, so runs the press despatch, “Vasquez de Melia, Leader of the Catholic Independents, in addressing a gathering of the Catholic Feminine Syndicate, advocated the immediate formation of an active Catholic political party with the object of combatting ■ extremism". In Rome, Italy, “legal transformation of social relations, rather than revolution, is advocated by the Catholic party in a manifesto issued here”. In Austria, according to the Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic weekly at St. Louis, “the clergy ... counseled that the Catholic woman of Austria would not evade the performance of her political duty.... His Eminence [Cardinal Pifil] secured for all sisters and nuns, even those strictly cloistered, papal permission to take part in the elections. . . . Their[nuns’ and other women'sjnuinerous votes decided the issue, and made Election Sunday a day of victory for the Christian-Social Party.” In Mexico, says El Monitor, “we are in possession of very ample information . . . regarding a series of maneuvers now being carried on by the old members of the Catholic Party, and who today are constituted within an organization called the Knights of Columbus”. In Germany the Centrum [Catholic] Party has about a fifth of the parliament.

In Italy the Catholics or “Populari” have a compact voting block of 100 votes in the Chamber of Deputies. “The Clerical Party in Alsace-Lorraine is exceedingly strong.” says the New York Times. In Belgium “the Catholics . . . have come out with a clear majority”. In Canada. “the Church Labor Party is in a strong position”, according to the Toronto Daily Star.

In Jugoslavia the Slovenian Clerical (Catholic) Party has 23 votes in the Constituent Assembly, so says Foreign Affairs, of London. Still more strongly stated, in the Times, "the rise of the Popular Party, the Catholic Party, henceforth to take its full share in Italian politics with the approval of the Vatican, etc.”

In Portu g a i, according to the Catholic Tribune, of Dubuque, Iowa, “the Catholics have organized a political party for self-defense. Having stirred up the people, the Bishops have brought about the establishment of a Catholic centrum with its own press organ, The Union.-The hew organization has sent a telegram to the Holy Father pledging its loyalty to the Holy See and guaranteeing the united determination of the entire body for the defense of Catholic interests. The establishment of the association has given the.keenest pleasure to the Pope.”

Archbishop Hayes of New York on March 8, 1920 wrote: “Let me say more emphatically that The Catholic Church is not affiliated with any political organization, state, or national”.

A Catholic weekly, Our Sunday Visitor, of Huntington, Indiana, says editorially:

"Our enemies are ever talking about the ‘Catholic political machine','about ‘Rome in politics’, but there is not a scintilla of truth to the charge. . . . We have long had a bank deposit of $1,000 for the discovery of a ‘Catholic Political Machine’, but the money has earned six years’ interest while awaiting collection.”

This might be a chance to make a little money. But perhaps the Visitor means such a machine in the United States, in which case his money is safe until the Catholics number considerably more than a sixth of the population, when a regular Catholic party will appear, camouflaged under some popular name. In Italy they found that, when the voters discovered that a party which they had been following was really a camouflaged Catholic party, they deserted it en masse.

The Nonpartisan Me thod

IN EUROPE the Roman Catholics come out into the open with Catholic parties under various popular, democratic or even radical names; but in the United States they do not as yet have a separate national party, but employ the Nonpartisan League method of seeing that good Catholic candidates appear on all tickets, so that a Papal Empire subject may win, whatever political parties succeed. Their church members are instructed when either a Protestant or a Catholic may be voted for, to vote for the latter, and to vote for the one of two Catholics who is the more devoted to the “Church". .

“Many non-Catholics,” says the Missionary, a Catholic journal, “fear us as a political organization and are afraid that the Catholic Church will dominate and rule. We are working quietly, seriously and I may say effectively”. ‘.‘Undoubtedly,” says Dr. O. A. Bronson, a Catholic writer, “it is the intention of the Pope to possess this country. In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and priests.” Says the Catholic Sun: “The Pope has given the order to make America Catholic. . . . The first step in the making will be the election of one of the American Cardinals to the Papacy and the removal of St. Peter’s to Washington, [then] every non-Catholic will be driven out of the army and navy.” “If the church,” says Dr. Bronson again, “should direct the Catholic citizens of this American Republic to abolish the Constitution, the liberty and very existence of the country as a sovereign state, r and transfer it to the crown of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte [or some other Catholic ruler], they are bound by a divine ordinance to obey”. The possibility or practicability of Roman Catholics, numbering 17,735,553 out of 105,683,108 American population, or 16.7 percent, seizing the reins of the government, was clearly demonstrated in Russia, where the Bolsheviks, reputed to number hut 600,000 originally, by force of compact and disciplined organization and well-planned acts seized and held the Russian government.

Ecclesiastical - Political Ambition

IN THE 1920 campaign candidate Cox was reported as trying to use the church in the fight for the League of Nations, in a hopeless attempt to carry on a campaign intended to take on the tone of a religious crusade. The effort was predestined to failure because the Roman Catholics number but a sixth of the population, and until much more numerous would not find it good politics to work through a Catholic party as in many other countries. The preponderance of Roman Catholics in the Democratic Party outside of the Southern states is owing to the fact that some twenty years before the Civil War that party seemed to be the one most likely to remain dominant and Catholics were advised to join it, evidently with a view to ultimate control. The Civil War and rise of the Republican party spoiled well-laid plans.

In Brazil, a Bishop was run for governor of a province and won—Rt. Rev. Aquino Correa, who was duly elected governor of the state of - Matto Crosso, at a time when affairs were strangled by political dissension. After a year, according to the Brooklyn Tablet, "it is evident that he has more than made good"; he has "pacified” the radicals — whether by plug-hat mob rule or not is not stated—made politicians put restrictions for economy and against pilfering, succeeded in surrounding himself with “useful” auxiliaries, and incidentally given prosperity to the people. Why is not the Brazil plan a good way of delivering the American government into the hands of the Papal Empire? ‘

In Austria the attempt was recently made to five the national government over bodily to the apalEmpire. The Christian Socialist (Catholic) party tried unsuccessfully to make the country a fief of the Catholic Church; under an arrangement or concordat, the Vatican would directly govern Austria, the same as the Pope ruled over the States of the Church in Italy up. to about 1870. The Catholic parties in Europe^ especially are working together to create a powerful union of the national governments, 4 which they seek to control, on Dr. Bronson’s principle of "patriotically” sacrificing one’s own country if thought expedient by the Vatican.

"There are strong Christian Socialist elements,” says the New York Times, "in Italy. Bavaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, whose cooperation is being sought by the Viennese leaders. The latter are stated to be negotiating with the Vatican in an attempt to obtain the Pope’s consent to their putting the suggestion before the'Allied. conference. . . . The transformation of the [Austrian] republic into a papal state would satisfy the desire the Popes have never abandoned for a measure _ of temporal power.” .

Austria, tried to do what Cardinal Manning of London declared England should do: "The British mlhisters ought io apply to Rome to learn the civil duties of British subjects”. To help England into the straight and narrow path of Rome, Manning declared at Westminster before assembled prelates of the Papal Empire: "It is good for us to be here in England. It is yours, right reverend fathers, to subjugate and to subdue, to bend and to break the will of an imperial race!" At the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, Priest H. C. Hengell, Rector of St. Paul’s University Chapel, bemoans the calamitous drift of the world toward what ordinary Americans consider liberty, in these words: "It was a sad day for the Christian nations and peoples of Europe when, through the Protestant Revolt of the sixteenth century, they deprived themselves of the services of the Pope in helping to interpret their international troubles”.

A Crisis for the Empire

FOR a decade or two there has been a noticeable drift in America toward the unificatioa of all the lay organizations of Roman Catholics. Shortly before the 1920 election a veritable panic of centralization took possession of Papal Empire officials in America. It seemed- to burst upon them that they were "up against" a sudden crisis of grave proportions; the imperative need was for the immediate organization of every resource for united action. The crisis was represented to the flock as an "opportunity”. Whether it was bad news from Europe, or the imminent fall of the largely Catholic Democratic party, or a command from the Pope to Knights of Columbus at Rome to hurry up with “making America Catholic” will appear in due course of time; but as from sheep in a storm the cry went forth to “get together”.

During the World War the American hierarchy worked the army, navy, official Washington and the country at large through an agenoy called the National Catholic War Council. At the onset of peace the domestic activities of this "Council” were taken over by the National Catholic Welfare Council, an organization designed to embrace within its bosom practically all lay activities. In it are organizations for men and others for women, sO that the energies of every willing worker may find expression.

In charge of the National Council of Catholic Alen, as Executive Secretary, is Dr. Michael J. Slattery, LL.D. On November 15, 1920, after the blow of the presidential election had fallen, he bespoke the immediateness of the crisis: “Not a day can we afford to lose. The need is at hand. To meet the need at once is our op-

portunity—our duly!” To drive home the im-» i:uneiiee of the crisis “trained workers are re

quired’’ and, “a National Catholic Training School for Social Service must at once he , established. In view of the urgency of this

need the property at 1314 Massachusetts avenue, Washington, D. C. . . . 1ms already been ■ purchased. Payment must be made within the

1 next sixty days. For the purchase and immedi-

- ate equipment the sum of $100,000 is required.”

On January 21,1921, also after the election, ap-1 peared the following, which may possibly be

read correctly by substituting “Papal Empire” for “America”:

। “Danger threatens. The splendid ideals of America

are imperiled. . . . There is none competent to judge ; but will allow that this new danger is greater than the

last, that the war that threatens is greater than that

I of the dread World War. . . . Nations are divided. Men

। are arrayed against their fellows. The cancer of hate

is endangering the very life of civilization.”

। Objection follows to the Smith-Towner bill,

, backed bv Masons, Protestants and other non

subjects of the Papal Empire, and designed to standardize and improve public-school educa-[ tion throughout the country:

“The spirit of free education they would destroy.... ' The issue, is joined. It is godliness and peace versus

[ pagan theory and chaos. The forces are being mar-

। dialled. On the one side the foe,’ every type of enemy

in the array, and with every kind of traitor from our . own ranks in the front line. On the other side stands

i the two divisions of the Christian host, the millions of

I true Catholic hearts and the few loyal souls still left

to Protestantism. . . . It is the hour of opportunity for’ our laymen, an opportunity that never before was equaled!”

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Then comes a frantic cry for everybody to line up: [Bracket ours throughout]

“The National Council of Catholic Men summons all to its membership. In the name of the National Catholic Welfare Council, the archbishops and bishops the'Church. it summons all to a unity of effort, of -ervice to God [the Pope] and country. . . . Our leaders, the hierarchy of the Church [Empire], are in the van.

” ’.’hey know their children, they know the foe. and they

. t.ncw the. method of the foe’s attack. They know that

ose who1 woiAl destroy our cherished institutions will t';st seeknto destroy the Church [Empire], the one । ower that has defei.iiiu and sustained those institu-‘ . . . Now the call to unity has sounded—the

' 1..11 to united action to save a sacred standard, the standard of the [Empire] cross and the flag. There can be no apathy on the part of anyone. Apathy means defeat. There can be no indifference. Indifference would be heinous in this hour. There can be no cowardice. Cowardice would challenge heaven’s wrath in such a crisis!”

The new central organization is avowedly the • hierarchy of Papal Empire officials. Says Dr. . Slattery: '

“The Catholic Hierarchy of America, operating as the National Catholic Welfare Council, desires to unite ’ In the National Council of Catholic Men, our men of America and all our organizations of men. . . . Let us unite under the leadership divinely granted us, the Hierarchy of Mother Church [Empire].”

This is not a call of power, but the cry of weakness and-of the dread of impending danger. It makes manifest that—unfortunately for • the many good and sincere individuals — this 16.7 percent of the population who seek to control the government of the United States and to subjugate the American people to the Papal Empire see plainly a writing on the wall, “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin—weighed in the balance and found wanting”. And the nearly ninety million non-Catholics rejoice that soon the rest of the sentence upon that Empire of Darkness will be divinely executed: “Mene;

God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished . it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians [the common people]”.—Daniel 5:25-30.

Systematic Organization

IT IS interest! however, to observe the systematic organization of the hierarchy in action. The National Catholic Welfare Council has five departments, each under a bishop: Education, under Archbishop A. J. Dowling of St. Paul; Laws and Legislation, under Archbishop — now Cardinal — D. J. Dougherty of Philadelphia; Lay Organizations, under Bishop J. Sehrembs of Toledo; Social Action under Bishop P. J. Muldoon of Rockford. Ill.; Press ' and Publicity under Bishop W. T. Russell, of I

Charleston, S. C. The men’s branch of the Lay ;

Organizations Department is termed the Na-’ional Council of Catholic Men, into which Dr : Slattery's Macedonian cry is hoped to draw \ all the men’s organizations and most of the i

other faithful laymen of America. The system ;

divides into dioceses, of which there are about

a hundred, and down to parishes, where local • representatives will work to bind the laymen * and the women tightly into bundles—"to burn . them”, as the Scriptures interestingly picture the divinely ordained dissolution of the system in the great time of trouble just ahead.—Mat-> thew 13:30.

. All kinds of up-to-date activities are to be

entered into and developed, to interest laymen. During the war the National Catholic War Council maintained an organization practically duplicating the entire army, navy an<J civil .. organization of the federal government, with > the purpose of "assisting” government officials. .1 It is psychologically impossible to sustain such zeal as' a big fight awakens, without having another fight on, but the effort is being made:

< "The National Council of Catholic Men will develop

■ and render permanent a cohesion of forces, a coopera: tion of all agencies, and a direction in peace channels,

, of the great flood of good will and splendid effort poured

by our Catholic laymen for the winning of the war.”

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