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I will draw out somewhat more exactly and technically what is the populue est, late On imperio de of the two sovereignty, and his laws. The sole cps) TAWISM. snum imperium et separation and partition in order to fountain of law is the human will, pt in eum omne powers, spiritual and civil, fmpetial This concord." Cessur4Orek Pgieltialelt or collective. show that it is from the Christian A raesa-beiring this title was. lately , individnalin himself, and creates right power:arms therefore, absolute, exclusive, the law Of the Church that' the world has learnt the read befaie- the " omnipotent. and unlimited, and wrong, the just and the unjust, the stable liberties of the civil order and Catholic, 'Religion" by the Archbishop the trace to proceed We will now sacred and the profane. It has no the measured equity of a written 'law. of W minster. Christian the in Statute-book but human nature, and course of Casaarism St. Gelasius in his letter to the Arehbishol said,-My object in T is acts Divine of world. The greatest interAnastasius, draws out the Emperor th' paper is to enquire whether there Caesar is the sole and supreme Christianity the Incarnation of God. preter and expositor of that natural law. in a few words. "There doctrine whole in any special character in the conflict mankind has changed the state of Therefore law, morals, politics, and "august Emperor, two says, he are," in which the Church has to encounter at men every relation to God and to alks,eome from him, and all religion is.. it kind this world is governed what which of by so, if things and, day; this The Sovereign this world and in the world to come. him. sacred authority of the Pontiff -the In one sense the conflict of the Church depend u Incarnathe of aspect theological The judges, Prince or State legislates, and the power of Caesar'. The authority and the world is always the same. of our by its own will and hand. tion lies beyond the bounds of Bishops is all the more to be venerated, The enmity of the world is one, and the executes' consequences political the ; but subject power creates everyas they must render account to God in truth is one ; nevertheless, the forms of This sovereign essence the constitute Incarnation of the fashions the political constituthe last judgment even of the salvation civil that enmity are endless and always thing ; it and domestic, social, moral, the tion it delegates jurisdiction, revocable of of kings. You are not ignorant that, King changing. ,In one point indeed the nations. of and man life of suspends or measures though your dignity lifts you above warfare of the world against the Church at its word ; it seeking in instinct true a Herod had out personal liberty ; it controls domesother men you are botind humbly to at is always the same. It al w ay s uses the born was who King the life of the tic life; it claims the children as its bow the head to Pontiffs, who are world same weapons, but the motives and this of Cesare own; it educates them at its will, and Bethlehem. The charged with the dispensation of Divine can aims of those that use them vary. The There after models and theories -of its own. have followed his example. things, and that you owe to them subweapons have been, arc, and always reigns. Christ be no Ctesarism where Now, this exclusion of God is the mission in all that belongs to the order civil will be the civil power. For the first the Christianity, in consecrating deification of man. It puts man in the of religion and to the administration of it on three centuries the Jews and the laid authority of the world, has In all place of God as the supreme legislator, the holy mysteries heretical sects excited the suspicions, Within the limits of the Divine law. liberty, law order public of the are which things fears, and hatred of the Roman Empire the fountain of authority, conto him the control its own sphere Christianity has these same Bishops obey your laws, against the Church. In the Middle and right. It gives from delegation a as power its firmed minds. of men's actions and men's ought to obey Ages the ambition or despotism of but by the same act and in your turn you " Qubd principi placnit leis habet God Himself, them in all things which concern the Christian Princes wielded the civil of sphere the limited hat Christianity est sacred things of which they are the power against the Church. Now, for vigorem," and " Cujus regio ejus its jurisdiction. It has withdrawn from And what a Pontiff dispensers." the last 300 years, and especially in religio," are the axioms of Qesarism. whole the control and its cognizance This is the Lex Regia, and where this is said to an Emperor an Emperor said to this century, it is a world departing command cannot It man. of life inner human liberty no longer exists. When from Christianity which uses the civil Bishops. Constantine at Nicea said, his conI say that God was excluded from the his intellect, it cannot control " God has elected you to be priests and power fOr the oppres,ion of the Church. will. his coerce cannot science, it antagonist of the State of Itaperial Rome, I mean the _sstlers Itt one word, vre.4 or. people, and has given you a divine actiotts of man, indeed, to civil governall things, for Rome was full of Gods. authority as being elevated far above e Gupremsev of the viva over the civil from ment, but it has withdrawn But the Supreme Pontificate of all the s, iritual. In ., former paper I traced the rest of men." domain of religion. whole the rulers was Rome in congregated religions St. Bernard expresses the game iu a this but in the i-,ory of Christianity the body, and imprison may State The " Stimulus was He Cesar. vested in showed, fiat, with passage of profound insight and beauty. in Eitglaml, as no jurishas it but life, its take a even with invested lie was Pontifex." diat care Qui :,:ixoti forefathers revogWriting to Conrad, King of the Rams, diction over the soul. All its acts are ".X.ternitas Let not my soul entail' into nized :1)1,1 gnarahteed, l.y the oaths of divinity. He was addressed he says or -giver law no have They free. Diode" say, could Tint," and Diocletian kim.gs and IN acts of Putliament, the the counsel of them who say that the the By alone. God but . . sovereign Imperator. tianus maxireus a'ternits spiritual liberties of the Church; peace and liberty of the Church is coming of Christ into the world the tilnia qutt'llam next, during the whole Norman :Ind ad divines mires nostrils hurtful to the Empire, or the prosperity among the up set was God of kingdoin Ili:turie pervenit." The author of the English period of our monarchy, our and exaltation of the Empire is hurtful longer no was Caesar men. of kingdoms wools Universelle de l'Eglise, in thesen Parliaments always recognized amid to the Church. For, God, who is the Maximus," " I'ontifex nor " Divus" describes the Ca,-,arisin of Caligula guaranteed time lih,..rties or the Church founder of each, has united them, not men. of lord exclusive nor " The Pagan idea of the Pagan Caesar nor absolute in the very text of the statute law, for destruction, but for edification. If unlimited had longer No man any was perfectly realized in his person. even in times when eusto the corrupyou know this, how long , will you man no and man, sovereignty over He declared himself to be a God; be tion of Royal courts, or national jealousy connive at the insult and injury of both man. in property could by right hold with habitually violated its freedom ; and, consecrated to himself a temple, Is not Rome, as well as the Afieefolits deliverance The Son of God had brought His sister priests and sacrifices. lastly, that from the date when the See, as the Head of the Empire) To opening of the the and captives, the to been had he whom with Drusilla, estabwas legal Church of England He say nothing of the Church, is it an bound. wore that thepi to prison lie made dead, being of incest, guilty till lished, the word liberties, which to the King to hold in his hands had redeemed men into the liberty of honour her a Goddess, and publicly swore by then had always been incorporated in an Empire which is a headless trunk ? that secured he and God, of sons in the his agents gave to He divinity. her gird thee with thy Acts of Parliament, vanished from the ever by a sovereign act. He . . . Wherefore Statute-book. Wliat thus happened in Rome authority over all the goods of all liberty forthe two powers, spiritual and sword upon thy thigh, 0 most mighty, divided kindred to his men ; and lie told one of England has happened also throughout and let -Ctesar restore to himself the civil, and gave them into different the history of Europe. Ccesarisin is to remember that 'everything was lawful things which are Cwsar's, and to God be again never could they that so hands, et to him in respect to all men'-ontia be found in all ages and countries, but the things which are God's. It is clesr Himself except person, one in united in omnes sibi licere." It is not to be the Ctesarism of the 19th century has that both are the interests of Caesar, this BY earth. upon Vicar, His forgotten that Caligula made his horse and character of its own. that is, to defend his own crow.n and to abolished was Regia Lex This was the Lex Regia divine fact the a Consul. The first manifestation of Cresarism protect the Church." religio ejus regio cujus the for ever, and which may be thus summed up : in history, for I am not dealing with St. Thomas Aquinas defines this as well as a tyranny. a heresy became the of rights the all inherited Cesar Oriental with or pre -historic legends more precisely as fellows doctrine Catholic Cimrch The presence of the Senate .and of the people. In political tyrannies, may be seen in the Imperial The end of the Commonweaftli is the of the w3r1d Powers civil the army among the chief of the was he suppression matters the despotism of Rome after same at; that of individuals. If ou ask and of the navy ; he had the power of had changed the whole political order of a Christian Why has ! , .crea you of the Republic, and in the Roman upon established had It %Unkind. administration he In and war. peace with it Emperors who have stamped and an and placed you in the world ?' he a tribunal, legislature, a /earth SenaProconsul, Consul, perpetual *as absolute the their name. In essence it is me and placed independent of all human answers 'Pod has created dominion of man over man : the power tor, President of the Senate, and executive me in this world to know, to love, and to the from withdrawn has It civil authority. In the people. the of Tribune of' life and death, including supreme and by these means to obtain reach of human laws the whole domain serve Him, order, he was Censor and Pretty ; his power over liberty and goods, and eternal life which is my (final) end. If These conscience. of and faith of decisions, had rescripts, extending to the whole life of man, edicts, letters, be asked thi.saine, depend on God alone, and are subjected the Commonwealth political and religious, social and do- force of law. In religion he 'was priest, Christian Society ought to wake every in. vested autism:4y, own His to Him by augur, Sovereign Pontiff, head of' all mestic. It may be summed up in a Him- the: same answer ; no other,- can priesthoods and of all religions. He His Church, which is gdi6d by few words-" Divas Caesar, Imperator From this St. Thomas stand." was judge of all questions of religious self. "t ft_Summets Pontefex." There is nothing though the King. or Prince that proves problem, of the solution This is the in ilie-yekt.liesor private life of men- that rites, ceremonies, and worships, and power he is bound to use civil only has Obedience solve. In fact, which the world cannot escapes 'Piss the sweeping jurisdiction interpreter of all mysteries. it for the eternal good of, the is Vierty ; 'and it is Church the to its in all the people sovereignty of the The sovereignty. sal univ of this adds, 5If man liberty because the Church cannot err Conmonwealth., -nature/ functions was transferred to Caesar. sovereignty of Ctesarism is absoldte power this men or nations. 'If could obtain by his either mislead or in Regia Lex the is Terrasson describes it ; conditions no and dependent obedience last end, it would be the duty of the infallable, not were Church the power-religious, All terms these it does not cause also exclusive, But as him in,44. "fr King to. worst of bondage. tolerate any j u sdiction above and political, legislative, and civil-in a to it might be the y human dirtues -,by, man liberty the or ultramontanism, is This things and in all omnipotence, word does not recognize within its own. end4Wideh is the possession of the soul divinely guaranteed by an attain id any laws except f its own making. over all things-the people and the that it is ix) human of chItt check proper the ; Church infallible Caesar when the to transferred Senafe Now, this .suprem; power need not be ut a Divine, direction, that dlrectodi as Ceesarism Caesarian], of restraint and And the Empire. into Republic passed held in the hands o one man. It may must .0cinanct him to it. The King to of the sove be a People or a Se te, or a King or this took place in virtue of the Lex is the proper antagonist whom thdagtpreme direction belongs is will we this to But of God. reignty these in an Emperor. Its es ence is the claim Regia, of which Ulpian speaks not man 'Mae but God alao-our .Lori hereafter. legia return words :-Quod principi placnis to absolute and exr usive sovereignty.

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tabdit vigorem, utpote cum Lege Regia,ei

It by necessity excludes God,

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