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No. 70.-VOL. V.
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PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1879.
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Secret Societies,' doctrines which, being for a XII. anathematized iincyellesal Letter poisonous warned society of the impendlong time sown as bad seed among the and again itself He wished that the choirs of
In fine, it is well known people, have brought forth in their time ing danger. angels should be distinct, and subject You well know, to all, with what emphatic words, firm- one to another ; and as also Ile has inglorious mind Our of constancy the Church various degrees Venerable Brethren, that the hostile ness and IX., of happy memory, stituted in diversity of orders, so that war which has been waged against the predecessor, Pius of ranks and Encyclical and in his Allocutions To the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Catholic faith since the sixteenth cen- both all should not he apostles, nor all Letters, addressed to the Bishops of doctors, nor all pastors, so also he has and Bishops of the Catholic World in tury by the innovators, and which has grown still more time present the to up appointed that in civil society there See. Apostolic Communion with the THE ENTIRE CHURCH, fierce, tends to this end, that, by setting should be many ranks differing in VENERABLE BRETHREN, health and aside all revelation and overturning the dignity, rights, and power, in order that of efforts unholy the against contended Apostolic Benediction,-In compliance the State and the Church should be one against particularly and Se2taries, ORDER, these SUPERNATURAL with the duty of Our Apostolic Office, body, embracing many members, some springing of Socialism.already the pest We have not failed, Venerable Brethren, nobler than others, but all necessary to inthe for up opened from them. in the Encyclical Letter We sent you. a way might be one another, and equally solicitous for of to those ravings that the But it is to be lamented to point out the deadly pest that per- ventions, or rather, the common good. But that, furtherwhich corn of the This error whom is entrusted the care vades human society and leads it on to unaided reason. more, the rulers of the people may use by from reason, men good, deceived by the schemes and destruction ; and at the same time absurdly takes its name given to them unto edificarule which is terrified by the threats of the impious, time power We showed the most efficacious means whetting the desire for not unto destruction, the and tion, gives free rein have ever shown themselves suspicious by which it could be saved from the innate in human nature, Church of Christ most opportunely puts unwidely not has Church, the kind, every towards of hostile and But passions to of the severity of terrible dangers that threaten it. of men, derstanding that these efforts of the princes also in mind and, using the the evils We then deplored have since pervaded, not only the minds the Supreme Judge, has it if the nought, to Hence come itself. would society sectaries increased to such a degree that We feel but even wisdom, cries out to of a doctrine of the Catholic Church and the words of Divine obliged again to address you ; for We come to pass, that by wickedness all in the name God : " Give ear you were Pagans, to authority of the Roman Pontiffs seem to hear resounding in Our ears new kind, unknown even and that please your. without always held in due honor, both by rulers that rule people of nations, for the words of the Prophet : " Cry, cease governments are constituted multitudes in selves order es- and peoples. For the Church of the not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet." any regard for God, and the is given you by the Lord, and power that Living God, which is " the pillar and (Isaias 58. 1.) You easily understand, tablished by Him ; proclaiming Most High, who will great- ground of truth," (1. Tim. iii. 15) de- strength by the Venerable Brethren, that We speak public authority, its origin, its examine your words and search your from not which thorough come by power doctrines those coercive livers its ness, of those men, who are called by different for a more thoughts " God, but from the will of the multitude ; provision is made for the and almost barbarous names, thinking consequence, in and the people SEVERE JUDGMENT SAFETY AND PEACE OF SOCIETY SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, OR NIHILISTS, themselves free from all shall be for them that bear rule DIVINE CONTROL, and the destructive scion of socialism is for God will not accept any man's and who, scattered throughout the tom n up from the roots. world, and clo,ely bound together by a person, neither will he stand in awe of For although the Socialists abusing any man's greatness, for he made the wicked compact, no longer seek to shel- suffer themselves to be governed only themselves to the very Gospel itself, in order ter in the darkness of secret meetings, by those laws which they little and the great, and lie had equally but openly and confidently coming have made of their own accord. Super- deceive the unwary, are wont to distort care of all, but a greater punishment is forth into the light, endeavour to ac- natural truths of faith are rejected as it so as to confirm their opinions, never- ready for the more mighty." (Wisdom complish the design they have long hostile to human reason, and the very theless, so great is the discrepancy vi.) If, however, it sometimes happens since conceived of destroying the foun- Author and Redeemer of the human between their degraded doctrines and that the public authority is exercised dation of all civil society. They are race has by little and little been banished the most holy teaching of Christ that without order or discretion, the doctrine those who, as the Holy Scriptures tes- from the universities, colleges, and no greater can exist, " for what par- of the Choi ch does not allow insurrectify, " defile the flesh, and despise grammar schools, and from the cu,toms ticipation bath justice with injustice, or tion N,aiiist it by private action, lest dominion and blaspheme Majesty." of public life. The reward and punish- what fellowship hath light with dark- order and peace should be more and They respect nothing ment of eternal life are forgotten, and ness," (II Cor. vi. 14). These men, more disturbed, and society should (Jude 1. 8.) that has been wisely decreed by human the ardent desire of happiness is confined forsooth, are never done saying, as we suffer a greater injury therefrom ; and and Divine laws for the safety and within the limits of our present exis- have intimated, that all men are by when things have come to such a pass adornment of society. To the higher tence. With these doctrines spread far nature equal, and accordingly maintain that no hope of safety beams, she teaches powers, to which, according to the and wide, and with such license in that neither honor nor reverence is due that a remedy roust be sought through Apostle, every soul ought to be subject, thought and action, it is no marvel that to majesty, nor obedience to laws, un- the merits of Christian patience and by since they derive their authority from the lowest class of people, weary of the less, perhaps, to those made to their own urgent prayers to God. But if the deWhereas, on the contrary, crees of Legislators or princes sanction God, these men refuse obedience, and humble homes and workshops, aspire to liking. possess the houses and fortunes of their according to proclaim anything repugnant to the Divine or more wealthy ; it is no marvel there is natural law, the dignity and duty of the THE EQUALITY OF ALL MEN OF THE GOSPEL, THE DOCTRINE no longer peace in public or private, Chi istian name, no less than the words and that the human race has well nigh of the Apostels, tells us that we ought in rights and duties. They degrade the this, that to men comes of equality the reached hopeless ruin. But the rather obey God than men. (Acts v. 29.) union of man and wife, a bond held having the same nature all are called to sacred even among barbarous nations, children the of dignity most exalted the SUPREME PASTORS OF THE CHURCH, THE FAMILY and they sever that tie by which the of God, and that all having the one end, family is held together, giving free on whom devolves the duty of protect- each is to be judged by the same law, also which is the foundation of every In fine, urged ing the flock of the Lord from the snares and is to obtain punishment or reward state and kingdom, necessarily feels and scope to licentiousness. on by the desire for wealth, a desire of the enemy, have studied to remove according to his desert. However, experiences the saving power of the " which is the root of all evil, which at once the danger, and provide for the the inequality of rights and power come Church, which redounds to the more some coveting have erred from the safety of the faithful. No sooner had from the same Author of Nature " of orderly government and preservation of faith," (1 Tim. vi. 10.) they attack and secret societies commenced to be formed, whom all paternity in Heaven anti earth civil society, For you are aware, assail the right of property which has in which the germs of these errors we is named," (Epp. iii. 1,5). In this way Venerable Brethren, that according to been sanctioned by the natural law, and have just mentioned were matured, than the minds of princes and subjects are so the obligation of the natural law, the in the height of their wickedness, under the Roman Pontiffs, Clement XII., bound together by mutual duties and right state of the family depends altopretence of consulting for tie necessities Benedict XIV., did not hesitate to un- rights, according to Catholic doctrine gether on the indissoluble union of roan and satisfying the desires of all men, mask the impious designs of the sects, and principles, that the passion for and wife, and is completed by the recithey strive to plunder and hold in com- and to warn the faithful throughout the power is checked and obedience becomes procal rights and duties of parents and mon whatever has been acquired either world of the evils which were being easy, lasting, and ennobling. In fact, children, and masters and servants. by the title of lawful inheritance, or by secretly concocted. But since by those, the Church c, nstantly inculcates on lien You are also aware that it is almost enmental and bodily labour or frugality. who gloried in the name of philosophers, subjects the Apostolic injunction : tirely broken up by the teachings of They publish these absurdities in their a certain unbridled liberty was ascribed " there is no power but from God, and socialism, since having lost that firmness meetings, they endeavour to make them to man, and a stew right, as they called those that are, are ordained of God, which it derives from the sacrament of plausible in their writings, and they it, commenced to be fashioned and sanc- therefore, he that resisteth the power, marriage, the power of the father over spread them among the people in their tioned against the resisteth the ordinance of God. And his children, and the duties of children countless journals. Whence it has come they that resist purchase to themselves towards their pt rents are in a very great NATURAL AND DIVINE LAW, to pass that the damnation," and afterwards be com- 'measure relaxed ; whereas on the conmands that they "be subject of trary, snort -lye honorable in all respects immemory, of happy VI., Pope Pius MAJESTY 0? KINGS very beginmediately pointed out in his public necessity, not only for wrath, but also (if eb. xiii.), which, in the Himself institu ted God world, the of ning that they and sake," conscience falsefor tendency and wicked the documents and their rule have become the of the propagation and conservation of of such batted among the seditious, that hood of these doctrines, and at the same " render to all men their due, tribute to for race, and declared indisthe wicked traitors impatient of re- time by his Apostolic foresight foretold whom tribute, custom to whom custom, the human in the Church become more has straint, have more than once, within a the disasters to which the people, in fear to whom fear, honor to whom soluble, and holy through Christ, who conshort interval, turned their arms with their sad delusion, would be hurried honor." (Rom. ail.) Since He that firm ferred on it the dignity of a sacrament, things has all governs and created has supreme along. against the rashness impious But, as nevertheless, no caution of a by His wise providence ordered that and wished to represent His union with rulers themselves. And this audacity words efficacious kind was taken what is lowest by what is intermediate, the Church. Accordingly iu the sufficiently threatens which daily men, of wicked as Christ is bead of the Apostle, the of is by what intermediate is and what from pernicious tenets those prevent destruction, to society with more fearful Church, so is the man the bead of the and strikes the minds of all with An- being incorporated with the public en- highest, should respectively arrive at wernan,.and as the Church is subject to xious fear, derives its origin from those actmenta of states, Pius VU. and 1.4w their end. For IS in the OF
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