THE CHURCH AND THE STATE. Doctrines maintained by Leo XIII before he became Pope--The Union of Church and State--Absolute Obedience to the Church, 366 CHAPTER XXI. THE CHURCH SUPREME. The Church the Mistress of all Nations--Its Right to command Universal Obedience--The School Question--Mgr. Satolli, the Vice-Pope--His Theory as dictated by the Pope--Our Common Schools Heretical--Must be superseded by Parochial Schools, where Religion is taught, 388 CHAPTER XXII. JESUITICAL TEACHINGS. Doctrines of Thomas Aquinas--Also those of the Jesuits--_De jure_ and _de facto_ Governments--The United States the Latter, and may be resisted--Persistence in these Teachings, 407 CHAPTER XXIII. PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. The Decree of Infallibility--Its Passage by the Vatican Council--Its Definition and Meaning--Extends the Jurisdiction of the Pope--Gives him Authority over Politico-Religious Questions throughout the World, 427 CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHURCH AND LITERATURE. Papal Teachings by Means of Literature--Arraignment of American Institutions--Attack upon the Liberties of the People--Free Institutions are Heretical--Religion requires their Overthrow, 443 CHAPTER XXV. INTRIGUES AND INTERPRETATIONS. The Temporal Power Hurtful to the Church--Has led to its Disintegration--Maintained by Oppressions--Designed to check the Reformation--Infallibility Essential to it--Jesuit Influence in the Council of Trent--Perversions of Scripture--Infallibility not decreed by the Council of Trent, 463 CHAPTER XXVI. CONCLUSION. The Vatican Council--Effect of the Decree of Infallibility--The Bull _Unam Sanctam_ of Boniface VIII--Absolute Dominion over Peoples and Nations--Necessity of Guarding against it in the United States--Importance of Common Schools--The Duty of keeping them free from Jesuit Control, 479 Footprints of the Jesuits. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The American people have imbibed, from association, the spirit of their civil institutions, and are ready at all times to repel any direct assault upon them. They are, however, so actively engaged in their various pursuits, that multitudes of them fail to realize the necessity of inquiring whether the conflict between opposing principles of government which resulted in our national independence, has or has not ended--whether, in other words, the victory the founders of the Republic won over monarchism, is or is not final.