The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906Brodhead, J. Napier (Jane Napier)
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The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906
Brodhead, J. Napier (Jane Napier)
Catholic Church -- France; Church and state -- France
In conclusion, I hope it will be understood that I do not accuse many
honest Freemasons of England and the United States of being _particeps
criminis_ in all or any of the doings of the Grand Orient, Carbonari,
Mafia, Cimorra, Senuisi, or the secret societies of Islam or in China.
Freemasonry assumes different aspects in different circumstances, but it
is the eternal enemy of militant organized Christianity. It does not
trouble itself with Christianity “divided into many rivulets,” and
consequently harmless, according to the saying of Lord Shaftesbury, who
was of opinion that “England was the country in which Christianity did
the least harm because it was divided into so many rivulets.”
The Catholic Church alone is an enemy worthy of its steel, and wherever
these two foes meet there must be war--latent or overt.
This war is on in France, and must be fought to the finish.
PART SECOND
_October, 1904._
M. Combes, who proclaimed at the Chambers two years ago that he had
taken office only to wage war on Clericalism, enumerated his deeds of
prowess recently in a political speech at Auxerre. Fifteen thousand
scholar establishments, strongholds of the ghostly enemy, had been
demolished! “Gentlemen, you will grant that this is a great deal for a
ministry obliged to fight at every instant for its own existence,” he
exclaimed.
We are now coming to the second part of the Jacobin programme. As I
wrote last year in the _Evening Post_ (June 27th), the true object of
the Revolution in 1790, as to-day, is the destruction of Christianity
and its offspring, Liberty, in order to establish on the ruins of both,
the reign of the Omnipotent Infallible State, before which all must fall
down and worship or disappear. To-day the State is M. Combes and his
“bloc,” a very poor avatar of the Titanic Corsican who measured himself
with all Europe. There was but one force that resisted him, and against
this obstacle M. Combes stumbled when he demanded, peremptorily, that
the Vatican withdraw letters addressed to two bishops needing to be
disciplined. The Holy See was acting in the plenitude of its spiritual
jurisdiction. M. Combes curtly demanded that Pius X send in his
resignation, as “the political system of the Republic consists in the
subordination of all institutions, whatever they may be, to the
supremacy of the State.”
This is the latest phase of a very old struggle which began in the days
of the Apostles. In the history of all the nations of antiquity, the
problem of Church and State and their correlations existed, and was
solved, easily and summarily, by the system proclaimed by M. Combes. The
ruler of each nation was the Pontifex Maximus of his realm. This system,
with its necessary concomitant of national religions, reached its
culminating point in the worship of the “divine Cæsars,” the acme of
human servitude.
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