Excerpt from Leo XIII and Modern Civilization Pius IX. Never attempted to supply this omission his Syllabus of Errors was published long before the Vatican Decrees, and besides, being merely in a negative form, it was not promulgated by him as a whole in the form of an encyclical. He was appar ently content to supply the material - like another David, leaving the construction of the temple to his successor, the Solomon of the Church. The noise less manner in which the latter has carried on his part of the work has concealed it from public atten tion - many would even deny that it had been begun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH AND THE STATE. According to recent statements of the press, large numbers of our citizens are enrolling themselves in an organization, the object of which is to exclude Roman Catholics from public offices. The fact that the Roman Catholic press is teeming with denunciations of the order, makes it very probable that the movement is a large and growing one. A recent article in the most conservative of Roman Catholic magazines urged its readers to leave one and join the other of the two great political parties, and Cardinal Gibbons, in an open letter (published in the Catholic Review for May 23, 1896), has threatened that all Roman Catholics will take this course, unless opposition to them, as such, ceases. This suggestion has already been followed by the institution of the Order of Catholic Americans, with the object of questioning all candidates as to their opinions concerning the right of Roman Catholics to hold public office.' According to the published statement of the leader of one of the great political parties in this State, the recent murder at the election in Troy was due to a feud which grew out of this antagonism. In many cities the municipal elections were conducted avowedly on these lines, especially where the choice of officials having charge of public education, was 8 involved; in some States, the nominations for State officers are made with reference to this issue, and a presidential candidate has been denounced on account of his alleged friendliness to Roman Catholics in politics. Has this Anti Roman Catholic movement any justification? Is it destined to spread and grow? Or, is it merely a revival of the old Know-nothing spirit, which will shortly disappear on account of its own folly? According...

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