Jeremiah J. Crowley
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 212
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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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. ROME EVER AND EVERYWHERE THE SAME. Cardinal Martinelli in 1902, at the Apostolic Delegation Office, Washington, D. C, made a most interesting statement to me. I said to him, "Your Eminence, if the Catholics in this country numbered about seventy million and if the Protestants numbered about ten million, what would you do to the Protestants?" His reply was this, "Oh, Christ, I'd crush 'em!" "To crush 'em" is the spirit and design of Romanism in all its attitudes toward "heretics." No wonder Rome boasts that she is ever and everywhere the same. Her real attitude toward non-Catholics is the same to-day everywhere as it was in the days of the Inquisition, and yet some people say "the Roman Catholic Church is not as it was fifty years ago--it is more liberal." Is it? Few have any idea of the crafty efforts which Catholic ecclesiastics make to hoodwink non-Catholics. Priests, bishops and cardinals cultivate a spirit of seeming liberality on purpose to win the esteem of the very people whom they hate, so that these people will be made unwilling to countenance any opposition to the movements of Romanism. The greatest victory which has been won by the Roman Hierarchy in the British Empire and in the United States lies in the fact that it has succeeded in making it unpopular for any one to impugn its utterances or policies. "What is the smooth game in all this that is going on between the Vatican and England? Simply this: England is the stronghold of obstinate heresy-- the citadel of Protestantism. Therefore the Church ARCHBISHOP IRELAND--A PAPAL POLITICIAN. Archbishop Ireland, the "Protestant archbishop," the Machiavelli of American politics, and defender of the ungodly "Ne Temere" decree, is still sighing and sedulously qualifying...