. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. forcement of justice in our own political system,is therefore a direct fruit of the influence exercised over rulersand potentates for the good of humanity by the Catholic confes-sional. First established by the kings confessor (actually keeperof his conscience, as the Lord Chancellor nominally is today),equity continued to be administered by Catholic prelates untila long line of decisions extending over centuries had developeda series of maxims and precedents which made its enforcementa mere matter of applying fixed rules to particular controv
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. forcement of justice in our own political system,is therefore a direct fruit of the influence exercised over rulersand potentates for the good of humanity by the Catholic confes-sional. First established by the kings confessor (actually keeperof his conscience, as the Lord Chancellor nominally is today),equity continued to be administered by Catholic prelates untila long line of decisions extending over centuries had developeda series of maxims and precedents which made its enforcementa mere matter of applying fixed rules to particular its administration passed from the hands of ecclesiasticswho had invented it to the hands of lawyers who have since en-forced and amplified it. And so we see even this feature of ourown judicial system, which has proved the strongest bulwark ofjustice and the safest rampart of order, is a result of repeatedinterference by the Church with the laws of the state. Perhapsit may move these reverend gentlemen to fresh ebullitions of ap- 342.
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