Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . ut the temporal powrer of the popes. It existed withoutit in the catacombs; it existed without it through all the ages of persecution. Popesmay die in exile or in prison, as they have died. Godless conspirators against the causeof truth may raise again the banners of hell over the altars of religion, as they havefrequently done in the past. They may slay the priest at the altar, scatter the wor-shipers and defile the sanctuary, and yet the spirit of religion will survive and thechurch will come fo
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . ut the temporal powrer of the popes. It existed withoutit in the catacombs; it existed without it through all the ages of persecution. Popesmay die in exile or in prison, as they have died. Godless conspirators against the causeof truth may raise again the banners of hell over the altars of religion, as they havefrequently done in the past. They may slay the priest at the altar, scatter the wor-shipers and defile the sanctuary, and yet the spirit of religion will survive and thechurch will come forth again triumphant, as it came forth from the catacombs. Freeor enslaved, in favor with princes or incurring their deadliest enmity, we have no appre-hension for the church; her cause is the cause of God and it will survive. So manytyrants rage against the cause of human liberty; but the spirit of liberty can not bedestroyed by tyrants. Assuredly it can not seriously be claimed that, because humanliberty can survive the assaults of tyranny, therefore it should continue to be subjectto HON. C. C BONNEY,CHICAGO JOHN QiBB iNS, F. RING, BOSTON. DR. AUGUST KAISER, DETROIT. MAURICE F. EGAN, , CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. COL. R. M. DOUGLAS, GREENBOSO. HENRY C. SEMPLE, MONTGOMERY. E. O. BROWN, CHIC GO. WORLDS COLUMBIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESSES. [49 Is it any more reasonable to hold that because the church will undoubtedly survivepersecution and the loss of its independence, therefore it ought to be subjected to per-secution and deprived of the small allotment of temporal dominion that constitutes theguarantee of its freedom and independence? Man is by nature entitled to be free; therefore is he entitled to free is entitled to freedom in his spiritual relations; therefore is the church, the organof his religion, entitled to such measures of temporal authority as will secure its inde-pendence and its freedom of action. More
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