A Retrospect of Fifty Years, Nide 1

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John Murphy Company, 1916 - 340 sivua

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Sivu 158 - Bishops were alarmed at what they considered the revolutionary tendencies of these associations, many other Bishops, including Cardinal Manning and myself, were equally alarmed at the prospect of the Church being presented before our age as the friend of the powerful rich and the enemy of the helpless poor; for not only would such an alliance or even apparent alliance, have done the Church untold harm, but it would have been the bouleversement of our whole history. Moreover, to us it seemed that...
Sivu 190 - The Almighty, therefore, has appointed the charge of the human race between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, the other over human things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each...
Sivu 220 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Sivu 213 - I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. And I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution and the establishment of their government, or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the; Roman Catholic faith is professed.
Sivu 220 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education 011 minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Sivu 33 - There is a time to speak as well as a time to be silent, and the best time of all for pleasant conversation is the time of meals.
Sivu 185 - Massachusetts, where a delegate said, he " shuddered at the idea that Romanists and pagans might be introduced into office, and that Popery and the Inquisition may be established in America.
Sivu 169 - To lose influence over the people would be to lose the future altogether; and it is by the heart, far more than by the understanding, that we must hold and guide this immense power, so mighty either for good or for evil. Among all the glorious titles of the Church which her history has merited for her, there is not one which at present gives her so great influence as that of Friend of the People.
Sivu 96 - Benedictio Dei omnipotentis, Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti descendat super vos et maneat semper vobiscum.
Sivu 169 - Until now our country presents a picture of altogether different [most consolingly different - tout different] character that of a popular power regulated by love of good order, by respect for religion, by obedience to the authority of the laws, not a democracy of license and violence, but that true democracy which aims at the general prosperity through the means of sound principles and good social order. In order to preserve so desirable a state of things it is absolutely necessary that religion...

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