The apple of discord; or, Temporal power in the Catholic church

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...A St. Alphonsus or a St. Francis Assisi would never touch intoxicating drink under such conditions; they would rather found an Order the members of which would take the vow of total abstinence along with their other vows, and devote all their energies to the extinction of this foul vice and canker root of Catholic failure and leakage."1) Not one of the southern cardinals sufficiently understands the need of temperance among northern races to realize that "strong drink is the great hindrance to the grace of God in the souls of the masses of the people in London,"2) or that drunkenness is a "canker root of Catholic failure and leakage" in America. Before the sacraments can be of much avail to a vast portion of the people in northern countries, it is necessary to remove alcoholic beverage as a proximate occasion of sin. But the southern mind rules the Church; and it rules with so much conscious superiority that too often it looks upon advice as unpardonable impertinence, if not as a positive lack of faith. Hence the necessity of having the northern mind represented in the government of the universal Church. The slow but steady influence of the temporal power of the popes has gradually trained northern Catholics to give the highest expression to the excellence of their 1) The Catholic Citizen, Dec. 15, 1900. 2) Cardinal Manning. faith by constructing monumental and Millions gorgeous church edifices, even where the For A Church is too poor to support her orphans. Cathedral « The new cathedral of London is the most significant and costly structure being built in England and perhaps in the world. Although its walls have risen to not more than two-thirds of their ultimate height, $10,000,000 has been spent on it already, and at least a...