Show TiE TOPE A > D BHVZIL I THE Pope has consented to r coguize the Republic of Brazil on conJiUon that the totter hal accord to Ills Hclincf s certain recognition In respect to legislation aflecUng the interests of Catholicism It may seem strange but I I nevertheless a fact that Catholicism has a better opportunity to make advancement under a republican than under a monarclnal form of government A monarch in bis sphere Is supreme and may if be so determines check the j regress of Catholicism in his domain to a greatet or less extent But In a republic a Catholic element ele-ment when once formed is able t txe t a certain BWay and to add constantly to its strength by the patient but efleeti ve processes s wejl known to that church Hence while republicanism and Catbolftlsm are antipodal to each lUier the fore I lavorable to Uie pread of the latter at least I In this age of the world Jor Jt continually holds out the prospect thit Uie Pop may in Ume become sufficiently strong to dictate The Catholic religion ligion being the dominating one In Ltnzll there exists a stronc probability pro-bability that in addlUon to the remarkable re-markable political phenomena I has already exhibited t the word it will soon afford tbc wi kn spectacle of an absolute power that of the Pop seizing a fro government modeled afkr that of the United htater and making I subservient to the interests inter-ests of the great Catholic church Mormonism has been accused of an ambition in the direction of absolute rule and of subverting the Interests of tho state to those of the church What Js thus falsely charged of Mormonlsm b I strictly and literally true of Catholicism Cathol-icism which has recently defined a pole antagonistic to the religion of the Latterday Saints I Is not surprising that the religion of Uie Pope should itself that array against that of the latterday BaiuU for in their essence the two systems are opp eltes The former utterly repudiates the doctrines that all just government govern-ment I based upon tho consent of the goerned and that society fcbould be rule on the principle of common consent while these tenets are vital to Uie latter When the word Bees the Pope of Rome recognize and encourage republicanism re-publicanism it witnesses an anomaly anom-aly but iu the present case of Br zil the anomaly admlU of an easy explanation which I sufficiently suggested by the exchange of recog diUon proposed by Ills Holiness Catholicism I seeking 1 become more and more extensively enc en-c tjn theXew World bbl the southern and northern portions of It and while I Is antagonized in pr of this vast field by an Increas ing spirit In favor of religious toe Uon ant pollUcal liberty IL1 en couragcd In other part by a decadence decad-ence of popular sentiment regard to the e vital features of j free government j |