74 PERILS. — ROM AXISM. 



Again, none of our fundamental principles is more 

 distinctly American than that of the Complete Separa- 

 tion of Church and State, which is required in the First 

 Amendment to the Constitution, already quoted. Pius 

 IX. teaches the exact opposite. He says it is an error to 

 hold that, "The Church ought to be separated from the 

 State, and the State from the Church.'' i He also de- 

 clares it to be an error that, ' ' The Church has not the 

 power of availing herself of force, or any direct or in- 

 direct temporal power." ^ 



Another foundation stone of our free institutions is the 

 Public School, of which the state has and should have 

 the entire direction without any ecclesiastical interfer- 

 ence whatever. Touching this point, Pius IX. says it is 

 an error to hold that, " The entire direction of pubHc 

 schools .... may and must appertain to the civil 

 power, and belong to it so far that no other authority 

 whatsoever shall be recognized as having any right to 

 interfere in the discipline of the schools, the arrange- 

 ment of the studies .... or the choice and approval of 

 teachers. " ^ And again the same Pope : It is an error 

 that, *' The best theory of civil society requires that pop- 

 ular schools .... should be freed from all ecclesiastical 

 authority, government, and interference, and should be 

 fullj'- subject to the civil and political power, in conform- 

 ity with the will of rulers and the prevalent opinions of 

 the age." * Again he says : It is an error, that, " This sys- 

 tem of instructing youth, w^hich consists in separating it 

 from the Catholic faith and from the power of the 

 church .... may be approved by Catholics ." 5 Bishop 



1 Syllabus of Errors, December 8, 1864, Proposition No. 55., Allocution 

 Acerbissirnuni, September 27, 1852. 



^ Ibid. Proposition No. 24. Apostolic Letter, Ad apostolicce, August 22, 

 1851. 



3 Ibid. Proposition No. 45. Allocution, In Consistoriali, November 1, 1850. 



* Ibid. Proposition No. 47. Letter to the Archbishop of Fribourg, Qmwi 

 non sine, July 14, 1864. 



'^Ibid. Proposition No. 48. Letter to the Archbishop of Fribowr^, Quiini 

 non sine, July 14, 18G4. 



