The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""SUPREMACY OF THE POPES. 143But you will tell me: "Thesupremacy of thePope has baen disputed in many So has theages."authority of God been called in question nay, His;very existence has been denied ; for, the fool hathsaid in his heart, there is no God." 1 Does thisdenial destroy the existence and dominion of God ?Has not parental authority been impugned from thebeginning? But by whom? By unruly children.Was David no longer king, because Absalom saidso?It is thus also with the Popes. Their parentalsway has been opposed only by their undutiful sonswho grew impatient of the Gospel yoke. Photius,the leader of the Greek schism, was an obedient sonof the Pope until Nicholas refused to recognize hisusurped authority. Henry VIII. was a stout defender of the Pope s supremacy until Clement VII.refused to legalize his adultery. Luther professeda most abject submission to the tillPope Leo X.condemned him.You cannot, my dear reader, be a loyal citizenof the United States, while you deny the constitutional a ithority of the President. You have seenthat the Bishop of Home is appointed not by man,but by Jesus Christ, President of the Christiancommonwealth. You cannot, therefore, be a truecitizen of the Republic of the Church so long asyou spurn the legitimate supremacy of its divinelyconstitutedChief. "He that is not with Me, isagainst Me," says our Lord, and he that gathereth1 Ps. lii