(1928) Rome's Law or Ours, Which?

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Rome's LawOr OursWhich?

Ue..\A/By THOS. E. WATSON

Published and Copyrighted byTHE TOM WATSON BOOK CO., Inc.

Thomson, Georgia1928


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ROME'S LAW, OROURS-WHICH?A RE you willing to spend a few minutes

''^*- sizing up a terribly dangerous situation,and. getting your bearings, as an Americanciticcn?

There never was an oath required of aChristian minister, until hundreds of yearsafter Christ. When the bishops of Rome be-gan to usurp the powers of the pagan Pontifexmaximusin the absence of the Emperorswho had removed the capitol to Constanti-noplethe priests who supported the Bishop'susurpations were put under oath of allegianceto him. just as feudal vassals swore allegianceto feudal lords.

Professor Pulliam of Mercer Universitywas kind enough to translate for me theoriginal oath prescribed for all priests at theCouncil of Trent (1545-63) and I ask you tocarefully read it, in order that you may com-l)rehend how absolutely and unreservedly allpriests are the subjects of the Italian pope, andhow the oath places Catholic laymen on thefooting of subjects to the priest.

Thus, through obedience to the priests, theythemselves become subjects of a foreign po-tentate :


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PART OF "THE SACREDOTAL OATH."(Translation from "The Holy Council of Trent.")

I declare, in like manner, that in the Mass atrue, individual and propitiatory sacrifice is of-fered for the living and the dead, and that in theSacrament of the Holy Communion there is truly,really and substantially the body and the blood,together with the life and divinity of our Lord,Jesus Christ; and that there is a conversion of allof the substance of the bread into the body, andof all the substance of the wine into the blood,which conversion the Catholic church calls Tran-substantiation. I confess, likewise, that underanother form onlj' I have received Christ, thewhole and complete and the true Sacrament.

I firmly maintain that there is a Purgatpry, andtliat souls detained there are aided by tlie prayersof the faithful; and, likewise that the Saints, rul-ing together with Christ, should be worshippedand invoked, and that they offer prayers to Godfor us, and that their Remains are to be wor-shipped. I most firmly declare that Images ofChrist, as always of the Virgin Mother of God,and of the other Saints also, should be had andkept, and that adoration should be given them,and veneration bestowed upQU them. Likewise, Iaffirm that the right of indulgences was left byChrist in the Church, and that the use of themhas been most salutary to the Christian people.

I recognize the Holy Catholic and ApostolicRoman Church as the mother and mistress of all'the Churches; and I solemnly promise and sweartrue obedience to the Roman Pontiff, who is thesuccessor of the Blessed Peter, the chief of theApostles, and is the Vicegerent of Jesus_ Christ;likewise I accept and acknowledge unhesitatinglyall the other things recorded, decreed, and de-clared by the sacred Canons, and by the Ecu-menical Councils; and at the same timel in likemanner condemn, reject and anathematize what-ever heresies are condemned, rejected and ana-thematized by the Church.

Tliis true Catholic faith out of which no onecan be saved, which in the present vow I profess


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and truthfully uphold. I, in like manner, promiseand vow and swear to keep and own (God help-ing) entire and inviolate up to the last breath oflife; and that I shall see to it, so far as it shallbe in my power, that it is held, taught and pro-claimed by my subjects, or l>y those whose careshall appertain to me in my official service. Sohelp me God, and this holy Evangel of God.

(Sacred Council of Trent. Padua, 1760, 800.,p. 312. By permission and prerogative of theSuperiors.)On page 119, Book II. of Bishop Burnett's"History of the Reformation of the Churchof England," you will find this statement:On the 11th of May, 1532, King Henry

VIII. "sent for the Speaker of the House ofCommons, and told him that he found oninquiry that all the '(Roman) prelates whomhe had looked on as wholly his subjects, werebut half-subjects: for at their consecrationthey sw^ore an oath quite contrary to the oaththey swore to the Crown; so that it seemedthey were the Pope's subjects, rather thanhis."The King wanted the Speaker to bring the

matter to the attention of Parliament, in orderthat some action should be taken against thisdivided allegiance.

Bishop Burnett proceeds"Upon which the two oaths that the clergy

swore to the King and the Pope were read inthe House of Commons."The oath of allegiance to the King was asfollows

I, A. B. do utterly testify and declare in myConscience, that the King's Highness is the onlySupreme Governor of this Realm, and of allother his Highness's Dominions and Countries,Southern Pamphletii 4Lare Book Collection


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as well in all spiritual and Ecclesiastical Thinpfsand Causes as Temporal ; and that no ForeignPrince, Person, Prelate, State, or Potentate hathor ouglit to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Su-]>criority, preeminence of Authority Ecclesiasticalor Si>iritual within this Realm; And therefore I do'utterly renounce and forsake all Foreign Juris-diction, Powers, S'uperiorities, and Authorities,and do promise that from henceforth I shall hearh'aith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness,his Heirs and "Lawful Successors; and to my Powershall Assist and Defend all Jurisdictions, Privi-leges, Preeminences and Authorities, Granted orhelongiug to the King's Highness, his Heirs andSuccessors, or united and annexed to the ImperialCrown of this Realm. So help me God, and hytlie Contents of this Book.

The oath which all Catholic prelates took,for flic Pope, contains the most sweeping sub-mission to his authority, the obligation to main-tain him in all his claims of power, and thevow to ol)ey all Rules, Decrees, Ordinances,Sentences, Dispositions, Reservations and Pro-visions issuing from Rome. Then followthese words

"Heretics, schismatics, and Rebels to ourHoly Father and his Successors, I shall resistand persecute"

In a marginal note. Bishop Burnett statesthat the actual words in the Latin oath are,"Prosequar in pugnaho."

(The word pugnabo implies physical force,violence, battle. Our words pugnacious, pug-nacity, and piinitiz'c belong to the same class.)

In consequence of King Henry's discoveryof the divided allegiance of Roman Catholics,he caused Parliament to enact severe laws.


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which required Englishmen to swear that theKing of England was Supreme within therealm.

Catholics had to make oath that the\- owedno allegiance, temporal or spiritual, to anyforeign prince, power or potentate.

(The State of New York copied that law,and used to enforce it upon Roman Catholicimmigrants, before our War Between theStates.)Many English Catholics refused to take the

oath of "Supremacy"as it was calledandthey were put to death as traitors.

Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor, who hadbarbarously burnt fellow-Christians for de-nying that priests could create God out of wineand bread, was himself beheaded because herefused to take the oath of undivided allegianceto King Henry.To meet another clause of the treasonous

oath of the priests, it was made a capital of-fense to introduce into England any papalorder, decree, excommunication, or other pro-vision, without the consent of the King.Had Gibbons, O'Connell, and Farley lived

in Great Britain, a few generations ago, theywould ha^'e been put to death, for treason, onaccount of the infamous A'^^ teinere decreewhich they brought into this countr}' in 1908.Had they gone to Rome, taken that treason-

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;ind returned to England. Queen Elizabeth,or Kini,'' Edward VI. would have had tlieirheads cut off.

Lord Baltimore sneaked out of Englandunder King James I., rather than take theoath of undivided allegiance, and the Catholicswhom he settled in Maryland did the samething.

They were not willing to swear, that thePope had no right to overthrow Protestantgovernments, subvert Protestant laws, andpersecute to death such heretics as you and I.

Right now. if a real oath of allegiance wereoffered to either of these three Irish Cardinals,or to Archbishop Blenk. or to Bishop Keiley,he would refuse to take it.

He couldn't take it, without perjuring him-self, although he might do so with "a mentalreservation."The Pope's is the only church that is foreign

the only church whose laws antagonize de-mocracy aiid republican institutions ; the onlychurch that sends and receives ambassadorsthe only church that has a secret cipher, asecret service and a world-wide network ofsecret societies ; the only church whose theo-logy teaches murder, and whose literature isso obscene that she savagely prosecutes ex-

monas, ex-nuns, ex-priests, and Protestantswho expose it.The Pope's is the only church which or-

ganizes for political purposes, and calls upon


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ceeded in throwing it off six or eight years

But our daily papers and many Protestantpreachers are mysteriously convinced, thatthe Roman system is not the same that it wasin Italy, in 1848: in Portugal, in 1908; in thePhilippines, in 1898; in Mexico, in 1895.

In iNIexico, the Catholic priests were burningheretics in 1895 ; in Rome, they were starvingand assassinating them, in 1848; in Portugal,the nuns and their l)ahies left the conventstogether, in 1908 ; and in the Philippines, theTaft Commission uncovered a situation ashideous as the darkest days of medievalism.

But if can't conic to us, they say!CAN'T IT?In the very Convention that heard so much

loyalty to American institutions the professionswere belied by the speakers themselves.

Thcx demand control of our national policytoward Mexico.They crave another 400 years of peonage,

of unrestricted vice, of unrelieved ignorance,and of profligate living for immoral priests.

They demand tJiat the Pope's lazv of Di-vorce drive ours off the Statute book.They crave complete ownership of the wife

and child, in order that American mothers mayl)e abject slaves, as European women used tobe, when Popes were supreme.

Tlicy denuind that the U . S. mails be closed


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to all sucJi Protestant literature as dares to tellthe truth on Rome's infernal foreign system.

Popery never was accepted by any nation.It has always been an organization of bruteforce.

Christianity had won Italy, long before thesons of Constantine, and Theodosius forcedPopery upon the churches.

Charlemagne forced popery upon the Sax-ons, just as Henry II. of England forced itupon the independent Christians in Ireland.

Without exception, every nation that yieldedto the yoke of Rome, was made to do it, bythe ruthless employment of military force.

In England. France, Belgium. Spain, Por-tugal, Mexico, Central America, South Ameri-ca, Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Italy, thestory has ever been the same.No nation voluntarily accepted Popery ; and

wherever the Papacy has conquered, it was atale of blood, of carnage, of pitiless crime.

The very laiv of popery makes it a criminal,against God and man.The very law of the Roman church makes

it a church of persecution, of oppression, ofMURDER!Its very law is against Light, Progress,

mental integrity, and independent Thought.Its very purpose is to enslave, to domi-

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minds of men, women and children, from thecradle to the grave; and to dupe, mistreat,and plunder them, at every stage of the jour-ney.

It is a marvelous circumstance, that edi-tors and preachers will take the irresponsibleword of American priests, when everybodycan read the law itself, as laid down by thePopes, and codified by Vatican officials.

Tliat foreign code is horrible, and it meanswar li'ifh ours.

Gladstone warned England ; and now Eng-land sees how popish treason hampers her inCanada and Ireland.

Gaml)etta warned France ; and France heed-ed the warning, thereby securing a unity whichEngland lacks in the crisis of her fate.

Bismarck warned the Germans, and he drovethe Jesuits out; but William II. let them re-turn, and they have been conspiring for ageneral war, ever since.

Is there no need of a warning to our people ?In the New York Convention, these Jesuits

actually declared, that our Government shoulduse its influence to hav^ the Pope created arbi-ter of tlic Peace Conference ivhen the ivar isover.Why not have the Methodist church repre-

sented ?Why not demand that the Baptists have a

representative ?W'hy not place in the Peace Conference for

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The Turks saved Austria and Germanywhy not demand representation for the Sheikul Islam ?

Mahomet was much nearer Christianitythan most of the Popes have been.The present pope is a Jesuit, and no

Christian could possibly subscribe to the Jes-uit oatJi.

The Jesuits had a famous law case in France,growing out of Jesuit mercantile transactionson the Island of Martinque, West Indies.These Jesuits were so powerful, that they

believed themselves above the law, and theyl)ecame piratical with their ships. Their re-fusal to pay an honest debt to the LioncyBrothers and Gouffre forced the Marseillesmerchants into bankruptcy ; but litigation en-sued, and the High Court at Paris forced theJesuit Society to produce secret books.

"Father" Lavalette was the name of thedefendant, and the consecjuence of his exposurewas that this criminal secret socictv was ex-pelled.The bloody clause in its oath is that which

swears them to extirpate heretics and here-sies.

The oath also contains the orthodox Catho-lic dogma, that the Pope has the power todepose non-catholic rulers, and to destroy non-Catholic governments.

According to the affidavit of the Rev. P.A. Seguin. and the editorial sta!tement of

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liishop Manuel Ferrando, the oath of the priestis fully as treasonous and miu'derous as thatof the Jesuits.

There is no doubt whatever that the 4thDegree Knights of Columbus and the AncientOrder of Hibernians take a similar oath.

In Ireland, it has been proved in Court onthe Hibernians, time and again; and FatherMcDermott accuses them of the Molly]\IcGuire murders in Pennsylvania.Now reflect what all this tends to, inevita-

bly:

Three Irish cardinals sworn to persecutetheir fellow citizens ;Bishops and Arch-bishops sworn to thesame thing;

' Twenty thousand priests sworn to perse-cute ;^ and Jesuits flocking here from all partsof the world, sworn to extirpate non-Catho-lics.Are the oaths meaningless ?If so, why do they sign them?Those oaths led to civil war in Ireland,

England, and Scotland.Those oaths drenched Italy in blood, blasted

Protestantism in Bohemia, and cursed Ger-man}- with a Thirty Years' War.Those oaths brought a French army upon

IMexico in 1864, and caused the Armageddonnow raging.The Pope is a Jesuitand the private secre-

tary of President Wilson is not only a lay-Jesuit, but a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus.

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Thethree Irish cardinals are Jesuits, swornto persecute Olid TO EXTIRPATE, if theytook the usual Jesuit oath.

Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus holdthe most powerful governmental appointments.

Systematically, they are driving non-Catho-lics out of the pul)lic service.The head of the Army on the Mexican

border is O'Ryan, an Irish Catholic, and I pre-sume a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus.

Knights of Columbus in Congress are striv-ing to close the mails to anti-Catholic literature.In the New York Convention, orders were

issued for all Catholic young men to form rifleclubs, of their own.None l)ut Catholics can join these rifle clubs

and as the K. of C. and the German CentralVerein are already armed and drilled, the Popewill have three standing armies in this Repub-lic read}^ to obey the three Irish cardinals whoare the sworn enemies of their non-Catholicfellow citizens, and the sworn subjects of aforeign chureli 7vhose Imv calls for hereticBLOOD.

Separate Popish colonies aloof from Ameri-cans : separate schools where un-Americanprinciples are taught: separate secret societieswhich lione but Catholics can join: separaterifle clubs whose guns are for Catholics onlya separate code of laws, irreconcileable to oursto what does all this tend, if not to Civil War?

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The En_i;lish historian, Fronde, says, in his"Short StncHes of (ireat Snhjects":

In countries governed by authority, intelligencerules. In free countries, numbers rule. Thesupremacy of the Church is incompatible with anykind of libertyliberty of conscience or of reason,lilicrty for man to expand in any direction save\vli;it tlie church marks out for him.

OI)viously and confessedly, it is enemy of every-thing which we now call civilization and improve-ment. Yet it is an enemy against which self-governed peoples, who are most proud of theirsupposed advancement, contend at greatest disad-vantages. Power follows the majority of votes.The Church marshals its forces in an unbrokenphalanx. The theory of a free government sup-poses every citizen to be influenced by patriotism,to exert his own intelligence, to take a personaland individual share in the business of the State.The Roman Catholics have no country but theirchurch. They are allowed no independence. Theyare private soldiers in an army whicli is command-ed by the priests, and united and organized actionis as superior at the polling-booth as an army issuperior to a mob in the field. They claim theirright to the free assertion of their opinions in thename of republican principles, and it cannot be de-nied them. But no such republican liberty ispermitted within their own lines. They obey theircommanders, and their commanders care nothing-for tile nation in the management of which theyarc challenging a share. They are members of aspiritual empire which aims only at submittingall other powers under the feet. They are Catho-lics first, and Americans or English afterwards.Yet as English or American citizens, they possessthe privileges of freemen, and the wire-pullersat ]iolitical elections, whose horizon is boundedI)y the result of some immediate struggle, knowtoo well the value of such allies to be unwillingto liid high for their support. Thus it is that inthe English Parliament, though England does notherself return a single Catholic representative,the Catholics, through the Irish members, often

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hold the balance of power, and governments existbut by their sufiferance.

(Short Studies, Etc. page 106.)Rome's criminal secret societies.

What will he the natural fruits of thoseRomanist secret societies, anned, drilled, andsworn to murder ?If the oaths mean nothing, why are theyprescribed, and why do Catholics swear to

obey them?In the l)ook whose title is "Pope, or Presi-

dent" I find the following, which is in sub-stance the same as the oath of the Jusuits. theSinn Fein, the Ancient Order Hibernians, the4th Degree Knights of Columbus, and theClan-na-Gael : the oath given below beingthat of the Italian papal secret order, called theSan Fidesti, organized under Pope Pius IX

"I, N. N., in presence of Almighty God, theFatlier, Son and Holy Ghost, of the ever im-maculate Virgin Mary, and of all the celestialcourt, etc.; of 3'ou, honored father, swear,' thatI will sooner cut off my right hand, and die ofhunger, or under the greatest torments; and Ipray the Lord God Almighty to condemn me tothe endless pains of hell, than to betraj' or deceiveone of the honored fathers and brethren of theCatholic Apostolical Society to which I subscribedat this time, or if I do not scrupulously fulfill itslaws, or give assistance to my brethren in want.I swear to defend myself in the cause which Ihave embraced, never to spare a single individualbelonging to the infamous combination of tlieLilicrals, whatever may be his birth, parentage,or fortune, and to have no pity for the cries ofchildren, nor of old men or women, and to shedthe blood of the infamous Liberals, even to thelast drop, without regard to age, sex, or rank.Finally, I swear implacable hatred to all the ene-mies of our Holy Roman Catholic religion, oneand true."


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