eous doctrines or ravings in defence of
liberty of conscience, is a most pestilential error--a pest, of
all others, most to be dreaded in a State."--_Encyclical Letter
of Pope Pius IX., Aug._ 15, 1852.

Now, let us hear their organs in our own country:

"Heresy and unbelief are crimes, and in Christian countries,
like Italy and Spain for instance, where all the people are
Catholics, and where the Christian religion is an essential
part of the law of the land, they are punished as other
crimes."--_R. C. Archbishop of St. Louis._

"For our own part, we take this opportunity of expressing our
hearty delight at the suppression of the Protestant chapel at
Rome. This may be thought intolerant, but when, we would ask,
_did we ever profess to be tolerant of Protestantism_, or favor
the doctrine that Protestantism _ought to be tolerated_? On
the contrary, we hate Protestantism--we detest it with our
whole heart and soul, and we pray that our aversion to it may
never decrease. We hold it meet that in the Eternal City no
worship repugnant to _God_ should be tolerated, and we are
sincerely glad that the enemies of truth are no longer allowed
to meet together in the capital of the Christian
world."--_Pittsburg Catholic Visitor_, 1848.

"No good government can exist without religion; and there can
be no religion without an _Inquisition_, which is wisely
designed for the promotion and protection of the true
faith."--_Boston Pilot._

"You ask, if he (the Pope) were lord in the land, and you were
in a minority, if not in numbers, yet in power, what would he
do to you? That, we say, would entirely depend on
circumstances. If it would _benefit the cause of Catholicism_,
he would tolerate you--if expedient, he would imprison
you--banish you--possibly, _hang you_--but be assured of one
thing, he would never tolerate you for the sake of the
_'glorious principles' of civil and religious
liberty._"--_Rambler._

"Protestantism of every form has not and never can have any
rights where Catholicity is triumphant."--_Brownson's Quarterly
Review._

"Let us dare to assert the truth in the face of the lying
world, and, instead of pleading for our Church at the bar of
the State, _summon the State itself to plead at the bar of the
Church, its div