DR REDWOOD'S PASTORAL.

North Otago Times, Volume XX, Issue 965, 25 August 1874, Page 4

DR REDWOOD'S PASTORAL.

Should the following passages fail to strike terror into~the hearts of the brethren of the ." niyatio tie? - i^Arill at least amuse them* We dare say but | feflrtof them were previously aWare pf the, magnitude of the/ultimate .ainfls aiid $«*» ot the CTaft :.t-W^ Bel^.faysthe ■* Tablet," the following passages, from the long 'and able pastoral of ttie" Right' Rev. 1W Bedwdod,>th£ Bishop of Wellington. M This = hell-born ibfe k religion, .aHd Q*4eW aspiring? to universal sway, chiefly assails Europe;, the head, and heart of the .world. Its ult .- mate aim is the, annihilation of, Catholicity^nay, of the Christian idea— for ever, Its invisible' head is Satan j i(» • visible head is the Secret' Societies^ or — as the Pope calls the tn in his last >:^- i cyolical — the * Seots,' whether' masonib or, of any. other name. ,' They;: form ' His Holiness says — * the ,%nagpguerof: Satan, whiclx leads L,tropps >j] agains > t the Church, and gives her battle.' \tB plan of attack is to'destroy fir8ity,~the Temporal, secondly; theSpiritual power of the Pope, and thirdly; all Christianity!. Its means to that effect are any whatsoever provided Vthey 1 - are effective-!-' violence, fire* and sword, poison and the dagger, but chiefly — as being more applicable, far reaching and universal— they are the following; to deceiv^ Princes and Govermnents, and tliua'get the reins of power, as 'it now has them i in Italy, Spain, Germany, and' elsewhere; thence, to destroy the influence qf the Clergy by the systematic corruption of the masses, by godless education, fatsi* fied history, immoral literaiure, an'audacious; lying and" slanderous press, perverted arts' and sciences, and la'stly by the marshalling of all, rejigioussecti adverse -to -Rome, into brie" htrge'hosi against the common foe — the Romai Catholic Church." /, ,.,^r <f j