Page:Church and State.djvu/31

23 Mgr. Bourget says in reference to the law as laid down by H. M. Privy Council:—

Finally, in his Pastoral Letter of 1st February last, (1876,) quoted in my former pamphlet, he caps the climax by declaring "each one of you can and ought to say in the interior of his soul, 'I hear my Curé; my Curé hears the Bishop; the Bishop hears the Pope, and the Pope hears our Lord Jesus Christ, who aids with his Holy Spirit to render them infallible on the teaching and government of His Church.

The foregoing quotations are merely selections from a mass of documentary evidence produced since 1870, which conclusively proves that the course adopted is not the caprice of one over-zealous prelate, but the deliberate policy of the whole Hierarchy; and it is to be observed that the entire body of proof thus furnished bears date subsequently to 1870, and the most aggressive portion within the last two years—all being long after Confederation, and much the greater