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 the other  hand,  the  secular  authority  is,  for  the  most part, in  the  hands  of  men  full  of  inordinate  ambition without the  restraints  of  religion  or  conscience. She claims as  Christ  claimed:  "All  power  in  heaven  and on  earth,"  but  they  answer  her  as  they  answered Him: "  We  will  not  have  you  reign  over  us;  we  have no  king  but  Caesar." Hence a  conflict  disuniting  the heads of  Church  and  State  and  parting  the  ranks — down to  the  humblest  devotee  and  the  lowliest citizen. Hence, too,  that  question  which  is  agitating every Christian  people  to-day:  "  Can  I  be,  at  the same  time,  a  good  citizen  and  a  good  Catholic?  " The Church  shifts  the  responsibility  of  this  conflict  by answering  emphatically,  "  Yes." But how? " Give to  Caesar  the  things  that  are  Caesar's  and  to God  the  things  that  are  God's." Two locomotives running  together  on  parallel  lines  are  not less liable  to  collide  than  are  Church  and  State if this  rule  be  applied. " All  power  from  God,"  but each has  its  separate  dominion — the  Church  over man's spiritual  nature  and  the  temporalities  inseparably attached  thereto,  with  eternal  happiness  as  an object — the  State  over  man's  purely  temporal  nature and temporal  well-being. The State  is  as  Adam when God  created  him;  the  Church,  as  Adam  when He had  breathed  into  him  the  spirit  of  God. What man is  to  the  material  universe,  the  Church  is  to  the nations — their high-priestess,  ordering  them  all  to God. As the  soul  without  the  body,  the  Church  can exist without  the  nations,  but  not  they  without  her; so that  even  should  they  achieve  the  impossible  and