CATHOLIC  SOCIALISTS.

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m  all  parts  ?  It  seems  as  though  a  new  evolution  were  being
prepared  under  our  eyes  throughout  the  entire  world,  namely,
the  alliance  of  Catholicism  and  Socialism  against  the  Liberal
bourgeoisie,  their  common  enemy.  As  long  as  the  clergy
retain  hopes  of  regaining  power,  they  will  stand  by  the
principle  of  authority;  but  if  they  are  forced  to  believe  them
selves  definitively  deprived  of  political  influence  and  menaced
m  their  privileges,  they  will  do  as  in  Germany,  ask  arms  of
Socialism.  What  a  strange  power  is  the  Church  !  In  its
origin  It  was  a  levelling  and  even  communistic  democracy,  and
now  It  presents  at  Rome  the  most  perfect  type  of  theocratic