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