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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