It would be acting in direct opposition to St Paul's injunction, it would be disturbing the peace of a large proportion of one's fellow-men, of all faithful children of the Catholic Church, were one, for instance, to side with those politicians who would depose bishops and suspend priests, sup press religious houses, confiscate their property, and devote churches to secular purposes.
5. There are, moreover, questions of a mixed character, which concern ecclesiastical and worldly affairs at the same time, as for instance education and the marriage relation. Both Church and State have an interest in these things; therefore they both ought to arrange them in harmony. Before all things, this saying applies: "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." It plainly belongs to the Church, and not to the State, to decide what "things are God's," since the Son of God Himself appointed the former to be His representative upon earth. Therefore a loyal Catholic ought never to sanction or lend a hand to the encroachments of the State in matters which the Church has decreed to be "God's."
6. A true Catholic and patriot will be interested in elections, especially when there is question of electing men to important offices in the executive and legislative branches of the government: he will determine his vote
