Father Muller states: "The great roots of all the evils that press
upon society, and make man unhappy, are THE IGNORANCE OF THE MIND,
AND THE DEPRAVITY OF THE WILL. Hence he who wishes to civilize the
world, and thus assist in executing the plans of God's providence,
must remove these two great roots of evil by imparting to the mind
infallibly the light of truth, and by laying down for the will
authoritatively the unchangeable principles of morality. If the
hierarchy of the Catholic Church has accomplished in society this
twofold task, then has it rendered itself worthy of the praises of
all men, and deserves to be called the greatest, the most
astonishing, the most divine fact in the history of the world -
then the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is truly the light of the
world, and the salt of the earth." And he continues elsewhere: "IF
it is the Popes, the bishops and priests who have drawn forth the
civilized nations of the world from barbarism, it is also the
Popes, the bishops and priests who keep them from falling back into
their former degradation. It is for this reason that our Divine
Saviour calls them also "the salt of the earth." Almighty God, Who
incessantly, vatches over the welfare of His Church, has, in every
century, provided chosen vessels holy Popes, bishops and priests -
to defend and uphold her holy doctrine. Against Arianism, God
raised up an Athanasius and a Hilary of Poirtiers; to oppose the
Nestorians, God sent St. Cyril. He sent St. Augustine to beat down
the Pelagians; St. John Damascene, to fight the Iconoclasts. When
the world became Christian, and Catholics grew rich, and forgot the
poverty of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Franciscan monks were called
to teach the love of Christian poverty to voluptuous Catholics."
Father Muller extols the powers of the Catholic priest: "Every
priest can say, in some measure, with Jesus Christ who sent him:
"All power is given to me in heaven and on earth." The influence of
this power is felt in heaven, in giving the elect; it is felt in
hell, in snatching from it victims; it is felt in purgatory, ill
consoling efficaciously the Church Suffering. The influence of the
priest's power is felt all over the world in sustaining the Church
Militant." Fathom this privilege of the priest: "GOD has given to
the priest the keys of heaven. He has given the priest power over
the faithful, over His mystic body; but He has given the priest
even a more extraordinary power, -a power so stupendous, so
unutterably great, that, had we not the grace of faith, we could
never believe it. He has given to the priest power over His own
Sacred Body, power over Himself "
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