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Catholic Beliefs In 1952 Same As In 400
1ALLAS NEWS REVIEWS BOOK ON THE LIFE OF
iT. AUGUSTINE, GREAT LEADER, WHO WROTE
ABOUT ROME, EUCHARIST, CONFESSION, ETC.
NEGRO AMERICANS PREPARE FOR PRIESTHOOD
Dallas — A review of Louis
de Wohl's novel, "The Restless
Flame," based on the life of St.
Augustine, a great leader of the
Catholic Church, has appeared
in THE DALLAS NEWS (12-9-
51). The review by William
Payne declares that "there is no
more dramatic story in the his-
tory of the Christian Church than
that of Augustine, an unregener-
ate, almost pagan, youth who be-
came the founder of theologv,
one of the truly great doctors of
the church."
St. Augustine, the reviewer
notes, was baptized by "the great
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan," in
the year 387; The use of the
word "Catholic" in referring to
the saint is not used in the ac-
count.
It was St. Augustine, the bril-
liant doctor of the Catholic
Church, who used the term 240
times in his writings in refer-
ence to the Church of Christ.
Concerning the Catholic Church
of which he was a member, St.
Augustine wrote: "The Church is
called Catholic toy all her ene-
mies, as well as by her own chil-
dren. Heretics and/ schismatics
can call the Church by no other
name than Catholic, lor they
would not Ibe understood unless
they used the name by which
the Church is known to the
whole world. Although heretics
would fain have themselves call-
ed Catholics, yet to the inquiry
of the stranger, 'Where is the
assembly of the Catholic Church
held!?,' no heretic would dare
point out his own basilica or
house."
Writing to the Christians of
his time, Augustine exhorted
them "not to listen to those who
deny that the Church has. the
power to forgive all sins." (De
Agon Christi, 3). In this passage
the saint compares the sinful
conscience to an abscess filled
with puss. The priest he calls a
surgeon and Confession the
means whereby the surgeon lan-
ces the abscess, lie., the means
whereby the priest cuts sin from
the soul. Augustine Warned his
readers not to delay their Confes-
sions until the hour of death for
fear that they might not be able
to confess their sins then." II Ps.
66, 5; Ser. 393).
Augustine likewise believed
The Masons Werel^^ GITES NEED Of
On the Alert I ™ WORKING FOR
in the Catholic doctrine con
cerning the Holy Eucharist. He
taught that Christ was really
pretient in the consecrated bread
of the altar. Wrote the saint:
"The bread which you see on
the altar, after being sanctified
by the word of God, IS THE
BODY of Christ. The chalice, or
rather that which the chalice
contains, after being sanctified
by the word| of God, is THE
|BLOOD OF CHRIST."
In his Epistle LI1I, to Genero-
sus, Volume XXXV11I, page
481-482, St. Augustine records the
list of the first 39 Popes, begin-
ning with Peter, thus document-
ing the Papacy as a reality. Be-
ing so much closer to the time
of its institution, he is recogniz-
ed as a greater authority on that
subject than any student today.
It was Augustine who coined the
expression, "Roma locuta est,
causa finita est," i. e., "Rome
has spoken, the cause is finish-
ed."
In the field of morals Augus-
tine expressed! 1952 Catholic doc-, m.
trine on the evils of unnatural' group of young Negro Americans shown aoove are siucymg at St. Augusune-s Seminary,
birth control: "Relations with'Bay 8t" Louts- M,8S- to prepare themselves tor the Priesthood of the Catholic Church. June 24 two
one's wife when concention )H Negro men> the 27th and 28th to be ordained from St. Augustine's, joined the ranks of the Negro
deliberately prevented ar« as un!°'ergy- Ph0t0> COUrte8y' ST' AUGUSTINE'S MESSENGER. Bay St. Louis, Miss.
lawful and Impure as the con-
duct Of Onan who was slain."
The efficacy of praying for
the dead is mentioned in Augus
tine's writings. He quotes his
dying mother, St. Monica, aB fol-
lows: "Lay this body anywhere;
let not the care of it in any way
disturb you. Only this I ask of
you that you remember me at
the altar of the Lord, wherever
you are." (Conf. 9, 27).
Augustine was ordained a
Catholic priest in the year 391
and 5 years later in 396 was con-
secrated bishop of Hippo, Africa.
He died in 4 3 0 after 34 years
service as a Catholic Bishop.
His feast is celebrated on Aug
28.
The greatness of Augustine if
acknowledged by both Catholic:
and Protestants. His quotation!
are frequently seen In print. ■/
favorite one, quoted a few
months back in the columns o
THE BAPTIST STANDARD, I;
as follows: "Thou hast made ui
for Thyself, O Lord, and ou
heart is restless until it rests ii
Thee."
In one city after hte attack on
the Catholic Church Paul (Blan-
shard was asked by a minister
who believes in Christ: "Do you
believe in Jesus Christ?"
The man who haft done nothing
to help Protestantism while he
attacks the faith of the Catholics
refused to answer that question.
In one city group of Masona
after hearing Paul Blanshard tear
the Catholic Church apart were
so appalled at his hymn of hate
that they Invited a Catholic to
address them on the teachings of
the Church.
Would that the editors of all
journals who give Tent to pre-
judice would consults Catholic so
as to prevent some of the non-
sense which flows' like poison into
the minds of the ignorant. The ex-
ample of these Masons Is to be
commended.
It's Unfair to
Blame The Pope
—BI8HOP LEECH—
iWhy blame the Pope? He
lldn't do it. He didn't even initi-
ate it.
If any American citizen does
not like the idea and doesn't
hink it would be for the 'best
interests of our country, I say
ell the President, or tell the
Senate, Or tell both. It's the
'resident's idea, and presumably
ie's got the answers^
But why condemn us Gatho-
ics for something we have noth-
ag at all to do with, whether we
ie bishops or priests or laymen?
You know, to hear Mr. Blan-
hard talk, you would think
hat we American bishops, at the
searching for ways and means to ||(V)CPVPlt Slfllfk
get an ambassador from the Uni- *wUdCfCIl UlIUvA
ted States to Pope Pius XII.
If we bishops were ever in-
terested in that step, there is
one place where we might be ex-
pected to discuss it, and that is
in the meeting where we all as-
semble, for three days, every No-
vember in Washington.
Now, as a bishop, I've been at-
tending those meetings for 16
years, and never once, even for
a moment, has such a question
ever been mentioned.
From 40,000,000 to 60,000,000
crime comic books are printed
each month to poison the minds of
the children whose parents don't
care what they read. Dr. {Fred-
erick Wertham, a New York psy-
chiatrist, says: "The crime comic
book (industry is one of the .most
ommand o four Holy ' Father,' subversive groups in our country
ave been sitting up nights, today."
At Narrow People
Rebuking an Ohio Protestant
who opposed the election of Wil-
liam Taft for President on
grounds that either he or his
wife was a Catholic (neither
were), the late President Theo-
dore Roosevelt attacked voting
against a man on account of his
religion in these words:
"I know Catholics who have
for many years represented con-
stituencies mainly Protestant,
and Protestants who have for
many years represented constitu-
encies mainly Catholic; and a-
mong the congressmen I know
particularly well was one man
of Jewish faith who represented
a district in which there were
hardly any Jews at all. All of
these men by their very exist
ence in political life refute the
slander you have uttered against
JAP PAGAN PUZZLED
OVER ENVOY BATTLE
Tokyo — A Japanese official
noticing a religious medal on a
newsman, has asked the question
"What's the matter with the Am-
erican people?"
The Jap pagan said: "Think
of any of them fighting against
diplomatic relations with Pope
Plus XII. He is the greatest in
fluence for good in the world
and they should respect their
own religious freedom by not
besmirching it with bigotry —
for nothing else could prompt
such an exhibition of bad taste
and lack of real interest in the
diplomatic affairs of their coun-
try"
your fellow Americans."
President Roosevelt likewise
rebuked secret societies for
spreading hate against Catholics
and their loyaltv in these words:
"When a secret society triea to
prescribe Catholics, both polltl
cally and socially, the members
of such society show that they
themselves are as utterly un-
American, as alien to our school
of political thought, as the worst
immigrants who landl on our
shores."
DECENT FAMILY HOME
Rome — In an address to a
group of French parents His
Holiness, Pope Pius XII, has
called attention to the grave
i-juty of the Stato to work for a
social order In which there will
be suitable dwellings tor the
Christian family, "not only for
that with one, or two or no chil-
dren, but also for the normal,
more numerous family."
The Pope said in part:
"The state, therefore, by vir-
tue of the instinct for self-pre-
servation, must carry out that
which according to the plan
conceived by God, the Creator
and the Saviour, is its prime
duty. That is to say, the State
must guarantee absolutely those
values which ensure ord|er, hu-
man dignity, health and happi-
ness to the family. It is never
permissible to sacrifice these val-
ues — the elements of which the
common good Is composed — to
that which might appear to be
for the good of the community.
iBy way of illustrating these val-
ues, We call attention merely to
some of them which at the pres-
ent time are in the greatest per-
il: the Indissolubility of marri-
age; the protection of life before
birth; suitable dwellings for the
family, not only for that with
one, or two or no children, but
also for the normal, more num-
erous family; work, for unem-
ployment of the father to the
family's most bitter distress;
the rights of parents over their
children vin-a-vis the state; full
freedom for parents to educate
their children in the true faith
arid, consequently, the right of
Catholic parents to a Catholle
school; conditions of public life,
especially public morality of a
kind wherein families and parti-
cularly young people are not un-
der the moral certainty of ha*
lng to undergo its corruption."
Protestant Advice
<-•> New York — New York'* Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, noted
Baptist preacher, 25 years ago
urged Protestants to bare their
soula in the confessional rather
than In the office' of psychoana-
lysts.
Bishops Of Rome Demanded Freedom For Jews, Others
POPES SET STAND IN
FAVOR OF LIBERTIES
The Popes of the Catholic
Church have set an official Cath-
olic Church policy that absolute
religious liberty and freedom of
worship is to be respected at all
times.
In line with this official pol-
icy Pope Gregory I, who was
Bishop of Rjome from >590 to 604,
compelled the Bishop of Terra-
clna, who had violated this pol-
icy, to restore to the Jews the
synagogue which he had seized.
The Pope declared that these
people, like any other non-Catho-
lics, were not to be coerced into
the Church, but should be treat-
ed with meekness and charity.
The same great Pontlfif issued
the same orders to the prelates
] of Sardinia and Sicily in behalf
of the persecuted Jews.
, Pope Nicholas I, Pope from
I 858 to 867, showed that the pol-
icy of over 200 years earlier had
not been changed. This Pope
warned Michael, king of the Bul-
garians, against employing force
or constraint In the conversion
of Idolaters.
Pope Innocent III, who was
head of the Catholic Church from
1198 to 1216, reiterated Catholic
Church official pollcv In favor of
(freedom of worship by promul-
gating a degree in behalf of the
Hebrews: "Let no Jew be con-
strained to receive Baptism, and
he that will not consent to be
baptized, let him not be molest-
ed. Let no one unjustly seize
their property, disturb their
feasts, or lay waste their ceme
terles."
Gregory IX, Pope from 1227
to 1241 ,and Innocent IV, Pope
from 1241 to 1254, Issued similar
admonitions, reminding Catholics
that official Church policy does
not look with favor on the denial
of religious liberty * wherever or
by whom carried on.
The documentation of the &d
dresses, letters and instructions
of the 261 men who have served
as Pope on the subject of Catho-
lic Church backing of full religl
ous freedom would cover many
volumes.
COMMENT: The Catholic
Church has had more than its
share perhaps or members, es'
peclally certain overzealous kings
and queens, w|ho didn't live up
very well to this official Catho-
lic Church policy. But no fair-
minded person will blame the
Church for those isolated inci-
dents in history of Catholic per-
secution of Protestants whloh
flowed from the stubborn, prlde-
ful and fanatical refusal of some
Catholics who were trying to be
more Catholic than the Church
to abide by official Catholic
Church policy. The record of the
LUTHER'S DISLIKE FOR PURGATORY IS SEEN
AS REAON FOR DIFFERENCE IN THE BIBLES
Marshall — The probable
reason Father Martin Luther re-
jected the inspiration of the ver-
sion upon which St. Jerome had
basedj the Old Testament (Bible
as used in the Church for 1200
years was his dislike for Purga-
tory, Father Ambrose Kavanagh
told a Knights of Columbus
meeting here July 8th. Doctrinal
Proof for prayers for the dead
as found in the Old Testament,
Father Kavanagh pointed out.
happened to be in the Book of
Machabees, one of the books of
the Oldi Testament rejected by
the early Protestants.
The Marshall priest, speaking
at a lecture series on Christian
fundamentals, commented on the
historic rejection which the Pro-
testants made of the canon of
the Old Testament as recognized
for over a thousand years previ-
ously, a canon from which 300
of the 350 Old Testament quotes
Popes In the cause of religious
liberty is a glorious one.
O
FOUNDER OF BAPTIST
CHURCH, CE CLERIC,
WAS NEVER IMMERSEB
Rev. John —Smyth, Anglican
clergyman who founded the Bap-
tist Church, did not believe Bap-
tism by immersion was neces-
sary and was not himself im-
mersed. The Englishman, who in
1602 fle<| his native land for
Holland, was Influenced there by
the Anabaptists, a sect that re-
jected infant Baptism and de-
manded rebaptlsm of all adults
baptized as infants.
Rev. Smyth also rejected in
fant |Baptlsm, and doubting his
own Episcopalian Baptism as an
infant, he refcaptized himself In
1609 by pouring water over his
in the New were taken.
Undoubtedly one of the mo-
tives which brought about the
decision of the reformers to de-
lete these books from the Bible,
Father Kavanagh declared, was
the intense opposition to pray-
ing for the dead.
COMMENT: Naturally the
Protestant King James Bible is
not an entirely new and differ-
ent Bible. It is but an unauthor-
ized version of the original Cath<
ollc Bible. It was published in
1611 and, of course, was based
on the Catholic Bible which had
been assembled under one cover
as early as the late 300's. It re-
tained the Catholic New Testa-
ment, deleted 7 whole books and
parts of 2 others of the old. This
latter change came about when
Protestant leaders decided that
the Christians for the past 1200
years had made a mistake about
their (Bible, about basing it on
an approved Jewish translation
In Greek of the Old Testament
from which Christ and the Apos-
tles h d been pleased to quote.
own head. He at no time believ-
ed immersion to be necessary
and accordingly was never im-
mersed, i. e. ducked under water.
Three years later in 1612 he
died just 78 years after King
Henry VIII had 4 established the
Church of England of which he,
the founder of the Baptist
Church, had been an ordjalned
minister.
Thus it happened that both
the Baptist and Methodist
Churches were founded by Epls
copal ministers, the Baptist in
the early 1600's and the Metho
dist in-1739.
Baptism by Immersion was
first prescribed in 1644, more
than 30 years after the move-
ment had begun. Prior to that
time, though the sect rejected
all infant Baptisms as invalid,
they yet baptized all adult be-
lievers by pouring water upon
the head. This had been the es-
tablished custom for so long In
the Catholic Church, and it took
time to break away from it com-
pletely. First came the Insls
tence that all baptized as babies
be rebaptlzed and then later the
belief that adults could be bap-
tised only by immersion.
POPE HAD THE
BIBLE COPIED
The Veterans
Disagree
An Iowa veteran, writing to an
Iowa newspaper, objected to the
national commander of the Ameri-
can Legion speaking for all war
veterans in pressuring Congress
to enact the U M T bill. He point-
ed out that the Legion has only
20% of the U.Sl veterans In 'Its
membership, so, he reasoned,
how can the Legion Commander
speak for all veterans? Many of
the veterans are Baptists, whose
church through its bead man in
Washington has opposed UMT.
Many are Catholics whose Church
has made no official stand. Many
are members of the various Pro-
testant churches, many of which
have backed *p the Baptist Chur-
ch la fighting UMT.
In the year 382, Pope St Da-
mascus summoned St. Jerome,
the most learned Bible scholar
of his day, to Rome. From the
Pope the saint received orders
to translate the Old; Testament
Bible Into Latin from the Greek
and Hebrew. This version, call-
ed the Vulgate, was then pre-
served by the Catholic Church,
her monks in monasteries copy-
ing from it all the Bibles which
were printed by hand up until
145d|. From this version the Do
uay Bible, now used by Catholics,
was translated.
In 382 when Pope St. Damas-
cus put St Jerome to work the
New Testament of the Bible had
not yet been put together in one
book. At the famous meeting of
Carthage, Africa in 397 the bis-
hops of the Catholic Church took
up and d*cid*d the inspiration
of the hooks of the New Testa-
ment. They decided that 27 of
the books under consideration
were written under the inspira-
tion of the Holy Ghost The oth-
ers, an unknown number which
had been circulated as being
apostolic, were rejected!.
With the arrival of Protestant
churches, beginning in 1G17, the
word of these Catholic bishops
was accepted. The founders of
the new churches also put these
27 books In their New Testa-
ment. Thev accepted the decision
that had been made in 307.
a bay nun
Philadelphia, Pa. — Mother
Katharine Drexel, 94 year-old
foundress of an order working a-
mong Indians and Negroes, Is
the world's wealthiest nun. An
heiress to a banking fortune, she
has given her $1000 a day Income
for years to good works. The na-
tion's charitable donations tax
laws have been changed because
of her. This was to allow donors
of 90% of their Incomes to es-
cape heavy taxes,
EPISCOPALIAN HITS
ATTACK ON SCHOOLS
New York — The dean of
Protestant Episcopal clergy here,
Dr. James A. Pike, commenting
on the attack on religious schools
as divisive, asserted the totali-
tarian champions of State con-
trol were advocating placing
what they call allegiance to
"democracy" or country over alle-
giance to God and religion.
"Let those who have no king
but Caesar," Dr, Pike concluded,
"arrange for an education in
which 'Americanism' 1s the ulti-
mate unifying fame of reference
Some of us will continue to give
our backing to schools In which
the Christian world-view is the
unifying principle. ,
Converts Have To
Accept The Bible
Before a man or woman will
be admitted Into the Catholic
Church he or she must accept
the whole Bible and every part
of it as the Inspired Word of
God, as authored by the Holy
Ghost. That, together with the
complete acceptance of Christ
as a personal Savior, ar« funda-
mental requirements for admis-
sion into the Catholic fold*
Pope Leo X gave King Henry
VIII the title "tfefendisr of the
Faith" after Henry wrote a book
in defense of the Catholic faith
and In reply to Lutheif. England's
monarchs retain the title today.
man who ran for president 4 times said
protestants owed everything id church
William Jennings Bryan, who
ran for the Presidency tour dif-
ferent times, and who certainly
was in a position to know wheth-
er the Catholic Church engaged
in politics, said, in an address
at Madison Square Garden, New
York:
My friend*. I have such con-
fidence In the Catholic Church,
which was for 1500 years my
Mother Church as well as yourn,
that I deny It needs political
aid. It was the Catholic Church
that took religion from its D1
vine Founder and preserved It-
was its only custodian—for over
15 centuries. When it did this
for Catholics It did It for me,
and for every Protestant. The
Catholic Church, with its legacy
of martyred blood, and with the
testimony of Its long line of
missionaries who went from ev-
ery land, does not need a great
political party to protect it. from
Klansmen.
bible writer notch
some truths not in
St John, one of two Apostles
who put some of their teachings
in writing, declared at the end
Of his Gospel that not all the
truths are written down In the
Bible. "There are, however, many
other things that Jesus did; but
tIf every one of these should
be written, not even the world
itself, 1 think, could/ hold the
books that would have to b^
written. Amen."
Catholic families average 4.1
against the national average of
S.I persona per family,
HAS TWO RELIOION8
New York — TIME magazine,
2-8-52, documented the role of
one of the world's cltisens who
must profess two religions thus:
"She (Queen Elizabeth n) Is su-
preme head of the Church ol
England and the Church of Scot-
land, which makes her an Angli-
can south of the Tweed, and M
Presbyterian north of It"
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