The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-03
Tho True Doctrine.


| ical called the Church Monthly, some extracts
This better than any comments of ours, will
| show how the truth is dawning benighted
Protestants. 1t is only proper, as showing the
authority with which it speaks, to say that
| this paper is publicly endorsed by Bishop Pot
ter, of New York. We must tell our readers,
! in order fully to understand what follows, that
these people, by some ingenious pcrversion,
claim and style themselves belonging to the
Catholic Church,
Sacramento OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES no other
article of faith, perhaps, though this is saying
great deal are us inVeterate and as unreason-
pble preiudices to be found among Professionals
as exists with respect to tho Sacrament of
Penance.
The plain literal meaning of the words of
our Lord to His disciples, after His resnrrec-
ton, favor the Catholic idea of Priestly abso-
luton.
How were it possible we ask, to express the
Catholic claim to the power of the keys; more
tersely, more distinctly, more emphatically p
Is the Scriptural teaching concerning infant
baptism anything like plain this7 Or,
concerning the Lords Day Or, concerning
the communion of womeng Or, concerning
Trinity in Unityg BY means. What, then,
is the explanation which Professionalism has to
offer for its evident inconsistency Why does
1T ignore truth as plainly set forth (prejudice
when it accepts other truths not half en-
phatically taught, but on which, nevertheless,
it lays the greatest stressG We leave Protest
antism in its old dilemma, and pass on.
Granting n ministry of Divine appointment,
o priest of genuine anbassadorial Office where
in is tho blasph envy for him to assert that the
Great Head of the Church has empowered him
to authoritatively declare, in the name Of Him
from 'rhom pardon io'es as its soarce, the forgive
ness of sins
10 tl,o+ 4
is regenerate," means this child is regener-
ate" and that Whosoever sins yc remit, they
are RENTED unto -them," means "Who-
soever sins ye remit, they remit
ted unto them, may be oharitably ex-
eased if such evidence fail to satisfy them.
And we also suggest, that the Church is not to
to understand her. To Catholics, the prayer
book speaks Language understanded of"
them To Professionals it is all Greek. The
former accept it and ask for no change.
Catholic IJadiiion.-There are two current
" illnesses to Divine Truth-Holy Scripture and
Catholic tradition. 1t is in the use of both
that we attain knowledge of that revelation
of Himself and of His faith which God has
been pleased to make.
There is in the Church an accepted and
known teaching, which is traceahle to Apos-
toiie times, built mp upon irrefraGable proofs,
and Witnessed to IN every age as the tradition
OF God. This tradition, though not derived
from Holy Scripture, is not contrary to it, 1t
is its original and source.
AiOiy cCIlptdft4 Is hOJ u TulS OF latin, III that
sense in which it is ordinarily or often claimed
to be, uuwarily perhaps Itself is part of the
divine tradition which we call Catholic, but
not to tho exclusion of Gods own chosen
method OF teachlng-we mean by the voice of
Catholic tradition q whole.
1t is unquestionable that the Apostles de-
iivered to their converts 9 o body of truth and
duty" which was totally distinct from and
independent of the Holy writings themselves"
The Immaculate Coaeeptioa.--The very dwell
ing on the negative side--the difficulties as to
necessity of dwelling on the positive side, the
greatness of the Blessed Virgin herself, the
Wondrousness of the graces youchsafed to her,
the probability of her exemption from actual
sin. -. -
II requires no great flight of faith to piously
believe thatwhen passicety conceived, /. G. when
God infused her soul into her. body, it pleased
nam TO sanetify her, as in later stages of their
conception, He sanctiiied Jeremiah and St 1
John tho Baptist. Surely such an honor as
this, great as it is, pales before that of being
the Mother of God.
If ST. Mary be not the Mother of God, then
Christ is not God, for she certainly is HIS
Mother.
We join heart and soul with our Roman Ca
thohe brethren in their demand for separate
schools, MS protest against unchristian educn-
ton.
Evenin Christian lands the marriage relation
IS not honored as it should be-but wa cannot
help believing that we are reapinrl the frnit of
a Protestant denial that marriage is n Sacra
meDt
Catholics could no more remain in the Pro,
Episcopal Church. If they believed
baptismal regeneration, for instance, to be Un-7
or Z" the Prelatic principle i" to he
contrary to the Word of God" than they could
eat fire.
We close our extracts from the Cksrch
MoRtkty with two short paragraphs from one
Of it's extracted articles respecting Martin
luther:
r There are many traits of character in com
mon between Luther and Brigham Young.
" Win not some one defend Lutbers morality,
and while they are about it, the coarseness OF
his controversial writings, and the lewdness of
his % Table Talk =
1t does not often happen that monuments
are raised to the victims of the law ON the spot
where they were executed. There is an in
stauce of the kind in Paris in the statue raised
to Marshal Ney on the very ground where he
was shot. But the cases are rnrer of eSpiatory
structures being erected TO the memory OF
those who have suffered from popular fury on
the site of their sufferings. Still they do
sometimes present themselves. On the 2ud
ult. the Archbishop of Paris celebrated Mass
n Carnlelitp chanel m the ~rIo