Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
Father Finnegan's Reply.

would be carried through in fair and hon
est manner, without appealing to Protes-
tant prejudices, and without making false
statements. L will endeavor this time to
show my friend that have not forgotten
my logic.
l again demand portion of the school
fund, not indeed as the writer supposes, to
be controlled by myself, nor to support
scctdridn school, nor yet to establish
principle destructive of the common school.
Some, who would restrain the State to the
fewest and necessary functions of govern
ment, deny the State has any right to tax
citizens for the schooling more than for
the clothing of children. However this
may be, the parent is the natural guardian
of the child and his authority over the ed
ucation of his child is immediate 1t is n
mistake to suppose that Catholic schools
are sectdridn. We teach in our schools the
true principles of christianity, as they have
been handed down from the beginning, |
and the Protestant children who come to
us for instruction are not tempered with
nor is their form of religion ridiculed or
maligned.
1t is contended that my claims mean |
that the State or city has no right to tax its |
citizens for any common object at all. The |
conclusion is not contained in the premi- |
ses, and you will remember one of the rules
of syllogisms
Lotius hume guam prrmiss@, conclusio non
vult"
The writer has n most profound respect
for conscience and little after he bushes
not to make most foul assertion. My
church. indeed, has " stained every page
of history with arbitrary prescription"
Again give an answer "Quod gratis as
seritur gratis negatur." Let the facts upon
which this assertion depends be brought
before the public. Let them be real tangi-
bic facts, drawn from more reliable sources
than were the statistics given in Wednes-
days paper.
How very logical it was to refer only to
murders! Are there no crimes in exis-
tence then but murder? Why not give
the statistics Of Infanticide, and of n still
more common and destructive crime, foe
ticide? How honest to compare the South
ern portions Of Europe with countries sit
uated in the North Listen to what Bish-
OBJ Cox of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
has published:
g | have warned my flock" he says,
"against the blood outlines OF ante-natal
infantcde. IL any doubts existed here
tofore as to the propriety OF my warnings
ON the subject, they must now disappear
before the act that the world itself is be-
GINNING Mortified by the practical re-
suits acrifices to Moloch which de-
file on. d.n
Hear writer in Harper's very anti
popery Magazine: ave are shocked at the
destruction of human life upon the banks
of the Gauges, as well as on the shores OF
the South Sea Islands but here on the
heart of Christendom, foeticide and infan
ticide are extensively practised.
1t should be stated that believers in the
Romon Catholic Faith never resort to any
such practices the strictly American are
almost alone guilty of such crimes" DIR
Storer, also a Protestant, makes the fol
lowing confession liz his Criminal Abor
tion,n p. "A: "Several hundred of Pro
testant women have personally acknowl
edged to us their guilt, against whom onl.
seven Catholics and of these, we fOun,
upon further inquiry, that but two wer
only nominally So.
ANY one who wishes to consult Thorn
Directory of the United Kingdom of Grea
Britain and Irelandn for 1870, will tint
the following in PIP. 713-72l. In that yea
there were convicted of crime in Englan
1908, i'm Scotland, 2,400, and in Irclant
1891. OF those sentenced III En@
land p were condemned to DEATH an
IS to penal servitude for life, and 90
one was condemned to death and 243
penal servitude, while in Ireland nor
were condemned to death and but 23o
penal servtude. This subject, viz: II
comparative morality of Catholic an
Protestant countries, has been frequent
discussed, and, as might be naturally e.
pected, the results are in favor of the 10
mer. If time and space would permit,
could demonstrate this assertion.
But to come to other points. 1t is aga
Il base calumny TO assert tlau L, OF III
Catholic, owe allegiance to the Pope, othe
wise than as before explained. l woul
indeed, be very glad to see these "certa
documents" 1t has now become poi
of honor. 1 defy any one to prove that
have falsely represented in this particul
the teaching of the Catholic Church.
regards "the act of conservation to {
sacred heart of Mary" found in st. vi
cents Manual, this only proves that '
believe Mary to be tie Mother of God, a
our Mother also. Did not Christ from
cross say to the beloved Disciple, "a" so
behold thy Mother? And it is becal
she has been selected among all WON'T
because she has been hailed full of grace
because she has been raised to the dign
of Mother of God, because of these thin
we ask her powerful intercession and &C
secrate to her our hearts. Do we not Oft
times ask our friends in the world to int
cede for us? Do we not love some of tn
on earth Do we therefore adore the
A lexicon is very fine place, indeed
look for the meaning of a theological TEL
The author of the lexicon, in all proba'
ty, was infallible.
| will not tire your readers by eXpla
ing the Catholic doctrine as regards I
giOus worship, and the different meant
of the word alteration. l repeat, Catho
do not adore the b. Virgin. / chalet
the writer to prove the contrary.
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