The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-21
From Archbishop Mannings :. Grounds of Faith -,
Revealed Truth Definite and Certain.

ffoni A'cho'snop Mannings Grounds of Faith u
Revealed Truth Definite and Certain.
My purpose is to speak of the grounds of
Faith do not mean of the special doc.
rines of Catholic theology, but Of the
krounds of foundation upon which MI
Faith rests. OIL
This is subject difficult to treat
artly, because it is of dry and prelimi,
afy nature and partly, because it is not
cntroverted without treating it likewise
controversial tone. But should
PINK 1t q dishOnOr to the sacredness of
PUN ltsel1, II l could treat matter 80 sa-
eo ana so necessary in q tone of mere
fgument. desire to speak, then, for the
pn1r OF our Lord. and, if God so will, for
Pc help of those who seek the truth. To
" broad and sure the foundations m
8hlch we believe, is necessary at all times
ecause at the end of man is life eternal
pa as tho means to that end is the knowI.
fge OF COD and of Jesus Christ whom He
PIN sent, our whole being, moral, intel
#ctuai, and spiritual demands that we
pited with, the mind and will of Cod 10
Pa what is necessary at all times is
2peciai!y so at this. For this land, once
IL OF hight, once united to thedreat com
onWeaith OF Christendom, and grated {
20 the mystical vine, through whose
1ery oranch and spray life and truth cir
e .a'e t .nre ;s hundred years ago, by evil a
tristan world, and torn from the nnitv /
Christ: Since that time what has been U
rellglous history of EnglapdP The 9
ism which rent England from the Di.
re tradition of Faith, rent it also from 8
source OF certainty; the division which l.
Feted England from the unity of the "
ao; throughout the world planted the e
gland, carried away from Catholic unit n
Ia as iandslip from the shore, rendinr d
en oy Its weight and mass. England e.
Puand, Ireland parted from each Other. II
with religion of itself, each with its et
T. VI laith. With schism came contradic- u
y, WIN contradiction uncertainty, de- 40
FOR did it stop here. That same pr;nci- til
OF schism which rent asunder these 81
e. klngdons propagated itself still ma
s;a;n In each country division followed co
sion. Each Protestant Church, as IL M
;s.Iaoiisned, contained within itself the al,
$',pie Doth of its creation and dissolu- WI
ina1mely, private Judgment. And pri- ini
3aaugment, working out it's result in ma
Esna minds, caused schism after WI
{sm until we are told by writer, Pro tin
rane himself, that in the seventeenth ye'
en5y, curing the high time of Protestant ou
fnaancy, the sects Of England amounted bal
let~een one and two hundred, the
~ mere are causes and events nearer art
~ uay Which render 1t more than ever pre-
SSatiSy 10 turn back again to the only Ine
i tho hs OF certainty, and lay once oef
Pnng by many believed to he q Chnroh fni
WIN tradition of three hundred rs IS
~ Upheld by the power of this mighty mi
H. maintained by the sanction of law as
! 81 invested with dignity and e sflc
~ " STARE, possessing vast endowments uni
b. VI land or gold alone, but of that phJ
"n 30 more precious, of treasures which an u!
h. lIIG y. Church had gathered, and of defl
lros ~ was Tudely spoiled; universities, OF
4. 9i 10 :hh schools; that vast body, cult 70
n ~, in!teltect, embracing the national trac
= "a a.. us strength and ripeness, in an poo
n. VI tliai was questioned of it's faith, oroi
paI ~ arlcated in its answer.. 1t was bid VIVA
4 I"h as teacher sent from God; it OF Il
:, not, because God had not sent it. now
nus the last remaining certainty of polL
"nong Protestant bodies in this agar
itossealed Its own impotence to teach, mig
' IIouy winch mon fondly believed to tain
nc OF the divine office of the Church def
alHeu that alike in its mission and its In II
lge 1t was human mite
iat then do we see in this land Sects may
mt number, perpetualIv snLJii5;. it.
equally confident, all contradictory
mat dominant communion which
confnnndnd Lu ;,t ~ teachlng, ask
Of it's oxn H., - S"htiauic- rece
1t is becanoa tho Go!e TO my q
and tha nr;no;I VI am Is men