The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-09
Wilful Error.

| Catholics often hear rumors of the incre-
dible ignorance which prevails among
Protestants concerning the doctrines Of
our Church. Many cannot believe that
this blind ignorance exists to this day
and suppose that it was peculiar to some
former age when prejudice ran high, when
Catholics were very rare in certain coun-
tries aud when the means of information
were difficult of access to multitudes OF
people.
We subjon q precious morse1 for the
purpose Of convincing these skeptics that
the most astounding ignorance of this kind
still prevails. The quotation given is not
taken from the conversation of some back
woods numbskuil, nor even from q sermon
| of a frontier circuit-rider, but from the
| columns of a newspaper, and New Orleans
newspaper at that. 1t is clipped from the
Christian Advocate of this city and though
conveyed in the form of q communication,
is IGNORED with flaming caption and
published for the enlightenment ofchristian
readers without q word of explanation or
contradiction. 1t is az follows:
THE MoNsTRosTrY OF MoNsTRosITIEs.
ton, as taught by the Roman Catholic Church
not only stultifies and renders worthless the
human senses as means of evidence and infor-
heaven has revealed himself to man in proph-
ecy and precept, amid tho thunders of Sinai,
the sweat of the garden, the blood of the
cross, the gloom OF the grave and the glory of
o race of carnibals. If the bread and wine of
the sacrament, be the real body and blood of
Jesus, and we eat thereof, we are nothing more,
mi iINnlo bal
ism to eat human flesh and to drink human
blood. BIZ. WHITE.
FRANKLIN, La, February4. 1873.
Hero is man WHO has staked his saliva
ton on his rejection of Catholic doctrines |
and who makes it the business of his life |
to engage the souls of others in the same |
rebellion and yet who has not tho most
elementary ideas as to the meaning of one
OF the most prominent of those doctrines.
Human flesh and blood! These people
evidently think that the flesh of our Saviour
is cutinto morsels for the Catholic commu-
MON. Do they know that it is the whole
and entire body and blood that each and
every commandment receives
Again they apparently are not aware
that the body of our Lord is now in it's
glorifed condition and that there is an i'm
mense difference between that condition
and the one in which the perishable bodies
Of living men exist. "We die corruptible
and we shall rise incorruptible." What
ever is ineorruptible 10 indigestibie it
cannot be transformed into nourishment
for the body. A spiritual body is imperish-
able.
And again they suppose that accord
ing to Catholic doctrine, the body of our
Lord, when received in communion, is
acerated by the teeth and reduced to frag- {
ments as with ordinary flesh. They do {
lot know that His sacred body cannot be {
nangled or divided, that as soon as the !
Species" of bread or wine undergoes any G
hange owing to fire, or water, or decay, or +
ecomposition of any kind, the Divine v
ody separates from it and it is changed II
ack into its original nature. The diges-
ion that then ensues sis the digestion of :.
read or wine ; the nutrition that follows "
} nutrition from bread or wine, not from y
uman flesh and blood. Where then is q
our canuibaism. TT
Where too is your blush for this exceed
lg ignorance of q doctrine against which OF
ou and your co-sectaries have been fighting 81
+ three hundred years What! Spend m
g your lives, tasking all your capacities II
i'd risking your salvation in controverting u u
40 of the grand fundamental doctrines of =,
without taking the trouble to 4,
now what it is This is q most gross g.
nd pernicious ignorance, but it can hardly ID
me under that cloak of charity which to
m Il 10 T..
Col. GEORGE CLARK.-The daily papers -,
ave already noticed in an ample manner 70
le deceake Of IliR pantleman nn thor