The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-12-05
THE NORNG STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY DECEMBER
Z" POPULAR" ca THoLIcS.
Extract from DR.. Newmau,s wrisinrsl.

Extract from DIR. Newman'o Writingsl.
We are like others in this, that we are
men; that we are members of the same
state with them, subjects, contented sub
Jects, of the same Sovereign /; that we have
q dependence on them, and have them de- J
pendent on us that, like them, we feel pain
when ill. used, and are grateful when we'll
treated. We need not be ashamed of O
fellowship like this, and those who recog-
nize it in us are generous in doing so.
But we have much cause to be ashamed,
and much cause to be anxious what God
thinks of US, if we gain their support by
giving them false Impression in our per
sons of what the Catholic Church is, and
what Catholics are bound to be, what
bound to believe and to do; aud is not
this the case often, and the world takes up
your interests, because you share its sins 7
Nature is one with nature, grace with
grace the world then witnesses against
You by being good friends with you You
could not have got on with the world
| 80 well, without surrendering something
which was precious and sacred. The
| world likes you, all but your professed
creed distinguishes you from your creed
in its Judgment of you, and would fain
| separate you from it in fact. Men say,
These persons are better than their
| Church; we have not u word to say for
their Church but Catholics are not what
they were; they are very much like other
men now. Their creed certainly is bigoted
| and cruel, but what would y on have ofthem
| You caunut expect them to confess this;
let them change quietly, no one changes
in public, be satisfied that they are changed.
They are as fond of the world as we are
they take up poll ical objects as warmly !;
they like their own way just as we'll they
| do not like strictness whit better they
hate spiritual tbraldom, and they are half
| ashamed of the Pope and his Councils.
They hardly believe any miracles now,
| and are annoyed when their own brethren
| officiously proclaim them they never
| speak of purgatory; they are sore about
| images they avoid the subject of Indul-
gences and they will not commit them
selves to the doctrine of exclusive saliva
ton. The Catholic doctrines are now
mere badges of party. Catholics think for
themselves and judge for themselves, just
as we do; they are kept in their Church
by point of homer, and reluctance at
seeming to abandon fallen cause"
Such is the judgment of the world, and
you, my brethren, are shocked to hear it 8
but may it not be that the world knows
more about you than you know about your
selvesR If ye had been of the world" says
Christ, the world would love its own but
because ye are not of the world, but have
chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth yeu." So speaks Christ of
His Apostles. How run His words when,
applied to your If ye be of the world
the world will love its own; therefore ye
are OF inc WOrlO, anu nave not CHOSEN you
out of the world, because the world loveth
you" Do not complain of the worlds
| impQting to you more than is true; those
| who live as the world give color to those
who think them of the world, and seem to
form but one party with them. In proper
ton as you put off the yoke of Christ, so
does the world by sort of instinct recog-
nize you, and think well of you accord
ingly. Its highest compliment is to tell
you that you dlsbelieve. Oh, my brethren,
there is an eternal enmity between the
world and the Church. The Church de-
clares by the mouth of an Apostle, "Whoso
will be friend of the world, becomes an
| and calls the Church apostate, sorceress,
| Beelzebub, and Antichrist. She is the
| image and the mother of the predestinate,
and, if You would be found among her
children when you die, you must have part
in her reproach while you live. Does not
the world scctf at all that is glorious, all
that is majestic, in our holy religion
Does it not speak against the special crea-
tons of Gods grace? Does it not disbe-
licve the posi- billty OF purity and chastity :?
Does it not SANDER the profession of cell
bacyR Does it not deny the virginity of
| Mary Does it not cast out her very name
as evilP Does it not scorn her as dead
woman, whom you know to be the Mother
| of all living, aud the great lntercessor OF
the faithful? Does it not ridicule the
| Saints Does it not make light of their
relicsR Does It'll not despise the Sacra-
ments7 Does it not blaspheme the awful
Presence which dwells upon our affairs,
and mock bitterly and fiercely at our be-
lieving that what it calls bread and wine
is that very same Body and Blood of the
Lamb which lay in Mary's womb and
hung on the CROSSE What are we, that
we should be better treated than our Lord,
and His Mother, and His servants, and
His works Nay, what are we, if we be
better treated, but the friends IF those
who treat us we'll, aud who lltreat Him ?