The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-28
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,be tact that hatred Of the Catholic ia'ln is
increasing in depth and INTENSITY 80 -,
the world. 1t reaches 10 de.e ,'
those who hold it-of Catholics then'seIH
When DR.. Newman asc'loes rshin nm
in nart. TO a kind of over -coniessoisn!p "n
tba mart of certain prominent adVocates VI
,ho Higb Truth on which modern c,'li'Za
t;on ia founded, he Is mistaken. Nos NJ
Of them. nor all of them, not even NJ,
Veuillot himself, who may De cohsiut,u
the bette noir of the niinimizeIs, nhs VI
ted it to any appreciaoie ekten,. -,
Tho illustridus Oratorian champion oi
.ha I.burch ia no "minimizer." And Catho-
yics should not tell the truth to unoeiieTeIs
in n needle sly offensive manner pu.
thew should tell the truth. ana thae
u,si.,Iar they will hear, OF whether they
will forbear." We have more to lear ID .ne
present day from timidity of confessorship
than from overpluck.
The Church is not yelled beauty, re-
.vealing her charms only to favored Few,
from whose truth it is kind OF sacil'eee
to pluck the veil. she Is zoo ,,;a;nusnoss
earth against untruth and the viciousness
of mankind, and she needs to DO cham
The hatred of her is provoked not by
conveying her message in an outspoken
way. but because the message Is true, ana,
to worldlings, dissgreeaoie. 6t
Religious hatred, for there ls now such
thing. had scarcely an existence before the
divine revelation of truth. The Persians
despised the idolaters of the various my
thoiogies. For they did not regard their
own worship of the sun as the symooi ana
reflex of the unapproachaoie iight' as iuo'a-
try. But their contempt did not extend to
hatred. The Jews were on few occasions
hated nv peoples with whom events had
brought than into contact. ANA they
were until the Christian era, the d"posita
ries of SO much of the truth as had then
been revealed. But thei" Church was not
a missionary or proselytIziuG one. lt was
in no sense aggressive. Aud its passive
-, exclusiveness did. not tread "u the Germs
of the popular religions OF OF human
pride.
Professionalism is liable to a 81 mllar crit-
cism Its iuditferentsm in the matter oil
dogma its condescension to wee, aud ITS
consequent subservieuce TO human pride
and slnfulness, have no tendency to pro
woke the ostilty Of the world. Protest
autism we have nothing to fear from, say
the Freemasons, in substance, IN one o
their official documents. at is that vas
and united organization, with its rlgiI
dogma, the Catholic Church, that is alone
formidable to u.s." Yes. And they nigh
as we'll have added, "lts dogmas, of neces
sity, condemn ours. Its principles of hb
erty condemn the dark and rnthies
tyranny of secret societies. And so. W.
hate it. One of us must perish. DetcHd
Church. 1t is because of her d"gmatlsm
of her missionary aud prnselytzlns spirit
of her Rggressiveness. They make VT
faces, indeed, at every one OF these he
special characteristics. But that sh
should dare to be dogmatic in an age {
mental license-it is there the shoe pin
ches. Tight shoe indeed 1t Is the rae
and the thumb screw To them.
But the Church would be nothing if sh
were not dogmatic. To be dogmatic i
matters of opinIon one must be Ill temp
cred i'll nurtured, and something of
goose. But a Divine revelation must b
dogmatic, or 1t is not Divine revelation
Professionalism, from its very commence
ment, some three hundred years ago {
thereabouts. Ielegated revealed truth
the category of opinion-of private judy
ment. In so doing it simply went over
the world. 1t gave mp all claim to divlt
revelation, aud prepared the way for TIL
appalling scientific apostasy which is ma
shalIing its forces around us. How cou
God have revealed truths necessary for ga
walton about whose meaning no two pc
sons are agreed God cannot reveal col
one thing or the other. Either it is me
psychological school and then it cam
be reveaied, nor necessary for salvatio
And, then, its highest sanction Is, 81 b
lieve because l think So" Or it is nece
sary for sal alton, and a direct revelati
from heaven, and it's sanction Is, 81 \
leve because God has revealed it" In t
latter case, there is simply no place
opinion. We must have certain stat
ments of truth on which We can lay q
fingers, aud which We can read with q
eyes, and of which We can assert, 1.-THE
are they, and no other )" even althoue
from the f,ebleness of our intellect,
may not be able to comprehend them.
No other religion than the Catholic eI
pretended to have such dogmas. Hen,
the worlds autagOnism is against it RloI
1t is just here that tue Church strikes at
that Is most devilish in the human being
to wit-humau pride.
Imagine the effect on free think
philosopher of this supcrCilious nineteen
century, on being told that, if he wou
live forever, he must "oecomo as a lit
child" He would turn green, yellow, i
in turns every color but the wholeso
one, at the bare suggestion.
How can 1t be but that the pride
which the heroic humility of faith is i
possible should conceive "a bitter hatred
those who are in possession of 1t : w
these latter limited to the poor and uni
tered, it might be satisfied with contcu
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