The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-31
Facts to DO Remembered.
(Catholic Standard. ]

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The following valuable summary, com
piled with great care, has been sent us b
highly. esteemed correspondent
i. A Pope acts in the three fold capacit
of Vicar of Christ upon earth, Bishop 8
the particular See of Rome, and tempora
sovereign and his DEGREES and acts mus
be considered accordingly.
q. rope Ganganelli, suspended the So
ciety OF Jesus in order to silence it's enc
mics, and not because it was in the leas
worthy of blame.
3. Ranke, German Protestant and Pro
fessor Of History at the University of Der
| lin, says, in his famous "History of th.
Popes." that they haze been in their privat,
| tees spottess and unblameable.
a. Nicholas, the Cusan, taught that the
earth moved, and not the sun, about one
hundred years before Calico /. g., in 1881
and scas created a Cardinal for his learnin0.
Copernicus, priest, taught the same in
1900. under the protection of Pope Paul III.
and the Bishop of FINLAND.
Calico lad special permission from Rome
was told not to interfere with the theoloq;-
cal question involved. He disobeyed, and
was mildly, but very properly punished for
his disobcdience.
5. The shortening of the Latin word
"Joanfes (John) into "Joan," by writer
in the fifteenth century, led to the absurd
assertion by Reformers that there was
once female Pope! One of many like
lies.
b. One of the Popes suggested the build
Ing of the Suez Canal several centuries ago
2. The calendar was corrected by Pope
Gregory the Great.
8. The Pope had Mass of Thanksgiving
not for the massacre of St. Bar
Foe, but for the safety of the
royal family Of Fraace.
A Protestant examined all the records of
rance, Is well as of Paris, and found that
$50 persons suffered in all France that
hight, and not 200, 900 " az Protestant his.
torians falsely assert.
9, GunpOicder was invented by the monk,
priest and monk; the latter in the thirteen tn
10. Printing was invented by Gutenberg
,r Faustus, both Catholics, living in Catho.
lie times.
Engraving was invented by the Catholic,
Durer.
Paper was also invented by Catholics.
ii. The first printing press ever set up
10 England was placed in Westminster
Abbey by William Caxton (died in 1892. |
same year in which another Catholic, Col |
1mbus, discovered America), under the
patronage of its Abbot and monks.
The followers of Faustus fed to Italy,
= ShOJ WV uP ShO hto1 AJAllbu press I'M |
Ter the protection of the Pope.
IL. But for the Catholic Church and the
good monks, Protestants would haze NO
Bible at all.
Is. The first translation of the Bible in
% English was made by Aldhelm, Bishop
If Sherborne, in the seventh century the
second by Venerable Bede, in the seventh
century the third, by Alfred the
treat, in the ninth century the fourth is |
he Durham Bible" in the ninth century !:
he fifth (now at Oxford), in the ninth CEN |
ury the sixth (now at Salisbury, in the |
ninth century Wycliffe's is dated in the |
ourteenth century; tie Douay version |
1882, sixteenth century; King James
1911, seventeenth century. Hence Re-
ormers were not the first to circulate
he Bible.
ID. Under that cruel libertine, Henry the
Eight, seventy-three thousand of his sub
ects suffered death under the daughter,
Elizabeth, 60, 900 of her Irish Catholic sub
ects were shipped OF. and sold as slaves to
he West Indies under "Bloody Mary"
hat poor, kind hearted, terribly slandered
aughter of Catherine of Arrogsn, who al
noet pinched herself to pay her horrible i
ItAer's debt (E3, 200, 900, We believe), there
7ere executed in all some 800 malefac.
ors -!