Telegram-herald., 1890-02-16
INDULGENCE VS.. INDULGENCE
Rev. Father Nugent Throws Light on n
Subject Sometimes Made Dark.

Powers opera House was we'll filled
Monday evening, on the occasion Of
the lecture of Rev. Father Nugent,
OF Des Mo.Ees, Iowa, on the subject.
Boston Baked Beans and Catholic
Theology" The orator was tastcfully
and pleasantly introduced by Mayor
john klllean.
The only alIusion to Boston baked
beans was in the lecturers opening
words OF sarcasm on Boston culture.
Boston S the city Cf culture, the Athens
OF America, skilled mai. learning, from
the philosophy of Plato TO the latestand
best recipe for baked beans.
The history of the celebrated Boston
schOol-bODk controversy OF several
years ago was narrated with some par
ticularIty OF detail, rs Il text or foun-
datiou for the real subject OF the Ice
ture, which was Papa Indulgence.
The speaker gave very fine expOsi-
ton OF the use and misuse OF words.
For the purpose of leading UP 10 tie
manner IN which Boston and the Prot
estant world had misuscd the word IN
duigence, he gave several examples o.
the way the wrong use OF words had
led TO gross misconceptions. In tine
reiEn OF Edward the III, a statute was
made, tOroiading the Obtaining OF pro-
visions from the Pope. Many per-
sons reading tins had supposed
that the English people most
have purchased their mutton, and
pumpkin pies and baked beans from
His Holiness. But not so. Provisions
then meant. ia the ecclesiastical sense,
certain appointments, as we should say
today, To p3ccs OF preIcrment suca as
pr.orlcs and b.shOprlcs.
Ii would bc quite as absurd to give
the word Indulgence It's cOl.Oquial
meaning, as d.st.ugu from It's
technical meaning, rs It was to deal 20
with the wOrd provisions. In the COM
mon Boston mind tine word indulgence
means tie liberty TO commit SIN, using
the word as they would Use II when
applied 20 parents Indulgence of q
spoiled child. But hc would boldly de-
clare that indulgence i'm Catholic
theology has as little to do with sin or
lt, forgiveness as It has To- 90 with the
payment OF Your Ia xes.
The penalty of al. SIN Is twO-fOld in
that winch :, eternal. and that which is
temporal. There j. guilt winch
reaches beyond the grave Its forgive
ness IS matter when lies with the M
finite GOd u "a way with which the
speaker bad nothing 10 do here. be
cause it h1s nothing whatever TO do
with udulgeucCs. But there arc a
sta.u and p punishment attached to SIN
which are not forgiven under the
common rules of pentcuce and
amendment of ife These are the
losses of health and property and rep
utaton. the sItieu0gs 0f mind and
body which all come 70 Us mere. what
ever our Standing may be with refer
enco 20 the eternal puushmcuts which
justly follow Su. Many fine iuustra-
fous ot tins distinction were gwen. aiI
/ tending t0 SHOW shat the Occas 0n for
md igeuCe was a common need here ul
affairs Of tals hfc, and the application
ot the doctrine one of the commOnest
facts of lie. The acton of the courts
IN the trial and condemnation of prs
ouers was Hkoned to the Just penalty Of
sln etern7 .r. executive C.emcnCy was
precisely analogous Go the tstnoic 'n-
tulEauCe- iae rem ssr01 0t thc tem-
poral penalties of wrong dong was a b
tHat t1o catholic doctrine Of Indul-
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