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What Catholics Do Not Place Any
Belief "a.

What Catholics Do Not Place Any
Belief q.
Ehey DO Not Believe in Any Other Msd-
itator Than Jesus Christ, Though the
. Mary or = Saint May be N
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As there is always more or less dis
cussion about doctrinal differences be-
tween Catholics and Protest ants, the
following statement of facts will prove
useful and interesting II
l. They do not believe that there is
any other mediator Of redemption than
Jesus Christ. s'For there is no other
name given to men whereby we can be
saved" When they call the Mother Of
God, or any saint, mediator, it is
not in the sense of mediator of res
demption attributed to Our Saviour,
but in the sense Of intercessor or
pleader between God and his fellow
man, as Abraham, Moses and St. Paul
prayed to God for the people. @
2. Catholics do not believe that the
Blessed Virgin Mary is any way equal
to or even comparable to God, for, be-
ing only creature, although the most
highly favored, she is infinitely less
than God, Who created her. Nor do
they claim for her any power beyond
that she derives from God; for she is
entirely dependent on God for her priv
ileges, her grace and her glory.
8. Catholics do not believe that there
is any power on this earth or. in heaven
that can give permission to commit the
least sin; or that sin can be forgiven
for money; or an indulgence granted
for the commission Of sin, either past,
present or future, or that priest,
Bishop, Cardinal Or Pope can give valid
absolution to sinner who does not
truly repent by sincere sorrow and
truly resolve to abandon sin for all
time to come, to amend his life and
make reparation to God and his neigh
Dor for the offence committed.
a. Catholics do not believe at any
pan can obtain salvation by his own
good deeds, Independent Of the merits
and passion of Jesus Christ and His
faction for the guilt of his sins. or ac-
quire any merit except through the
Saviour.
s. Catholics do not believe that it is
allowable to break lawful oath or tell
a lie, even for the conversion of king
dom, or do anything whatever Of sim
full nature to promote the supposed in
terests of their Church. The false and
pernicious principle that "the end JUS
titles the MEANS" or that they may do
evil that good may come, is utterly
condemned by the Catholic Church.
6. Catholics do not believe that
Professionals who are baptized, who lead
q good life, love God and their neigh
Dor, who avoid evil and do good, who
are blamelessly ignorant sof Catholic
truth, and Of the just claims Of the
Catholic Church to be the only true re-
ligion, are excluded from heaven, pro-
vided they believe there is one God in
three Divine Persons Tor unity in
trinity and trinity in unity; that God
will reward the good and punish the
bad hereafter; that Jesus is the Son of
God, made man, who redeemed us, and
in whom we must trust for our saliva
ton; and provided they thoroughly re-
pent of having ever by their sins
offended God.
:: z. Catholics hold that Protestants who
have these dispositions. and who have
no suspicion of their religion being
false, and no means to discover, or fail
in their honest endeavors to discover
the true religion, and who are so dis
posed in their hearts that they would,
at any cost, embrace the Roman Catho-
lie religion if they knew it to be the
true one, are Catholics in spirit, and in
some sense within the Catholic
Church without themselves knowing
it. These Christians belong and are
united to the s'soul," as it is
called of the Catholic Church.
although they are not united to the Wis
ible body Of the Church by external
communion with her and by the out
ward profession of her faith. Many
Professionals from early education and
false teaching about Catholics were
righteously indignant at Catholic be-
lief, but on ascertaining the truth from
Catholic sources became mem bers Of the
much maligned Church. Among such
men may be reckoned Cardinal Newman,
who believed, and to the age Of 81
preached that the Pope is anti-Christ,
and Earl Spencer afterwards St. Igna-
tius), who attacked the Catholic Church
so vigorously when he was clergyman
Of the English Church that his own ia
ther implored him to speak less VIC
lently of Catholics and exercise reli=
gious federation.
8. Even ST. Paul, before his CONVEX
sion, prosecuted the early CHI istians.
Catholics do not believe that it is in
the power Of their Church to add to the
truths contained in the deposit of
faith that is, to frame or enforce any
doctrine which has not for it's source
the written or unwritten word of God,
or authority from the same. Nor do
they believe, when the Church makes q
definition in matters of faith, as for in
stance the Immaculate Conception Of
Mary, or the infallibility Of the Pope
in matters Of faith and morals, it is q
new doctrine it being only solemn
Loo larafion and q CLEARER statement of