The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

the question OF the beginning OF life
upon the planet. Darwin, Haeckel and
others Of that kind cannot answer 1T.
They will evolve other beings from
those who preceded them, but they fail
to state where life began. There ds
only one answer, 1t must have come
from the supernatural.
LAS TO these archaeological discover
les which have led to SO much Biblical
criticism, not ore nag yet been made
which upsets the Bible. They may
lead us to read some parts Of 6tT Bible
a little differently, so far as the his
tory is concerned. But il we have read
wrongly some historical part Of the
scriptures this Is no indication that
the Bible is wrong, and especially that
1t Is not a true guardian and teacher
of faith and morals.''
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND BIBLE.
Then the Catholic, church upholds
the Bible in its entirety, does it not?"
THE Catholic church has absolute
confidence in Christ and the Bible, and
it not only feaflessly challenges all
discoveries, bat it aids in them to the
best Of its ability, sure that one truth
will never contradict another, that
science will never contradict faith, that
nature viii never contradict revela-
ton. We are not afraid of the sci
ences. Take the Catholic university
at Washington. don't think you will
find any more advanced thinkers any
where than we have there. Every
thing upon earth is discussed there.
Science at best is limited in its iafor-
nation; it presupposes and points out
the beyond which itself cannot attain,
and 1t is far from the beyond that
faith comes. But, of course, faith does
not come to us as a mere dream or
as a sentiment. It comes with its Gre
dentials to our reason and bases itself
as Christ based it upon His miracles,
upon the moral elevation of His doc
trines and upon the moral elevation
of that much Of the world which He
chose to be His
"Do you believe In missions, your
eXcellency?" said /.
Yes. / do" was. the reply. Il am a
Christian, and Christ told us to teach
all nations. Hence we have missions
all over the globe"
But how about those whom the mis-
sionaries do not reach? Are they all
damned?" 1 asked.
mo, think not" replied the arch
bishop. THAT never was and cannot
be the doctrine of the church. The
light that is in him, as st. Paul de-
clared in his Epistle to the Romans.
But it is the duty of the church to
bring more light to the heather, as it
is the duty of the heather to accept
the light"
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND POLL
TIC
81 hear 1t now and then charged,
your eXcellency, that the Catholic
church wants to swallow up the Amer
can government and control the state"
This is not true" replied the arch
bishop. THE church has only the spir-
itual realm of aith and morals to deal
with. The state has charge of temporal
and political interests. fhe two are
in altogether different spheres. The
church is supreme in one, the state is
supreme in the other. The church is
not a temporal sovereign and never
was. The pope is not a temporal SOW
ereign, and his temporal power over the
world at large has never been claimed.
During the Middle ages, when all ma
lions were Catholics, the pope by gen
eral consent was looked upon as general
arbiter even in temporal matters, but
he did not claim it as g divine or in
herent right. He does not claim any
thing of the kind today and does not
want to hold any such position in Amer
lean affairs. / doubt whether there is
more liberal man in the world today
than Leo XIII. | am sure there is none
who understands better the American
people and loves and blesses the liberty
which we have here: He has a strong
admiration for republican form of
government and a very deep interest in
our future as.uas nation The pope is
thoroughly in touch with the times and
with the age of today. He believes in
democracy as allied to good govern
ment and is for everything that is good,
true and beautiful in modern progress"
Nevertheless, your eXceliency, there
seems to be many who believe differ
entity. You remember the sermon VIII CHI
one of the Washington preachers de-
Hvered before congregation of which
President Mckinley was member on
Day?"
YES, / do replied the archbishop.
HE said think. that the chief dan
gers for America were from rum, So
cialism and Jesuitism.' That man was
an ignoramus and thoroughly ill-bred.
He took advantage of a day Of thanks
giving, when all the country was think
ing Of peace, to insult 100000 Ameri-
can voters, and in his ill-bred way tried
to take advantage Of the presence of
the president to commit, him to such a
blunder 1 have no patience with
such small-minded men. | should say
that the three great evils for America
are rum, socialism, and bigotry, and in
this 1 would not place bigotry at the
bottom" frank VI. carpenter.