The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-11-03


Moore contradicting DIR. Moore, I
feel emboldened to TAX like liberty
with his statements. He says that
the council of Trent in the year l542
In Its decree on original sin "declar-
ed that the conception of all men in
the state of sin does not eEcIutIe the
Virgin Mary" The Council of Trent
says nothing of the kind. Here is
the decree "Declarat tamen haec
ipsa sancta Synodus non esse suao
Intentions comprehendere in hoe
decreto, wbi de peccato ,originali
agitur beatam ct immaculatam
virginem Marian Del genetricem.
VII) Junii l546 Less. { W De Pecatto
originatis." This Holy Synod de-
clares that 1t Is not its Intention to
include in the decree an original sin
the Blessed and immaculate Virgin
Mary Mother of God.' And the Bull
Of Pope Plus TX with which he
seems to be so familiar and between,
which and the decree of Trent he
endeavors to establish contradic.
tion refers to this Identical decree
using almost the words in which it
was originally written.
Why this Misrepresentation Was
it made knowingly or unknowinglyP
Surely a minister of Christ would
not intentionally feed with falsehood
the minds gathered around his pull
pit to receive the words oftruth and
life! The misrepresentation then
must have been made unknowingly
and the man of learning turns out to
be not such a learned man after all.
He gives a quotation or what he says
is quotation from "rhe Glories of
MaIRpAnd concludes that Catholics
worship the Blessed Virgin in every
sense in which the word worship is
used. Here let me observe that if
his premises had the smallpox his
conclusion would not catch it. If he
read the work from which he quotes
he knows as well as Catholics do
that the titles Rcdeemer and Savior
as applied to Blessed Virgin do not
mean the same as when applied to
our Blessed Lord, and when explain
ed in the sense in which they are
used will be found entirely unobjec-
tionable. OF course / do not mean
to insinuate that DIR. Moore has been
Intentionally deceiving; liz view of
his well known integrity and up
rightness it would be much more
reasonable to assume that he does
noc understand the subject he- is
treating. And since his brain has
proved such veritable storm center
of misinformation OIL matters Catho-
lie, am inclined to believe that
some constituencies book agent has
doded him with quantity of a.. p.
A. literature. That title "Queen of
He'll" which he claims Saint Alfanso
gives to Mary has all the ear marks
Of the genuine animal.
He gives us the following from
Pope Plus TX "The Most Blessed
Virgin Mary in the first moment of
her conception by special grace
and privilege of Almighty God in
virtue of the merits of Christ was pre-
served immaculate from all
stain of original sin" and
observes that this puts Mary on an
equality with the sinless Son of
God" Another instance in which
Reverend Moore's conclusion has no
relation to his premise. Plus TX
does not attribute to Mary any merit
rperfection which she did not re-
ceive from God. Her Immaculate
Conception was by special grace
and privilege of God through the
merits of Christ. If Plus TX claim
ed that the Immaculate Conception
of Mary was do to any attributes of
her own there might be some foun-
dation for this assertion. Was it
making her equal to God to declare
that God could preserve her sinlessP
If sinlessness makes Mary equal to
God then any other created intelli-
gence that is sinless must be equal
to God. Hence Adam before he
sinned in Paradise must have been
equal to God; so too must the Angels,
because sinless be Her equals. Again
weihave msny protesting Christian
ity who do not believe in baptism,
all these believe in the Imm maculate
Conception not only of the Blessed
Virgin but of themselves.
But Reverend Moore did not reach
the climax of his stupidity till he
assured us that the Catholic church
would like to keep the dogma of the
Immaculate conception in the back
ground because 1t occassioned more
or less contention and seriously dis
turbed the unity of the church. This
is certainly an exhibition of inno-
cence pitiable in a man of his years.
Is it to keep this dogma in the back
ground that Shrines are erected, and
churches built to the honor of Mary
immaculate? Is it to keep it in the
back ground that the eighth of De-
cember the anniversary of the
definition of this dogma is made a
Holy Day of Obligation and celebrat-
| ed with the most religious observ-
ances throughout the world? ~
The Reverend Doctor asks in con-
clusion some very pertinent questions
What he says Is the authority OF
\ - a. n
point t@nn of View a''Ss do we % iooIa Tqose From
] that of tha Christian Protesfantit is