The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-03
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

Brazil led a general discussion on the
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
| Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.)
Washington, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
Feast of st. Paul the Apostle is OBJ
served as a holiday by the Faculty Of
Theology of the University. This year
the day was marked with great solern-
! nifty in the Divinity chapel of Caldwell
hall. Solemn High Mass was celebrat
ed at 9:30 o'clock by Right Rev. Mgr.
D. Sbaretti, bishOp-elect of Havana, as
sisted by Rev. Victor z. Ducat of De-
troit, as deacon, and Rev. Eneas b.
Goodwin of Chicago as sub-deacon,
Rev. T. P. O'Keefe of Santa Fe was
master of ceremonies. The Right Rev.
Rector and the Very Rev. Vice Rector,
with the members of the Faculty of
Theology, were present in their acad
enlic robes. The chapel was well filled
with the professors and students of the
affiliated colleges grouped about the
university, and those professors and
students of the schools of philosophy
and law who were not at the time en-
gagged in class work. After the gospel,
Rev. DR.. Edmund T. Shanahan, pro-
fessor of dogma, delivered a magnifi-
cent sermon Space will not permit the
giving of this beautiful discourse in
full, but the following will help to give
some idea of it:
How can we compass in detail the
multi-colored instances of his life? Saul
of Tarsus, a citizen Of no mean city,
who sat at the feet of Gamaliel and
learned the law and stored his mind
with many technical phrases akin with
the method of the academy and the
porch; the young Pharisee who held
the garments of those who stoned the
Blessed Stephen, whose eyes were
blinded on the road to Damascus, only
to open on a larger and freer horizon;
who fell from his horse a destroyer, and
rose from the ground an architect and
upbuilder of that very church upon
whose destruction he had set his heart;
the ascetic, who retired into solitude
the better to mature his plans before
reappearing at Jerusalem; the enthusi-
astic missionary, Drawing the dangers
of sea and land on three great jour-
neys to break the bread of Christ's
doctrine to the hungering; the prudent
general, who garrisoned the cities he
had conquered, by the bishops whom he
installed in his wake and by the let
ters he sent back as fortifying safe
guards, full of charity, it is true, and
of forbearance, yet full also of that
dogmatic and disciplinary. wisdom
which is from above, which would not
prove an aid and spur to mans prog
resS in redemption if it We're not COM |
batiVe and upon which, in the words !
of Paul, cursed be he, whether man or |
angel, who shall sit in judgment; the |
Roman citizen, who invoked the lex |
Porcia' as his birthright and fearless |
ly appealed to Caesar over the head Of /
Festus, and finally the old campaigner /
in his prison house at Rome, writing |
back for the cloak and manuscripts he
had left at Troas, and compressing his !
whole life into the favorite smile of the I
soldier which might well serve for his
own everlasting epftaph: L have
fought good fight. I have finished my
course. l have kept the faith. To (
discuss this general field of Paul's ac-
tivity in which so many have put their
sickleS would scarcely result in our
being rewarded with a sheaf. For not
so much Saul of Tarsus, nor Paul of I
Jerusalem, nor Paul, the missionary,
would we delineate today as patron of
this faculty, but rather Paul of the
church of the eternal first-born, the
great spokesman of the supernatural
and the theologian of the realm of
grace.
1.-The long deferred answers to the
Did questions: Whence? Whittier? and
why? had come. God had sent his only
ng spirit to make US cry: Abba!
Father! The Fatherhood of God, the
adopted sonship of men in Christ, the
personal indwelling of the Holy Ghost
n the tabernacular souls of the just,
and the quickening hope of an eveTIast-
ng heritage and a face-to-face vision.
Such was the idea of God which Greek
had failed to discover, which Jew had
but feebly, and which Paul
u iT1ac p1f in Tir Nayxy I'm
edge, now power, new love were al
'eady at hand. Newer knowledge,
newer powers, newer love were still to
De added in the life to come. One Lord
If faith enthroned above the God of
Reason. Infinite intelligence, will andI
power at the heart of things, and not
blind necessity, or mocking fate. a God
lot insulated in his sympathies, but
.mptying himself to fill up our moth
ngness beyond measure. No. Paul,
hou art not beside thyself, and much
earning doth not make thee mad The
scientific and religious considerations
# the world had met in thee for fus-
on. Science-the cold Indifferent
earch for abstract truth religion-the,
ager guest for a personal and intelli-
rent relation. And deep down in the
learts of men religion triumphed and
must needs ever triumph, the sole sat
Interpretation or the source
nd destiny of universal being. -sl :
. tr4 !
The conception of the Supernatural
ays St. Thomas. in reply to Siger of II
Srabant, the spokesman of the Arabs, r
5 the conception of an order of truths {
bove those of Reason and the. ooncep-
ion of an order of activity superior to /
hat of mind and matter, as these lat S
er regularly display themselves in the
eld of natural phenomena. Superna- ]
ure and nature are two orders. each Of \
ruth and activity, built the one upon
he other. They are two stages in the
ealization of a single supreme divine
nrnnSe. The intellect of man which Is | .