The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-20

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Twelfth Error: THE DEGREES of the
Apostolic See and of the Roman con-
gregations impede the true progress of
science"
Refutation.-The Apostolic See and
/ the Roman congregations address
| themselves to man as man; or, i'm
other words. to man as Catholic and
Is a reasonable being. Man, considered
as a reasonable being, is guided by
reason and not by force; as a Catholic.
he submits to the divnely constituted
authority of the Church, who, through
| the instrumentality of her DEGREES.
warns him against prevailing errors.
and thus enables him to tread in
! security the path Of true science Such
action on the part of the Apostolic See
and the holy congregations is highly
favorable to the advancement of
science: for the errors which the
Church condemns are obstacles in the
way of progress. error being the enemy
I of truth, which is the object of all
science
| a knowledge of the truth is the great
| benefit which the human race has
reaped from the coming of the Savior.
For this was I born and for this came
I into the world, that L should give
testimony to the truth. He who is
sincere in his search after truth
hearkens to the voice OF the Church.
which is the voice of Christ Himself:
Every one that is of the truth, heareth
my voice. Those who oppose the de-
crees Of the Apostolic See and Of it's
congregations, seek to retard rather
than to promote the advancement Of
science; they would envelop all things
in darkness. in order to succeed in their
endeavor. to give the lie to the writ
ings of Moses, the Prophets and the
Evangelists. and thus sap the fouuda-
tions of the Catholic religion For the
past 800 years they have waged a war
to the knife against Christ and against
His Church, calling to their aid phil
osOphy and history as we'll as the
physical and natural sciences. They
have falsified principles, misrepresent-
ed facts and causes, disfigured history
and made use of every species Of
sophistry But truth, however often it
may be crushed, always rises from it's
ashes. Almighty God raises up from
time to time great men who refute the
enemies of Christianity, and cause the
light of truth to shine as resplendently
as when the Church first proclaimed it
to the world; and however desperate
may be the conflict, truth always tri-
umDhs in the end
Rome, by means of her Bishops, her
Priests and her Monks, preserved the
sciences from ruin in ages past; Rome
today is the great bulwark of progress.
which she advances by purging it of
the faint of error. The very enemies
of the Church owe to Rome all the
science which they now employ against
their benefactor. Rome stands upon a
rock and will not perish so soon as her
enemies imagine. The day of the
great detection is not yet at hand-that
day when shall be revealed the man Of
sin, the son of perdition, who oppose,h
and is lifted up above all that is called
God, or that is worshiped, so that he
sitteth in the temple Of God. showing
himself as if he were God. This day
of calamity has not yet arrived. The
entire episcOpacy, with all its clergy
and it's 1aity continues Joined by the
closest bonds to the Holy See and the
Roman Pontiff and the secret so
cieties gnash their teeth with rage in
the vain attempt to break the golden
link of unity. But woe to the world
and woe to the sciences on that ire
mendous day when Rome shall fall.
Let US then continue in union with
the Holy See, and gratefully accept all
means of it's DEGREES. Thus will we
advance in science with sure pro-
gress, certain that, with Rome for our
guide, we can make no false step. nor
ever deviate from the straight and mar
row path of truth.
Thirteenth Error: "The method and
the principles by which the old schoIas-
tic doctors cultivated theology, are not
in keeping with the requirements Of the
age and the progress of the sciences.
Retaliation: Scientific methods
consist in the due and systematic treat
ment Of any given subject; it is, con-
sequently, the proper means for this
discovery and elucidation of the truth.
Method is of two kinds; analytical
and synthetical. The analytical meth
cd proceeds from particulars to univer-
sails, from compounds to simple bodies;
it resolves the whole into it's parts and
examines each individual part thus
enabling those who employ it, to arrive
at a knowledge of hidden and mysterI-
Gus truths.
The synthetical method is a process
directly the reverse of this; it goes from
universals to particulars, from simple
elements to their compounds; from one
truth already known to others there
with connected; properly speaking, it
does not investigate, but rather aims It
the demonstration of the truth.
Now, theology has received its pr1fl-,
ciples directly from God through the
fundamentally of revelation. By which
of the two methods above mentioned
should these principles be treated? Ger
tain modern philosophers, not content
with bringing the analytical method 10
bear upon the natural sciences, have
also been pleased to apply it TO those
which are purely rational and psychoi-
ogical, undoubtedly with a view of ar-s
irving at a clearer understanding of the
upon which those sciences
are based; but they say that the same
method should be adopted in theology
and that. were it so adopted, great ad-
vantage would accrue to this science.