The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-26

what is a num-
what is the Holy Ghost?"
.1yhy do Catholics always have q
cross about their house or person."
who has charge Of Purgatory?"
what is the apostolic mode Of bap-
tism?"
why do you count beads for pray
DO not Catholics worship pictures
and images that hang in their
churches
why do you make your members
Vear shot and corn in their shoes when
they are bad?"
.Do YOU believe. the pope is infalli-
DE" III so how could Napoleon have
taken him prisoner to France. and why
did he not wrest himself from the
clutches Of Napoleon
The above are some of the questions
that We're asked of the priests OF the
Missionary union who are lecturing 10
uon-Cath0lics in Kentucky. They jndf-
cafe more than ordinary ignorance Of
things Catholic Missionaries of ey-
rerience i'm various parts of the conn
tiT can tell pretty well the character
of he questions that viii be put TO
them, but Tor genuine simplicity of
form and for dense ignorance of mat
ter one must get into the south
In the New Hampshire mission. con-
Quoted by Father Sutton. the question
box was an interesting feature .'whv
de priests Wear beards?" was a oues-
zion that had haunted the soul of one
truth-Seeker. why do you pray to the
SAINTS was another, and DO YOU
pretend to deny that Luther did n great
4F .tlllT work yNhnr Ia,
BI.'-. was volunteered by a person
age whose gray beard and venerable ai.
would bear evidence of better sense
new sect has sprung up in that
vicinity, called The Holy Ghost andl
s.. one OF their leaders attended the
lectures and handed in this question: |
II priests have the power TO for |
give sin. why dc they not have the now |
cr to heal the sick, as our Savior did ."
Answer: Christ came into the world,
established his church and founded the
priesthood for the welfare of our souls.
The object Of all he did had this in
view. lie desired our spiritual welfare.
hence he gave no direct power 10 the
priests over the body as he did over
the soul Christ was God and had DOW
er over spirit and matter. hence he
could by his own power restore sick
persons to health.
The following must certainly have
1uzz ed Father Sutton, as the emphat-
c cuesuoner sweeps away the only
possible answer:
Please make it known why priests
are IA the habit Of preaching in Latin
when the congregation are ignorant OF
what he is saying? Now, don't say for
M excuse that they do not do it be-
.auso have heard Them
A priest Of the New York apostolate
writes. The questions We're nurner
Jus real Protestant questions. about
'onyents and the public inspection
hereof and the sale of indulgences.
hat Peter was never in Rome. etc. One
luestloner asked about the locking up J
VI nuns in converts against their will. y
lever thinking for a moment that dav :
liter day he saw on the streets Sisters
# Charity, who could run away if they {
liked on appeal To d policeman or to a q
'roteSiant citizen for aid. As proof he I
uoted from the twenty session of
b" council Of Trent a paragraph I
which Is not in it at all, nor ANYTHING I
lie H. But he saw it in an anti-Cath- /
dc book. He must have doubted the I
tatement somewhat, for he asked if it f
we're authentic. If il takes hundred a
lulhS 10 catch lie. ] wonder when u
We WIll catch no with all the lies that c
ave been told about US for the last "
700 years The same uuestioner want C
d 10 know if this decree. as taught by "
he Catholic church in the 'Monita Sc c