The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-23
Two Schools In the Rsman Ca tholic Church.

To TEE EDITOR OF The SuN-Siy: The
little controversy that has sprung up In your
columns regarding Father Pardow's treat
ment OF his Calico question illustrates the
different methods pursued now by two classes
OF Catholic teachers and thinkers. There Is
the school to which Mr.. Lane belongs. which
holds that every scandal and blunder Of
Church history is TO be bluntly ackno wiedsed
This school faunts the instruction Of Pope Leo
to Catholic historians directing them to speak
the truth and only the truth. IL considers that
the operation OF what 1t calls the Curia, that is
the great executive Roman Congregations
tends In some respects to bring obloQuy on the
Catholic cause: hence II is glad to discredit
their more sweeping claims. And. Of course,
there is no more powerful weapon for this
work than the fact that the Congregations
condemned as false and heretical the hello
The other policy. which. roundiy speaking,
r. that OF the illustrious order to which Father
IS that the less said de about scandal:
the better: that. az Father Pardow pleads,
me criminal and civil law elbow the criminal
yet proved guilty; similarly every subterfuse
Il lawful In the evasion OF historic charges.
sS icl sSS prime ,ss
questioning obedience for although. theo-
infailibility. yet to permit Catholics In the
name Of science. or. In any other name.
W Huesuon tne ruunS OF tho CONGREGATIONS
may be a long time before such another un.
fortunate accident as the Calico one will
intellectual submission on the part Of Cstho-
Hes will prove the strongest bulwark against
the pressure Of science.
loyal and efficients That i Father Psrdo% W
That Il is enthusiastically the better seems 10 me
ence is due to my having enjoyed what shall
ever ever call the blessing Of Jesuit education.
snk should yet prefer tSe oondScs
shem and Japhet TO that OF Cham when their
father was surprised by human weakness.
erection OF Father 'Pardow are truer loyalty
and better policy than the reckless abandon
OF Mr. Philip Lane: A . the questions Of
the first two have been answered In your
Sunday paper. The remaining three may be
ana sSs p rs ts'o
:. % II the. Holy Inqusition did make, or
ness q the heliocentric theoryl would good
Catholics be bound to accept them'" Ger
as Would. good Catholic professors in
the statements Of The inaulsltion to b true.
.sE ~ha tSsy
Isl what ousSt a GOOD Catholic to do. to-
day. II the lnausition or the Index were to
for to ss ne oSsh to ass
rid OF bis personal belief a. quickly az possible
and adopt the belief Of the Congregations.
There IL an actual case In point A few years
ago most Catholic Biblical scholars OF emf |
nence denied the authenticity OF the scriptural
teIt concerning the Three Heavenly Witnesses. |
In 1897, the Con gre cations. Of which the dis |
Jesuit the late Cardinal Mazella
puKn the authen ticity OF the text Sinos that |
lime no Catholic professor dares to assert q |
contrary opinion or course. the first school |
that I referred to-whose numbers unfortu-
nately are rapidly growing in the countries |
where Catholic traditions have but little hold |
sense 1t is the glory OF the Jeeuits |
that they stand AZ the most incorporating
opponents Of all attempts to break with ira
itions that come down TO us consecrated
with the holy halo Of the past
JosHPH IoNATIUs CARROLL