The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-18
The Open Bible.

The Rev. William O'Brien Pardow
S. j., continued his series of sermons
at the High Mass in st. Patrick's ca.
thedral, New York city, on Palm Sun.
day. He spoke on ''The Catholic Church
and the Bible,' and said among other
things:
"one of the rusty weapons used
against the Catholic. church is the re-
| ported opposition to the Bible. If the
Cathollc church is opposed to the Book
/ OF God. 1t is not the Church of God
| The Catholic church was never in the
history of the world opposed to the
! Bible.
No Protestant dare say that the BIZ
Bile is completely Gods work. Martin
Luther taught that every other book
was only mans while the Bible was
Gods Book. The invention of printing
had great deal to do with the spread :
ing of the Bible. and it is humiiiating
TO the cultured mind to know that the
enemies of the Catholic church are at
lacking it because every man did not
IN nygone days have a gilt edged copy
! OF the Bible in morocco binding Had
Jesus Christ desired that the Bible he
gwen to humanity, immediately after
HIS mission on earth as a man was
completed, he would have taught His
IolloWerS the art of printing. All re-
cent examinations which have been
maze by scholars who are neither
catholic nor Protestant are bringing
ings. '-ioile 'edcn-
1T is looked on as great boon to tho
&c rs pllios that after we have rid them
Spain rule OF superstition we are
soIns 70 give them the open Bible and
are shlpplng carloads of these o,,icl,II,
thrown together translations E,,a,',
one knows that persons who have ,,os.o..
had more than year or two,s 90
qualntance with this almost unknoUC,,
language are incapable of giving aE
preston in it to Gods word as sbo,,I7
oe zone. L suppose these Bibles viii
take along with them Americas heir
loom, the institution and Increase of a.
vorce, unknown as yet to these movie
Christ said: Go. and teach He diJ
not say with Bibles, o
Inc Catholic Church gave the Rible
10 the people as. fast as it could when
printlng g was an unknown art: but tbe
!.c GatlioIlc church says there must be an
interpreter. No matter how cIear o,5
logical writings are certain words @rr ans
bound to take different and confnsins,
meanings as time goes on.
When Martin Luther in the early
years OF the sixteenth century. rose in
rebellion against the church. his hattie
cry was The Bible. the whole RihIe
and nothing but the Bible Rut wbo
among Luther's enthusiastic followers
would dare to raise the same battle crv
.ooay! Modern Protestant theology
uoes not place at its foundation stone
the lnfallibility of book.
The twentieth century is willing n
ADMIT the seemingly paradoxical state
Inent that the chained Bible of the !
Catholic church was, an open R;bIe |
would any citizen of New York main |
.aln that in this the city directory is q |
scared DOCK because in many cases 4 !
IS chained to the counter In apotbe- !
carries shops. And will. any American |
SllIzen SO far defame his country as to |
ueciare that the iron cup is chained IN |
lne FOUNTAIN in our cities in order IN /
water? " tue
1t is twaddle such as this that bo.
neen taught as history for 400 vasrs
1t is high time for men and won,e,, % %
oe more critical and refuse to accent
mere assertion in lieu of proof. The fact
: that before the invention of printing
!n 1888, not one person in 10. 600 could
possess a Bible, as the slow propress ~
copying by hand rendered the hooks 90
expensive. Hence the church in orsao
!, -,iat the people might read the word of
p;S, 1vd Ior themselves, had large written
olnies chained to the pillars of AZ
.alneoraIs. aIs. The Chained Bible tbaras
-ore, means when examined cr;.;aSiIs