The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-15
Calico and His Condemns ton.

10 The EDITOR Or HE S'N-'U' iu yo"'
paper OF yesterday. correspondent charges
me with "JesuiticaIly" avoiding the real issue
ia the case OF Calico. Now before educated
man No 1 states that educated man No.
has made such a mistake. educated man No.
should ] fancy have found out just what the
actual issue was
There was no question in this case Of the
infallibiity OF the Church. there was no Ques-
ton OF the condemnation OF the heliocentrio
system. which every educated man knows to
have been fact The question before me was
to explain this fact. that whereas Nicholas OF
Cusa who. more than a century before Calico.
taught the movement Of the earth, was not
conde mned but honored and made Cardinal
Of the Church; and whereas Copernicus. who
gave his name to the system. was q Catholic
priest and was not condemned. and whereas
the Protestant Kepler. who also taught the
Copernioan System and WAS prosecuted for 80
teaching by his Protestant brethren OF Tubin-
gen, but was received with open arms by tho
Catholic college Of Gratz and was offered q
chair in the University OF Padua by Catholic
Venice. the exact question, i say. was 70 ex.
plain how in spite Of all this appreciation OF
the heliocentric system stu, as deienoeo py
Calico. IL was condemned.
The only explanation that an educated
man can aRd y IN the dihefen. ethSas dS OF
strictly, scientific principles, and they were
nOnOreu, thllltO lDslSttu Oh oTo8kmo tho
Bible ipto the discussion and he was con-
The Church did great good to science BY
reasons for the system. Every educated
man now admits that Calico never proved
his thesiS; in his case i vas merely h na
earth around the sun as thesis. was false.
because not proved. Even the moral and the
guilty. because he is not yet proved guilty.
So Galileos statement was scien tincally not
true, because IL was not then proved true.
This looks like fair statement without any
'e'' wiILfas o Bnlrs PAHDow.s.
SEw YORK, April i3.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUS--Sn; II We are
In the full swing Of an age Of unbelief we are
also in the middle OF an era Of scientific dis
covery and our leading thinkers are occu-
pied with formulating and systematizing our
recent acquisitions OF knowledge in every field
of research and investigation This being
so. it is at least peculiar that the system OF
canonical repression should still be in force
however futile its exertions. against the ad-
mission and spread OF scientific truth among
the Catholic clergy and laity.
DR. Mivart in the Nineteenth Century OF
January. 1900. speaks OF Father Leroy,
Dominican, who was summoned to Rome and
forced TO recant and condemn what he had
taught; also Father Zohm. brilliant cleric
and clever apologist of the Church. whose
Evolution and Dogma brought him to the
wall Of intellectual discipline. Again. 1t is
recorded In the Contem pordry Rerier OF Au-
gust, 1894, in the body OF an article on In
tellectual Liberty and Contemporary Cathol-
icism- that the Able Loisy. the one man
in France. probably in the world. who could
IL indeed any human being can construct the
golden bridge needed to allow the Church 70
pass over the abyss separating science from
religion, has been brushed aside and trampled
under foot by his allies
some people might call the nature Of DR.
Mivarts work either in intent or form loon
oclasm, but when ! reed his Continuity Of
January, 1900 ! could find no unreasoning
zeal In thi. essay he carefully goes over the
that have suffered transformation or been
abandoned altogether by the most progress
sive men Of thought n that community. a
rtsr. one finds this stslwart champion Of lib
eralism protesting valiantly against the mode
Of Ss Sy tse pon The dnder
because Of his writings on bell
Robert Edward Dell. in the Nineteenh Cen.
s Xxx q, h in the Church and thus eE.
plains whv so many men prefer the Rratiffca-
lions OF the intellectual world TO the repres-
sion Of the orthodox spiritual communion
viz
,,sts must sniff theirs il they are TO justify God
10 the world they must be all things TO all men or
they will end In saving none. The philosophical
foundations on which the structure Of schoiasu
cism was but up sh with the natural result
Of lesWinS heap Of ruins, useless for purposes Of
defence and certainly very uncomfortable for hab
tstlou The Intellectual world. invited 10 inhabt
them nsturaiiy refuses TO do so and taking tho
word of the apoogists who invite IT, that the ruins
are the "Csthoic philosophy. remains outside
lists console themselves by the explanation that
The intellectual world Ia kept out by pride. Per
haps II Is. but the pride is not necessarily that OF
the Intellectual world
NEW YORK April -. A CATHOLIC.