The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-11
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- making a living. And if they find il
Impossible to quit it. then let them
| sLIlNe with all their might to remove
1ue occasions of sin from themselves
ana from others. Let them not sell
| ~ nm either TO minors, or to those who
| - lofesee VIII go, to excess Let
ueln keep their saloons closed on the
{ hoi DAY. Let them at no time per-
I mn mn on their premises blasphemy. ours
/ uIs or obscene language. But if through
shelf action or with their cooperation,
! eisloh IS dishonored and men are LED
! - rum let them remember that there
- an AVenger in heaven who will Ger
ldlIly demand of them a terrible retri-
4 catholic saloonkeeper whose sa-
looh Is evidently an occasion of sin to
:Ihers Is not a Catholic in good stand
ilg' For although he may attend Sun
uay mass. ne cannot approach the sac
IdHlents Of pennance and the Eucharist
uIlul he promise amendment. Member
snip with US however, does not mean
enrolment on the churchs books but
IS a right God-given in the sacrament
OF baptism. No matter how low a man
may have fallen. the church is always
ready like Christ, to go after the lost
sheep Of the house of Israel. Public
eNcommunication is a penalty she
rarely employs.
10 the JesuitS teach that good end
Justifies bad means?
No: although this calumny is repeat
ed time and time again despite its fire.
quent REPUTATION. 1t is evident that
those who make this charge are ig-
norant Of the very first principles of
catholic ethics, unless we are to as
crlDe their false statements TO down
right malice. The teaching of Catholic
theology is plain: If a man perform
a good action for bad purpose. or a
bad action for a so d purpose. his con-
duct i'm both instances is immoral
Conduct, to be good, always presup
poses two conditions: First, that con-
science declare the act good i'm itself: |
and second, that it declare the inten-
ton good with which it is performed.
Thus, Clement VII did not grant di-
Norce &c Henry VIII. even though its
granting might have saved England to |
the church. for divorce is contrary h |
the law of Christ; or again, the Catho- |
lie church absolutely forbids craniotu- |
my, even though a physician might de |
clare it the saving of mothers life. |
We challenge. therefore, our obiector |
TO bring forward one passage from any |
approved theologian-Jesut or not
who maintains that a good end justi-
fies bad means.
We hold. on the contrary, that tins
was a principle of Martin Luther. He
with other reformers allowed the
Landgrave of Hess to have two wives.
the better to be continent, and again
urged him to deny publicity that Mar
garet Won Sala was his real wife, t
avoid scandal. Here plainly we find
polygamy and lying justified; and the
principle set forth that it is lawful to
10 evil that good may come. Verres
Life of Luther" CHI. xxi, PIP. 312 ct
seq
Frequently i'm this country and
abroad the Jesuits and Catholic laymen
nave offered thousands of dollars to the
Protestant who could produce one
Jesuit author who had given utterance
o this false teaching. The challenge
las never been accepted save to the
Of the challenger, as in
me instance of its acceptance at the
University of Heidelburg in 1872. Lit
ledale's statement in the "Encyclo-
,eda Britannica vol. xiii, p. 661, is a
malicious calumny, as any one can see
" consulting any Jesuit theologian
American Catholic uarterly, 1888, p.
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