The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-11-17
A RIDICULOUS ARGUMENT.
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State.
Mark this fallacious reasoning and -.rn-..
smile
"AlI great religions have been GU up into ,rs.-
and parties. from the earliest Indian Chimes ru.--
to Mohammedansm as it exists at present. OH.
might suppose that the religion of pagan Rome
where nonconformity was often punished by bond.
or DEATH was a harmonious and homogeneous iu-..--
tuition. German erudition has revealed to us t..
fact that the paganS Of classic Italy We're cut nm.
into religious clubs and sects which were assem-
bled from time to time like the sects of the Pal
estlnlan Jews in separate synagogues or couvcu-
ticles. A noted sect of antique Rome was that af
the Augustini. who devoted themselves especially
to the ritual alteration of the Emperor Augustus.
and there we're hundreds of similar associations"
Because 10000 Mohammedans separate from
100O00,000 united in one body. or because 1000
600 Confucians depart from 4000OO.000 or becau~.
d0,000000 Catholics left their untold and unnuu.-
bered millions of brethren of fifteen long cent?,
ries prove dsunity,
Let us quote again from this Munbo-Jumfo
lingo effuSon:
"The Roman Catholic Church must not be- ez-
ceped. Its mouastc orders, its schools Of schoa,-
ticism, were all signs of its life during the Midd.
Ages as the working leaven that moved and vvi-
fed society.
In the Middle Ages the Roman Catholic
Church was divided up into different schools OF
so-called theology whose tenets no infable Popa
has rescinded. and the great religious Orders
DOminicans. Franciscans and JeSuits. stood always
daggers drawn. IF we were asked what might
be looked upon as the most natural the most con
venent, it is the most inevitable feature in all
great religious movements and instituionts. we
should be tempted to say individuaIism, the per
sonal element, the idiosyncracy which develops he
group, the party, the sect, with its predictions
its spontaneity, its life and liberty"
We need not this alone We can call
to aid ST. PauPs words in his first Epistle to
the Corinthians, first chapter tenth verse:
Now | beseech you brethren, by the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that We all speak the same
thing, and that there be 40 divisions Cor in the
Catholic version schisms) among you: but that We
be perfectly joined together in the mind and
in the same judgment"
As to the unjust nsinuaton made against the
unity of the Catholic Church because of the lido
syncraces of individual members of monastic or
ders, 1t Is hardly worth noticing except to show to
what depths of mental weakness men will some
times descend in endeavoring to prove something
they cannot, viz, dsunity III any age in the Cath
Ole Church, for as soon any body of
men gave evidence of disagreeing with this Church
they either had to recant they were cut off as p
withered branch from the true vne and were there
after known and recognized a schismatic BODY
Of the Catholic Church
The tenets of the Franciscans. Dominicars ard
Jesuits never came in conflict with the true doe
time as taught by their faith and Church In,li-
Vldual members became heretics. but that demon
SrIdtGt no uISullIOH LOT the fdpIQItT With WHICH
they were communicated by the ndestructiba
Sec OF Peter made their brains whirl IN contra
dlct!on to the Homiletic editors views these Cath
ollc monastic bodies who rank the higeet i'm the
clogy lit Inc pages of history. were lnremitsanfy
Yesterday today and tomorrow urhoi r.. and
struggling for unity and obedience. The vows such
ner took made any ''t1e" coarse impas IL unless
ne EIsieC to be false TO their dutv their con.
science and their Col
The Jesuits need 10 defense Thy ar" TOO
we'll kno'n to this present generation .rs phil2--
Crhtrs, ScFoars, ecce: astical statesp.er and for
tle'' Vows and mtiri II ii nrts ~ upnoldna t'r
doctrine of the Catholic religion that the Pope Is
the lawful, authorized successor of St. Peter.
But to revert to the tiresome factIess and ri
dlculous argument of the Review so far as il con
tends against the need of unity:
Christ prayed that the unity of his Church
might be like his own union with the Father. but
the union of the Trinity is not inconsistent with
the individuality of the three persons Church
unity then IS quite consistent with denomination
alsm 1t Is unity of spirit. a unity of aim.
UNITY OF intention and activity. which may exist
independent OF shlbbOleth, the cast-iron act of
I armament winch has never been any more effect
ual than Papal syllabus in controlling the croos
OF the knee in worship, or the creedal convictions
winch have always been claimed as matters sub
Ject solely TO the dctation of Christian liberty"
Church unity IS not and never can be consistent
WIN denomInationalism This Is the same doc
'1 u OF the late Henry Ward Beecher. that God
gIorlhed by the variety and number of sects
There are a great many ministers in the Epsco
Pailah sect today denying the virgin birth Of tn.
savior through the instrumentality of the Holy
Ghost! There are innumerabe ministers Of var
lous Protestant religions" NOW in the world de-
nylng and condemning vital doctrines-doctrine.
mat Christ taught Himself thereby contradctine
GOD denying the God that bought them
II one church is as good as another. as MANY
Hold and which contemporary Is trying to As
9gr1' then Dowieism is as good as Lutheransm and
HOLY Rollerism, in which they defle women -
g G1 as any other ISM but Catholicitv i
Chrlstlsm If there is any unity, spiritual or scrip
tural IN the Protestant bodies of today. from Io
1nerlsm; Henry the Eighthism. Dowieism, Mr..
Baker Eddyism, WesIevism Bootbism. VoIivsisrr.
Iloiy Rollerism to Buncoism and Hateism, We
would like to see it proven in black and white AM
Il mere can be any unity of any kind without an
organization endowed with authority to compel