The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
LAYMAN'S SERMON.
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Private Interpretation of the Scriptures is the
foundation of Professionalism. Liberty to them is
the right to do anything that they have the power
to do True liberty action guided and con-
trolled by authority. Spiritual liberty means lib
erty under the law If citizen were permitted to
pick up and read the statutes his way, what would
this country be! How many on the street today
[ dare say there are ten thousand-who have
worked out a creed of their own from the Bible!
The result of the Reformation has been splitting
up of pieces 1t must be so. In the spiritual ORDER
just in the civil order, there can be true lib
erty without authority. What would your liberty
be without lawyers and officers of the law, and if
the courts were abolished, and if the burglar had
liberty without the restraint of authority? The
command that Christ gave to His apostles this:
"Teach all men for all time" That is the authority,
and under that authority are bound to have lib
erty. Just as in this country we have all the lib
erty that it is possible for man to have, there
froe in the spiritual order we have all the liberty
that can possibly be allowed under spiritual author
ity. The preservation of liberty for the American
people and the perpetuity of the law will in the
end have to rest upon those immutable doctrines
and teachings of the Catholic Church-that liberty
under the law liberty guided and controlled by
proper authority
The Catholic Church has been referred to by
some of our greatest as being the salt of the
earth-the preserver, the real, true preserver, of
liberty. The Church has always stood for the
rights OF the common men, I on know that
Catholic owes temporal allegiance to the Pope. We
have political allegiance on the one hand our al
lcgiance to country, and spiritual allegiance
the other hand, our allegiance to the Pope. Who
loyal than Catholic citizens to America?
The line is made clear between temporal and spir-
itual obligations When Christ said, Render
therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesars,
and to God the things that are Gods" He empha-
sized the necessity of allegiance to the government
under which live, but spiritual allegiance
must be rendered to Him who gave us our immortal
souls There is great duty resting on us now.
With my knowledge of Protestant affairs, say that
the American people offer the greatest field ON the
face of the globe for Catholic conversion There
are hundreds and hundreds of those now outside of
the Church who if the real truth of the Catholic
teaching brought to them, would follow in
your footsteps. There is not a Catholic doctrine
Catholic practice that cannot be absolutely
proved and demonstrated. An educated Catholic
laity is necessary to carry on this great work of
conversion and teaching The non-Catholc is
little bit timid about approaching a priest Give
them light, and when they get used to it, see that
we are able to give them a straightforward and
truthful explanation of what the Church really
teaches. Challenge them and ask them to read
Most Protestants have never read Catholic book
on Catholic doctrine. Catholics should patronze
Catholic literature. We have splendid books, pa
pers and magazines, but they too rarely found
in Catholic homes.