The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19
FATHER COYLE'S REPLY

;, the maintenance of order than the de-
 fence of faith" Ranke, in the ottoman | and Spanish Empires, says "fhe lnqusi- | ton was state court. In the first place l the inquisitors were royal officers. The
 king had the right of appointing and dis-
 missing them. The courts of the lnquisi-
 ton were subject like other to royal vis-
 tors Do you not know, said the king to 1 Ximines, that if this tribunal possesses 1 Jurisdiction 1t is from the king 1t de-
 rives it''
 It Is we'll known fact that heresy was
 considered a crime against the state. The l Inquisition dealt with. in addition tc
 heresy. poygamy, witchcraft, treason
 and a variety of other offences.
 | The massacre of St. Bartholomews Day
 was largely due to the apprehensive nal
 ice of the queen regent Catherine de Med l ic who was a Catholic in name, athiest l In belief, and accustomed to have Calvin 1 istic sermons read to her during meals. l Charles TX, in reporting the massacre to
 the courts of Chrstendom, put a righteous
 construction on his bloody decd. He rep
 resented it as stroke of self-defense, whereby, "on a memorable night by the destruction of few seditious men the I king had been delivered of immediate
 danger of death and the realm from the | perpetual terror of civil war" Even | Queen Elizabeth, the great friend of the Huguenots, was apparently satisfied with l the explanation.
 On the strength of these words the
 Pope ordered q te deum. That the Pope l did not sympathize with bloodshed is ap- parent from the following extract from | Guizot's history of France, ascribed to q | Catholic authority.
 When, however, later on, a detailed and faithful account reached the Pontin. ! he condemned it al once and left no doubt | by the cardinal why he wept. Gregory an-
 swered: T weep at the means the king used, which were exceedingly unlawful
 and forbidden by God fear d judg-
 ment will fall upon him and that he will not live very long,.
 The Invocation of Saints (the creature l instead of the Creator. Consult cent | Catholic catechism for accurate informa-
 tion. For the teaching of the church on 1 relics consult the same authority.
 The Scripture, the only infalible guide | of faith and conduct Quod gratis as-
 seritur. gratis negatur. Nego.
 The incident of the lynching of the
 teacher by the clerical mob in Germany 1 is typical of the time. Excesses were
 committed by the ignorant and fanatical l followers of both parties. for human 1 strenuous men lived in a human strenu- | ous age, an age red with blood and pale with passion at white heat. Thank God
 such cruel days are gone, though they l fingered long in my native land and to be
 a little proudly personal in 179s an an 1 cestor of mine died on the scaffold for | fatherland and faith
 Mir. Editor. I left poor Calico till the end, thinking I could give him some spe- | cial attention. as his uneasy ghost seems | to stalk all through MT. Schools letter. He is brought forward as an object of | church opposition to science as an up-
 holder of the truism. the world do move. | ' r.ff. h atu ,nft ftar
 torical to treat of Calico and his troubles rather than to handle with care and very gingery mooted theological | topics With permission, them
 Centuries before Coperncus. an Irish
 scholar, vrgilius. Bishop of Salsburg taught the existence of antipodes. and two centuries before Calico the probabil- ity Of the earths motion was broached by Cardinal cura. But the learned l world merely tolerated the supposition and held firmly to the Ptolemaic or geo centric theory. About the middle of the 10th century, Copernicus. a Polish priest. published his great work on the revolution
 of the heavenly bodies The learned world
 was still unconvnced and the theory was looked on as d clever piece of gnesswork.
 In 159G. Kepler, the founder of modern astronomy, then teaching at the uniVer- sity of Tuebingen. offended the Lutheran theological faculty by advocating the truth of Copernicanism. The theory was by the faculty condemned heretieal and Kepler had to quit their university and find refuge in Jesuit college.
 Galieos first brush with the church scientists was in 1915. He advocated the theory of Copernicus. and concerned hin- | self explaining away the Biblical nut or his opponents Joshua's order compelling the sun to stand still. This brought him into the stream of exegetical discussion
 and certain churehmen denounced his