The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-05-03

It was case of mo tickee, no
washee," -or, in other words. PAY
up, or nothing doing" During my
wait in the Office I had a chance to
read over last years report, and !
saw there large sums of money paid
by the city of New York for the keep
of patients, and a long list of special
benefactors, some of whom were Cath
olics.
I went home doing a heap of think
ing, and Immediately telephoned to
the House of Calvary at 5 Perry
Street. 1t was rude to telephone, but
u did. explained the case to the
Sister, not mentioning anything of
my mornings experience, and before
got halfway through she said:
Send both old ladies to us at once. !"
Moreover, she added: Whenever
you come across any such cases in
the future, let us have them without
delay"
The class of Catholics who like to
find fault with their own people, -
there you have them characterized,
the meanest of the mean. Contrast
with their attitude the disposition of
outsiders, distinguished non-Catho-
lies, in all the walks of life, who are
vying with one another in their COM
mendation and appreciation of Cath
Ollie genius and Catholic activity. In
the last year two works of apologetics
for the Church have been compiled
on the basis of just such evidence.
OF course there are defects in men
and methods and institutions. But
the people who shout their criticism
from the house-tops are not the ones
to come down and take up the burden
and help to make things better. Let
us leave the fault-fnding and detrac-
ton to the enemies of religion, who
are numerous and active enough.
The class of Catholics who like to
find fault with their own people" has
too, an intellectual or academic wing.
They are our advanced thinkers; .
some of them fall under another
designation formed by Papal judg-
ment. But, without being Modernists,
these Catholics have high regard for
the method" and temper" OF
heterodox and rationalistic writer's,
and a corresponding scorn for the
slow, if sure-footed, wisdom of Cath
Ollie scholars. This phase of the de
fusion is we'll analysed in recent
issue of America, in an article called
"a Snare of Rationalism," by the
Rev. Henry Woods, S. j. Referring
more especially to the study of Scrip
ture, he says: "This manufacturing
of regulations for the unorthodox
and the systematic depreciation Of
the orthodox, is common practice OF
the adversaries of the truth. Haeckel
is a great biologist; Wassmann is a
petty dabbler. Action was an historian
of tremendous weight, though his
letters to Mary Gladstone will hardly
bear this out. There are few works
so over-rated as the Cambridge Modern
History, which he planned. Its ar
ticIes are superficial, worthy only Of
a magazine 1t is expanded to twelve
large volumes by means of large
print, wide margins, and copious
photographers. The modern bibliog
raphy is a base imposition. 1t is
purely mechanical, rarely indicating
an authors research" And further
Father Woods writes.
| We have our historians of rea
worth, men of laborious research
Gasquets, Stevensons, Pellens, Bede
Camms, Moves, Janssens, and other;
too numerous to mention. But the
world ignores them; no self-suffcien
journalist ever calls them scholarly
learned, or profound We have haC
our writer's who, had they beer
against us, would have won fame
Where is there such an author or
ethics and natural right in the ration
alist host as Tapparelli, reconstruct
ing with rigorous logic the scholastic
system of ethics, to whom his sue
cessors, though not agreeing with hin
absolutely, acknowledge themselve:
to owe SO much? Where can one
find amongst our enemies such phil
osophers as the Neo-Thomists, Kleut
gen, Liberatore, Zigliara, Cornoldi
to mention only those who have
passed from this world? The Churcl
has amongst its faithful sons intel
lects of the highest order, and the
| cure for Rationalism amongst it
children today is to study their works
not to scott at them.