The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-07-26

How do the Ten Commandments of
the Protestant Church differ from the
Ten Commandments of the Catholic
Church?
That there are Ten Commandments
in number we know from the words
of Moses, who refers to them repeat
eddy as "the ten words that He wrote
on two tables of stone" (see Deut. iv,
49,. But the Hebrew Bible does not
divide them or number them. 1t is a
question of division. The Catholic
Church has always used the division
into three referring to God, and seven
referring to the neighbor. The Prot
estants in England divided the First
Commandment into two different
ones. The first commandment forbids
the worship of strange gods and idola-
try The Professionals make two COM
mandments of this; first, of having no
strange gods, and second, of making
no craven images to adore or serve
them. They did this to emphasize
their opposition to sacred images, as
they accused Catholics of worshipping
ten, they combined the ninth and
tenth commandments into one. This
Protestant division is far less logical
than ours. The commandment to
have no false gods, and to make no
images of them for the sake of wor-
shipping idols, is clearly the same in
meaning and scope-while there is
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neighbours wife and coveting his ma
terial goods.
What stand does the Catholic
Church take on the Greek Catholic
Church? Are its rites and ceremonies
regarded valid?
The Greeks, who are united with
the Catholic Church, are allowed to
use their own rites and ceremonies,
which are valid. The Orthodox Greeks
and Russians cannot be called Cath
Ole, for they have separated from
the Catholic Church. Their rites and
ceremonies would require little change
if they were to return to the Mother
Church.
Is not religion mere question of
feeling or emotion? have noticed at
REVEALS that the amount of religion
seemed to be in proportion to the ex-
element caused.
Not at ALL You must not judge
Christianity by the excuses of those
who have lost the pure gospel. The
Catholic Church protests most strong
ly against religion of mere subjec-
tive feeling, which at revival meetings,
under stress of great nervous excite
ment, makes the emotions take the
place of rational conviction. There is
nothing in the Scriptures to warrant
an absolute certainty of salvation. On
the contrary they declare that mo
man knoweth whether he be worthy
of love or hatred" (Eccles. TX, -, and
warn us ito work out our own saliva
ton with fear and trembling. (Phil
ii, 12). The Catholic Church, while
cultivating rational religious emotion
emotional delusion, by declaring faith
an act of the intellect guided by an
upright will, and helped by Gods
grace; and conversion possible only
by a heartfelt sorrow for sin commit
ted, and confession of the same to the
Ambassador of Christ Gil Cor. V. 20)
with firm promise to offend no more
A Catholic knows there is no danger
of deception, because he believes in
the authority of God, voiced to him by
the living, infallible witness of Christ's
mouthpiece, the Church of God.
What is the view of the Catholic
Church in regard to fate? Does the
Church hold that what is to be viii
be, in personal as we'll as other mat
tiers, and that events can not be in
fiuenced by persons in their own life
or outside?
The universe is governed by the
laws which have been established fol
it by it's Author, the Creator of HEAVIER
and earth. There are two worlds il
the universe-the material world anC
the spiritual world. Man belongs tt
both. BY his body he belongs to the
material, by his soul to the spiritua
world The material world is. subject
to fixed and necessary laws, with
which God interferes only in excep
tional cases, as for instance in mir
acles recorded in Holy Writ, and il
the lives of the saints. The laws Of
nature are not necessary in the sense
that God, who is a free agent, could
not have decreed otherwise, but in the
sense that His DEGREES, once enacted
are irrevocable. This fact is the basis
of all scientific knowledge. The
truths of physical science are based
upon the stability of natural laws. Goo
has given man intelligence to investi
gate the forces of nature, and to dis
cover their laws. BY our discovery in
physical science we are now in a posi-
tion to make use of natural forces
whose very nature is mystery to US
We can not define electricity, but we
flash our thoughts around the world
with it. We can now avert disasters
which in former times were consid
cred inevitable. We succeed in
stamping out epidemics, such as the
bubonic plague, cholera, yellow fever
malaria and smallpox. We know the
causes of accidents, and. with ordinary
precautions or extraordinary meas
urns wo can nravenf Them 0Tdi