The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-12
SOME CLAIMS OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH.

(a) She is the only Church Christ
founded, even if Whittaker's almanac
names more than a hundred sects for
England alone.
(b) She is the only One, Holy, Cath
Ollie and Apostolic Church.
Co She is the only Church whose
ministrations reach the children of all
nations.
(d) Her philosophy and theology
presuppose in those who study them
some education. They were never
meant to be understood by self-or-
dained exhorters or self-immortalized
sciolists.
(e) The greatest poets, literateurs,
scientists, general scholars, philoso-
piers have, in 80 per cent of the
cases, been Catholics. What was Pas
teur? What is Lorenz, Van Roentgen,
ETC.?
(f) Even Darwin got his cue from
the Schoolmen.
(g) The great scientists who are
not Catholics are not Professionals
either; they are infidels. So are the
best theologians outside the Church.
CatnUffc argument, wren fr dUes not
win them, at least smokes them
out"
CHI The Catholic Church is the only
one where poor and rich, ignorant
and learned, feel equally at home.
I'D She is the only Church that can
win Newman, a Manning, a Won
Stolberg, a Schlegel, Brownson, etc.
Cd She is the only Church, as
Comte de Nun says, who can give
Gods answer to the agitated social
body.
(k) She is the only Church that can
boast of hundreds of thousands of
monks and nuns. what is the sacri-
fee of a Christian Endeavorer when
compared with that of priest,
brother and nun among the lepers?
% She is the only Church that
tries seriously to save the child.
(m) The only Church that has civ
ilized the world. Here and there
others turned up, once the savages
lost their thirst for blood.
(n) There is even, as the late
Father A. F. Hewitt, C. S. P, once
said, a distinct charm in the word
Catholic for those who retain the
Christian tone and temper of mind.
(o) She is the only Church infidels
find worth fighting.
Cpl Christ was fought by all classes
of men in Jerusalem; His Church has
inherited the common hatred of all
heretics, infidels, Jews and schis-
MATES.
CD The unbroken chain of her
Popes form the backbone of general
history. Luther is dead, but there is
still Pope.
(r). The Church, as Archbishop
Hughes once said, is not foreigner
on any continent or island of this
globe
Isl She is the only Church that can
speak with authority, and the only
Church that truly, respects the Bible.
(t) She has given the artist, the
musician, the sculptor, the architect,
etc., their noblest themes, the themes
that immortalized them
| (u) She is the only Church that de-
serves the common hatred of such
blackguards as Luther, Calvin, Henry
VIII, Zwingli and Knox, and such
cads as Chiniquy, Combes and Glenn.
enceau.
(v) She is the only Church that
bears full message to the world.
(w) The Church that can make a
man confess his sins, although she
can have him sing hymns, strain his
eyes, and strike his breast in the
bargain.
(x) She is the only Church whose
doctrine can bear the scrutiny OF
common sense.
W Like her founder. Jesus Christ
she never changes. Her priests can
not teach and preach according as
every wind of doctrine moves.
! Cd She is the only Church that has
never yielded, never faltered, never
gone back, never made compromise
with infidelity, never let go the Old
Testament or the New, never hest
tated in the conflict with kings OF
people when Christianity was al
stake. She defied King Hal and dis
obeyed Napoleon -7fdnos,