The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-19
Why are Catholic priests called

Fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the
Gospel | have begotten YOU" BY
baptism we receive the supernatural
life of grace which makes us children
of God: the priest is the ordinary
minister of baptism, used by God as
His instrument in imparting the life
of grace, just as our natural parents
are used by Him in imparting the life
Of nature. The priest provides for
the spiritual nourishment and protec-
ton of souls by preaching, sacrament
and prayer. He spends his life for
his flock and loves them with super
natural charity. Think over these
reasons and you will understand why
Catholics call their priests by the
sacred name of Father.
Why is the Catholic Church opposed
to free thought and free press?
Free thought in the sense of the
Church's enemies means liberty to
think what one pleases. Now common
sense tells us that it is wrong to
think thoughts that are impure, un-
just, uncharitable, blasphemous, her
etical, atheistical The Church just
makes this dictate of common sense
definite and ineligible. So, too, every
decent man objects to the printing of
filth, of treason, SANDER, deliberate
indictments to plumber, murder and
other anti-social crime: and the
Church gives conference and hearing
to the objections of the decent man.
The Church has authority and a duty
to define and urge our conscientious
obligations in the matter of evil think
ing, evil writing and evil reading:
and she is assisted by God in dis
charging this duty, so that her de-
cisions always accord with the truth
Of reason and of revelation.
Why is Saturday specially dedicated
to Our Lady?
1t is time-honored tradition and
deeply-rooted opinion in the Church,
dating from the earliest ages, that the
Blessed Virgin was the only individual
who at the time of Our Lords Passion
and during His rest in the sepulchre
never waVered in her confident belief
that He would rise again from the
dead The Apostles and chosen fol
lowers of Christ, like all their fellow
countrymen, expected that the Mes
siah would be a majestic secular ruler;
that kings and peoples from the ends
of the earth should come and bow
down before Him to pay Him homage;
that through Him, the great LaWgiver,
the Father of future ages, would
WELD the sceptre of David and Israel
should rule all nations.
When they saw the Master to follow
Whom they had given up all, to Whose
teaching they had listened, at Whose
miracles they had marvelled, arrested
and dragged before the Roman
tribunal, His career cut short at so
early a stage, Himself satiated with
suffering, scOurged, loaded with OBJ
loquy, sentenced to the ignominious
death of traitor; they forsook Him
and fed Only st. John remained
with the Blessed Mother to see the
last of the Lord Whom he loved. After
ward he Joined the other Apostles;
and when, on the third day, they as
sembled together, with the faint lin
gering hope that HE who should have
redeemed Israeli might yet make good
his promise and appear again on earth,
st. John too, with the rest, felt, as
the hours sped by, that their cherished
hopes had proved sad and sorrowful
delusion. Even st. Peter, who had
professed his faith in Our Lord so
boldly,-St. Peter, the rock on whom
the Church was to be founded, shared
in the general disappointment and
dependency.
Mary alone of all Christ's followers
and fervent disciples was not scandal
lied in him; she alone did not distrust
His word, did not despond at the
sight of his sufferings, His abase.
ment, His death. Ii is on this account
that Saturday is specially dedicated to
her. She was the purest, the humblest
of all; and here we have the reason
Of her invincible perseverance, her
mistaken faith, her constancy and
fidelity when all appeared lost. Fitting,
ly indeed, then does the Church con.
secrate the day intervening between
LHdC Wn6F0OH We ate OuA
Lords bitter death and that of His
glorious resurrection to the honor OF
the one who alone, despite all appear
ances, believed that on the third day
He would infallibly rise again, tri
umphant over death and the grave.
Is there any law or regulation of the
Italian Government according to which
the Pope must be always an italian?
There is no such law or regulation
and if there were it would be of nc
avail. The late Pope Plus X abolished
the veto of Austria and forbade the
Cardinals to support such veto in
time to come, under pain of eXcom
munication. A Cardinal upholding
the intrusion of any secular govern
ment into Papal election would
simply place himself outside the Cath
Ollie Church.
How do we know that the Catholic
Church is the true Church of Christ
If you are Catholic you know il
in two ways: First, by faith. st
Augustine would ask you how yol
know your parents to be your parents