The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-12

The people who speak and write
against the Catholic Church give chap
ter and verse of the Bible for what
they say; why do you oppose them?
II you turn to the Gospel of st,
Matthew, w, 6, you will find that
Satan himself quoted the Bible when
he was tempting our Blessed Lord.
You may also observe that atheists
and infidels will quote the Bible for
you, in order to ridicule and mock all
religion. The Bible belongs to the
Catholic Church; when non-Catholic
uses it against the Church, he is like
a rebel or a hostile foreigner quoting
the laws and the constitution of the
United States against the Supreme
Court and the Government of the
country; he is simply presuming and
trespassing and the way to answer
him is to warn him Off
Catholics often speak and write of
the founders of Protestantism, as "Re-
formers" and call the revolt against
the Church by the name Of 1.-THE Ref
ormation;" is not this an admission
that Professionalism is an Improvement
upon Catholicity?
Men often acquiese in the names
and titles which other men assume
for themselves, merely for the sake
of peace and without admitting for
moment that the titles are justly
claimed. Thus every Kentucky man
has to be called Colonel" the man
from Missouri is supposed to be I'M
able to believe without convincing evil
dence; and Boston is thought by its
citizens to be the Hub of the Uni
verse" and they tell you that "You
can tell Boston man anywhere, but
YOU cannot tell him much" 1t is not
worth while quarrelling about this
sort of thing; most people do not take
it too seriously. Then it must be re-
membered that as Newman says,
when the English language was COM
ing to the birth with it's special at
tributes of nerve, simplicity and
vigor, Professionalism was at hand to
form it upon it's own theological
patois." The most brutal system of
persecution that history tells of COM
PEELED men, on peril of their lives, to
accept that patois, and to use the
titles which the founders of Protes-
tantism invented for themselves. The
funny Growing of Kentucky, Missouri,
or Boston, might become a serious
matter if it had been backed up by
three centuries of the gibbet and the
dungeon. When Professionalism work
ed itself out to it's logical conclusion
in infidelity and atheism, the infidels
and atheists saw no reason for chang
ing the misleading name OF the first
step of rebellion, which led logically
and necessarily to their own position.
In this way you can understand why
the criminals who are outraging every
elementary principle of morals and
Justice in Mexico, are called "Re-
formers" by a section of the American
press. Tt is done with the purpose of
familiarizing men with the notion that
any and every attack upon Christian
ity must be step in advance and
progressive movement. 1t must be
admitted that in this as in other mat
tiers, Catholics put up with far too
much merely for the sake of a quiet
life, il not for less worthy motives
In charity to the victims of the de-
fusion implied in the abuse of the
word reform" we ought to be ready
to take a definite stand for historical
and religious truth, whenever there is
a fair chance of doing good, of cor
recting wrong notions, of upholding
r,,,r. hnI,r Faith with advantage.