The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-10

WuOSS CAUSE IdS UCSIl ulIuS1 SOLloloOA
alton. If the church could err in this
matter, it would be in error in morals
and religion; and Christ protects His
Church from such error The solemn
ity of the process and of the final
decree of CanoniZation shows that the
whole authority and power of the Pope
are involved, and that the Universal
Church is committed to the judgment,
and we know that the Universal
Church is divinely guaranteed from
error in matters of morals and re-
ligion.
Was ST. Peter married man?
Yes, before he became an Apostle,
a priest, and Supreme Pastor OF the
flock of Christ. But he said to Christ
after his call to the Apostleship:
Behold we have left all things and
followed Thee" According to st.
Jerome, whom many non-Catholics pro-
TESS to respect, st. Peter left his wife
as we'll as everything else to follow
Christ.
Did any council of the Church dis
cuss the question whether women have
souls? If so, what was the decision?
The question was never discussed by
a Council of the Church. The asser-
ton that it was, is one OF the count
less lies circulated by the enemies OF
Christianity, and greedily adopted by
the more bigoted and ignorant class
of Professionals Infdels and Protes
tants who wish to pose as learned
men say that the Council of Macon
raised the question. Nowhere IS
there q particle of evidence for this
assertion. In the official accounts or
Acts of the Councils Of Macon in the
years 5Sl and 585 there is not word
even remotely resembling the fable OF
the infidels. The Second Council OF
Macon legislated in favour of widows
and orphans, prOnOuncing severe pen
alties against their oppressors. The
historian, Gregory of Tours, in his
account of this second council states
a fact which the enemies OF religion
have distorted in their usual fashion
He tells us that one Bishop doubted
the propriety of applying the Latin
word homo that is man. to women
as we'll as to men. 1t was pointed
out to him that Sacred Scripture sc
applied it, when it said that God "cre
ated man, male and female, He ere
ated them" Genesis |, 2O. So too
said they, Our Divine Lord Himself is
called the Son of Man, because He was
the Son of a Virgin. 1t is just like
asking whether when you say Man
is mortal" you include women under
the term man" 1t was a question
of grammatical usage and nothing
else. But it will be distorted into
the old disgraceful calumny. as Ions
as ignorance and bigotry make lyins
against Gods Church profitable
trade.
Do convent schools in the city Of
Rome refuse to receive as pupils the
children of the officials of the Italian
government?
No. AS a matter of fact atheists
and infidels in Italy sheer at those Off
Gals of the government who agree will
many nOn-Catholics in this country
and in Europe in thinking that convent
schools are the best places for theil
daughters to learn good morals anC
goods manners. OF course, there may
be exceptional cases in which the un
fortunate children of goddess parent:
learn only too well the lessons cf {
goddess home. In justice to the limo
cent children Of decent parents, those
others must be kept out, So, too
Carranza of Mexico forbade his daugh
tiers to go to Confession even though
they were in a convent school whose
rules demand the Reorganization of the
Sacramento. When the superior o.
the school offered him his choice be
tween withdrawing his children a
once or allowing them to obey the
rules, he wisely chose the latter al
tentative. You will find that there is
something peculiar of this kind in any
case of exclusion that has been men
toned to you.
Why was circumcision abolished
Who abolished it? Was it not of di
vine institution and how then couIc
any man abolish it?
Circumcision was the sign of the
covenant between God and Abraham
and his descendants. 1t was not es
tablished by Christ, as you strangel!
seem to imagine. 1t was a type ant
foreshadowing of Christ and derived
all its efficacy from faith in Chris
the Redeemer to come. When Chris
came, it ceased to have value ant
meaning. To uphold circumcision
after the redemption was accomplished
would amount to a denial of the re
demption, and an assertion that cir
cumcision, apart from it's typical ant
foreshadowing office, had Independent
efficacy of its own. st. Paul wrote
TO the Galatians one of his most i'm
portant epistles to combat and refut'
this false notion of bigoted Jews. On,
of the solemn statements he makes
is Behold l, Paul. tell you that if yol
be circumcised Christ shall profit yol
nothing" (Gal.~V. p The Law o
Moses was our pedagogue, that is
schoolmaster and tutor, or better still
usher, to bring us to Christ that WI
might be justified by faith. But afte
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