The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-07


priest in st. Paul working specially in
the interests of the poor and of the
"down-and-outs"? 8. What do you
think Of Catholic who would join a
Protestant organization in order to be
assisted in giving up bad habits? Is it
not better to join such an organiza-
ton than to keep on in his bad habits?
l. Yes, there are Catholic slum-
workers. Consult THE Guild of Cath
Ollie Women" Wilder Building, St.
Paul; and "St. Vincent de Paul Soci-
ety." President, Mr.. James c. Nolan,
512 Capitol National Bank Bldg, St.
Paul. 2. This is the business of the
Reverend James Donahoe, City Mis-
sioner of st. Paul, 239 Selby avenue,
st. Paul. 3. There is no need for a
Catholic to join non-Catholic organ
iZation in order to reform. His pastor
will tell him what Catholic organiza-
ton he ought to join and what other
steps, such as prayer and the fire.
quentation of the Sacrament, he ought
to take so as to get on the right road.
To Join religious organization be-
longing to a non-Catholic sect is tan
tamount to joining that sect itself and
apostatising from the Church, and
therefore is sinful: it is poor way to
try to reform oneself, to leave the
Church which has all the means Of
reformation at her disposal.
Is 1.-THE Great Book" published by
the Indo-American Book Company Of
Chicago on the Index?
THE Great Book" was published in
the year 1904. So far we have not
found that it has been explicitly con-
demned. 1t propounds the notion
that all real wisdom in matters of
religion and morals has been handed
down by secret societies from ancient
India and Egypt, on through obscure
sects of heretics till it came to the
Freemasons. The Catholic Church on
the other hand is, according to it, just
Il coarse or vulgar form of ancient
Paganism, and is not even Christian
(this is enough to make it wrong for
Catholics to read it,. The book is a
mass of nonsensical and INGRAM
NAUTICAL rhetoric. Perhaps if it is to
be condemned, its condemnation
would be principally due to bad
grammar, nonsense and the false pre-
fences of it's absurd title, which may
tempt people to waste money and
time upon it.
4rNE e. LII arfI
Luther? Did they keep him in jail for
three years?
Both questions are to be answered
in the negative. At the Diet of Worms,
in the year 1921, Luther was placed
under the ban of the Empire for his
obstinate refusal to be reconciled
with the Church, and to abandon his
pernicious errors which afterwards
brought untold miseries upon Ger
many, as Protestant historians admit
But he was given a safe-conduct for
sufficient time to allow him to get
away. With his own connivance he
was taken by his friends and pro-
tectors to Wartburg, where he re-
manned in retirement for one year.
His friends in doing this wanted to
prevent him from getting himself and
them into trouble by his wild and
reckless and seditious language.
What is the difference between the
Catholic and the Protestant Bibles?
The principle difference is that the
Protestant Bible does not contain the
Books of Tobias, Judith, Wisdom,
Ecclesiastics, BaruCh, | and II Macha-
bees. This rejection of inspired books
is based on the fact that the Pales-
tinian Jews did not include those
books in their Canon, although the
Jews of Alexandria had them in their
Greek translation called the Septua-
gint This Greek translation is prin-
cipally used by our Lord and the
writer's of the New Testament. 1t is
more than one thousand years nearer
to the original than the very late
Hebrew texts used by the founders OF
Professionalism, and for this, as well
as for other reasons, modern Prot
estant scholars do not hesitate to
plflCl luG NlCSh vel olOi " lllS ldtC
Hebrew in many cases. Protestant
adherence to the comparatively mod
ern Hebrew text explains the diff
ference between their way of TAX
ing Hebrew names and ours. Ours is
derived from source nearer to the
original than theirs, and represents
an attempt on the part of the Jewish
scholars of 200 B. c. to render those
names into Greek. Other minor diff
ferences are due to deliberate at
tempts OH the part of the founders of
Professionalism to twist the Word of
God into agreement with their own
heresies. Several times Professionals
have felt compelled to try to revise
their Bibles and bring them nearer to
the originals. They always use our
Bible as we'll as other aids for that
purpose, and the more candid of them
admit this. while most of them quietly
forget to mention it. The Authorised
Version used by most English.
speaking Professionals was itself an
attempt TO revise previous Protestant
versions by his Majesty's special
command"
Why do Catholics keep Sunday and
not Saturday?
Catholics do so because the Church