Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14
INF ALLIBILITY'
DOCTRINE TOLD
BY MISSIONARY
Rev. John B. Harvey Gives
Fifth Talk to Non-Catholics
in Local Church.

Rev. John Bernard Harvey, a
Paulist missionary, gave his fifth lee
ture Of a series on the Catholic re-
ligion last night at the non-Catholic
mission being held in st. Bridgets
Church this week. His subject was
''Papal Infallibnity" The attendance
was the largest so far OF any of the
services.
Father Harvey is conducting
question box in connection with the
mission, and answers all questions
relative to the church before the lee
ture each night.
"Confession" will be the subject OF
bhe lecture at tonishts mission.
Some of the questions asked and
answered last night were:
"What is the teaching of your
church about hell9"
s'Hen is a place Of everlasting pun
ishment,s said Father Harvey in an
swer. "There are Just three things
that all Catholics are strictly obliged
to believe about it. ID There is such
place; 20 it is a place of punish
ment; go the punishment thereof is
everlasting. As to whether or not
the fire of hell so often mentioned in
Holy Writ is Just like the fire we
know here on earth, Catholics are at
sions They are not agreed on that
point According to the common
teaching of Catholic thinkers, the
pain of loss, /. e., the being eXiled
from Gods presence and the reallza-
ton of what that exile means, is the
chief and essential punishment of
condemned souls"
what are indulgences2 % was an
other question.
"a 80 SD
''is not as some people have for one
reason or another fancied, a permits
sion 10 commit sin. Nor is it the
pardoning of sin. Indulgenees are
never gained by one who is in the
state OF sin. 1t is the remission in
whole or in part of the temporal pun
tshment due to sin. That God does
infiict comparatively slight punish
ments upon us for our sins even after
they have been forgiven is quite clear
from Scripture. In il Kings, PA,
we read that to punish King David
for sin already forgiven God took
from him the child that had been
born through his sin.
"Now, an indulgence IS a remission.
q canceling in whole or in part of
just such temporal punishments. The
church grants them on condition that
certain prayers or good works be Of
fered to God, and she grants them
by virtue of the power conferred upon
her when Christ said. whatsoever
thou shalt bind on earth, shall be
bound also in heaven whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth shall be
loosed also in heaven Mathew, Is:
Is"
why do Catholics believe there is
a place of everlasting punishment"
was also asked.
we believe there is such a place,
said Father Harvey in reply, be- |
cause God has affirmed its existence. !
A mere glance at the words OF our
Lord settles the question for a true
Christian, IF thy hand scandalize |
thee. cut it off. it is better for thee
TO enter into life MANNED than hav-
ing two hands to go into hell, into
unquencha bic fire, where the Worm
dieth not and the fire is not extln- !
guished' Mark 9-42). The Son of /
Man shall send his angels, and they /
shall gather out Of His Kingdom ali :
scandals. and them that work mi /
guilty and shall cast them into the /
furnace of fire. There shall be weep /
ing and crashing of teeth tMatthew /
bad. Then shall He say to them /
also that shall be on His left hand; 1
Depart from me. We cursed, into ever /
The devil and his angels. And |
these shall go into everlasting pun
ishment' (Matthew p. Alto. From !
Christ who is the Way. the Truth !
and the Life there is no appeal We
must, therefore, believe with fear and
trembling that there Is place OF
everlasting punishment.
Beginning with the words of the
decree which promulgated The doc
on a hon
Harney gave a brief analysis of the
doctrine,
'InfallibihtY means. he said.
freedom, not merely from error but
froua the possibility of falling into
error. This prerogative is guarau-
iced to the Pope, successor Of st
Peter. and through MIN TO the
church. not with reference to all
branches oil human thought and
knowledge of faith, but simply and
solely in matters OF faitl and morals.
Even in this sphere his freedom from
the liability of error is restricted. II