The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-06-26

1t is possible that a layman be
elected Pope. But Immediately after
his election he must receive Holy Or
der. This evidently makes it impossi-
BILE that a married man be chosen.
1t is true that Simon was probably
married before he was chosen to be
an Apostle, but it is he himself who
says: Christ, we have left all things
to follow Thee"
Why does the Catholic Church OBJ
lect to the Protestant Bible? Are all
Protestant Bibles the same? How do
we know that the Catholic Bible is the
right one?
Whether the Protestant translation
is correct or erroneous, the Catholic
Church objects to it chiefly because
it was made in violation of the divine
authority of the Church as the teacher
of mankind in the religion of Jesus
Christ. 1t was made in pursuance OF
the Protestant plan to set up the Book
against the Church. 1t was made to
support schism. 1t was made in in
subordination to the Church establish
ed by Christ and in defiance of it.
Another great objection of the Cath
ole Church to the Protestant version
of the Bible is that the makers of IT.,
without authority, without knowledge,
without the illumination of the Holy
Ghost promised by Christ to the
Church which He established, pre-
sumed to declare certain parts OF the
Bible as not sacred and canonical,
not inspired, apocryphal. They there
fore, left out of the canon OF scrip
ture seven books accepted by the
Council of Carthage and the Council
of Trent, and declared by the Catho-
lie Church to be part of Holy Writ
These books are: Tobias, Judith
Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and
first and second books of Machabees
They dared to omit parts of other
books, namely, Esther, chapter TO-
verse a: Esther, chapter 16, verse "a;
Daniel, chapter 3, verses "a to 80;
Daniel, chapter Is, verse 1; and Dan
lei. chapter IA, verse AZ. They have,
therefore, multilated the Bible and
Church as maintained for more than
1900 years.
The King James version of the Bible
has many errors of translation. They
are too numerous to specify them.
Thomas Ward made book of them,
together with errors in the transla
lions made in 1862, 1877 and 1879.
His book is called "Errata OF the
Protestant Bible; or the Truth of the
English TRANSACTIONS Examined" 1t
showed the erroneous translatlons OF
passages of the Bible relating to the
Church, to the Blessed Sacrament, to
Priests and the priesthood, to cell
bacy, to baptism, to the confession OF
sin, to the Blessed Virgin, to sacred
images, to Purgatory, to justification,
to good works, to free will, to the
sufficiency of faith alone, to Apostolic
traditions and to the sacrament OF
marriage.
Protestant scholars know that the
so-called authorized Protestant Bible
Is incorrect-that instead of being
the pure and unadulterated word OF
God, it is in many passages the word
Of erring men. They long urged the
making of a new translation. rms
was done between 1871 and 1885
when the so-called Revised Protes.
tant version appeared. Now, the men
who made that revision adopted rule
to make as few alterations as posi-
BILE, yet, in the New Testament alone
they made about 10000 corrections
How many they made in the whole
Bible, no one has yet counted. Many
other changes were proposed, espe
cially by the American members OF
the revision committee, which were
not finally adopted.
In all the translations-from those
made by the first Protestants down
to the last Revised Version, there
has been a constant tendency tc
recognize the Catholic version as cor
rect. Even the King James Bible
was modified by the Catholic transla
ton of the New Testament made al
Rheims in 1882. 1t would probably
also have been affected by the Douay
Catholic version of the Old Tesla
ment made in 160S-10 if that had been
published before the King James
translation was completed in 1604-11
But the Revised Version is nearer
to the Catholic Bible than it is to
the Groat Bible of 1889, or the Gene
van Bible of 1860, or the Elizabethar
Bishops Bible of 1868, or the King
IamaS RihIA nf 1911
The Catholic Bible is founded or
the Latin translation made by st
Jerome.
Protestants still have all sorts Of
versions. The Lutherans have Lu
Tiers; the Calyinists, that of Gen
eva; the Zwinglians, that of Ewing
Illus; the English-speaking peoples
have the various translations above
mentioned, but they now nearly al
use the King James.
All these translations differ essen
TALLY from one another. The pure
and unadulterated word of God" il
changed to suit the taste of German
Lutherans, Swiss CaIvanists and Eng
lish Episcopalians, Presbyterians anC
Methodists. The Bible has a differ
ent religion for every one of them.
To the Catholic Church Christ en-
trusted the work Of teaching all ma
tions. To it was given to treasure
and to explain the Scriptures. It ha:
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