The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-18
ReIisi0n--A Matter of BUSINESS.

: WHAT tlSy Say 10 True VI uOl, 10 dAOGA-
Ser question. So -s'@ ~
Answer: The teachers, the professors
of mathematics have to teach as they
do; they are paid for that. Is there
!, fore the science of mathematics doubt
;, full? Certainly priests must preach
as they do, but not because money,
but truth compels them. And they
preached the same doctrines in times
of persecution, when they we're not
paid, and many went to prison or even
to death, just because they preached
these doctrines.
VII. Religion and Science.
Objection Religion and faith do
not agree with modern science.
Answer: According to Lord Fran
els Bacon this is bad sign for the
so-called modern science He writes:
Superficial knowledge perhaps leads
away from God; but thorough knowl-
edge leads back to God. nv
When the late famous French
scientist Pasteur was asked how he,
as Scientist, could be ferVent Cath
Ole, he answered.: lust because Il
have studied thoroughly, l enjoy the
faith of peasant of Brittany; had
studied more, | would also have the
faith of a peasant woman of Brittany"
After the Paris exposition of 1867
scientist wrote to his friend: "Do
YOU know who, at the distribution of
prizes, got the greatest applause? 1t
was P. Secchi, s. j., prince of astrono-
mers. l dined this evening with the
elite of the greatest scientists, with
Wheatstone, the inventor of the
stereoscope, with Staas, the greatest
chemist of Belgium, with famous
Portuguese, and with celebrities of
America and England. OF these
thoroughly learned men, who have be-
come gray in earnest study and work,
not one thought to deprecate and
disparage religion or to substitute
science for it, as do the learned
quill-drivers. No, true scientists are
humble and bow down before the
Divine Majesty" lie Jeune Apollo
giste, p. So.
In October, 1899, Emperor William
ii. said in speech at the centenary
celebration of the high school of
Charlottenburg: Amazing is the prog
ress of technics in our days; but it
was possible only because the Creator
/. of heaven and earth gave to man the
faculties and aspiration to enter
deeper and deeper into the secrets of
: His. creation and to know always more
and more the forces and laws OF
nature and to make them subservient
to the welfare of man. Thus technics
, like every earnest science, leads back
! to the origin of all things, the
Almighty Creator, and in humble
5 thanks we must bow before Him
Only on this foundation, on which
: also the departed Emperor William the
Great lived and worked, can the
efforts of our sciences produce last
ing results"
Besides, the same God is the author
of religion and of nature of which
latter the various sciences treat. Blu
God, infinitely perfect and truthful
can not contradict Himself. True
science and true religion, both having
God for their author, can not be il
contradiction. Only those who have
but smattering of scientific knowl
edge and know still less of religion
4 but more than make up in presump
tious pride for their lack of knowl
edge, always pirate about "the con
tradiction between science and re
I hgion." The greatest scientists o.
\ all times have been believing Chris
tians.
On this subject the Vatican Coun
Gil Tin 1870 says. But although
faith is above reason, there car
never be any real discrepancy be
tween faith and reason, since the
same God Who reveals mysteries ant
infuses faith has bestowed the light O
reason on the human mind; and Goo
can not deny Himself, nor can trutf
ever contradict truth. The false ap
pearance of such contradiction i:
mainly due, either to the dogmas o
faith not having been understood ant
expounded according to the mind O
the. Church, or to the inventions O
opinion having been taken for the yer
diets of reason. We define, therefore
that every assertion contrary to {
truth of enlightened faith is utterly
false" (Sess. III. CHI. ", On Faitf
and Reasonl.
WIZ Freethinker.
Objections: ! don't need any relig
ion; lam freethinker.
Answer: / am of the opinion thai
you are, neither free nor a thinker
Think once freely that 3 times
makes Is, or that the North Pole il
near Washington, or that you owe me
$4,000. You are bound in your think
ing by truth and facts.
In the same way we believers arr
bound to the we'll founded and authen
tic facts of Revelation and its incon
testable truths.
In what does your freethinking con
sist? Perhaps, in the fact that &C
cording to your within you accept one
truth and reject another, that yor
concede one fact and deny another
that, is just as we'll authenticated.
So "think" children and fools.
When Theirs in 1S49, spoke st the
Parliament Of Paris on the freedom
of education. he was interrupted BY
someone with the remark that the
Church was the enemy Of freedom d
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