The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
THE WORLD DOES MOVE

| should remember that Christ said, Il
am the Truth" and He also is +hc
Way to pursue it, and such pursuit
alone will give the true Life.
This suggests that the science Of
life, -biology-belongs in a peculiar
manner to the Church, for it is liter.
ally, a characterization of the consti-
tuition Of Christ's Mystical Body. We
know that Christ two thousand years
ago assumed Body like ours by
which to accomplish his purposes, and
since He is yesterday, today, and the
same forever" we know, too, that He
has assumed another Body in which
to continue them forever This lat
ter Body is the Catholic Church con-
sisting of 30O,0O0,0O0 souls, each soul
living and complete in itself, but los
ing itself too, to live the larger cor
porate life with Christ. Now it is a
mere commonplace of science that
organic life, in its higher forms, is
the result of an innumerable con-
glomeration of cells, each possessing
its distinct life but not living by it's
own virtue, but by virtue Of the
greater life of the whole. AS in the
science of surgery, we often see the
removal of portions of the body with
its disintegrating constituent cells,
so also, we behold the Church apply
ing the scalpel of communication to
the fostering cells that threaten the
Well-being of the Mystical Body of
Christ. 1t is therefore a very cir
cuitous mode of ratiocination that en-
ables any rational being to write,
but the Church is not yet ready to
demonstrate to it's people the truths
of biological causation including the
biological conditions and limitations
of disease and healing" This science
biology has withal in the hands of it's
modern step-fathers, become a cloak
under which innocent title countless
crimes are committed in its latest
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Scientific Truth.
OF course, the soul is left prac-
tically untouched by the speculations
of modern scientists, or if referred
10, as a science it is usually modified
by materialistic word, producing the
monster physiological-psyeh
Thus the tremendous fact that out
cf the devastation and desolation OF
the European war will grow in the
minds of men an unshakable convic.
tion that whatever has to be done
must be done by scientific knowledge
and scientific methods" may be modi-
fed for, if scientific knowledge be
transformed into scientific truth, God
will have been restored; work of
destruction will no longer be neces.
sary, if God be placed as the apogee
of creation and the end of human en-
deavor; the Brotherhood of men will
be established in the millennium of
love, and the Brutehood that now
exists, as the result of placing man
in a false position, will quickly pass,
when our materialistic scientists
realize that vain are their efforts to
reduce all creation within the
straitened limits of their puny minds.
There is but one Rock of Ages, the
Petrine Rock, crowned with the figure
of the Crucified Goldman still echo
ing His last words, Father forgive
them, for they know not what they
do" Socalled scientists will continue
to rave, CT rest securely in a state of
self-satisfied stupidity, and we who
view them from behind lattices of
faith, will continue to look upon them
with commiseration and sympathy.
Sometimes, however, we are forced to
take up the cudgel on behalf of their
long-suffering dupes, and on our own
behalf, especially when we find them
entering into regions wholly foreign
to their uninitiated minds.
And now TO indulge in a little
prophecy. One of the good results
that will grow out of the devastation
of the present European cataclysm
will, undoubtedly, be a return to God,
and our hopes are already justified.
The first shock of war was, without
doubt felt most keenly in the religious
sense of even atheistic nations. The
world is now passing through the
throes of a rebirth. The age of Sci
ence and Man has had its trial, and
has been found wanting. Materialism
is dying hard and it sings the swan
song:
III fares the land, to fastening Ills a
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay"
Religion is being conceived in the
warm womb of war-ridden Europe and
will again see the light:
When the war drum throbs no longer
and the battle flags are furled
In the Parliament of man and the
Federation of the World"