The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-03-11
Religious Life is Always Prosperous
and Crowned with Success in
the Church of Rome.

and Crowned with Success in
the Church of Rome.
Holy in the apostolic age, holy in
the middle ages, holy in our own
DAYS the Church admits of no COM
promise in the holiness of her doc
trine and her practices. Corrupt
Catholics are not the Church. Neglect
ed grace is pictured in their faces.
The Church's mission is to elevate
fallen human beings, whom she does
not repudiate, if at all possible, but
persistently, though gently, prays and
works for their conversion. Though
absolutely holy in her doctrine, the
Church may have some children who
Weld to the suggestions of their evil
inclinations Human nature is cor
rupt and prone to evil. She trains
to virtue those who observe her
commandments and to eminent holi-
ness those who keep her counsels.
Knowing by experience the wicked
ness OF their human nature, mortals
stupidity and uniustly, malign priests
and nuns, totally ignorant of the
power of divine grace bestowed on
them. Licentious, sensual and dis
honest unbelievers would judge others
after their own corrupt hearts, Be-
yond the pale of the Catholic Church
there is practically little or nothing
of the supernatural rampant material
ism is invading the minds OF men.
The world, religiously speaking, is
practically divided into two camps,
the camp of Catholicity on the one
side, and the camp of infidelity on the
other.
The Church Not Opposed to Intellect
ual Progress.
The guardian of a fossilized creed,
the Church, the enemy would claim,
stands in the way of health advance
ment and impedes her dupes from
approaching the triumphs OF human
reason. What reasonable being would
dare refuse the Church of Rome the
honor and well-merited title of the
fosteress of arts, the patroness of
literature and the mother of civiliZa-
ton. The Church, the divinely COM
missioned teacher of mankind, en-
ploys her energy to unite the human
will with God, after having freed the
human intellect from erroneous princi-
Dles and enlightened it with Chris
tian truth. The old universities of
Europe owe their origin to her sons,
Catholic kings and Catholic princes
and were often erected under i'm
mediate papal inspiration. Away
back in the so-called dark ages, Cath
olic seats of learning flourished in
all Catholic countries. The Church
of Rome always promoted primary
schools and encouraged men of learn
ing. AS early as in the first century
of the Church, episcopal schools were
erected in each bishopric. Her zeal
for the advancement of education in
the past is being evidently renewed
in our own beloved country, peopling
it with schools, colleges, seminaries,
yea a grand Catholic University, seat
ed in our very capital in Washington.
The genuises of the gorld have
mainly belonged and do belong to
the Catholic Church. Behold the
magnificent list of thinkers and
writer's that is found in the annals of
the Church of Rome.
The Church Fears Not Light.
The more educated non-Catholics
become the less there will be of anti
Catholic bigotry and the more con-
verts to Catholicity. The more Cath
olics acquire of true knowledge, the
better Catholics they will be and the
better citizens of the world Knowl-
edge is not prejudicial to piety. The
greatest intellects of the past centuries
and of the present century have prac-
ticed faithfully the one, true, Catholic
religion. The Church of Rome may
he truly styled the author of science.
To write the history of science, is
to bring out most prominently the
Church of Rome.
The Church Not Opposed to Material
Progress.
Tenacious of her antiquated tenets,
the Church, according to the state
ment of the enemy, needs not the
dictates of scientific men and thereby
arrests the onward march of civiliza
ton. The Church indeed has rehabili-
tated manual labor, which was in
ancient times reserved for slaves and
has diffused true and solid principles
of political economy. The Church
defies the world to prove that she ever
opposed material progress. Her bene-
diction rests on all legitimate indus
tries. Are telegraph, electric, railroad
and steamship systems contrary to the
doctrine of the Church? No Catholic,
on account of his religion, ever hest
tated to take advantage of the well
come, modern inventions. 1t is alb
solutely contrary to truth to affirm
that the Church checks the progress
of art. The Catholic Church is the in
spirer of architecture, sculpture, paint
ing, music and poetry. Our Catholic
masterpieces of art, in Europe, are
renowned for their workmanship,
their fineness of taste and their
grandeur. No museum is equal to
that of the Vatican, situated under the
very roof of the Pope of Rome. These
masterpieces, tradition re-echoes,
sprang from Catholic inspiration,
from Catholic labor and from Catholic