The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27

W0FnSnt
Because common sense and a re-
gard for Christian decency dictate
otherwise. There are higher reasons,
but these may have more weight in
satisfying your curiosity. Nuns could
hardly initiate some of the styles OF
feminine dress. Catholic Sisters, by
their vocation, have abandoned secu-
lar careers to devote themselves to
the service of God and humanity;
their religious habit is a perpetual
profession of their holy work; it is,
at the same time, constant rebuke
to many of their sisters in the world
who have blunted their sense OF pur-
ity by a cowardly submission to the
dictates of so-called fashion.
Did Christ, as a baby, realize what
He was?
Christ, through His human mind,
realized from the moment of His con-
ception what He was. He had the
beatifc vision from that time also.
Christ, at this very moment, offered
Himself as victim to His Father.
When one considers the signs and
wonders that accompanied the birth
of Christ, how is it possible that Sa-
tan could have ever been misled as
to Who Jesus was?
Satan was misled by the fact that
the Blessed Virgin was married. He
knew that the Messias was to be born
of a virgin, and the fact that moth
er could be a married woman and still
a virgin did not occur to him, for it
had never happened among men be-
fore.
What Is the meaning of the word
Emmanuel? Of Adonai?
Emmanuel is a name of Messias and
means God with u.s." Adonai is a
name of God 1t denotes the domin-
ion of God and signifies God as He is,
the Ruler, the Judge and the Avenger
of all things.
Is not the entire scheme of Chris
tianity predicated on the acceptance
Internationally of the Genetic account
of creation?
The facts of the first chapters of
Moses do touch the foundations of
Christianity. Christianity is based
upon Christs redemption and His re-
demption supposes mans fall. Moses,
however, was not teaching the in
nermost nature of visible things" nor
was he presenting a complete order
of creation in a scientific manner"
His intention was Ito furnish the peo-
pie with a popular account, such as
the common parlance of his age al
lowed" It is a mistake, therefore,
ito seek for scientific eXactitude of
expression" What Moses wrote is
history, not merely allegory much less
myth; he does teach the particular
creation of man; he does narrate the
story of mans fall. A we'll known
Catholic writer (Knabenbauer) states:
Considered in connection with the
entire account of creation, the words
of Genesis proXimately maintain moth
ing else than that the earth with all
it contains and bears, together with
the plant and animal kingdom, has
not produced itself nor is the work of
chance; but owes it's existence to the
power of God. However, in what par
ticular manner the plant and animal
kingdom received their existence:
whether all species were created ST.
simultaneously or only a few which
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whether only one fruitful seed was
placed on Mother Earth, which under
the influence of natural causes devel-
oped into the first plants, and an
other infused into the waters gave
birth to the first animals-all this the
book of Genesis leaves to our own
investigation and to the revelations
of science, if indeed science is able
at all to give a final and unquestion-
able decision. In other words, the
article of faith contained in Genesis
remains firm and intact even if one
explains the manner in which the diff
ferent species originated according to
the principle of the theory of evolu-
ton" The beginning of plant and
animal life is attributable to God s
power To show this was the inten-
ton of Moses; it was not his purpose
to show the precise manner how they
come from God.
Why is a man not allowed to be-
Iieve what he wants? This seems to
be the sensible attitude to take. ST.
You sign yourself Christian;
your allusion to our Lord justifes me
in supposing that you are Bible"
Christian You are willing, therefore,
to accept what our Lord and His in
spired apostles teach. Now the Bible
fails to sanction your believe-as-you=
want-to Christianity; in fact, we read
some very vehement denunciations of
that free-and-easy attitude. Thus, the
meek Christ Himself said: s'And
whatsoever shall not receive you, nor
hear your words, going forth out of
that house or city shake off the dust
from your feet. Amen l say to you
it shall be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of
Judgment, than for that city" Matt.
X, IA, 49, and Sodom and Gomorrha