The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

in last weeks issue the following
question was answered in the mega
tive: rs TheIma the Name of a
Saint?" One of our clerical sub
scribers sends us the following COM
munlcation, for which we are deeply
grateful:
In parts of the Lyonnese and Jura
regions in France, many women are
baptized under the name of Anthelma,
and are later commonly called Thel-
ma, as many here are christened EifZ-
abcth. and afterward called Lizzie,
Liza or Eliza. What is the reason SO
many bear the name, Thelma? The
episcopal see Of Belley, in the region
above mentioned, was occupied from
1853 to 117S by St. Anthelmus, who,
prior to his elevation to the episco-
pate, had been the seventh general of
the CarthuGian Order. Like many of
the Monks Of those troublous times
who afterwards became Bishops, An
thelmus became one Of the most fear
less champions of The rights OF the
Church, and through his earnest
efforts, the king of France joined Eng
land in UNFOLDING the authority of
Pope Alexander III against the Anti
pope Victor " and his protector,
Frederick Barbarossa. Whilst bat.
thing for the Holy See, Anthelmus
practiced all the virtues of a holy
Bishop, and endeared himself to his
flock to such a degree, that, down TO
this day, after the lapse of nearly
eight centuries, his feast, on June &c,
is kept yearly as one of the great holy
days in his episcopal city and the sur
rounding district. In nearly every
family in that region one. of the sons
bears the name of Anthelme, or one
of the daughters the name of Anthel-
ma, Anthclmettc or Thelma.
Will you not admit that refor-
nation was needed in the sixteenth
century?
We will readily grant that a refor-
nation in the lives of many unworthy
Churchmcn of the day was impera-
lively needed, and that unless many
Catholics of the period had been liV-
ing most corrupt lives, they would
never have abandoned the Church of
Jesus Christ The Catholics loss of
faith is ever traceable to the breaking
of the Ten commandments. The
Church felt this keehly herself, and
reformed many abuses at the Council
of Trent, 1545-1563.
But once grant that the Church is
Il divine institution founded by Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, to teach and
save men for all time; once grant
that He promised to build it secure
forever against all attacks of hell, and
TO guarantee it's pcrpetuity by His
own abiding presence and that of the
Holy Spirit, and the right of secession
can in no way be justified.
AS long as our country remains a
country it will ever have the power
to reform by law the abuses inevita-
bic to any government among men.
If, for example, city became full of
corrupt officials, we would not be JUS
titled in trying to destroy it, but
put the proper men in power So the
Church, in like manner, has within
herself the power to remedy any
abuses that may arise. You do not
cure man of cancer by chopping off
his head
A so-callcd reformation which de-
MED the constitution of the Church,
nj ne ht.ic
ner of Christian worship-Holy Mass,
handed down from the beginning, was
not Of God.
st. Paul put it plainly: Though
we, or an angel from heaven, preach
d Gospel beside that which we have
preached to you, let him be anathema."
The very lives of the Reformers;
the immoral, destructive, unchristian
doctrines they taught-v. g., private
Interpretation of the Scriptures, JUS
LITIGATION by faith alone, total de-
pravity, the slave will, God the author
OF evil, the denial of the sacramento
aystem-are proof positive that the
Reformation was inevitably a tenden-
cy toward utter unbelief
Whence again, Catholics ask, the
right of Luther, Calvin, etc. to teach?
What were their credentials? "How
shall they preach, unless they be
sent?"
No wonder, then, that the Reform
crs themselves admitted that their
Reformation did not reform, but on the
contrary led to intellectual, social,
moral, and religious deterioration.
This is amply shown in work drawn
exclusively from Protestant sources,
THE Reformation, its Interior Devel-
opment and its Effects" by Dollinger,
Ratisbon, 1868.
Could you kindly say whether only
ono Bishop was present at Bishop Car
rolls consecration--our first American
BIshop-as claimed by High Church.
men as an irreguIarity?
In response, 1t appears, SO far as
the records go that there was only
one Bishop at the conservation of
Bishop Carroll.
II is true, and strange as it is true,
that the High Church clergy of the
Protestant Episcopal Church maintain
that Bishop CAROLS conservation was