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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
CHURCH PLAYED GREAT ROLE IN
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY,
COUNCIL OF -TRENT-WoNDER
FuL WORK ACCOMPLISHED.

1t is a remarkable fact, which even
the unbeliever cannot fail to observe,
that in all her encounters with her
enemies. bitter and powerful as these
have been in the centuries since her
foundation, the Church has not only
been victorious, but the very weapons
of her assailants have been turned, in
the order of Divine Providence, into
fresh sources of life and grace. In
recent years it was stated by a GER
tain modernistic writer that the
Church in this country was fast losing
ground, and that enlightened Ameri-
can Catholics would soon throw off the
yoke of papal serfdOm. Hardly had
the encyclical, Pascendi Dominica Gre
gis, and the other documents pertain
ing to Modernism, made their appear
ance when they were accepted with
the eagerness and joy of devoted chill
6ren by priests and people alil as
another welcome opportunity to mani
fest their loyalty to the Holy See;
and so, thanks to Modernism, the
Church in the United States is today
stronger in the faith of Peter than
she ever was, writes Rev. T. Il. Dono-
van, in Extension Magazine.
But we have more wonderful evil
denee of this perennial youth of the
Church in the great religious upheaval
of the sixteenth century. AS with
Modernism, and the more ancient
heresies, so also in the socalled
Reformation, the Church's bitterest
and most dangerous enemies proved
to be those of her own household.
Luther was himself priest and a
member of religious order. He had
received anexcelient education at one
of the best universities of his day
and became subsequently renowned as
a great teacher and theologian The
great movement of detection inau
gurated by him could -be withstoo6
sonly by complete and explicit re
statement of the whole content o.
Catholic. teaching; and thus it was
that what may be called the Catholic
Reformation finally took the form o
a General Council, to which Luthel
himself. in 1913, had appealed in The
hope of being able to defend his here
teal doctrines.
From the earliest days of Christian
ity. General Councils have been thu
means used by the Church to defene
herself against heresy and to pre-
serve intact Christian discipline ant
morality. In the history of the Churcl
there have been twenty of these gen
eral or oecumenical councils, as the.
are called, the first being that 9
Nicaea in S25, and the last that of tn
Vatican, convened in 1869, which ha
not yet been formally closed. a Ger
eral Council represents the universe
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
LETTER OF THE MOST REVEREND
ARCHBISHOP.

To the Clergy of the Diocese of St.
Paul.
Reverend dear Father:
In accordance with the Proclama-
ton of the President of the United
States, public prayers will be offered
at the principal Mass in the churches
of the Diocese of st. Paul, next Sun
day, October %, for the salvation of
the country in the crisis through
which it is now passing and the tri-
umph of it's armies on the battlefield.
The form of prayer to be used is
the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus,
followed by the Collect from THE
Mass in Time of War" as taken from
the Missal of the Church.
The Collect.
Let us pray: o God Who bringest
war to nought and overcomest by Thy
powerful protection the enemies of
those who hope in Thee, help Thy
servants imploring Thy mercy, that
overcoming the attacks of our enemies
we may praise Thee with unfailing
thanksgiving. Through Jesus Christ,
Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and
reigneth with Thee in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, God, world without
end. Amen.
X JOHN IRELAND,
Archbishop of ST. Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION

preme teacher and ruler of the Church,
is necessarily the head of General
Council; in fact, such a council con-
vened without his sanction and au-
thority is unthinkable. This authority
he exercises either in person or
through his lawfully appointed legates.
On the other hand, it is because an
oecumenical Council is an assembly
of the bishops of the entire world that
it is invested with the supreme dignity
and majesty of the Ecclesia Dozens,
and that it's final judgments and de-
cisions bear eloquent witness to the
Faith of Christendom. These final
and universal judgments on questions
of faith and morals are therefore the
ultimate object of General Council.
Never, perhaps, in the history OF the
Church was this object more fully at
tanned than in the Council OF Trent,
the deerees of which to this day con-
tinue to be our thesaurus of Catholic
dogma and the norm in so many mat
ters of ecclesiastical discipline.
Heresy of Luther.
Just as the first General or oecu-
menical Council-that of Nicaea CA.
D. 325)-was occasioned by the here
sizes of Arius, so the nineteenth aecu-
menical Council was called in answer
to the hereSies of Luther and his fol-
lowers. Paul III, who was Pope from
1884 to 1549, even while he was Car
dinal Alessandro Farnese, had urged
the calling of General Council, but
after hrs election his plan to imme-
diately convoke an assembly did not
meet the full approval of some OF the
Cardinals and was moreover energetic
| ally opposed by some of the Protestant
and other rulers friendly to the Prot
estant movement. Nevertheless, in
1886 Paul III issued a Bull of Convoca-
| ton; but it was not until after sec
/ ond Bull had. been issued that the
/ Council was formally and Solemnly
/ opened at Trent in December, 1916.
The sessions of the first weeks were
devoted to arranging the order of bus
mess and to determining the matters
/ that should come up for discussion by
| the Fathers of the Council. 1t was not
4 until the fourth session, one year later
that the first dogmatic DEGREES were
FINALLY adopted The first decree or
reform was promulgated in the follow
4 ing fthe fifth session, and in the sixth
session, in many respects the most i'm
portant of all, the dogma of justifica
ton was set forth at length in con
demnation of the prevailing heresies
Justification by faith alone is right.
considered the basis and source of Lu
/ theirs heretical teaching, aiming, as /
i does, at the very foundation Of Chris
tian morality The influence of sucl
fundamentally immoral doctrine coul'
Il only be Offset by a simple and com
s plete declaration of the gospel teach
i ing regarding justification; and. thi
g Is to he found in the decree on justif
Ilcation above referred to. In unlnis
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Priest Killed in Accident
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF ST.
MARY'S COLLEGE RECEIVES
FATAL INJURIES IN MILWAU-
kEE.

Rev. Leo ]. Lyons, S. j., vice-presi-
dent of ST. Mary's College, Kansas,
in 1911, under Father Breen, and a
teacher at that college for a number
OF years previous, was killed Satur-
day afternoon, October 13, in MiIwau-
kee, Wis. A railing at the top of the
bleachers at Marquette University
football field gave way, plunging spec
tators to the ground distance of IS
feet. Three boys were seriously in
jured in the crash.
Father Lyons was brother of
Capt. Harry Lyons of the First Mis-
souri, Infantry. Another brother is a
banker in Columbus, Ohio. Father
Lyons was born and raised in St.
Louis.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Catholic Leaders Views
ERZBERGER MAKES TWO iMPoR.
TANT SPEECHES.

! Herr Erzberger made two interest
ing speeches to two large Catholic
assemblies in Germany on Sunday
last The Centrum deputy, speaking
Of the lofty message of the Holy, Fa-
ther, in which occurred the sentence.
Nations do not die,i said no op-
preston of any people should be tol-
Grated and thatathe world must under
stand it was impossible to suppress a
whole people. He declared we were
advancing quickly towards such a
world peace as was desired by the
Pope, spoke of the future of Belgium
in general terms, and outlined the
probable creation Of q Polish state Of
Lithuania
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
REGULATIONS ON PREACHING

also priests who, being invited in this
fashion, knowingly accept and preach,
are to be punished by the ordinary.
8. When there is question of a
preacher who does not belong@to the
diocese, the faculty to preach must
be in writing. Also the place and
kind of preaching must be designated.
9. Faculty to preach is not to be
granted to extra-diocesan priests or
to religious of any order, until after
a favorable answer shall have been
received from their ordinary or su-
perior.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Soldiers and Abstinence
PERMISSION GRANTED TO THEM
TO EAT MEAT ON FRIDAY.

The Holy See has granted to sol
diers and sailors of the United States,
in active service, the permission to
eat flesh meat on any day of the year
except Ash Wednesday, the vigil of
Christmas, the vigil of the Assunlp-
tion august 14) and the last three
days of Lent This privilege extends
also to the soldiers family living. with
him, but not if living apart. To use
this privilege, soldiers and sailors
must be in active service and not on
leave. They may eat. meat even on
the above days if nothing else is to
be had.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
President Will Attend
Pan Mass

President Wilson has accepted the
invitation of Mgr. Thomas to attend
the annual Pan-American Mass, to be
celebrated in St Patrick's Church,
Washington, on Thanksgiving Day.
The President has repeatedly de-
clined such invitations, although his
predecessors, Messrs. Roosevelt and
Taft, were present every year during
their term of Office since 1908, when
this function of a Thanksgiving serv-
ice participated in by the represen-
tatives of all the governments on this
continent, was inaugurated.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Statue of Plus X.

BY Astorri, the sculptor chosen to
complete the monument to the late
Pontiff in st. Peters, a block of
marble weighing twenty-four tons has
ravezza, and will be shortly trans
ported to Rome. Preparations are
already made in the basilica for the
reception of the foundation Of the
statue. The statue will be twice the
natural size.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Will Observe Centenary y
SPAIN TO COMMEMORATE cARDl.
NAL xiMENEZ'S. LIFE
AND WORK.

A short time ago the people of
Spain celebrated the centenary of the
great Jesuit theologian, Father Sua-
rez; now they are about to observe
the fourth, centenary of the death OF
Cardinal Ximenez, regent of the king
dom in its most dourishing days,
founder of the University of Alcala
de Heuares lin which was one time
incorporated an Irish college), and
author of the famous polyglot edition
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
CHAPTER 1
BY WHOM AND IN WHAT MANNER
PREACHERS ARE TO BE
CHOSEN.

1. Bishops are reminded of the
principle laid down by the, Council of
Trent that the duty of preaching is
the peculiar province of bishops. The
enactment of the Council is then re-
called, namely, that the word of God
should be preached by the bishops in
their own churches. In other churches
this duty is to be discharged by the
pastors or others appointed by the
bishops. This duty must be fulfilled
on Sundays and on the more solemn
feasts; and no one, whether a secular
or regular, even in churches of his
order, is permitted to preach against
the wishes of the bishops.
2. Since preaching is the peculiar
duty Of the bishops and the appoint
ment of preachers belongs to him, no
one, either validly or lawfully, may
choose or invite preacher, even for
his own church, and none of the cler-
gy, secular or regular, may lawfully
accept such invitation, unless within
the restrictions laid down in the ar
ticles that follow.
3. Parish priests, in virtue of their
office, enjoy the faculty of preaching
subject in all things to the diocesan
regulations.
4. In all other cases, to preach tc
the faithful in public churches or. ora
tories, even those of regulars, and even
by priests who are regulars, it is nee
essary that the faculty to do SO be OBJ
tanned from the ordinary of the dio
cese.
5. This faculty, in accordance with
the prescriptions of the new Code
Canon 1341, is to. be sought +.
a. BY the superior Of regulars, the
rulings of his own order or congrega
tion having been observed, fol
churches of clerics who are regulars
b. BY the parish priest, for the
parochial church and other churches
dependent upon it:
C. And if there be a question Of
the parish priest of church belong
ing to religious order, the faculty
is sought by the same parish priest
for sermons for which he is responsi
BILE;
d. BY the director or chaplain O
a confraternity, for it's own church
e. By the priest, who is pastor of {
church, for all churches of lay re
ligious, nuns, or private persons.
6. The request to obtain a permi
should be made at a time opportun
for the ordinary. This time, as rule
shall not be less than two months
unless otherwise determined by tn
Bishop.
z. Those who, taking no accoun
of the obligation of seeking the fat
ulty, invite priest to preach, an
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27

President Wis., has designated
Sunday, October 2S, as day of pray
er for the triumph of American arms.
He issued this proclamation:
Department of State, Oct 20, 1917.
By the President of the United States
of America.
A Proclamation.
Whereas, The Congress of the
United States, by concurrent resolu-
tion adopted on the 4th day of the
present month of October, in view of
the entrance of our nation into the
vast and awful war which now afflicts
the greater part of the world, has re-
quested me to set apart, by official
proclamation, day on which our peo-
pie should be called upon to offer con-
certed prayer to Almighty God for His
divine aid in the success of our arms;
and
Whereas, 1t behooves a great free
people, nurtured as we have been in
the eternal principles of justice and
of right, a nation which has sought
from the earliest days of its existence
to be obedient to the divine teachings
which have inspired it in the exercise
of its liberties, to turn always to the
Supreme Master and cast themselves
in faith at His feet, praying for His
aid and succor in every hour of trial,
to the end that the great aims to
which our fathers dedicated our pow
er as a people may not perish among
men, but be always asserted and de-
Tended with fresh ardor and devotion
and through the divine blessings, set
at last upon enduring foundations for
the benefit of all the free peoples of
the earth.
Now Therefore, 1, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, gladly
responding to the wish expressed by
the Congress, do appoint October 2S,
being the last Sunday of the present
month, as day of supplication and
prayer for all the people of the nation,
earnestly exhorting all my countrymen
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
New Catholic Leader

In place of DR.. Spain, who was re-
Gently appointed Prussian Minister of
Justice, the German Centre Party has
chosen Herr Groeber as First Presi-
dent of the Reichstag.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
St. Vincent De Paul Society
NOTEWORTHY REPORT OF AID
GIVEN IN PAST YEAR.

The. recent annual convention of
the Superior Council of the ST. Vim
cent de Paul Society was held in
Louisville, KY. John j. Fitzgerald, of
Philadelphia, member of the Superior
Council, submitted the following re-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
TO Recall Historic Event

The Catholic Historical society Of
ST. Louis has started movement to
celebrate the centennial of the re-
establishing of the Catholic Church In
the Mississippi Valley, with St Louis
as it's center. On January 6 it will be
100 years since Bishop Louis William
W Du BoHrg took up his residence in
ST. Louis, and made the Missouri
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
Remember Bishop Rosati

Al Mass is offered periodically at
the old Cathedral in st. Louis for the
Rt. Rev. Joseph Rosati, first Bishop
of that see This is one Of about
forty founded Masses said for bene-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
CHAPTER 3.
THINGS TO BE OBSERVED OR
AVOIDED IN SACRED PREACHING.

/. No one should undertake to
preach without worthy preparation by
study as well as by prayer.
2. The matter of sermons must be
essentially sacred 1t is entirely and
absolutely forbidden to all preachers
to treat OF politics from the pulpit
3. 1t shall be permitted to no one
to preach funeral eufogies unless by
previous and explicit permission of
the Bishop.
4. To the study of Sacred Scrip
ture should be joined the study of the
Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
5. Reference to profane writer's
should be made very cautiously; and
the authority of persons who are liv-
ing should never be brought forward.
6. The preacher should look not to
the applause of his hearers, but to the
salvation of souls, and the commenda-
tion of God and the Church
Z. The custom of employing news
papers or posters to draw hearers be-
fore the preaching is to be absolutely
reprobated and condemned, no mat
ter under what pretext of good it
may be done.
s. The preacher should accommo-
date himself to the ordinary intelli-
gence of his hearers, both in reason
ing and in the use of language.
CHAPTER ".
This chapter deals with matters per-
| tanning to the manner in which the
Bishop should act with regard to
preachers of various kinds.
CHAPTER ".
| In this chapter rules and regula-
tions are laid down for bishops and
religious superiors with regard to the
education of aspirants for the priest
hood.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
PRAYERS FOR AMERICAN VICTORY

PRESIDENT. FIXES NEXT SUNDAY
AS A DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE
SUCCESS OF THE AMERICAN
ARMY AND NAVY-PRAYER TO
BE SAID IN CHURCHES OF ST.
PAUL DIOCESE BY ORDER OF
THE. MOST REVEREND ARCH
BISHOP.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
DEGREES ISSUED BY THE SACRED
CONS1STORlAL CONGREGATION
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RE-
CENT ENcYcLlcAL OF THE
HOLY FATHER ON PREACHING.

The Holy Father recently sent forth
an encyclical letter on preaching,
which appeared in The Catholic Bull
letin several weeks ago. On June
% the Sacred Consistorial Congrega-
tion published series of rulings ex-
planning the practical application of
the Sovereign Pontiff's letter, and con-
tanning certain regulations which are
put into effect at once. These DEGREES
are comprised under five chapters,
synopsis of which is herewith pre-
sented:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
CHAPTER 2.
FITNESS TO PREACH.

/. 1t is enjoined upon the bishops
to exercise the utmost care in grant
ing permission to any one to preach
the word of God.
2. The ordinary means for ascer-
tanning the preachers fitness is an
oral and written examination to be
undergone by the candidate before
three examiners.
g. Based on the result or the ex
animation, the Bishop may grant a
particular or a general faculty to the
candidate to preach. The Bishop
may, however, for particular reasons,
waive the above examination.
A. All other religious superiors
may appoint their own subjects to
preach within the enclosure of the
religious house or monastery, always
in conformity with the prescriptions
of the Code, Canon 1888; neverthe-
less, if they wish to permit one of
their subjects to preach in public
churches, the churches of their own
order included, they are obliged to
present him to the ordinary of the
place for examination.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01
WHY THE WAR STARTED,

1t was the assassination of an Aus
trian prince in Servia which served as
a pretext for starting this world war,
But well informed people know it was
the ambitions of Kaiser Wilhelm II,
who had long been preparing to en-
large his domain at any cost, that
threw the nations Of the earth into the
vortex of armed conflict. Greed for
power is behind it all and if America
had not enlisted with the allies to pre-
vent the spread Of German militarism
In Europe the people of this country
would soon have been called upon to
defend themselves against the. en-
prachments Of this nation Of murder
srs on our own soil. tg# s
This war, according to Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills. Of Boston. had its origin
In a meeting held at Potsdam Palace
in 1892. twenty years ago. On that
occasion the Kaiser placed in the
hands of his friends a confidential
document; at the head of the document
were these words: "THE PAN-GER-
MAN EMPIRE" The second line read
From Hamburg to the North Sea to
the Persian Gulf" The third line
a "Our ultimate goal-by 1916
2~5O,OOO,O0O of people" The fourth
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01
Certain Cure for Group.

Mrs Rose Middleton. of GreenVille'
Ill. has had experience in the treat
ment of this disease. She says, "When
my children were small my SOB had
Group frequently. C~hamberlain's
Cough Remedy always broke up these
attacks Immediately, and I was never
without it in the house. I have taken
it myself for coughs and colds with
good results"
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01

Earliest American White settIe,oem

q most ancient white settlement
in the United States, while once
!nought to be st. Augustine in Flor
1oa, which Was founded in 1865. IL
now thought to be Tucson, Arfz-
which is said to have received a char
ser in the year 1862.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01

That pound of wheat flour YOU save
every week will weigh very heavily on
the Kaiser's mind.
Corn mullins are mighty good fol-
breakfast. Eat them several times a
week and help win the war.
The cause of food conservation
offers to every American citizen a
chance to render a patriotic service
that does not entail a sacrifice.
= = =
What YOU save from what YOU
serve will help turn the scale against
Kaiserism. Think of this when you
sit down to eat.
You don't want American boys to
die needlessly. Saving food in Amer
ican kitchens will save lives of Amer
lean boys in France.
President Wilson says American
women can do most to help win the
war by enrolling as members of the
Food Administration.
. = =
Every bunch Of vegetable leaves
use for green's instead OF throwing
them in the garbage a is a boquet
on the grave of P~russianism. Save
your bit!
Abraham Lincoln ate corn bread,
and grew to greatness on it. By eat
ing corn bread today you can help
make secure those things for which
Lincoln gave his life.
Unless our allies are fed they can't
fight. To feed them is one of Ameri-
cas- vital obligations in this war. Do
your "bit" by enrolling as a member
Of the Food Administration.
American boys who die in Europe
will die in vain unless American wo-
men do their part. Isn't that a
thought to stir you Your part today
Is to enroll as a member of the Food
Administration, so that American boys
will not have to bear the battles
brunt alone, and on this side of the
Atlantic.
The son of the woman who lives
cross the street is in France, fight
ing to protect your home and your
daughters against the horrors of a
German invasion. Aren't you willing
to help him win his fight by practicing
small economies in your kitchen If
you are, let the world know it by sign
ing the pledge card enrolling as a
member of the Food administration.
Consider the squirrel. If he lives
In Chicago he doesn't run to Kansas
City or San Francisco for something
to eat. Nor does he sit dowa and
wait for someone from one of those
places to bring him something. He
goes out in his IMMEDIATE neigh
borhood and gets the food that grows
there. That's a valuable war lesson.
If every American housewife would
do the same it would not only conserve
the country's war foods for export to
our hungry aIlie7, bit it would help a
lot toward solving the transportation
problem in this country.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-01
Head and Heart.

You cannot educate the head enough
to atone for lack of education of the
heart. The thing to do is to educate
SDth.