The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

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Turks were at one time the strongest
prevailing nation in the world and that
their religion was the strongest and
largest, and that if it were not for a
great Polish general who defeated the
Turks, the Turkish religion would be
the great religion today, and there
would not be a religion known as the
Catholic religion.
The region of 1T might have BEEN
is no doubt very interesting place,
but practical people are not so much
concerned with it. The fact that the
Turks were defeated and their power
broken is fairly conclusive proof that
they did not remain 1.-The strongest
prevailing nation" since God ordained
that Polish general and King who
was a devout Catholic, should defeat
the Turks when they were at the very
zenith of their power. Common sense
and the force of logic dictate that God
was with the Catholic leader and not
the Mohammedan caliph. 1t is fact
that the Catholic religion remains to-
day in all it's power and has remained
a real Catholic religion and has spread
by the grace of God and the power of
its own divine truth; while Mohamme-
danism has decayed, and is essentially
state religion and eXerts little or no
effect upon the world of men. In any
case, it is not easy to see how So
cialism profits in attaching itself to a
losing cause or to religion with
which it has absolutely nothing in
common. Your socialist is a fair
sample of his ilk whose ignorance of
Catholicity is only exceeded by his
lack of knowledge concerning So
Cialism.
What Orders of nuns take care of the
lepers? Where are their motherhouses
located? Can a girl % years of age
enter these Orders?
The Franciscan Sisters, 1924 Court
street, Syracuse, New York, have full
charge of the work done among the
lepers at Molokai, in the Hawaiian
Islands. A letter addressed to their
motherhouse at the above address will
furnish you with whatever informa-
ton you desire.
want to give a friend of mine some
proof that after this life there is
another life.
Your friend, of course, is not a
Christian, for the revelation of God
contains a thousand proofs of the eX-
istence of a future world, hence we
cannot appeal to the Bible. Your
friend, l take it, is one of those who
argue: when l die, am dead;
and that is the end of it." AS rea-
sonabIe person, man of intelligence,
he should feel the weight of the proof
from history. How can he explain
the fact that mankind has always ac-
cepted the belief in the life to come?
Not merely one or other nation, or
several tribes of the same, though
scattered race; not merely uncouth
barbarians or illiterate savages, but all
the great nations in the four quar-
tiers of the globe; the strongest intel
lects and clearest minds have recorded
their belief in the world beyond the
grave. What right has your friend to
prefer his unsupported persuasion to
the unanimous and universal belief of
the human race? Again, has your
friend no desire to be ranked as a
higher being than the cat and the
dog? The dumb beast ceases totally
to be when it dies, for the beast has
not spiritual soul; is man in the
same category of beings? Indeed,
we're it not for his spiritual and i'm
mortal soul, man would be vastly
inferior beast. Moreover, the con-
science of man tells of future life of
reward and punishment. If death puts
an end to everything, where is the
sanction of human actions? Why
should men be honest and truthful,
sober and pure? If a man can evade
detection, why should he curb his pas
sions, respect the rights of others
What hope can the materialism of
your friend offer to the unfortunates
of the world, to oppressed innocence,
to those who have never really had
a chance in this world and whose only
comfort is the thought of life to
come? | doubt if these arguments
will appeal to your friend unless the
hand of misfortune should touch him
or the grace of God convert him.
Can we class as respectable d.
Vorced man who marries again while
his first wife is living?
"A man who puts away his wife and
marries another commits adultery;
and he who marries her who is put
away commits adultery. And if the
wife shall put away her husband, and
be married to another she commits
adultery" Matt. XIX, 6; Mark x, IL
12.l Such state then evidently can
not be respectable according to the
standard of the Christian religion. If
the state pretends to supersede this
law of God and to give divorce it's
sanction and to the adulterous the
protection of law, it is merely assum-
ing higher authority than that held
by Almighty God.
do not see why I should be asked
to believe things ! can not under
stand? Is not this against reason?
What you are asked to accept by
faith is not contrary to reason; it is
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