The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-24
SOME CATHOLIC ACHIEVEMENTS

with. Yet it was Able Mendel, who
discovered the Laws Of Heredity,"
that upset the biologists through the
world and took much glory from Dar-
win.
Geology, another of the Sciences
that is supposed to be the object of
special opposition, or at least fear,
on the part of Catholic authority,
Why, the Father of Geology is Bishop
Stinson, who was also a great ana
tomist. He made several impor-
tant discoveries in that branch of
science.
| 1t has been charged over and over
again that the Catholic Church is a
bitter foe to Chemistry. Did not
Basil Valentine give the science to
the world. He was the last of the
great alchemists and he laid the
foundation for modern Chemistry.
Take any of the sciences and at
the top you will find the name of a
Catholic. The Father of Dentistry, of
modern Dentistry, was the French
Catholic, Pierre Fauchard. The Fa-
ther Of Pathology, was Morgagni.
The Discoverer of Vaccination, was
Edward Jenner.
In the long list of scientists, do not
forget the names of Muller, Schwann,
Pasteur. The latter is the Father Of
Preventive Medicine. Able Hauy
was the founder of the Science of
Crystallography. The work of the
Jesuits made Astronomy a science.
Father Clavius was one of the most
distinguished Jesuit astronomers.
Among some of the other great
names in this science you will find
Fathers Scheiner, Cysatus, Gall, Mala-
pertius. One of the first maps of the
moon was made by Father Grimaldi.
Remember the work of Father Secchi.
Thomas Lloyd is the Father of Amer
lean Shorthand.
Take any important subject that is
OF benefit to mankind, and you will
lind Catholics greatly interested. Can
the paintings of the Middle Ages, the
work of Catholics, when Rome had
the world under it's wing, can these
paintings be equalled? Look at the
magnificent buildings erected in the
Old World, almost all raised under
Catholic influence.
1t was the Catholic Church that civ
ilized the world, and well does Father
Sheedy state: ''The Papacy was the
one centre whence the civilization of
the Gospel went forth into all of the
West, welding into one brotherhood
the barbarian tribes that sprang from
the forests of Germany or from the
| marches of the Danube. Beyond the
| influence of the early Papacy, vio-
lence and barbarity, sword and con-
| quest, the untamed powers of nature
ruled unchecked. 1t was the Papacy
that tanned these wild elements, that
taught them the arts of peace and
agriculture, that planted them on the
| soil and prepared them for nation
hood by sound principles of discip-
line and legislation. 1t is not too
much to say that during the Middle
Ages, there was NO progressive move
ment of Art, Science, Culture or
Literature, in which the Papacy was
not the leader. 1t was the main
spring of that system by which
Providence would exalt humanity and
bring about it's higher destinies
whether religious or secular"
i Catholics and Discovery.
Il 1t was a Catholic who first crossed
4 the unknown sea, and planted the
banner of Christ and civilization on
the shore of the New World. 1t was
, a Catholic priest, Father John De
Padilla, who first shed his blood for
the civilization of the Indian, and
! who first taught him of the true God,
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