The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-08

Is it a sin not to believe in the use
of Holy Water.
1t is sin.
What book would you recommend
for one who desires information on
matters concerning the Church and
her rites?
The following is list OF useful
books on such matters:
The Catechism OF Christian Doctrine
The Faith of Our Fathers-Cardinal
Gibbons.
Catholic Belief-Faa di Bruno.
Questions of the Soul--Father Hecker.
Our Question BoX-Father Conway
What the Church Believes-Father
Drury.
Plain Facts for Fair Minds-Father
Searle.
Spiritual Pepper and Salt-Bishop
Stang
Manual OF Theology for the Laity-
Geiermann.
Catholic CeTemOnieS-Abbe Durand.
Challoner
Bible History, Church History-Gil-
mOur
The Mass-C. w. Currier.
Manual of Prayer.
Questions Asked by Protestants Brief
ly AnsWered-Rev. M. Philips
Short Answers to Common Objections
Against ReligiOn-Rev. l.. A. Lam
bert.
Short Course in Catholic Doctrine
J. T. Durand.
The Sacramentals--Rev A. \. Lam
bling.
Short line to the Catholic Church
Rev. L. A. Lambert.
Has person a better chance to
save his soul in single life than in the
married life?
Reflect on these words of st. Paul:
He that is without wife is solicitous
for the things that belong to the Lord,
how he may please God. But he that
is with wife is soicitous for the things
OF the world, how he may please his
wife, and he is divided And the I'M
married woman and the virgin think
eth on the things of the Lord that she
may be holy both in body and spirit;
she that is married thinketh on the
things of the world, how she may
please her husband" In this Epistle
st. Paul institutes comparison be-
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tween individuals. He means to in
SiSt that the state OF virginity de-
voted to Gods service is a holier state
than that OF marriage. The one who
avoids marriage for selfish or coward
ly reasons, who does not care to as
sumo the burdens and anXieties Of the
family life, is not included in ST.
Pauls commentator. The Church
has always encouraged those who
have not vocation to the priesthood
or the religious life to marry. Christ
instituted special Sacrament to bring
down particular blessing upon mar
ricd people. st. Paul calls it the
great Sacrament" There are great
responsibilities in the married life.
but, properly met, they will be the
cause Of great reward. 1t cannot be
said that single persons have Il better
chance to save their souls than mar
ried persons. If one has a calling to
the married life, it is certain that, in
the married state, he will find all
those special graces that God has de-
signed for him TO enable him to faith
fully fill the tremendous responsible
tiles and save his soul.
Is it all right for a young man to
attend state university if he has op-
portunity to practice his religion?
While there may be nothing wrong
in itself in attending such univer-
sity, there does not seem to be any
good reason why Catholic should
not attend a Catholic university. In
such an institution he can receive a
secular training that will equal that
of any state university and at the
same time be surrounded by an at.
mosphere that is thoroughly Catholic
"uSil 1iO IHS SuIIST IIFSC use InS
title Catholic?
The Christian Church has ALWAYS
been the Catholic Church The com
mission of Christ to His Church was
TO teach AL nations "all things" and
Christ promised that He would be
with the Church AL days even to the
contamination of the world" This is
evidence that the Church of Christ is
Catholic. AS early as the days of ST
Ignatius, the Martyr, who lived in the
early years OF the second century, we
find use of the term Catholic Church
In letter to the Smyrnians he
writes: Where the Bishop is, there
let the multitude of believers be; even
as where Jesus Christ is, there is the
Catholic Church. In the fifth cen
fury St Augustine wrote: 'The
name itself of the Catholic Churcl
keeps me. q name which, in the mids
of so many heresies, this Church alone
has, not without cause, SO held pos