The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-01-04
is. there any way by which a priest
zap Give W his priesthood and marry?

There is absolutely no conceivable
way in which q priest can give up
his priesthood. Thou art a priest for
ever, according to the order of Mel
elisabeth Absolutely speaking, the
Pope could give permission to a priest
TO validity contract marriage. We may
be certain that this will never be
done. A priest may go through the
form of civil marriage. but he is not
married, and he is still a priest He
may be suspended from his office and
communicated from the Church: lie
may drop all pretense of being Il
priest but he will be a priest for all
eternity.
lf the blessed in Heaven cannot sin,
how did the Angels fall?
When the Angels were created they
were not Immediately admitted to the
Beatitic Vision. They were placed on
trial We do not know what this trial
was, but we do know that they were
tempted and that a number Of them
fell and were cast into hell. Those
to the full vision Of God. which con-
firmed them so completely that there
was no possibility Of temptation and
therefore no possibility OF sin. 1t will
be the same way with the just. When
they were admitted to the full vision
of God every desire will be satisfied
They will be so confirmed in the grace
of God that it will be impossible for
them to wish other than Gods holy
will.
Who was Giordano Bruno, and why
did the Church nut him TO death? |
read that the reason was, because he
tried to get men to think for them
selves.
Giordano Bruno was an Italian who
was born in the year 154S and died
in the year 1900. When he was fiji
teen years Of age. he entered the re
iigious order OF st. Dominic and in
the year 1872 was ordained priest.
He found the monastic discipline I'M
suited to his fiery nature and he soon
found himself in trouble with his ST.
periors. Moreover, he began to pro-
pound certain philosophical and theo-
logical theories, which, as the future
proved, developed into real errors and
heresies: when accusation was brought
against him, he fed from Rome and
began his wanderingS over the face
OF Europe. He won't to Geneva and
'n1
council of that church soon eScon,-
municated him, and he was again
compelled TO fee. He found favor in
France, and tncn passed into Eng
land; after three years he returned to
France and attempted TO return to
the Catholic Church, but refused to
meet the conditions imposed by the
Catholic authorities. In 1887 he went
to Germany where his inSolence and
self assertion were met by the Luth-
Grams by the decree of eXcommunica-
ton. He returned to Italy in 1891 and
was handed over to the Inquisition at
Venice, and later sent to Rome For
six years he was kept in prison: he
was given chance after chance to re-
tract his errors, but remained obstin-
ate, In the year 1000 sentence was
passed against him as a hereto and,
in accordance with the civil law Of
the time, he was handed over to the
arm of that law and suffered the pen
atty of death. One may not agree
with that law and it's penalty: in
our day, Bruno would not have been
put to death, and no one would desire
the extreme penalties of past cen
turtles to be put into effect. This is
true of purely civil offenses as we'll as
of religious crimes; one may not
agree with the Inquisition and it's Sc
verify; but no one who processes
Christianity can defend Giordano
Bruno. His writings show that he
was obscene in thought and language.
and it is clear that he had abandoned
Christian truth. He taught that Christ
was not really God, that God and the
world are one, that the devil will be
saved. that the Holy Ghost is nothing
but the soul of the world; he was
vehement in the use of exaggerated
i1hSudSC oIu llIS llduISI was CdICu-
lated to foment popular disorders; he
was hereto and dangerous agita-
tor. The state considered him as such
and invoked against him the law of
the age, and it's penalty was death.
Did any Pope ever condemn receiv-
ing Communion under enc form?
In the early Church the faithful
were free to receive Communion under
both forms or under only one form
The Manicheans taught that wine was
the creature of an evil being and re-
fused to accept Communion under that
species. The reigning Pope, Saint Leo,
branded this a heresy and made it a
law that Communion must be received
under both species. When the Man
ichean heresy died the method Of re,
ceiving Communion was again left to
the choice of the faithful At present.
for various reasons. the Church legis-
lates that the faithful shall receive
Communion under the form of bread
It is argued that since the Pope is
the successor of Saint Peter that
Saint Peter was the first Pope If
Saint Peter could make a mistake why
cannot his successors?