The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-25
If God is ali-poWerful, can He build
q stone so bio that He cannot lift it?

If God is aii-poWerful, can He buiIe
stone so big that He cannot lift it
If God could build a stone so bis
that He could not lift it. He would moi
be God. The question is usually put:
Can God make a square circle? Ii He
cannot, then He is not all-powerful
1t would be no attribute of omnipo
tence to do what cannot be done; tc
attribute such a power to a person
would be sign of insanity Goo
cannot make a square circle, cannon
create a man with the soul OF brute
cannot create a brute with human
soul, for the reason that these things
are contradictory and cannot exist;
they are intrinsically impossible; IL
other words, they are nothing. st
Thomas Aquinas says: 1T is more
exact to say that the intrinsically i'm
possible is incapable of production
than to say that God cannot produce
it" A stone so great that God could
not lift it would be an infinite crea
ture. and by its very nature, creature
is finite. not infinite. God cannot ere
ate an infinite creature. for such an
infinite creature is unthinkable, alb
surd. and to do the absurd would be
an imperfection. A stone so great that
God could not lift it would be greater
than God, and it is impossible to sup
pose anything greater than God: thai
thing would become God
Has this Western country any Cath
Ollie martyrs?
1t has many among those brave
priests and Brothers who came amons
the savage tribes to carry the message
of Christianity. New Mexico has beer
blessed with the blood of numerous
spiritual heroes. Among the Western
martyrs are: Juan de Padilla, Fran
ciscan, supposed to have been killed
in Kansas in 1912; Brother Luis de
Escalona, killed by Pecos, New Mex
leo, same year; Juan de La Cruz
killed by Tigua, New Mexico, same
year; Brother Augustin and Juan de
1lOul liuCH WI leulHj Nouhte' 4fA1A Il.
Franciscans, killed at Tigera, New
Mexico, 1881; Pedro Miranda de Avila
Franciscan, killed by Taos, New Mex
leo, 1881 Francisco Letrado, Martin
de Arvide, Franciscans, killed by
"Zipias," New Mexico, 1882; Francisco
Porras, Franciscan, poisoned by Hopi
Arizona, 1888: several Franciscan mis-
sionaries killed by Pueblos, New Mex
leo, in 1915; twenty-five Franciscan:
killed in a general massacre by The
Pueblos, Arizona and New Mexico, il
1875; Francisco Antonio Lorenzans
and Jose de Monies de Oca, killed a
Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico
1880; Juan Bautista de Pho, Tesuqut
Pueblo, New Mexico, same year
Tomas Torres, Nambe Pueblo, New
Mexico, same year; Luis de Morales
Antonio Sanchez de Pro, Luis d.
Baeza, San Ildephonse Pueblo, New
Mexico, same year; Matias de Rendon
Picuris Pueblo, same year; Antonio
Mora and Juan de Pedrosa, Tao
Puebla, New Mexico, same year
Lucas Maldonado,' Acoma Pueblo, New
Mexico, same year; Juan de Bal
Alona Pueblo, New Mexico, same year
Jose de Figueras, Jose Trujilo, JOS
de Espelta and Augustin de SAINT;
Maria, killed by Hopi Pueblas, Arr
iona, same year; Juan Bernal AM
Juan Domingo de Vera, Galieste,
Pueblo, same year; Francisco Ger
nanda) de Velasco, Pecos, Pueblo
New Mexico same year; Manue
Tinoco, San Marcos Pueblo. Ney
Mexico, same year; Simon (JuanO d
Jesus, Jemes Pueblo, New Mexico
same year; Manuel Beltran, Francis
can, killed by Tanos GU, New Mexico
1888; Jose de Arbizu and Antoni
Carbonel, Franciscans, killed by Taos
New Mexico, 1896; Francisco Corvers
Antonio Moreno, Franciscans, kille
by Tehua, New Mexico, same year
Francisco Casanes, Franciscan, kille
by Jemes, New Mexico, same yeal
Uist from Catholic Encyclopedia, III
der Missions)
These deaths were not in vain
There are 5000 good Catholic Puebl
Indians in New Mexico today.
How will it be possible for on
bodies to rise again when the dust {
which they are made is so scattered
Take for instance man who is or.
mated and whose ashes are throw
into river, where they are probabI
carried to the ocean and part ma
land in India and the rest off the coas
of New York.
Kindly remember that nothing
impossible with God. He has con
plete control over the forces of tn
earth and can effect what He wishe
with them. 1t is said that at til
resurrection the angels will collect til
dust of each dead body and bring
together SO that God can re-animat
the man.
How often is priest obliged to So
Mass?