The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-06-05
Is there a Saint Leon?

Is there Saint Leon?
Leon is a Spanish and French form
of Leo. There are several saints of
the name Leo.
Is Adelaide the name of saint?
There are ten saints of this name.
One of the best known perhaps is
Saint Adelaide, empress Of Germany,
whose feast is concentrated on De-
cember 16. She was the wife of Ohio
the Great. Her life is one of romance
and suffering. She was known for her
signal charity towards the poor and
those in distress. She died in Seltz,
Alsace, in 500.
What is the sin against the Holy
Ghost, ard Why can it net be forgiven?
The sin against the Holy Ghost is
really refusal to accept forgiveness
and salvation from God 1t may be
despair-a persuasion that God will
not or cannot forgive us-or presump-
tion-a belief that, no matter what
wicked lives we live. God will save us
with all our SinS-Or it may be a
deliberate refusal to accept the light
of faith although we are convinced in
our souls of that faith If a man will
not accept the faith although he is
convinced of that faith: if he is really
persuaded that he cannot be saved,
or that if he does lead sinful life
and dies impcnitent God will still save
him: then there is no chance of his
salvation. This sin can not be for
given for the reason that the sinner
will not allow it to be forgiven: God
will not grant salvation to those who
deliberately refuse to accept it.
How do they fix Easter Sunday?
Easter is the first Sunday which
occurs after the first full moon of the
spring equinox, or more accurately
the fourteenth day OF the moon. The
earliest date is March % and the
latest is April %. In the first cen
turtles of the Church there existed a
very famous dispute in determining
Easter. Some churches followed the
Jewish computation and celebrated
Easter on the fourteenth day of the
moon Of the vernal equinox no matter
on what day of the week that date
fell. The Western Church held forth
for Sunday as the day for the celebra-
ton of Easter, and through the au-
thority of the Pope that custom pre-
vailed and became the law. This dis
pute occurred under Pope Victor about
the year 1870. The Council of Nice
CA. d. $3.50 determined for the uni
Versal Church that Easter should al
ways be celebrated on a Sunday, that
this Sunday should follow the four
teenth day of the paschal moon, and
that the paschal moon was that whose
fourteenth day followed the spring, or
vernal, equinox.
Have there been any notable con-
Verts to the Catholic Church in recent
years? Please give the number cf
converts to the Catholic Church in
England and U. S.
1t is not easy to give any reliable
figures as to the number of converts to
the Catholic Church either in England
or the I. S. A. 1t is estimated that in
our country alone some 10000 or 40
600 converts are received into the
Church annually; the number would
perhaps be about One-third that figure
in England. In 1917 d. J. Scannell
ONeil enumerateS among converts: 4
ArChbiShops, 202 priests, $50 nuns;
among army and navy officers, 1870:
among authors, journalists, musicians,
painters, educators, 234; in the diplo-
matte service, 81; of governors of
states, IL; United States senators and
congressman, As; legal profession,
1875; medical profession. lis. Quite
recently a Bishop of the Anglican
Church, Kinsman, and leading pro-
lessor at Columbia, Hayes, were re-
ceived into the Church.
Kindly explain who arc present
when the Pope proc'aims a doctrine
of faith and morals and where those
doctrines are proclaimed?
1t is not necessary that any person
be present when the Pope proclaims
doctrine of faith or morals; such a
doctrine is proclaimed to the whole
world from the place where the Pope
is residing, which would be the city
of Rome, unless the Pope transferred
his see elsewhere. The fact of an in
talllble pronouncement will appear
from the Subject-matter with which
the Pope is dealing and from the form
of his declaration. 1t will be clear,
IN the first place, that the Pope is
speaking as spiritual head of the
universal Church, and not in any pri-
vate capacity, as d private theologian
or canon lawyer, nor as temporal
ruler; he must act in his public and
official capacity as head of the Church
of Christ. Then it must be matter
OF faith or morals: some religious
truth, not, for instance, the settlement
OF a territorial dispute in which the
Pope would be chosen an arbitrator.
Moreover, the Pope must make it evil
dent that he is exercising the fullness
OF his apostolic teaching authority; he
is not merely eXhorting nor counsel
ing; but he is solving in definite
and irreyocable manner point of doc
trine or morals. Finally, his action
must pxtopd to bo TT,;,,or.a1