The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-10-13
To the Eximious Doctor of the Church St. Theresa of Jesus, Third Centenary of Her Canonization.
By Father Joseph M eIe

It is a proved matter of fact that all intellectual flows disconnected from the orbit of the church to which, like radiuses, the arms of the cross point out, in the last end, result in the two abysses that are now: Az nosticism and Manicheism; and, by studying the mystical and ascetic foundations, professed1y comes cut, with scarce difficulty, that THE PANTHEISM, THE EXPERIMENTAL ISM and THE SUBJECTIVISM, are but antique alterations with novel appearances and analogous tenden- cies to THE ANTISPIRTUALIST QUIETISM, THE. QUIETISM, THE ABSORPTION, and THE VITAL I'M. MANENCE OF THE MoDERISM, which go through diverse paths, to deny the natural and supernatural re- lations with God, essence of the re- ligion, making to spurt from incog- nizable cogencies and germs of the SUBCONSOIENCE that immensely exceeds it: THE MYSTICAL FEAT. The present misapprehension we daily witness and read in magazines, newspapers and modern books, are a thoroughgoing sanction, the Doctors of the Catholic Church are unique guides to channel those intellectual flows to the eognizance and union with God. "
 Nominating the ilIustrious teachers of the Catholic Church on mystical subject, in order to do, in the ardu- ous routes of Mystical Theology, not pursue misscarried the anxious souls of reaching the supreme aim of this divine science, MT. F. Coakley on his sGCnir;ficr,1 MndoT-r ism"-recently published with the ap- probation of the Most Reverend Geo. William Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, speaks in the same accep- tation. On the 125. pag. chap. of the mentioned work, the conspicuous psycologist, MT. Coakley, utter himself in the following terms: The Mystical Theology of the Catholic Church is earnestly recommended to all those who long communicate with the un- seen world. The history of the Catholic saints whose lives and whose writings entitle them to be classed as mystics would make thrilling reading for all mediums and at- tendants at spiritistic seances. Such were the lives of St. Theresa, St. Gertrude, St. John of the Cross, St. Francis de Sales, etc.
 frOm1n0nC QOCLOT, SucH as pTeCOH- izes him in the prologue to the same book, MT. Godfrey Raupert, likewise most celebrated as regards his great many published volumes, after col locating from the first the EXimious Doctor of the Carmel, Theresa of Jesus, MT. Coakley, his thesis dis sertated, concludes with such an eX- ceptional apotheosis to the Saint on the 127. pag. of the same book that is compelling to quote it. Here is the rehearsal: Those interested in Psy- chic Research will find pleasure and profit by reading above all the works of St. Theresa. This extraordinary woman was one of the greatest saints the Church has produced; her uncommon good sense, sound judg- ment and practical sagacity, united in her the mind of man, and the de- 7icacy and tenderness of a woman. Before her time mystic theology had neither logical TOT chronological de- TeIopment. It was not in any sense a science. It was she who first treated in systematic form all the Phenomena of mysticism, organized and classified all we know about it, and made it a real science. Before her, mystic theology concerned it. self with ecstasies, visions and re-