Evening star., 1924-01-01
CATHOLICS WARNED
TO GUARD DOCTRINES
Archbishop Hayes Would Prevent
Modernist Views From Get
ting Hold in Church.
DISOBEDIENCE IS DECRIED
Until End of Time Christ's Teach
ings Held Inviolate.
BY ROBERT II. SMALL.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 1. - Lest
the Roman Catholic Church be touch
ed by the volcanic fires of modernism
which are once more squirting from
the pulpits of the Protestant Episco-
ra1 Church in this city, Archbishop
Patrick J. Hayes has taken occasion
at st. Patrick's Cathedral to warn all
true Catholics that the authority of
the church must be obeyed.
Until the end of time no essential
doctrine of Christ can be changed"
says the archbishop. IF the world
continues for thousand years there
is no doctrine of divine revelation
which can be changed. 1t is our duty
% keep it intact, and we will do this
To the end of time
Thank God our Catholic Church is
such that 1t is not the opinion Of the
preacher-it is the teaching of Christ
flmself. 1t is always the same truth,
ihe same sacramental system to the
end"
Sees Many Dlsobetfent.
Archbishop Hayes attributes much
of the ferment within church circles
today to the lack of obedience in the
world. Obedience, he says, seems to
have belonged to the past 1t is
rapidly disappearing and consequent
ly lawful authority is suffering
There should be obedience in the
family says the archbishop. Christ
became subject to His parents He
ord what they told Him, although He
vas their very God. Christ was obe-
dlent to the synagogue. He met all
the laws of the synagogue, because it
represented lawful authority Christ
was obedient to death, even the death
OF the cross So We have this mar
part of the Lord himself.
we cannot remain with the living
chuTch If we are dead through dis
not depend upon the Bible or upon
tradition alone. We have the visible
head of the church in the person of
our holy father, the Pope
Believes Church Safe.
Archbishop Hayes believes that the
faith, which has been inculcated in
all Catholics, will keep his church
well out Of the modernist flames
which are threatening the Episcopal
Church with the greatest crisis in its
history. Catholic priests have not the
latitude of the Episcopal clergy. who
reserve to themselves these latter
days the right to interpret the Scrip
lures as they see them and not as
they are handed down from one con-
stituted authority in the church.
Ihe centralized power of ;he Cath
olic Church. emanating from Rome;
the discipline of the priesthood, all
are conditions which the Cathoiic
hierarchy believe safe quad their
faith from the unrest not in the
Episcopal Church alone but in Sav-
eral of the other Protestant denomi-
nations
DR.. William Norman Guthrie. the
modernist rector of the little Epis-
copal church of St. Mark's-:n- the
Bouwerie, who recently was called
before Bishop Manning for allowing
barefoot dancers in his church, has
declared that the trouble with most
religion and religious services Is
that they are proving bore to the
people-the same thing over and
over again. Boredom he has de-
nounced as worse than murder be-
cause it kills by degrees rather than
suddenly.
FavOrs Much pomp.
DR.. Guthrie believes IN much pomp
and ceremony at church services.
Many Protestant clergymen attribute
the loyalty of Catholic conGre cations
to their church to tie elaborate
ritual followed al the various masses.
DR.. Guthrie calls this pagan ritual
and believes it es:5 sntial for the liv-
ing church
Br. Guthrie differs from most of
his modernist brothers in that he does
not attempt to throw doubt upon the
virgin birth of Christ. He repeat