The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-08-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THIS EDITOR OT THE BIRKENHEAD NEWS.  Slll,—. The Man at the Gate' (Hr. Turner) says that the history of the Catholic Church is revolting to read, and if he confines his historical researches to ouch writers as tell him the lies with which he has deluged us this week, or the manufacturers of history like Mosheim, I can well believe him. Many a false statement can be made in one line that it would take pages to disprove, and it must, therefore, be clear to ! your readers Omit!l amulet refute Mr. Turner's collar. ! tion of the misstatements of other writers in the half column which you, Mr. Editor, have told us to confine our answers. I will select one, and than pass to some of the other topics in his letter. Mr. Turner's " authority " would have us believe that the following is the teaching of the Catholic Church : " It is lawful for a son to rejoice at the murder of his parent oommitted by himself in a state of drunken. ness, on account of the great riches Required thence by inheritance." This has probably been culled from some work on moral theology, and I ! most tell your readers that in such works there are often inserted lists of propositions which have been condemned at various times by the Supreme Authority of the Church. I strongly suspect that Mr. Turner has fastened upon one of those and given it forth to the world as Catholic teaching. It would not be the first time that such • thing has happened. The above oro. position was condemned by Pope Innocent XL, on the 2nd March, 1679, and I have seen it in • list of such in Gury's Moral Theology, vol. 1, p. liv. Therefore, that which Mr. Turner's " authority " puts forward as the dootrime of the Catholic Church is found to be condemned by hen and none of her children may hold it I uno disce ensues  havini -e of f  „„... Let me return for one moment to Mosheim. Mr. Turner will not refer to the original sermon of St. Eligius in the Spicileginm Daaherii, and he will not take my word that the facts are as I have stated. I do not blame him for this, for he was labouring under the misapprehension that he knew me and that I had confessed to be ignorant of Latin. I will, however, now mention aseautkority that will satisfy all your readers. The history of the exposure of Mosheim's fraud will' be found at length in a lecture by his Eminence Cardinal Newman, entitled Fable the Basis of the Protestant View ” (of the Catholic Church.) This was first published in 1851. I shall be happy to furnish any of your readers who may be interested with a copy of it, if they will address their applications to me in your care. Will Mr. Turner say that Cardinal Newman does not know Latin or that he is one of the " illustrious obscure " . . . .  There are other things in Mr. Turner's letter that I should like to dwell upon, but space forbids, and I will now take my leave of him. It was certainly amusing to see one of his " persuasion" quoting from St. John and giving the traditional Protestant interpretatton of the 17th Chapter of Revelations as the Saints' " description of the Church of Rome!" Is Saul also among the Prophets? If at any future ' time Mr. Turner ventures to discuss the question of the Catholic Church versus Science, or tiny other subject through your columns, let use inform him I am not deficient in proof or arguments, as he would have your readers believe, end I shall be most happy to discuss with him or any member of his atheistic crew—Yours, &c., B.