God & Faith1 min read
On that score, the Seventh Day Adventists who teach that the Pope is Anti-Christ, and the Catholic Church which teaches that he is the very Vicar of Christ would both be teaching doctrines equally pleasing to God! As a matter of fact you will not hear Christ preached in any Christian church, for in all non-Catholic churches you …
Sacraments & Worship2 min read
The Catholic Church is the only Church which can oblige her people to worship God definitely on Sunday, and many of her churches are filled three or four times on that day. There is nothing wrong with innocent recreation provided it does not interfere with one’s duties to God and attendance at religious worship. Sunday is a day …
The Bible2 min read
There is nothing wrong with seeking personal gain. We are free to use our faculties and possessions in order to secure personal gain, unless justice or charity is violated. We are not free to do so by dishonest means; but gambling is not in itself dishonest. There is nothing wrong with gaining through another’s loss when that ot…
The Bible1 min read
History denies this steady rise. It is full of falls, and is, in fact, but a catalogue of ups and downs. Nations rise to a high state of civilization and decay. If evolution wants to maintain a steady uplift, history itself proves it wrong.
Last Things & Salvation1 min read
A material world cannot be a spiritual world, nor can a spiritual world be a material world. But the two can exist simultaneously, even as in one man’s head we have material brains and spiritual thoughts. We cannot say that a man’s material brains so fill a man’s head that they leave no room for thought. Even in purely physical …
Mary, Saints & Angels1 min read
Indirectly, yes, for he caused the fall of our first parents. Directly, no. Scripture tells us that the three great enemies of man’s soul are the world, the flesh, and the devil. Men sin for mere worldly prosperity, or induced by sensual passion. At times, however, Satan directly tempts them. But Satan can do no more than sugges…
God & Faith2 min read
God is the author of the natural moral law, and I have already shown that birth-control is opposed to that law. However, in Gen. XXXVIII., 10, we read that Onan was slain by God for this sin. “And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing.” The gravity of the punishment shows the gravity of the crime, and Co…
Moral Life1 min read
I doubt it. But if a Catholic did do that, he would be doing what God does not command, and neglecting the thing God does command.
The Bible1 min read
The dogmas of the Catholic Church clearly express the exact teaching of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. If they seem old-fashioned to some men, these men have simply out-grown the truth to their own detriment.
Sacraments & Worship2 min read
He was. But if he was so good a man, and the monastery so evil, he was a mighty long time living an iniquitous life before he got his conscientious scruples. Yet hear a few facts. After Martin had left the Catholic Church, he gave permission to Philip of Hesse to commit bigamy and have two wives. Does that sound good and Christi…
The Church1 min read
She claims to be the only divinely accredited missionary force, the only one which has a truly innate and perpetual expansive power, and the only one which has actually gone to all nations. In fact, there would be no other Christian missionary bodies were it not for her own missionary expeditions to the ancestors of those sects …
Last Things & Salvation1 min read
Yes. The fire of hell is a real and created fire, which will affect even the bodies of men who die at enmity with God. I grant that it will differ in various characteristics from natural fire as we know it. Christ chose the word fire as being that element best known to us which produces results most similar to the effects of the…
The Bible1 min read
They first received the true doctrine from the teaching Church, and then merely checked it in the Scriptures. That is the right procedure, and Catholics to-day do the same. But your way is not first to be taught by the Church, and then verify, but to try to make out your own religion from the Bible with an untrained mind and by …
Moral Life1 min read
That should be obvious. Such prohibitions keep Catholics free from evil reading which could corrupt their faith or morals.
God & Faith1 min read
It demands a belief in certain historical events which cannot be accounted for save by the intervention of God.
The Church1 min read
No. It is divine law that no Catholic may hand over any child to what he or she knows to be a false religion.
Other Christians & Religions1 min read
No. Why not? Because there is no reason why the broadcasting of truth should be prevented, but there is every reason why the broadcasting of error to people who already have the truth should be forbidden. Truth has a right to exist. Error of itself has no right to exist. He who would rid the world of all errors would do it a ver…
The Bible1 min read
You are making the mistake. God sent the flood as a just punishment for previous sins and as a lesson to future generations. He did not send it to wipe out the gift of freewill, nor to prevent the possibility of future sin.
Moral Life1 min read
It must be expressed in the duties of religion, which will imply reverence for God’s Person, and obedience to such instructions as He pleases to issue in our regard.
God & Faith1 min read
No one claims that St. Peter was the principal foundation stone. But that Church which is in communion with St. Peter and his successors is the genuine Church built upon the foundation of Christ. Christ Himself said to Peter, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Christ is the solid rock upon which the Chu…
Mary, Saints & Angels1 min read
In the first place, if we wished to deceive our people, we would be very foolish to give them the full wording of the commandment in the Douay Version of the Bible, where they could detect the deliberate distortion! In the second place, in the Catechism we give the full substantial sense of the words I have quoted, but in a brie…
The Church2 min read
No. Papal Infallibility was promulgated as a dogma in 1370, but the doctrine was not invented then. The Vatican Council under Pope Pius IX. merely said definitely, “This is the Christian doctrine contained at least implicitly in the revelation originally given to mankind by Christ.” This prerogative of infallibility was conferre…
God & Faith1 min read
We attain truth by our intelligence, not by our feelings. You feel that religion is unreal. That notion must be tested by evidence. To hold it you must say that the proofs for the unreality of revealed religion are stronger than the proofs in its favor. This means that you must be able to prove that God did not reveal, or that H…
The Church1 min read
If the Catholic Church is not it, no other can be it. However, the Catholic Church is not a machine-made organization. It is just as established by Christ Were the Catholic Church a man-made system, it would have gone the way of all man-made kingdoms and empires which have come and gone, whereas it has serenely kept going with a…
