God & Faith1 min read
The majority of Protestants believe that His body is really absent. Those who do say that they believe in His real Presence yet deny transubstantiation illogically admit an effect yet deny the only process by which it can truly occur. If there be no transubstantiation or conversion of the substance of bread into the substance of…
Sacraments & Worship1 min read
Her motive is to obey God. Temporal advantages certainly do follow from the observance of God’s law, but those advantages are not the primary motive of the prohibition of birth-control. The Church cannot wrater down God’s law to suit the passions of men; she must lift men to the observance of God’s law. Whatever timeserving conc…
The Church1 min read
That is because Catholic Priests alone are conscious of the authority to guide their people. But they do not speak severely. They speak earnestly, because they do not wish to see their people running the risk of eternal loss. They speak at times with just indignation, because they are charged with the protection of God’s interes…
Sacraments & Worship1 min read
One Mediator redeemed us. The Priest does not redeem us; he is but an accredited agent of the one Mediator. Confession is but one way of applying the mediation of Christ to men even as Baptism is another. And if Baptism is a Sacrament for the destruction of sin which we ourselves did not commit but which we inherit from Adam, an…
The Church1 min read
Will you go to Christ on His conditions, or on your own conditions? Christ decided that Priests were necessary to His religion, gave to His Church the Sacrament of Orders, and authority to His Priests. You profess to believe in Christ, yet regard His appointments as a nonsensical farce.