RTlSERS l i C h PIONEER CATflOLIC 11 CATHOLIqr h 1 f circulao r It foJ II Colorado I > TIis 0 0 r a 0 IaIY Catha I > r Catholic oldest I t 1th by r de paper I = p j Journal of the J r J i fernll nlaln n NJ RN Rocky noflntafas j I s9p Sdre re i is thi property i of Interciountaia j II Catholic Ii 1 T r G2 t ii jp i O iioiiZ m PioiPi M t r S It It for dedaitd tdtmftr IJI OO OOOCuI8DD ooo9oeeeooooa Boo oaaocoooeoooooooooooooo4occ i 2i Volume 4 No 48 Fourth Year S SALT LAKE CITY AND DENVER AUGUST 20 1003 Colorado Catholic Twentieth Year IK CHURCH SCIENCE LABOR AND CArnAL BY LATE POPE LEO XIII I juiM IK clear to everybody that God organized the toman race into society for no man can get along thout ocicty everybodys progress and development wnd < > n society rjK U Frederick Bastiat the celebrated French sociologist nloCTHMl the various benefits man derives from so CI t a thbo Look at the least potent of your fellow citizens n mall artisan How many people how many indus xrcrc needed to furnish him with the things es 1 tial to his civilized existence with his clothes shoes 111 drink potty luxuries and so forth And tin man small as he is has certain rights Thcn arc lawyers to fitrht for these rights judges oral t nn tlicm and soldiers to uphold them if neccs w r ryTh alunc furnishes full proof of thenecessity and nblitv of organization Man must live in society r Minitv alone makes it possible for him to satisfy unavoidable demands life h i utiles and on society is i progressive and continues to improve tJ11 ronturi inherits from the past certain require I l nt i cttveries and improvements and thus the sum I t ph a1 1 moral and political benefits grows wonder I I I ulh Ihi various grades of progressive advancement i MpJl h v man rc called civilization and the qucs 1 n 1 liai been rl1i i = cd Is not civilization a plant that cMjron < awl develop only in a society enlivened by I tc prif of Jesus Christ a society gathered round 1 4j J i fhunh mil recognizing voice of tho church as tjii i f it mother and mistress pain it i > given out that a man entering the riucli aixl obeying its rules cannot achieve the de c < f civilization that he might attain if illd pend 1h i j mx friin domination and restriction of any kind To aw the laboring man physically and morally tV liunh introduced Sundays and 1iolilays that bring an I it < i tlif toiler and draw him into the church that mr i > rrpt bis troubles in the joys of religion On I r liInvs mounted t by the church the innocent joys of I I i hristian family become a reality One cannot look I r a I iiwr 1 Mtrht j than an honest workman the wife s L IJ1 upon his arm surrounded by his children I T MIU ill Jods free nature Ho is the lord then and I I mnmion IK twoct mid noble lie know his subjects I i I In i in In lx > art and they know him and each JI iv uuilf > rstand the others wishes and demands This Np in itself is an incentive to work and careful Tlip laboring man who loves his own docs his III t iiin 1 and all members of his household are I 1 1 i VH a time when Sundays and holidays were 1 Ird < l i is iijx > rUu0us calculated to create the habit di I I the olmrch has eradicated that foolish JHi mnluvrr knows today that his laborer after llh l < U1 ufiiHent rest does twice as good work as t TPIJ ami driven individual And as to the work hnjIf after thc holidays he likes to go back 1 ft ih < roughly rested he does not rcgard work I Mflhi4ffltnt that he cannot escape f is i m it1 < s averted that the church is a hin S I < mlization and mental advancement To rc hT jir > incnt it is but necessary to point out I 1u < liunh is i a steady coworker in all profes x aid i > uruit > tending toward the betterment of I IIIJJ l ldit j TT I IIJj 1 foolish to dcny the fact patent to all ii made itlf mistress of various natural k n 1 aon of inteligent studies and well con J 1 v HiiHnis J speak of natural forces jiot j umlf r tood and that up to a certain time i ffT u < If investigation r sinp these natural forces to ingenious ma J n 1 rh rmJuction l of certain necessities was in d I tl1 ir prices were lowered and all men put in p J jtj < 1 4o satitfy their wants quicker better and p I 1 V1 i < admire discoveries of that kind there is j I Ig 11111 i in the industrial line fi jl lllTh has always been honestly glad of such I 1 jJdld am1 peaceful victories of science over nature I II H i < Kiiiwledped position notwithstanding cer I I L II i Jl lc f the church report that Rome depre j mine adiievemcnts and quarrels with in j r Iii T i l II J 1 Minute sire as absurd as they are illogical I j I 1 I 1Iud the t church he jealous of the various I TU J < 111 If the of j < period gained at the expense 1 1 dll iinhlo and resourceful intellects i f I j J r 1 HiMhing in the human mind in discoverM i UN that goes against the authority oLGod I II id II HJif I I li I < 11 I ifflebmted i J forerunner of the 1 science of J I j I 111 more veneer of science may put space I I < and God while science drunk in good jl ii tkl I liim J back to his Creator 1 r f Mlli J of these golden words manifests itself rr U I r lilt I < vln0 J very moment we might say and I ilf IJ di 4 f 11 v < lurrh dislikes and discourages the disturb I ing tf 10I1pd > by l superficial men who think they I tin Mnilnff 1 J because the know a little of every I 1I1P1 if IIa I 1 4 J c LIf S full confidence in the true man of sci dC IU tllig his best energies to the serious and deep cf ature iI i I h I K j dv loar I ed I man of importance forsakes God I he 1 1 tran ail HIIfiit I lmt because of science but J jcm the C onI j I i l to f science It can truly be said that the 1 I Continued on Page Two I ipI fii D < V 4S Wrfg A I 7 r VET > j 1 ET REV DR COLTON Consecrated Bishop ot Buffalo at St Patricks Cathedral New York Aug 24 Feast of St Bartholomew I II lilt QUrSTlON BOX Editor Intermountain Catholic 3Iy little girl directed my attention to an article on the first page of last weeks Intermountain Catholic It is headed NonCatholic Queries Being a nonCatholic and having been mar ried by Bishop Scanlan twelve years ago I could give a better answer to the question than the one given there I must state that instead of experi encing any bitterness tho bishop was kind and well disposed to both of us when we applied to him to be mar ried My wife explained to me before i hand that we should geta dispensa tion or his consent for the marriage This the bishop granted without charge As I am still si Protestant and being asked by my little girl what I paid or did Bishop Scanlan show any bitter opposition 1 make this statement in justice to my familys religious feeling I promised at our marriage not to interfere with my wifes religion and to allow the fam ily to be under her religious training To that promise I have been faith ful even encouraged them to be good members of their church I believe the more faithful they are to their relh gion the more faithful they will be to me You are free to use this letter I as you please Yours truly AN OLD MINER I The word hitter to which the writ er or rather the writers child takes exception is not a part of Catholic training or opposition To well dis posed persons who apply for dispen sation we understand when all prom ises aw freely made there is no op position much less bitter opposi tion The rule In the Salt Lake dio cese is to grant all dispensations free I of charge The power to dispense mat rimonial impediments should be exer cised gratuitously The answers to the queries published last week it I should be stated appeared first in an eastern Catholic periodical Editor Intermountain Catholic + Donahoes Magazine Is it true that Martin Luther was the founder of popular education This is not true Statements of this nature are heard even in the Boston Normal school but they proceed from utter ignorance of real facts Rash dalll in his celebrated work Uni versities of Europe in the Middle Ages says It may be stated with some confidence that at least In the later middle age the smallest towns possessed and even the larger villages schools where a boy might learn to read and to acquire the first rudiments of ecclesiastical Latin while except in remote and thinlypopulated districts very tricts he would never have to go unto school That to find a regular grammar the means of reading writing and the elements of Latin were far more wide than has sometimes been Iv l diffused supposed is coming to be generally recognized by students of medieval life The Protestant historian Pal thinks that the diocese of Prague acky schools 640 must have had at least in the time preceding the Lutheran Father Schwickerath infers outbreak i 1 must that Germany from this number have had towards the close of the mid I dfeages 40000 elementary or about primary dIe ages schools With regard to England j 1 in the same con I dition land matters A learned were Protestant writer I whole asserts The fact is that the about the dearth of grammar theory schools and other schools still more I before the time of Edward elementary delusion The immense I ward VI prestige Is a mere that Edward A1 has j I mnse of education iSj acquired as a patron that he re I I simplY due to the fact founded out of confiscated church property of schools percentage which crtv some he and small his rapacious father destroyed I I The probability is that Eng stroyed better provided with was far land Simmar schools before the Reforma grammar than it has ever been since tton to conclusive Could anything be more Show groundless is the assertion utterly how Srtlon education dates sertion that popular Luther from the time of Martin + Is Servia a Catholic country for the people of Servia belong II The I Greek Miiirbh There to the mots part 8GOO Latin Catholics in the are about who belong to the See of country founded in 1334 This Belgrade persecution has not h1dmorc owing to pers bishops The arch fhc four or than in MontenegrO haS Anthari bishop of of Scria This Primate of titlE the for centuries was for I title claimed b Leo XIII on Iarrlh mali recognized Antharl is one Of I 1902 The See of 7 r founded extreme antiquity for it was in 451 but the extant detailed records date back only to 1172 F San Francisco Monitor What are the conditions of entrance into the Catholic church Must a convert to your church be baptized again and confess the sins of a lifetime I The Catholic church iu accordance with the teaching of the Scriptures I requires all adults who seek admit tance into her one true fold the repent ance of all past sin the detestation of all past error and the firm certain belief In all the doctrines taught by Christ He that believeth and is bap tized shall be saved C Mark xvi 16 Do penance and be baptized Acts II 38 II 38If a convert is I absolutely sure of his baptism he cannot be rebaptized d hutS bound toconfess all grievous sins com mitt d after baptism If a Protestant Is uncertain about his former baptism a frequent case in our day of lax Christian views and practicehe is bap tized conditionally with the form If thou art not baptized I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holv Ghost The sacra ment of penance is also given coni ditionally So that a convert is certain of the forgivenness of sins through one sacrament or the other A convert is obliged to study care fully the doctrine of the catechism so that he may have an accurate knowl edge of Catholic teaching and be able intelligently to take the oath of the profession of faith With a sincere heart therefore and with unfeigned faith I detest and abjure every error heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman church So help me God and these His holy Gospels which I touch with my hand I CONCILIATION BOARD Decision Will Not Be Rendered For Some Time New York Aug 25The board of con ciliation provided for by the anthracite strike commission met today behind closed doors Carroll D Wright met with the board for the fint time as umpire Sev eral matters on which the board failed to reach an agreement were submitted to Mr Wright When the board adjourned Mr Wright said the day had been spent going over the evidence taken by theboard on those matters on which the board had been un able to agree and in hearing the argu ment of both sides He said he would not render his decision as umpire for some time but would take the evidence with him to Washington and go over it carefully before deciding An other meeting will be held tomorrow I J G C PANAMA CANAL MATTER Colombian Senate Has Appointed a Committee of Three Washington Aug 25Dr Herran the Colombian charge daffaires at Washing I ton tonight made public the text of the I I latest dispatch received by him from Sen or Rico the minister of foreign affairs I at Bogota regarding the isthmian canal negotiations Only a general reference heretofore has been made in the dis patches showing the feeling in Colombia I toward the canal project and the appointment pointment of a committee of the senate I to take up the matter The text of the i cablegram which was received in Wash j ngton on the 21st and which has been sent to the state department follows f The senate considering that the Co I I lombim people are desirous jnamtain I log the most cordial relations with the totted States and that the construction I of the canal is Of the greatest importance to the universal American commerce has I appointed a committee of three senators I to devise the manner of satisfying the vehement desire for the excavation of a Panama canal harmonizing national in I terests and legality What a Little Act May Do I A few weeks ago a nonCatholic strayed into Heaffey it Heaffeys store and engaged Mr Blaylock in conversa tion indicating both an ignorance of and a curiosity concerning the teach i i jugs of the Catholic Church and be fore he left in addition to verbal in I struction he received a little book from Mr Blaylock giving briefly the teach ings of the Church Last week he called to tell his chance acquaintance that the Sunday following last Sun day he and his wife were to be bap tized In and received Into the Church at the Cathedral The incident is an illustration of the farreaching effect of little acts and also demonstrates how much a layman may do if he has the work of the Church and the con version of sinners at heartThe True Voice I c o The Blessed Sacrament Is not one I thing out of many but it is all things and all In one and all better than they arc In thenjselves and all ours and for I usand it is Jesus s 4 s rA 1 r i 3 I t Lt v iii l t i I I I 4l ttlL t t 1 1ct ht r r L I 4 I LATE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY JCheoesllarnedPiisf In the last century and a quarter five popes out of eight have chosen the name of Pius With the exception of Plug the Eighth who reigned only a year and our present Holy Fath er whose reign is now auspiciously be ginning the other three enjoyed un usually long pontificates Pius VI reigned twentyfour years Pius VII r gne twl trthree Uiile thc thirty > wo years reign ofPiu IX is the long est iti the history of thepapacy On the other hand their reigns were coincident with the stormiest period in I the Churchs history Pius VI the Providence Visitor points out was reigning during the French revolution i in France and the ecclesiastical dis turbances in Austria and Germany I which are knowp as Josephitism His pontificate succeded that of Clement I I XIV and on his devoted head fell the contumely of those ardent friends of the Jesuits who had een outraged by I the suppression of that religious order I Perhaps the papacy has never fallen so low in esteem and influence as at that time timewhen i when he died in 1719 many a shrewd politician thought he would have PI successor Hallam in writing the His tory of the Middle Ages about this time closes a chapter on the popes by likening the then incumbent of the pa pal choir to old Priam amid the crack ling ruins of Troy After great dif ficulties the cardinals succeeded in holding a conclave in Venice and in electing the prior of the Camaldolese Convent of St George who became Pius VII His dealings with Napoleon his imprisonment and the providential rescue of Europe by Waterloo are the I I best known facts of modern history I In much the same way Pope Pius IX j I was confronted with modern ideas in I the shape of revolutions and changes of all sorts He saw the temporal power of the papacy which had been labor I iously built up and defended through centuriesfall to pieces like a house of cards Ready to preach love he met j with hatred and violence and oppoi l i Lion and closed his long reign a pris oner In tlip Vatican The other popes who have borne the I name of Pius have played no inconsid erable part in the history of the Church St Pius V is thought of as embodying all the austerity and morti fication and unworidliness which turn ed the tide of the Reformation and set the great reforming degrees of the I Council of Trent in activity Elected I through the agency of the young ne i I phew of his predecessor St Charles Borromeo he chose his name in honor I of Pius IV with whom he had little in common for Plus IV i is remembered I beaten having succeeded in chosing the I Council of Trent and also not hav InS made a mistake in making a mere I boy a cardinal since the boy happened I to become St Charles Borromeo If one were looking for omens in names at this time onf would not cast a favorable horosops for the new pon tiff it is just four hundred years ago this August that Pope Alexander XI died Late in September he was suc ceeded by ti pope who took the name of Pius in honor of his uncle Pius II Tn the middle of October Pius III died having lived long enough to be crowned and tn say his first mass after being elevated to the papacy None of the popes however enjoyed I a greater literary reputation than did Pius II Aeneas Sylvius Pircolomini who was Jiving at the time of the fall I of Constantinople tn H63 But his lit erary work done when he was a lay man is typical of life age and is not usually included in a list of spiritual books The name of the first Pius dates hack to the second century of the Christian era before even it was borne by a Ro man emperora rare Roman name In tre Igng l list of the Greeks who first I sat on the chair of Fetter So that we today in union with the Holy See will repeat a name known and honored as that of the Bishop of Rome more than I seventeen centuries ago When a woman gives way to anger she begs her own pardon with tears Marriage based on honest affection will withstand the ravages of time t q MairnpVflui 17 happiness only when attending to the Affairs of others I IRre Planets Tnbatit I Camille Flammarion one of the most I distinguished astronomers of the pres ent day believes that they are He thinks that the earth Is very small I when compared with the aggregate of j planets not only of the solar system j out also of those that revolve around I the myriads of stars that are visible I and of the still greater number that I probably exist at still greater distances and are therefore invisible Compared with this immense multitude of planets I our earth is certainly very diminutive I and for this reason inter aPe Flam I marion believes that God has not cre ated nIl other planets in vain and that our notion of the infinite wisdom Ii i finite power and infinite glory of God tallies better with the more compre I hensive scheme that not the earth alone but all planets are destined to I be inhabited This opinion does not clash with the account of the creation of thk world as it is given in Genesis It is there said that God created man ani placed him on the earth but it is r aid that He has debarred Himself Lie creating and peopling other worlds For this reason Flammarions views cannot be condemned To ap I prove of them is quite another matter I Scientists who believe that religion cannot be reconciled with science ar gue that the method peculiar to re ligion is to teach dogmatically whereas j sciences are not taught in that way I but they are demonstrated Granting that such is the case we should expect i scientists on all occasions to demon strate all that they assert They how ever do nothing of the sort Ehere is in science a stock of information fully demonstrated and also fully accepted I by the church Besides thiSsure ground j there is also in science a vast area I I taken up by theories on subjects still i imperfectly investigated I This theoretical ground is anything but sold so that the edifices erected there are destined to crumble sooner or later and probably at an early date I There is for instance the great evolu i tion theory according to which living i I vegetable matter was first evolved out I I of the chemical elements of the soil I from this living vegetable matter some i rudimentary animal matter was evolv I Ed from that came the lower animals I from them step by step came the higher animals dmd finally from the apeman was evolved This theory is plausible j enough but its data being unproved j are unreliable so that not the smallest particle of any of these data can be J uphald as scientifically demonstrated i truth Such fs the case with the erG lotion thecry As it now stands it is i I merely an opinion a supposition a I guess that may or may not be true If I the evolution theory is ever proved to 1 be true it will then be time enough to consider how it can be reconciled wit I the statements contained in Genesis Meanwhile fhe church holds the strictjy 1 scientific attitude of suspending its I judgment while scientists hold the very unscientific attitude of arguing like I I school boys ignorant of logic and ly > if the evolution theory were already proved to the hilt So it is also with Flammarlons views about the habitation of the planets His opinion is not based on anything that is definitely and finally proved It is a theory and nothing more We cannot quarrel with men of science for propounding theories indeed we hold I that theories play a very important j I part in the advancement of sciences But in handling these theories we should not forget that they tire theories We must not mistake them for demon strated facts under these circum stances What we blame in Flamma rion is the dogmatic form of teaching which he adopts as if forgetting that he is an astronomer he poses as an in spired prophet or as a mystifying or acle He forgets that in science dog matic teaching and oracular sayings are forbidden He must set the oracu lar mode aside and he must leave dog matic teaching to the church He inust be content with demonstration then and then alone will he really play the part of a genuine savant whose i sayings are received with confidence I I Let him demonstrate what he believes to be th truth and all churchmen will eagerly adopt his views But If instead of doing that he assumes a lofty tons I and preaches instead of demonstrating we must remind him of the saying ne Eutor ulra crepidam Meanwhile no one con tax us with inability grasp the profound teaching of mojlerfi science because we decline to accept Flamma rlons views as demonstrated truth 1Th mum Of TRU AND AlS lLlfiION Written for Intermountain Catholic Continued As opposed to atheism and agnosticism the Cath olic church teaches that faith in God though prior to reason is not only in conformity with mans ra tional instincts but is founded on reason Tho super natural and the natural like parallel lines have llowed I 011 since creation without fricrion or interference Gods grace which is i the supernatural supposes nature therefore between the two there can be no hostility or opposition Hence the teaching referred to is Although faith is above reason yet no dis sension no disagreement can ever be found I between them since both came from the infiniteami good God one and the same immutable fountain of truth and lend each other a mutual support Here the Catholic church teaches positively that there can be no conflict between true religion and rea son but on the contrary they mutually assist each other It is also an article of faith that reason or reasoning can prove with certainty the existence of God the spirituality of the soul and the freewill of I man Faith is subsequent to revelation and therefore cannot properly be alleged in proof of the existence of God against the atheist or in proof of the spiri I tuality and freewill of the rational soul again the fol lower of naturalism and fatalism Catholic faith not I only encourages and maintains the dignity of reason within its own sphere but makes it its helpmate which is indispensable The only objection then so frequently madein the name of science or intellectual progress that faith or religion is opposed to the development of mans rea son or subjects the believer to mental thraldomis con i tradicted by the dogmatic teaching of the church The revelation made in Paradise and which is the founda ion of faith requires reason to sustain its claim Faith being as St Paul expresses it a gift of God cannot be attained by reason alone requires the aid of grace and revelation which must in turn t be supplemented by reason since revelation and grace would not beget faith in souls that are irrational When God revealed himself to Adam he was iri possession of all his senses and endowed wftH I reason The faith implanted in his soul was transmitted to his I posterity Through tlc patriarchal religion it was preserved in its purity by supernatural assistance and the light of reason and so continued through the syna gogue down to the coming of Chrjst The pefsevor ance and tenacity of the Jews in preserving Gods law n the midst of most adverse circumstancs is without parallel in the history of the human race To the law itself reason can take no exceptions I Pascal the great defender of Christian truths thus j I speaks of it I examine this law which they boast to have received from God and I find that it is ad mirable In order of time it is the first of all laws in such sort that before even the word law wasused among the Greeks for a thousand years they the Jews had received and observed it without interrup tion Thus I am struck by the singularity of the fact that the first law to be met with in the world is also the most perfect so that the greatest legislators have I borrowed from it as appears from the Law of the Twelve Tables at Athensv which was subsequently d by the Romans For proof which is incontestable he refers to Josephm Then he continues But this law is of all others the most severe and rigorous in all that relates to the observance of their religion binding this people so as to keep them tt their obligations and that in a multitude of special and irritating observances and these under pain of death So that truly it is astounding that it has ever been preserved with such constancy and for so many years by a people so rebellious and impatient while all other states from time to time have changed their laws although in many ways more easy The book in which this law the first of all laws is contained is itself the most ancient book in the world Homer Hesiod and others being some 600 oij 700 years more modern In all his writings when directing attention to the Israelites Pascal found ample evidence of the inter positions of divine providence and their supernatural place in the world The law of Moses entrusted to their charge they zealously guard protect and preserve and even love Visibly he writes they ire a people ex pressly formed to serve as witnesses to the Messias They carry the books with them andlove thorn and do not know their meaning And all this was fore told that the judgments of God should be confided to them but as a book scaled up Pascal here l has reference to the prophecy of Isaias xxix 2 Then he adds The more I examine them the more truths I find in that which went before and in that which fol lowed s ° I find this chain this religion alto gether divine in its authority in its duration in its perpetuity in its morality in its doctrine in its re sults Firm and strong in their faith which when con trasted with the vagaries inconsistencies and abomina tions of those who separated from the synagogue ap peals to reason their religion revealed to Adam pre sents the divine element at every turn of lifo for 4000 years To it the Christian law had nothing to add beyond the fulfillment of the promises made by God to the patriarchs and prophets St Paul after his conversion when preaching to the Hebrews dwelt specially on this point namely that their faith for which their fathers made bo many sacrifices without its fulfillment would be vain His l