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Show COULD YOU BELIEVE IT? Is It Possible Conditions Exist Which Allow 5ucn Questions as Thes to Bu Asked. The following questions yvere dropped into the question box at a mission to non-Catholics in Virginia, says the Missionary: Mis-sionary: Don't the conscience of a priest always al-ways condemn him for teaching yvhat Christ disapproves or have they smothered smoth-ered their consciences by committing themselves to be priests? Don't the devil sometimes get priests off the earth before they die? Or do you yet know? Do you claim that all Catholic people peo-ple will go to heaven? Do you also teach that no other than a Catholic will go to heaven? Christ says I will build My Church and it will stand as steadfast today as ever. We are yvaiting for Christ's coming com-ing for His Church to be established and of Christians, but not of Catholics. What are you expecting? Has priest any more poyver to forgive for-give sins than any other man (or person?) per-son?) You priests claim that you can answer an-swer any question scripturally and prove it by the Bible itself; if so, why then are not members of the Church allowed al-lowed to read the Bible? Why (if you Catholics are right) don't you priests and church members go out among the Protestants, even into their churches and teach them? Why haven't priests got the suitable horns in plain vieyv of their people? These questions bear the undoubted stamp of sincerity. They have been all asked in good faith. While they bear just a little tinge of acrimony, yvhich a missionary is quite accustomed to and wisely ignores, still 90 per cent nf the questions is a strong desire to know. The question next to the last has the most yvisdom in it. Why if you Catholics Catho-lics are right, don't you priests and church members go out among Protestants, Protest-ants, even into their churches and teach them? Catholic Mirror. |