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Show CARDINAL" NEWMAN'S IDEA OE RELIGION In Youth He Believed the Pope to Be Anti-Christ Anti-Christ Explanation of the "Movement" y In Established Church. (Written for Intemtounlain Catholic.) Faith is 11 divine v'trliie by which one firmly Itrlicvcs .-til that od teaches. Faith and reason I must he in harmony. Faith cannot conlradict r,v.-; In order that faith, may he all this, it must have the sanction of divine Authority. Only through the t-am-tion of divine authority can faith begot ilounia, which i. the infallible interpretation ft ' of the F.ihle. Cardinal Xewman in his "Apologia pro Vita Sua." says: "From the ago of fifteen, dogma has been lhr- fundamental principle of. my religion: 1 know no other religion; 1 can not 'enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion as a ' f mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. i The divine authority needed in make faith binding n ihe conscience comes direelly I rmn dod through his Sou to Ins apostles nnd their successors. succes-sors. "All power in. heaven and on earth is given in me. As the Father hath soul me. I also send you."" Then again afV-r being cloihed with this dii:ie authority, ho lolls the consequence of resisting- i he authority. "lie that hearoth you, heareth me; and lie that despiseih you. despiseth me; anl he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me."' This divine authority claimed and exercised hy the 1 successors of ihe apostles. vp are told, was ahiisod hy infi inging on liherly. But what is divine, i. e., sanctioned hy Cod. could not he nhused. since it is Cnd. through his authorized agents, teaches, and commands. The admission that the apostles were commissioned commis-sioned and authorized hy the Savior to teach and save souls, is a guaranty against abuse in their teaching' or commands. This is viewing- the divine element of the church, as separate and distinct from the human side. For the former, God's "word is the highest and safest guaranty: for the latter, i. .. the human side, there is no pledge or promise. 'n the contrary, as exemplified in ihe ease of i . -ludas. one of the ..ejiusieii. apostle,, man. no'Tiia tier ; how high his calling may he, may err. liesting the c;is(. on Christian principles as laid down in the TiiMo. tluit our Lord was authorized hy his heaven--3y Father to command and teach, and that he, in Hirn. conferred the same power on his apostles. "ve have for the primitive church the authority of God. from whom alone can emanate any power or right " ! in govern either in civil or religious matters. "There is no power unless from God' Clod is 1he source ami foundation of all aulliority. which rests in Hi, ii as Creator of all things visible and invisible. He alone possesses authority as a right. P T he authority of ihe ruler of a nation comes from Ii Cod. who delegates him to rule. The ruler does vussess ii as right, hut simply as a trust besiiiwed ihrough the medium of the people, as we have ii in this rounlry. He may bestow the author- : i'V immediately upon an individual as he did upon ! Closes, or a certain household. Jike the family of f 1 David, but ordinarily, when society forms itself and ". becomes a nation, the authority in rule and govern I, ' ' ios iroin djd (.through the eople) to the chief .e utive. who is responsible h,,th to (ud and to tlio j.eoplc. It is, -si,,.,,, not ;i right but simply a j trusj; an.j jf ,ia, trut ;? violated, it may lie lost. I; Hence the absurd claim of ihe divine right" of I J . king-. f I" fslabli.sh the necessity of dogmatic teach- j -.iv and s..nie divine right to teacli. were, says f j 'ardinal Xewman. the fundamental principles of I .1,1; b'vement injhe Fstablished Church in ls:J5. ( -on!;den;.' he wriies, "in ihe truth of a ! 'en;, in detinite religious teaching based upon this I foundation ,f dogma, viz.. that there was a visi- b!- ( luii'cli. wiih sacraments and rites which are the ; channels of invisible grace. J ilught lhat tin's va- ilie dortrine of Scripture, of ihe early Church. "I :h" Anglican Church."' That they were not I j' a p.-.n ,.f ,he teaching r practice of ihe ;.-tabli-he,I J ( ,l,'.1:'",'h ;,! hi' knew full well. lie says: ",,Vi" " 1 o.-'an the Tra.ts for the Times 1 rested I the i,,a;n doctrine, of which 1 am speaking, uj.-m i I, s-np.urc oj, the Angiican Frayer Ibmk. and on St. ! ' 7vf:iU J-l'l'-- (F As K, the existence of a- 1 Msii,!,. eliurcli. I especially argueci out the jioint ! i ron, Seriptuie. iv Tract II. viz.. from t he Acts of ! t'le Annstles and the Fpiles. (-J ) As to the i Sa-rament.v anl si; ram'nta! riles. 1 loo,l on ,,c ! l'r.'.yer I)o,.k. J appealed to ihe Ordination Service. ! in which (I,., bishop says. -Keeeivo , ,e Holy j , 1" ll,r Visilaii..ii Service, which teaches j j !:!. smoii and Absolution; t,, F,apismal ! -.-m,,. j,, j,;,., t. j,,.;,.,, s)(..,j., nf (.,iiItj ;jft(T- j jl b::ptii as r. generate: to tin- Calechisin. in which ! ' IJ Ne-ramei!al Couim u n ion i receiving "verily and I : !n.!ee,J ,i. l;,lv .,,! y;i 1 ,vf C,r;.,t; 1o the'Com- l i 1 ' 1 ' i j a 1 1 1 1 1 1 Service, in which we are lold to do l "v. orks of penance.' 1 y, . " 1h"i ' l'l -ind ai that period, whilst jj " i'Min- to esiablisli Catholic doctrine, we give his h v" of the Catholi,. church: "When I was ;i "mig. and after I was grown up. I thought the i't Aini-Christ." The divine aullmritv, l H'ligious teaching was fo hiin ." . '-'"i or a- h,. tormed it "a mockery." . daced in - ) '''--hop who was ilac-d over iiitn. "Mvowu f j J WM " pop.-;- I knew ,,n other; the succes- l,,'.,.,f 'he aposth s. the vicar of Christ." ; ' I'oiK'hiiig t he divine right of ihe Fpiseopacv. i' !"' "A- to the Fpisoopal syslenu f founded " "l;"!1 Ih'' '-P'-'b-s of S. Ignatius, which incul- " '.i",,,1 " 111 van, .it., ways. Cue passage cspociallv i4 ifnpre.., itsfjf ,n,on mo. Speakinff of cases of oisobedn-nce to ecelesiasi i-al authority, he says: A man does not deceive that bishop whom he sees', l but he- . radices rather with the Bishop Invisible, fiM lh(' qntion is not with the flesh. "but Avith I Co,i Mho knows the secret heart. I wished to act on lln rniu-iplo to the letler. and T may say with (Continued on Page 4.) ii !.! (WML Htnrs W OF RElldl - (Continued from Page 1.) confidence that I never consciously transgressed it. I loved to act as feeling myself in my bishop's sight, a3 if it were the sight of God." This strong faith in the divine authority of his bishop lasted till 1841, when the British parliament enacted a law making provision for the consecration consecra-tion of "British subjects, or the subjects or citizens citi-zens of any foreign slate, to be bishops in any foreign country,' whether such foreign subjects or citizens be or ber-not subjects or citizens , of the country in,. which-the'afa 10 act." Seeing that all sects were'' 'allowed tolp&ec themselves under au Anglican bishop, "without any renunciation of their errors, or regard to their due reception of baptism and confirmation,'' he says, "finally shattered shat-tered my faith in the Anglican church. The Anglican church might have the apostolic succession, succes-sion, as had the Monophysite?; but such acts as were in progress led mo to the grave suspicion, not that it would soon to be a church, but that, since the sixteenth century, it had never been a church all along' The object of the act of parliament parlia-ment was to send an Anglican bishop to Jerusalem, and thereby form an alliance in spiritual.-! with Protestant Prussia, which, had been long desirous .to introduce Episcopacy into the Evangelical religion, re-ligion, and which was intended by the Prussian court to embrace both the Lutheran and Calvinistic bodies. . F. D. 4 Bishop Named for Helena Diocese. Pome, Sept. SO. The Congregation of the Propaganda today issued a brief appointing the Rev. John B. Carroll, of the Holy Family mission of Montana, to be Bishop of Helena in succession to the late Rt. Rev. John B. Brondel. Portland, Ore.. Oct. 1. In reference to the dispatch from Rome announcing the appointment of Rev. John P. Carroll as Bishop of Helena, it is stated by Rt. Rev. Alexander Christie, archbishop of this diocese, that in his opinion, Rev. John P. I Carroll, president of St. Joseph's college at Dubuque, Du-buque, la., is the person meant, and not Rev. John B. Carroll of Montana. Xo official announcement of the appointment has reached the cathedral residence res-idence in this city and two months is generally required for transmission of such notice. After tho death of the late Bishop Brondel the bishops of the province selected three names, as did the priests of the diocese, and from these lists sent to Rome the new bishop was chosen. St. Joseph's college at Dubuque was established in 187:1 for ecclesiastical students and also for those who aspire to the learned professions. The Catholic clergy of Butte are in some doubt as to who has been appointed Bishop of Helena. The Associated Press dispatch from Rome states that it is Rev. John B. Carroll, of the Holy Family Fam-ily mission, of this state. Rev. John M. Carroll is a member of the Society of Jesus, and it is unusual un-usual to select as a bishop a man from this order, as the Jesuits have a rule against their members aspin'ng to the episcopacy. Still, it has been done, and there are several ishops who avcto Jesuits. Rev. John P. Carroll of Dubuque. Ia., wal one of the names prominently mentioned for the See of Helena. The local clergy are in doubt, as no official advices have been received. Rev. John B. Carroll is a younsr man. and has been in Montana some three or four years. lie is at present at the mission in Teton county. Rev. John P. Carroll is president of St. Joseph's college col-lege at Dubuque, Ia. Ho has two sisters in Butte. 1 Miss May Carroll and Mrs. P. T. McDermott, of 27 Xorth Jackson street. Bishops are selected from two lists of names ! which are sent to Rome. One is sent by the priests-of priests-of the diocese and the other by the bishops of the province. Montana is in the province of Portland, 1 Ore., and governed by Archbishop Christie. . 1 |
