Briefer Mention
November 26, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL Not even a Klansman would be so steeped in prejudice as to hold that Methodist missions directed from...
...To see the facts in their "proper perspective you must understand Christendom and the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman empire and the Feudal system, as they existed and were understood in the Middle Ages...
...An attempt to do that encounters exactly the same difficulties which Bernard Shaw mentions in the case of Saint Joan...
...The policy of Spain in that particular was due to the influence of the Catholic Church...
...What is peculiar is the power and extent of the means which Catholicism possesses for obviating such conflict...
...No, the distinctions noted by Dr...
...There were zealots who agreed with Garrison in denouncing the Constitution as a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell, because it recognized the legal status of slavery...
...There is a school of New England writers whose works extol mob uprisings against the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and relate the particulars with marked relish...
...A great body of literature, in prose and in verse, celebrates the insubordination of the Puritans...
...Its method is to hold the Catholie Church responsible for outrageous acts done by Catholics and to treat outrageous acts done by Protestants 4• .bwng~znstans~sIoLi ijviividual delinquency., - ..But.if we keep to matters within the range of in79 telligent judgment, it is certainly a reasonable opinion that a citizen who has help and guidance from an institution whose jurisprudence reflects the experience of nearly twenty centuries is safer than one whose conduct is controlled by the enthusiasms and antipathies of the hour—just as a man who consults a prudent solicitor before taking an important step is more likely to keep out of trouble than he who acts from casual impulse...
...In no place where Catholic influence prevailed was it an issue which arrayed citizens against the authority of the state or left permanent wounds upon the body-politic...
...Mecklin discusses it at length...
...And is it not true, that in these times when political issues are hinging on social and economic questions of far-reaching importance, the advice of the Catholic Church is felt as a moderating influence promoting orderly adjustments...
...Most of the Protestant sects of our times originated as revolts against religious observance prescribed by the state, and they love to tell about it...
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...This is too stiff a task for any one...
...Ignorance is the sole source of honest antagonism to the Catholic Church...
...And Catholic influence extended much farther than is commonly supposed...
...It seems that the babies were immediately washed and bound up in ligatures after the manner practised in the classic days of Rome, as shown in the frescoes unearthed at Pompeii...
...It is only against the Catholic Church that geographical distinctions are drawn and the cry of foreign interference is raised when ecclesiastical action transcends national boundaries...
...Mecklin do not in fact exist...
...The removal of Bishop Keane from the rectorship of the Catholic University is exhibited as a startling instance of foreign interference...
...What the nurses thought of this procedure was not recorded...
...If the Church were as well known on the American countryside as it is in the cities, it would be as impossible to organize Kiaverns in the United States as it would be now in Germany...
...If we turn now to consider how far practical experience bears out this theoretical presumption, the abolition of slavery presents itself as a good case in point...
...As to the "two sets of loyalties," every man who has a conscience is subject to them...
...At one period one sponsor alone was thought best to signify the Unity of God: three at another, to represent the blessed Trinity...
...It was considered proper to baptize the new-born infant before it took any nourishment whatever...
...Even scientific history labors heavily under it, and popular history reeks with error and partiality...
...Denominational history enlarges with great gusto upon heroic conflicts with secular authority resulting from devotion to religious principles...
...This is an aspect of the case which usually escapes notice because all that people generally think about is the tremendous conflict which did occur in the Reformation period, from conditions which have so completely disappeared that it is now almost impossible to realize their character...
...The remedy for darkness is not argument but light...
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...A Knight's Life in the Days of Chivalry, by Walter Clifford Melter, New York: Greenberg, Inc...
...When Canning introduced his bill for gradual emancipation in the West Indies he acknowledged his indebtedness to Spanish precedents which he characterized as a model of humane procedure...
...On no point are Protestant divines so strong as that one should serve God rather than man...
...There is nothing peculiar in the position of Catholics as regards the possibility of conflict between religious obligation and the duty of civic obedience...
...On the other hand, all sensible men are now agreed that the fanatic violence with which this matter was treated in our own country has had miserable results...
...Mecklin calls attention to the fact that it is just where Catholics are fewest and where there is least knowledge about the Church as a working institution that prejudice is strongest...
...November 26, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL Not even a Klansman would be so steeped in prejudice as to hold that Methodist missions directed from the United States have because of that fact a moral status different from that of Wesicyan missions directed from England, or Presbyterian missions directed from Scotland...
...Themes for eulogy have been found in resistance to law even on issues not directly involving religious opinion...
...Tipple from his post at Rome without incurring reproach...
...The council of Trent at last decided that two sponsors only should be appointed...
...THIS volume of studies on A Knight's Life in the Days of Chivalry includes among a number of interesting items an account of the customs of childbirth in these simple honest days...
...The Methodist church may remove Dr...
...Sometimes the first morsel given the child was placed in his mouth at the point of his father's sword, to promote, it was said, a martial disposition in the infant...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 3
