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The subject of the final lecture on religion and selence at St. Patrick's Hall yesterday evening was "The Fortress Still Standing," the speaker being Rev. Father G, Byrne, S. J.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
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motor car, they will give you the anme anawer: "they are going to Mass." Ask them further what: this means; they will tell you that the Mass in the Sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ. If we can point to schools of Their answers are coherent and Science with opposing views, stable. It does not matter where varying schools of Religion are you put the question-London, still, perhaps, more numerous: a Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Peking or fact which, of itself, causes no Sydney. You will always get the more dimeully against the truth same answer and you will find mil of Religion than different theories. lions to give it to you. More than about the nature of light cause that you will find that the Bardo' Before he began his lecture About Its reality. As in Science, answer was given by
sq in Religion different beliefs groups two hundred, three hun- Father Byrne minde a few pro make it more difficult to find the dred. five hundred years ago; Uminary romarks. He was sure, truth, they do not make the quest given, even, by those who preferr he said, that in the course of those of truth hopeless. If these be re-ed to suffer death than to fail to lectures the audience must have igious truth, it should certainly give it. You may trace the mean- noticed that there had been a great deal of correspondence Instand the test which scientists np. ing and the force of the words the papers about them. He par-ply to their principles: it should back to the supper-room in Jeru ticularly cited the case of one of be coherent and stable. The Law Balom, where Chriet uttered the the correspondents who, he said, of Gravitation will not become worde: "This is My body, this in nor in- My blood" Attempt after aÈ- had been continually attacking his lectures and those of his two operative In Rusala. It will be the tempt has been made to rid men's same 'at the end of the century as minds of the doctrines: the sword,' colleagues, Father Joy and Father Gallagher. He deplored was at the beginning. Now is that method of controversy, and there to be found, on the globe, said that the audience must have at present any form of Religion himself which is coherent and stable? In noticed that both he as well as his colleagues had this age of statistics it should be Ignored the letters in the papore, possible to answer the question. but all three of them were pre-Using the figures by the 1928 pared to answer any questions that anybody chose to make.
At the end of the lecture Mr. G. P. de Martin, on behalf of the audience, expreaned thanks and gratitude to Father Byrne and his colleagues for their talks. He said that the silence with which the audience received the fec- was more eloquent than words an to their quality and he therefore asked the people present to join him in hearty thanks to Father Byrne and his colleagues, This was greeted with applause.
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appeal to science, ridicule. Un- believers have resorted to all three. The Catholic Church an- were back, coherently, unchang ingly: "I believe what Augustine believed, what Bernard believed, what Thomas Aquinas believed, edition of Whitaker's Almanack, what Michelangelo believed: yes we and, the world population to I, scientist, believe what Pastour, other great be roughly 1,800 millions. Of and innumerable these over 682 millions, are Chris-scientists, believed." The unbe- tlans, and of the Christians over lieving world rose to laugh at 381 millions are Catholics in com- me but, in spite of itself, it was munion with the See of Rome. As compelled to hear the Credo thun the Christians who are not. In communion with Rome, Le. Pro- testants and Orientale, agree with Roman Catholic teaching in the main general outline of ethical teaching and with much of her dogma, we may say that in a fair portion of her doctrine she ro- presents the belief of one-third of the human race. An examination of the ethics of the remaining bitterly, yet it is as firmly held two-thirds of the race would show today In the Catholic Church as that in many important things it was in the middle ages or in her code is a fair representation the earliest centuries of Chris- of the general ethical sense of tianity. It has the character of mankind. Moreover every year atability; it has, too, the character & Graid Gala Performance will be given under the distinguished number of Catholics all over the ahows a steady increase in the
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dered from Eucharistic Congresses and to gaze in astonishment at the million kneeling in the re- verence of their belief. I have selected this one example. The doctrine is a striking one; it is! a much-discussed doctrine, the recent Prayer-book contro veray in the British Parliament has been attacked alowed. It
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the Gospel narrative: it is coher of coherence. It is coherent with
cut with the doctrine of the mystical union with Christ, 80 beautifully set forth afteenth chapter of St. John and in the
In the course of these lectures on Religion and Science we have examined the methods adopted in the pursuit of scientific truth and of religious truth, We have seen there must be differances in their that, as their objecta are different. methods of investigation. Even a casual observer, however, will These are very significant facts. notice that both Selence and Re-When tested by the two scientific ligion claim certain principles on
principles of coherence and which to build their structures.
coherent with the Catholic' doct In Science it is more common to stability, they cannot fail to in the epistles of St. Paul; it is press any thoughtful man.. What-rine of the nature of the soul and call these principles Laws,--thus the Law of Gravitation, the Law of ever part of the world you may
the supernatural clevation. The Attraction. In Religion the word visit--East, West, North, South,
Catholic liturgy are contred in Dogma prevails the Dogma of you will find Catholics with the beauty, majenty and coherence of
this doctrine. the Incarnation, the Dogma of the same faith and with a coherent Trinity. Science can and Foe3 reviso, or even scrap, her Laws without loss of reputation; Reli- gion cannot scrap her Dogman without, herself, suffering by the loss. None the leas Science, as
ty,
faith.
Churches. Everywhere.
Coherence and Stability.
their
We need not linger in St. Peter's, of the churches or to
If you care to linger about any visit the though the world cannot offer us Catholic schools, during catechetical any other temple comparable to instruction, you will meet with well as Religion, is concerned it. We need not pause to cofurther proofs of coherence and sider any of the other noted chur- stabilty. You will discover that about stability: "If we were asked," writes Sir Oliver Lodge, chen to whith our Roman guide the Catholic Church has a double "what were the fundamental ideas would bring us; Rome is, after set of truths to offer to her child: underlying modern science, I all, the abode of the Pope, and dren; truths to enlighten their think we should answer Uniformi- the present Popo is the two hun-intellects and truths to guide Evolution." dred and sixty-second in the line their wills in the conduct of life. Continuity, Science observes phenomena, she of Roman Blahops. If we pas The first set deal with the dogmas for from Italy to France or Germany of her faith. Intelligent men, marshals fnets, she seeks principles linking them together. or Spain, we cannot fail to notice not belonging to the Church, who In the initial stages, she calls the cathedrals such as Notre Dame or have taken the trouble seriously principles 'hypotheses. When that of Cologne or of Madrid. In to examine these dogmas, havt they have stood the test of vary- fact, we shall find in every im- been compelled to admit ing circumstances and have not portant city of Europe, Catholic coherence. They hang together been weakened by the lapse of cathedrala and many other Catho- perfectly, forming a perfectly time she considers herself just lie churches besides. Cross the logical whole. This from, a fied in calling them Laws. Her Atlantic to America. You will scientific standpoint is surely position is strengthened when an find Catholic cathedrals and good argument in their favour. Increasing number of men, in dif-churches in all the States. You When further, it is found that ferent parts of the earth and ap- will find them, too, in India, in every year, all over the earth, proaching the question from dif- Africa, in Alaska, nor will you be large numbora of one-time ferent angles, become united in without them when you travel, Insentients are won
over to this assent, all the more so if many of China, from Hongkong to Peking. faith; in England, at present the them had differed for years. The These buildings are very different annual number of converts method is reasonable. The very from the museums and the picture notion of truth demands coher- galleries. They are for living ence and stability,
souls, not for silent relics. Day in, day out men and women and Science Still Groping. children visit them: early in the
the To reach the poaltion which she world is astir, during the day and
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The man who has not the time or inclination to examine dogmas Church's moral code. It forms a must, at least be impressed by the
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