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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 13, 1947.
YOUR
RELIGION?
by the.
The third of three important articles leaders of the Churches in Britain setting down in simple language "the faiths of their Churchas
The beliefs of the Roman Catholics
by
•
Cardinal Bernard Griffin,
Archbishop of
THE most striking feature of the Catholic Church is that it is catholic.
an
This may sound rather obvious thing to say, but a mo- ment's reflection shows that it is a fact more often than not overlooked by casual observers. The word catholic means, of course, world-wide or universal. It means, and this is much more it is non- to the point, that national.
It is perhaps the most easily understood claim of the Church to represent Christ, the Founder of the Church, that she glens
the claims in the real sense word to be catholic.
ALL NATIONS Found in the Church
WONDER If you mcan?
what
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When you mention the name of any Christian sect you imply once a nailonal allegiance.
A member of the Church of Eng- lend is almost certain to be English or a native of some British posses- ulon. A member of the Church of Ireland is quite naturally Irish, Presbyterian is a Srot or of Scotch ancestry, an Episcopalian ts American, a Lutheran a German.
ar
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Thus we might run through whole list of the Protestant sects seeing that either locally tionally they belong to one particu-
lar group.
Dr T
Westminster
But this is not a question of arithmetic but of religion.
Chelst sent His apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature. He fold. said that there would be one and
national опе shepherd. No
that fold, flag was to wave over which was to embrace men of every nation and of every race.
I think I should add that to rejoice of the In the universal character
Church is in no way to look down on those men and women of good faith who belong to one or other of the national religious boules.
A man is bound to follow his own conscience.
I should be the last to say that Protestants lending there are no more Christlike lives than many of my own Catholle brethren.
un
To claim that Christ founded one His Church is Church and that catholic in oflen thought to be nttack upon Christians who do not belong to the visible unity of the Ancient Faith
Let it be said at once that to state
a conviction is not to attack those who do not share it.
GIFT OF FAITH And honest doubters
FAITH is a gift of God and no man has the right to blame those who what honestly doubt or disbelieve he knows to be true.
the For
Catholic
Church the teaches infallible truth. For us the promise that Christ would be with its Church until the end of time, in cepted as a simple and tonsoling order to teach her all truth, is ac- statement of theological fact
But what is the essential message universal Church? Quite of this simply it is the love of God,
This is the very purpose of man's creation, which is to know, love and serve Alaghty God in this world and so to be happy with Him for ever in the next.
Cardinal Griffin
Yet, oddly
un-
enough, the
detalls Arc important superficial
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Catholic bishop or priest han
no right to use a Catholic pulpit Indulge his own private vlows the interpretation of scripture, or to teach the latest improvement he considers he has made upon the dogmas of Catholicism,
As our Catholic boys realised dur- ing the war, if they were in Canada, Malta, Burma or Beirut, the teach ing of the Church was precisely the same in every detail.
It is a misuse of the word brond. minded to leave flock at the mercy of the idiosyncrasies of every minister.
Our Lord Himself was not vogue. He taught 1ila apostles a definite and dogmatic religion.
Because of the
unbroken suc- ccasion of pastorn from apostolle times, the Catholic Church still in sists that the Faith shall be taught as received and not presented in a new verskin with every wind of popular prejudice..
changing
POCKET CARTOON by ÓSDERT LANCASTER
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I suspect telepathic Inter. ference from the Music/anx* Union."
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and
order to stop heath woodland fires Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht has invented An 19- bestos match which cannot be struck.
It was pointed out that no match at all would be just as safe, but the Doctor ropiled that it was dropped
In a word, the Church exists to matches that caused fires, and not no teach the truth and to minister, tomatches, and that if the dropped
the spiritual needs of the faithful
This is another way of saying that it is the duty of the Church, to administer the seven sacraments to the brethren of Christ.
It is clearly impossible in a short article to deal with the whole of the sacramental system,
matches had never been struck, and were unstriiceable, they could couse Ares.
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"Bul they couldn't light cigar- ettes," said an official. --
"If they could light cigarettes,"
I content myself with saying that sald the Doctor, "they could cause
Sacrament. the Holyheath and woodland fires,"
constant and
most commonly taken to represent the Blessed the fullness of the Catholle religion. Eucharlat,
simple sublime aomu give me Let
examples.
The architecture, the painting and the music associated with Catholle te und ritual are not intrequently thought to be the main attractions of the Faith,
Yet the Church could still carry in- on her mtssidn without music,
and the flowers, candles hundred and one details which soften cense and beautify the practice of Catholic worship.
GREAT ART For highest purpose
was Catholic the greatest artists wish-
the days when Europe
best to the to give of their
"I have Church, seeming to say: loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory
Whereas to mention that a man is a Catholle Is to give no hint of his race or national illeglance.
A Catholic may be, like anyself, an may be German, Englishman. He American.' Italian, French or Dutch. He may be black or white. Ile may be Chinese or Japanese.
There is simply no way of know-
a Catholie ing to what race belong.
Nor are numbers any indication. in
dwelleth." Catholics There are inere America, for example, than in Ire- land or Italy,
may
of
The centre and soul of Catholle teaching is the personal love Jesus Christ the Son of God. Every ing else in the Church is, by con- trast, of small Importance.
Steel Is Badly Needed, Yet Ships Are Scuttled
IN
By
“Candidus ””
ed
The Catholic monks who bullt Canterbury Cathedral knew that God could be worshipped in a hall or barn. But they thought that only the best was good enough for Him Similarly the musicians considered ut the crowning glory of their life work to compose a Mass-to-be- sung- to God's glory in His churches,
of
素材 the means
of sanctification Whoa, Mayor!
which the Church has to offer.
The sold and abiding offering which the Catholic Church makes to God Is the sacrifice of the Son of God in the Holy Moss.
There has never been a religion without a sacrifice. The sacrifice of the Christion religion is the sacrifice But that sacrt- of fount Calvary. ilce, It obedience to Christ's com- mand, is made perpetual in the Holy
Mass.
to
EXTRACT from a letter from Mr.
T. Cleverley Grampound, Mayor
Mrs. Gravey. of Sopping Overcote, to his sister,
... She is to be the British Gear- Queen at Tulvenham, Sho Bur doesn't talk much, as
she is the serious type. Still waters run deep.
branch of the Wiltshire Slopcorners. asked her if her people were a
So I She smiled mysteriously.
"From the rising of the sun the going down thereof my nome said, "Is your father a Wiltshire great among the Gentiles and in Stencorner?" And she said, "No. andle's Ted Stepcorner." Rather witty, every place there is sacrifice there is offered to my name a clean
I thought. oblation."
THE
DAILY MASS The corner-stone
THE offering of the Holy Mass in which the falthful make oblation of themselves is the corner-stone of Catholic life.
So that the Mass may be less un- worthily offered, Catholics through
From Mrs. Gravey
to Mr Grampound
newspapers convinces
the
Your still waters don't sound very deep. Take care not to maka
a Christian thought Wiltshire was an ass of yourself, She evilently
name. Anyhow, you don't want a wife who gods about as Miss 1947 all at the world have erected basilicas, the time. I hear she giggled and suld some very foolish things at churches and chapels,
Another essential Coflolic prac-Bumpton St, George, tice is that of devotion to our Blessed
from In passing It is because man is composed Lady, God singled her out
that body and spirit
he uses among all other creatures as the one
me that material Wings in his worship of who should give Him 1ts human AN exhaustive reading of Almighty God. If he were an angel flesh and blood when He became
as nothing will satisfy the leader-writers he would not need to use these man. We therefore honour her
the Mother of God.
but knock-out blow. Every time devotion Relics of the
to our the public is banged thruogh the Blessed Lady in Catholle England ropes the chorus goes up, "Hit us are still to be found.
harder! Go ont You aren't trying! cathedral hus K Lady That didn't hurt nearly enough!" Every of the Chapel, March 25 we call Lady Day, I think I am, safe in assert-
the month of Briefly, we may say that the call May, which Is ing that since the end of the purpose for which Christ founded it, and the fifth month of the year we
mission is two-fold--to Mary, war, millions of pounds worth Church's
During May Catholics hold pro- penal of steel has been used as tar- teach and to sanctify.
cessions in honour of the Mother of go To teach it is necessary to have God.
Catholics the
in Britain аге in a reason gets for the Allied Navies; and to me as a layman. waste on knowledge. For this such a large, and so frequently Church does not permit the Catholic minority, but we are proud to be- repeated seate
to be name to be retained when Catholic long to a Church which claims appears
membership of 400,000,000. truth is distorted or even diluted. and foolishly unnecessarily wasteful.
this unfortunate era, when which she plied her peaceful yeurs. Pre- worldwide shortages exist trade for many
sumably, the country's ex (or are supposed to exist), I
chequer benefited by her sale. find myself wondering why so much presumably valuable steel and other metal is towed out to
sea and sunk.
The excuse is usually given that using ex-enemy warships as targets provides valuable data for the engineers, seien tists and shipbuilders. I sup- pose the creators of machines
destruction must of
keep
abreast of the times, but I THE proposed Bill to authorise a cannot believe
Joan of $150,000,000 for the
that the des- general rehabilitation of the Colony metal is is being widely and favourably dis-
truction of so much necessary.
cussed, and many conjectures are being made na to its success or other- wisę. The consensus of opinion This week-end, a Japanese would indicate that the loan will In- warship will become the target quickly be over-subscribed, the
terest being favourable and the for the gunnery of the British security, of course, ill-edged. It Chinn Fleet, although what to be hoped that such will prove to be the case, and that Government scientific data will be secured wil thus be guided and encouraged which has not already been dis- to raise further money in the same way. To continually lean on the covered elsewhere by the same Colonial Office is most unsatisfac- process I cannot imagine. tory, and many urgent development schemes are necessarily delayed or It may be that the steel, turned down in consequence. plates and other metal, whichIt is interesting to note that the within a few hours will find a Bill empowers the Governor resting place in the Chinn Sca, Crown Agents, acting on his behalf, al to offer bonds on the London mar- have no commercial use, though I very much doubt-ket, although it is to be hoped that such netion will be as a last resort" whether such is really the case. only. It is of great importance that I do know that Hongkong, in as much as possible of the Colony's common with the rest of the wealth should be absorbed on the world, needs steel-and needs it spot, and I subscribe to the belief that the local demand for bonds badly, even if only a matter of will be heavy. Once the local de- in few hundred tons.
mand is met, then there is no reason not bo why more money should
or
Another line of thought leads raised in London. one. to wonder whether such a
Enterprise and initiative here enn ship could not be converted to raise funds for the Airport, Tunnel, commercial
uso... Old naval University and other necessary im- vessels have been sold before, provements; and if the vision of and before the war a converted the future is to be realised, fund
Hongkong to forge ahead,
muen
destroyer was a familiar sight more than a mero million pounds In South China ports, between must be made available
things.
THE TASK
To teach, to sanctify
have mentioned the mission
the Church. This
nicans
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