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APRIL, 1951
THE JEPFER80NIAN
Page *
Britannica Lists Saint Peter As First Pope
Origin of Religions—
(Continued from page 2)
Baptist paper, like the Baptists,
themselves, believe that durtu"
the 2,000 years of the visible
Church called Catholic — that
they also existed. Though the
absence of church buildings,
leadership and nations converge
to their faith indicates the'r
visible organization at dates
after 1500, each sect cited above,
like the Baptists, insist that thej
are older than the Catholic
Church. History's objective ver
diet, however, reveals that m a
visible society with leaders am
buildings, the Catholic Church is
about 1500 years older than her
closest Protestant rival. So ob
vi'ous is this fact in history that
most adherents of the above
Beets will explain their existence
in much the same way as a
writer in a Texas Baptist paper
who some time ago, in response
to the query, "Where was your
church during all the centuries
of the 'Roman Catholic Church?",
explained: "Our Church, the
Church of Christ, during the
first 1600 years was like the sun
behind an eclipse."
CHRIST SAID PEOPLE HAD
TO "HEAR" THE CHURCH
During the first 1600 years all
non-Catholic Christian churches
were indeed like the sun behind
an eclipse — hidden from view
so that no one could see them.
And Qtir Blessed Lord had said
of His Church: "If anyone re-
fuses to hear the Church, let
him be anathema." If it be no!
true that Jesus Christ establish
ed the Church which the Ency-
clopedia says was first camd
O^Wlic in the 2nd century,,t
which converted the Emperor
and all of Europe, if this be not
trr<\ then Christians are faced
with a problem. Christ comman-
ded all men to listen to His
Church and then made It so
that some 1,862 religions in the
U. S. al'3ne could today cl&im
to be the one behind the eclipse
during the long era when the
Roman Cat hoi <c Church was the
only rfne visible in the world. To
imagine that the Son of God
would promote such a contra
diction Is unthinkable. That He
establ'shed history's oldest
Church, the Catholic Church, Is
far more reasonable.
MASS MINUS VESTMENTS
Top FDR Aide
Goes To Jail
For Betrayal
New York — On the front
paires of all American newspa-
pers the following item was re-
cently printed. In a few lines it
expresses volumes on which way
the wind blew during 13 years
of American history. For many
in the American public It
■brought at length the realization
that not only were they greatly
fooled but that the nation's top
citizen was also fooled.
Said the item. 1n effect:
"Mr AWr Hiss, top foreign
policy adviser to tfie late Presl
dent Roosevelt and his aide at
the Yalta Conference, went to
prison t^dfcy, convicted iOf per
jury and of being a member of
the Commun'st party.
TOLERANCE?
Tolerance f'r individuals pro-
fessing beliefs opposite from our
own is incomplete. De we want
just to "tolerate" them or should
we love them as Christ loves
lis? Thn 'ittp- is the Catholic
view of tolerance.
S
In time of war and persecution Holy Mass may and sometimes
jjid without vestments. Pictured above is a scene from the
wj front showing Father Bernard Hlckey, a priest of the
J-L'u.e o Rochester, N. Y., giving Holy Communion to one of
Sau's ,ailant Marines. Father Hickey had just celebrated
■1*5.. which essentially is a repetition of the Last Supper. A
. > t altar In a Korean battlefield was used t r the'sacred
during which Jesus Christ 'becomes present saeramentally in
ho n idst of His followers. The first Mass was celebrated at the
ast Supper when the Redeemer to-k bread and wine and spoke
the words: "This is My Body. This is the chalice of My Blood
.hlch shall be shed for many unto the remission of sins." The
ipost.es, told to ''do this in commemoration of Me," became the
first priests. Th§ Church later supplied beautiful vestments and
.oremonies befitting the sacredness of the Mass Photo,
courtesy 6f ROCHESTER COURIER JOURNAL.
episcopalian
'Ambivalence"
Noted by Time
New York ._ "Almost anything
anyone could say about the Epls
coiial Church w:uld be partly
true," says TIME Magazine in an
article on religion in its March
26th issue. \
Commenting on Episcopalian-
ism's qualifications for cementing
unity among Protestants who dif-
fer so much am:ng themselves
in their beliefs, TIME says of
the Episcopal Church:
"It is Protestant or Catholic,
depending on which of its mem
bers you are- talking to. Its
clergy include some who are cm
barrassed by nv?st of the Apo*
ties' Creed and others who ca'l
themselves 'Father,' and say
Mass every day. with all the
liturgy and ritual of a Roman
Catholic church.
"For such ambivalence the
Episcopal Church has been
called the 'Bridge Church' be-
tween Protestantism and Catho-
licism. As Bishop Sherrlll says:
'The bridge doesn't seem to have
anything to hook on to at pre-
sent, and a bridge with nothing
to hoo<k on to is just up in the
air."
One of Dr. Sherrlll's qualifica-
tions which got him the Job of
freing president of a Council of
29 Protestant churches, says
TIME, was the fact that as an
Episcopalian he can Le both
Catholic and Protes.ant. _ The
ma azine quotes Bishop Sherrlll
as follows: "When I'm with an
extreme Protestant, I tend to be
m'-re Catholic than normally;
when I'm taikln; to an Anglo-
Catholic, I begin to sound like a
Protestant."
COMMiN.': Many Protestants
are searching for a unity of
doctrine, for they realt7.e that
Christ could not have taught con-
tradictions. But those who are
willing to go only half way down
the road to the Historic Church
will never find true unity. A
Catholic Protestant or a Prctes
tant Catholic is a contradiction
In terms. Real unity is to be
found only at the end of the
road. There the Catholic Church
wa'ts as a living Mother to
welcome all back home.
No Program
More Realistic
' None h9s presented a program
Tor the solution of social prcb
lems more realistic than the one
preached by . the C a t h o 1 lc
Church.Pope Plus XII, speak-
ing in 'Spanish by ra'dio to
Spanish workers gathered In
Madr'd to celebrate the 12th
anniversary of his coronation.
NOTED ENCYCLOPEDIA IN VOLUME 13, PAGE
131 BEGINS THE LIST OF POPES OF CATHOLIC
CHURCH WITH APOSTLE WHO RECEIVED KEYS
In the Holy Bible Jesua Christ,
the Son of Ood, apparently had
something special In mind for
His Apostle Peter. The first
time He met him He changed
Peter's name, calling him by a
word which meant rock, a word
of great significance when later
lesus addressed Peter as fol-
lows: "Thou art Peter (rock)
and on this rock I will build My
Church and the gates of Hell
shall not prevail against it." On
the same occasion Peter was
told by Our Lord that he would
have the keys of the Kingdom
of Heaven. At the Last Supper
Christ told him that .He was
uraying especially for him and
that Satan especially desired to
see him fall more than the rest.
I'he angel from God In telling
the holy women of the gloripus
Resurrection that flr t Easter
said: "Go tell His disciples AND
Peter." Then the Risen Savior
Himself, appearing to the Apos-
tles on the shores of the lake
of Genesereth, told Peter three
times to feed His lambs and to
feed His sheep. In the holy gos-
pels Peter acts frequently as
spokesman for the other Apostles.
Finally the Holy Spirit In the
composition of the Holy Bible
save no order to the various lis-
tings of the Apostles by each
author except to put Peter's
name at the head of the list In
ach case.
TO PETER THE KEY8
To Peter the Son of God In
human ilesh spoke as follows:
I will give unto THEE the keys
of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whatsoever thou Shalt bind on
earth it shall be bound In Heav-
an and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on .earth it shall be loosed
In Heaven." ♦
In history the huihble Jewish
fisherman who had. his nitme
changed by Christ, who received
the power of the keys from
Christ, who was prayed for es-
pecially by Christ, who was
singled out for the news of ^ht
Resurrectlpn and who was told
to feed Christ's lambs and sheep
—in history the great Apostle is
listed as the first Pope of the
Roman Catholic Church.
LIST BEGIN8 WITH PETER
In Volume 13, page 131 of the
Junior Encyclopedia Britannica.
outstanding non-Catholic refer-
ence book, the names o.' 261
Popes of the Roman Catholic
Church are published. The list
begins with St. Peter, the Apos
tie of Jesus Christ, who died in
the year 67, and ends with His
Holiness, Pope Pius XII, the
261st Pope now in office.
In Its article on the Roman
Catholic Church this volume of
'Ustory notes the fact that "as
parly as the second century the
'erm Catholic, meaning universal
w.-s APPLIED to the CHRIST-
IAN Church." In other words, at
a time when the' Church of Our
LcrcJ, was hardly one hundred
years old it, the Christian
Church, became known as the
Catholic Church.
EMPEROR BECAME CATHOLIC
So visible was the Church of
Christ which began to be called
Catholic by the 2nd century that
in 313 when the Emperor of
Rome himself became a Christ-
ian, he chose to join the Catholic
Church. The great Constantino
In gratitude for the great gift of
the Catholic faith and In repara-
tion for the violent persecution
oarrled on against the Catholic
Church by his predecessors,
erected In Rome the first St.
{eter's Basilica, a monument to
is zeal which stood there for
almost ONE THOUSAND AND
TWO HUNDRED YEARS, and
also St. Paul's Basilica, which
after 1600 years still stands in
the Eternal City.
CONVERT BUILT CHURCH;
IT LA8TED 1,200 YEARS
Because Constantine as a
Catholic convert greatly loved
St. Peter and because he saw no
reason to doubt the tradition of
the martyrs concerning the pri-
macy, Roman residence and mar-
tyrdom of St. Peter, this great
convert had a basilica built over
the spot where the Christian
people of Rome for 3 centuries
had said Peter was burled. On
the 16th day of November In the
year 326 the 33rd Bishop of
Rome, Pope St. Sylvester i,
dedicated this structure to the
service of God, Catholic servlcSh
were then held In It for the next
ONE THOUSAND AND TWO
Hundred years during which
time ONE HUNDRED and
SEVENTY-six Popes officiated
In it, their office being recog-
nized by all the outstanding
Christian writers up until the
year 1054 as supreme In the
Church. Even after the depar-
ture of the Orientals in 1054 and
the revolution of the ProteBt&nts
In 1517, this office continued al-
ways to be recognized by far
the majority of the world's
Christians as instituted by Our
Lord, Who as the Son of God
was not likely ever to let the
majority of His followers be
misled. Especially it was not
likely that the Son of God Who
promised guidance . to His
Church would ever let it go into
error.
1300 YEARS TO THE DAY
After almost 1200 years of
service as a Catholic Church the
original Constantinlan basilica of
St. Peter was torn down to make
way for the present magnificent^
structure, a building into the
construction of which 172 yearB
of human time were poured as
well as the love and devotion of
Catholics throughout the world.
Finally after the reigns of 27
Popes the world's largest church
with a capacity of 100,000 people
was completed and by a great
coincidence on November 16,
1626 — EXACTLY ONE THOU-
SAND AND THREE HUNDRED
YEARS TO THE VERY DAY
that the 33rd Pope dedicated the
| first basilica — on that, signifi-
cant anniversary the 236th Pope,
Urban VIII, In the ritual of the
historic Catholic Church dedi-
cated the present magnificent
St. Peter's to Almighty God.
ENGLAND'8'LINK 8HOWN
Over the grave of St. Paul
Convert Constantino erected an-
other great baslllica, and this
one still stands in Rome today.
Completed in the year 390, In
1990 it will be 1600 years old.
Showing the connection of all
European countries, even Protes-
tant ones, with the Roman Cath-
olic Church, the Kings of Eng-
land for centuries were honorary
canons of St. Paul's, It was only
In the 1500's that this connect-
ion ceased when Henry VIII of
JIngland, sore over the Pope's
refusal to allow him a second
wife (subsequently he took six),
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O'Rourke, John G. The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1951, newspaper, April 1, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293190/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.