The Catholic Instructor, 1920
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- This video provides an overview of 'The Catholic Instructor,' a Catholic apologetic work published in 1920. It is 'an educational library of ready reference, briefly explaining questions pertaining to faith and practice, presenting simplified instructions relating to the sacred truths of Holy Religion, from the pens of eminent authorities as indicated throughout the work.'
It is 'sumptuously illustrated' with many photos and drawings, and I show some of them here. The volume was published by the Office of Catholic Publications in New York in 1920. It carries an imprimi potest from Remigius Lafort S.T.D., dated 25 January 1915.
Contents
00:00 The cover and spine
00:30 The condition of the book
00:45 Benedict XV
01:23 Title page and contents
02:37 Cardinal Gibbons
02:57 Cardinal O'Connell
03:12 Cardinal Farley
03:21 The Great War
04:18 On the Peace of the World
06:55 Photos from the Vatican
07:22 Tributes to the Church
08:21 Catholic questions
09:40 Why Latin?
10:21 Peter's continuing commission
10:47 A history of religion
12:35 Illustrations of saints
13:19 Popular objections
14:05 On the Scriptures
15:01 On liberty of thought
15:35 St. Catharine of Sienna and Theodoret
15:58 Ceremonies of the mass
16:41 St. Rita of Cascia
16:57 The seven sacraments
17:13 Sacerdotal vestments and sacred vessels
20:10 Stories and readings for Sundays
21:01 Columbus
22:00 Encyclopedic dictionary
As a Catholic, I very much appreciated this video. I wish I could obtain this book! Thank you for the review.
I have just downloaded the pdf of this book from google books. Thank you for identifying this book to us and explaining its content.
The line about visible vs invisible church is a reference to some theological assertions from reformed Protestants which claimed that the church was “invisible” and in the hearts of the believers when they gather vs the church buildings and infrastructure and hierarchy of the Catholic Church (which was classified as visible)
"...[A]ppellations recently been used introduced to distinguish Catholics from Catholics..." I think the statement refers to how Pope Benedict XV noted that there must be no distinction between Catholics in communion with Rome be they Latin, Slavonic, oriental, Greek or other national groups. All were Catholic and occupy the same space before his Apostolic See. This emphasis on Pope Benedict's desire to embrace all traditions of Catholic rite is mentioned in "The life of Pope Benedict XV / Walter H. Peters. Milwaukee : Bruce Publishing, 1959, p.244.
Thanks for commenting, William! That certainly sounds plausible. But I wonder whether he may have been referring to the use of "Catholic" in the names of political parties in various European countries. If we had access to English translations of Italian newspaper articles from that era, we might be able to identify the specific event or events that led the Pope to include those particular words.
@@RGrantJones I am not an authority on that subject. From what I have read, the persecution, murder and confiscation of property and goods from Christian communities in the Balkans and the Ottoman empire and the states that emerged from the breakup of the empire was a source of concern for Pope Benedict XV who saw his role as Pope to bring into the See of Rome as many of those Christian communities as possible.
I think there were about 300,000,000 Catholics at the time and some 6.5m members were in those regions and in full communion with Rome. Pius sough to consolidate and expand that number if possible. He established Sacred Congregation of the Oriental Church to meet their needs within the Church, and he himself was head of that Congregation.
I believe the citation you mentioned was reflective of the pastoral concern Pius XV had for those Christians who practiced their faith under the See of Rome.
This book must be a good source for Catholics who don't accept Vatican II. or are Sedevacantist. Thank you for sharing this old book as a witness to Catholic Church history
I agree, Orthodox Pilgrim. It shows how much has changed in a relatively short time. Thanks for commenting!
Catholics are bound to accept Vatican II
It’s like probably a great resource for traditional Catholics that aren’t sedes, too
@@Arkangilos I agree
@@RGrantJones For political-historical reasons alone, I found content exploring the modernist subversion of the Catholic Church, growing from the later 19th century to the present fascinating. Aside from some books, like Logos Rising and others I haven't finished yet, there are some interesting video commentators. As with politics, the most forthcoming tend to be youtube n amazon banned or have their better videos relegated to odysee. The ones most promoted by amazon or YT strike me as controlled opposition. Criticizing pope Francis is like shooting fish in a barrel. One of the best youtubers seems to be Return to Tradition, and on odysee I've found spicier figures like Defeat Modernism, E Michael Jones or Lefebvre's Bishop Richard Williamson interesting. The latter 2 also have books on the Vatican situation.
Cradle Catholic here, persevering onwards: enjoyed this stroll through another time. Nice book. I bet the paper is nice and heavy :-)
Thank you for sharing that book! It looks extremely interesting.
It is. Thanks for commenting, Rachel!
Will look for this book. Thanks for the review!
You're welcome, Philip! Thanks for commenting.
This was a fascinating book. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for commenting, Miserable Offender!
You have a real treasury of works and videos.
Thanks for commenting, Arkangilos.
Wish the Church still talked like this!
If Catholics Then would look at Catholics Now; The Catholics Then would Freak Out at the current state of the Church.
Very interesting book. I am always interested in books compiled of a menu of the faithful. One book in particular is Harold Wilmington Guide to the bible. Definitely worth a look over.
Thanks for reviewing interesting 🤔🤟⛪👨👩👧👦🇺🇸❤️
Thanks for commenting, Larrym.!
This is amazing and I need my hands on a copy!
I hope you can find a copy in better shape than mine. It is an enlightening book. Thanks for commenting!
I’m going to a used bookstore soon!
@@RGrantJones are you Catholic btw? Or Protestant? Or neither? Lol
@@danieldelucia12 - I'm an Anglican, so I consider myself a Reformed Catholic.
Interesting. I am currently leaning trad Cath/Orth over my previous Reformed leaning. I found Loreto did a facsimile of the 1859 Haydock Bible which doesn't remove the many commentaries later censored so as not to offend the already very influential people in the 1883 edition reprinted by Refuge. It is generally regarded as probably the best traditional Catholic Bible commentary. It is verse by verse as opposed to some other classic commentaries. I have other editions of the complete notes alone, as well as the censored version, but this is the only complete one in the form of a study Bible. Would be interesting to see what it looks like.
What was removed?
@@mehmeh217 the 1883 haydock removed a large number of comments from church fathers and Haydock that would not be to the liking of the Rev 2:9/ADL tribe. I wrote a review of the 1883 version on amazon that gives a few examples I had recently encountered, but too many to remember. Funny 1884 was the year of Leo the 13th vision about Satan gaining greater power over the Church. I got Loreto edition of the 1859 and am very happy with it.
Ha "Sumptously Illustrated"... I'm going to HAVE to find a way to use that phrase in my upcoming videos!
It does have a ring to it. Thanks for commenting, Dwayne!
Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (Appealing for Peace) was published Nov 1, 1914 as WW1 began in earnest. Benedict XV spoke out against ethnic divisions within the Christian Europe and in the Catholic Church.
In paragraph 24, he opposes the ethnic parishes within countries in which Catholics separated themselves into their nominal ethnic communities as a source of division.
This practice was commonplace in America as immigrants established parishes along ethnic lines, often because these neighborhoods self organized into homogeneous communities.
A few years before, entire ethnic communities of Ruthenians and Poles departed the Catholic Church (forming the OCA and PNCC respectively) because American bishops refused to allow them to establish their ethnic parishes. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics chose to leave as a result.
6 candles are lit for a missa cantata or sung/high Mass. If it's a low Mass only 2 handles are lit, the middle candles on either side. I attend both Novus Ordo and Latin Masses. I am able to participate at either with reverence. I will say this, I've never attended an irreverent Latin Mass and most Novus Ordo Masses in my area are celebrated reverently. Plus we are not forbidden to read Protestant Bibles, but we are discouraged from reading them if they have extensive doctrinal notes. Great video and I'll keep a lookout for this book in the wild. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for commenting, MatthaeusPrime! I used to attend a Western Rite Eastern Orthodox liturgy; and, if I remember correctly, we used six candles. But the mass was always sung, so what you've written makes sense.
@@RGrantJones what did you think of Western Rite Orthodoxy? Its existence is rather controversial in Eastern Orthodoxy itself. My gathering there are two types in America, one being Antioch Archdiocese, the other being ROCOR. There was one near to me, Antiochian, where i used to live that was founded by former Lutherans, and used a "St Gregory Liturgy" (as opposed to the Anglican "St Tikhon" liturgy) but I never visited.
@@Sybok51288 - I don't like to tell the Orthodox how to run their church, but I wish the Western Rite weren't controversial within Orthodoxy. Clearly, the Church before the schism had Western liturgies. Why not have them today?
As a Western Christian, I don't much like the insertion of new content (e.g., the explicit epiclesis) or practices (communion distributed via spoon) into the Western Rite. But neither liturgy, Tikhon nor Gregory the Great, has been radically modified.
My experience was in an Antiochian parish. In the early days, the priest alternated weekly between the two Western Rite liturgies. With my Anglican background, I greatly preferred the liturgy of St. Tikhon. (That of St. Gregory struck (and strikes) me as something of a camel.) But at a certain point, the bishop mandated that only one of the two could be sung, and the priest chose to retain the liturgy of St. Gregory the Great. From my perspective, that was a bad choice, since I felt I received much less spiritual benefit from it.
That experience may explain why I empathize with Catholics who feel they benefit from the Traditional Latin Mass. I think God can and does use variety in worship to touch a range of people.
@@RGrantJones interesting thoughts, thanks for answering!
I noticed that they didn’t call Lutherans heretics in the lexicon as they did with the Manichees
Good point! I just checked, and the dictionary refers to Arians, Monothelites, Nestorians, and Pelagians as heretics also. Like Lutherans, Calvinists are not termed 'heretics.'
@@RGrantJones ... which, if true, suggests a clandestine sympathy for protestant heresies in the author or at the very least a timidity in confronting such pernicious evils. Not a good sign.
Hi Dr. Jones,
I watch this RUclips podcast, from two Catholics, about the decline of Christianity in the West, particularly in the US
Sullivan and Douthat debate Bad Religion
Thank you. I'll take a look at it.
@@RGrantJones Both are saying that the decline of Christianity and the loss of transcendental mindset, happened due to the sexual revolution and immense material wealth that the West or US had in the mid of 20th century. I too reached these conclusions independently. 😎
@@hassanmirza2392 - your conclusions seem right to me.
@@RGrantJones In 2021 in Germany, 0.6 million Germans left Christianity, most were Catholics. Meanwhile, Catholic priests in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg are asking Rome to change Church teachings about LGBTQ ideology and make it more liberal. Instead of solving the financial and sexual crimes that Rome is committing, they are deflecting the real issues to please the secular humanists. I suppose this year's rate of defection will be higher!
@@hassanmirza2392 - That would not surprise me.
Hope you are doing well mr. Jones!
All's well with me, Χρῆστος Κωστελίδης. I hope the same is true of you!
8:48 This book was ahead of its time This goes to refute the claim by some sedevacantists who claim that there are no valid bishops or even priests today like some of the old believers that split from russian orthodoxy do
Can you explain how that works? From what I know of sedevacantists, I don't see how they would be troubled by that paragraph. They consider the denomination in communion with the bishop of Rome to be a recent sect, and themselves to be the true Church. Don't they consider their own bishops and priests to be valid?
@@RGrantJones Yes I should have been more clear. There are several types of sedevacantists. Some of them do have bishops such as the CMRI or the SSPV. I was mainly reffering to the position of the Diamond Brothers, but I do believe they are a minority even among sedevecantists
@@kurtnotafed4645 - oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying!
@@RGrantJones Tragically most sedevacantists are outright heretics in that they believe one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Many of them are so fanatically attached to this satanic, anti-Catholic dogma that they will ridicule those who contest it. However, the Most Holy Family Monastery maintain the true teaching of the Church in this matter, and Brother Peter Dimond has repeatedly crushed in argument those who have sought to debate him on this matter. Any honest person who watches his authoritative videos will acknowledge this.
@@kurtnotafed464513:51 also adds more damage to the Dimond brothers’ heresy of feenyism
It’s funny many conservative protestant study bibles I’ve seen take no more than a brief sentence to correctly identify a biblical author and the time of authorship. Even the faithful Catholic ones will fill up a page before finally stating the obvious. Sadly there’s too much tolerance in the church today
As A Catholic, I look to authoritative teaching, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the teachings of the Magisterium, the Church Fathers, and the Popes. Scholars can say what they like, but if it doesn't match up with these things that I mentioned, it's opinion most likely modernist invention, pulled out of the air with no basis with any facts, just opinion. I am a convert to the Catholic Church, I was a Protestant for many years in a very liberal main line denomination and they had the same so called scholars saying the same things, I didn't listen to them then, I don't listen to them now. 🔥⛪👨👩👧👦🇺🇸🤟
@@larrym.johnson9219 amen God bless my brother
@@larrym.johnson9219 I think it would be safer to qualify Popes (and Catechism) as meaning before 1958, or better, before 1937 when they started to alter translations of the mass for political reasons. The Novus Ordo stuff I read is often pretty, but I always have to wonder if I'm reading some subtle modern distortion until I hit something obviously off.
@@williamearle6281 The way I look at it, we do not need to read between the lines, Reading the lines is Enough.We should look to Church Teaching, Follow what the Pope says concerning Fath And Morel's and the Churches Magisterium, and Church Father's and Doctor's and remember Jesus promise! Just because a scholar placed a Commentary with Sacred Scriptures doesn't mean it has authority if it doesn't reference the catechism the Magisterial Teaching it's just speculation at best. Some people Think if it is with the scriptures it has authority not necessarily.
Interesting. I am getting flasbacks lol.
Lol. Thanks for commenting, Dani!