The Catholic Church holds tenaviously to the divinity of Ghrist. She says—dogmatically, if you will—Christ is God. The wil of Christ is the will of God. The doctrine of Christ is the doctrine of God. The command of Christ is the command of God. And when there is question of faith or morals, those things pertaining to the essential relation existing between man and his crea-for, the Catholic Church simply asks: What is the will of Christ? And there the matter rests. She does not consult the wishes, the likes, the dislikes or the shifting opinions of men. Once the will of God is clearly expressed there is no appeal except to God. No individual, no group of individuals, no government. no nation, no league of nations, no, not even the unanimous suffrage of the whole human race can legislate out of existence the expressed will of God.
We may think that God has made a mistake or that he does not understand. We are physically free to submit and live as God wants us to live, or rebel and live contrary to Gods will We may like what He commands or dislike it, but whatever be our action or reaction, our likes or dislikes, our feelings or our opinions, they do not affect in the slightest degree what God has determined.
The Church will sympathize with you in your supposed grievances; she will try to console you in your muddled human affairs, even though they be the consequence of your human stupidity, but she will not set aside what she knows to be the expressed will of God, because she cannot Those who-ask her or expect her to do so, ask or expect the impossible. God and God alone can change God's will.
With those few büsic principles the Catholic Church can and does take her stand on modern questions bearing directly or indirectly on faith or morals, Prescindingfrom the irrelevant circumstance as to when ther you agree or disagree with her principles, you can easily see that the position she takes on certain specific questions that are agitating the world to-day is a perfectly logic cal conclusion from her fundamental principles and is the only possible stand she can take without stultifying and sacrificing the very reason for her existence. She came into belhg at the command of Christ. Christ is the revelation of God's will Christ is God. Christ is our all If you ask us to sacrifice Chris you ask us to sacrifice our all, beginning and our end. "I am," He said, "the alpha and the omega," the beginning and the end.
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