The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel : the official organ of the diocese of Maitland

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The Newcastle and Maitland  

Catholic Sentinel  

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The Official Organ of the Diocese of Maitland  

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 27-  

LIFE SUBSCRIPTION £3  

Rev. G. P. Flatley, Editor.  

Vol. XX. No. 2.  

MAITLAND, NOVEMBER 1, 1951.  

Price, 2d.  

THE MODERN WORLD  

DOES NOT NEED "NEW RELIGION"  

SOME PEOPLE have been calling for “restatement of Christianity” to meet the needs of the  

work!. They overlook the fact that the pressing need is not for “restatement” but for*  

PRACTICAL APPLICATION of the existing principles of Christianity.  

Some people cannot seem to remember that Christianity is from God and is not capable of  

failure. They imagine also that Christianity is like democracy or trial-by-jury or university  

education, capable of improvement, and in fact demanding modifications with every new  

generation. They are shocked when they realise for the first time that every failure has been  

due to Christianity not having been applied.  

 

We find ourselves living in universe which we know is governed by physical laws. We  

contme to live, and we find happiness, contentment and health only on the condition that we  

observe these physical laws. If we do not eat, nature will kill us; if we do not drink or take  

protection against the elements or observe hundred and one things, the physical laws of the  

universe will exterminate us. Now no man in his senses would dream of saying: “This universe  

does not suit me or my modern brothers. It needs restatement. The sun should be trifle  

nearer the earth and the moon trifle further off. We moderns need seven seasons instead of  

f° ur ‘ „ ne 4;i nc aws § rav ffy> of conservation, of reproduction. The universe in truth  

has tailed. The sheer nonsense of such an attitude is clear as noonday. It needs no refutation.  

he averagely wise man knows that God has placed man in universe perfectly fitting to his  

bodily nature, and that any modification by man, even if it were possible, could only bring  

But the same God Who expressed His Will to man in the physical laws of nature, also  

expressed His Will in series of moral laws which bind the soul of man. We find happiness  

peace and contentment, individually, nationally, and internationally, only on the condition that  

we observe these laws. They have been made for us by God Who made our whole being and  

Who therefore understands our whole being from its basic essence to its last mood and emotion.  

The idea that man could excogitate new series of moral laws more fitting for man than the  

primal laws of God is fantastic absurdity. The suggestion that these laws have failed is at  

least an unwitting blasphemy. But these laws are Christianity. They are all contained in the  

basic law of Christianity which says “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and thy neighbour as  

thyself. They are enshrined in the Ten Commandments.  

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