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1 PERTH, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1935.
TOGWOOM BA'S NEW
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On Sunday last. the 24th. inst.. His Grace the Dr. B yrne, DD.. Bishop of Toowoomba. had the sati !.iction of
0 ( If there are two sta7-mg and outstanding facts about z.cience and religion at this particular No moment, they are these : First, that science is claiming much less than it did to show us a solid and objective reality. And, s econd, that religion is claiming much more than it did (at least f or centuries past )that its mir acles and marvels of mystical e xperience can be proved to exas a solid and objective real-
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On the entirely one •side, the Atom has lost the objective solid itY it had for the nineteenth cen• ::y materialists.- On the other the c ase ofAscension is accepted as Levitation by many who would not accept it as an A scension. On the one hand, the science oi ph has tsiclence of almost become a metaphysics: for it is p merely, as is often said. that the Ato m has becom e an abstract m athematical formula. It is al'i7ist as true to say that it has bemere algebraic symbol. frank!the new physicists tell us „y that !is not the 01 • what • they describe )iectiye th reality of the tlg !lot e they that they arc „,• ohserve; • mining ill an object as the osneteenth c '• • ent r "lotight materialists u ()1). were ,, Iect. they examining an 4, s• vof them tell us t ':a t lueY are only observing cer`4'11 actually disturbances or distortions t empt to reated by their own at's erve. F.ddiilL:.ton
witnessing the culmination of a cherished design. when the impressive new Cathedral of St. Patrick was solemnly blessed and opened by His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate. His Grace Dr. Byrne has made a fine record of progress in Australia In his early days as a priest in Queensland, he gave Nundah its first church and carried through several important improvements at Wooloowin. In 1905 he succeded the present Archbishop, Dr. Duhig, as Administrator of St. Stephen's Cathedral. and filled this office with distinction for almost 12 years. In 1917 Father Byrne became Vicar General of parish the Archdiocese and priest of Ipswich. In 1923, His Holiness elevated him to the dignity of a Domestic Prelate. During his 12 years in Ipswich, Monsignor Byrne did excellent work. greatly improving the fine group
of parish buildings, particularly St. Mary's Church and the ChrisSeveral tian Brothers' School. of the churches erected in the out stations stand as monuments to his energy, zeal and foresight. Prelates and priests from nearly all the States participated in the ceremony of the blessing and opening of St. Patrick's. which is a magnificent architectural gem, c haste in its beauty and impressive in its proportions. Among the distingushed gathering rit the dedication ceremony were the Archbishop of M•21botirne (Dr. Mannix), rhe Cnadiutor A rchbishol of Syditv (Dr Shed' han), and the Archbishop of Adelaide (Dr. Killian"!. The subscriptions received on the opening Sunday amounted to 18,124. leaving a deficit of only £7,000 on the building. This is a fine achievement r.tri tt,c patt of Dr. Byrne and the Catholic corn-
0111 the Coilapse more agnostic about the material world than Huxley ever was A about the spiritual world. very unfortunate moment at which to say that science deals direct with reality and objective truth. On the other hand, on thc other plane—the plane of historical and practical argument—it is the \Try moment at which religion really is appealing to reality and objective troth. The Church throws down the unanswered challenge of T,ourdes; the
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munaty of Toowoomba, and is the reward of six years' eftorts since the foundation of the Sec' of Toowoomba.
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tualists positively to claim prove their new religion by experiments, like a thesis in chemistry or electricity; and a vast number of independent intellectuals. who are neither Catholics nor Spiritualists, have begun to show an entirely new interest in the logical, or even the legal, case for some of the great historic miracles. For instance, there have been t wo Or three books following on the line of the brilliant but s trictly scientific book called " Who Moved the Stone?" and the tendency of the most detached writers is to admit more and more that the evidence for such events has been underrated. The youngest school of Cathalic apologists, such as Fat"•r: Knox and Mr. Christopher Hollis and Mr. Arnold Lunn, attack almost entirely with the weapons of proof and practical evidence and it is no longer pretended that they always have the worst of it. A very unfortunate moment at which to say that rel;gion deals only with pleasant fancies and imaginations. Continuing on the same subject. in "The Well and the Shadows," in "My Six Conver sions" series, Mr. Chesterton says: The little group of Atheists w ho still run their paper in Fleetstreet, and frequently honour me with hearty tint somewhat hasty denunciation. began their
agitation in the old Victorian days, and selected for themselves a terribly appropriate title. They did not call themselves Atheists; they called themselves Secularists. Never was a more bitter and blighting confession made in For the the form pf a boast. word "secular" does not mean anything so sensible as 'worldly." it does not even mean an' thing so spirited as "'irreligious.To he secular simply means to be of the age—that is. of the age which is passing; of the age which, in their case. is already There is one tolerably passed. correct translation of the, Latin word which they have chosen as their motto. There is one adequate equivalent of the word "secular," and it is the word "dated." The great outstanding principle of the modern materialistic world has been Prohibition; even abstract. the Prohibition in Where we say that a social element is dangerous or doubtful. that it must be watched, that it may on due occasion be restrainthe thing that was called the Modern Mind always cried aloud with a voice of thunder that it titust be forbidden. The Prohibitionist declares that there must he no wine; the Pacifist that there must be no war; the Communist that there must be nc - -,tivate property : the secularist that there must be no religious 'worship
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