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PART SECOND.
XV. Why does the Church condemn Bible Societies?
— A very pious Catholic, who, in the meditation of the Scriptures found the strongest food to support him in his religious life, asked me once "whether the Bible societies did not after all do some good, by spreading the Book by the million: why? they came to the aid of the Catholic Church! How could then Pope Gregory XVI. condemn them, and call them a plague?"
Doctor Leo, a German Protestant of elevated mind, says: "The Pope has qualified the Bible Societies a plague. Were I an Italian and a Pope I would do the same. Let us, for once, be fair enough to examine the doings of these emissaries of Anglican Societies in Catholic countries. Acting as they do without common decency, and with a shamelessness beyond endurance, — every means is available for the purpose of spreading the Bible; — they thrust it into the hands of all, even of those who are the least apt to value the gift; they spread doctrines, which only beget confusion in the minds of the people; wound morality, shake social authority and ecclesiastic order, and will only engender revolutionary movements. Biblical Societies have, in our time, been a powerful engine in the hands of those who have set Italy topsy-turvy. The Protestant zeal of England paves the road to English politics and success, Bible in hand. Verily, the Bible is the sheep's skin under which the wolf hides himself."
There you have the question solved by a Protestant. The Protestant Bible is only a false skin, in which infidelity and revolution wrap themselves.
XV. Why does the Church condemn Bible Societies?
— A very pious Catholic, who, in the meditation of the Scriptures found the strongest food to support him in his religious life, asked me once "whether the Bible societies did not after all do some good, by spreading the Book by the million: why? they came to the aid of the Catholic Church! How could then Pope Gregory XVI. condemn them, and call them a plague?"
Doctor Leo, a German Protestant of elevated mind, says: "The Pope has qualified the Bible Societies a plague. Were I an Italian and a Pope I would do the same. Let us, for once, be fair enough to examine the doings of these emissaries of Anglican Societies in Catholic countries. Acting as they do without common decency, and with a shamelessness beyond endurance, — every means is available for the purpose of spreading the Bible; — they thrust it into the hands of all, even of those who are the least apt to value the gift; they spread doctrines, which only beget confusion in the minds of the people; wound morality, shake social authority and ecclesiastic order, and will only engender revolutionary movements. Biblical Societies have, in our time, been a powerful engine in the hands of those who have set Italy topsy-turvy. The Protestant zeal of England paves the road to English politics and success, Bible in hand. Verily, the Bible is the sheep's skin under which the wolf hides himself."
There you have the question solved by a Protestant. The Protestant Bible is only a false skin, in which infidelity and revolution wrap themselves.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre