DISHONORABLE WARFARE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 304, 14 February 1879, Page 19

DISHONORABLE WARFARE.

(From the Advocate), Take up a few numbers of a Catholic paper wherever published in a Protestant community, and the fact will strike you that its chief work is to reply to the misrepresentations of the enemies of the Church. And if you looked carefully through the files of these journals, you would see that they are, with few and unimportant exceptions, acting always on the defensive. It is indeed notable that the best of them are not aggressive, that they do not needlessly attack other other denominations, nor, in writing of them, utter a bitter word for which there is not justification in the provocation received? All this is remarkable, and in the fact there is food for contemplation. Why is it that Protestantism docs not rely for its safety and propagation upon its presumption that it possesses the truth 1 Why, if its cause be just and the progressive enlightenment of this 19th century must advance it, is it always snarling at Catholicity,, misrepresenting it, or lying against it ? Why, if it have any faith in the proverb that truth will prevail, is it so nervously and impatiently anxious to advance it ; and why, above all things, does it strive to help it by lying ? If it were conscious of strength, surely this is not the course it would pursue. If it contemned Catholicity, as it affects to do, it would not be every day assailing it with poisoned arrows.