A Handbook of Catholic Usage by Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F Sullivan, D.D. Completely Revised by Rev. John C. O’Leary, Ph.D.
Nihil
obstat: John M.A Fearns, S.T.D., Censor Librorum, Imprimatur: Francis
Cardina Spellman Archbishop of New York, Copyright 1951 by P.J Kennedy
and Sons, New York, USA.
p.226
It’s interesting to note
how often our church has availed herself of practices which were I
common use among pagans, and which owed their origin to their
appropriateness expressing something spiritual by material means. The
Church and her clergy are ‘all things to all men, that they may gain
Christ,’ and she has often found that it was well to take what was
praiseworthy in other forms of worship and adapt it to her own purpose,
for the sanctification of her children.
“Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic Rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those pagan creeds;
but they are taking of what was the best part from paganism, the
keeping of symbolical practices which express the religious instinct
that is common to all races and times.”
http://www.amazon.com/externals-Catholic-Church-handbook-usage/dp/B0006AWBROWE SHOULD NOT DO THE WAY OF PAGANS IF YOU ARE A REAL CHRISTIAN AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE
1 Peter 4:3 For
you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to
do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and
detestable idolatry.
1 Peter 4:4 They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.
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