rotestant
Savior says: "Whoever Apostle's injunction, churches, as is well
shall put away his wife the Catholic Church known, have so far
and marry another forbids the husband and relaxed this rigorous
committeth adultery wife to separate from law of the Gospel as to
against her. And if the one another; or, if allow divorced persons
wife shall put away her they separate, neither to remarry. And divorce
husband and be married of them can marry again _a vinculo_ is granted
to another she during the life of the on various and even
committeth other. trifling pretenses.
adultery."(94) And
again St. Paul says:
"To them that are
married ... the Lord
commandeth that the
wife depart not from
her husband, and if she
depart that she remain
unmarried.... And let
not the husband put
away his wife."(95)

10. Our Lord recommends Like the Apostle and All the ministers of
not only by word, but his Master, the other denominations,
by His example, to Catholic clergy bind with very rare
souls aiming at themselves to a life of exceptions, marry. And
perfection, the state perpetual chastity. The far from inculcating
of perpetual virginity. inmates of our convents the Apostolic counsel
St. Paul also exhorts of men and women of celibacy to any of
the Corinthians by voluntarily consecrate their flock, they more
counsel and his own their virginity to God. than insinuate that the
example to the same virtue of perpetual
angelic virtue: "He chastity, though
that giveth his virgin recommended by St.
in marriage," he says, Paul, is impracticable.
"doeth well. And he
that giveth her not
doeth better."(96)

We now leave the reader to judge for himself which Church enforces the
doctrines of the Apostles in all their pristine vigor.

To show that the Catholic Church is the only lineal descendant of the
Apostles it is sufficient to demonstrate that she alone can trace her
pedigree, generation after generation, to the Apostles, while the origin
of all other Christian communities can be referred to a comparatively
modern date.

The most influential Christian sects existing in this country at the
present time are the Lutherans, Episcopalians,