id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195806 Walsh, John, 1830-1898. Some things which Catholics do not believe, or, Protestant fictions and Catholic facts 1897 .txt text/plain 7361 307 66 And when printing was invented the Church made use of this new art which was about to revolutionize the world to disseminate the word of God in the vernacular among the people. The Church abhors the sin of idolatry and has labored for centuries to destroy it from the face of the earth, and she teaches that the Blessed Virgin is a mere creature, and that Christ is her Eedeemer as well as of all the other children of Adam ; that she, being a creature, it would be a damnable sin to adore her or give her divine honors ; that there is an infinite distance between God the Creator and a mere creature ; that God is infinite perfection and that the creature is finite, and that to God alone should be reserved supreme worship and divine honor and adoration. cache/_005195806.txt txt/_005195806.txt