Radio Replies Volume One: The Religion of the Jews

icatholicism.net ^ | 1938 | Fathers Rumble & Carty

[GonzoII]

Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C.

"I was brought up as a Protestant, probably with more inherited prejudices than most non-Catholics of these days.  My parents were Anglican and taught me the Angelican faith. My 'broad-minded' protestant teachers taught me to dislike the Catholic Church intensely. I later tried Protestantism in various other forms, and it is some thirty years since, in God's providence, I became a Catholic. As for the 'open, free, sincere worship' of a Protestant Church, I tasted it, but for me it proved in the end to be not only open, but empty; it was altogether too free from God's prescriptions."

Eventually, Leslie became a priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

In 1928, Fr. Rumble began a one-hour 'Question Box' program on 2SM Sydney, N.S.W. radio on Sunday evenings that was heard all over Australia and New Zealand. For five years he answered questions on every subject imaginable that had been written to him from all over that part of the globe. His first show began with a classic introduction:

"Good evening, listeners all. For some time I have been promising to give a session dealing with questions of religion and morality, in which the listeners themselves should decide what is of interest to them. Such a session will commence next Sunday evening, and I invite you to send in any questions you wish on these subjects . . . So now I invite you, non-Catholics above all, to send in any questions you wish on religion, or morality, or the Catholic Church, and I shall explain exactly the Catholic position, and give the reasons for it. In fact I almost demand those questions. Many hard things have been said, and are still being said, about the Catholic Church, though no criminal, has been so abused, that she has a right to be heard. I do not ask that you give your name and address. A nom de plume will do. Call yourself Voltaire, Confucius, X.Y.Z., what you like, so long as you give indication enough to recognize your answer."

"By the summer of 1937, the first edition of Radio Replies was already in print in Australia, financed by Rt. Rev. Monsignor James Meany, P.P. - the director of Station 2SM of whom I am greatly indebted."

"I have often been mistaken, as most men at times. And it is precisely to make sure that I will not be mistaken in the supremely important matter of religion that I cling to a Church which cannot be mistaken, but must be right where I might be wrong. God knew that so many sincere men would make mistakes that He deliberately established an infallible Church to preserve them from error where it was most important that they should not go wrong."

Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty

I broadcast my radio program, the Catholic Radio Hour,  from St. Paul, Minnesota.

I was also carrying on as a Catholic Campaigner for Christ, the Apostolate to the man in the street through the medium of my trailer and loud-speaking system. In the distribution of pamphlets and books on the Catholic Faith, Radio Replies proved the most talked of book carried in my trailer display of Catholic literature. As many of us street preachers have learned, it is not so much what you say over the microphone in answer to questions from open air listeners, but what you get into their hands to read. The questions Fr. Rumble had to answer on the other side of the planet are same the questions I had to answer before friendly and hostile audiences throughout my summer campaign."

I realized that this priest in Australia was doing exactly the same work I was doing here in St. Paul. Because of the success of his book, plus the delay in getting copies from Sydney and the prohibitive cost of the book on this side of the universe, I got in contact with him to publish a cheap American edition.  

It doesn't take long for the imagination to start thinking about how much we could actually do. We began the Radio Replies Press Society Publishing Company, finished the American edition of what was to be the first volume of Radio Replies, recieved the necessary imprimatur, and Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen agreed to write a preface. About a year after the publication of the first edition in Australia, we had the American edition out and in people's hands.

The book turned into a phenomena. Letters began pouring into my office from every corner of the United States; Protestant Publishing Houses are requesting copies for distribution to Protestant Seminaries; a few Catholic Seminaries have adopted it as an official textbook - and I had still never met Dr. Rumble in person.

To keep a long story short, we finally got a chance to meet, published volumes two and three of Radio Replies, printed a set of ten booklets on subjects people most often asked about, and a few other pamphlets on subjects of interest to us.

Fr. Carty died on May 22, 1964 in Connecticut.

"Firstly, since God is the Author of all truth, nothing that is definitely true can every really contradict anything else that is definitely true. Secondly, the Catholic Church is definitely true. It therefore follows that no objection or difficulty, whether drawn from history, Scripture, science, or philosophy, can provide a valid argument against the truth of the Catholic religion."

Biographies compiled from the introductions to Radio Replies, volumes 1, 2 and 3.

Source: www.catholicauthors.com

[GonzoII]

Radio Replies Ping

FReep-mail me to get on or off

“The Radio Replies Ping-List”

ON / OFF

[GonzoII]

The Radio Replies Series: Volume One

Chapter One: God

Radio Replies Volume One: God’s Existence Known by Reason
Radio Replies Volume One: Nature of God
Radio Replies Volume One: Providence of God and Problem of Evil

Chapter Two: Man

Radio Replies Volume One: Nature of Man & Existence and Nature of the Soul
Radio Replies Volume One: Immortality of the Soul
Radio Replies Volume One: Destiny of the Soul & Freewill of Man

Chapter Three: Religion

Radio Replies Volume One: Nature of Religion & Necessity of Religion

Chapter Four: The Religion of the Bible

Radio Replies Volume One: Natural Religion & Revealed Religion
Radio Replies Volume One: Mysteries of Religion
Radio Replies Volume One: Miracles
Radio Replies Volume One: Value of the Gospels
Radio Replies Volume One: Inspiration of the Gospels
Radio Replies Volume One: Old Testament Difficulties [Part 1]
Radio Replies Volume One: Old Testament Difficulties [Part 2]
Radio Replies Volume One: Old Testament Difficulties [Part 3]
Radio Replies Volume One: New Testament Difficulties

Chapter Five: The Christian Faith

Radio Replies Volume One: The Religion of the Jews

[Zionist Conspirator]

They were God's chosen people until the coming of Christ, and they could have been among His chosen people now, had they remained true to God. God did not change in His attitude to them; rather they changed in their attitude to Him.

They "changed" by maintaining the religion they were given at Sinai instead of "updating" it, just like conservatives today have become "dangerous radicals" by maintaining their original beliefs in the face of constant change.

Now we all know where liberalism in religion originated. Thanks for the public service, Gonzo.

[Pyro7480]

The Talmud isn’t an “update”?

[Julia H.]

Once chosen, always chosen. Despite being among the most persecuted people in history, Jews are still the most blessed. They aren’t perfect, but in some ways they model a more Godly lifestyle than many Christians do—unlike many other persecuted groups, Jews haven’t used persecution as an excuse to stop working. They don’t get their wealth through sympathy or affirmative action—they get it through skill and initiative.

[GonzoII]

"Once chosen, always chosen. Despite being among the most persecuted people in history, Jews are still the most blessed. They aren’t perfect, but in some ways they model a more Godly lifestyle than many Christians do—unlike many other persecuted groups, Jews haven’t used persecution as an excuse to stop working. They don’t get their wealth through sympathy or affirmative action—they get it through skill and initiative."

God bless the Jews; no offence here, nor do believe in the post but rather an honest laying out of differences in belief.

Regards,

Gonzo

[Zionist Conspirator]

The Talmud isn’t an “update”?

No it's not. It's the immemorial Oral Torah frozen at a certain time when it had to be committed to writing when its very existence was threatened under the Roman Emperor Hadrian, rot his bones.

You're obviously thinking of the Summa Theologica.

[Pyro7480]

Oral Torah? That’s a cop-out, ZC. It’s Judaism’s tradition, just as ST is part of the Church’s tradition.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Oral Torah? That’s a cop-out, ZC. It’s Judaism’s tradition, just as ST is part of the Church’s tradition.

Since you understand this, then why did you ask your initial question (is not the Talmud an "up-dating")?

[Pyro7480]

It was a response to what you said in #4.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It was a response to what you said in #4.

That's funny, since it makes absolutely no sense in that context.

[dalight]

First, lets get this right. It is the Mishnah that is the Oral Torah as set down to preserve it from being cast from existance.

Talmud is commentary, primarily about the mishnah and it contains the text of the mishnah but there is also commentary on the Tenakh and other subjects.

Where as the Torah contains commandments, the Oral Torah sets out how to accomplish these mitzvot. It was not supposed to be written and only the most dire circumstances forced the Rabbi's to commit it to paper.

[dalight]

This line of pernicious thought is called Replacement Theology and has been challenged time and time again as being gravely in error. First and foremost it supposes that God is willing to break his Covenants. And that would deny the value and meaning of a Covenant in the first place. In Deuteronomy, it was cast that the Jews would proceed into error after error and pain and suffering through the ages. This list of blessings and curses is weighted heavily on the curse side, but this is all in accord with God's will.

So to claim that God would break his Covenant and forsake those who he nurtured to bring his faith to the world is bizarre. Worse, the concept of grafting Christianity onto the root of Judiasm as opposed to the tree makes no difference to the issue that if the root were to ever disappear, then the grafted limbs would die as well.

Instead, Christianity developed to provide a path where non-Jews might reach out and learn and practice the way of God's will.

These scholars don't suppose that Jews have fallen from God's grace out of animus per se, but rather out of ignorance. For any person may become a Jew, but it takes a lifetime and the commitment is binding not just to that individual but on the generations that follow and God, happily accepts Christians just the same, as he does all of the Righteous. For Jew or not, we are all equal in his sight. Jews know this and they are commanded to treat the stranger as well or better than any member of the community.

Nevertheless, words like these are used to justify that Jews are lesser people and hated by God and those who take this evil into their hearts pass it along and ultimately, must pay the price for the horror that is created.

Gonzo, you say you don't necessarily agree with this but feel obliged to post it. Fine, but a lie repeated is often worse than the lie itself. Consider only repeating the truth, this is much more valuable.

[annalex]

This line of pernicious thought is called Replacement Theology and has been challenged time and time again as being gravely in error. First and foremost it supposes that God is willing to break his Covenants.

It should be clear from 173, that God did not break the Covenants, the Jews did, by rejecting Christ.

[Zionist Conspirator]

First, lets get this right. It is the Mishnah that is the Oral Torah as set down to preserve it from being cast from existance.

Talmud is commentary, primarily about the mishnah and it contains the text of the mishnah but there is also commentary on the Tenakh and other subjects.

Where as the Torah contains commandments, the Oral Torah sets out how to accomplish these mitzvot. It was not supposed to be written and only the most dire circumstances forced the Rabbi's to commit it to paper.

Thank you for the clarification, and my apologies for any confusion.

[dalight]

It should be clear from 173, that God did not break the Covenants, the Jews did, by rejecting Christ.

Dear friend, if you look at the text of the Covenant between God and the Jews it in no place mentions accepting a Jewish Carpenter as their Messiah. In fact, in no place inside of the cannon of the Torah is a Messiah mentioned in any form.

Believe me, this path only leads to disillusionment for Christians. Replacement Theology is pernicious and evil. This is not God's way.

In fact, lets listen to Jesus of Nazareth's words on this subject.

One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that [Jesus] answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?"

Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Then the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that 'he is one, and besides him there is no other'; and 'to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,' and 'to love one’s neighbor as oneself,'—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

This is the core of Jewish faith and the wall that bars us from ever accepting an intermediary, for this is a promise each Jew makes at the foot of Mt. Sinai for themselves directly to God in his presence. Jews may fall or falter, but God willing these are the last words on our lips, Shema Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad.

Build as you would like on this foundation but you can not build anything unless this foundation stands.

[annalex]

You explained the Jewish faith to me. Thank you. This article explains mine. I merely pointed out that Replacement theology is not self-contradictory for a Christian; it is, in fact, the only plain reading of the Gospels.

[GonzoII]

"Gonzo, you say you don't necessarily agree with this but feel obliged to post it. Fine, but a lie repeated "

I said neither.

You say it's a lie.