The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-20

OF IN CnO6e countries, SucA Nd OnAnO, "a
STA, Turkey and saltLake, "where no chill
dren, except in wedlock, are suffered to see
the light of the world" (Storer, Criminal
Abortions.) In Protestant countries, in
fanticide and fseticide have replaced it
crimes which Catholics are taught to look
upon with horror. But as the subject is
too delicate for our hands we shall leave
DR.. Storer, an eminent Protestant physi-
clan, to speak for us: 'sIt is not of course
intended to imply that Professionalism; as
such, in any way encourages, or indeed
permits the practice of inducing abortion
it's tenets are uncompromisingly hostile to
oil crime. So great, however, is the popu-
lar ignorance regarding this offence, that
an abstract morality is comparatively pow
erless; our American woman arrogate to
themselves the settlement of what they
question and there can be no doubt that
the Romish ordinance fanked on the one
hand by the confessional, and by denounce-
ment and communication on the other,
has saved to the world thousands of infant
lives. During the ten years that have
passed since the preceding sentence was
written, we have had ample verifcation of
its truth. Several hundreds of Protestant
women have personally acknowledged to
us their guilt, against whom only seven
Catholics, and of these we found upon in
quiry that but two were only nominally SO,
not going to the confession" Criminal
Abortion, p. 74.) Rev. DR.. Todd, a Protes-
tant clergyman of Pittstield, Mass, has de-
clared the same thing, and Bishop Coke, of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, has pub
lished to his people the following: 81 have
hitherto warned my flock against the blood
outlines of antenatal infisuticide. If any
doubts existed heretofore as to the proprie
ty of my warnings on the subject, they
must now disappear before khe fact that
the world itself is beginning to be Mortified
by the practical results of the sacrifices to
Moloch which defile our land" AS to
Protestant England, the Church and the
World, a Protestant publication, quoting
Dr. Lancaster, one Of the coroners of Lon
don, declares that there are $4,000 mothers
in London alone, guilty of infanticide.
"In London" says Allison, "the proportion
of illegitimacy is one to thirty six, the
effect, it is to be feared, of the immense
mass of concubinage which there prevails,
under circumstances where u law of nature
renders the increase of the population from
that source impossible. In Prussia, Mr. j.
Laing, an English and nom Catholic writer,
says that "chastity, the index virtue of the
moral condition of the people, is lower
than in almost any part of Europe"
With all the opportunities afforded non
Catholic girls of concealing their shame,
with the drugs SO hauntingly Advertised in
the secular press, by which immense pro-
fits are realized, illegitimate births are of
rare occurrence among them whereas in
Catholic countries, where the vendors of
such nostrums would soon be provided
with safe quarters by the Government, the
cases of illegitimacy thrown in our face,
are in many Instances, simply the invention
of the writer's imagination. "In Austria"
says Allison, ono person can marry if he
does not know how to read, write and
cypher." "In other German States," says
a writer in Appleton's Cyclopedia, "the OBJ
stacles to legal marriage are SO great that
numbers of people prefer to live together
in what would be perfectly legal wedlock
in Scotland and America, but is only con-
cubinage by the local laws of the State"
Sin Bavaria, in particular there exists an
atrocious state of law which forbids mar
riage unless the contracting parties satisfy
the authorities that they are capable of
maintaining family without any extrane-
GUS aid" (Church and World, 1869 This
of course leads to secret marriages, which
are blessed by the Church, in whose eyes,
the children born of them are legitimate.
though not recorded us such 10y the State
authorities.
We have hardly entered upon this pain
full and humiliating subject, and yet we are
heartily sick of it already. We have
tried to deal with it in a Christian spirit.
There Is not one of our species, however
lowly, we would willingly offend, and, if in
the course of our remarks, we have shock
ed anybody's delicacy, we here assure
them that it is altogether unintentional
Our religion, the only treasure left US, was
wantonly insulted; we called Protestant
authorities to our side to fight in its defence
Statistics show that more than seventy per
cent of the children born in Rome are illegiti.
mate-N. o. Times, Feb. H.
Verify our neighbor must be suffering
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