The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-15
A Catholic Press.

-, ,,,a command TO our readers VINO
nav not be subscribers to the o'''.. tn
World. the careful perusal OF an aiu' II
vb;ch appeared in the December nunioer VI az
hat magazine, entitled, "Catholic Litera- T
tura and the Catholic Public" The suNec' W
= .h.ro most ablv handled, 80 much SO Ia "
deed that Catholic journals throughout ' q
.onntrv have been publishing copio"s eA-
tracts from the article. :
The author commences with tho piopo'
t;on that the Church has always KNOWN :
Knows now, and always will know, no" 10 i
mao. for the glory of God, all the hooie'
hnmon inventions and discoveries. MUSIC
n,int;pe. sculpture, architecture, asflcul-
ture, philosophy, every science iou""
chief patron and most efhclen1 Pfoino'ei
the Catholic Church. Finally came Tue az
of printing The first to seize upon ~ ava
purposes of utility to man anu siory "
j, Cod was the Church. The hrst oooAs
printed we're books of piety, ana among
the first was the Bible. The hrst eook
issned in America was printedin Mexican
Convent.
7, tho meantime the Devil is a Jealous
;mitator Of the Church in this respect.
:. Where the Church publishes one oAoi'' "o
=, publishes q dozen doctored ones no N"'
taken almost complete possession OF popu-
,ar literature. About in the same proper
ton in which bad, immoral and indecent
- conversation on the street preparedness
over that which is pious and edifylns' oao'
;moral and indecent publications OUT
,mber GOOD ones. Bible societies ana
Oh tract societies push their WORK oi ''"'Ao
;ts over popular sentiment with all the enei 81
40 and address of the most consummate ousi
=, ness skill Their incomes depend upol
+be;r importapce before the people. AM
thew flood the land with every appear U
lin nopular prejudice, bigotry, fanaticlsm an
-. Co. Nammon knows how to inspire III
followers with zeal sometimes more eai
~. oct than that of many of the servants
We God.
-. The writer goes on to deplore espec'ah
III, the complete monopoly which the De'
~ has obtained of the daily press III "
country, There is not daily paper In q
limited States which is not an enemy op
or covert. of our Holy Church. lie q
10y .cr;bes unite graphically the immense
apence which the press yields. IL emu
,.. every house, it is read by every oouy'
journal may have circulation oi iioiii
, to; three hundred thousand copies'
M ost eloquent orator can not In IN one y
,f ;ncessant labor be heard by as ma
reonle "a read one issue of the New Il
T.;6,nc or Herald. A dozen men OF lea
;nr e,oouence. wit, wisdom and consu
holic ing, eio4 IN s,cb n M
sub mate 'ac' 'on 3y,,o o,n comm
Pro- anu give - iorrr.l
ahe influence OF one such Joain",'
%sspecially of ell OF them comoAhe"
In1sH the Devil has all this in the shape OF
hshes testautism or more open lnhdehty'
eIanu The learned writer then goes on to
would that the press is not only one or the
Irish formidable weapons used against U.S.
mt on ,rbt tn lie one of the most efficient
tate it ousn' ~ r, l,ehalf
ccept: we could ehpA"9 , mo-
,mmu- saws pointedly, {" 1t ought to come ne
which +ha churcb and the school, and in the
10 "o. nation of our teachers and pastors III
! State come next" When he comes, howeVs
do for examine the question whether the CAT
wliEI5 nress is sustained as it ought to I've a.
= o So tn ma and how it stands compared Wit
ear the srccass of Protestant sheets, the ansN
The far from satisfactory. One Protestant
eded as IA. SPECULATION of 300 90
pected, (rel'Siousl nos a', " l.,.ors from,
to place other OF OUUoo, NaA'ou' o'o
,ition of to 10000. We oil know how poor
hope OF support of any Catholic paper con
commu- e"PP -
vests to with these figures
t is be- The writer concludes with an earnt
$ OWING neal to parents against the folly OF II
rasento ipp themselves and their families W
ION such constant stream of temptation to I'M
res that and immortality found in nom Cathof
lor ,' .me lications, especially without Prov
er Of the countervailing influence, and we
ivilege of conclude more appropriately than
Isl ri th;n Si ting portion of it. He says:
EN- why Stop distorting their minds ana
,osterityq their taste with trashy magazines ant
on which full of covert and Often t hn nrecents h
founded. Presentation OF inc ana ;rraverent all
ostes was the M beId most sacred. 1t is in
APOSTLE an Una, ~, 70 avoid the literature of the
many fast t%olies must read the newspapers, II
,eedy, yet nothing more. Do they suppose tn va.
hiag, and On for ever reading these ana ho OIL
,is by an Sithout imbibing some Oh tue iai
vyoujd he which pervades them ALI
,aotb With The minority of the leading newsp'
le"Sn fess to be impartial between inc wv
lreiaho'- hmt in reality they are all more OF
cidedly against US, all the mo
;velv 40. perhaps, because they app
:-;+ ~ the LII do not mean to be. Every Pr
hi' w nov sav acknowledgements