The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-05

said I. Z" be an exception TO the ruie =
you admit with me that the greaS T Tu a
and, above all, in France STAND nign /
public estimation and snppose you au
NIT the Same of the priests in Germany a"u !
Italy generally, for in any OF tnese .f,onid :
tries II priest made false step we snoulo
be sure to hear of it through the P.eSs'
since thousands of hostile eyes are wntcns
ing 'em and indeed, wherever some nH
case does happen-for there are alwsSSo
make the most of it; but this, as you know,
happens but seldom, SO that no man ean
deny that when such a case happens re
an exception to the rule, and as rue VIC
Catholic clergy stand, az ieas na as IsaIa even
| in the opinion of Professionals, as their OWL
MHe said, / have nothing to say against
that, but how is it that the same cannoo oG
said of the clergy in the other places
IL replied, 4 know nothing of those
countries, but if the reports are true, LIES
is an old saying that the exception proves |
rule and that there are are G aM Of celba
CIV which makes them bad, otherwise Iney
would be bad all the world over ~ musV
be something bad in themselves; II they
won't keep their VOW it must 1 De ;e 'na' 'A'
"'But,' said hes think what is req oined
of the Catholic clergy. They are ordalneu
at two or tbree- twenty. l suppose
thew have been educated in college ous y.
thev come into the world for the first time
( they find themselves bound by vow, anu ~
l they have no experience of their power ol
. keeping it. If some find they have maHe
: a mistake they can't go back without ,naa
!, INV. or without losing all means OF supper
t by their profession. say this must maze MAI,
a MANY men hypocrites, and others m'sefao'e
for life.' u. .n.v.r them Van ~ said
n "Irl tell you," said he. Essays /, u don't
a think Won know much of human nature, or
d of the power of religion over the sou, o.
,s man. A young Catholic Chureh-stuoe
y knows from the first what is meant ny the the
" giving up of all that most men enter pro >.
= fessiop for-to earn q living, and nave a
in life of domestic happiness in a house OF me
,e own. The Catholic Church-student o1es
a to o profession-to the bar, or to the prac'
Az tice Of medicine. He must have q amer
Sc emit notion in his head to begin witn' an.
a, the Catholic Church does not want 10 nav
be men at her altar that amt in earnest an,
I. so she begins the bargain by saying TO rnen,
We as it were, slook here, my lads, yo'
~, want to become priests, you must leap owe
nd this here ditch. 1t is a pretty wiae on
1t. and look before you leap And sne CIV, ia,
"a them time to think, for no one can pm
r himself before he is two and-twenty, an
then there is NO going back, and he kno"
It it," .,,.. :; hi
on, lts th,s very 49, ~ etan and n
ing safeguard, before he takes the step' al" Z"
nv u.Thep. having this in mind before L
low goes to college, he is taught to tram hiu
not self, so as to keep out of temptation again
fes. his profession. I've seen many YOU you
Church students in the vacations aha
ms mostly saw them keep to themselves, anu
~ aver saw any that took to ladies soclet
the and was fond of standing by planners al
the singing with the gals, always markeu *,
id 7 no vocation, and left college. Ihey ma
q in nlenty of time and opportunity TO Juu
also Whether they would like to be single III
ire all their lives. It's nonsense telilpe =
,yer that young man from sixteen 10 WI ;,d
rha two has not time to know his own lhlho
.snS a matter like this, when he has got plen
ests of older men, priests and laymen aoG
ests him, his own superiors in college anu
nn Bishop, who don't want to have any IN
the for priest unless he is good one, anu
.hnn his Law friends who know what a priest
o1s.S expected to be, and for the honor OF re
y eli zion, don't want man to be made pr :
Co That has not got call for it. Ana ne
.;can plenty of young men OF his own ~
= al make him understand it, and 10 earthly
. a. ducement to make him go on to be Pr
r. he for the salary is less than he could get
nd a clerk, or q shopman, unless he felt S Sscl
men to it, and thought 1t wonlo No I" ''-'
lives, make hln hap'1v T renlied. "W
sre / very uue, ~; q,
+, for did tney say W VII 1l hnt srnnose a yo
rifles he sala, Snd. - 100 hard for b
7rong and wants TO enanse tbot,s mat the rea
ongst 10 ChaE ! SsSn, cod st all. unless
BE by why IL "ouau p uo Th;s steadies a n
cow the RUE Was az aoSG e sIer he ia on the
ed;- to forgetting himself. If he changes
ing of nlno, ~ rs U.s. 10 %os ma business to
bit, OF temptaIi4;ns. 'n, al tha heat way to ke
still into as pri t. az" I'D of tb;nos is to
you, man ou :. VI - 'ns 80 that he can't bl
as MIN W ~
shall WltnonG many i:1 70 +hot vanin
no- "Oh, be said vows were awful TN thln!
It's in They are an ssy that's a. WIN HeY never
been take v9"' III" "A-'0
ent,v lyon had him there, Van" said l :"