The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-05
Star and Catholic Messenger
RS, SUNDAY. JANUARY S, 1873.

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IConcluded from sixth pagoI
The priesthood just as young man
~ the m1nistry with US, or as he takes
nv or 9oetoxing, for the sake of getting
~ yss'd ~ thought about it, said I,
Nc 16N @ 1t couldn't be. The harder
the life to be, the more GER
ecomes that it amt in human
en TO take TO it just for living,
gsy, ike, as you reckoned.'
q now, said he, don't you think
e mistakes are made, and man
!raes gets ordained that is not the
may be- said Il. tit may happen. I
q't denE 49, m NJ human things thers'll
wAys be some n3ietakes and mishaps; but
slxe III deGs Sffen happen over in the
~ ~ - NeYsrI never heard of it.
E hIes ~ american Bishops Owe
l00 T. Al2ny 9t sem) are cute, and no
~ Know all the influence of
eCn4xe4 1qs there depends on the char
t4E& S14x9ys and a priest has to be
nSee4 AN4 lQ&s a deal to himself, in the
fdat N 901aapd eyes, and ears, and
"a HR II xenQItADd send it flying in every
rcettol1a {; hnd tharefore, they can't afford
knAY4 ~ b9s picked men out there for
aee&4s TAG feenlt is that the Catholics
e Aheeds they are. In every place
YesxMte meni are jinin' their ranks, and if
MpGA &q4a en- another twenty years with
at eomsng t0 any almighty smash, the
lfeeae RaEtoa the population of the States
- And ~ ehis becanse the priests are tip
p ~ Morality and zeal. They're real
cit, they are, They've no wives nor fami-
81 - prQESde for 20 almost all they get,
aeysleAyeA ~ the Church, or spends it in
attdtpE chuxches and schools. They're
nnYe - their poet allays to be had when
nyhe&fy3 rich er Poor, wants advice or as
isfeneeE sJk lEsA fever case, or small pox,
TeheAeTA is AL one to them they're not
frAsG 81 M1kok, they amt cause they have
~ cal - live any longer in the world than
he1xs 4aAee has got work for 'em to do.
L0Mnh0n3d have seen lem in the timetof the
Na1s h&Iss they worked and died at their
1os4A soane ct Aom worn out with fatigue,
lutjes, eR eh0t, i hecause they couldn't be
the lineof fire if there was
lying lnan.to attend to.
1e1l you What stranger, fever turn
yaAholt 3, 81 Nill be ali along of what I've
Encwd ct the Catholic clergy; and If
hefess one EhiDg in their religion I'm
,touder 0& 6han ar6ther-and it makes me
,roud and ,allamed 0f human natur', too
t'e tlle Sirtuts I've aeea in the unmarried
!
Fell done, Van. You spoke out like a
naz hnd q free and independent citizen.
And what said he to all this 9"'
& sIdn saad it had struck him all of a heap;
y ct least something of that sort. He said
~ had no notion that the Catholic clergy
10xa kuch aeharneter out in the States.
{ M ell, said /, there it is The priest is,
take 1t, set upon q pinnacle. If lie stands
aHss xpo ore than d man; if he fails he's pretty
Ter i devil I've known fallen priests out
q tie States, but they was mostly foreign
- TINT had gone, wrong in their own
country, and come cut to the States, like
many 66a3des, to get out of the way of their
I'D characters and get new ones-if they
.onlds IL was moetly drink that had prov
il their ruin /; and some of 'em went from
bad TO worse, till, they'd lost all self-res-
ssct and didn't care what they did."'
But he said, how do you acrount for
hose bad falls, and for the bad character
hat che priests have got in the countries
fayc meptioned."f
sssayS !, There's alleys black sheep in
very flock. Its, human natur'-you can't
ralp it. The Lord Himself couldn't, for
'Mere was q Judas among the Apostles,
wen. But, AZ for these stories, I'll tell you
what j think / don't believe the half-no,
loI the duarter--of 'em are true; bnt
here's no doubt about it thata deal of the
,tineated classes in all the old Catholic
stta4ass'< 49, "a 2 tMhASA 0G1lusb VIC Az
3efyan with Ehe outbreak of infdelism in
rance in the days of v oltaire, and all that,
ind it's been smouidering ever since; aud
he most of these men are Freemasons, and
socres Society men, and that's thing for
hidden by the Church so, all that jines
ON are rebels to their religion, and can't
,Slssve in the Church, but are only catho-
ics Ia name; for the Scriptur' says; if
y ssil5 rot lear ska Charch, let him be aato
lee as TIE heather and the publican.
Their wives and daughters are mostly
rood Catholics, and it rifles them free
thinkers above biz, that the priests they
ante and despise, should have any influence
d theiE boUsehold (which they have, aud
10 nnist6ke for tho women will have their
Fay I'M ti,s end. SO, these men that don't
1slisvs IN God nor devil, of course don't
,sliexe ID priests, or the grace of God, or
,hriaEiaii morality. They know they are
sad, as bad chu be, themselves they have
10 belief In the virtue of any other men;
hey don't believe Id such thing as spot
eas purity of life, and so they believe or
make believe, that the priests are bad lot
md u set OF Tapestries and believing this,
hey are ready TO take up with any tale
Igainet B. priest, and can't believe that if a
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