Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-01-28
The Position of the Catholic
Church OIL the school
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Catholic Columbian, Edited under the im>
mediate supervision of the Ri. Rev Bishop."l
A serious of questions come to us re-
latiVe to the regulation of the Diocesan
Synod, by which those who prefer god
less to Catholic schools are excluded
from the Sacraments. The regulation
is peremtory, coming from the Holy
Father himself, and no bishop or priest
has the right to annul it.
l. Are the parents, refusing to send
their children to the Catholic schools,
excluded from Communion /? Most un-
questionably.
2. Surprising one of the parents Cath
lie and the other Protestant; is the
Catholic communicated if the Pro-
testant party insists ON forcing the
children to the uu-Catholic school? If
the Catholic party make opposition in
good faith and fails to avoid the diff
Guilty, There is to cenSure.
How il the So-called Protestant party
is an apoState Catholic, who wishes to
promote his worldly prosperity by ac-
quieScing in the general opinion, and
by preparing his child for one of those
advantageous positions which the gen.
tlemen of the Board of Education have
1T their disposal? The child of an
apostate has to be judged by the same
rules as the child Cf an unbeliever. If
the child has partaken of the parents
apD5tacy in any way, he will be I'M
worthy to receive Communion and re-
garded as an apOState himself:
But will it not be safe to disregard
the regulation of the present pastor,
and go without the SacramentS until
his successor comes in? No; it will
not be safe; for the successor must COM
maud what the Holly Father COM
mands, or else be practically cut off
from the unity of the Church.
Moreover the very act of deliberat-
ing between the propositions to obey
God and to sacrifice some worldly in
terest, is the beginning Of infidelity.
All the advantages and all the honors
of the public schools for one year would
not compensate for the loss of single
MasS-even of fdevOtion-much less for
the loss of sauctifying grace and The
Easter Communion.
Brit suppose priest from strange
place-One that tho parents knew once
were to says the public schools are
good enough, would 1t not be safe to
follow mis- counsel? No; no more safe
to follow it than for him to give it.
Where a whole community of Catho-
lies agree togeather that goddess schools
are good enough for their children, and
do not wish any other, how then?
Why, then, let the whole community
understand that they have gone out of
way Of their fathers, and are Catholics
only in n ,nie. To be a Catholic one
must belong to the living Church
must obey his pastor, not merely be
sOciable with him. And our pastor is
Plus Y.
In recent sermon, Talmage said:
A statistician has estimated that there
are in New York and Brooklyn 1900
women who eXpend annually $4,000
each in dress. 1t is no rare thing when
the wedding march sounds to see drag
ging through the aisles a bridal dress
that has cost 81 900 or Sl.500. Things
have come to such pass when we cry
over sin we wipe the tears away with
II $l50 pocket handkerchief. Laughter.
The Secretary of War has about ar
ranged the records of the late war in
sh ape for printing.