The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-30
SOUND ADVICE TO oATR0LIC PARENTS.

We commend the following utterauces of
the renowned Jesuit Missionary, Father
Damen, to the careful consideration of
Catholic parents. Their force must come
home to every heart; and we print them in
this prominent portion of the Union in the
hope that they may the more readily catch
the eye OF all those charged with the
guardianship of youth, and bear goodly
fruit in the heart.
Says Father Damen
If You wish for reading matter. are there not
plenty of good Catholic weekly newspa uers
which do not tain all the silly trash to be
found in Harpers or the Ledger! But some will
object, and say, Father, like very well to
nave . Catholic paper in my house, but cam
not afford the exgense.p and yon will pay ten
any good word about orr good religion, aud
you will not pay Eve cents, half the price, for
paper that defends Catholioity. Shame on
yo1l Story papers and others Of that stamp
malign the Catholic Church while Catholic
papers take part with it. Will you then con.
tribute to support our enemies or our friends
II yon support anti-Cstholio periodicals you
support the enemies of the Church. II, ON the
contrary, you support Catholic periodicals you
support those who defend the principles of the
Church against the attacks Of Free Masons,
inhdels. and the whole host of sinners arrayed
against u.s. Take sides, then, and choose for
yourselves; and let your choice be on the side
OF the religion of yeur fathers, by your prefer
ing Catholic to anti Catholic Journals.
no 0uti-SabnOlC Journal CO6G9 uV0 QOllor6
year and the Catholic Journal does not cost
quite three dollars year, SO that as far as ex-
pense is concerned the latter is the cheaper of
the two. When you have the Catholic journal
tanning reading for Your children. You have
stories too, of @ moral tendency, where you
win find food for pions thought You also get
Instructed in y4SSr religion and yop are able to
objections in Catholic journals. The Catholic
press is 8 power for Catholioity, aud every
Catholic worthy of the name should support it,
It defends our religion sgainst the attacks of
infidelity, and by sustaining it we, to a certain
extent, sustain our religion. Therefore get o
Catholic paper into yonr house every week,
and your sons and daughters, by perusing it,
will become better citizens and better Catho-
lies: If you do not give your children good
reading, they will get bad reading for them
selves; SO IL remains with you. fathers and
of their religion by means Of Catholic news
papers. The Protestant papers are against it,
and are supported by Free Masons and all the
enemies of the Church. Therefore do not sup
injury on your religion.
We may be permitted to supplement
these salutary utterances of the great Mis-
sionary-than whom few have the oppor
tunity of experiencing the necessity of a
solid, healthy Catholic literature being
diffused among our people-by the follow
ing pertinent remarks of our very able
contemporary, the Catholic ReUietD:
If the Catholics of America have not a
powerful press. crowned by an efficient daily
paper in New York, the reason is to be found
not in their inability to support it, as many
testsnt Parson Talmage alleges, in reply to
the Catholic Rerie'o. but in their unwillingness
to stand by their own, to oppose their
enemies and to support and read their own lit
port we Catholics give to the corrupt and
anti Catholic press ofAmericA were Withdrawn
from it we would seriously weaken it; if it
were given to our own papers, American
Catholics would have the strongest and best
papers in the world. Whose fault is it that
we have not Answer, Catholics, 10 it yours?