The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-12
CATHOLICISM.
The ArehbishOps and Bishops
Pastoral.
VERY SENSIBLE DOCUMENT
,.uf,q several Points Which are
"a aIways DebatabIe with "some
People"
Catholicism.

bishops OF the HiO0N 0'o''N.
o's- gl;rd pleaary council of Baltimore,
~ M clergy and Iaity in their charge,
" ado public through the Cdthotic
- LISA lengthy document, but
~ following abstract gives the MAN
.uG Of leading matters, when en-
PoLnJ the attention OF the counch.
ft5forapcp IS made to the great increase
T5tbolic institutions III the past
oo;,btoop years, especially IN the west;
T5s assembling by Plus TX OF general
--onnciI AT the Vatican Is alluded 10 as
mo nj the most important events OF our
go and detailed accounts OF It's WORK
a2a GIVEN. The Catholics OF Prussia are
commended for their good work IN
svailing themselves OF every legal
means TO check the advances OF despot,
ism and save their own freedom ana
+bstoftheir country. The letter then dis,
cnsses the laws Of the church ana
Ills country in the following
terms: We think we can claim
tn be acquainted both WITH
the laws. Institutions and spirit VI
the Catholic Church. and with the laws,
institutions and spirit OF our country
and We emphatically declare that there
iSno antagOnism with them. 4 Catho-
lie finds himself at home in the United
States. for the influence OF his churcn
has constantly been exercised IN behalf
of individual rights and popular llber-
ties And the right-minded American
nowhere finds himself more at home
Nan in the Catholic Church, Tor no
where else can he breathe that atmOs-
Dhere of Divine truth which alone can
make Us free. We repIdiate, with
equal earneStness, the assertion that
ne need to lay aside any Of our devoted
ness to our church to be true Amerl-
cans. and the insinuatiOn that we need
to Law aside any of our love for our
countryS principles and institutions, to
be faithful Catholics. To argue that
the Catholic Church Is hostile to our
great Republic, because she teaches that
there is no power butfrom God, because,
therefore, back of the events which led
10 the formation Of the Republic, she
sees the providence Of God leading to
that issue. and back of our country
laws, the authority of God as their
sanction. This, evidently, is so illogical
and contradictory an accusation, that
we are aStonished to have it advanced
BY persons of ordinary intelligence. We
believe our cOuntry's heroes were IN
strumentS of God in the nations, Ill
establishing this home of freedom. To
both the Almighty and to His lnStru-
ments in the work, We look with CRATE
ful reverence; and to maintain the in
heritance of freedom which they have
left US. should it eVer-Which God for
bid!-be imperilled, our Catholic citi-
zens will be found to start forward, as
one man, ready to pledge anew their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor No less illogical would be the
motion that there is ought in the free
spirit Of republican institutions incom-
paubIe with the perfect dOcility to the
Church of Christ"
The attempt TO grasp the property of
the Propaganda is severely condemned,
ana our government Is warmly thanked
lot IT'S seton that saved the American
college from cOniscatiOn. A consider
soie portion OF the letter is devoted to
t1e discussion OF the education of the
Etergy aud their pastoral rights. The sub
lect oI Christian education is treated at
stSaI length. The letter says the palp-
sule TACT cannot be ignored that the in
n i OF the school often Outweighs
tuat Oh nome and church. ITO shut re-
Lyon ONT OF the school and keep it foI
me nome and the church is logically to
ram up generation that will consider
t se.sloh good for home and the church
E gst 4 not 10Y the practical business of res.
me me: continuing, the letter SAYS
.r ne must multiply our school.
" every Catholic child il
H'e lana shall have within its reach thu
means OF education. There is still much
70 oe Gone ere this is obtained. There
Sle SUI thousands of Catholic children
" TIE GWted States, who derive qeneht
tiOn catholic schools. Pastors an(
parents should not rest till this defec
~ reme9ied. No parish is compIet,
GutH ~ has schools adequate h
cue needs of its children" Chris
usn marriage and the indissolubilit,
81 me marriage tie are treated upon
allu IN this connection the havoc
wrought by the divorce laws of tn,
country Is deplored. The importanc
u good reading, especially of the HoI,
TtIcIlptures, ana of supporting tn
sloIoughty Catholic press is impress
S.EeLy declared. Regarding the obsery
ance OF the Lords Day the letter saws
Tar De II from US TO advocate sue
SUNDAY laws as would hinder necessar
NoAhy VI HOuAQ DTOnl0lt sue
popular engagements as are consisten
Ti1h the sscredness of the day
mere Is one way of profaT
ing the Lords Day which is 5
Pronnc OF evil results that we feel it on
9uty to after against it our special cor
domination. This is the practice {
sellng beer or ether liquors on Sunda,
OF OF fre9uenting places where they Al
s SOY. We hope the Sunday laws q
ms point will not be relaxed but eve
more M rlgidly enforced, and we imploI
al Catholics, for the love of God an
country, never to take par
n such Sunday traffic. n,
i 49,, Pa.ronize or countenan
~ and we not only direct the attentic
-oi an pastors to the repression of Il
a6uSe, but We call on them to indu
an Their hocks that have been engag
IN selling liquors to abandon. as so,
as they can, the dangerous traffic az
embrace more becoming way of ms
ing living" The pastoral invokes
blessing on the cause of temperance a,
all who are laboring for itS :
%ancement in a true Christian sn;,
Forbidden societies * tha 49, K,