The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
ROME AMI THE SALOON.
THE DOCTRINE or THE CHURCH
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Father shecdy LECTURES Mt 81. Pa,rick's Cathe-
drai Unaer the Auspices or the Catholic
University OF MISUNDERSTANDING Opcnins
Uneeutvsoaiiy Condemned by the Church.
The FIRST Of the lectures Of the Father
Mathew Chair of the Catholic University at
Washington=to DO given ~soutsido OF that city
was delivered at st. Patrick's Cathedral last
night by Father Morgan M. Sheedy Of st. Johns
Church, Altoona, Pa. This year an extension
of the work was planned and New York was
chosen. as It commands a wider field. Tho
subject last night was THE Catholic Church
and the Liquor Traffic" and there was a great
turning out Of the Catholic temperance socie-
ties TO hear Father Sheedy.
He said that the Catholic Church, contrary
o what many suppose, had put its seal Of dis
approval on tho liquor traffic. The second and
third Plenary Councils of Baltimore, which had
been called to consider the question, called upon
Catholic pastors. to frequently warn their fiocks
to shun drink houses and to repel from the
sacraments liquor dealers who encouraged the
abuses OF drink, especially on Sundays. 1t also
called upon Catholics engaged in the sale Of
liquors to consider the great dangers with
which their business was surrounded and IL
possible to choose some other way of making a
living.
Let Catholics" Father sheedy said, keep
thOh bdiOOns ClObeu On inc lTOru 3 lay, LOT IL
through their action religion Is dishonorcd, let
them remember that a terrible retribution will
be demanded of them by the Avenger Of
Heaven. There can be no mistnking the smind
OF the Church in this matter, The Holy Father
ap5rSSyed the action OF the Baltimore councils
him by some. Ohio Catholics against a law OF
bership in Catholic societies persons engaged
in the liquor traffic, confirmed the position taken
"'What has been DONE he wrote, has the
approval not only of Catholics, but also Of non.
Sath9lics, being IN harmony with the laws OF
the Church and necessary to its honorf
Against the Sunday, opening of saloons you
should stand firm. Those VINO want it are
sales of liquor by adding to their present license
on SIX days one for the sacred day, utterly re-
consumers, their families, and the community.
DO we want the Continental Sunday instead
OF the Lords day, as 1t is generally observed in
America; a Sunday not for worship, but purely
for amusement and dissipation, sure TO bring
in its train national i%niidelity and national
text of personal rights, homo rule, or liberty,
cast away the Sunday of the fathers under
the Continental Sunday which II PHI has been y pI bro.
ductive of so much evil that the most thought
iul Europeans are at present trying to cast it
away because it is demoralizing. Are we going
to sacrifice a sacred principle to a base appc.
do not be alarmed by the chimera of a Puri.
tan Sunday. There is no danger of your ever
getting back to that. Cosmopolitan New York
never had and never can have any odious blue
laws. Give the workingman what he is en-.
titled to, the Lords day, II day of rest. Make it
u day of joy and Rladness.. Throw open for
him the ar galleries, Libraries, and museums,
but Keep the door of the saloon tightly Shut"
Father ShcedE, then rointed out the evils of
nations. The administration of this proud city
OF New York" he said in closing, has been
intrustcd to a party largely composed Of Catho-
lies. What viii the record bei viii you help
to make this city truly greater in moral and
patriotism, in religious observancei Prove to
its people and the country ct large that the
tired in the conservative and healing influences
Of the Catholic Church. Stand firm and i'm
movable against the Sunday saloon, against
the abuses of the liquor traffic, and against in
temperance. the giant curse of the day.