The Irish standard., 1899-02-11
but l know what l will do. l will go
to the printing office and get hundred
hand-bills struck. and In large, glaring

hand-bills struck. and In large, glaring
type state on Monday evening at -
hall will address the people on 'Wom-
en- and the Confessional for men only,
one dollar per head; and on the follow
ing evening l shall deliver lecture ii
the same hall on the The Secrets That
Take Place Behind the Bar women
only, half a dollar a head. Now they
do this in order to sustain life. and the
girl who donated her young life to the
sanctuary has to come forth in disguise
and face the unbelievers in this man
ner. 1t Is from these systems that the
world in general, outside Of the Catho-
lie church. get their ideas of the institu-
systems that the Sunday school papers
are made up, and the startling tales and
stories find their way to the innocent
little children outside of our church, and
1t Is from these stories that they get
their first fright of the Catholic church,
and from which they never recover.
This system and these stories are what
you might call the negative of the
Catholic church, and. when the apostate
priest and escaped nun comes around
and sells the negatives of the church,
everybody buys but when I come
around to sell the photograph, no one
cares for it," Here Father Nugent H.
lustrated the difference between the
negative of the church and the photo
graph of the church by comparing them
to the negative and photograph of ones
mother, and asked: Would you not
rather have the photograph of your dear
mother than the negative?"
He spoke at some length in this con-
nection Of the manner in which the
apostate priests and escaped nuns
would present what he termed the
negative of the church. and stated en-
only the negative led one to see the
church in the wrong light. He said
further: I'VE say to the escaped nun
and apostate priest, Why don't you sell
the photographer But they answer,
We would starve to death. These peo-
pie want the negative, and the worse
you make it the better they like it.
They want to sell 1t to their Sunday
schools, and q large number of people
outside of the Catholic church are per-
fectly honest in their belief. They have
never seen the photograph. They have
seen only the negative of the Catholic
church in all her institutions. Upon
these negatives you will notice the Ian
guage that the people use. BY the Ian
guage l can tell which one has the pho
tograph. The one who has the mega
tive always uses the word confession,
and the one with the photograph always
uses the words, tribunal of penance
One will say all you have to do is to go
to the priest and make your confession
and have your sins forgiven, and then
you go back and commit the same sin
over again, and you may rest assured
that he has the negative before him.
But when you hear a person say, MY
sins have been forgiven by the sacra-
ment of penance. you may rest as
sured that he is either a Catholic or a
Protestant who has studied from the
photograph. The one is used by apos-
tate priests and escaped nuns, and the
other by theologians. No Catholic
priest has ever taught child that his
sins were forgiven in confession, or by
confession, or through confession, and
1t CRATES on the ears Of Catholics to hear
the Ignorant and false conceptions put
before them when they hear anything
to the contrary When we take a child
to prepare him for his first communion.
We ask him the question How are the
sins forgiven that are committed after
baptism?' and the little boy says, fol-
lowing his catechism, They are remit
ted through the sacrament of penance
And when we ask him, What is there
to the sacrament of penance? and he
says, following the catechism, There are
SIX requirements, three on the part of
the priest and three on the part Of the
penitent; on the part of the penitent,
there must be confession, contrition and
satisfaction, and on the part of the
priest there must be ordination jurisdic-
ton from the bishop. and the power of
pronouncing absolution; thus we have
the sacrament in its integrity And so
in the sacrament Of penance we measure
the sins. and when person comes to
confession he brings his parts and the
church supplies the other parts But
s',pposng person has one Of the parts
missing. He makes good confession,
but is not sorry for his sins The con-
fession does him no good Supposjng
he is sorry, performs his pcnance. but
does not confess all his sins. The same
defect is there. What we call the in
tegrity of sacrament is the sacrament
there, with all the requirements, in it's
entirety, and with no notch in it. Now
you will see why the people who are
uneducated always use the word con-
fession. The boy whom we have in
structed and educated knows what I
mean when l talk abont the integrity Of
the sacrament and the sins being for
given. but you could not get that into a
nom Catholics head il you We're to talk