The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-08
CATHOLIC OPINION.

The Columbian would like to see th'
| League of the Sacred Heart engage In d
crusade of prayer to have the 1east oi
Corpus Christi restored to the calendar
of holidays OF obligation. Is II not Iai
greater feast than the CIRCUMCISION OF tht
Assumption? Do We not all need 70 mi
crease our devotion to the Blessed Sacra-
ment?-COlumbian.
\ Protestant woman Mrs. Beulah ABB
hey of Sparta. Tenn. recently caused heI
own death by pluCkng out one oil ner
, eyes in a literal Interpretation oil our
Lords words: III thine eye offend thee
pluck it out and cast 1t from thee. Her
action shows the folly of the private IN
depreciation of the Bible. IN the IirSl
place, Christ established a church ana
did not write the Bible or order II to De
written to teach all nations all truth
whatsoever | have commanded In the
second place, the Scriptures, written by
men. even though divfnely inspired. must
be subordinate 10 the Church set up by
God to safeguard and spread His religion.
Columbian
The inaccuracies Of DR.. CARROTS Cath
Ollie census point al excellent lesson. They
clearly show that some plan should be de-
Vised by our Church authorities TO secure
an enumeration at fiXet and uniform
time throughout the country. There are
many sound reasons for a more thorough
canvass and correct tabulatiou.-Church
Progress.
.
Another fool party was born in Gin
cinnati last Sunday. Its name Is the Ma
tional Liberal. 1t stands for the abolish
ment of chaplainS in army, navy, legis-
latureS and public Institutions: the taxa
ton of church property and the abandon
ment of Sunday Observance. But is that
not q rather homogeneous name for a
band of freethinking idiots? National in
ambition Liberal in lunacy.-Church
Progress.
Ernest Renauld, Il French Catholic
writer, has just started a vigorous Cath
oltc publication, in the prospectus OF
which he says:
During the past twenty-five years the
5000 Protestant minority have been rul-
ing the 35,OG9.000 Catholic majority in
France They are the masters and We are
the prosecuted. All our statesmen who
have during this quarter of a century
been in power and have prosecuted the
Catholics have been Protestants We are
tired of being the suppressed. the perse-
cuted, the conquered
This is still another view NJ Renauid
does not mention the Free Masons or the
Jews. tbs the Protestants that have
been doing it this time. AS matter of
fact perhaps all these elements are with
the government in its anti-religiOus pol
icy. But 1t is from the 100000 Catholic
majority" that NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau
gets his main support.-Catholic Citizen.
.
We don't know which is the more to be
despised, the Briton who crouches to the
Yankee. or the Yankee who is bamboozled
by the Briton,-Chicago Citizen.
General Bell has notified all whom il
may concern that he is gong to play
Weyler in southern Luzon. All inhabit-
ants are being driven in within certain
lines, and all men caught with arms are
to be summarily shot. Now, who is go
ing to war for the sake of humanity?
Why is Weyler to be execrated and Bell
lauded as a patriot? On what, authority
does he undertake to shoot men found in
arms fighting for their country. as they
believe it to be? Native priests, too. who
have been praised as friendly. are now
to be hunted down as traitors The sec
rotary for war formally decided a few
days ago. in a case involving some money
interests. that "a state of war exists in
the Philippines. \ state of war is a very
different thing from state of rebellion.
even the most powerful of governments
cannot play fast and loose with matters
involving the life and death of whole peo-
pies in this free and easy way. The eter-
nal justice is against it. and it may not
be bearded with mpunity.-Standard and
Times.