The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-10
THE METROPOLITAN AND COLORADO CATHOLIC: OCTOBER TO- 1909

the truths she so strives to make sacred to theil
young hearts! In reverses. like the Pagans of old
he lays the blame on her religion; and drunken
ness and anger, where such are INDUCED in find
IN the difference of cree1s ready and abundant
material for abuse A life spent in this misery
often ends in death of still greater Indebtedness
Many women circumstanced as we have been say
ing find themselves after a short ten or fifteen
years of motherhood, with an early death summon
ing them out of the -gorld The bitterest thought
| OF that moment-a bitterness which faith itself in
sense, makes only biting-is the anticipa-
ton of the fate that awaits her children. They she
knows, will no longer be Catholics; "they will be
handed over here and there to his people," or some
| strange woman, most likely non-Catholic, brought
IN over them Were her husband of her own be-
| lief she might hope that in some Catholic insti-
tuition, one other of the Sanity Ssterhoods of
her Church, would still shelter the faith of her
nestllngs. But she feels now, and feels with re-
morse and dlsmay, that at her own death all Cath
ohclty dies for them. The beautiful Sundays
mass OF her own childhood and of theirs the "Hail
Mary" and "Holy Mary" of evening prayer the
example and protection of the Mother of God the
check, and, at the same time, the consolation of
confession bliss of the Eucharistic Communion the
timely monition of priest and nun-all these are
henceforward for other womens children, but not
for hers. The struggle is over and she is beaten,
but beaten because from the first she placed her
self in a false position There is no exaggeration
IN these remarks. We are constantly meeting chill
dren of mixed marriages who were baptized, per
haps confirmed in the Catholic Church. but the
mother died in their infancy and the care Of them
fell to the friends of the n-Catholic father.
Sad as are those cases which we have been de-
scribmg there are mixed marriages of still more
deplorable character. Sometimes the parents agree
to divide the children between them; the sons are
to follow the father and be brought up non-Catho-
hes; the mother is to have the girls. No Catholic
woman conscientiously enter into any such ar
rangement; nor, having entered into it, can she |
abide By it. As well might she contract to give half
her soul to a true worship, and half to a false
one; half her Sunday prayers in a non Catholic
temple and the other half in Catholic church, as
covenant to give portion of her children to an
alien faith, and the other to the true one If she
believes, as every Catholic is bound to hold that
Christ Is really present in the Sacrament of the
Altar, she cannot without treason to God and in
Justice to her sons, allow these latter to be taught
hat the Sacred Host is but wafer and that
hose who worship the Almighty in it are idola-
ers. Recognizing herself, in belief and in prac-
ice, that the Redeemer has instituted in His
hurch the power of forgving sin and an author
ty to blind" by laws, and loose by Indulgence
he cannot permit contract to permit, that any
ne of her children be trained to despse this au-
lority, or ridicule that power She processes her
aith in the life-giving power of the Sacraments.
nd IN the great benefit of the intercession of the
rgm Mary and the Saints; yet, while so doing.
he insults God, and grievously defrauds her chill
rem by undertaking that they shall be brought up
OF to avail of the Sacraments nor to have recourse
the prayers of either Virgin or Saints. King
eroboam withdrew ten of the tribes of Jacob from /
e one temple and one priesthood of Jerusalem. G
I'd he IS known ever after, through the inspired
rltlngs, as "he who made Israel to sin" He com $
tilted this treason to his God and his traditions
+ certain earthly motives; and the Word of God v
S branded and chronicled his schism and its OBJ d
ct throughout all ages. What judgment awaits i
mother who similarly rends the Israel of her n
usehold -and while sending one-half to the tenn l.
of the true Jerusalem, agreed to let the other f
If worship at the altar of the schismatic king E