The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-18
Goddess Teachers.

Goddess Teachers.
That something is sorely needed to
counteract the efforts of the enemies
of religion and kindle the spirit of
devotion, or rather keep it alive, is
shown by the tales which come in
daily of instructions given by goddess
teachers in the ecole laiques, the very
schools which the government styles
neutral" At Mont de Marsau, one
of these teachers has been putting up
the Reformation, informing his pupils
that it was "a great religious move
ment which occurred in the sixteenth
century, the essential cause of which
was the state of the Church. The
Papacy was the source of all evil, ac-
cording to this authority. The Popes
lived in luxury and pleasure; un-
worthy and illiterate Bishops were ap-
pointed in France the King gave
ecclesiastical charges to women, artists
and even children, for the value of
their revenues while the priests made
the people pay for the Sacraments and
sold absolution for sins. Then the diff
fusion of the Bible caused the people
to endeavor to restore the Church to
its primitive simplicity and gave them
to realize the right of private judg-
ment, after which, of course, they
found the truth! The reverence with
which these men, who evidently pre-
fer any religion to that of the Church,
speak of the central figure of Chris
tianity, our Blessed Lord, is shown by
the remark of another teacher, who
characterized Christ's commission to
Peter "Tu es Petrus, ct super hane
Petram, etc." as what in modern par
lance is called IAN atrocious pun"
So the Association of Fathers of Fam
lilies has plenty of work before it if it
is to protect the Christianity of the
France of tomorrow
Newspapers Must Publish Defence.
There is one law, however, in that
fair land which makes for justice and
which Catholics would be glad to see
introduced into other countries. This
is an act whereby any newspaper pub
fishing an attack on any institution or
person, is bound also by law to publish
any comment or defence offered by the
one attacked. More than once lately
the anti-clerical press has made itself
look very foolish-a fatal thing in
France-by reason of stories which it
has been bound to contradict, and a
recent effort to evade this obligation
made by the "Progres du Nord" has
proved fruitless when brought before
the Court of Cessation. This journal
recently misrepresented the words of
the Able Delaire, who addressed the
Ladies of the Patriotic League of
France on Freemasonry and it's fatal
influence on the fortunes of France.
The Able sent a corrected version of
his speech to the journal, which de-
clined to publish it, because it con-
tanned an attack on Freemasonry which
the priest described as "the most mali
which sowed division, hatred, discord,
disorder, and anarchy, and ruled only
by oppression and tyranny" The
Able took his case to the Court of
Douai, which, however, refused an in
junction, declaring that the explana-
tion was calculated to bring Freema-
sonry into derision and contempt.
Nothing daunted, Pere Delaire took
his case to the Court of Cessation,
which has now quashed the judgment
of Douai, and declares that no matter
what the nature of the reply a journal
is bound to publish it. Certainly the
newspapers have been having rough
time of it lately.
The Government finds it difficult
also to dispose of it's stolen goods,
while already good deputy has made
an outcry in the Chamber anent the
historic Churches of France, which,
seized by the State and deprived of
their ecclesiastical protectors, are fall
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