The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-08-17

E1O" HldHy SOIOISO
there in the United States? 2. How
many coIored Sisters?
l. There are FIVE colored priests in
the United States. They are the Rev.
Charles r. Uncles, native of Balti-
more, who was ordained by Cardinal
Gibbons nineteen years ago. He is
now professor in the Epiphany Apos-
to1ic College at Walbrook, Baltimore,
Maryland; the Rev. John H. Dorsey,
also native of Baltimore, ordained in
1902; he is professor in st. Joseph's
College, Montgomery, Alabama; the
Rev. Joseph J. Plantvigne, native of
Louisiana, and ordained in st. Joseph's
Seminary, Baltimore, in 1907; he is
assistant pastor of st. Francis Xavier
Church, Baltimore; the Rev. Joseph
A. Burgess, a member of the Holy
Ghost Order and native of Washing
ton, ordained in Paris, France, in 1907.
He is professor in the Holy Ghost Col
lege at Cornwells, Pa; the Rev.
Stephen L. Theobald, native of Brit
ish Guiana, in the West Indies. He
was ordained at st. Paul Seminary, st.
Paul, Mimi, in 1910, and is pastor of
the Church of St. Peter Claver, st.
Paul, Mimi. 2. There are about two
hundred and fifty colored Sisters in
the United States, in two Sisterhoods,
namely, the Oblates of Providence,
founded in 1929, whose Motherhouse
is in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Sis
Of To Y10i1u founded in
1912, whose Motherhouse is in New
Orleans, La.
1. Is it a mortal sin to attend Sum-
day School when there is no Catholic
Church service, or is it better to go to
a ball game or saloon and pass the
Sunday? 2. A Protestant who is mar
ried to a Catholic wants to go to
Sunday School when there is no Cath
Ole service inside of twenty miles.
Is it better for the Catholic party to
stay home from Sunday School and
quarrel all the time or go to Sunday
School once in a while? The Catholic
party, by not knowing any better,
promised, before marriage, to go to
Sunday School when there would be
no Mass.
l and 2. We presume these questions
refer to a Protestant Sunday school.
A Catholic is not permitted to take
part in Protestant services of any kind
and hence, if going to Protestant
Sunday school means participating in
tho Tofh01io
cannot attend without committing sin.
If the Catholic attends the Protestant
Sunday school merely to accommodate
a Protestant husband or wife and
there is no danger of giving scandal
or yielding to non-Catholic influences
to the detriment of Catholic faith
such attendance might be permitted
occasionally for the sake of peace and
harmony in the family. If the only
alternative is choice between the
ball game and the saloon by all means
choose the ball game. Attendance at
a ball game is also preferable to stay
ing at home if the latter involves
continual quarreling, though it is hard
to understand why it should. If at
tendance at Protestant Sunday
school means the REIMBURSEMENT of
ones religious rights as Catholic
then the Catholic is not permitted to
attend 1t is very hard to understand
the attitude of the Catholic party and
the promises made before marriage
If the marriage was performed by q
priest then the Catholic party must
have been given to understand that
any such promise was wrong and the
Protestant party must have made the
usual promises not to interfere with
the religious duties and convictions oil
the catholic party and to bring up the
offspring in the Catholic religion. II
the marriage was performed before a
exacted it is hard to understand why
the Catholic should have been laborinG
under the Misrepresentation involved il
the foregoing question.
On what day did Father Arctande'
die?
On September Is, 1909.
Can you give we the address anc
proper title of the Sisters who have
a sanitarium at South Dakota? think
it is called Hot Springs, but am not
sure, and would be obliged for this
information If you can furnish 1t.
The Sisters of St. Benedict conduct
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital an6
Training School for Nurses" at Hot
Springs, South Dakota. Sister M. An
selma is Superioress of the institution
What is the difference between
contrition and attrition?
Sorrow for sin may be based OF
different motives. If it is evoked b.
love of God, that is to say, by con
siderations of Gods goodness in Him
self, then it is based on the highes
possible motive. The sinner bewail