The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-04-06
The Grace of God is an Absolute
Necessity in the Cultivation of
Human Morals.
Medical Students Versed in Sex
Hygiene are not Free From
Loathsome Diseases.
Good Homes, Proper Education and
Proper Religious Training
the Only Cure.

In an article which appeared in the
Catholic Sun, Rev. Patrick H. Ludden,
Bishop Of Syracuse, N. Y, criticizes
the Inconsistencies and calls attention
to the dangers of the doctrines
preached by certain faddists who
would free the world of sin by teach
ing sex hygiene. Bishop Ludden says:
I find this editorial paragraph in the
Western Catholic:
"Dr. Phelan, the able editor of the
Western Watchman, takes a fall out
of the instructors who would teach
sex hygiene to children. Sex hygiene
is buncomb and based on the false
premises that knowledge makes one
moral. Gods grace and nothing else
can keep you straight. These faddists
received a jolt as mentioned by us
some time ago, when a professor Of
the veneral diseases in one of the
medical colleges in metropolitan
city announced that majority of the
senior medical students under him re-
Gently had consulted him to be treated
for these loathsome diseases. If
knowledge makes one moral why did
it prove to be sucn a dismal failure
in the case Of these. medical students? !?
Surely they knew more about sex dis
eases than any layman could hope to
know"
If these doctrinaires and faddists
had any idea of Goods grace" and it's
absolute necessity in the cultivation
of morals they would leave the study
of the Hygiene Of Sex" to the medi-
cal students and cease their efforts
to cram the clean and innocent minds
and hearts of children with poison
Gus and vicious knowledge that is
certain to awake and stimulate incip-
lent human passion, the indulgence of
which involves habits that taint and
corrupt all through after life. It is
we'll for young or old to have knowl-
edge of the right kind and we'll to be
wise, but It is never we'll to be wiser
than it behooveth.
Violated laws will have their re-
venge even on this side of the grave.
Cain, who murdered his brother, be.
came a vagabond on the face Of the
earth, stamped with the murderer's
brand. Lameck, the first bigamist, in.
Cured seventy times seven the curse
of Cain. Oman, who gave the first
example of race suicide, was slain by
Asmodeus, an angel of the devil, who
slew also the seven husbands of Sara
daughter of Raguel of the city OF
Mede, as we learn from the Book OF
Tobias. These vile sins were not
greater then than they are now no1
less deserving Of condign punishment
The head of Chicago vice commits
sion, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral
of IS. Peter and Paul, announced re
Gently that after Easter no persons
will be married at that cathedral un
less they present certificate o1
health from reputable physician thai
they are normal physically and men
tally and have neither an incurable
nor communicable disease. The in
tent of this announcement is quite
clear, as the Post Standard remarks
The same writer, editorially, adds
that it is absurd to suppose that the
Dean expects great immediate goot
to follow. But how, we may ask, il
this certificate of clean health to bt
obtained? The BertillOn system O.
measurements is used to detect burg
lars and thieves. Perhaps the reput
able physicians will introduce the X
rays to examine the molecules of thu
brain of the feeble-minded and th'
parauoiac and also the physical ant
mental condition of the applicants
for marriage. But how is the cele
bant of the marriage. the clergyman
or other official, to judge that tn
certificate is really from reputable
physician? Is he going to judge tn
character of the physician? And if h
is not satisfied that he is reputable
is he going to turn away the parties
There is danger here. The physician
may rightly call him to account an