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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
THE PASsIONTIDE.

The Passiontide! What men,
cries it recalls! What thoughts it
suggests! What sentiments of love
and contrition it awakens in the
heart of the true Christian!
During the Passiontide, upon
which. we enter next week, the
Church directs our spiritual gaze
to the scenes which depict the
various incidents connected with
the most sorrowful period Of our
Saviour's earthly career. In
spirit we follow Him as He treads
the wine-press of His agonizing
journey to the summit of Col
gatha. We witness the insults
offered to Him, the indignities
heaped upon Him, and, from the
foot of the cross, we behold the
agony that convulses His sacred
body as His spirit takes it's fight.
These varying scenes in the. clos
ing period of our Saviour's life
are most wildly present to the
mind Of the Church during the
last two weeks of the lenten
period. During this time the
Church is wrapped in a veil Of
deepest sorrow. The crucifxes,
the statues and the sacred images,
with the exception Of the Stations
of the Cross, are hidden from view
in a mantle of purple which is not
removed from the crucifxes until
Good Friday and from the statues
and images until Holy Saturday.
In the Divine Office and in the
Mass of the season the "Gloria
Patri'' is omitted and the liturgi-
cal prayers and ceremonies bear
witness to the deep sorrow which
animates the Church as she dwells
upon the sorrowful but sacred
memories conjured up by the Pas
siontide.
The Passiontide is time of
spiritual inspiration for those who
dwell upon its sacred significance.
1t fills the mind with salutary
thoughts and causes the heart to
throb with compassion for the
sorrowing Saviour and with con-
triton for the individual short
comings and sins which have
added to the weight of His tribu-
lations. To all who profit by its
salutary lessons comes the assur-
ance from on high that those who
die with Christ through the cruel
fixion of their flesh with its vices
and concupiscences shall rise with
Him to a glorious Immortality and
enjoy the splendors of an eternal
Easter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
ARE you "THE GUY IN FRoNT~

Consi 1erable comment has been go
ing the rounds of the secular press in
reference to the circular issued by the
Bartenders' Union of Chicago. The
New York Sun in a recent issue had
this to say about it:
"Bartenders necessarily see more of
the drink habit than any other class
of men. And what they think of it
is indicated by Bartenders' Union No.
Al, of Chicago, which has just formed
temperance society, the secretary
appealing to all bartenders to join, in
the following circular:
Dear Pal:-Join the Bartenders'
Temperance Club. The boss won't like
it if you drink on the job. A guy
can't tend bar, and hit the booze and
make good. 1t gets him just as quick
as the guy in front, who pays for it.
If any one wants to drink let the man
on the other side of the bar do it.
Send me your name if you want to
join the club
eve do not find walters appealing
to each other to beware of foods, nor
shoe clerks forming an organization to
save their fellows from wearing shoes.
The bartender is in a position to
know, and his advice is to let it
alone. We have never read more
striking and eloquent temperance SER
mon than this hundred-word appeal
from bartender to bartender, with it's
implied scorn of the guy in front of
the bar, who pays for it,"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

The pastoral letter of Bishop
Matthew of Regina to the clergy
and faithful of his Diocese deals
with the subject of Frequent Com
munion. In it he lays down the
teaching of the Church on this
point and cites the example of the
early Christians and of the
Saints, and urges his people to
initiate them in their fervor and
devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.
He answers the objections brought
against the practice of Frequent
Communion and exhorts all who
are prevented from hearing Mass
and approaching the altar rail
daily to make a spiritual Com
munion as a special and incom-
parable source of grace.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
UNFOUNDED RUMORS ABOUT
THE CATHEDRAL.

During the past few weeks
many rumors regarding the early
abandonment of the present Ca
thedral and the transference of
the congregation, in a body, to
the Church Of the Assumption.
have been in circulation, and this
week they found expression in
the public press.
We know not the source of
these rumors; but we do know
that there is not a word Of truth
in them. They are entirely devoid
of foundation in fact, and those
who originated and circulated
them are completely at sea in their
surmiseS.
It is very likely that the pres
ent Cathedral site will be leased
as soon as the new Cathedral is
ready for occupancy; but neither
this year nor next year will the
old Cathedral be torn down to
make room for a business struc-
ture. There will be no dismant-
ling Of it until such time as serv-
ices can be held in the new Ca
thedral now in course of construc-
ton.
1t follows, therefore, as mat
ter of course, that there will be
no transference, at any time, of
the Cathedral congregation to the
Church of the Assumption. The
Church of the Assumption and it's
school building will remain, as
heretofore, for the exclusive use
of the German-speaking Catholics.
There is not the slightest inten-
ton of making it the temporary
Of the Diocese. When
the members of the Cathedral
parish leave the old church they
will go directly to the new, and
until then there will be no change,
all rumors to the contrary not
withstanding.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

pervert the Italians, and espe-
cially Italian children, by the aid
Of funds contributed for that pur-
pose by those in sympathy with
the work. The Waldensian
church is in reality a Protestant
sect of the Calvinistic type whose
work among the Italians is sue
cessful only in so far as the funds
contributed by credulous people
enable it to purchase, as it were,
converts to the cause. The num-
Der of converted adherents is alto
gether out of proportion to the
amount of money expended in the
work, and in this it does not differ
in the least from what has been
accomplished by other Protestant
organizations carrying on a
similar propaganda of perversion
in Rome and throughout Italy.
The work Of Protestant prose-
lytizers among the Italians has
been going on for years without
success. Even at best, they count
their converts by tens and TWEEN
ties and these adhere to the sect
only as long as there is anything
in it for them. OF course, there
is something stimulating to Protes-
tant generosity in the thought Of
saving" souls in the very center
of Catholicism, and the various
Protestant sects make the most of
this. 1t gives their ministers an
occasion to go about collecting
money for this purpose, and there
are Protestant purses ever ready
to open in response to this touch
ing appeal in the belief that they
are helping worthy cause
whereas, in reality, the results are
not at all commensurate with the
amount Of money expended in
this work Of evangelization. The
sects always make an appeal to the
people of America because they
know from experience that Ameri-
cans are inclined to be credulous
and will give to any cause that is
presented to them under the guise
of religious propaganda. If this
missionary work is so valuable to
the people of Italy, as the sects
would have us believe, why do
they not depend for their support
upon the people themselves among
whom they labor and who, if they
are successful, ought to be glad
to contribute to a work which is
intended to benefit their fellow
countrymen?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

citation would also be Sunday. The
first month Of every quarter begins
on Sunday, the second month OF each
quarter begins on Tuesday, the third
on Sunday, the second month of each
glance that this system greatly facili.
tates calculations. For instance it
would take an expert mathematician
to calculate what day of the week will
be January 2, 1910, under the present
system, while under Father Nahape-
tian's plan any child could tell you
that 1t will be Monday.
Unfortunately, however, he has still
one day every year to account for,
and two days every leap year. He
proceeds to do it in this way: the
one day he inserts between Deem
Der 81 and January /, and he calls it
"Novissimo" or Last Day." or per-
haps we might say in English "Old
Years Day" The 366th day in Leap
Year he places after April z and
makes it Easter Day, April 9Th in
Leap Year being an ordinary Sunday.
Just here lies all the trouble for the
new calendar makers. If the sun did
its years journey in 1854 days every
thing would be beautifully simple
instead he takes 365 days, worse still
S65 days and little over. Immedi-
ately you begin to make an exact
mathematical division which will make
days and dates coincide for eternity,
you find that you are confronted with
the difficulty of the weeks. A day that
does not belong to any week or to
any month is an acknowledgement if
it did not destroy the parallelism be-
tween the seven days of Gods work
and rest in creation, and mans recur-
rent work and rest during his mortal
life. This abnormality is made to
occur, in all the new systems hitherto
proposed, once every year and twice
every four years.
Father Nahapetitian's project is
also attended by another grave disad-
vantage-once every four years it
makes Easter fall on a day which is
not Sunday. That alone is quite
sufficient reason for it's rejection.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

FATHER MATHEW.

In a little paper devoted to the
cause of total abstinence, says the Ave
Maria, we come upon this interesting
"Reminiscences of the immortal Father
Mathew, and incidentally learn the
confirmed opinion Of a veteran in the
practice of medicine on the use of
alcohol. The writer, DR.. F. Gibbon, of
San Francisco, says:
In 1847 the sanity Father Mathew
was administering the temperance
pledge to thousands of people in Ire
land. He was announced to be in
Groom chapel, County Limerick, on
a Sunday in August, four miles from
where was born, and three across
the country as the crow flies. / was
then nine years old No one asked
me to go,-it must have been my
Guardian Angel that prompted me;
and l went the short cut. The chapel
would hold about five hundred; it
was surrounded by an open space.
There must have been four or five
thousand there. The windows and
doors were all open, so that all could
near rdIuer MdtueW Sdlu Tue MASS.
When it was over he removed the
vestments and preached sermon on
temperance. At the end of it he re-
quested all to kneel down and repeat
the pledge he gave out. I, among
thousands of others, did so. / have
practised medicine in California over
fifty years, and I am glad to say /
never yet prescribed liquor for a pa
tient Alcohol is not stimulant, but
a narcotic. If were seriously ill to-
morrow and the best physician in
town were to order alcohol of any
kind, l should answer, mo" I have
not been confined to the house by
sickness for over half century. 1
thank God and Father Mathew for it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
PUTS BAN ON DIVORCES
ARCHBISHOP PITAVAL OF SANTA
FE FORBIDs CATHOLICS TO At
TEND WEDDING OF DIVORCED
PERSONS.

Recommendations for any Catholic
in his diocese who wilfully and culp-
ably attends the marriage of a di-
vorced person whose divorced part
ner is still alive, is the decree an
nounced by Most Rev. Archbishop
Pitaval, of Santa Fee, New Mexico, in a
Lenten pastoral 1t is one of the
strongest declarations ever made by
member of the Catholic hierarchy
of the United States against abuse
of the marriage relation. BY taking
this stand against divorce, Archbish-
op Pitaval is endeavoring to create a
public sentiment against the evil
which will tend to lessen it.
The declaration is addressed to all
the pastors under his Jurisdiction. In
the pastoral, the Archbishop of Santa
Fe lays down these rules:
The pastors sholl not rent pews
either in the church or chapels:
First, to the one of the divorced
parties who has applied for the di-
vorce.
Second, to those who, after the
granting of the divorce, contract an
other marriage during the lifetime of
the divorced partner.
"Third, to any person whose life is
openly scandalous"
In these rules the Archbishop bars
from taking an active part in the af-
fairs of the Church all those So
called Catholics who are living con-
trary to the teaching of the Church 1t
means an end to the hypocrisy of
supporting the Church and refusing
to observe its commandments. But
the severest part of his denunciation
of divorce follows:
Moreover, we entreat the faithful
who are pew holders or who have
rented seats in pews to refrain from
inviting any of the above-named per-
sons to their seats or pews.
Finally, we positively forbid Cath
olics to be present at the marriage of
any divorced persons while the di-
vorced partner is still alive and we
declare that any Catholic of this do
cese who shall in the future wilfully
and culpably assist or attend such a
marriage ceremony shall by the very
fact incur accommodation"
Archbishop Pitaval has taken de-
termined stand against the great evil
of modern times His pastoral is not
an appeal for the faithful to consider,
but definite and clear pronounce
ment of the position of the Church on
the marriage question. Wantonness
and rashness are not to be tolerated
or accepted as reasons for opposition
to the teaching of the Church. These
things are, he says in his letter to the
priests of his diocese, "a seductive
pretext for cloaking with a decent
name practice which in older and
more plain spoken English went by
another name-a name that is not to
be mentioned in public"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

"A niche in the rotunda of the
National Gallery of Art of the
Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington, has been set apart for a
bronze statue of Robert Emmett.
the Irish patriot, the one hun
dredth and thirty-ffth anniver-
sary of whose birth was commemo-
rated this week. Funds for the
statue have been contributed by
Irish Americans and jerome
O'Connor, the sculptor, has been
commissioned to design it. Mr..
O'Connor designed the General
Shields monument at Carrollton.
Mo-, the bust of Tom Moore in the
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washing
ton, and the monument to Arch
bishop Carroll, founder of George
town University, which was
erected on the campus Of that In
stitution last year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
EVIL OF MODERATE DRINKING.

In an article in the Ecclesiastical
Review for November, DR.. Austin
O'Malley discusses the vice of intern
perance from the physicians point of
view. 1t is view that the average
moderate drinker" seldom finds pre-
sented for his consideration. DR..
O'Malley is merciless in exposing
the physical consequences of even
moderate drinking of intoxicants.
Every moderate drinker is, of course,
in danger of becoming a drunkard.
But we confess, says the True
Voice." that we were startled by the
array of diseases that DR.. O'Malley
traced directly to the use of alcohol in
one form or other His statements,
however, are not made rashly. DR..
O'Malley has the authority of the most
distinguished physicians to sustain his
assertions. The science of medicine
today unqualifiedly condemns even the
moderate use of intoxicating liquor
as danger and cause Of disease.
But it is the proof as to the result
of scientific tests, that even small
and physical efficiency, when taken
into the system, that makes DR..
O'Malley's a convincing argument
against the use of fntoxicants. For
centuries men have had recourse to
liquor as a "bracer" or as a means
to help them to greater exertion. All
this has been proved illusory by
science. Alcohol as spur to greater
effort or as means to sustain effort
is de1usion and a snare. The man
who would keep his brain and his
body at their highest efficiency must
not resort to alcohol in any form. He
only deprives himself of physical
strength and mental energy by its
use.
Gradually the old popular super
stitions about the benefits to be de-
rived from the use of liquor are being
DISPOSED of by science. Popular super
stition has had much to do with start
ing men on the path Of drink in the
past. 1t was popularity believed that
drinking was positive benefit If
not carried to excess. The danger of
over-indulgence was pointed out, but
it has remained for the science of
our day to demonstrate that even
moderate drinking quite apart from
the moral dangers attendant upon 1t
lis a grave detriment to the health
of the normal man, besides lessening
his efficiency in any work in which
he may be engaged.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
ANGLICAN MONKS TO
BECOME CATHOLICS
MEMBERS or ANGLICAN RENE.
DIcTINE ORDER WILL BE RE-
cEIvED IN A BODY.

It is said that the body of Anglican
monks who, in 1895, founded what is
called the English Benedictine Monas-
terry and in 1901 took up their quarters
on an island on the coast of Penn
brokeshire, England, has decided to
seek admission to the Catholic Church.
For year past the community has
been in correspondence with the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop
of Oxford regarding certain points on
which its members we're at first un-
able to come to an agreement with
those prelates. The community will
come over in body and become part
OF the Benedictine Order. Their seek
ing corporate admission into the
Church recalls the conversion a few
years ago of members of the Society
Of the Atonement at Graymoor, Garri-
son, N. Y.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
DOM for the Brother-in-R Red.

room for the Brother-in-Red..
On Sunday, the non-C Catholic
Indians were taken to Protestant
services, while the Catholics as
sisted at Mass in the various
churches.
Governor Locke, his sister, Mrs.
Archer, Mrs. Baldwin and others
representing the Choctaw, Chicka-
saw, Chippewa and Omaha tribes
attended the solemn services at
st. Paul's. One of the Indians
of this party is a prominent can
didate for the Commissionership
of Indian Affairs under the new
administration. Another delega-
ton, consisting of representatives
among whom were some noted
chiefs-of several tribes of the
Northwest, attended st. Patrick S,
where they received cordial well
come.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
THE PRECEPT OF EASTER
COMMUNION.

The Church commands all Cath
olics who have come to the use
of reason to receive Holy Com
munion at Easter, and the obi
cation binds under pain of NOR
tai sin. At first, this precept
could be fulfilled only on Easter
Sunday; but, owing to the diff
Guilty of all the faithful satisfying
this precept on the day itself the
time was gradually extended, and
by the common law of the Church
the fifteen days from Palm Sun
day to Low Sunday were set apart
as the Paschal season. Further
concessions in this regard were
granted from time to time, until
now, in this country, the Easter
season extends from the first Sun
day Of Lent to Trinity Sunday.
The canon law of the Church
prescribes that the Easter duty
be received in one s parish church
but this applies only to countries
where parishes are canonically
erected. In this country there are
no such parishes as may be seen
from the DEGREES of the Third
Plenary Council Of Baltimore, and
hence Catholic is not bound to
make his Easter duty in his own
parish church, but may do so in
any other church or chapel.
Even in countries where there
are parishes in the strict sense of
the word, the law obliging Cath
olics to make their Easter duty in
their parish church, is not always
rigidly enforced, and the tendency
is to relax it's rigor. A decree
of the Congregation Of the Coun-
Gil, approved by the Pope, and is
sued on November %, 1912, gives
permission to the faithful to re-
ceive Holy Communion on Easter
Sunday in non-parochial churches
and specially in those Of religious,
" all things to the contrary not
withstanding" This is, implicitly,
a relaxation of the strict canon
law of the Church which requires
the faithful to receive their Easter
Communion in their own parish
churches. As the spirit of the
law attaches the obligation to
Easter Sunday itself, one is iusti-
fed in concluding, from the de-
cree, that, in future, less insist
ence will be placed upon the law
now in force in many countries
obliging the faithful to receive
the Easter Communion in their
parish churches
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

A bill has been introduced into
the State Legislature which, if
enacted, will provide for the IL
censing, regulation and operation
of public dance halls. Among
other things it provides that no
intoxicating drink of any kind
shall be sold in any public dance
hall or in any building of which
the dance hall is part or with
which it is connected. Further
more, no pass-out checks are to be
given to those who wish to leave
the hall for a time. IF they go
out they must on return pay a
second entrance fee. No society,
club or organization which gives
a dance in a public dance hall is
permitted to sell drink there.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
PROSELYTIZERS AMONG THE
ITALIANS.

Last week the Rev. DIR. Clark of
Detroit spoke before the Walden
sian Aid Society Of Minneapolis,
in behalf of the Waldensian mis-
sions in Italy. He appealed for
funds to enable the Waldensian
church to carry on its work of
.proselytizing among the young
people of Italy where, according
to the Secretary of the Aid So
ciety, it is engaged in giving to
"illiterate and irreligious children
an education, which in many cases
is the foundation for future
American citizens, as many Of the
immigrants come to the United
States from the Waldensian
districts.
According to DR.. Clark "the
Waldense people are Protestants
adhering to the most simple and
Christ-like tenets, and every
Protestant church in the United
States has become interested in
their aid, as they do a most won
derful and effective work in
christianization."
We are convinced that DIR.
Clark, in his enthusiasm for the
cause, overrates the value of the
work done by this church in
Italy and overestimates the
amount of interest which Protes-
tant churches in America take in
his efforts to "christianize'
Italian children.
The Waldensian church is a
heretical sect that originated in
the second half of the twelfth Gen.
fury and survives In a modified
form in some parts Of Europe. 1t
was founded by Waldes, a mer-
chant of Lyons, who, in order to
attain perfection, accepted liter
ally the advice of our Lord to
the young man, eff thou wilt be
perfect, go sell what thou hast and
give to the poor" His example
created stir and found imitators
in Lyons among the lower and
uneducated classes and a contra
ternity was established to prae-
tice apostolic poverty and preach
it in the streets. The doctrines of
this sect were declared erroneous
and its members were excommuni-
Gated by Pope Lucius III in 1854.
It denied purgatory, indulgences
and prayers for the dead, con-
demned war and the death penalty
and In other ways showed its
heretical tendencies. In course of
time Italy, rather than France,
became the permanent home OF
the sect and until lately it was
confined to the valleys of Pied
mont. In recent years it has
spread out somewhat and has sent
preachers here and there through
out Italy. A branch of the sect
has been established in Rome
where efforts are put forth to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08

The Consumers League of Ore
gon which was largely instrument
tai in securing the passage of the
Minimum Wage Law for women
and minors, has decided to under
take an investigation of Portland s
housing problem for the pur-
pose of determining the conditions
of ventilation, light and santa
ton with view to preventing the
possibility of future slums in that
city. Father O'Hara is member
of the Commission and it's investi-
cations will be directed by Miss
Caroline J. Gleason.