The Catholic bulletin., 1914-04-25

are there in the United States? 2.
Was it a Catholic who assassInated
President Mckinley? A great many
people claim that it was. If not, to
what church did he belong?
1. The Catholic Governors whose
names we recall at this moment are:
Governor Pothier of Rhode Island;
Governor Dunno of Illinois; Governor
Glynn of New York; and Governor
Walsh of Massachusetts. 2. Leon
Czolgosz, the assassin of President
Mckinley, was born of Catholic par
ents and baptized a Catholic. He
was educated in the public schools
and early in life became an anarchist
and an infidel The New York Jour-
nal, at the time of President McKin-
ley's assassination, gave publicity to
the fact that Czolgosz was an an
archist and an unbeliever in God, and
that he had attended the public
schools. On September 8, 1901, the
second day after the shooting of
President Mckinley, it declared that
Czolgosz, in a long confession, said:
II was born in Detroit nearly twen-
ty-seven years ago. My parents were
Russian Poles. They came here forty
years ago. l got my education in the
public schools of Detroit, and then
went to Cleveland, where 1 got work.
In Cleveland l read books on social
ism and met a great many socialists.
| was pretty we'll known as socialist
in the West. After being in Cleve-
land for several years l went to Chi
cago, where l remained for seven
months, after which l went to New
burgh, on the outskirts of Cleveland,
and went to work in the Newburgh
wire mills. During the last five years
/ have had as friends anarchists in
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and other
western cities, and suppose became
more or less bitter. Yes, know I
was bitter"
While Czolgosz was in prison at Au-
burn, N Y, awaiting the execution of
the sentence of death that had been
pronounced on him, efforts were made
by several priests and other clergy
men to bring him to a realization of
the fact that he ought to make his
peace with God, but the assassin
roughly declined their ministrations
and boasted that he was an unbeliever
and would die as such. Day after day
the New York Journal printed press
dispatches reciting these facts, and
finally on Oct. 80, 1901, it published,
lo%o 0f ,,6, Not
the following:
They killed Leon Czolgosz swiftly,
decorously and without hitch or acci-
dent in the execution chamber of the
State Prison this morning. The as
sassin went to his death an anarchist
and an infidel His moment of peni-
tence had passed, and almost his last
word was declaration that he was
not sorry for what he had done"
All of which goes to show that Czol-
gosz had wandered far away from the
Catholic Church and her teaching
long before he raised an assassin s
hand against the President of the
United States.
If person goes to confession and
commits a mortal sin afterwards, is
that Communion received unworthy?
When he goes to confession again
must he repeat all the sins from the
last confession or just the sin he COM
mitted afterwards?
If a person commits a mortal sin
after going to confession and before
receiving Holy Communion, it would
be great sacrilege to receive Holy
Communion in that state and without
ceived Holy Communion while in a
state of mortal sin, he would have to
confess it at his next confession, as
we'll as all the mortal sins committed
since his last confession.
I. Should person genufIect when
making the Sign of the Cross at the
beginning of the First Gospel in the
Mass? 2. What is the difference be.
tween Easter Water and Holy Water?
How is each used and when can one
secure Holy Water?
l. 1t is a laudable custom, still in
vogue in many places, to make slight
genuf1ection when making the Sign of
the Cross at the beginning of the Cos
pei in the Mass. 1t is a mark of rev.
erence for the sacred character of the
Gospel itself and a recognition of its
divine authorship. 2. Easter Water
is water blessed with special prayers
on Holy Saturday. Part of this water
is used in the preparation of baptis-
NAL water, part of it is taken by the
faithful to their homes and part of ii
: is used to sprinkle the congregation
on Holy Saturday morning and at the
Mass on Easter Sunday. Apart from
that, Easter Water is not used for any
other purpose, nor can it be used in
stead of ordinary Holy Water which
can be blessed at any time and which
is used to sprinkle the congregation
on the ordinary Sunday and is kept
in the fonts at the church doors and
used by the faithful in their homes
Holy Water can be obtained at any
time on application to the pastor OIL
assistant pastors of parish. In most
churches a supply of Holy Water is
kept constantly on hand and acces
sible to those who wish to secure g
quantity for use in their homes.
VIII you please tell me through the