The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-31


tive to the Minneapolis police depart
ment officers retraction of certain
charges against Catholics spoken of
In your issue of December 81. have
been asked where and when he re-
tracted such statements? Will you
enIiqhten me? 2. Give the names
Of Popes issuing DEGREES against Free
masonry? 8. If there is no law
against nuns teaching in public
schools, how has the State Superin-
tendent of Schools taken the right to
issue an order expeIIing the same,
effective August 1, 1914? The Min
neapolis school board have asked the
Attorney General for ruling on Bible
reading in schools. He quoted ruI-
ing by former Attorney General to
the effect that no religious instruc-
ton of any kind shall be taught in
state or public schools. If there is no
law, how can this be done? 4. Are
nun teachers required to have state
certificates of efficiency as teachers?
5. Is it true that in the Mexican
United States war two solid COM
panies of Roman Catholics deserted
the United States and fought for
Mexico? 6. What was the Labor
Guild?
1. What further data can any one
ask than that furnished in the article
to which you refer? You are told
what the charge was, who made it,
when and where it was published, the
various steps by which the charge was
brought home to it's author, and the
authors retraction together with the
date, year and place in which the
retraction was made. What more is
necessary? We cannot furnish you a
picture of Jones making the charge
or writing the retraction nor a copy
of the Masonic Observer in which the
original charge was made and in
which the retraction was published
You will find the original charge in
the Masonic Observer of November
81, and the retraction in the issue of
December 18. There is no question
let any one bluff you. 2. Official
pronouncements against Freemasonry
since 1888, were made by the follow
ing Popes in the years indicated after
their names: Clement XII, 1888;
Benedict XIV, 1851; Plus VII, 1921;
Leo XII, 1925; Plus VIII, 1929; Gre
CORY XVI, 1892; Plus TX, 1916, 1S49,
1854, 1865, 1869, 1873; Leo XIII, 1884,
1894, 1902. These pontifcal utter
ances from first to last are in COM
plete accord, the latter reiterating the
earlier with such developments as
were called for by the growth of Free
masonry. 8. There is no law for
bidding Sisters to wear their religious
garbs while teaching in public schools.
The State High School Board which is
charged with the distribution of State
funds to certain schools that come up
to the requirements laid down for par
ticipating in these funds, has authority
to make regulations governing this
matter, provided these regulations are
in accordance with the general laws
governing public education. The
Board has no authority to declare that
schools in which Sisters wear their
religious garb teaching cannot share
in these funds provided the schools
are otherwise eligible. If the tax
payers of a school district are willing
to have Sisters teach in their schools
they are within the law provided, of
course, the Sisters do not teach re-
ligion during school hours. This lat
ter provision also applies to any public
school teacher, whether a religious or
not The Constitution provides that
no religious instruction of any kind
shall be given in the public schools
and, in accordance with this, several
Attorneys General of this State have
declared that Bible reading in school
is contrary to the Constitution. The
State High School Board can right
fully declare that it will give no such
aid to schools in which Bible reading
or any religious instruction is per
mitted but, as we have already said
is has no authority to expel Sisters
who are teaching in the public schools
simply because they wear religious
garb It's arbitrary ruling in this re
gard will probably have the effec
of making schools in which Sister!
teach withdraw their application fol
State aid unless test case be insti
tuted to determine the extent of thu
State High School Boards authority
4. The teaching Sisters have stat
certificates whether they teach in tn,
public schools or not ). What au
thority have you for making such
statement? Does the Menace say so
6. The Labor Guilds of the middl
ages were voluntary associations o
craftsmen or workmen in a particula
line Of industry who bound themselve
together for material aid by exercis
ing supervision over their own bod
and lettering conditions under whic
their members labored. They care
for the spiritual as we'll as the ten
poral interests of the workmen, pre-
vided old age and sick pensions, pei
sions for widows and burial fund:
These Guilds came into existence i
many countries of Europe during tn
Middle Ages and flourished until tn
time of the Reformation.
l.. Can priest leave the altar du
ing the canon of the Mass? e Ca
Catholics marry in Lent or Advent an
have nuptial Mass? 8. What b,