The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-03-06

Witness, for instance, her doctrine
on the subject of marriage and divorce
What therefore God hath Joined to.
gether let no man put asunder." Matt.
xix, g. Whoever" says St. Mark
(x., 11-12) shall put away his wife and
marry another committeth adultery
against her, and if the wife shall put
away her husband and be married to
another she committeth adultery" st.
Paul says: ''To them that are mar
ried, the Lord commandeth that the
wife depart not from her husband, and
if she depart, that she remain unmar-
Iried, and let not the husband put away
his wife, Il. Cor. vii, 1O-11.)
What could be clearer or more en-
phatic than these strong inspired ut
terances of Christ and His Apostles?
What could be more Numerically op-
posed to them than the practice of d.
vorce allowed so easily by every re-
lligious body outside the Roman Catho.
lie Church? The Roman Catholic
Church, and it alone, sets itself
against the awful tide of divorce and
adultery and impurity now permitted
so freely by every nom Catholic de.
nomination in the world today. 1
need not dwell on this great evil, for
1t is patent to every person who thinks
and observes at all. 1t is the plague
spot of the Republic. The wrecked
homes, the alliances, and the lost
souls of unnumbered thousands caused
by divorce in this fair land of ours
chill us with deadly horror, and draw
US with an irresistible impulse and at
traction to the one true Church of
Christ, which, standing alone, fast,
firm and mistaken, to the doctrine of
Christ and His Apostles, maintains
that there can be no divorce from the
bonds Of matrimony which will permit
one of the parties to marry during the
life of the other.
Wise men have lifted their voices In
vain to stem the fearful wave of d.
vorce that threatens to engulf the
moral atmosphere of the country. It
does not take one to be deep in the
philosophy of history to realize that
where family life has been lax the
State has been weak and parasitic;
where family life has been strong,
great nations have rested on it's
strength. Nothing but religion can
cure this moral leprosy, and as the
non-Catholic denominations have re-
pudiated the doctrine of Christ which
would cure the fetid cancer that is
rapidly eating out the very vitals of
American national life, they have no
supernatural weapon left with which
to combat this national calamity. The
Roman Catholic Church, therefore, and
1t alone, by standing for the solidity
and the purity and the integrity and
the unity of family life, can save this
great Republic; and it can do so by
reason of the fact that she teaches tho
doctrines delivered by Christ in spite
of the pleadings of wealthy adulterers,
and the threats Of hostile Govern.
To this end she is displaying before
the eyes Of the American people one
Of the greatest phenomena in all his. |
tory. that of voluntarily educating all
her own children at a vast expense,
and then joyously consenting to un.
Just taxation for the purpose of edu.
eating millions of children who are
not Of her fold. A million and a half
If American Catholic children are in
Roman Catholic parish schools. They
ave the nation more than $4,000, 900
year. And yet the Catholic Church
will go on forever bearing this unequal