The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-08

1t be purchased? 2. What work ex-
plains fully all the parallels of our
Lord and where can it be obtained?
1. The standard English Catholic
commentary on the epistles of the
New Testament is MacEvilly, IAN Ex-
position of the Epistles of st. Paul
and the Catholic Epistles." The work
is in two volumes and is published
by Benziger Brothers, New York. An
other good work, though not so COM
plete, is Notes on st. Paul" by Father
Rickaby, S. j., published by the same
firm.
2. On the parallels of our Lord, the
best Catholic book in English is THE
PARALLELS of the Gospels by Father
Fonck, S. j. The English translation
is published by FIR. Pustet Co. The
work of Father Fonck is very schol-
arly, but, possibly, too technical for
the ordinary reader. A more popular
explanation of the Gospel PARALLELS
will be found in the Scripture Man
uals for Catholic Schools, published
by Burns and Oates, London, Eng,
especially in the two small volumes
devoted to st. Matthew's and St.
Luke's Gospel Another popular work
is Practical Studies on the Parallels"
by B. w. Maturin, published by Long
mans, Green and Co., of New York.
This is an excellent work, but was
written, apparently, before the au-
thor's conversion as it bears no I'm
primatur. Any of the above mentioned
books can be procured through the E.
NJ. Lohmann Co., of ST. Paul.
Why is it that papers publishing
ISLANDERS against priests cannot be
stopped?
Even the choicest of Gods gifts
have been abused. Liberty has at
times been turned into license and a
free press into foul press. Some
people who possess heavenly gifts
have devoted their lives to the abuse
of them. Certain papers emanating
from Aurora, Mo-, Minneapolis, Mimi,
and other places abuse the liberty of
the press and the right of free speech
by eliminating people who have done
them no harm. Such papers shrewdly
evade the civil law by attributing
their calumnies to some society or
to the Church in general, knowing
that the state does not consider such
charges as libelous. Catholics must
suffer the insult as they have no re-
course to the civil law because they
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the crime. Black vultures feed on
Carrion, but human beings bury the
putrid mass in the earth lest it faint
the atmosphere. The writer's in these
papers create the carrion by their
imagination and distribute it to their
dupes to feed upon-for one dollar a
year. The laws of Canada will not
suffer the servants of the government
even to handle such filthy papers; but
it seems that nothing can be done in
that line in the United States. Re-
course can be had to the law only
when an individual is slandered and
these papers are very careful to steer
clear of the law in this respect
Sometimes, however, they get caught
as the Menace did when it charged
Father Rossmann of Wheeling, West
Virginia, with moral turpitude, and as
another paper in this State did when
it charged certain knight of Column
bus with having taken the so-called
Fourth Degree oath.
Are the Catholic congregations in
North Dakota parishes, or only mis-
sions, and is the priest in charge
obliged to say High Mass on Sundays
and Holydays of obligation for his
Pensioners or is he free to apply
It for whatever purpose he wishes?
Generally speaking, in this country,
and North Dakota is no exception,
canonical parishes have not, been
established by the Church. Hence
congregations are only missions or
quasi-parishes. A economically estab-
lished parish has attached to it fixed
benefice ensuring the necessary ex-
penses of the priest and of the parish.
Because of this, the priest is obliged
in Justice to offer the Mass on Sundays
and holydays of obligation for his par
ishioners. Where the parishes are not
economically established there is no
obligation of this kind binding in JUS
tice on the priest. In charity, how
ever, the priest as a general rule,
offers the Mass on these days for the
people committed to his care.
Is 1t the Church that bars Masons
from her membership or is it the
Masons that bar Catholics? If the
Church bars Masons, is she not ntoI-
Grant?
It is the Church which bars Masons
and in doing so she is intolerant.
Every honest man must be intolerant
of error, lying, deception, etc. You
in your own home are intoIerant when
you will not suffer the robber to enter
and steal your goods or take posses
sion of your house. Similarly, the
Church is intolerant and glories in her
intolerance of all that attacks Christ
or His revelation.
How much is The Catholic Bulletin
year?
The subscription price of The Gath
Ole Bulletin is $3.50 year, payable in
advance, and $500 year if not paid
in advance. Special inducements are
offered to subscribers as set forth
elsewhere in this issue.