South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-21


drive out Of their souls the pineiple
of evil. Consider carefully whom YOU
choose 20 hearken TO your sins. Know
we'll the character OF the physician 90
whom YOU intend 10 relate the nature
Of your sickness. Choose one who IN
1erstands human weakness,
III he give you advice follow Il; II ne
+ judges and thinks that your sickness
is OF such a nature that 1t should be
revealed publicly in church for the
edification ~ he brethren and your
own more effect we cure. do not hes
itate 10 do what be tells you Com
mentary on Psalm a5.)
During the persecution 81 the En-
DerOr Ddcius q bout -5U =. d., many
/ Christians apostatised. year after
wards, when the persecution had ceas-
F col "A number of these sinners wished
To- be recOnciled - the church at
once without undergoing the long
cauonical penance OF the time. 1t.
Cyprian of Carthage was very indig-
uant OF the violation Of the church
laws in their regard By some easy
going priests He insisted strongly on
their dOins penance, and required
them To accuse themselves of their
sins. and atone for them lie writes:
( Let each one Of you confess his sins,
while his confession may still be re-
ceived and MS satisfaction and the
absoluuon or the priest are pleasing
4 10 the Lord "
- Questions Asked.
/ Seventy-fOur questions ON Catholic
f beliefs were received by the priest
. wednesday. Among those which he
answered last evening were the fol-
/ lowing:
What is the Catholic church's atti-
tude on prohibition
/ The Catholic attitude on the liquor
/ question is this-drinking is not an
evil i'm itself. but is often what we call
/ an approximate danger of SIM said
/ Fr Conway "A Catholic is bound TO
inherited or acquired taste for liquor
4 that he cannot control. Others are
! counseled To be total abStainers, first
as a protest against what is a public
/ abuse, at least in this country: sec
ond. as a form OF heroic virtue; third,
as an example to weaker men and
/ women; fourth. as reparatiOn to God
J for crimes committed by drunkards
! the world over.
THE American saloon business
wililo not an evil in itself is ofttime
a great temptation to weak men, it
! often desecrates the Sabbath; il pre-
vents drunkards from reforming; it
4
/ ity and intemperance. The beer gar
I dens of Germany where father and
I children gather and where the profess
sOr Of philosophy and Greek will
I spend an hour over one glass of beer;
| where the treating habit is unknown
and where disreputable characters are
excluded, is q far different PROPOSE
ton.
Now, as to the question, Does pro-
4 CO y
1 do not think it does. and have OBJ
| served its operation in Kansas and
| Maine. where they have constitutional
! prohibition, and have read the reports
/ of the Canadian government, collected
/ for the guidance of parliament, in
every state in the union. In Lewiston,
Me-, within five blocks of where l was
conducting n mission, 20 speak
easys" in operation. l was in north
ern Louisiana when that section of the
state went dry. While the politicians
were telling me how effectually liquor
selling had been excluded. whiskey
in jugs was being shipped in i'm great
quantities under the operation Of the
interstate commerce law"
The Fifth Commandment.
If my parents forbid me TO become
a Catholic, am I bound 10 obey them
according to the fifth commandment?
a very practical difficulty. and one
that has been given me scores Of times
by timid. doubling souls.
The true follower OF Christ dare
not hesitate to obey His teaching once
it is known. for to be false to ones
conscience is to instantly imperil
ones eternal salvation. Our Lord
speaks of this opposition of relatives,
but declares that He and His teach
ing must come first
mo true parent can find fault with
q child who is loyal to conscience and
10 truth; no true parent can desire a
/, child to commit grievous sin by DELHI
, erately refusing to do what he knows
to be the Will of God.
, The Catholic church interprets the
|, fourth commandment, Honor thy
, father and thy mother" 10 imply
obedience in all that is good and law
full If a parent command or advise
? something contrary TO Gods law. a
child is bound to disobey."
Why do You say SO many Hail
Marys in the rosary when we know
that Jesus reGuked repetitions in
prayer. saying. Use no vain repeti-
. Z tiOns as the heather do?
Our questioner must distinguish
between two kinds of repetition. A
parrot repeats by the hour. with all
the different changes Of infection and
l without the slightest spark Of intelh-
. gence. How do you do?'. 'Bad-bad-
bad bOyH Hello. POllyr. Good by
etc. So it is possible some people
pray parrot-like without thinking of
God at all. This manner of praying
our Lord rcbukes.
But there is. on the other hand. the
I oft-repeated L love YOU of the moth
er speaking TO the babe at her breast
which loses none of its force in the re-
peatinE. but rather intensiies the love
of that mothers heart by outward eX-
nressinn- Smch the reneatad nraNer