The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

"A person thinks they may have
caused another to commit mortal
sin, but still has no reason to believe
that they did. This person goes to
confession and does not confess the
sin because they do not really believe
they have sinned. After going to COM
munion they are kind of bothered
and Worried about it. Is this sin, if
there was one, forgiven?
A person of ordinary intelligence
always knows when he commits sin.
The conscience tells that If the con-
science does not accuse one of sin
then there is no guilt on the soul. In
this case, the person does not really
believe that the sin which causes the.
worry was committed Then there is
nothing to confess and hence there
should be nothing to worry about.
1. Will you explain why none Of
the Catholic priests sermons are pub
lished in Monday mornings paper re-
CARELESS of how excellent they may
be? notice that mention is always
made when the Archbishop or the
Bisho speaks. z. Why do the ma
lority of the rulers of the Church lack
humility? No one can deny that there
is too much aristocracy among them.
8. Why does the Catholic Church
refuse to fight the liquor traffic from
its pulpts? have attended the
Church of regularly for eight
years and have yet to hear the first
sermon on the liquor traffic. 1t be-
comes monotonous to hear about one
man going to Jericho and another
somewhere else, when there are so
many live issues of vastly more I'M
portance.
i. One reason why priests do not
publish their sermons in the public
press is because they have so much Of
that humility which, you maintain, is
such a rare quality in the rulers of
the church. 1t may also be due to
the ia ct that the papers prefer to pub
lish the sensational and novel talks
Of some ministers, rather than the
solid and unchanging gospel truths
which are the subjects of priests SER
mons At any rate, you would not
expect the papers on Monday morning
to mention that Father So-and-So and
Father So-and-So preached yesterday
The public take it for granted that
priests preach on Sunday and the
mere mention of the fact would not
be news" Archbishops and Bishops
do not receive mention in the paper
as often as they preach. Occasionally,
when there is something special they
may he mentioned and a portion of
their sermons given. 2. The fact
that the rulers of the church do not
have their sermons published in the
Monday morning press is an indica-
tion that they possess the humility
which they are accused of lacking.
There is no body Of people in the
world more humble than the rulers of
the Church taken as q whole. The
late Pope was a peasant, the son of
u labofing man, and so are many of
the Bishops 1t would require some
thing more than the simple statement
of the questioner TO convince any one
who knows anything about the rulers
Of the church that there is too much
aristoctacy among them" B. The
Catholic Church has always fought
the liqtior traffic from it's pulpits and
it is doing so today. The fact that
you did not hear a sermon on the
liquor Question for eight years may
argue that YOU have not attended any
thing but low Mass; it certainly
does not prove that in the Church Of
-- there was not a sermon on the
liauor traffic preached in eight years.
The liduor question is not any more
of a live issue" than any other ques-
ton involving religious principle. In
fact. religion is the only live ISSUE"
in the true sense CT the word, in the
world today. If each individual is
going to dictate what is the live
issue" that must be preached in the
Church there will be a great conflict
OF opinions. The Church herself
knows what issues are live" and she
will continue to preach the gospel as
the most Important issue in the world,
whether or not it be a live one to
some Of her children who evidently
have met the fate that befell the man
going down to Jericho.
Give list of authors and writer's
of the past and present day whose
writings and books are not considered
good reading or are ostracized by the
Church.
1t would he impossible in the space
at our disposal even to attempt to
give list of the books which are not
good reading for Catholics. Their
name ID legion. Not all books which
are unfit reading for Catholics are
officially condemned by the Church by
being placed on the Index of Prohibit
ed Books usually called the Index"
The number of these books is quite
large, too large, indeed, to be printed
here. Nor is it necessary to publish
them in this column, for any one who
wishes to obtain the list of forbidden
books, especially in the English Ian
guage, can procure it at any Catholic
book store very cheaply. A handy vol
ume is An Index of Forbidden Books
by Father Betten, S. j., which costs
half dollar. 1t gives list of books
in English principally, which Catho-
lies are forbidden to read.