Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-11-12
MISSION A SUCCESS
ME- ETINGS AT ST. MA RVS
CHURCH ARE BEING WELL
ATTENDED
QUESTION BOX PROVES POPULAR
Special Meeting fer Mothers Satur
day Afterncon.-Scme of the
Questions Deposited in
Question Box

The series of mission meetings
being held in St. Mary's church.
commencing last Sunday, has so far
been a success, the meetings having
been we'll attended.
The "question box" is an inter
esting feature of these meetings and
among the questions thus submitted
to be answered are the following:
Why do the Sisters have to wear
habits all the time?
Will a priest officiate at a non
Catholic funeral if requested to do
so?
Why can't God kill the Devil if
He is so strong?
Why cannot a person get married
during Lent?
Why does the Catholic church
have statues or images Of God or
the Saints, when God says: thou
shalt not make images of me?"
If a priest is not allowed to tell
anything outside Of confession, where
do they get those stories they some
times tell on the altar about the
peoples sins?
Is it a sin for a young lady to let
a boy take her home and to kiss
her?
Why did Elias ascend into Heav-
en- without dying, as all must do;
isn't it unfair to let MIN stay in
Heaven for a time and then come
back to die?
Why are priests called Fathers?
When we get to Heaven can We
speak to the angels?
Why does a priest shun a dis
graced person instead of trying to
help them?
Why haven't Sisters the same lib
erty to attend theatres and card par
ties as priests have?
What was the Blessed Virgins
last name?
Why may not priests get married?
If all those who descended from
Adam are supposed to share in his
sin, original sin, did not the Blessed
Virgin also have to share in it? If
not, why?
Must one return to the same
priest if he for5ets some sins in
confession?
What is meant by the words 'he
descended into helI?"
Why do Catholics condemn to hell
all who do not believe as they do?
Isn't cne religion as good as an
other?
Dos the Catholic church object
to a Catholic marrying a Protestant?
If 50, why?
Why isn't the singing in tha Cath
Ole church done in English?
How can a priest forgive sins
and why do they have a confession
chair?
Why is a wife barred from COM
munion because she is married to
a non-Catholic, although she is a
good Catholic and tries to live a
holy life?
If Adam and Eve were our first
parents, where did Cain get his
wife?
Where did sin originate? 1t is
said that there is no sin in Heaven;
still did not God drive the angels
out of Heaven?
Can the angels. play in Heaven
as the children do on earth?
Since God knows all things before
hand why did he allow children to
be born of men and women of diff
ferent denominations, and to be
educated for the ministry and to so
out and preach the Gospel if He
wanted the catholic religion to be
the only church?
If certain priest commits an
offence and is placed in custody for
it, and afterwards repents, can he
ever become a priest again?
If one persons offends another in
public, and afterwards goes to that
party and makes an apology, and the
offended person will not forgive
him, what further is he bound to do?
Why do the priests scold the girls
so for going out at night?
In the churches why do priests
wear such peculiar clothes?
Is it sin, if you forget to con-
fess a sin in the confessional and
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