The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
To War Against Profanity
Non-CathoIics Join Catholics in Shop
and Factory Campaign.

and Factory Campaign.
The proposal to have the Hamilton
County (Ohio) Federation of Catholic
Societies work hand in hand with the
Protestant Evangelical Alliance and
! Federation of Churches against pro-
family in shops and factories in Gin
cinnati has met with hearty approba-
ton and willing response from our
non-Catholic brethren.
At a recent meeting of the executive
board Of the Archdiocesan Union Phil
III. Herget, secretary of the Catholic
Mems Federation, was empowered to
act jointly with Mr.. Elmore, of the
Protestant Federation, in urging upon
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
and Business Mems Club some action
on the part of these two civic bodies
that will lessen profane and obscene
language among workers in manufac-
tories and workshops of the Queen
City,
One of the results of the war has
been that the Catholic doctrine of
praying for the dead has this year
! been brought more prominently be-
| fore Professionals and has received a
more cordial welcome than at any
date since the lawless movements of
the sixteenth century," comments the
editor of Notes" in the Irish Theo-
logical Quarterly" That High An
glicans have this feeling causes no sur
prise, for, except for the primacy and
nfallibility of the Roman Pontiff, they
are prepared to accept almost all the
tenets of the true Church.
But (says the Quarterly" writer)
the more moderate Anglicans and even
the Low churchmen have. in many
instances, followed the lead.
The Carlisle Diocese may be cited
as a startling example. 1t is about
the last place in England that one
would search for traces of Catholic
dogma. It's Bishop has seldom lost
a chance of abusing and insulting the
Catholic faith. But even Saul is now
among the prophets. AS is to be gath.
cred from the Church Times" at the
Carlisle Diocesan Conference, mo
chapter reported unfavorably on the
practice of prayer for the departed
Thirteen ruri-decanal chapters vel
come the provision made by authority
for prayers for the departed in conse
Quence Of the war, and want further
provision, especially in respect of cele
bratiOn of the Holy Communion
Which only shows how, in the great
powerless, and how nothing but the
Catholic doctrine, delivered by Christ
Himself to His Church, can satisfy
the needs OF suffering humanity.
Forced to Reject False Stand.
Noting the hopelessly illogical posi-
tion of the Professionals who conducted
services for the dead, the Quarterly
asks:
What are they praying for? Merely
for comfort for the living? They will
not admit it; their prayers in some
way help the dead. But how? There
is no Purgatory; their friends are
either in heaven or hell, and in neither
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their idols of the sixteenth century
and so they themselves pretend to be
licve. Their "Homily on Prayer" as
sures them that the soul of man pass
ing out Of the body goeth straightway
either to heaven or hell, whereof the
one needeth no prayer, and the other
is without redemption" and draws the
.oncluson "let us not. therefore, dream
either of Purgatory or of prayer fol-
the souls of them that be dead" Their
twenty-second Article declares the
doctrine of Purgatory to be vain in
vention repugnant to the Word of God
II they believe all that. why do they
pray? If they do not, why do they
still assert it?
Commenting on the statement of 9
Protestant clergyman that prayer fol
the dead lis great solace to the be
reaved' and satisfies natural in
stinct." the Quarterly" emphasizes
the fact that Catholics have greater
reasons for prayers for their dead:
I'VE can afford to leave the living
out of the question. and think only OF
our dead. Our practice-and this is
its essential merits founded on
Scripture. on the customs of our saints
back to the dawn of the Christian era
and on the infallible dogma of Gods
own Church."