The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

Can a Protestant, divorced from an
unhaptized woman, marry Catholic
woman according to the laws OF the
Church?
Our attention has been called to a
mistake in the answer given this ques-
ton in last weeks issue and in order
to rectify it we substitute the follow
ing:
In the question it is not stated
whether the Protestant was baptized
or not. If he was not baptized, then
his marriage with an unbaptized
woman is valid. If he was baptized,
then the marriage in question is null
and void because of the diriment, or
annulling, impeachment known as diff
ference of religion" Wherever this
impeachment exists-that is, when one
of the parties is a baptized Christian
and the other is not baptiZed-mar-
rage is not only forbidden but is null
and void If, therefore, the first mar
rage be null and void the Protestant
husband is free to contract marriage
necessary dispensation.
Is there any hotel in New York con-
Quoted by Catholic Sisters?
In addition to the institutions men
toned in last weeks issue under this
heading we learn that there is in New
York hotel conducted by the Re-
ligious of the Order of Jesus-Mary at
225 West Fourteenth Street, and
known as the House of Our Lady OF
Peace. There are various other con-
vents which take women to board,
such as st. Regis, sometimes called
THE Cenacle."
May a girl, who has not practiced
her religion for some years, be ac-
cepted as a candidate in a religious
community?
1t is quite possible, if the girl is
Judged to have a vocation to the
religious life, that she will be accepted.
A practical way to decide the ques-
ton is for the girl to submit her case
to the judgment of her confessor, who
will tell her definitely if there exist
any impeachment to her entering
religious order. If his answer is salts
factory, she can take from him a letter
commencing her as a candidate to the
Sisterhood. No further investigation
into her past will be required; nor,
will the letter itself give any informal
ton on the past. The priest will state
simply that he knows no reason why
the girl should not be accepted as a
candidate for the Sisterhood, which
she wishes to join.
Please publish the addresses of the
Little Sisters Of the Poor, The Francis
can Sisters and the Sisters of Charity.
Little Sisters of the Poor" have a
home at 80 Wilkin Street, st. Paul,
MINI. Their provincial house for the
western part of the United States is in
Chicago, Fullerton and Sheffield ave
nues. Their home for novices is at
Queens, l.. l., Brooklyn, N. Y. There
are many religious communities of
women under the patronage of st.
Francis School Sisters of st. Fran
els" have their novitiate in Milwaukee,
Wis, Layton Blvd. and Greenfield
Avenue. Sisters of st. Francis, =
motherhouse, Stella Niagara, near
Lewiston, n. Y. In Minnesota, the
Franciscan Sisters have their mother
house and novitiate at Rochester. The
Sisters of Charity of st. Vincent de
Tyh IL hou of
Joseph, Hamilton County, Ohio. Sis
tiers of Charity" have a motherhouse
at Mount ST. Vincent, Halifax, ~ S.,
Canada.
Is scandal or home trouble any ex-
ouse for staying away from Church?
We cannot understand how one
would fancy that one evil would justify
another. 1t is sad that scandal should
exist in the home or out of it; but,
this evil certainly cannot be lessened
by committing another and perhaps a
greater evil. Most decidedly we an
swer the question in the negative.
lend additional weight to the objection
already existing of attending Mass on
Sundays and holydays of obligation.
These unusual circumstances make
even more urgent the recourse to
prayer and the divine sacrifice, that
the difficulties may be removed.
What Is the difference between the
Society for the Propagation of the
Faith" and the "cathoIic Church Ex-
tension Society of American"
The nature of the work carried on
by the two societies is very much the
same. Each has for its primary
motive to strengthen and spread the
faith. In one case, that of the "Propa-
cation of the Faith the efforts of the
Society reach to all parts of the world,
distributing it's charities to near and
far, to support missionaries, build
churches, schools, etc., wherever the
need is judged the most pressing. The
other, the Extension Society,"" con-
fines its similar good work to our own
land chiefly in the south and west
where Catholics are few and these
deprived for long periods at time of
the consultations of religion and whose
knowledge of the faith is necessarily
very meagre. Five hundred dollars
will keep priest visiting such COM
munities for one year.