The Catholic bulletin., 1917-03-24

frivolous age of ours. The human mind
must be pure, calm and religious to
produce great works and masterpieces.
Witness the over-anxiety and con.
niying of giddy creatures to get into
what is called society. Their banker
ings after persons, renowned in
wealth, regardless of the manner of
acquisition thereof and of their moral
standing, and their seeking after be-
ings, noted in literary fame or prom
inent on the stage, though not seldom
blasphemers against God and impure
in morals, should cause pity, disgust
and ostracism. The world notwith-
standing, will cloak the evils of it's
duped admirers and enthusiastic ad-
vocates. -
The modern mother, intent upon
pleasure, Silly engages lin pursuits
totally foreign to her vocation, the
queen Of the home Family life, being
uncongenial to club habits, club NOR
ality and social functions, she favors
the criminal and nefarious system of
birth control, curse to the nation
that wants citizens and an abomina-
ton and defiance to God, Who wants
saints to dwell with Him. Birth con-
troll is essentially sinful, an unnatural
and criminal practice, an inhuman and
beastly violation of the natural and
divine law OF matrimony and a per-
verse prostitution Of motherhood with
in the marriage bond. Modern young
nponlp q bput tn poptrap D1orrio ond
spurning their solemn duty to God
and country, determine the number of
children they intend to rear just as
the number of dollars they wish to lay
aside. Such marriages must be class
| flied as legalized prostitutions and vic
| iOuS social suicides, that cry to heaven
for vengeance. Feminine affections
are often, therefore, lavished on
| brutes, which are recipients of certain
| solicitude and honors, even in burial,
while the care of the one boy and the
| one girl is left to the stranger or the
| maid. Thus vanish parental and filial
affection, filial reverence and home
| feeling. Should death claim the reg
ulated number of children, parents are
obliged to pass lonely life without
| the consolation and cheerful presence
Of a child and an heir. Fashionable
| districts in our cities are notably child
! less, while, where the real Catholic
| faith reignS, large families exist and
| flourish and are considered pride and
blessing from heaven. The modern
! blast of sterility is killing off the
American stock and inflicting the cul-
| prits with remorse and disease, for
nature seldom fails to avenge herself
| for outrages committed against her
| laws.
The ambitious modern mother will
| gladly sacrifice her daughters, ofttimes
| reluctant, to the idol of fashion,
wealth, or title which frequently rem
| derS their lot sad for life time. Few
miseries can be compared with those
| of an ill-mated husband and wife. No
| home life, no mutual love, no common
| interests are found in those unhappy
marriages. Both parties impatiently
| and longin2ly await the day of their
welcome deliVerance. AS for the chill
dren, born of these deplorable we'd
locks, they breathe destructive jnfiu-
| ence in such an infectious atmosphere.
| Home for them is a torture to be
avoided and to be considered a mere
stopping place for food and sleep.
The modern father, spending his
time in business by day and social and
political doings by night, neglects his
paramount home obligations. Aban-
doned to themselves under the paren-
tai roof or i'll places dangerous to their
morals, the children lack the neces-
sary training for formation of charac-
ter. Their defects are not properly
corrected, nor their lives protected
from impending harm. Imbued with
the idea of sharpening his sons to
make money and teaching them by eX-
ample to mind chiefly things of sense,
the ~mercenary father disregards his
most important duty of their spiritual
concern. Reared in refined luxury and
idleness, the offspring of the well-to
do generally grow UP pampered chill
dren of high living, self indulgence
sensible pleasures, mannish, impudent
| SlIIS, COARSE duu uuCOuLIOlldUlc DOyS
sometimes the product of sectarian
and neutral colleges, where they learn
little or no science but modern, flip
pant and attractive fashion without re
: ligion and the formation of character
Judging labor with contempt and obedi
ence as ignoble, they become shiftless
spendthrifts, impracticable, effeminate
, incapable of resisting the allurementS
, of the world, soft and polished lib
ertines, degenerate slaves of vice
moral and physical wrecks on the
, threshold of manhood, a disgrace tC
{ the family and malediction to theil
J parents at the sunset of life. "He
who sows corruption shall reap cor
! ruption,' says Holy Writ. Oyersenti
! mental worldlings would no longer
consider criminals as a menace to so
ciety and would regard well deserved
| punishment as barbarous cruelty. The
r prison should be made a charming ant
) sympathetic abode, abounding will
flowers and delicacies. Sort of heroes
> do they make of breakers of human
: and divine law. Their silly senti
: mentality would excuse thieves, rob
r bers and murderers, although alarm
| ingly increasing in number. The pen