The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14

If man is boarding with a Protes-
tart family may he eat meat on Fri
day?
Most certainly the condition does
not give him permission to eat meat
on Friday. If the people with whom
he boards are not ready to provide the
meal that a Catholic may eat on Fri
day he should seek another boarding
house.
Please give an account Of St. Ads-
laide?
There are two Saints Adelaide; one
was an abbess of the eleventh cen
fury, and the other lived a century
earlier. was the daughter of King Ru-
dolph and married Otto the Great.
The Abbess Adelaide died at Cologne,
Germany. in the year 1915. She was
Abbess first at a convent in Bonn,
founded by her family and introduced
the rule of st. Benedict; later the
fame of her sanctity and miracles at
tracted the attention OF the authorities
Of Cologne and she was made abbess
there Her feast is celebrated on Feb
ruary 5. St Adelaide the Queen, was
the daughter of the King OF Burgundy;
her first husband was killed and after
stormy and romantic career st. AIDE
laide was married to King Otto in tho
year 951. She was a very piOus queen
and exercised a very beneficial infiu-
ence over the people. When the king
died Adelaide suffered at the hands Of
her sons, but continued her good
deeds. built many churches and mon
asteries and labored for the CONVEX
sion of the pagans of the North. She
died December 16, 999.
Is an act sinful which is committed
by a person while unconscious?
The state of unconsciousness de
prives one temporarily of the use OF
free will. Where there is no free will
there is no sin. 1t is possible, how
ever, that a person in his conscious
moments may perform a sinful act
which is completed when he becomes
unconscious. In this case such an
act would be sinful to some extent.
Is it true that Catholic girl cannot
teach Public School in Canada, be-
cause she is compelled to teach She
Catechism?
Some of the provinces Of Canada
have the Catholic Separate School as
well as public schools. Both are sup
ported by taxes and grants from the
Government The law authorizes the
taxpayer, when paying his taxes, to
give notice to the clerk of the district
council with regard to the school to
which his tax is to be applied. Where
the population is too small to support
both schools in a district, the public
school is, generally, the only school
in the district but Catholics are en-
plOyed as teachers in those as we'll as
non-Catholics. It all rests with tho
Board of Education in the place In
some provinces, Maritime Provinces,
for example, all of the schools are
public. In these Catholics, as we'll as
others, are employed to teach, there
being no religious test entering into
the question of the decision OF the
Board Of Education. Sometimes :.
bigot may get elected a member of the
Board, and then religion may be in
jected into the Boards decision, but
common sense as a rule predominates
in the actions of all educational
boards. In districts where the Catho-
lies are in the majority, CatechiSm
may be taught after school hours al
though the school is public one.
Moreover, in those provinces where
there are no established Catholic
Separate Schools, such as the Mari
time Provinces, the private Catholic
schools receive certain grants from
time to time from the Government
upon their fulfilling certain condi-
tions. In no school is a Catholic
teacher forbidden to teach, because
she is compelled to teach the Cate
chism.
Can an inveterate sinner, who re-
penis on his deathbed, go to heaven
on an equal basis with one who has
tried to live rightly?
A sinner, howsoever great or in
veterate, who truly repents on his
death bed has the assurance that he
will save his soul, for God wills not
the eternal death of the sinner but
rather that he repent AS regards the
expression, ION an equal basis" it is
not just clear what the correspondent
means. 1t is true, however, that a
death bed repentance, if it is genuine,
will give a person a claim to heaven,
although some time or duration may
elapse between the death of such a
one and his entrance into glory. 1t
would be unwise and dangerous for a
person to neglect his religion in the
hope of squaring things on his death
bed; such a procedure would un-
doubtedly produce a deathbed tragedy
rather than a repentance
!,
x has concealed a certain sin for
years. She now confesses it, but does
not "feeI forgiveness" What should
she do?
She should remember that the grace
of God is not usually perceptible TO
the senses: it is something s0iritua1