The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
Value of True Womanhood
CATHOLIC WOMANHOOD T n {
FUTURE SECURITY OF THE
NATION-CHURCH ALWAYS OP-
POSES FALSE REFORMS AND
INGENIOUS sCHEMERS.

1t has come to be recognized
fact that in the wOmanhOod OF
nation rests a mighty power and
country's hopes. While women pre-
serve and jealousy guard the grand
inheritance that the Church has pur-
chased for them, the welfare OF So
ciety will be safeguarded.
A mothers love for the home is
the nations surety of high morality
and consequent peace and prosperity.
Christian womanhaod knows no per-
version of it's responsibilities. All
the fads and systems of our day are
repulsive to woman's innate sense
of propriety and modesty.
Those who would introduce mon
strous doctrines that thwart the ends
of matrimony and harass the exist
ence of the home, find a formidable
foe in true Christian womanhood, OBJ
serves the Brooklyn Tablet. They
are aware of the obstacle that lies
before them and seek through hide
Gus schemes and evident contradlc-
tons to force upon the notice of
the womanhood of the land the seem
ing benefits that would accrue should
they adopt their nefarious methods.
The Church has consistently OPP
posed modern sociological uplifters
who seek to foist upon the home
| reforms" and systems" that spell
domestic infelicity and national ruin.
| Through her children she places a
wall of adamant before the onrush
of hostile schemers. Her women may
we'll glory in their steadfast faith
and whole-souled courage born OF
living faith, in staying the hand that
would crush the family and do away
with the laws of God.
| Our women realize that it was not
wars that brought to destruction the
great Roman Empire. Conquest did
not spread the areas of that mighty
nation so far that the Mistress OF
| Nations was incapable of protecting
her vast possessions. History clearly
tells us that the womanhood of an
cient Rome had fallen. Woman was
regarded as a chattel. Native mod
esty was absent. Crime and sensu-
ahty had spread over the empire.
| Ruin, desolation and destruction
went over tn" ashes of a glorious en-
pire when it's morals became cor
rupted, and it's womanhood had be-
come degraded.
The Church entered to reclaim
| womanhood. She raised her to the
dignity of queen of the home. She
gave into her keeping the standards
of morality, and placed her upon an
equal standing with man as a chlld
of God and an heir to eternal happl-
ness.
Conscious of their dignity today
womanhood and motherhood are an
honor to the civilized world. They
frown upon those who would ROB
them of their inheritance. They see
through the heavily yelled machina-
! tons of the present day "uplltter
and pierce the armor of the intinerant
visionary. They have torn off the
| mask of hypocrisy that shields con-
traceptionlism and exposed to pubic
ridicule and everlasting shame those
perpetrators who would enter the
home for the purpose of destroying
domestic happiness and marital re-
lations and robbing the family OF that
faith that has given them true lnde-
pendence and pledges to them life
eternal
No civilization rises higher than
the morality of it's womanhood
Catholic womanhood must lead and
set the example. Our past has been
glorious. In the woman of tomorrow
rests the duty of building a virile, pa
triotic and spiritual nation.