The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09


answered each week In the order in
cations must be signed. though the
~QuegtiOn and Answer" care The Cath
Can a Catholic couple 60 to distant
city to be married quietly, and what
is necessary TO do so?
The case is a possible one, but COM
mon sense and ordinary prudence com
bine in discouraging putting it into
practice. The couple would have to be
fortified with letter from their pastor
authorizing the priest in this distant
city to oficiate at the marriage, stat
ing that the young persons are free to
contract marriage. 1t is only on
receipt of such a letter that the
pastor of this distant city would
be justified in officiating at the
marriage. Unless there are grave
reasons of real necessity, this course
of action should be avoided. The sac
rament of marriage is one that affects
the common good of society, and
should, therefore, be void OF all SEM
blance Of clandestinity. The mar
ried state is, moreover a most hon
orable condition of life, and when it
is entered upon darkly, at dead OF
night as though the participants were
ashamed of their action, unworthy Sus
picions are aroused. The young
woman especially demands that the
marriage ceremony be performed with
a wholesome publicity. The Church
frowns upon secretiveness where
Christian marriage is concerned.
Can a Protestant woman who has
been divorced from her husband on
account of excessive drink habit and
cruelty marry a Catholic while the
divorced husband is living?
A Protestant woman, who has been
divorced from her husband on account
of his excessive drink habit and cruel
ty, cannot be married to a Catholic in
the Church while the divorced hus-
band is living. People are married not
until drink or cruelty separates them,
but until death separates them. I'm
less the previous MAJ age can be
proved to have been invalid there can
be no second marriage until death
breaks the bond.
Is fortune-teIling, paImistry, ETC., for
hidden in Holy Scripture?
Most emphatically. We read in Deut.
XVIII, 1C-14: Neither let there be
found among you any one tat
consulteth soothsayers, or observeth
dreams or omens. Neither let there
be any wizard, nor charmer, nor any
one that consulteth pythonic spirits,
or fortune-tellers, or that seeIeth the
truth from the dead. For the Lord
abhorreth all these things"
heard some years ago that Cath
Ollie could get married by a judge or
minister and did not need to 60 to
priest. Is that true?
Such a thing was always wrong, but
before Easter, 1908, such a marriage
was not necessarily invalid. A person
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ways committed a mortal sin, and, in
case the marriage took place before a
Protestant minister, incurred eXcom-
munication. Since Easter, 1908,
however, no marriage Of a Catholic
party is valid unless it takes place be-
fore a priest. In other words, any
Catholic party that today marries out
side the Church is living in adultery.
Kindly publish names and addresses
of the most secluded orders for women.
There is a convent of the Passionist
Nuns-that is, Daughters of the Cross
and Passion at Carrick, Pa; the Car
melite Sisters have convent in Wheel
ing, w. Va; the Dominican Sisters of
the Perpetual Rosary have a founda,
ton at Gainesville, Md; the Domini-
can nuns of the second order have a
monastery, Thirteenth avenue, n. j.;
the Poor Clares nuns have a monastery
at Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
How much in our money were the
thirty pieces of silver that Judas re-
cciVed for his betrayal Of Our Lord?
A piece of silver was about sixty
600 cents in cur money, SO that Judas,
received about eighteen dollars
($18,00). OF course money had
much greater vs'ue then than now,
and thirty pieces of silver was then
a goodly sum.
What.kind of fire is the fire of hell?
That the fire in hell is a real fire
we must believe; that it is fire diff
ferent from any we know of seems
certain; that it is not one of sulphur
and birthstone is quite sure Nothing
regarding the nature of it has been re-
vealed, and it will be for the better
if we never find out.
What is a Novena and how is it,
made?
A Novena is nine days private
or public devotion in the Catholic
Church to obtain special graces or
favors from Cod 1t is made by offer
ing up to God, either directly or
through the intercessions of the Bless
ed Mother or some Saint, special pray
eTs or some pious exercise on nine