The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-28
THE CATHOLIC WOMAN OF TODAY

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purchasing value of an eternal future
life.
Sacredness of Marriage.
Never before in the history of the
Christian world has there been more
urgent necessity of intoxicating the
teaching of the indissoluble and
sacramento character of matrimony
by which one man and one woman are
united in holy wedlock until death
We are but suffering today the full
consequences of Manichaean, Abb
gensenian and Lutheran attacks on the
Catholic doctrine of marriage which
Christ raised to the supernatural or
der, giving it the dignity of Sacra-
ment. We need as never before every
agency for good in the Catholic
Church to work against the evils Of
cation and culture must exercise your
influence to the utmost. There can be
no hesitation as to your duty, no un-
certainty as to the doctrine. Speak
out courageously whenever opportuni-
ties present themselves. The evil Of
divorce works greater hardship on
women than on men. Women should
determine that this social pestilence
and moral degeneracy shall be ended.
They have the power to do it. Through
agitation and organization we have
secured nationwide prohibition and
universal suffrage for women. Cannot
Catholic women take the initiative and
begin the organization to put an end
to our national shame-divorce-
which is in reality only legalized
sexual crime? 1t is surely fitting that
Catholic women should begin this ma
tion-wide movement. The alrmnae of
this institution and of every Catholic
school for women in the United States
might unite in this movement. Let
the beginning be made.
Catholic women, owing to their asso-
Citations, conversations and reading of
ephemeral literature, are imbibing
false, un-Christian and pagan prin-
ciples regarding marriage. Catholic
women must know and be true to the
sacred obligations of the married
state. They must be shining examples
to the whole world There is no obi
cation of entering the married state,
but when one assumes its obligations
she must be true to the discharge of
it's sacred duties She Is not at liberty
to regulate according to her pleasure
or Judgment the duties of this state in
which she becomes a public official of
civil and religious society in the divine
institution of the home. AS a public
official of the state and of the Church
she must follow the code that Christ
gave governing the sacrament of
matrimony and the state of marriage.
Today when one of every nine mar
riages in the United States is brought
to the divorce courts, when unnum-
bered women are untrue to Christ and
untrue to the principles binding them
in an indissoluble lifelong contract in
the married state, it behooves our
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reflect seriously on all the onerous
duties of marriage. They must not
allow fascination, nor social position,
nor worldly gain to hurry them into
this blessed state and then shirk it's
responsibilities, claiming either exemp-
ton because of their unpreparedness
and ignorance or justification accord
ing to the unholy and pagan conduct
OF divorce court women, or the secret
crime women of the married state.
With prayer and the counsel of par
ents and trusted friends of holy lives,
with unalterable resolutions not to
yield to the opinions and judgment of
married women who have no con-
science and with the determination
not to be influenced by their example,
with an Interchangeable purpose to fol
low the mandate of Christ and the
laws of His Church, should women bind
themselves in the sacrament of mar
riage and be true to it's lifelong obli-
cations.
Church and Morals.
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