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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
A ORIOUS VOCATION FOR
YOUNG MEN OF CHARACTER.

Who should not feel encouraged to
take up career, whose work is so
sublime and whose reward is so mu-
nificent? Here is magnificent OPP
portunity for those generous, ardent
souls, who feel that the kingdom they
perience in themselves a call to do
great things for God. The life they
would embrace has a goal so high, a
destiny so noble that it is worthy the
greatest sacrifices. Millions have EN-
braced it, perservered in it, and found
in it all they could wish or desire.
The world hungers for the bread Of
life. Children in multitudes ask for
teachers who will feed them with the
saving doctrines Of Mother Church.
Who. called by the Divine voice, can
refuse? Who. with heart beating re-
sDonsively to the higher and nobler
aspirations of Christian heroism,
would refuse to labor in this grand
field, after that of the priesthood, the
noblest. the highest, the most fertile
in the broad domains of Holy Church
the field Of Christian education.
Let the heroic example of St La
Sale. founder of the Christian Broth
crs. who gave up wealth, social position,
and worldly emOlumentS, TO devote his
life to the education of youth. be an
incentive to our young men to emulate
their noble careers. Here is young
priest of great promise, splendid tai
cnts, thoroughly educated Of high So
cial standing, and the brightest Orna-
ment of the distinguished Chapter Of
Rheims, giving up all TO cOnsecrate
his life to the education Of boys.
Worthy indeed Of study and imitation
is such a life. How sublime must be
such a state. How elevated and
divine in its origin, is so glorious to
God. so honorable to man, and SO use
full to society.
There are thousands of young men
who are not called to the holy priest
hood. Many of them would make cX-
cellent Brothers. They are eminently
fitted by nature and Srace for the edu-
cation of the young. Are you, dear
reader. not one of them? Does not
the salvation of your own soul and
those of the young concern you? No
doubt. you may have at times been
inwardly urged to do something for
your God and your Church. Do not
hesitate. What better can YOU do
than enlist in the Lords heroic armies
in the classroom. He that shall do
and teach shall be called great in the
Kingdom of Heaven
For information write to Brother
Julius, II Grove Street, Minneapolis,
MINI.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
ON RAISING CHILDREN.

The conditions under which we live
dren. Of home life there is very lit
tie now in thickly populated commune
ties. Home is place to eat and sleep
and dress in-thats all. Then for
the street, the poolrOom, the street
corner, the picture theater, the auto
mobile, the trip to the next town
anything to keep moving, to change
the scene before the eyes, to be div
ertad, to-. be amused, to have quick
changes Of interest, says The Casket
The whole situation in which the chill
dren and young people are placed is
feverish, restless; and so the more
dangerous for them.
The children of today are brought
up in feVerish, restless, electrical sur
roundings. Their Imagination is stir
red too soon and too strongly and too
variously. The greater, then, is the
responsibility Of parents. Theirs is
the duty to calm the restlessness, to
allay the fever; to keep their children
normal or as nearly SO as possible.
In the years while they still have eff
fective authority, that authority
should always be eXerted for modera-
ton; for calmness; against excess
in feverish, restless amusements; for
a reasonable application to study, for
proper hours of sleep; for attention
to religious duties; against exposure
to temptations.
These things cannot be accomplish
ed by occasional explosions of anger,
by hit-or-miss exercise Of parental au-
thority, being sternly prOhibitiVe, or in
one mood one day and unduly indul-
gent or in another mood the next day.
by being cratic and uncertain, forbid
ding something which might very
well be permitted and allowing some
thing which ought never to be allow
ed Method, system, sense, based on,
and giving effect to, the Church's
teaching on parental duties; these
are the essential things if you want to
save your children from the dangers
of the day. Conscientious realization
Of parental duty is necessary; and the
conscience must be kept toned up by
prayer, by the Sacramento and by
humble attention to the Word of God
preached by the Priest.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
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would certainly shout himself hoarse.
No moral law known to Christian civ
ilizatiOn binds man or. woman to
marry, nor-after marrying-to beget
a family. BY mutual consent, the par
ties are absolutely free, if they please,
to live their lives in welded con-
tinence-so long, of course, as they
use no foul means for securing child
lessness. The supplying Of citizen
workers to the State is not the final
end of mans creation. To hold the
contrary view would be to rob the
fosterfather of Our Lord of the divine
testimony borne to him as the just
man. and to defame those sainted
wives who were deliberately childlesS
and lived as sisters to their husbands
The whole notion OF this atrocious
Socialist project springs from the
pagan State-WOrship Of our times,
which makes the State a demi-god, en-
titled to crush human liberties under
its Juggernaut wheels. We have the
same thing in BOlsheVist natiOnaliZa-
ton of women and Of children. Even
the English legislation disregards the
educating rights Of a mother who has
married outside her own religion.
Hence. among other reasons, the Cath
Ollie objection to "miXed' marriages.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
MANY NOTABLES IN CATHOLIC
WHO'S Who"

Famous names abound in the Eng
lish Catholic who's Who and
among them there is one, at least, in
whom Americans might be especially
interested. 1t is that of daughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This is far from being the only
name with literary connotation to be
found in the volume. Among the not
ables on the rolls Dickens has three
grandchildren and Thackeray niece.
The political, civic, commercial,
scholastic, literary, artistic, scientific,
legal, medical and dramatic life of the
realm are represented in the pages.
Among them are Hilaire Belloc, Sir
Bertram Windle, Father Cortie, Mr..
Justice Russell and Mary Anderson.
An old member Of st. Augustine's,
Ramsgate, and of Stonyhurst, edits
THE Life Boat Journal;' while a
Whitechapel Catholic who was
brought up a basket-maker is now q
professor of Italian at the University
of Cambridge.
1t may be noted that the Mr.. O'Gra-
dy, NJ. P. who is bargaining with
Litvinoff, is a Catholic, born in Bristol.
A founder of the Bible Society and the
Baxter Of Saints Rest are repre-
scented today in Catholic generations
which include all Byr0ns descend
ants and Walter SCOTS.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
MIXED MARRIAGES.

Mixed marriages were raped by the
Rev. \. r. Wise, Jesuit missionary,
speaking in the Denver Cathedral at
the recent mission. He showed that
they should be discouraged both from
the Catholic and Protestant side. Few
Of them turn out happily and they in
terfere with the religious duties OF the
Catholic party and the children.
You might think that some Of these
marriages are happy,' said the priest,
''but if you investigated you would dis
cover that many are like one with
which had experience. After the
couple had been married twenty-five
years, the man became a Catholic. To
the outside world, it had always ap-
pCared that the two had been happy,
and the woman was often cOmpli
mented on the fine hsuband she had
But right after the mans First Com
munion, she said: This is the first
time in my married life that | have
been really happy"
1t could hardly have been otherwise
If woman really loves a man and she
is constantly anxious about his eternal
welfare, how can she be happy?
Many time mixed marriages result
in the loss of faith, he said One old
priest, a pastor Of many years eXpe-
rience. told him that Of all the Cath
Ollie young men he had welded to non
Catholic girls, only two presevered in
their religion.
A young man whom I had never
seen before came to me several years
ago." said Father Wise. when l en-
tered the room he was crying. He
said that he knew | could do nothing
for, him, but he wished to unburden
his soul. Six years before. against
the wishes Of his parents and pastor,
he had entered into a mixed marriage.
He felt sure that this marriage was
made in heaven if any ever was.
Two fine children were born. But
recently his wife had become a Chris
tan Scientist, and next week she was
to secure a divorce from him.
I'm afraid it is too late to help
you now l declared. why is it that
so many couples refuse to take the
advice of the Church, which speaks
with so many centuries of expert
ence?'"
The young man suggested that a
good plan to deal with such cases
would be to establish an asylum in
each parish, where love-sick persons
contemplating mixed marriages could
be kept until they came to their
senses. The priest answered that the
Church could adopt no such drastic
methods.
Mixed marriages cannot work out,
said the priest, because of the two
standards of morality. A non-Cath-
Ollie does not adopt as strict a rule of
life as we must follow. Many times
Catholic wives of non-Catholics have
declared that they would either have
to give up their husbands or their re-
ligion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
HOLD FIRST MASS SINCE REFOR.
NATION.

The Feast Of the Immaculate Con.
ception was a memorable day in the
Catholic life of South Bank, North
Yorks, England. On that day the
Very Rev. Canon Nolan celebrated
Mass in the village of Normamby-in-
Eston, where the Sisters of Mercy
have gone to reside
The celebrant, III a short discourse
remarked that it was the first Mass
that had been said in that locality
since the Reformation, when the
monks from the PriOry at Guis'
borough celebrated Mass in the old
Catholic church situated in what is
now known as Eston Cemetery.
The old Catholic church forms the
chief feature OF interest in the dis
trict. Very little except the tower
Of the original church exists today,
the Established Church in the Vic
tOrian era having rebuilt the body OF
it.
Some 20 years ago the then Protes-
tant rector of Eston had the belfry
disnlantled and the bell, which was in
scribed with the words Ora pro nobis
Sancta Helena" was taken down and
broken up for scrap. The holy water
font outside the church door is one
Of the few relics that are left as q
reminder that in the days Of yOTc
England was Catholic. and that the
little church was chaDcFof-easa to
that grand monastic edifce, Guis-
borough Priory.
There are many who adhere to the
belief that there was and still exists
q subterranean passage between this
church, and the Priory, which the
monks traversed when coming to sup
ply the spiritual wants Of the faithful.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
GLIDING THE VICES.

One Of the most contemplate forms
Of cOwardice is that which, in order
to salve the troubled conscience. puts
halo about wickedness. 1t is bad
enough to see the evil and to confess
lack of courage to resist it; it is
worse to be so dishonest as to seek
justification for committing the wrong
by Painting it as goodness. Such shall
low hypocrisy is deteStable sham
Nevertheless, this poor attempt to pal
late degradation is a'testimony to the
inherent principles of right and
wrong. Even when the moral sense,
through much misuse, becomes so
crcise strong control over action, it
still retains clearness enough Of vi
sion to see the necessity Of dra wing a
veil over moral uglineSS and giving it
the disguise, transparent though it be,
Of virtue Or Of, beauty. Though men
and women Of our times who are laps
ing into pagan ways, are not defying
the vices nor calling them virtues
indeed, nevertheless, they are trick
ling them out in fine phrases, and the
public sense OF right and wrong is
being insidiously perverted. Shame
lessness is growing more rampant
but is tolerated and even lauded under
the plea that it is beautiful, for if a
thing is beautiful, they argue, it can
not be harmful.
The chaste reticences Of speech and
the modest restraints Of the eye, once
universally recognized, are stigma
sec indecency in any spectacle are
said to have prurient imaginations
diseased minds, and are recommended
with a sheer to the psychopath.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13

"a sum which is greater than the
average 200-family parish receives
through pew rent and collections. Yet,
some Catholics believe that the cler-
gy are after too much money! If
people gave according to the Old Tes-
lament Biblical requirement, a 200
family parish would receive $4,000.
The Protestant churches have thou
sands OF people who do give a mini
mum of 1.-THE, or one-tenth of their
income. Because the affairs of a
Catholic congregation are administer
ed most carefully, no priest would
need 10 per cent, and only those who
are actually building or who have con-
tracted a heavy debt by recent build
ing, would need per cent. But there
is a big discrepancy between l per
cent and per cent.
One of the weaknesses in the Ca
tholic system of collecting is that the
young men and lady wage-earners are
not contributors. They expect "fath-
err to rent family pew or a couple
of sittings and regard themselves as
exempted from all obligations in the
parish. The father may give more
than one per cent, but the family
does not. 49,. 2.'
1t is particularly the unmarried
Wage-earner who should contribute
He and she spend more money for
amusements, for dress, for tObaccOS,
candies, theatres, etc. etc.
BY the present systematic method
Of securing support for the church
local and for missions, Professionals
make an Every Member Canvass" and
secure a pledge from every wage
Garner for stipulated amount an
nually.
We would recommend that priests
prepare a budget for their 1920 eX-
penses and after talking it over
with a selected committee, on which
young people should be represented,
have an every WageEarner Can
vass' made After plans are fully
prepared, the Canvass should be COM
pleted within a few days by sending
out teams at an appointed time to the
several sections into which the parish
will be divided.
If this be done, the pastor will not
have to talk money" at any time dur
ing the year. and there will be no I'M
certainty about the amount Of revenue
to come in. With these worries re-
lieved, the pastor could "preach the
Gospel every Sunday, and the people
would be far better satisfied.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
WORD TO CATHOLIC YOUNG
WOMEN.

A&Ft * \ ] -. t~ta & ~ - - sAss : ~ 4
"a. Remember. that YOUR most noble
and precious treasure on earth is
your innocence. Blessed are the
clean of heart, for they shall see God,
but do not seek to attract the atten-
ton and admiration of men. Favor
is deceitful," says the Scriptures, "and
beauty is vain. The woman that fear
eth God shall receive praise" prov.
81: 30) Let not your adjoining"
says st. Peter, 'be the outward plat
ing of your hair or the wearing of
gold or the putting on of apparel, but
the hidden man OF the heart in the in
compatibility Of quiet and meek
spirit, which is rich in the sight of
God" Il Peter 8: pa
!. Scrupulously shun all imprudence
in looks, words and gestures. Never
permit an unbecoming word to escape
your lips. Be always usefully occupied
Idleness is the enemy of purity. The
devil has always work for idle hands
to do. Shln all bad company and
dangerous amusements. 1t was a
dancing girl who caused the death of
st. John, the Baptist Dances, balls
and plays are full of danger In the
VoluptuOus dance, innocence dies and
is buried on the way home. The first
step IN the ball room is commonly the
first step toward seduction. Avoid
all improper reading.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT THE
PARISH CHURCH.

According to Protestant calcula
tons there are two wage-earners to
the family-the father of the family
and one young man or lady in the
family. Today the average head OF
the family earns a minimum of $10O
a month; the average young man OF
lady $50 a month, says the Sunday
Visitor. ,...
Now, let us take as an illustration
a moderate-size parish of two hundred
families with one priest in charge.
The total income of wage earners in
this parish would amount to $36O,O00
a year, or about $1,000 for every work
ing day. Add to this the income OF
men who do not work by the day, but
who have property and interest-earn-
ing securities, and the grand total
would exceed 100000.
One per cent of this income given
to the church would amount to $4,000
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
SOCIAL LIFE AND CATHOLIC
STANDARD.

Mr., ". 4. S.. HQWins, former Under
Secretary Of State for the Colonies,
who is a distinguished Catholic as
well as a distinguished statesman, in
an address at the reunion Of the Cate
MAN Association, in London, referred
to the important influence Oh social
life of the Catholic standard
| think it is very necessary, the for
mer Minister said, that lay Catholics
especially in the commercial and
what they are and what they can do.
We Catholics are just a little too
apologetic in this country. I do not
suggest that we should be discourte-
Ously aggressive, though sometimes
the temptation is very great to be so.
But there is no reason why a Catholic
should apologize for his existence
How often is the question asked:
What part did Catholics play in the
war? And the answer implied is:
They did#nothing in the war. If you
put the question to me: What part
did Catholics play in the war? I
should say it was Catholics who won
the war! .'.
l suggest that with all frmness and
courtesy we should claim our due
The standards of dealing in admins
tratiOn and business upon which the
very existence of this country depend
are all Catholic standards. I was
once told by a great banker that the
London depended upon it's standard of
honor. Well, that high standard of
honor came from Catholicism. 1t was
certainly not invented in non-Catholic
times: it is purely a Catholic prin-
ciple.
1t is well to realize just now that
we have reached a crisis in our ma
tional history the right solution OF
which, depends absolutely upon the
strength OF Ca hnlicis1n.a Before the
war a man, had had pretty we'll in
stflIed into him a high standard from
the agreat schools and universities
added to some inherited religious
ideas. The war has done a good deal
to knock that to pieces.
People do not keep their word as
they did then. l do not think that
men are worse-on the contrary,
think that some are better-but
think that the war has more or less
broken people away from =. their old
mornings. And if we are to maintain
that standard which was characteristic
OF this race for SO many generations
and if we are to keep it unsullied,
am quite sure that it depends upon
the strength of Catholicism, especial
ly among the administrative and COM
mercial classes Of the country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13

Father Rickaby, S. j., states that he
has a short examination paper ready
to serve on anyone who will assert
that Catholic teaching clashes with
physical science-viz., these three
questions:
Il. With what particular branch
Of physical science does Catholic
teaching clash? ~. .
q. What particular knowledge have
you of that particular branch? -.
SO. What knowledge have you Of
Catholic teaching?"
Usually these questions will demon
strate that the critic Of the Catholic
Church has very vague knowledge of
what he thinks he is talking about in
diligently.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
THE STAGE.

There was a measure of tragedy
when the Church broke completely
from the stage. Here was her daugh-
ter. She had served her we'll She
had depit ted the mysteries of Chris
tianity She had taught the proverbs
and the pal tables. The monks and
friars of the Church thought it not be-
meath them to take part in these rep
reservations. Indeed, it is highly pos
Sible that Shakespeare had seen the
friarS of Coventry enact some Of the
mystery plays, says the New World
The strolling player brought the art
of acting into some disrepute. And
then commerce got its hold on the
stage and began to exploit it. Pan
dering to vicious tastes, it stopped at
no outrage against decency. It's min
istry was given over to debasement.
There may have been money in it,
but the stage with its sacred ante
cedents could not be debauched with
out its penalty. And now no one
takes the stage seriously. Here and
there an effort is made to rescue it
from stained hands. In England the
Actors Association has combined to
rout out the rascal Whether it will
be able to bring him to book or not
is another matter. In America many
efforts have been made to purify the
stage, but against public sentiment
this can hardly be done. When the
value of representation is in exact
ratio to the nakedness of the perform
ers there is little hope left for the
stage.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
NUNS PRAYER LIKE ROMANO
OF -FAITH. P!

An episode which, might Abe terra led
a romance ofsthe' faith forms a sIik-
ing part of the story~o of the Benefaie-
tine Nuns of ST. Scholastica's Abbey,
Teignmouth, England.
While the nuns were yet at Ham
mersmith, prior to their removal to
Teignmouth, novice of distinction,
who subsequently became the eighth
Abbess, joined the community ~
She was the daughter of Charles
Stanley, Constable, Of Otley Manor,
Yorks s-,s.' ,'ss7''.s~
At that time, the community had
not been privileged to incorporate
into their daily life the work of the
Perpetual Alteration. The new novice,
however, as if she possessed a pre-
sentiment of the future inner work of
the community, was always praying
for the work of the Perpetual Adora-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-13
A SOCIALIST THREAT.

The Italian Socialists are preparing
a measure for Parliament by which all
childless marriages are to be annulled,
says the London Converse. In Italy
there is no divorce-which would be
greatly to her credit, did not her law
annul marriages instead on numerous
grounds. BY framing such laws anti
Catholic Italian Governments have
contrived to circumvent the rooted
Catholic antipathy of the people to
any tampering with the nuptial tie.
The difference between a declara-
tion of nullity and a divorce decree is
not merely academic-though in their
effect the two things are similar. For
to pronounce union null and void
is to deny that real marriage ever
existed The. Socialist form of annul-
ment, however, leaves the permanency
sof married life in suspense until child
Iessness is established. The wrecking
ssaf homes that must result from it's YER
ification is terrible to contemplate A
divorce, on the contrary, presupposes
the original existence of true Wedlock.
The Church sometimes declares mar
riages null, but for reasons which rem
dered the unions void from the first.
But after true Christian marriage has
been consummated she rejects divorce
a vinculo without any exception. The
Catholic Overwhelmingly appointed
dispenser of ''the mysteries of Cod
will not permit profane hands to be
laid on Sacrament of Christ, which
is the very foundation of Christian
Society.
The projected annulment of unfruit-
full wedlock constitutes. a sross out
rage upon human Liberia" for which,
forsooth, the feryid Italian Socialist
aEsSass ssGb
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ton of the Blessed Sacrament, which
at length was made possible and was
granted to the community, but not
until they had settled at Teignmouth
Nv hen the sfoundation-stone& of the
new Abbey, Church at Teignmouth
was laid, she, as Abbess, placed there
in petition for this special intention,
and little more than ten years elapsed
before that petition was realized.