The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-06-12

a homogeneous and harmonious whole |
the home, the church, the school and
the press-and all four should be
Catholic or else the result is not per-
feet and rings with a discordant note.
influence of the Catholic Home.
We know the influence of the truly
Catholic home. We can picture to our
selves thousands upon thousands of
these really Catholic homes through
out the length and breadth of this
fair land which are just so many dia-
dems in Columbia's glorious crown
pictures coniured up to us from the
sweet memories of our own.
We can see, in the minds eye, de-
voted father and sanity mother Ca
ressing their offspring, and rendering
| thanks to God for this blessing which
they regard as a treasure sent from
Heaven, sacred trust to be jealousy
guarded. We can see the child at the
| baptismal font being dedicated to God
We can hear the lisping baby prayers
at mothers knee, and witness the ten
der solicitude of loving parents as they
see their little one receive the Bread
of Life for the first time.
And now as the child is about to
enter the portals of school to begin
the period of it's school life, since it
was laved with the waters of Cath
Ollie baptism, since it was caressed on
| the bosom Of Catholic mother, since
it's first Holy Communion was at the
Catholic altar, I ask, with all sincerity
| of soul and from the depth of my
| heart, what school should it enter?
| The Catholic School the Only School
for the Catholic Child.
If you are logical, if you know youl
duty as a Catholic, if you view con
ditions of the country as they really
exist, you will have to answer, The
Catholic school is the only school to
send that child
! Our quarrel, if any, lies not with
the non-Catholic who, as an American
citizen, is entitled to hold whatever
opinion he desires, but our issue lies
with that species of so-called Catholic
who, setting himself above the nine
teen hundred years of experience
gained by Mother Church, and. will
the bombast usually attending know
it-alls, tells you that he sends his child
to other than Catholic schools because
Catholic schools are not the equal o
other schools when it comes to i'm
, parting knowledge. And he says thi
without the semblance of smile upol
his lips and as if he really meant it.
For such creature | have bu
, sympathy and pity, and, in this age o
camouflage, he uses this excuse to hid
the real reasons that prompt him t.
ignore that which is lbest for hi
child's interest. both materially an
spiritually. Either he is the victim O
a none too religious wife who is al
, fected with the idea that to send he
, child to other than Catholic school
gives greater social prestige, or els
, he is slave to the foolish whims o
badly spoiled children, or, worse yet
he has not the moral courage to stan
up in defense and support of tn
schools of his faith.
: The Catholic School the Peer of tn
Best in the Land.
AS passing answer to this yer
common SANDER which we hear S
frequently, I would refer these self-a1
5 pointed mentors and critics to the RI
3 suits Of the recent army contests he'll
2 in the different recruiting district
throughout the country. Of the RI
e suits that have come to my notice, i
e the st. Louis district five out of 81
4 prizes were captured by parochia
i school students; in Dubuque, in Sea
y tie, in Sioux Falls, in Grand Rapids
e the first prizes were captured, and, a
a fitting climax to the splendid recor
y made by parochial school children i
e Washington, D. c., of $4,000 essay
e submitted, a pupil of Notre Dam
l Academy, fourteen-year-old girl, wo