The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-02
Editorial Pickings

There is clinging to the family
|hearthstone in other lands which is
almost unknown in our country. In
the home one generation has dwelt
after another 1t represents not only
a shelter but carries with it the tradi-
tons of ancestry. The present gen.
Grafton of Americans is born in a
maternity hospital, is reared in an eff
fciency apartment, dies in sani-
tarium, and is buried from an under
takers parlor. There is little use for
| the home.-Michigan Catholic fBe-
tr0it).
In our opinion co-partnership will do
more than profit-sharingto bring about
that, wider distribution of private
ownership which is advocated by far
seeing Christian sociologists as the
best safeguard of permanent social
prosperity and bulwark against Boil
shevism. It is also likely to give the
employer better returns in loyal serv-
ice and responsibility. With practical
and social-minded employers profit
| sharing frequently leads to co-partner-
ship. Pope Leo's great magma charta,
which was virtually a dead letter in
our country until in recent years, is
marching on.-Michigdn Catholic de-
troit).
If the Ninth and Tenth Command
ments were better observed and the
thoughts of impurity, covetousness,
hatred, pride and infidelity that come
were promptly repressed instead of
being sinfully entertained in the heart,
how many overt deeds of wickedness
would never be committed at all. For
example, if the common run of men
suddenly began to keep the Divine
Commandment which forbids the will
full and deliberate indulgences in un.
chaste thoughts and desires would not
a vast proportion of our theaters and
popular amusement-places be soon
i forced to close their doors An erica
Mgr. Bonzano has always been a
practical friend of Daily American
Tribune and an ardent advocate Of the
catholic press development in the Unit
led States, and as such all true Catho
lies and workers for better press
will be one in wishing him well in his
NEW dignity.
| 1t is great honor for the people
of the United States to have a Car
dinal selected from the Apostolic Dele
cation of the United States at Wash
ington. His years spent In this
country have made the Cardinal-elect
well acquainted with the conditions
facing the Catholics of our nation, and
they will always be assured, of a true
friend in the future Cardinal Bonzano
l-Ddily American Tribune (DabaqueT
4 Chesterton is really brilliant in his
pen picture Of the new divorce party
as he imagines it: 'It,may be indeed
that all the flowers and festivities viii
now be transferred from the fashion
liable wedding to the fashionable di
. Ivorce. A superb iced and frosted di
lvorce cake will be provided for tn,
feast and, in military circles, will b
cut by the correspondents sword"
Beneath the sparkling humor Of 1
all there lies vein of bitter reproach
1t is easy to read between the line
lone of the reasons why Chestertol
became Catholic With the Catholi
IChurch, marriage remains an institu
ton, the sacredness1 of which is no
comparable to merely, but inestimabl.
beyond that of private property, sine
lit is Immediately of divine ordaining
l"What God hath joined together, lie
, not man set apart. "-C Catholic Tigi
, fGraad Rapids.
, Divorce courts are eating away til
VERY heart of America by undermir
!, ing the home" declares Bishop M,
Z i Nicholas, @. p, in letter to tn
clergy of his diocese. .The theatel
!. the motion picture, the dance hal
z the automobile, absence from homi
4 freedom from responsibility. q ner,
{ lous condition which makes it impo
!. Isible to entertain serious thought an
to discharge pressing duties all thes
j ARE alternating parents and chadre