New Britain herald., 1923-03-15
SAYS DIVORCE HITS
 AT CIVILIZATION
Rev. William CaVanaueh Calls Attention to Ninth Commandment

Rev, William Cavanaugh Of Hart
 lord was tho speaker at ahe Lenten
 services at St, Mary's church last
 evening, In the course of his ser
 mon Father Cavanaugh said:
 There is nothing better for Catho- | lies during the holy season Of Lent
 than to 20 back through the days Of their childhood and by learning the | lessons of their faith, to found their | religion upon the rocks of knowledge. I he Catholic church i7 the policy of truth and so tonight we will prove | that she is the only church that has maintained the Bible and that she
 alone stands as q bulwarh against 'savagery and antagonism today, If St. James should come down to this earth tonight, you know that here alone would he receive q welcome for
 we have learned to believe in the sac rament of extreme unction,
 "A long time ago, 1t is related in the Gospel, the Jews carried man before our Lord and that man had been an invalid since the day of his birth. Our Lord said, Arise son. thy
 sins are iorgiVen,' and immediately that man arose and he went away thanking God, but not so the Jews They said to each other, Did you hear what He said?' Nobody but God can pardon sins, so He must be an agent of the devil. Today the
 Catholic church believes that Our Lord came back on earth to forgive, All other religions say, like the people of old, Why, that is mystery, ]
 cannot understand it. so the Catholic
 church must be wrong. Wherever
 you go, whether to Africa or to New
 Britain, you find the priests hearing
 confessions. and giving pardon, not
 because they understand how. but
 because Christ is God and because it
 says in the Bible, Whose sins you
 shall forgive. they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain. they
 are retained
 Two thousand years have passed since our Divine Lord took bread into His hands and changed it into His body and blood, yet today the Catholic church alone believes that He knew what He was talking about when He said DO this in commemoration of me All other churches say it is mystery How could He do it?'
 You see the sun rise this morning and go down behind the hills this evening, There are many who say the sun does not rise. it just stands still and the earth moves around 1t and vet they who believe those words will not accept the words of the AL mighty God, who could take the sun in His hands and blow it out with His breath.
 Divorce Menace to Home
 Home is the only paradise we have on earth and anything that goes in to iniure that home is blow struck at civilization itself and yet we have q danger to that home that is far worse than war, and that danger is calleu divorce. Let us look at it in the cold light of common sense. Out in Africa tonight there are savages with black skins who take their neigh 1 bors wife because she has no chill i dren to take care of. They simply | take a club and kill her husband | then take her for themselves. Why | do they do that? They never heard | 1f God or the devil, never heard that commandment, Thou shalt not covet .hy neighbor's wife. Yet here we nave men doing exactly the sam. hing. When they tire of their homes they go next door and take he wife of their brother They do not kill. that is not necessary in Utilization. They hire someone who will lie and swear against the tnno- ,ent wife. Although the judge lnows they are lying, unless he can ,rove it, he must say, You are free. Then the man may receive his second livorce, third and so on, for if it is light to do once it is right q thou ,and times. Is that man any better han the cannibal in Africa? If everybody was doing the same here n the United States as they do in Africa we would be ruled by the <nife and club. It is against this ,vil that the Catholic church cries ,ut, Thou shalt not covet thy neigh 1or's wife Our Lord spoke clearly ,n that. It is right in the GoHpel.
 When a man takes his bride to the utar he promises to love, honor and