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Show I WITHOUT A PAPER. Our impression is that most Catholic j families, not in the habit of reading Catholic books or papers, are already I drifting away from the Church. In othf-r words, the man who says: "I don't read a Catholic paper" is apt to have a son who will say: "I don't go to church. We have made this statement before and some of our readers have chal lenged it as rather an extreme view. Perhaps in the middle agon it would hardly be true; nor would it probably apply to the conditions existing in a Catholic country. But here, in the conditions con-ditions of society which surround us, it has its force. j The young people of the family will : read something perhaps the dailies perhaps the weekly story paper, per- l haps the"Pol ice Gazette" or some oth- I er "sporting paper." Their reading then, is without Catholic influence, without anything to suggest interest in Catholic progress or to cultivate a Catholic spirit: on the contrary the influences in-fluences furnished by their reading may be such as to withdraw them, or even antagonize them against the Church. Then, add to this the influence of their non-Catholic associates. In the first place, the Catholic family that is without Caholic reading, jsp apt to be a very worldly minded' family quite milk and- water in its religiniv views. The influence of such "a Catholic Cath-olic home" is hardly calculated t-. stand for much as against the influences influ-ences of outside society and 'jfweia-tion. 'jfweia-tion. And these are go multiple (when-we (when-we come to consider them) that every available influence and circumstance which makes for the Christianity of , the home are hardly enough. Catholic , Citizen. i |