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Show CHICAGO I.ETTE1L lukresting DocripUou or a Catholic OrdT. Enlith MonattIcIm. Geroolmo a Catholic Ilesprcllng the Xrsrra. Parental K-spoaiibll-ilj. Tribufc to Home Training. Brltirious and Moral Edocation. Orll Society Sick. Pro-Catboli-chm ia Tcnnwvrr. MUcc'.Lmtou SnrjectS. Special corrrfpandeaea or Ikt Denser News. m When one glaucta around and contemplates the turmoil and buttle In politics and religion, hecan'tbelp wondering what a mysterious world it Is wo lire in. lojk at the vast number or political factions and par-tics, par-tics, and hear what they say of each other. Protestants and Catholic abuse each other without flopping to couslJer hy. BiUi alike alrase Mormons, and in lPtr manner can't tell way. We never stop to examine exam-ine the philosophy or literature of any sect outside our own. This thought struck me, a I took up last weok'a hssue or the Calholh Home, the official organ of the Roman church in Chicago. Why not read tills carefully, and see wliat this old Church IS doing in our new country. coun-try. The Jlome is an eight page weekly, and taking into consideration considera-tion the strength or the Catholic Church In this city, it is for from being a prosperous JournaL Tbe English speaking Catholics, though clasely wedded to their church, are far from being liberal patrooJ) of church literature. This Is wh perhaps, so many of them know so little or their own or any other religion. re-ligion. Ixt us talc a cUcce at the Calho. IhJlume. We find on tLe first !. n two-column article fromiho 'ew YorkJcraHdescrlptlveoraRoman Catholic nunnery, tituatnl fcurteen miles rrooi Ui New York clly hall Tula nunnery Is known as Ihn Cw' pus Christ! Mnattj find the women rrbc occupy it known as the unsof Peritual Adoration cf the Order or St. Dominic Tho community com-munity at present consists or 15 cloistered nun, -I sisters for outside work.an-1 7 tmtuLmtn nr i. n.i. .;,.. 1st. This Is the only house of this order in the United rjtates. Indiscipline Indis-cipline and asceticism It rc-embles the Trappist monks, one tnonastry of whoa also -xhta in this country. The Order or St Dominic was founded away back in 1210. At-solute At-solute poverty, mendicancy, chastity chast-ity and obedience are the ruiuin.-mentsoritidhciiilea. ruiuin.-mentsoritidhciiilea. This was the order known as die "Black Friars", rrom the black robe habitually worn outside the cloister. To this order It-longed the famous Thomas Aquinas. Aqui-nas. Rut tho women branch of the order Is comparatively of modem date. The life of its cuds Is passed In constant prayer and perpetual adoration of the Sacrament. The nuns rlsrat5a.m. At 6 they assemble for prayer and meditation medi-tation lasting two hours. At S breakfatt, contldine for urh r.n of a cup of coffee and two ounces of ?iJ?d'S isrrtJ- From this time mi 10JO the nuis are employed in making sacred garments and priestly vestments. Prayer is again practised prac-tised for half an hour. At 11 o'clock dinner of soup, flsh and fruit is served. Meat Is never placed on table, nor Is It ever jurtakea of. After dlnuer recreation is taken to 1 p. m., when one hour's absolute slient contemplation is indulged In. At 2 p. to. prayer laUng for hairan hour is practised. From U) to. 4 p. m. work in the Common room is carried on. From -i to G p. m. vespers, ves-pers, benediction and prayer arc the order. Atop, m-supjer or potatoes and tea is served, anJ then recreation recrea-tion till 7.30 j. m., at which time prayer, meditation and examination or conscience Is carried ou till 8.S) p. m., which is the hour for retiring. retir-ing. rhe bed is a bare nlanfc. ft long and three feet wide. The nuns amp in their robes, and at midnight they are again summoned sum-moned for matins, which last two hours. From 2 to S a. m. sleep is again Indulged in. During all this, day and night sllsnce Is observed. Before one nun can open her lips to another, permission must be obtained ob-tained rrom the prbress. On tbe face of a cloistered nun man can never gats. If occasion requires that a Kanmuitlnv.. to, the nun stands behind a double latticed window, also curtalnet, with gaure, during tbe Interview. The doctor is not admitted to the nun's presence untU the is in danger of death. If this is not trying to gain hSTCIi by making earth a hell, it Is difficult to see what elie It hu The article reads like a chapter from some old tome, written lnthadars efNuma PompIIlusorof Sescatria. The next article 1 a pea picture or Father Ignatius, tho Protestant monk. He is classed as an "esoteric ritualist" He is also a famous scholar of Oxford. Hb Monastery is situated in Abereavenny, Monmouthshire, Mon-mouthshire, Wales. Father Ignatius hlmseir told the writer or the article how he came to be a monk. Here are the Father's words: "The idea came to me In a somewhat some-what strange way. Wh lie I was at Oxford, we were going, two aud two, from one or the colleges to its chapel for evening service, aud a fellow student casually remarked, Ye monks a-going to vespers,' and I thought why not? Why should Knot be English monks, English church monks going to vesper? From that tlmo it became my determination to re-establisch mon-asticism mon-asticism in England, which, as you know, has nut existed since the Reformation. It became my life's work, and I tt about examining and reading the constitutions and rules of the Tarious monastic orders. For a long time I found nothing aultable, and I at last thought that I should be under the necessity ol Joining the Roman Catholic church. But I eventually found what I desired. I discovered a constitution that would not compel me to lie-come a Roman Catholic if I adopted It" "Aud that was" "The OrJerof St Benedict And t adnitted this, and this is the reason why I sign myself O. S. It" The pulpits or all the English High Church congregations are open to Father Ignatius, and he general avails himself of the privilege; privi-lege; he styles himself English Catholic and holds that monastlclsm Is as much at heme in England its In Rome or Russia. The next article is a description of the baptism of (Jeronloro, the famous Aiache Indian, into the Roman Catholic rburch. The writer, Father Stephane, director of the Catholic Indian Hurenu.says Gcronlmo was neither bloodthirsty uor murderous. In fact, tho good father maintains that Morgan, the government Indian commissioner. a much more lavage person than Geronimo. We have next an appeal from Father Slatlery, of B iltimofe-, for help for the negro miulon. This priest is at the head cf St Joscbh's Seminary In Baltimore, an Institution Institu-tion entirely devoted to preparing colored gentlemen for the Roman priesthood. Father Slatlery exhort all Catholic colleges and Churches to open wide their doors to the colored col-ored man. He says: Let our Catholic colleges and convent con-vent schools continue to closo their doors to the negro race, and the church imply will lose tbe best or them. No, Catholic, riw to your opportunities. op-portunities. Divine ProvIJcnce has put at your doors P.OOO 000 of a people far more alien in faith, than in the dyed body furnished by nature. Here, then, in tus souin ll our opportunity, and al-0 our respoutlbil-Uy. respoutlbil-Uy. Tile next article Is a synopsis of a serinon delivered by n Massachu-settaprlcstonelucitl Massachu-settaprlcstonelucitl n. The gist uf the discourse Is that parents are reeionslblo fur the religious and moral training of their children, and if parents don't rend children to school where this rellclous and moral training can be had, lhe parents par-ents will U: held scctrUnlable by G.d if these children go to perdition. perdi-tion. But ir the children are sent to proper schools, an 1 ir during life thry should rail, the parents will not be held by God, but the tache. The next Is a communication from Mgr. O'Reilly, n learned priest, to the VaUiolio Sentinel on 'Hebrew in History." The production. pro-duction. Is copied rrom the Stntmtl by tho American Jiradile, and rrom tnat li:r copied by tho Catholic Jlome. O'Reilly holds that to the Jews or Avignon we owe the printing print-ing press, ilu also hoi Js that the best horns training for children or any ra;c or creed In the world is found anions the Jews. Heboid that the ancient race Is still ahead Intellectually aui Industrially of any existing race on earth. . Pages 2 and 3 bear the maik of n patent inside, but page 1, the editorial edit-orial one, is a solid lVmian Catholic insldo and ouMde. First cVitlita a clipping from the JhplUi Wcttcrn Heeurder on education. Tlio Uaiitist editor, whom the Cattola Jlome classes as esteemed aud educated, dwells .on the fait that Catholics have established Church schools, and says: Tor our part we honor tho Catholics for this action, and wo wla overy BaptM parent from iialno toToxa would follow theh-example and send his children to lliptht schools. In these money-loving days it U a grand and inspiring s'gnt to s- roorni-n, as many Catholics in lhe large cities are, preferring to pay out tuition rather than send lo schools free of tuition, In which ths children will no: bo uogbt what their parents bsllevo. ths true principles of religion. The next editorial ojwns with the following sentence! "At tfle prev cat time there Is at least one point upon which all thinking rtilnd, Protestant, and Catholic, are substantially sub-stantially agreed, and tint is that civil society Is today sick unto death." Liberal quotations rrom Tope Leo's letter to the BBhop or Cologne are Inserted, and theeditor-la! theeditor-la! winds up by siring that the future of pocielyaul of clvllltatlon depends on the Roman Catholic Church. We como next to an editorial on Catholicism In the Saulh. Tennessee Tennes-see is coming to the front s a CalholictUto. Memphis uos several seve-ral high class school, among them one, a Christian Brothers' College for boys, aud two academies under tho care or "Sisters," for clrK Leading Protestauts, It is said, send their chlllren to these x-hnnl. IvnoxvIIIe, C'hatUu-wgj, Xashvllle and Jackson ere equally well provided pro-vided with schoola uT the orthodox ConsWerlu? lb fact thai Tennessee Tennes-see is or was largely colonized by Protestant Irish, it seems strange that Romanism should be popular there. Tho Irish Protestant is as firm in his views as the Irish Catholic; Cath-olic; In this respect both only show the Intensity of the race. Politics had soainlhing to do with this. The Protestauti of tbeSiuth arc democrat; demo-crat; so ate the Catbulht. But before be-fore the war an Iri-h Catholic had abtut as much Ci7or shown him as would be shown to a coyote or a rull-sixed rull-sixed wolf. The next editorial is baej on a clipping from the Sew YorkiuV-pendsnt. YorkiuV-pendsnt. Uereiitheclippmg: If we waut" nrioaremtamnA. rary, "to keep a people religious, we rami trurt ths Cbureh to teach them, and not lbs &atr; and this Uequallv true of Catholics and Protestants." " The gift of James J. HiU, prcsi. dent ot the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Man. Railroad, to Archbishop Ireland, of $509,003, to establish a theological seminary, Roman, of course. Is made the subject ora very heavy editorial. Mr. Hill Is a Protectant, but he probably deems it safer, as owner of a vast railroad system, to hive BUhon Ireland at his side, than to be -depending on Billy Plnkerton and Paddy Foley. In addition to the half million now banded over to tbe btsho.i, $1VJ,00J morels coming when the buikJiUs are erected. Tnls, with Mian Caldwell's Cald-well's girt to the Washington Uu! verslty. and the blunts cf Anthony An-thony Drexcl to Catholic InviUi-tions, InviUi-tions, makes over $3,000,003 from private sources. There Is an editorial In the "Irish t amine." It is or the old type. Potato blight had landlords and so on. PatKordof the Iriih HorWI, now In Ireland. It is little wonder his presence there would blight the potatoes, for his presence here has blighted manya good Irishman. The next Is an "Advice to Youug Writers. It exhorlayoung Catholics to practice composition and write on church topics to become missionaries mission-aries as welt as scholars and to uroi agate orthodox literature. It says many young men or talent are lost to the church and to family beoue they don't shake off a base lethargy and become soldiers of Chrlit, ultii tongue, pen and sword. There Is a long extract from one or Matthew Arnold's lectures on the late Cardinal Newman. It Is from the lecture on Emerson. Arnold at that time stated that "ewman "adopted for the doubts and difficulties difficul-ties which beset men's minds today a solution which, to speak frankly. Is Impossible." Tbt CattoJis Jomc says that Arnold and Xewman, though Buried afcncit'aMe by sltfe la England, are far apart in eternity; It Is said that Cardinal Xewman never felt a conscious sympathy with Dante, and could not read the "Divina Comedla" Yet scholars say that two of the cardinal's great works, the "Apologia" and the "Dream or Geroutlus," are partlcq'' larly Miggative or the great Florentine Floren-tine bard, who depicted tbe horrors of the nether regions. The CaOtolte Home devotes the mcstorits flfUi page to "Chats with Children." This seems to be a articular fraturo of the Journal. Juveniles arn Invjted to write, evays, stories, and scraps of poetry und send them to tbe editor of this department, -who styles herself "Aunt Helen." There arc puzzles, enigmas, anagrams, and other things to stimulate aud sharpen the young intellect Tbe quantity of Catholic news. Ia liberal enough. The educational establishments of the church, are well advertised. The movements of prominent priests aro noted. The works of celebrated Catholic authors are earnestly commended for the perusM of the faltttful. But strange to say not aeign of a pulpit discourse appears in the columns or the Jlome, except a communicated synop-la or a lecture on education by au caUern priest There Is a Tery good selection or clippings rrom exchanges. But strange to say, the best or them are, rrom heretic: Journal", men an. Capers that woulJ have been burned y the public hangman or crems-Uouer crems-Uouer 2J0 years ago. Tho world movis anyhow, even if tbe old church bears some or the characteristics character-istics or prehl ilorlc paganism. -JUMCS." |
