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Show CATHOLIC OPJNION I The New Jersey mosquito is doomed. The assembly ot that state bns appropriated appro-priated ?to.oit.wj to scientifically investigate investi-gate his habits, origin and other pecun-jriri.-u nf nil the iokes perpetrated on tlir Jersev mosquito this Is positively the mopt wretched. Who of us is nm familiar fami-liar with his habits and other peculiarities? peculiari-ties? What the Jersey mo.squito needs is extermination, .not investigation. Church Progress. The courts have been invoked to decide which of four royal personages will be valet to King Edward during the coronation. corona-tion. I'ncie Sam might take the hint and employ the same means to ascertain which' of the powers held off the mob during the recent "unpleasantness. Catholic Progress. Seattle. Mr. John Wanamaker writes very eloquently elo-quently concerning the rope's jubilee celebration cel-ebration at St. Peter's, but he falls into an eror very often observed in the comments com-ments of Protestant writers on Catholic functions. He speaks of the "adoration , offered the pontiff by the peop.e. Cacho- i lies adore only the one supreme God. j There is no Catholic, however humble, who does not know how to draw the distinction dis-tinction between the homage of divine worship and that offered to the saints tnd image3 and the homage due to the sovereign pontiff and other dignitaries of the church. A similar error is oaen 'ound in the descriptions of the eeremo-nv eeremo-nv connected with the sacred relic preserved pre-served in the pope's slipper. This is .ollf.I "tkuin" the Mfinp'q tOc' It is the .-elic which is' thus saluted, not the article arti-cle of footwear. Standard and Times. Nearly half a million of citizens of the British empire have petitioned the house of commons in London against any change in the "statutory declaration of the king on his accession to the throne under the bill of rights." The "ste.tuto-rv "ste.tuto-rv declaraaion" referred to is the oath which King Edward VII took on his ac-esr-ion, and which he ia again to take tt his coronation an oath in which the r.ost sacred doctrines of the Catholic hurch are dscribed as "superstitious and idolatrous." Of course, the oath 1s out--ageousiy insulting to the millions of ,'atholics of the British domions. and trough their press and representatives hey have repeatedly and indignantly protested against it and demanded it3 ibolition or modification. It is an outage out-age without parallel in the whole world. Xo other king nor head of a state in any and on earth is required to take an oath offensive to any section of the people. peo-ple. England stands alone in this particular par-ticular of bigotry and intolerance at the . tl.o. TTntrlichmonf Knal of hemselves and constantly pose as the .special champions and exemplars of civil nd religious liberty. Tho petition against i change in the oath, and the recent dec-aration dec-aration of Mr. Balfour, speaking for the government, that no change is Intended. are a good object lesson of what relig-oi-.s liberty really means in the mind of he majority of Britains. Freeman's Journal. i, We must love our Protestant neighbors and do them all the good we can. We should pray for their spiritual and temporal tem-poral welfare; we should set them a good cxaj.iple of the Christian life, and we -hotvld aid them to the extent of our ability in their needs. How can we say that we love God unless we love our neighbor? Pittsburg Observer. O'Donovan Rossa read his own obituary. obitu-ary. It was his son who died at Colorado Colo-rado Springs after an amputation of the ieg. We hope the old rebet will live for many years to come. Irish Standard. |
