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Show MISSING SUNDAY MASS. Missing Mass on Sunday Is the parent pa-rent 'sin. It is the cause of causes when there is a question of Catholic defection. Human respect, scandal, mixed marriages, secret societies, bpd literature, and evil associations have slain their thousands; Mass-missing has slain Its tens of thousands. It has filled the cities and towns in America with an army of bad Catholics; Catho-lics; who constitute so large a percentage per-centage of our population. It has decimated dec-imated thriving parishes and paralyzed para-lyzed the influence of the Church in many American communities. It has been a blight upon the" Catholicity of many European countries, and by breeding general indifference it has encouraged spoliation and plunder on the part of politicians, who rightly believe be-lieve that they have nothing to fear from people who do not think enough of their religion to turn out to Mass on Sunday. It has scandalized believer and unbeliever un-believer alike, and supplied an additional addi-tional argument in support of the pernicious per-nicious doctrine that one religion is as good as another. It has ever been the first step in the downward road that leads to the loss of faith, apostacy and irreligion; in short. it is the basic weakness, the parent sin, at whose door almost every form of present-day Catholic defection can rightly be laid. |