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Show MALIGNING CATHOLICS. "America" finds that society people as thinkers are, unfortunately, a small minority. Towards them gravitate, as planets and comets around the sun, a host of minor, frivolous stars for whom all things Catholic are a fit subject of ridicule. They childishly blaspheme what they know not. Unwittingly conscious of the. unapproachable majesty ma-jesty and vitality of the Catholic Church, which they are powerless to impugn, they take refuge in tho im-potency im-potency of an infantile sneer. They besmirch what they cannot controvert. contro-vert. A syndicate of vile publications has been for years exploiting the similarity sim-ilarity between "monkeys" and "monks." rejoicing in its degradation of humanity merely because that degradation deg-radation is supposed to affect the monastic mon-astic jorders. whereas it disgraces only that part of the human race which abjectly believe, on insufficient evidence, evi-dence, that its ancestors were apes. Advertisements of drinking monks are as common as they are contemptible. . But it was reserved for a widely-circulated widely-circulated and fashionable illustrated weekly of New York to recommend a brand of champagne by means of a highly colored, full page advertisement which is a reproduction of a picture representing four bishops, two raon-signori raon-signori and one cowled abbot drinking, in that identical champaign, the health of the chef who bowingly acknowledged acknowl-edged their good wishes. Of course, the seven prelates have double chins and beaming faces. But one silently wonders if the artist and the advertiser advertis-er have not stupidly over-reached themselves. Who will buy that champagne cham-pagne solely because the much maligned ma-ligned clergy are supposed to like it?" |