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Show . BEGIN THE NEW YEAR WELL. . j Tegiu the new year by paying your pew rft:t and ) fo-your Catholic paper. If you wish to be counted truly interested in the progress of the Church you will read Catholie literature. Do you take jvnv in-lerest in-lerest in ihe awful persecution of the Church in Fiance" If you do not. you ought to. The C.Mth- !ies of Franee. the women especially, rMI little and did no1 encourage their husbands to juke Jn-t. Jn-t. re-1 in ihe affair of tho country once proudly trovrrncd by Louis the Catholic. What a shame! What a disgrace!- "Jf you wish to help your Church in liiis dark hour." said a French preb'te recently, when addressing a number of French women, "you will lay aside your frivolities, give up your idleness and fondness for lut.Ti . and encourage, your husbands, hus-bands, sons and br i'.eis to take intcresl in tiie Church." Since coming from his recent ml limina visit to Home. Jit. Kev. Bishop McFaul, one of the :il'l '-t ami most progressive Catholic prelates in America, has come out strongly for lhr support of ill" Catholic preis. lie studied the conditions in Lui'ope. t-.nv the havoc caused by the epivrd of So- i.diMu and the alarming growth of ttheist .Journals .Jour-nals Mid s.iys lhat it is time to insist- upon the Cath-' Cath-' ,-if America supporting- their Catholic press. ocii1isls are inoreasimr in strength in s -iiv- parts !' Ainerica ami occasionally one hears of ignorant 'aihol'-s supiorting SociIist lecturers and stating that "tiieii doctrine is all right.'' The Catholic "S" t.-j'ks lhus is ignoraet or an out-omi ;( 'H-.;-":d'. i,! son of the Mother Church. i certainly n;.- read little, if anything of the splendid ency-'i,-id, written by the late Pope Ioo or ihe present tx t-ecuteil Pope Pius X. The Catholic who support- Socialists in any way is a ranter, a notoriety se.-ker and often a weak minded character. Moth- I ei-s. watch ihe reading of your children especially i'hal which falls into the hands of your sons. Supply Sup-ply the home cirde with good reading matter and keep out the trah. I know that there are members mem-bers of families who will not read Ca'holic books r papers and these luke-warm Catholics are generally gen-erally the people who become lovers' of the sensa-tional sensa-tional journals. Begin the yertr by subscribing for '? Catholic papers and magazines and cut the yellow journals off your list. Close your door to the sheets ; which are ihe cause of scandal to the young, be-- -arise the pages of ihese papers contain only scandalous scan-dalous articles of the grossest crimes of the day. Show your horror and indignation of the treatment of God's Church, of the persecution of His priests and nuns by the Freemasons of France, by resolving to counteract their influence in ibis country. Give your money to the support of ihe Church, ihe pnro- ' -liial schools and the Catholic press iu America, and in this way assist in the destruction of the evil element. Anarchy is on the increase. Socialists are spending money to circulate their doctrines, and it should be our duty to use our pen and money to defeat iheir devilish plans. Kosaleen in Michigan Catholic. |