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Show , j j gfttircb Universal I : NO MORE. ! ; ,i:y tli Kn Michaol Kails. S. J.) ! y w'.is il"' l"iicly jsloom of night; I mv lioart was numb with iain , ' ; n,ty w rary ryes could find no light j J ' , r.ss the tempest main. ! And thunder crashed its ghastly fright Till hnp was madly slain. : i ; j th Master: whore Mas lie X AH ilirmigrli tliat bitter hour? O ilts silenre mocking me K I Within the Pilot tower? j . I "in did Hint Voiee of majesty f j , f p. !!,v its peaceful power? j 1 liad sought some creature then i i " ra.--p its mortal care; i ; O 1 thought with fickle tmn ! y.y loneliness to share. ! t i i;. 1"' 1 called m Christ again, j Ai d peace was everywhere. I n- M1. and looked through In;:- I ; t'-al'S j ' :; .- i" Hi1 morning shore. ' ' " iiTtle failh. o fo.0lish fears"' ! -s mild rebuke He bore; - "'". nl show through all the ; Mrs hi Mile failh no more!" ! j j CHURCH CALENDAR. I J -anday Second after Easter. M. j v." Monday Apparition of Pt. Michael. . j uesday m. Gregory of Nazsan- . "Wednesday St. Antoninus. c Thursday St. Francis Ilieronymo. ; V2. Friday SS. Nerens d Companions. ; Saturday St. John the Silent. Till' CKX1IEAL INTENTION P..li j ' MAY T:. ojr,jnended by His Holiness, Pius X. TDK SODALITY OF THE BLESSED ; VIRGIN. I of the great fruits of the jubKea ! , :' the Immaculate Conception should v new foundations and increased mem i 1. 'ship everywhere of sodalities of tiur i :.-ssed Mother, to which is largc-lv duo :: '"iern devotion to hef,' so widespreal f ; i heartfelt, and especially ,to her -I.si- ? in , ulate Conception. There is no title I !!!"re illustrious, jione.'to set one's heart. upon more earnestly that that of Child of Mary. This most beautiful na.ni i ivHS given almost exclusively for i-iin . j .ars to boys and men; it was t.i ly i -later that girls made it their own. :.o Catholic in the world should be -'rtdif-i f. rent to membership in some sodality j ef Our Lady. It is admitted by rh"e paints that love of her is oho of -l... 5 siirect foresigns of eternal salvation" There is no more excellent wav of living liv-ing than the rules of the sodality after ! the rules of the great religious orders. "Whoever -wishes to have a pure rrid ; happy heart should become a sodaiist : of Mary and live every day according I to the rules of the sodality; the result ! is -worth the effort. The Church"s spi -it always turns to organization: knowing that "in union is strength." encourage-; encourage-; mnit to good, efficiency for works, r ro- 0- lection by instruction, pious practices and regular reception of the saera- jnents. I It is a very great mistake to think that sodalities have no other objrt j than Holy Communion at fixed tinnes j ''"a me recitation of the office. For j 1he Jast 300 years there wns-no kind of jrood work in which the sodalities of Our'Iady were not engaged teaching cntechism. visiting the sick and impris- i rned, helping the needy, etc. No hi- tory could contain the long record cf I tliese tvorks. In the terrible upheaval.; I of the sixteenth century whole citio i and tracts of country -were preserved j to the faith by the efforts and exain- I pies of the sodalists. Amongst them s v ere enrolled the most prominent men, I and" from" their ranks arose countless spostles. men and women, many cf whom became Saints and Martv;-.-- I Paints AJoysius. Stajiislaus and John "Rerchmans found in the sodality I powerful helps toward their great san--- , tilty. St. Charles Boronn'o. St. Fran-Ms J do Sales. St. Leonard of Port-Ma uri':o j ''d other saints too numerous to .neii- were faithful Children of Marv. Mary Immaculate, pray for us. j ; THE MONTH OF MARY. 1 On the first day of this hle?sed I n orth we naturally ask why has this I -whole month been consecrated io the 1 Mother of God, why has the month of j May been selected for this devotion, I sud when was thi devotion estao- I Ished. Th atir month of May has been r.inseorateti to the honor of Marv to f.mplete the work which has hf en .f commenced in the remotest antiituity. Time is divided by periods vMi.Ii h.ive j . different names. There rre hours-, 1 I f c ys. weeks, months and years. The 1 M'tv of our forefathers had co'iscrnt- J rA- 'o Mary eaeh day. by establishing I thf- Angelns This prayer i recited at three different times, morning, noon :-rd night. 1'very Satu.iy in e.jch v r-' k has been reserved for her honor. ; i every month of the year a particu- i r f-ast is celebrated in her name. I To sanctify the Christian year one f "'"rp month of the twelve has betn j pr,i'"-'-te,i. to be consecrated to the Vir- f "i Mother. And so. every year, at the j f1-d time, the Christian world thinks f Mary, renders her homage, implores - ' ' ii.tercession, sings her praises, and ' i ,4 study of this 'heavenly model J 1' ' 'v' s its fervor in the service of God. I? ' month of May happily completes i' - vnrk which anticju;ty commenced.' if the month of Mav is tne I ' "M l-atiifful of all t!ie month :f ' year. it. is also th harbinger of da risers for inmcenco. The I ' i;t skies bring days of pleasuie, I : seductive dangers often lie "hid- I :-i t'Urest .ioys. Tii'i warm su'-;-I 1 s' ; a . th" unfolding of nature, the j i "eSioj,s spectacle of universal re- i ! i-'-:.'-ration invite men to joys and ..pen " ""Lis to affections wh:c'i are often-; often-; fatal to "virtue. !'.:it we shouid ! ''s.- our strength as' the d-sngers I ' ' : iy. And where shiil we in, 3 j j "; : : 'I assistance if nit m devotion i 1 ' ' M-ry? What antidote more power- .inst the degradation of the E - v that to meditate on the many ' "' e-s of the purest of virgins? What I j- i- encouragement to virtue tr.An I -i '-asii-, picture of Mary, eonstant- I " "d before Js? Who cannot be ' " h ii walking under In r wli'te j ' - 'id Who cannot be strong with ' ' siMance? 'h i is there th it 3 ! l"vo wh-n it is a good mother 1 '--i'oiild be lovf d ?- I i i was this d . ".avion to Mary I hii),ed? Who introduced it ino I j ' "liui-ch? To what epoch can we j ' It would be di;!i--uit to ;tii- 'li"sc qufjritions pi-o;-sfjy. dod !--'"' has inspired men, wh were ' " i 'a-d hy tj:e bhiod of His Son 5 the thought of consecrating one a ' "' tiionth of the y?.ir to honor Ma- 'i ' 1 !i" world was obedient to this , j -'!''; lion, and it was a sweet duty '' '' The devotion of the month I ' " was founded in the Church from j "" v' T beginning of Christifinitj. I I ' ' ' a flower whos? germ has lee.;i , '' "'i' 'i by Hie wind of heaven. ;ind I ' ' ls no one who ran i'.x the precise f ' ' '" iiaine Us auhor ami origj , ' j -tf,o!e Citizen. f HAS WOMAN A SOUL? 3 j J i: ls '',ln opinion of many ducated I '"itside )ie Church that in the j J uia ii of Macon this ouestion was j r"!ioUsy discussed. H. Marion, Pro- 1 l 1n 'orbonne. writes: "We I K; "' that the Council of Maoon in the V V 1 ''I century agitated the question , aetltr VOIllan nas a SOU ancj tijd not f f '-sr.ive it m affirmative except in I ','"r "r 1hf" Mother of God." Psycho- f J'S deU Feinnic, p. -ST. P.uil von wenlroech translates: homiiu-3, femi- : ! hfm ''?Cora InnK-cntlii8 VIII. Bullar-chen Bullar-chen ?.";anum vI- v, p. 297) by "Mens-"hom-. J",- ",tho"fh evident that nominefc here means "Manner." He Km,- -r "'DiPse verachtliche Auf-iiiei Auf-iiiei S 151 Gemeingut dcr ultramonta-s ultramonta-s ,t,fca. "heologie." The same untruth sell lc y Tiberghien, of Brus-ci, Brus-ci, .r'0 Lauren,z at Ghent; Bebel Pii 1? Frau: Jules dEstree. and rnile van der Yelde. However, in the econd edition of Van der Velde's book def-iTlism cn Beli?ue. the story is oeuarui to be a mere fable. a 'J?.0 w'Sin of the myth is as follows: a Bishop of the Council asserted that .Tk homo was not a generic name, t.mbracinR the two sexes. Far from de-njing de-njing that woman has a soul, and was Part of the human race, he affirmed this most strongly by demanding that ine word femina he inserted in order cO have it well, understood that the de-j de-j ciees of the Council were also intended lor women. The discussion, therefore, was not about a point of theology or aith; it was purely a question of piiilo-logj. piiilo-logj. It was. moreover, oniv an inci-triit inci-triit and not a question forma Uv j.ro-posed j.ro-posed to the assembled Fathers A hook published bv Caiacius: 'Mu-lierer.s 'Mu-lierer.s non esse homines.- was plaed V" ,-n- 'ndPX by P'), Alexander VII. in the,,. wero fifty ,i1PSPS defended m Protestant," Wittenberg, bv which the human. dignity of woman was denied. de-nied. But urh a monstrous error has I never for A moment been m.hel.l oe ie " i.oi..eio ocen ujuieiii ny tne Catholic -Church. Catholic Review. AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. Discussing French affairs in a paper read recently in Sodalitv Hall. St. Louis Mr. lx.uis Fusz. of that city, had this tfiy of the abominable conduct of the French government, and the condonation con-donation thereof by the press outside Fiance: Xuns and monks, old and young, hale or iniirm. were driven out of their homes. into exile, if thev had the means to go: or. bereft of that, left to starve, unless taken in bv relatives or charitable persons. This literally occurred oc-curred to a poor nun last vear. found dead on the road from hunger and exposure. ex-posure. Thtir property was "sequestrated." "seques-trated." polite word frr stealing. This in the twentieth century, an aee which 'boasts of its enlightenment, of its humanity! hu-manity! And it is to be noted that the press f foreign countries, lmtablv of England Eng-land and of the United States, hareiy makes a cursory mention of these enormities. enor-mities. We sve no flaring headlines, no condemnation of these atrocities. The accounts are generally gathered irom the French daily papers, or through the telegraphic agencies, both of which are largely controlled by Jews; or. again, a number of newspapers of different cities club together, appoint a correspondent whom they pay roundly; round-ly; the selection is again generally an enemy of the Churchprobably a member mem-ber of the secret sect of Masonry. sometimes even a member of the "Bloc"; and he writes to suit the views he represents, to justify the acts of the government, to tone down excesses, to excuse them, to ridicule Catholics whilst he altogether ignores events so degrading that, if fully exposed, thev would bring a cry of execration from every right-minded person. TAMPERING WITH A'KEMPIS. A Piece of Treachery Perpetrated Upon Catholics. The Freeman's Journal prints the following fol-lowing from "C. J. of Brownsville Tex.: Protestants, not satisfied with omitting omitt-ing some texts from Holy Scripture, changing or perverting the sense of others in order to forward their false teachings, have adopted similar tactics in regard to one of our most valuable (if not our most valuable) spiritual books. Of late, a new and attractive edition of the "Imitation of Christ"' has been published by ihe linn of E. .1. K. Young & Co.. Cooper Union. Fourth j avenue. New York. It is called the "UixfiiKton Edition." and comes from '"the Edinhuig University Press. Thomas Thom-as and Archihald Constable. Primers to Her Majesty,"" As it carries with it no "Imprimatur" of any Bishop, no indorsement of any dignitary or censor, one might be led to suspect its genuineness, genuine-ness, were it not that Catholics considering con-sidering it so much. nav. so entirely' their own, think every copy of it which they buy is indubitably orthodox. But this is not the 'case. As Protestants do not believe in Purgatory, they have resolved re-solved to strike out that doctrine from the "Imitation of Christ." as implied in its text and substitute something else in accord with their own views on the matter. Thus, in Bk. iv.. c. v. and in the last paragraph of No. 3, whereas "A'Kempis" has it: "Quando Sacerdos ceebrat . . . defunct is requiem pra-ostat." pra-ostat." the translator, in the edition before be-fore us. says: "'When th" priest doth celebrate . . . he makes mention of the departed." by which he rejects the suffrage for the dead and the doctrine of Purgatory." The rapid reader of ihe "Imitation" might not notice this, hut it is a piece of treachery perpetrated upon Catholics which I think should be made known to them. A MODEL CATHOLIC LAYMAN. Xot the least of the great men of the sixteenth century who have affected deeply the history of the world is Blessed Thomas More. Sir Thomas More. Chancellor of England. pio-nounced pio-nounced by the Church 'as excellent in sacred learning and courageous in the d-l'ensc of truth" and placed -among I those "who, in ancient and more recent re-cent times of -lerseeutiou. hae been put to death in England for Christ and for professing the truth of the Catholic faith." . . The life of .such a man affords food . for thought in an assembly of Catholic laymfn. because he is declared "blessed" "bles-sed" by the Church and because he is preeminently a model Catholic layman. Sir Thomas More was born in London Lon-don in 1480. He was educated at Oxford Ox-ford and afterwards followed the prof- I fession of the law. He entered parlia-I parlia-I ment in Henry VH's reijn. Henry VIII in 151 S invited him to enter the service of the state. He remained in J the service of the king eighteen years. In that period he was sneaker of the house of commons and chancellor of England. After the divorce of Henry VIM became be-came a burning question in England Sir Thomas More resigned his chanc-'l-lorship and went into private, life. Henry VIII.. having failed to obtain papal sanction for his separation from Katherine of Aragon. finally, in de-Jiance de-Jiance of all right and justice, put her aside and made. Ann Boleyn his quc,en and reputed .wife. The refusal of Moie to take the oath that was required of the king's subjects by the act of Riinremaev caused his arr.st, imprison ment, trial and execution on Julv 6. 153.".. The characteristic virtue of his life was loyalty to truth and principle, Xo spectacle more inspiring than this hero and saint almost alone, abandoned by friends, surrounded by enemies, threatened, threat-ened, deceived by promises, foul and fair and his loving heart, stirred to its depths by the tears and entreaties of an affectionate wife and an idolized dauchter. i It is easy to cling to truth when all around are a justice loving people. But when iniquity sits in high places, when leaders of Israel disgracefully and cowardly cow-ardly betray their high trust, when loss of earthly goods, imprisonment and death threaten us, then is the day that tries men's souls, and only the truly noble come forth conquerors. How heroically and grandly does Sir Thomas More stands forth, the model Catholic layman, devout, religious, ' thoroughly Oa:t.-lie in belief and prae- tice, loyal to his country, his Church 1 and his God and giving up cheerfully ' and willingly his life for the principles of right and justice. Fortunate indeed for us if the one great lesson of his life his loyalty to principle sink deeply into our hearts. In these modern days there is need' of men who are not deceived by specious arguments that would make right wrong and wrong right, but whose guiding light is always the white light of truth and honor. Often live in spirit with the noble dead. Dwell upon their heroic lii-es. We become like our ideals. Unconsciously Unconsci-ously they mold and fashion our characters. char-acters. Ever remember that the only truly courageous man is the one who believes in God and the accountability of the. creature to his Creator and ever follows fol-lows in the steps of the Divine Exemplar Ex-emplar Who is the Way, the Truth and the light. Rev. Philip R. McDevitt, Catholic Young Men's Union, -Philadelphia.. POPE RETURNS PETER'S PENCE. A cable from Rome last Sunday read as follows: An incident which demonstrates the unbounded charity and delicacy of Pius X happened at the Vatican recently, when the Bishop of Mende. in France, came to Rome and was received in private pri-vate audience by the Pope.- The Diocese Dio-cese of Mende is known to be the poorest poor-est diocese of France from a tinancial standpoint, and Pins X was very much surprised when the L'ish-,p offered him a Peter's Pence coileclinn amounting to $1.-00. apologizing for the smallness of I the offering becautfe of the poverty of his dock. Pius X, in accenting the gift, made some remarks about the love that prompted it, which is to be considered above the. value of the offering itself, and then remarked that he would also make a gift to the Mende Diocese worth at least an amount equal to that he had leceived. So he asked the Bishop, who he knew to have made peisonal sacrifices sacri-fices in order to raise the amount he brought to P.onie. to accent the same put so for Jhe poor of his diocese, an offer which the Bishop absolutely refused. re-fused. Pius X insisted, and the consequence was that the prelate, having refuse.! to take the purse with him. Pius X ordered or-dered the money placed to the credit of the Mende Diocese at the call of the Bishop, who before leaving Rome was informed that Pius X would never use a cent of the amount for other purposes! pur-poses! whatever. AN EPISCOPAL VIEW OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Bishop Kgger of St. Gall, in Switzerland, Switzer-land, one of. the most scholarly and progressive prelates in Europe, was recently asked by the editor of the Semaine Literaire, of Geneva, what he thought of female suffrage. His reply deserves to be quoted here. It was substantially as follows: Woman is not inferior to man; but the two sexes have a different mission to perform in the history of the human race. Woman's- proper place is at home in the family circle, not in public life. This appears: l) from her physical and moral qualities; () from the history of society "historia magistra vitae" and (3) is required by the interests of society, because participation in public pub-lic activity by the gentler nex would hurt the education of youth and domestic do-mestic life. These are the main ob jections against according the suffrage i to women. We must acknowledge, however, that the social position of ' woman has undergone a marked change j and that this altered condition of at"- 1 fairs may. de facto, lead to lnodifu-a- j tions which do not harmonize with ! the ideal of human society. As for the i Church, she opens to the female sex all those fields of activity which correspond cor-respond to woman's peculiar natural qualities, particularly education and charity. But she does not for a moment mo-ment think of granting her a voice in the administration of public affairs. Whence we may conclude that the learned Bishop of St. Gal! is opposed to female suffrage in principle," hut looks forward to a time when, in view of the radical changes that are gradually gradu-ally coming over society, it may la- expedient to accord to our wives" and mothers certain limited political privileges. privi-leges. Our own Bishop Spaldintc. it may not be amiss to recall here. ip heartily in favor of admitting women to the election elec-tion booths. Catholic Review. FOSTERING OF VOCATIONS. j The Christian Home a Nursery of Virtue and Religion. Apropos of the annual collection for j the s-ntinarians of his diocese, Rt. Rev. ! Bishop Allen of Mobile, Ala., spoke . strongly in his pastoral letter of the." necessity of fostering vocations to the ' priesthood. After urging the people through a sense of loyalty and grati- i tude to God to b' generous in helping to educate the priests who will be their i comfort and stay in future days, th I Bishop said: "AYe should all pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His I vineyard, and especially to grant us vocations for the boys attending our parish schools. "A vocation to the priesthood or to a religious life is not unusual in our I midst, but unfortunately some parents i do not foster these vocations or pro- j tfet the innocence of their children ' blessed with them. It is certain that I if it were not for the worldlv way in which children are brought up we j would obtain more candidates for the j priesthood, from our peopl-.' When ' the home is not well regulated, when j tne members of the familv lead inv. '"?'ous lives, vocations cannot be developed. de-veloped. Wln-reas the Christian home is the nursery of virtue and religion. "What a happiness for a truly Catholic Cath-olic family to number among it's members mem-bers a priest of God? What .in honor it is for a parish priest to see those adorned with th- priestly dignity who besides being born in. the parish were trained in the parish schools and sent j from them to the College and Pernio- I a ry ? j "The church, cannot be said to have! acquired a Turn hold in any land until' sne.is able to call to her service a na- I tive priesthood. When she has done this, and then only, will she cease to be a pilgrim in a foreign land. How few parishes in this diocese have ever given tven one re;ij esenta I i ve to the Alter.' is :s because there jK ;, a,.k of appreciation and importance of the I priestly office? Were that dignitv fully acknowledged and properly valued, val-ued, no sacrifice would be considered too great to secure the pn-servation of vocations among the young." Catholic Columbian.. CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY. The reports read at the animal meeting meet-ing of the International Catholic Truth Society in New York last month were listened to with keen att Pill ion tor oil I present, and much gratification' was expressed at the results of the year's work. These reports should have interest in-terest for the Catholic public generally Few persons, we think, have any idea' of the vast amount of good done bv this admirable organization. The dissemination dissemi-nation of Catholic literature is only one of its many objects. For instance scholarly members of the Sodiety have effected the revision of numerous textbooks text-books and works of reference; contain- , ing misstatements of Catholic doctrme and calumnies against the Church. And ' this revision of books found irt all large libraries, and used in schools-and colleges col-leges throughout . the countrv.; is not limited to the correction of errors-much errors-much legitimate matter reflecting deserved de-served credit upon the Church-lias" been I inserted. It is pleasant to be assured ' that "many of the objectionable comments com-ments and data found in text-books, etc., proceed not from a wanton, studied I desire to misrepresent the Church, but I are rather the result of the writer's j limited reading along Catholic lines. When the correct statement has beetr courteously presented to sfjch gentlemen gentle-men by scholars in the international Catholic Truth Society, it has in almost every case been gratefully received." HELEN GOULD'S PRIZE ESSAY. A reviewer in the New York Sun i3 not' impressed with the essays on the Bible that won Miss Helen Gould's ?1,00. "The chief did-overy." he says, "seems to be that the Catholic Scriptures Scrip-tures include some books which are regarded re-garded as: apocryphal by Protestants, a fact which might have been ascertained ascer-tained without awarding $1,000 prizes. The essays are mainly bibliographical; the one that took first prize is marked by a bigotry which fully explains the refusal of Catholics to serve on the committee of award, and justifies Catholics Cath-olics in their general abstention from the competition.". I "That criticism from a secular journal," jour-nal," comments the ("atholic News (xix, 25). from which paper we take the quotation, "is severer than has come from any (.'atholic source. The fact is, Catholics have regarded the whole affair af-fair as too one-sided to merit prions consideration from them." Catholic Review. |
