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Show ) Questions JIsRcd at noneatl)olic missions. -What is a nun?- ' -wiiut is the Il'-V Ghost?" ; -why do Catholics always have a f ,-ro.-s ;i!"t:l their house or person?" j - Who h charpe of Purgatory?" f but is the apostolic mode of foap- j -Why iio you count beads for pray- not. Catholics worship pictures ;;:,, inuitvs that hang in their I thni. !!.?" . Why. -Jo you make your members ... .-.:! shot and corn in their shoes v hen j 1 a re bad ?"' j I'., yuu. be lieve, tho pop., is infalli-; infalli-; !! '.' '! o. how coul-t XapoWm have 4 i.,k. 1. him prisoner to Franco, ami whv i .if' !:' w'"est himself from the i ,:;; le-s of Napoleon?" I Tl.- above are sii:c of the quest luns . t wre aske.j of the priests of the f mary union who are lecturing to j li-.a-cut holies in Kentueky. They indj-: indj-: , , a more than ordinary ignorance nf , -.iir.zy Catholic. Missionaries of ex-1 ex-1 ,.. ri-n.-e in various part?; of the conns' conn-s' try .-a:i tell pretty well the character r "f Hi" 'fiestions that will be put to : : fi 1 1 1 . but for genuine, simplicity of ; f..;-m and for 0"ns- ignorance of iyiat-,' iyiat-,' 1 i-r o;n- must Ret into the south.. I p the .w Hampshire mission, con- fla.L-d hy Father Sutton, the question f h,i. was an Interesting feature. "Why ! priests wear hoards?" was a fjueK- i t,. .a that had haunted the soul of one I tnr'i-seeker. "Why do you prav to the ! WH another. and "no vou ! -.in nd to deny that Luther did a greut " . iicnainet tne I ! .' was volunteered by a personam, person-am, w hose gray beard and venerable uir ""'id '" evidence 0f bettor sense. A now sect has sprung up in that : vicinity, eal'ed "The Holy Chost and i s." one of their loaders attended the . . turcs and handed in this question: J' "If H'iests have the power to for- f ' s'V- si", why do they not have the pow-I pow-I I er to :i. al 11h sick, as our Savior did?" I ' Aii.-u.i : Christ cam. int tl? world, i 1 . ihli .died his church and founded the V t.fv-iihood for the welfare of our souls. r T'i' oi.je, t of all he did had this in f vi "'' 11(1 desired our spiritual welfare. V he t'ae no direct power to the ;ii is over the body as he did over tl:. Christ was God and had pow- ! ' er -.vei spirit and matter, hence hp! !i I'.v h'x own power restore sick j.. : s .ns to health. I Tie- following must .certainly have ! tmzz'ed Father Sutton, as the emphat-! emphat-! 1 u-stioner sweeps away the only' li'issiHe answer: 1 '!; .sv make it known why priests f n!v :h 'he h-ibit of preaching in Latin ; a the congregation are ignorant of - what he is saying? Now, dort say for n excise thit they do not do it, be-; be-; u!- 1 have heard them." I pJ-'est of the New York apostolate 'r'tes: 'Tlte questions were numer- !-ai Protetint questions, about ? invents and the iublie inspection . Hi-for. and the sa'e of indulgences. llirtt !' ti r va? never in Home, fte. One . f (jii-si! on"!- asTeu about the locking up f I i conventB against their will, :i. v. r tlr nking for a moment that day .1 t'i.r dav he saw on the streets Sisters nf Chanty, who ould run away if they! ; hied. 01 apjal tc- a roli'-eman or. to a ! '".i.-siaiu citizen for aid. As proof he; v i". , Minted fr.mi the twenty-fifth session of ' : 11;.. cuncil ,.f Trent a. paragraph! t vlu.-h i-- mn in it at alienor anything i i U. But he Saw it. in an anti-Cath- i.'.'c l ook. JU must have doubted thp ! .M 'tf-ent somewhut. for he asked if it ; w.r- authentic. If it take a hundred to catch a li". I wonder when' I ue v'i,! catch uu with all the lies that l ; been to'd about us for the last I years. The Mine uuestfoTier 'want- I j ... know " if this dec ree, as taught by f '"athnllo church in the 'Monita Se- creta whatever that is) were true: 'ls it lawful for a wife to steal from her husband in order to give to the church?' " "One lady, cultured and refined attended at-tended night after night, and towards the end of the week received a visit from her pastor, who expressed surprise sur-prise that she should do so, when she told him. 'Don't you know,' said he the oath these priests take at their ordination? yes, she did know for the very night before the lecturer called heaven to witness that this oath found also in an anti-Catholic book, was a diabolical lie. She was; therefore ready for him, and since their inter- . view they do not like each other so 1 well as before. J "We nailed the, usual number or misconceptions mis-conceptions of Catholic doctrine to 1 call them by no worse name. I often ' wonder how hard-headed American Protestants can be 'buncoed' bv the eoek-and-bull stories they read in'anti-Catholie in'anti-Catholie books. Talk of the intellectual intellec-tual servitude of Catholics'. Whv, Protest-ants are chain-bound to everV outlandish statement of book and preacher." The ignorance and bigotry encoun- ' tered by these zealous missionaries Is astounding. When they were lecturing in Sandusky, O., a minister gave an eloquent address on "Away from Rome arid On Toward Christ." His oratorical flight culminated in this choice sentence: sen-tence: "If I knew the Catholic church to be the church established bv Christ, then would I become a 'pagan:' ' "This was his interpetation of "On Toward , Christ." Among the converts at Sandusky is a young married man, whose father, he declared, "would rather see him in hell than a member of the Catholic church." It was to escape that warm iMave that the young-man's w ife and two children later joined husband and father in his 1 toman journey. . ' Father Prannan. the intrepid ' Texas missionary, tells this amusing incident: "During rnT "hist .lecture at H.rpkins-ville, H.rpkins-ville, Ky., I saw two women silting together. to-gether. I think they were mother and daughter. The elder one had an expression ex-pression like a masculine representative representa-tive of the bovine species during the whole time of the lecture. There was a Catholic gentleman sitting near them, : ; and w hen I got through, the younger Of ' I 'he two said she would like 'to hire i somebody to kick her all the way back home. I have thought about this feminine fem-inine 'kicker' a great deal and have, tried to put the most favorable con- I struction on her . ac t of ealcitration. . not only out of regard for her, but for 1 myself also. j "Hut the preponderant idea with me j now- is, that she was so prejudiced that he was angry with herself to see the 'old Catholic church' so easily vindi-I vindi-I cated. Were it not for the indelicate j character of the performance, so des-j des-j titude of aesthetic suggestion, I am sure there '.could:, ha ye been found a factor who would have taken, pleasure In accelerating her. locomotion homeward home-ward in the manner suggested by herself." her-self." ' - - '. -:. A young woman, who is now a Catholic, Cath-olic, informed her. :mn-Catho1ic friend about her intention 10 enter the Roman Catholic chureh. " "I "-would sooner see ! you in your coffin," was her reply. This remark the young woman thought unkind un-kind and not at all complimentary. However, she invited her friend to witness wit-ness her baptism. She came, met the fathers tend asked a few- question about the church. She seemed surprised sur-prised that a Catholic priest would be civil and courteous to her. She left with more 'kindly feelings toward the church, and with respect for her friend who had the courage to make the Change, The. Missionary. |