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Show CATHOLIC COLLEGE GRADUATES. Regarding the lack of interest in Catholic affairs shown by so many of our graduates from Catholic colleges, once thev have left those institutions and entered on the struggle for existence, exist-ence, the Western Wratchrr.an says: "Let the Bishop of the diocese call a meeting of laymen, or let the rector of a parish announce a meeting for pur poses of great and wide interest, how-many how-many of our college graduates will attend? at-tend? If on some occasion of local or general importance an address is to be delivered, how difficult it is to get a Catholic man of college education to do it. With our young women it is more satisfactory; they are better educated than our boys, and they give better results re-sults at home and 'in the church. They are more refined,, and they are more loyal to truth, beauty and goodness. very seldom Indeed does a Catholic girl disgrace her religion, but when she does she is damned and is a stranger to peace for evermore. Yet, for all that, our Catholic young women, including graduates of our convents, are rather backward in performing duties which are right at their door and under their eyes; duties which the state of the Church and of society in America imposes im-poses on them; duties of the home; duties of religion and charity; .duties to the Door; duties to the sanctuary and the altar; and duties towards the j propagation of the faith among those j who have not the truth, or who are in danger of losing it. Opportunities of doing good are numerous and present with us, and it is God's will that we should seize them now and carry forward for-ward the great work which He has assigned as-signed us to do." |