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Show T- . MISFIT PREACHERS. (Catholic Union and Times.) The Buffalo Commercial thus pungently pulls the noses of the political parsons who arc perpetually per-petually disturbing the community with their godly growls and quack nostrums for some "reform" or other, to the utter neglect of their pastoral charge. Quoth our neighbor: "In every paper one may read of meetings of the clergy to insist upon municipal reform of some kind suggestions are made as to what sort of legislation legisla-tion is needed for this, that and the other exigency. What is becoming of the churches in the meantime ? From the positive reports made by those who have recently investigated the church-goin" conditions in the city of Brooklyn, it is evident that the clergy might find plentv to do in attending strictly to the duty of getting their congregations to do what is required of them as members of the church." The Commercial, of course, means the Protest: ant clergy, for Catholic priests, as a rule, fight shy of politics save to perform their citizen duty in voting at election time for honest, capable candidates. candi-dates. Their professional obligations, we may add, to the peonlc whom they serve leave them no time to become political "reformers." Their churches, therefore, there-fore, suffer no falling off; but, on the contrary, are being more and more crowded every Sunday. ' As for Protestant pulpiteers, political meddling is as the breath of their nostrils. They should die without it. What, after all, is the dull saving of souls to the exhilarating strife of the political arena ! |
