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Show Wanted Charity. If. as Swift was wont to say. censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent, it would clearly be futile fu-tile to expect that so exalted a personage person-age as the pope should escape such Payment. One may be pardon d. nevertheless, never-theless, for deploring that, in the case of the holy father, .the collector of tnis special sort of tax should often be a self-styled good ( 'at hoii;-." Without unduly, we heve, distrusting tTfe hon--sty of newspaper letter-writers, we are inclined to question the .senufne-ness .senufne-ness and goodness of tin- Catholicity that is continually flooding the columns col-umns of the secular press with carping carp-ing criticisms of ecclesiastical action and ecclesiastical personages, from I '"Pet-r's Pence" to the valh-an's attitude atti-tude toward France, and from the parish par-ish priest to the sovereign pontiff. Fault-finding is a perennially easy pro- ceding: grumbling requires neithnr brains nor manners: but it is a radically radical-ly contemptible act to publish in vagu-'-general terms insinuations against the honor or honesty of prelate or priest. Ave Maria. |