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Show A priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis; formerly for-merly himself for fou' years a member of the Young 'Men's Christianli Association, says in a letter let-ter to the Church Progress (XXVIII. 27) that "the Catholic who known ngly joins this organization organiza-tion violates his conscience as much as if he would attempt to join the Melodist or Baptist churches and then intended to malta? Ids Easter duty in the Caiholic Church." V Should any Catholic, li'dsled possibly by quasi-Catholic quasi-Catholic publications o tne a,)d Women stripe, still have doiibts abYut the matter, he is referred re-ferred to the .October nunder of the Review of Reviews (p. 484). With tltf aid of the statements made there and of tluAdiver-V aets an experiences published in the couAse of'fhe last three "or four years by the Catholic! Fortnightly Review, we believe be-lieve the strongest possible nV'gument can be made out for dissuading Cafcholic-sl from joining the Y. M. C. A., which hides is sectVrau Purposes under the cloak of non-sectariiu aii'V institutional work. The Catholic Fortniglltly Etviow- It. was asserted, by a (la,tholiC salesman quite recently re-cently in Salt Lake Citl, who had given up his membership because of a scurrilous publication slanderinir priests and nuns he found in the reading ' room of a Y. M. (V A. hall in Seattle. Wash., that an applicant for membership i- handed a card in which he-must toll what religion he professes. And adds this salesman. "I saw v. evidence of a Catholic Cath-olic being appointed on any committee, but. rather, a rank discrimination against him. |
