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Show A DISGRACEFUL ACTION. (Sacred Heart Review.) Rather an unusual point, but nevertheless a good one, was made by a Jesuit priest preaching a mission mis-sion in the cathedral of Brisbane, Queensland, the other day. He was speaking of the many dangers that surround Catholics at the present dav, and the necessity of safe guarding the faith by Catholic reading, when he digressed a bit to score severely the Catholics who show meanness or carelessness iii the matter of paying for Catholic papers. Catholic Catho-lic publications, he said, suffered very much from unpaid subscriptions. Oftentimes the paper wa3 sent for years, and, when the bill for payment came,, very often a post card was sent, stopping the paper altogether. This, declared the preacher, was a shameful and disgraceful action on the part of Catholics, and a great deal of the weakness and inefficiency in-efficiency of the Catholic press, complained of by some people, is due to Catholics who seem to have money for everything else, but who "get mad" and stop the paper if they are reminded of their remissness. |