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Show CATHOLIC COMMENT. We notice that Denis Flynn, formerly former-ly delegate from Oklahoma, has a daughter named Dorothy Blanton, and that she is going to be married in Washington by an Episcopal minister. Why did not Denis change his name when he changed his religion? Western West-ern Watchman. $.- It is very much to be regretted that everything a boy knows about his physical nature usually comes to him through unclean channels. Fathers have an important duty in this respect toward their growing boys which they usually neglect utterly. Catholic Columbian. Co-lumbian. It is announced that the offensive play which evoked a storm jof omelette from irate Hibernians in New York ana .Philadelphia has been amended by the removal of insulting features. Irishmen who formerly withheld their patronage from motives of self-respect ought to continue to do so now in defense de-fense of good taste. Monitor. a If some mothers would devote as much time and attention to understanding under-standing and instructing their daughters daugh-ters as they do to learning the ins and outs of neighborhood gossip and scandal scan-dal there would be fewer young women going down the broad road that leads to hell. Catholic Columbian. "Church unity" 3 once again to be conferred about and discussed this week by Protestant bodies Presbyterians Presbyter-ians and Methodists in New York and Pittsburg. Of course the result will be as usual; and how could it be otherwise with every man that will be at the conferences con-ferences free to think and judge for himself on all matters of religion, which is the fundamental principle of Protestantism? New. York Freeman's Journal. Dr. Parkhurst Is credited with having said the other day in New York that "the poor man was a fool to marry, and a bigger fool if married Whave any children." It is hard to believe 1 that any such sentiment ever escaped from the lips of a Christian minister. It is so at variance with the spirit of the gospel that we are sure no sect can think of tolerating such a spokesman. It may be, however, that Mr. Park-hurst's Park-hurst's co-religionists are averse to doing do-ing him the honor of taking him seriously. seri-ously. He has talked so much of late, on all sorts of subjects, that hardly anyone stops to measure the effect of his words. Still, he has his pulpit and probably receives a good round salary for delivering his weekly "messages." Catholic Transcript. . . - ' As usual, the newspapers have discovered dis-covered a heart romance behind a well known young Washington society woman's wo-man's retirement to a convent to assume as-sume the life of a religious. To escape the attentions of a suitor, the young person in question is said to have renounced re-nounced the world. Our non-Catholic friends, as a rule, appear incapable of grasping the higher motive which prompts men and women who voluntarily volun-tarily consecrate their lives to the service serv-ice of God, in religion. They generally beat about for some natural cause, the only sort they conceive to be possible, for such self-sacrifice, and usually pitch upon a secret romance, disappointed affection, blighted love or something else' in that line, to explain the fact. This happens particularly in the case of young and beautiful women who "choose the better part," and yet the Catholic religious orders of women number in their ranks thousands of devoted members who'cheerfully turned their backs upon social position and the pleasures and honors which the world prizes, ior tne ooscurity of the convent con-vent cell, and from the highest and holiest of motives of which the human heart is capable, love of God and desire to serve Him unselfishly by ministering to His creatures. No doubt the young woman about whose choice of life imaginative' im-aginative' scribes are weaving such romantic ro-mantic inventions is impelled exclusively exclus-ively by the pious aspiration which has influenced so many other well born and accomplished women who have preceded pre-ceded her in the supreme act of renunciation. renun-ciation. The Monitor. |
