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Show CATHOLIC OPINION. Standard Oil Rockefeller has, it is al-. leged, offered his physician one milliCi to put his stomach in a condition as good as new. Worn out inwards, like frayed consciences, are not readily replaceable re-placeable at any price. Monitor. $ Apostle Reed Smoot has been chosen United States senator from Utah. This has caused the Ministerial alliance to put on its safest pair of boxing gloves. The battle will be pulled off in Washington. Wash-ington. Church Progress. 3- The Monitor thinks "Apostle" Smoofs "religion" all right. California Christian Chris-tian Advocate. The Monitor never said it thought so. We have said, and still maintain, that so far as it affects his political rights as an American citizen, Smoot's religion occupies common ground with that of our Methodist neighbor. Scrip-turally Scrip-turally and historically, moreover, Methodism .can lay no claim to advantage advan-tage over Mormonism. The Monitor. 4 Bishop Burgess of Long Island at the annual dinner of the Episr.1 Church club on Thursday night, said, in speaking on the divorce evils: "We can but recognize the fact that the Catholic church ia tij country hs stood as a bulwark against divorce and for the inviolability of the marriage tie" an example which many of the other denominations might follow witn credit to themselves. American Herald. Her-ald. ' The "stage Irishman" will continue just so long as his disgusting buffoonery buffoon-ery fills low theatres with snickering idiots of Irish birth or blood. The degraded de-graded creature who by his presence encourages such low caricatures on the race whence he sprung deserves universal uni-versal contempt. Catholic Union and Times. j The indictment under which Colonel Arthur Lynch, .who served in the Boer war. was tried for. treason uses this peculiar pe-culiar language: "The prisoner, we.l knowing that open, public war was being be-ing prosecuted between her late majesty. majes-ty. Queen Victoria, and the South African Af-rican republic, and not having the fear of God in his heart, was seduced by the devil and did unlawfully take up arms against the said late majesty. Queen Victoria." We think if the devil took part in the late war at all he must certainly cer-tainly have fought on' the side of the British AmericanJHerald. Apropos of the "popular outcry" against Senator-elect Smoot of Utah, on religious grounds, the Connecticut Catholic aptly observes: "The Mormon Mor-mon question will, and of right should, be as perennial as our shameless trampling upon the divine law of marriage. mar-riage. We cannot expect to restrict the Mormons' liberty in wife-getting while the rest of the country is free to carry on the wretched business without let or hindrance, and while the divorce mills are run with more or less pecuniary pe-cuniary profit from Florida to Dakota. ' The Monitor. The following clipping is from the Ave Maria: Considering the great age of the pope D. V., he will soon complete the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate and his ninety-third year it is not surprising sur-prising that he should be thought incapable in-capable of the exertion 6 saying mass in the usual manner. The Roman correspondent cor-respondent of the Kolnische Volkszei-tung Volkszei-tung writes: s The opinion prevail in many places that the pope no longer celebrates Mass, or else that he celebrates the Mass, or at least half of the Mass in a sitting posture. This is quite incorrect. in-correct. The pope says mass every day, and standing from beginning to end. The venerable old man, In spite of the burden of his advanced age, performs per-forms every genuflection completely to the ground, and reads the liturgical prayers so accurately that he takes three-quarters of an hour to celebrate. He is assisted at mass by his private chaplain and master of ceremonies. Manager Marzolini; -whilst his personal servant serves the Mass. The holy father says his weekday Mass in the little private chapel next to his bedroom, bed-room, but on Sundays in the domestic chapel behind the apartment of the Noble guard. After Mass the pope always al-ways hears another one, said by Manager Man-ager Marzolini. |