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Show CATHOLIC OPINION An editorial 1rT theCftristian Register s&ys that cloister cells have been without exception "associated ,-with ideas of the future that , have passed out of modern belief." This is "I'mutch." as Artemus Ward would say. Our esteemed contemporary contem-porary really means "modern unbelief.." Sacred Heart Review. As far as good listening and a sharp lookout could keep one in touch with the times, one is prepared to say that no religious re-ligious issue was raised during the campaign cam-paign just closed. -We are growing in wisdom. Church and state are gradually separating. It is only in. the schools that Protestantism remains the established re-ligon re-ligon of the country. The task of making it the established religion of the schools in our independencies is one far more titanic than was anticipated in the first flush of victory. Perhaps the undertaking undertak-ing will finally have to be abandoned as a bad job. It ought to be, an, if the enlightened en-lightened policv of the president pervails, it will Catholic Transcript. A reader wishes to learn if Marie Corelli is a Catholic. The melodramatic novelist is not now and never was a child of the church. When young she attended a convent con-vent school for a few months, but even then was notable for her unfaith. By birth she ought to be a member of the Anglican church, but has run the gamut of various Oriental beliefs into positive Nothingarianlsm. Her work shows her mind an ollapodrida. of many queer things New. World. It is an "absent-minded beggar" who Is the editor of the Encyclopedia Brittantca, beyond all question. In the article on "literature" "lit-erature" in the. new edition he has omitted the name of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. We read that the distinguished author refuses to make any comment on the subject himself; him-self; and if this be true, it reveals a new and unsusoected trait in his character. Mr. Antrew Lang shares the glory of oblivion along with Mr. Kipling a strange bit of irony in the distribution of new verificaticn of the Scriptural axiom on the humiliation of the proud and the exaltation exalta-tion of the lowly. Standard and Times. During the month of November ritualists ritual-ists will pray for the dead. They believe in Jurgaiory. inai is, nicy up Catholic dogma which their legitimate ancestors condemned and branded as Romish and begotten of hell. And so, Rome was right, even when visited . by the concentrated hatred of Anglicans who. accused her of creating Purgatory chiefly for profit. Yet we have no word of apoloKy for the cutrageous attacks of these stern and pope-hating ancestors. Tons and tons of abuse have been heaped upon the head of Catholic churchmen for preaching belief in the existence of a place of purification after dead. Logic and the eternal fitness of things demanded de-manded such a settlement. But if logic and the eternal fitness of. things were with Rome and against the "Reformers," why, so much the worse for the logic and the eternal fitness... It should be pro foundly humiliating for the pious children of these papaphobits to kneel flown ana prav for the dead, remembering, the while, that as they pray they spell out the condemnation of their own fathers In tne faith. Catholic Transcript. Russell Sage, the venerable Wall street "philanthropist," is said to find life very sweet. now that in the natural course of events, it is drawing to a close. Hi precious vears, since adolescence, have been devoted exclusively to one noDie passion, the accumulation of wealth. In pursuit of his chosen ambition, Mr. Sage has the reputation of never once having stepped aside to sweeten the life of any fellow creature. From this, it would appear ap-pear that the opulent stoc k jobber's "success" "suc-cess" strictly accords with the materialistic material-istic ideal of the present day. Moifitor. |