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Show CATHOLIC OPINION An injunction ought to be obtained to restrain Judge John Jay Jackson of West Virgina from further action certain to increase the people's distrust of the federal fed-eral courts. He is a worse enemv to law and order than all the Socialists and Anarcrhists in the United States put together. to-gether. Judge Jackson should go. Catholic Cath-olic Columbian. It's an odd thing that the secular press, which boasts of so many intelligent and talented writers, usually so correct, always al-ways err in the presentation of matters Catholic. The latest bull was tho announcement an-nouncement under glaring heads of the annullment of a New York marriage by the Pope. No Catholic needs to be told that if a true marriage had existed not even the Pope could have annulled It; that If a marriage did not exist, no impediment im-pediment existed to prevent a marriage, and that only a review by the bishop of the diocese was necessary to establish that fact. And still the papers would have their readers believe that the Pope had acted in a manner which was without the jurisdiction of the local authorities. Catholic Register. Michael Davitt. whose sole claim to be heard rests on the fact that he was an Irish political prisoner, appears in the new role of defamer of Irish immigrant girls in America. The agitator tell the bishops of Ireland to send a commission to this country and suggests that thev will find many Irish immigrant girls leading lives of shame in New York or other cities of the Union. There Is not a priest on the mission here who could not tell Mr. Davitt that the Irish girl here is the best hope of religion. Some few may fall, but comparatively fewer than In Dublin, Cork or Belfast. American Ameri-can Herald. A writer In one"ofThe New Thought publications, "The ' Theosophical Magazine. Maga-zine. ' warns that if the present rate" of Catholic fecundity continues, "that religion re-ligion ipevitably must sweep the world during the next two centuries." The assertion as-sertion seems well based. Catholicity is about the only religion now on earth that condemns the practice of defeating nature. Catholic husbands and wives are not afraid of becoming fathers and mothers. Pittsburg Observer If the Irish element in America should place Irish priests in charge of German congregations and establish rules virtually virtual-ly excluding Germans from membership m such orders as the Augustinians and Dominicans, the German element would very naturally and justly object. The Spanish authorities in the Philippines placed Spanish friars over the principal Filipino congregations and excluded the native from the great religious orders. This is part of the popular objection to the friars T e ought not to trv to force on the Filipinos a church policv which we ourselves would not stand. Catholic Citizen. |
