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religion m hard pressed, in plages,, and ps,,,. rural oommunitiea. «Sut-ill Sorer Aaaerfca The Sitter of Mercy "•."_ there rare parishes organised- like St. Xke Rosary Miehall's of.-tyags, and donMj: their work ^plKr'Mme-Of the JM«^o* Boebeeter Her f»c« hath <*i*ght Hi* sWwlus> 7 with enthusiasm" and'wltK notable results. ^rigtawtplfc•'** A»d"»w» 8i. »w Friday t»y Up to the heights,. »w 10. the «io«il»£.. r , Not long ago we read" of a pastor in the -.-•*}- --j| y true Catholic loves to recite the Rosary, that beautiful devotion. ^%»1u^QkI0 COtmiBR and JOURNAL, nws, • grey. • - .„ . •* >ffi ver jreat Northwest who has a dozen or more. ,,- TO*tine Approbation of the "" Jpeneath her wimple, wliffo "as thorn in in honor of .Mary, the Immaculate Mother of God. $0 devotion is more sane? far-scattered communities in his parish. fti -•-ifijifg^ R^ John Fr»ncto O'Hern, D.D., May, . 1 tifyiny than this. If properly said, it brings before our minds all the. great In each one of these communities he has '^ ' :-•''. "^ • . _ Blahop of Rochester Her clear eyen hold the radiance of the mysteries; of oar Faith, it teaches os the part JVIary played in the vvondertul f| organized deialiiig, societies, iltwary so : Tryet. ; T1KJ0PHONB MAIN 16*67 How could It be-aught elae? She vlglbna. mystery^flfie incaTWatirarand how ¥yTter co-bperatiOn she aided in the work cieties, radio clubs, church societies, and Christy the spirit of his flock is A spirit that will Courier Established 1929 of man's salvation. No prayer is so suitable and so well adapted to our times never die. There are possibilities in Xn(T"aIT her love Is twinlnK and our Wants as the Rosary. Pope I^o XIII realized this. Not only was he Journal Established 1889 Around H1B crimson woundH and riven every- village, and in every rural com Subscriber to tbe N. C. W. 0. Now* Sertlce Heart personally fond of this devotion, but he labored by every means to infuse the munity. In-the Diocese. GLJSocliesfcer are Entered at the Postofflce at Rochester, Hera, Bieicod too, In itUy for IDs smart; same spirit into his spiritual children. The recitation of. the Rosary should, many country parishes finely organized, N. Y,,-a* Second-ClassMail Matter She on her ohon oro^s no Klguro lies— well managed, well conducted*, thoroughly Shn Is thf victim there ID raystto gui&el - enter into, the rule of life of every devout Catholic. A household in which -alive--spiritually and- successfully active And not tor her, enclosure shadowy* i 1 JBSISSH'TIOH 8AXH8 . In silent courts where earth had never -~Mary~1*-honoTed:~aninary-iy jionorea-^nud ioY«Fis-loved~is-*aa-nwppr happyy oneone.-. •^ --• - - - .• » temporally. Church affairs are always well Payable In Adranoe away} • . - • _-—-— attended, and the souls of the parishes are ll.SO - -— Her-clglBtor irthealley" safe. J3$* Tf«n= Of the poor— "~ the Volstead act became a law under him, concessions from Britain. For the British foreign, OB» year, egg,..T^. 8,00 Tho worfctrouao ward— Father'Gtllir says. So is Frapklin D. lioh'will. not be any too keen to have Ire This paper will be glad to publish at Vain ail checks payable to Catholic Courier and The clans-room to. enduxo; Roosevelt.. Sp is Newton D. Baker, and so land twisting its tail while India is Jam any time full accounts of events that give Journal, In*. - Advertising Bate* gladly turniineti - Sfre liears a banner is Albert C. Rjtehie. ButJiQtone of these ming its jawa, with most of the world voice to activities ©f parishes and of par op application: This DewapaDer will soi iseeia. Through a sin-tossed world— is ."unavailahW though none can mateh cheering both Ireland and India. Mean ish societies. Such events are inspiring, unreliable or undesirable adverUalng. _ Morcy — God's eweetoat attribute ~ Smith in statebnarrship or political acute- while, let us watch and pray that Ireland helpful to religion and helpful to the peo iinfiirlt!(l, . _ _. ple, - <;- — - •... —-The Catholic Press. ness. -.---' --— • -may-not-be^bathed'again-in-'the blood trf ^the^^disco^ciBtedjrt'aaref ^swayeo% v-tand-: •^*^e^ltoswde»by^he^ew-^¥ork Times her^heFoier^sons««nd^daughtera;--%e-^Eif- Maurice F. Sammons, Managing Editor rfieh with wild promises influenee sueh and other A^rjean newspapers to discard teent-h hundred- anniversary of the com persons easily. Loose-tongued orators are Smite lest.t^country be plunged again ing of St. Patrick to Ireland as an apos >v All 5ommBnt«Uon» for aublleatloji muatfbt-algned -hot-vtenting hi such dilemmas. They hold into""a campaign of rejigious bigotry "is a tolic missionary is a year more fitted for '" -' . with tha nam* and addreia of tb» writer, and must cowardly plea/f Father Gillis says, and all prayer than for warfare. May"1 fcereb e aloft the rainbow of. promise, golden and "The Samaritans of Molokai;" by Charles ii^uiTjr^-Ja-tli^Oottrlar offloe by Tuesday preceding th« seductive. -And it was under these condi fair-minded Arnericans will agree heartily no war! ±^j9te&hkto!&M*X'~ ;- tions- the recent election in Germany was with that statement. "Let's not postpone J Duttonr Dodd, Mead & Co.," New- r York ; price,* $3.O0_per copy. / held. On ohe side was that great war the conflict. .Let's have it out now,* AFTER EASTER - •'TWPWW MW^B any sactifiee, euen to the pawning lord, President vorrfiindenburg, champion Father Gillis says. In other words, if the Here is a book one will read over and -.4 UtttfyJinfU Mieml crati and soutane, in order to reptile bigotry is eating into the. vitals, of- over, -with- appreciation*and- with ^wonder. the Nation, let us, for God's sake, and for '-""It wouT8"3o"'juTb'f us a great deal of It tells a, story the like of which is seldom ;^«gSI^OohfUQtlfer. side was Adolpn Hit- good if we would read and meditate upon lived, and less seldom told- It is the ier, magnetic, spectacular, energetic, il America's sake, kill that reptile now. the events in the. life of ^our.divina_Lord- . tuai ve. ami frca. wittUrDaomifies^. The -ior^ stcry, shnply-and'-symj^^ -•-If Ahe*Democratie» party -rejects-AJfred immediately after His-Resurrection.- He- of "the lives, the" work, the sacrifices, the 1 ' mer represented- stabiHtyr BoltdaiHy; pa- -''$• Smith because of his religion, Father ifT^rf^rt^rAl ™ % *#*& tiertce in suffering, conservatism; the hit-""" (''His says, "the party writes itself down was -simple man no' longer, but the sufferings, the marvelous heroism, the un- Saviour of the world, the founder of the . failing faith, and thg beautiful dpaths of tar WAS thA l'PvnvHft- ja-ap^ardjan.d,an iin.Kni,v...t(i tx-Jijaam iiiitii^- •Cffi'ls-ttan ffltlCthvrilrTaTTrid Uirector'ot ' ABOUT MIXED MARRIAGES ty, and it deserves uH. tlu; beatings it hu& Father Daniien, Apostle to the Ldgpei's^_ President von Hindenburg is aji^oki , i^fe -Apostles ^who were to preach that and 'of Ubseplf^Pottoh, his co-w5rker, v.-^.-w^nraftv-itno^fife great" T^aTffioliTaers are everTiad, or "Will getr Faith to all \he world, and teach all na bowed with age as well as with obligrations These are strong words. They are jus friend and helper, Joseph Dutton, "Brother ^Ihe Federal Gbiwcil of the Churches tified. Then* will be millions of voters who tions the things He had commanded them to Everybody." Here is a book thorough ^,of,G3iri*t in AmeHoa has just issued a and duties. His days of fighting, whether will watch this isue, and watch !t with a to teach. ly CathoHc-in-spirit-smd-in.*n?Portr^ieenIy -J-*- • lUljmwt denouncing the Catholic attU on the battlefield or in the political arena, - -T-he-Hoiy Ghost-,--Spirit of-Truth and ayrhpnthetic. with th«-Church aad-its m- ili^ojjy^ed^^ bricte-ih •their-pockets-and fire-in their eyes; LWejye!}atigiL,av,eMdgfttoh&^wlhB^ ^ ^^^gteeriea^MMt-to-knackle-down to bigotsi j?f_ Courage;, was to .come.. ,The timid ideals, with- pages^f-appreciation-aiid of-= JW^^ttBiFs cotmnitfe^-oTrmarTriBge^antl-" group, terrified by "the" awful events of tfie love intertwmed in the lives, of its. sul>- the hom« advises Protestants not to enter for him. Foremost among-these is Chan if great political parties have to knuckle cellor- -Bruening,-the austere scholar," down to loud=mouthed, uli-Anierica'n, ly- C-meifixion;-stood in need of Divine help jects. It is pleasant to record that the ^iiito-$«eh; n»rriage«; The.primripal otojee-^ and inspiration. Firsl lan-ininisteava-resident •-^ajBM).f the^ottheJMo^BixedTtrngriages -is , flometiinea salted tTfe" Jesuit, so-sovt>pe-a be no wavering of faith, no fear, no dread. of Des Moines, Iowa, and a cousin of Jo that, when * Catholic i§ one of the parties - correct is he in life. Catholic to the very IVesidents at the behests of these poor soul of Mm^ne went out and fought like a jnekals of hate, then it is time, as Father Hence, we have the marvelous and over seph Dutton^ who was a .convert to-the - '""" / to **i marriage, the noh-Catholic must sign Gillis.tconcludes, to say of the Constitu powering scene with Thomas — with Church. -T-77— a* agTe^psairtliat all chUaren born to the Crusader of old for his Protestant friend Thomas, the doubter, symbol of doubters q -and—leader. "Hindenburg must win so tion •: "AyeV tear her tattered ensign - The etory of Bamien is a-story that \. JX^ wnjjgy^bjOti3>tiight.up in the Catholic - -down." of aH ages who say, scorhfulIyT "I will not "";""".I":**l^iSQtfcrr^tKeason ana conscience are of- that tfennany may live,"' he" told "his believe unless I* see things for myself." grips and holds. Drama is., wityten on '-'.'ii'ftnided^'Jby this act, the Council declares, fellow-citizens. And he praised the Presi Thomas would not believe in the> Resurrec every page' of his life-^-draraa, self- .^^^ufihCaMa-Qf fiiture iiiacord are sowed dents a. God-fearing mah who relied upon CONDITIONS IN IRELAND tion—no man could raise himself from the abnegation, suffering and sweet resigna ^_i:at-the very iOuwejt of married life." divine guidance for all his decisions. His*"" dead. He said so violently, and with em tion. The author tells this story well. He words moved millions of loyal German tells it from the day Damien,—witlrscarce- ~ - 'Hie Federal Council, of Churches re- We are not, as yet, alarmed about phasis. Unless he saw the wounds in the hearts. He spoke not only for his friend, conditions in Ireland* It is true that De- hands and in the side of his Master he ly a moment's preparation, volunteered to bv^rametHrom criticizing the Church itself, but for his fatherland, for religion and for go to the leper colony at Molokai,. in the Vulera has notified the British oovern- jsjould.not believe.- Not her He was no. -MtdCVdted^ia'u^cism to the regulations God. TJltt-iuis,wer_was. overiyh^lniinj^and-. =-tnent-m>-WTlt SWHUi~fPTthT nb"more To The Hawaiian Archipelago, tocare forthe bad simpleton like the rest of the Apostles. ly neglected and terribly deformed Leper8 "^^^mrwmo^mrW^i^ to '•'?«««'» Fresiae.nl von Hindenburg failed aiicient enemy of his land. It is true he He must be convinced. Then, lo, there - non^Catholics not to enter such marriages by a narrow margin of obtaining the mfr hns notified the same government that on that island. Bishop Maiirret of Hono ; jority neeessai'y for election, his vote was stood before him his'Lord and Master. lulu, lamenting* the way the poor Tepers on " will beh&irtily welcomed by the Church. Jreland will pay .land annuities no mere, "Come hither, Thomas," that kindly Voice so large that he is sure of re-election in and that the British lion has emitted a Molokai were neglected, expressed the ', '^For th| Chjrcn ,ip rigtdly opposed tQ such tJ^jxearJuture. sajd, "and .place your .ltandsJa.the .wound. wish-to^a .group of prieats^nerday that he c f r -rather alarminj^ftibwl- of warning. Not a »_n.my;j»We Ja^^ t ,-.->Ttl .)i! ,9 id^J«^hed.,-thJ8^el«iioa.,«Kith.. v Ttnew of'sDnTCOTie^Holvo'Uld *g$ (liere'a'n'n* _ „•,-.E?w«r,..to..prexgnjt.tUenx. . Thistattitude-is•-• J ^HH\ ^Jusfr-a^grow."" Tiiisis'notr'aistui'b-" where the nails were driven. And Thomas, help care for them. Damien, a younsc Bel "«taken-b(Bcaus» the Church wishes to safe Bated Breath. If Gemiany went the ways ing, though some newspapers would make overwhelmed, ashamed, fell upon his knees of the Bolshevists, if she caught up the gian priest,«exelaimed impulsively: "I-will guard the souls of her children, and pre- it so, and some bigots would have it so. and exclaimed: "My Lord and- my God." go." Two hours later without changing 1 *, ; veiit pervjEm»iQ8 of Mthu. Mixed, marriages, red flag of .Communism, joined hauds_iuUu- -AVe-dottbt- ir-the- English government is Then was the world taught a lesson for all Russia and Spain, launched a savage at his clothes, he was onthe sea, headed for ~"~~ ""." ImlitM*t6TJ6n-t!atri61fcs seldom cause seri- anxious to send its bayonets across the ages: Molokai. By his side was Bishop Maigret, "r\, oust trouble. But when a Catholic is a tack upon religion and family life, then Irish Channel, there to resume the tyran "You have believed, Thomas, because party to a mixed marriage the results are might we well feel that civilization itself nical and bloody, work they did for long, who returned after a short stay. That was on the verge of ruin. But, happily, you have seen. But blessed are they who night, the author tells us, Daniien slept un different^ because there is such a wide cruel centuries. We doubt if DeValera have not seen and who believe." der some trees. There was no roof to divergence fa the religious beliefs of the Germany did none of these things. And wnnts to-force a condition that will bring This is the answer to doubters. This ^-^tiuple, -The Catholic believes in Confes- there is one man,'more than all others. these detestable bayonets haek. shelter hini. All around him vcprn l^poru, who deserves credit for th\«—T.lm^ »lW is the answer of Faith.—Thia ia the spirit dying by inches, hopeless and helpless. He sifin, in Communion, in the Divine Prea g Trnr -hislr biee atate has had ten God loves—the spirit that does not ques slept not only one night, but manv nights, * ^*«4ce of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of Bruening, the leader, the fighter, the years of blessed peace. Rut peace in a champion of sound government and of tion the Diyjne will, but that accepts-the on a cot tmder a puTiaJa tree. That-was 5 •• . v tile Eucharist, and in many other things package Hed with a British rrbbnn Ig. not principles and- ideals of Faith without fifty-nine years ago. -*- ^^-ip'Trec^gniged, and often ridiciikt-i>i right nging;__Jfflfl Catholic, principhw-and tlie nrost-aTipreciated~gifI ah rrishman can doubt. 4. the non-fathplic.party: Ridicule of these Ideals Inspired him in this. His heart was receive. There is, in the Irish heart and' Thirteen yars later Joseph Dutton en big enough and bread enough so he could Hence it would be well for all of us to * things'hy.w^on-Catholic party is like soul, an inherent love for 1 ibertv." An walk to the empty tomb with Mary Mag ters the story—Dutton, a soldier in the k % v .searing the soul of the Catholic party with put his arms around the staunch old non- Irishman does not want that liberty cir Civil War, a dashing cavalier, a typical Catholic, von Hindenburg, and say: "This dalene; to meet with the Apostles; to *"~~"""^»hot ii-on.' For tttese-are saci-ed and in- cumscribed, censored or "dominated. It is watch Thomas crush his doubts and fall, man of the world; fond of society, of par- '/ • yiolahle things;-built imperishably upon man is my friend; this man stands for the hard for people who have not suffered and ties, of the comradeship of men and safety of the Fatheriand.".American poli penitent, at the feet of Jesus; to see the the teachings of Jesus Christ, and "they fought for liberty to understand this. But Holy Ghost come down upon that little women; then, suddenly, a convert to the are encompassed by the love and loyalty of ticians, miny of them, might learn a it is a dominant factor now, and it will Catholic Church, an humble penitent, a splendid lesson from Bruening. We need army of devoted soldiers of Jesus Christ, the Catholic party. The Church is anxious remain a dominant factor, in all negoti and understand the great transformation volunteer worker "for the leper colony, a ^:th«-*i»^ituiil safety and ultimate salva- more of that kind of spirit in this land of ations between the Irish and British gov self-appointed disciple of Christ and of His i ours. which came into their souls and into their jti , wiJh of all her children, and hence is solici- ernments. lives. After Easter we learn much that is work. On a clear bright morning in* July, fP* a m&m& the faith-of all be safeguarded. We look for stormier days in Ireland; great ant}, wonderful—the blossoming of 1886, the author tells us, Joseph Dutton As 4^ule, wheh a Catholic loses his Faith, landed from a ship, walked up the sandy . SCUTTLING THE CONSTITUTION the signs of the Zodiac are that way. We the Church of God into a great and beau JifrlpSes all retigion, and becomes an ag- look for darker and cloudier skiesf the tiful supernatural flower of Faith. beach and saw for the first time in his life nogtic, mfldel or unhappy recluse in mat- shadows are already deepening on the Father Damien—"a pathetic, almost for ^* of; religion, with remorse eating like -, Father Gillis, editor of The Catholic- horizon. But we firmly believe there are bidding figure, his skin burned blaeSs by a canker at his soul. It is far better, World, has something to say on this sub enough sane men and Christian men in A SPLENDID EXAMPLE the tropic sun, ears grotesquely 'enlarged trrereMeTfbrhoth parties to avoid mixed ject in the March 4ssue of this able pub England and Ireland to prevent actual by the disease that was already upon him, inarriagesv that both niay not be-subjected lication. He quotes the Constitution ofy war; to prevent bloodshed, coercion, tyran This issue of The Catholic Courier &• his queer dress fitting him awkwardly." * •to^the-unhappy conditions which frequent-, the United States: "No religious- test ny, and the brutal subjugation of one race Journal has an article which tells how, A little later the two.men, strangers all X% aiase frOftTsuch marriages. The Chuich shall ever be required as a qualification to by another race. several hundred men, women and children their lives up to that moment, rode back takes this stand from the highest spiritual any office or public trust under the United Soon the great international Eucharis- —the entire" parish of St. Michael's at in Damien's little old buggy, drawn by an .-<• inotixes, and not because it is opposed, pei- States." He says, it ,&. at least probable .tje. Congress wilj meet in Dublin, with "Lyons, N. Y.—received Holy Communion old horse—rode jbgefc. & ibe Jepejr,colony, —ie^TBhy non-Catholic. Indeed, the Church that Alfred E. Smith faOeAof election In iysn men* and women from all parts of the in a body on Easter Sunday morning, ^his to a noble work arid to "a h'vin^ death. h% Wtf4dHdlieat€eelittgitowards allnon- 1928 because he was a Catholic, and that world coming; and with 'multitudes of is a splendid example of Catholic Action. All the years of Damien's Kfe and work .G^jolic* and w ffifist spiicitoas for their it seenis likely he. will fail of nomination. other "Catholie men and women from all The pastor of this church, the Reverend at Moldkai are vividly described in this > -spjrituaj'welfare. For all of them are our ; in 1&32 for the. same reason. If, in plain r parts of the World coming. It would not be Andrew T. Dissett, has' organized chis peo book—his heroic life and still more heroic i 'Wm^fiiHehrisf, with souls immortal defiance of the Constitution this happens, well for Englaml to greet these pious pil ple into four active and energetic.Catholic death;, and all the forty-five years of Jo ^ , at ji ^generally conceded that mixed he says the Constitution will be spurlos grims with bayonets that spell tyranny societies, with the result thatrhe has'unity seph, Dutton's heroic life, and simple but marriageB are unhappy in matters of re- veraenkt. With AI. Smith, per se, Father and death. Nor do we believe that "Be* of action, unity of effort and of accom beautiful death. E, is a story one will f*j*sB#sJttWtt*and that discoid is common among Gijlis says hi effect he is not concerned; Valera will bring about such a condition plishment in things spiritual in his par never forget. The venomous letter of the —- - "Iheiti. Anything that is done to discom^- with the tactics employed against him he by taking an inlpossible stand. But we do ish. Rev. C, M. Hyde—the jealous minister age thim will bt welcomed by tHkChurclu is much concerned. believe that he will wrest worth-while who sought to belittle'tlte'woriralta'black- The Federal Council of Churches, there The word used, against Smith this year, We hear frequently of the fear that en the character .of Father,J)amien—is i fore, liar done a good thmgr froni. the Father Gillis-says, is "unavailable." On printed, And the author tells of the vol- Catholic point of view in condemning theih, this point Father Gillis says": canic rage of Robert Louis Stevenson, and nfr" matter what its motives aire, • i "Snavailable?-- A candidates who re his terrific arraignment of Hyde. It is * V ceived six million more' votes than the ^.B Yon M Jce Your Will soul-stirring event. - «• . • • t& great Woodrow Wilson, and sieven and a [ One learns, much-about tep®^*a&out' THE GERMAJLELECTION half jnillion 'me^e than, Theodore Roose h^anity,'about religion, its meaning and ~r< c: ^-rm-^izix. -i— •" >:.." -, -;. velt at hfc-h3gh$it.?' A Democrat who got Always, in every Diocese, there are churches and institutions which have its beauty. And one gets a splendid in ;§?' /The^recettt German election gave em- fifteen million votes- "unavailable," while heavy financial burdens, and whose Work is handicapped by these burdens^ When sight into the characters of these two William Jennings Bryan was 'Wailable" a Samaritans of Molokai—of Damien, the 'S^f&S&faH&l^^i fact—that Germatfyr-under second time and a third time, though he you make your will, the best way in the world to help these needy"ones is to inserfc-a impulsive, fighting, dontinatihir yet J3rKily: as. rfS - »n^1itlohs which are most distressing, Is never got six and a half million? tin, paragraph something like this in the will: and delightful priest? of Dutton, the con "t^„ n determined she shall not join the Gdm- ayailitble? A man elected four times as "I gbre and^equeath to the Rt Rev. John Francis,O'Hern, PD,„ Bishop of vert, quiet, diplomatic,., setf-sacrificing, fe^jooniitic parade of nations. Decency is Governor of the most important State in and loyal to the soul to Damien- On April the TJnion* and who fbttr: times governed the Catholic Diocese of Rochester, N. ¥.,pp his successor or successors in Office, the fifteen, 1889, Damien died: Dutton, in . w " '+ys8i tfrfcre, fAmlly life ist safe, orderly gov- it with more ability than any*bf nis prede- sum of $ iL^»«,--_>_i.-r» .,. , to be used at, his or tfeeir, discretion for the work or March, 1931. Pathosis wri&en bu^sary^. ^fet" "i