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Roman Catholicism And Charity.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND CHARITY .
No . XII .-MARCH 23 , 1859 .
" As secret societies are the cause of the greatest evils to reli gion , tending to promote impiety and incredulity , mid most hostile to the public good , the Catholic church lias solemnly excommunicated all her children who engage in them . Hence , no Catholic can be absolved AA-IIO is a Freemason , a Eibandman , or enrolled in any other secret society . Drunkenness , a vice so degrading in itself and the occasion of so many evils , and improper dunces
such as the polka and others of the same description , so repugnant to the purity of Christian morals , are to be avoided , not only during Lent but at all times , by Christians ivho profess to be followers of the immaculate Lamb of God , Jesus Christ . All are exhorted to perform works of piety and charity during Lent , visiting the widow and the orphan , relieving the poor , unci above all , contributing to provide a good Catholic education for Catholic children , and to preseiTC them from the innumerable snares noiv laid for them in mixed ancl proselytising schools . "—Br . Cidlen .
FREEMASONRY has so often been denounced b y the heads of the Roman Catholic church—although never by that church itself—that the above extract from the Lenten pastoral of Archbishop Cullen , tho Pope ' s legate in Ireland , has scarcel y astonished us , excepting by its absolute want of knowledge ( a want of knowledge whicli we can scarcely believe to exist in any educated mind ) which it exhibits with
regard to the principles and practice of Ereemasonry ; although ignorance from this quarter is by no means very surprising , considering that the most reverend and learned writer ofthe foregoing extract is the same Paul Cullen who a few years since , in another pastoral , endeavoured to upset the whole Copernican system of astronomy , with
what success let tho learned of the day bear witness . How far the present pastoral may affect our brethren across the channel wc know not , but we feel that the Roman Catholic members of our Order in England ( and their number is not few ) will regard it with as great pain , if not indignation , as any other of the brethren , ' without respect to religious opinions . The comparison of Freemasons with Ribandmen VOL . VI . 2 Jl
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Roman Catholicism And Charity.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND CHARITY .
No . XII .-MARCH 23 , 1859 .
" As secret societies are the cause of the greatest evils to reli gion , tending to promote impiety and incredulity , mid most hostile to the public good , the Catholic church lias solemnly excommunicated all her children who engage in them . Hence , no Catholic can be absolved AA-IIO is a Freemason , a Eibandman , or enrolled in any other secret society . Drunkenness , a vice so degrading in itself and the occasion of so many evils , and improper dunces
such as the polka and others of the same description , so repugnant to the purity of Christian morals , are to be avoided , not only during Lent but at all times , by Christians ivho profess to be followers of the immaculate Lamb of God , Jesus Christ . All are exhorted to perform works of piety and charity during Lent , visiting the widow and the orphan , relieving the poor , unci above all , contributing to provide a good Catholic education for Catholic children , and to preseiTC them from the innumerable snares noiv laid for them in mixed ancl proselytising schools . "—Br . Cidlen .
FREEMASONRY has so often been denounced b y the heads of the Roman Catholic church—although never by that church itself—that the above extract from the Lenten pastoral of Archbishop Cullen , tho Pope ' s legate in Ireland , has scarcel y astonished us , excepting by its absolute want of knowledge ( a want of knowledge whicli we can scarcely believe to exist in any educated mind ) which it exhibits with
regard to the principles and practice of Ereemasonry ; although ignorance from this quarter is by no means very surprising , considering that the most reverend and learned writer ofthe foregoing extract is the same Paul Cullen who a few years since , in another pastoral , endeavoured to upset the whole Copernican system of astronomy , with
what success let tho learned of the day bear witness . How far the present pastoral may affect our brethren across the channel wc know not , but we feel that the Roman Catholic members of our Order in England ( and their number is not few ) will regard it with as great pain , if not indignation , as any other of the brethren , ' without respect to religious opinions . The comparison of Freemasons with Ribandmen VOL . VI . 2 Jl