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Some of the authorities consulted in this work are: St. Ambrose; St. Francis de Sales; St. Alphonsus Liguori; St. Ignatius Loyola; Quadrupani; Montalambert; de Maistre; Msgr. Gaume; Dupanloup; Thebaud; Butler's Lives of The Saints; Dr. Lingard; Lancaster's History of England; Ruskin; Marion Crawford; Meagher; Bullen; Preusse; Histoire Universelle, Rohrbacher; U. S. Department of Agriculture; The Holy Scriptures; Leo XIII; Pius X. There is a long discussion of the proper management of a parish from an economical and architectural point of view. This is followed by by a discussion of Catholic Action and increasing the fervor of a parish. He then devotes a chapter each to Freemasonry, Socialism and Anti-Catholic slanders. On Freemasonry he said: “Many good Catholics, and apparently even some of the clergy, labor under the impression that Freemasonry in the United States is not at all the same as it is in France, Italy and other countries of Europe. Not long ago, a special commissioner of the present French government, during a visit to this country, was told that Freemasonry in the United States was not the same as in France,. to which he very promptly and emphatically replied in the presence of the writer: "It is the same." Of this fact there cannot be the slightest doubt in the mind of anyone who is familiar with the subject. A leading -American Freemason, in a published statement, recently said: "Masonry is antagonistic to the last degree to Catholicism." Another American Mason of equal standing and authority declared that" The Mason everywhere is an enemy to Popery."” On Socialism our layman comments: Mr. Brown asks, "What Catholics are doing now to free the slaves of capitalism. The most complete system of slavery ever devised," and answers it. himself when he says: "Soeialism is the collective ownership and the cooperative utilization of all the resources of nature. True Christianity if practised to the full hy everyone, would bring the same result." As the Catholic church labors incessantly that "True Christianity" may be "practised to the full by everyone," it is evidently doing everything possible "to free the slaves of capitalism." quite recently the Papal delegate, the Pope's personal and official representative, said the greatest evil in the United States is wealth improperly used.”
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