FATHER VAUGHAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1005, 10 February 1912, Page 4

FATHER VAUGHAN.

The fearless and eloquent Roman Catholic priest whose sermons on the sins of society made him notable, paid a visit to Canada last moutn. His first sermon, delivered at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, in Toronto, dealt with the conversion of “Magdalen—sinner, penitent and saint.” The church was crowded to the doors. The priest said that he hoped, as an instrument in God's hands, to be able to send a ray or two of sunshine to lighten and warm their checkered career of pilgrimage on this puny, petty planet. “To my thinking,” he said, “ the evil ot to-day, nay, the despair ot it, is that it has become quite fashionable tor people to hug their sins, saying they would not part with them, that they are integral to their nature. 1 have not infrequently found it stated in romance and magazine that you have no more right to blame a man lor not reaching some fixed standard ot virtue than you have lor his not attaining to some physical standard ot strength or beauty, A generation ago a man was ready at any rate to acknowledge his waywardness ; now, on the contrary, he tells you there is no such thing as sin, and that there can be therefore no such person as the saint or the sinner.”