The Catholic Paper

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 3, 6 August 1908, Page 15

The Catholic Paper

Suppose you were , maligned and slandered in certain quarters (says an American exchange), and suppose you had a friend who stood up for you, exposed the slander, cleared your character, and made you respected and favored where you were previously misunderstood or disliked, would, you not appreciate that friend?

Well, as a believer in the Catholic- religion, you are frequently misrepresented and misunderstood. But you have a friend that goes to several hundred non-Catholic newspaper offices and scores of libraries and corrects the misunderstanding. That friend is the Catholic paper.

This also should be credited up to trie Catholic paper : In the locality in" which it is published, the secular papers are more considerate of Catholics' views and.. more disposed, to print Catholic news. The lesson is that the Catholic paper makes the Catholic community respected. For the Catholic family of to-day— with- an ocean of secular newspapers, periodicals, ' large edition novels,' and countless pamphlets about it— the Catholic paper is the rudder and compass to all who would follow the true line and reach the right destination.

To take a Catholic paper -is an evidence of interest in Catholic views as well as Catholic' news- .To stop a Catholic paper is evidence of a loss ,of interest in -things Catholic. You turn over the pages of .a -monster, paper to find a few articles here and there which interest you. . But every page of your Catholic paper has articles appealing directly- to your interest and written from your standpoint. 'What is the Catholic side of all, this talk in the papers about Papal finances?'. ' What is the Catholic view of this new book we hear so much about?' ' How is this or that current event viewed from a Catholic standpoint?' These,, are questions that a thoughtful .Catholic will ask. He gete his answers by taking and reading~a Cajtholic paper.

Worldiness — everywhere .worldliness f .■ In "the mart and in the workshop— in tne glitter of the theatre, in the halls of society, in the inspiration of the latest novel, and in the fold of tha morning paper. We need all the spiritualising - forces we "can bring into our lives and our -homes. .-Let u& have good reading, then — Catholic books and Catholic papers-.. . >. The very act of taking a Catholic paper is tantamount to raising a Catholic flag over- your 'home.- Be assuredtthat-such an act tones up the Catholicity of your, whole' family and- helps to make your descendants vertebrate among men.

* Depend upon it — a Catholic" family .brought up to read year after year- a_good Catholic weekly will get a thousand-fold the value of^fhe subscription paid.

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