BISHOP ASSAILS DANCING AND IMMODEST DRESS.
“CORRUPT PLAGUE, DEALING RUIN IN MANY HOMES,” HE SAYS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received Februarv 28. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON. February 27. “ A greater cause for anxiety than ball dresses, which arc ipimodest. suggestive and an open incentive to passion, is the senseless infatuation for the endless excitement of dancing,” says the Catholic Bishop of Derry in his Lenten Pastoral. “It is a corrupt plague spreading rapidly and dealing ruin in many homes. Some dances imitate the excited orgies of savages. They arc. not merely an incitement to sin, but are so immodest that they cannot lie witnessed without sin. Until we see this danger of corruption ending, I forbid priests to promote dances for any purpose.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18092, 28 February 1927, Page 7
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