Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, 8 December 1921, Page 17

Answers to Correspondents

P.o.The x editor had nothing to do with Ike matter. Neither had the person you mention. E. de M. —Americans claim the following saints: St. Rose of Lima;* St. Francis Solanus, the apostle of Peru; St. Louis Bertrand, apostle of the New Granada Indians; St. Peter Claver, apostle of the negroes; St. Thuribio, Archbishop sof Lima. If you tell them they were not all Americans they will- ask you in what part of Ireland was St. Patrick born; and if you point out that some of them had nothing to do with America except that they lived on the same hemisphere,* they v will tell you that they had more to do with it than St. George had with England. J. L. —Lying and persecution are peculiarly Protestant vices. Hallam said that the besetting sin of the Reformed Churches was persecution. It was as true then as it is in Belfast, or in New Zealand to-day. As for the lies,- in the beginning shameful misrepresentation and slanders deceived many who followed the Reformers, and as it was in the beginning so it is now and will be as long as the British daily press remains in existence. See how our editors lie about Belfast at- the present moment. Inquirer. —Most certainly it is not Catholip doctrine _to say that no Protestant and no pagan can be saved. Even a Baptist or an Orangeman has a chance of aviation. Pagans could be saved before the coming of Christ and it is easier for them now than it was then. Monsignor Freppel says of certain pre-Christian pagans: “These pagans were, then, in the way of salvation. Pagans could be saved before the coming say, to the great society of intelligences, united to God by faith and by charity: they were Christians in heart and in soul, according to the expression of St. Justin.” Sport. Of course it is nonsense, but equally nonsensical is most of the legislation of the Massey Muddlement. Every man who goes to a race meeting at Riccarton knows what each winner paid, but if a Christchurch paper told the public what everybody knows it would be prosecuted. Is it any wonder that' while our politicians are footling over such trifles that the country is going to the dogs? Masseyland, or Maoriland, is fast winning for itself the title of Murderland now. Life was almost as safe under the hired assassins known as the Black-and-Tans in Ireland as it is to-day under the Government of Lord Limavaddy in New Zealand. There is hardly a week that we do not read of at least one brutal murder in our wee population. Minister of Justice Lee will go down to history with a black record. P.P.Ass government is not a success.