id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197475 nan Courtship and marriage : practical instructions 1931 .txt text/plain 41451 1588 67 Many years ago Pius IX issued a condemnation of what many people were saying, and still say, that “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth, unconnected with the Catholic Faith.” The Warning of the Councils The American Bishops, gathered in the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, wrote that “Daily experience has demonstrated beyond doubt how grave are the evils and how deep-seated the dangers to which Catholic children are ex- posed by attending the public school.” If Catholic young men were severely to discourage by their disapproval the prev- alent immodesties of dress, in which Catholic women not seldom foolishly indulge after the fashions of the day, there would be a higher standard set for the Catholic life of our time. cache/_005197475.txt txt/_005197475.txt