Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — Cardinal Manning’s Rules. [ARTICLE]

Cardinal Manning’s Rules.

Cardinal Manning suffers no priest in his diocese to smoke and he encourages all to take the pledge. That which he preaches he practices; and Cardinal Simeoni, when on a visit to England, occasioned no little consternation at the “Archbishop’s house” by lighting a cigar after dinner and passing round his cigar case. Cardinal Manning carries his asceticism even to condemnation of pudding. Bread and meat and vegetables,

argues his Eminence, are enough to support the body in healthy working condition. Therefore, any further addition to one’s table savors of gluttony. This, however, is a rule for clerics. The Cardinal is indulgent toward laymen and lately good-naturedly prevented at least one young lady from taking the vows. He saw she had. not the vocation and was resolved she should not make herself miserable for life.