Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — ENDS COLLECTION AT DOOR [ARTICLE]

ENDS COLLECTION AT DOOR

Pope Says in Latest Order Practise Savors Too Much of Amusement Places. Ngw York, June 13 The latest reform document of Pope Pius X., as interpreted in the Ecclesiastical Review, the official organ of the clergy in this country, will do away with thepractise of collecting a feet at church doors, which prevails in this and other countries. The custom has been condemned from time to time by the laity of America, but has not been abolished because it was realized that in many parishes there were persons who shirked their part of the responsibility for the'-Support of their church. In his latest document the pope says this collection savors too much of the demanding of money at a place of amusement and therefore is not becoming for the church. The papal document also requires of the bishops a statement of the exact use made of the money so collected.