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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
Chief Justice Edward D. White, of the United
States Supreme Court, and the second Catholic to
hold that exalted position, administered the oath of
office to President Warien G. Harding March 4th.
“The countries of South America are not at all
what the generality of people of the United States
suppose them to be,” says former Secretary of State
Bainbridge Colby, recently returned from an extended
tour of the Latin countries. ‘‘They are quite as
ready to give profitable instructions to us as they are
in need of any.”
Former Governor Alfred M. Smith, of New York,
has been appoitned a member of the United States
Board of Indian Commissioners. The appointment
was one of President Wilson’s last official acts.
The Catholic Union of Great Britain at its half
yearly meeting held late in February, elected Lord
Edmund Talbot, Unionist whip in the House of Com
mons as president to succeed Lord Walter Kerr, re
tiring. Lord Walter Kerr recently took issue with
Cardinal Mercier, and the Hierarchy of Belgium on
the sympathy they expressed for Ireland.
The remains of Pope Leo XIII will be transferred
from their temporary sepulchre in St. Peter’s Basilica
to the tomb constructed in the Church of St. John
Lateran on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of
the founding of the Society of Italian Catholic Youth
this year.
Anton Lang, celebrated the world over for his por
trayal of the role of Christus in the Passion Play of
Oberammergau, is among the notable Europeans who
are being assisted by the European Relief Council,
of which Herbert Hoover is chairman, according to
an announcement made from the New York office of
that organization.
INFORMATION FREE.
A Plea for Peace.
Catholic Belief.
Catholics and Marriage.
Catholics and the Bible.
The Pope and the War.
Catholicism and Politics.
Catholics and The Pope.
Knights of Columbus Oath.
Catholics and the Public Schools.
The above booklets giving information
about Catholics and their attitude towards
questions of the day will be sent you gratis
upon request.
All questions about Catholics and their
belief answered.
Address,
THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION
OF GEORGIA.
Augusta, Georgia.
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
(From The Macon Telegraph.)
We do not belong to the Catholic Church, but we
are no more afraid to give vent to the truth than
Tom Watson is to distort it. As far as the city of
Macon is concerned, it is hardly necessary to take a
stand. Catholics and Protestants are so finely knit to
gether in the social and business structure of this
town that the matter of man to man and of friend
to friend is a much more substantial affair than the
hazy reference to great and hidden mysteries.
When these men whom we know so well we can
almost read their inner thoughts before they are ex
pressed, tell us upon their solemn honor as brother
to brother that there is nothing in their Knights of
Columbus obligation that could be in the least ob
jectionable to Americans or offensive to even their
women folks, then we promptly, and rightfully so,
forget all those charges that flare up just before each
election time.
The United States Constitution gives to every man
the right to worship at whatever altar he desires.
The conflict between the Catholic and Protestant re
ligious beliefs was magnified by the heretics of history.
Today it is enlarged by the heretics of politics, print
er’s ink and finance. It has generally proven to be a
most unprofitable and inadvisable medium, however
in the end.
The United States Congressional committee on elec
tions made the following report in the Congressional
Record of February 15, 1913:
‘‘This committee can not condemn too strongly the
publication of the false and libelous article referred
to in the paper of Mr. Bonniwell, and which was the
spurious Knights of Columbus Oath.”
A half a dozen prosecutions have been instituted
in the United States against persons who distributed
the alleged Oath, and the distributors found guilty.
In the city of Los Angeles, the court turned the mat
ter over to the Masons. The following letter was the
result:
Hon. Paul J. McCormick, Court House,
Los Angeles—
My Dear Judge: I take pleasure in handing
you herewith the findings of the committee of
Free Masons to whom you exhibited the cere
monials and pledges of the Order of Knights of
Columbus.
I am very glad that I have been able, in a
measure, to secure the refutation of a slanderous
lie, which has been widely circulated and which
has been disseminated in many cases by well-
meaning, credulous and deluded persons.
I shall see to it that this report has wide cir
culation among Masons, and you may use it in
any way you may deem best to bring about an
understanding of the truth among men who,
above all controversies and contentions, desire
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