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Theology for The Layman (Continued From Page Four) reply is that God can indeed do all things, but a self-contradic tion is not a thing. God cannot make a four-sided triangle, be cause the terms contradict each other and cancel out: a four sided triangle is meaningless, it is not a thing at all, it is no thing. A weight that an al mighty Being cannot lift is as much a contradiction in terms as a four-sided triangle. It too is nothing. And (to give an old text a new emphasis) nothing is impossible to God. Because God is infinite, there is no distinction between His attributes and Himself. Take knowledge, and begin with our own. My knowing is something that I do, but it is not myself. This may not strike us as a lim itation but it is, and a consider able one. If only my know ledge were myself, I should be knowing all the time, simply by being; I should not have to make a distinct effort to know; I should never forget. But, as it is, my knowledge Is less than myself; I am finite enough, East Point Ford Co. 1S30 N. MAIN PL. 3-2121 ■ EAST POINT, OA. heaven knows, but my know ledge is more finite still. Now God’s knowing is not subject to this limitation. It is Himself. If it were not, if there were really a distinction be tween His knowledge and Him self, then He would have some thing that His knowledge lack ed. In that event it would not be infinite, and we should have to face the monstrosity of an infinite God with limited know ledge. This applies to all His attri butes — just as God IS know ledge, so He is love, He is jus tice, He is mercy. We have to think of them as distinct, in order to think of them at all; but in Him they are not distinct from His very self, and there fore not from one another. Whatever God has, He is. And these attributes are not less themselves for being infinite. God s love would be greater by being distinct from His very self — as ours is! It is a difficult idea for our minds. But then God MUST be mysterious to the beings He made of nothing. Live with it; keep it in the mind; and our feeling that the attributes must be distinct will grow less, we shall begin to “see” their one ness in God. We are clearer, I hope, as to what God is. We are ready for the question — what is God’s LIFE, what does He do with Himself? We are ready, in other words, for the great adventures of the Blessed Trinity. ciurnt oc downtown atianta t E*e4l<wt afctal* in Oto Wmiful Miioni Buffet.., COMPUmY AIR • CONDITIONED ffatty tip/. ■< 24-Hr. Service - Passengers Insured Blue Top & Veterans Cab Company TWO PHONES: 47-3146 — 47-3191 Brookhaven Chamblee Doraville dale's CELLAR RESTAURANT PEACHTREE AND IVY STREETS CHARCOAL BROILED STEAK CHICKEN — SEAFOOD Hours: 11 a. m.-ll p. m„ Luncheon through Dinner VISIT BEAUTIFUL DALE'S COFFEE HOUSE Lobby Imperial Hotel 6 a. m.-lQ p. m. * 589 FORREST RD., N. E. PHONE JA, 2-6500 ATLANTA 12. GA, j Van Dale Church Furniture — Division of — RELIGIOUS ART CO., INC. 110 Edg^wood Ave., N. E. — Atlanta 3, Ga. Pews, Pulpits, Altars, Bronze Plaques, Brass Goods At Mount St. Mary's President Calls U. S. Youth To Crusade For Justice In Address At Catholic College Graduation (N.C.W.C. News Service) EMMITSBURG, Md., — A call to the youth of the nation to “crusade for justice at home and abroad, and for world peace for us” was sounded by President Eisenhower at Mount St. Mary’s College here. The Chief Executive, in aca demic black robe, gave the ad dress at the 150th commence ment exercises at the second oldest college in the nation, which is nestled in the foothills of Catoctin Mountain. The basic struggle in this age, the President said, is be tween free governments based on religious faith and despotic communism. He told the gradu ates that “there are more fron tiers to explore, more crusades that must be waged than ever before.” Before delivering the address, the President was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws. He presented diplomas to the 120 members of the graduating class and gave each a congratulatory handshake. A capacity crowd of some 3,200 persons attended the ceremony in the college’s gym nasium. The citation accompanying the degree called the President a “modern Colossus” standing against “petty aims and mean ambition” in his efforts to main tain the Free World nations in a strong alliance. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower motored to the college from their Gettysburg, Pa., farm, where they had spent the Memorial Day week end. The Eisenhower farm is about 10 miles from the college and the President came in the role of a neighbor to give the commence ment address. “Today I fulfill a long-held ambition,” President Eisenhow er told the large audience. “Since 1918, when I was assign ed command of a camp in Get tysburg, Pennsylvania, I have been traveling the road just beyond the front of this college, and never before have I had the opportunity to come in and meet its personnel, to see inside — what you feel, the spirit of the people here. “And before I proceed fur ther, may I take the opportun ity to congratulate you men of this graduating class. I want to make special mention of the young Marine officers now re ceiving their commissions.” The President thanked a cho ral group for its courtesy in singing two songs “which have been a part of West Point lore for these many years.” “I am interested in this col lege for a number of reasons,” the President continued. “One of them is some of the things that have been told me about its founding. I hear that Father Dubois (Father John Dubois, S.S., college founder, later third bishop of New York) came to this country with an introduc tion from Lafayette.” The Chief Executive said he saw “a certain symbolism” in the relationship between Lafay ette, “a great champion of free dom,” and Father Dubois, “a great educator.” This symbolism, he continued, was carried on when Father Du bois was taught English by the patriot Patrick Henry. “Again friendship, traditions of learn ing and freedom were symbol ized in this union,” he said. A further symbolism, the President continued, is to be found in the “fortunate coinci dence” that when Mt. St. Mary’s was founded in 1808, “the United States had just closed the doors to the importation of slaves.” Gen. Eisenhower said that Father Dubois’s students have exemplified those “qualities which have meant so much to America — courage, creativity, self-reliance.” The President said that not long ago he read where a col lege junior had complained that there were no more frontiers and nothing to crusade for. “Personally, I think there are more frontiers to explore, more crusades that need to be waged, than ever before in our history,” the President continued. “Think of the things there are to do within the United States,” he said. “Slum clearance, elimi nation of sub-standard living conditions, the bringing of edu cation to those whose education has been halted along the way, the combatting of juvenile de linquency.” President Eisenhower said that, in combatting juvenile de linquency, it is necessary to give children “the spirit and the be lief in the faith of our fathers, so that they will not get into miserable juvenile courts be cause of gangster-like activity.” The Chief Executive said there are also “racial problems that each of us must take to his heart,” if we believe “in the Constitution, if we believe the words of our founding docu ments, where they say that men are created equal.” The President spoke, too, of “the struggle between atheistic communism and every kind of free government which has its roots in a deeply-felt religious faith.” He said that men who believe “in human dignity, in the value of the individual’s soul, in every human right which the founders of this coun try said was given us by our Creator” must stand fast in the conviction that “this struggle of ours” is truly a combat with atheistic doctrine. “I believe,” the President as serted, “that the core of the struggle between the free and despotic worlds today is that between a religious faith and an atheistic dictatorship.” “If that is true, then I can see no limits to the possibilities of this type of college, where faith in our God is put at the very cornerstone of all that we hope to achieve —• all America, or any one of us individually.” The President told the gradu ates that there are “such tre mendous pioneering tasks to undertake today I believe it al most safe to say that any one of your elders here today, if he could have one wish, it would be to be joining this class, start ing out to see what he could do about it.” The President saluted the fac ulty, administration, the stu dents and the alumni of Mount St. Mary’s College on its 150th anniversary. “It has been a par ticularly great honor to be here,” he said. “I am particularly touched by the thoughtfulness of the authorities in making me an honorary doctor in this in stitution. So I shall hope that the future will give me the chance, now and then, to see one of my fellow graduates.” The President’s address was informal, delivered from notes. He pictured the “mass awaken ing of peoples around the world, newly found nations, people who have been denied all the opportunities of you young gentlemen, of every kind of economic activity and op portunity, everything in the way of education, spiritual de velopment.” He said that these people “are trying to catch up with the 20th century over night.” Americans cannot enjoy free dom and liberty “if we deny them to someone else,” the Pres ident declared. This nation, he added, cannot accept a position of isolation, but has an obliga tion of providing help for un derdeveloped nations. Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore presided at the ceremonies and gave the invocation and benediction. The President was introduced by Maryland’s Governor Theodore R. McKeldin. Guests included: Bishop George L. Leech of Harrisburg, Pa.; Auxiliary Bishop Jerome D. Sebastian of Baltimore; U. S. Sen. and Mrs. Glenn Beall of Maryland; Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro of Baltimore; Rear Adm. B. W. Hogan, USN; Jesuit Father Edward B. Bunn, presi dent of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., the nation’s oldest Catholic college; Gen. W. S. Paul, president of Gettysburg College; James P. McGranery, former U. S. Atttorney General, and others. Sharing speaker honors with President Eisenhower before the celebrity-studded audience was Charles E. Hodges on Nanti- coke, Pa.., son of a former coal miner, who delivered the vale dictory address for the class of 1958. Young Hodges said that to day’s college graduates are the “products of an educational sys tem which has been questioned; that they have been labeled “beat” and “silent”; that they “have been judged and found wanting, analyzed and declared inadequate.” He said that to day’s colleges graduates “face a great challenge” and that they welcome “the stimulating chal lenge of life.” The graduates’ cue for the fu ture, young Hodges said, al ready had been furnished by President Eisenhower who once observed: “When I meet people of your age then I suddenly rea lize you are the future, and you are going to do the things that we wish now we could do. We must have faith that each gene ration gets better, and I am quite certain that all those things that you are dreaming now, and we are hoping for, you will do.” The former miner’s son also recalled: “Long ago in the fall of 1836, William Henry Harri son, just prior to the election which was to make him the ninth President of the United States, stopped at Mount St. Mary’s and addressing the stu dent body said: ‘Do your duty from day to day, wherever your lot is cast, and you will have done everything, all that God requires, no matter whether you occupy a high or low place. If everyone does his own duty, the country is safe, the Church is safe, everyone is safe for this life and tne next.’ We will fol low that advice. We will face the future with faith. We as sure you that the future is safe in our hands.” Msgr. John L. Sheridan, the college president, said that the presence of President Eisen hower climaxed the sesquicen- tenrual celebration of “this proud little college” and gave it “our finest hour.” He recalled the Mountaineers creed handed down by the foun der of the nation’s second oldest Catholic college, Father Dubois: “Have faith and you can do any thing.” The Monsignor charac terized the President as “a man whose creed is Dubois’ creed.” He added: “Tie has faced the storms of history’s darkest hour —- con fidently, with head high and unflagging belief that our cause would triumph. He has insisted time and again over a lifetime of successful endeavor that what we believe in, we can do; that there are no hopeless caus es, only men who have grown hopeless about them. For wis dom tells him that faith march es at the head of the army of progress; that it is the keynote of the most refined life, the free- est government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.” At a convocation ceremony the day previous honorary de grees were bestowed upon Rob ert F. Kennedy, chief counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Actions in the La bor and Management Field; Sen. Beall of Maryland, Joseph M. Wyatt, Baltimore attorney, and Father Adrian J. M. Veigle, Minister Provincial of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, Loretto, Pa. Auxiliary Bishop Philip M. Hannan of Washing ton, presided at the ceremony. Commissions in the U. S. Ma rine Corps were presented to five of the graduates. Brig. Gen. Edward A. Montgomery of the Marines, administered the oath to his son, Edward, Jr., and the four other graduates who were commissioned. Earlier in the day, baccalau reate services were held in the college chapel. 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The consecration as Titular Bishop of Cantanus took place in crowded Westminster Cathe dral, with Bishop Cyril C. Cow- deroy of Southwark and Bishop George L. Craven, Vicar Gen eral and senior Auxiliary Bish op of Westminster, serving as consecrators. The close friendship between Archbishop Godfrey and Bishop Cashman added special poig nancy to the consecration. The Archbishop had been rector of the English College in Rome when Bishop Cashman was a student there, and it was he who ordained the priest whome he now was consecrating. Later, when Archbishop Godfrey was named Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, he summoned Msgr. Cashman to serve as his secretary. Msgr. Cashman continued on as secretary to the Apostolic Delegate when Archbishop God frey was named Archbishop of Liverpool and Archbishop O’ Hara became the papal repre sentative here in 1953. For the. past two years, the new bishop has served as pastor of St. Phil ip Neri’s parish in Arundel, Sussex, and as chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk, England’s leading Catholic layman, at Arundel Castle. Services For Fred Rougher SAVANNAH — Mr. Fred W. Roughen died at St. Joseph’s Hospital on May 8th. He was buried from the Ca thedral of St. John on May 10th, and was interned at Bonaven- ture Cemetery. He left a wife, Julia Douglas Roughen and two children, Fred Jr. and a daughter, Catherine. Fr. Robert J. Teoli was the at tending priest and the celebrant at the Mass. SERVICES FOR R. W. BUFFINGTON NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. — Funeral services for Maj. Robert W. Buffington, were held May 21st at Our Lady of Peace Church, Rev. Joseph J. Murphy officiating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. R. W. Buffington, two sons, Rob ert Paul Buffington and John Bruce Buffington; one daugh ter, Patricia Anne Buffington, of Belvedere; two sisters; Mrs. G. B. McConnell of Ames, Iowa and Mrs. R. Gi Mangutn of Law- ton, Okla., and one brother, John Buffington of West Orange, New Jersey. CONE STREET GARAGE Roy Livingston Co. 93 Cone, N. V/., Ailanla • Available At 18 LOCATIONS Parking Spaces Always THE BULLETIN, June 14, 1958—PAGE 5 Question Box (Continued from Page 4) the Church does not issue any positive, absolute guarantee with regard to their divine ori gin. Such a guarantee is official ly given only to public revela tion: i.e., those truths contained in Sacred Scripture and Tradi tion, all of which comprise the Deposit of Faith, which closed for all time with the Ascension of Our Lord into heaven and with the death of the last apos tle. Everything we need to know, all the means we need to employ, for salvation, are con tained in public revelation. THE FACT THAT the First Friday and First Saturday pro mises are founded on private rev elation does not mean that they are not true, however. On the contrary, we have as much cer tainty as to their authenticity as we have with regard to any thoroughly substantiated his torical fact. For it can be dem onstrated beyond reasonable doubt that these promises were revealed by Christ and our Lady and that they have been handed down without substantial error. It would be historically fool hardy, then, to reject the au thenticity of these promises. Likewise, it would be imprudent to ignore them. As one theolo gian cautions in this matter: “The traditions received in the Church may not be lightly re- j e c t e d without considerable temerity. The faithful, therefore, are bound to give a prudent re ligious assent to such (tradi tions).” ASSUMING THAT the First Friday and First Saturday pro mises are perfectly authentic, how are we to interpret them? NOT AS absolutely infallible, in the sense that their mere ful filment suffices for salvation. Even the sacraments cannot pro duce grace independently of the intention and worthiness of the recipient. Obviously prerequi site to the fulfillment of the promises is compliance with the ordinary means for salvation. So that anyone who makes the First Fridays or First Saturdays in the presumptuous expecta tion that he can hereafter live just as he pleases has failed to meet the essential pre-condition underlying the promises. YET IF a person does try to live a good life in accordance with God’s laws, there is no reason why the promises cannot be interpreted quite strictly: i.e., that God will, at the hour of death, support one’s soul with the grace of final perseverance in some extraordinary manner. Q: Whal does the period for making one's Easter Duty termi nate? 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