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held March 21st at St. Anthony’s
Church, Rev. James E. King
officiating.
Survivors are Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Chase, New Orleans,
La., Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E.
Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward J. Nicholson, grandchil
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de la Peyrere came up with a
theory that other people existed
before Adam. But nothing at all
was proved, and the author of
the theory later abandoned it
and became a sincere Catholic.
Another idea got nowhere, too:
the theory that God directly
created others besides Adam.
And the ridiculous notion that
we are descendants of Abel
while the other races come from
Cain would mean nothing even
if it were true; we would still
be brothers because of Adam.
Some worry because they
know brothers shouldn’t marry
sisters. If Adam and Eve were
the only people, they reason,
their children would hdve to
marry each other. There’s no
doubt that Mrs. Cain and Mrs.
Abel were sisters of the boys.
But in the early days of the
human race this was a necessity
and therefore not morally
wrong.
There’s no escaping this fact
of the unity of the human race—
unless we want to abandon the
solemn teachings of our faith
and the findings of science.
There’s no escaping the truth,
either, that the unpleasant
neighbor next door, the fellow
with the different skin color,
the starving peasant in Asia-
all of them are our brothers
with the same great-great-great-
etc. -grandfather we have.
Most important is this: we
don’t have to take second place
to insects at all. Our ancestry
goes back for who-knows-how-
many years. And who’s running
the world anyway: people or
insects? Maybe we’re not doing
such a good job running it. But
I’d like to see those ants and
scorpions and fireflies do any
better!
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NEW YORK — Decline in re
spect for law has had a “cor
roding” effect on American so
ciety, the rector of the Catholic
University of America said here.
Not only is actual crime in
creasing in this country, de
clared Msgr. William J. McDon
ald, but “also there is a wide-
spread disregard for law
amongst apparently respectable
citizens in their public, person
al and domestic relations.”
Msgr. McDonald made the
statement in an address to the
21st annual Communion break
fast of the New York Catholic
Court Attaches Guild. Some
1,000 judges and court person
nel attended the breakfast, held
after a Mass offered in St. Pat
rick’s cathedral.
The speaker warned that de
cline in respect for law “means
that civilization is endangered
and that other forms of govern
mental activity are rendered in
effective.”
“It is useless to endeavor to
build up our defenses against an
external enemy and' to try to
promote in the world our great
ideals of peace, liberty and jus
tice, if our own system is cor
roding from within,” he said.
Msgr. McDonald cited figures
showing that the crime rate in
this country has currently reach
ed an all-time high.
He added that it is “especially
alarming” that young people
play a “major part” in Ameri
can crime.
He blamed the increase in ju
venile delinquency on the ab
sence of good example in many
American homes. “Such good
example is hot provided,” he ex
plained, “because of the preva
lence of broken homes as a re
sult of divorce, separation, de
sertion or the institutionaliza
tion of one or both parents.
Msgr. McDonald asserted that
a historical survey of the con
cept of law in the western world
shows it to be based essentially
on the religious virtue of justice.
“If the civil law of our coun
try depended entirely for its
enforcement on the penalties
and sanctions it can mete out,
the result would be chaos,” he
said. “The peace and tranquili-
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ty of any society are to be as
cribed in large measure to the
moral principles of its mem
bers . . . The strength and moral
fiber of the nation depend far
more upon . . . moral support
derived from religious convic
tion than upon the ability to
punish.”
“Unfortunately,” the speaker
continued, “in our time the
law, instead of being something
demanded on moral and relig
ious grounds, has become for
many something to be accept
ed only if it is expedient or
useful or profitable. This has
had disastrous consequences
not only in domestic and na
tional life, but in international
relations.
“Hence the prevalence of law
lessness and the inevitable ac
ceptance of the alternative that
‘right equals might.’ ”
Msgr. McDonald urged
Americans to return to religion
and the moral sense as the sur
est means of restoring respect
for law.
He declared: “We must do
everything we can, as apostles
of prayer, action and example,
to revive in ourselves and in
others ... a sacred feeling for
justice and for the virtues of
good citizenship.
“We must literally hunger
and thirst after justice realizing
that wrong inflicted upon any
of our neighbors sends a shiver,
a reverberation throughout our
whole social framework.”
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in any one of many ways, ac
cording to one’s capacity and
disposition. One method is to
visualize the various mysteries
in one’s imagination. “A more
simple and elevated way,” ex
plains Father Garrigou - La
grange, is “to keep the eyes of
faith fixed on the living Jesus
Who is always making inter
cession for us, and Who is act
ing upon us in accordance with
the mysteries of His childhood,
or His Passion, or His glory.”
Still another method is to use a
meditation book or pamphlet
depicting the various scenes of
the mysteries.
G. To say the rosary proper
ly, it's not necessary to use ros
ary beads, is it?
A. To recite the rosary it is
not necessary to use beads. The
Aves and Paters may be count
ed by any means.
Jottings
(Continued from Page 4 )
Catholic educational system of
the United States, “unique in
world history.”
• OUR LORD was a teacher.
(The first Catholic intellectual,
if you will.) Christ said: “My
teaching is not my own, but His
Who sent Me ... He who
speaks on his own authority
seeks his own glory.” The most
intelligent and talented people
I have known have worn the
Roman collar or religious habit.
They are college presidents, his
tory and English teachers, edi
tors, librarians, administrators,
poets, translators, theologians
and philosophers. In most cases
by their very dedication they
are hidden from worldly
plaudits. They are known to
God and to a few grateful stu
dents. They pass on their knowl
edge and wisdom which appears
to be compounded when found
ed in religious dedication. It is
not an end in itself. I am think
ing right now of two examples
of giver and recipient. Yester
day, a student at the college
where I am teaching was award
ed a Woodrow Wilson Fellow
ship. She was the only student
at a women’s college in the
United States awarded such a
coverted fellowship. The com
petition is keen with all the
best secular college students
competing. The young woman
selected was a product of Cath
olic schools conducted by the
Sisters of the Holy Cross from
first grade through college. Yes,
she came from a family where
scholarship and intellectual in
terests were revered. Behind her
however was a team of profes
sors, intellectuals in habits. This
is but one incident of dedication
to excellence found in but one
Catholic College in the United
States. I would say that this is
not an unusual story. I am think
ing, too, of another example.
Yesterday our college chaplain
marked his 80th birthday. It was
deeply moving to hear this dis
tinguished scholarly chaplain
speak in thinksgiving for his
priesthood. In his lifetime, he
had been president of two Cath
olic men’s colleges, a translator
of the doctors of the Church,
a teacher of theology. In secular
life, he might have been an
eminent historian and hailed as
a leading Catholic intellectual
today. Instead thousands have
benefited by not only his wis
dom, knowledge but his guid
ance and priestly example. He
is of that vast number of hidden
Catholic intellectuals. We thank
God fervently for the intellect
uals in black.
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Theology
For The
Layman
(Continued from Page 4 )
or wife—there is this inner pro
test to spoil the pleasure and
make the profit questionable.
This inner protest is not by
itself a sufficient guide; we are
no longer as God made us; the
generations have introduced dis
tortions at this point or that,
habits and ideas have taken root
and grown into a second nature,
silencing nature’s utterance. For
any given man or society, the
inner witness sounds surely on
most matters; but there are
those on which it does not sound.
For certainty, we need the state
ment of God’s appointed teach
ers.
Conscience is the practical
moral judgment of the intellect,
the intellect’s judgment upon
the rightness and wrongness of
our own actions. The intellect
makes its judgement according
to God’s law known to it in one
or other of the two ways we
have been discussing.
As only God can tell us with
certainty the laws by which we
should live, so only God can tell
us with certainty the purpose of
our life. We cannot use any
thing intelligently till we know
what it is for. Men apply the
rule as a matter of course to
everything—to everything, that
is, except one thing. Themselves.
Yet, it is no less clear about
man himself than about all
other things. We cannot intelli-
gantly handle our own lives, or
influence the lives of others, un
less we know what man is for.
There is no space to develop
this idea here: but please re
flect on it. Unless we know the
goal man is meant to reach, we
cannot direct our own life to
wards it or help others to reach
it. To walk the road of life, not
knowing where it leads to, is
mere blindness.
Our Maker has told us what
He made us tor—to come to the
fullest development ot our own
powers in total union with Him.
Let us take a first look at this.
Man’s highest powers are intel
lect, by which he knows, and
will, by which he loves (and,
according to his love, chooses).
The object ot the intellect is
truth, of the will goodness. Our
intellect is to come to the fullest
knowledge of the supreme truth
—which is God. Our will is to
come to the fullest love of the
supreme goodness — which is
God.
in knowing and loving God
we shall achieve the purpose
for which God made us. So
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without any revelation from
God. What we could never have
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