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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DIVORCE EVIDENCES
LACK OFREVERENCE
It May Contain Seeds of De
cay Says Former Notre
„ Dame President.
Detroit.—Lack of reverence for
sacred things as manifested in the
prevalence of the divorce evil was
denounced as the most serious men-
ace of the present day by the Rev.
John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., former
president of Notre Dame University
in an address to members of the
Detroit district of the diocesan un
ion of Holy Name Societies.
Recounting the growth and pro-
gress oi the United States and de
claring that this nation is truly
‘the heir of all the ages” the
speaker raised the question as to
whether or not the United States,
as the great empires of the past-
contains within its greatness the
seed of its decay. “I am no pessi
mist,” he declared, “and no man
who does not believe in this coun
try is of any use to this country.
However, an optimist need not he a
fool, and no one but a fool can
close his eyes to the fact that there
is a general lack of respect and
reverence for authority in our coun
try. Outsiders call it anarchy and
bolshevism, but it is really at bot
tom a lack of reverence for sacred
things. There is a revolution in
the very elements of our population.
Some have come from countries
where they were oppressed for cen
turies and have brought with them
a resentment against authority.
Others are atheists and rebels
against God. The most serious
problem of our country is the grow
ing antagonism between races.
There is also antagonism between
capital and labor. The one says
men is paramount and the other
says money takes possession. The
biggest thing in- the world is that
which must settle all these prob
lems—an educated Christian con
science, i e., religion. Then comes
man and then comes money.”
The speaker * stigmatized divorce
as "a form of anarchy undermining
the home, one of the cornerstones
of the nation.” Regarding the
Church’s traditional opposition to
all attempts to weaken the marriage
bond he declared: “The Church has
always championed the sanctity of
the home. In the darkest periods
of history since the Crucifixion of
Christ, at the time when the Re
formation had torn most of the na
tions of continental Europe from
the bosom of the Church, the most
powerful ruler of the time declared
that England too would apostatize
unless the Pope gave him permis
sion to put away his lawful wife.
lhe Popes have been accused of
saving the Church by diplomacy and
compromise. The reply of the Pope
to Henry VIII is the answer to that
charge. Though universities and
prelates approved of Henry’s de
mand the aged and feeble Pontiff
defied his threat and threw the
mantle of the Papacy about Cather
ine of Aragon, thereby defending
honest and legitimate marriage and
motherhood, one of the greatest
jewels in woman’s crown. The fact
that England, Canada, the United
States, and all the English speak-
mg nations arc predominately non-
Catholic today, is the price which
the Church paid because she upheld
inviolability of the marriage
Spirit Of Intolerance Harbinger
Of Decadence Msgr. Noll Asserts
Editor of Sunday Visitor, in Radio Sermon, Condemns un-
American Movements Which Seek to Divide the Ameri
can People Instead of Welding Them Into a Harmonious
Whole.
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DAYTON UNIVERSITY CROWDED
Dayton, Ohio.—Six hundred stu
dents will enroll at the University
of Dayton for the fall semester. The
number of Dayton pupils is expected
to exceed past records. The College
department of the University lias an
enrollment of 300. The problem of
increasing facilities to meet the stu
dent growth confronts the university
authorities.
BERNADETTE NAMED NOTED
WOMEN.
Paris—One of the leading French
historical reviews has opened a de
bate to discover who should be con
sidered the ten most famous French
women of the nineteenth century.
Many of the lists presented up to
the present time contain the name
of the Venerable Bernadette Soubi-
rous, to whom the Blessed Virgin ap
peared at Lourdes.
CARDINAL GASPARRI
Rome.—Cardinal Gasparri, Papal
Secretary of State, is confined to his
home here because of a slight ill
ness contracted while on the way to
Rome from- liis country home. His
physician has prescribed absolute
rest although it is declared that the
Cardinal’s illness is not serious.
Pope Pius XI, visited the Cardi
nal Secretary of State and urged the
latter to remain in bed until com
pletely recovered.
Huntington, Ind.—The following
address on Religious Intolerance was
given by the Rt. Rev. J. F. Noll for
a local radio broadcasting station:
“The cry which goes up from mil
lions of throats in a score of nations
today is ‘Peace’, Peace’, but the cruel
answer which the cry ever provokes
is, ‘There is no peace’.
“During the past decade the people
of the world have become so inured
to war and to the tolls of war, that
they would endure a little longer
the delay of the return of peace,
if only they had assurance that it
would return within a reasonable
time. But the signs in every coun
try on earth point both to new con
flicts from without, and to ever-
widening dissensibns from within.
“France and England; France and
Germany; England and Ireland;
Turkey and Greece, are mutually un
friendly. Hungary is surrounded by
enemies; Czeclio-Slovakia is envied
by five contiguous states, and its
heterogeuous peoples will not re
main at peace; Jugo-Slavia is a com
posite of races which will not mix
Poland and Germany have serious
differences; the Croats and Slovenes
will not assimilate with the Serbs;
Austria is already in her death
throes; Russia’ sturmoil is known
the world over.
Nation’s Chief Malady
Our own beloved Columbia, though
far removed from the disorders of
Europe, and in no imminent danger
of attack from without, is neverthe
less, seething with disorder and hate.
The warfare between Capital and
Labor is not the most serious of our
dividing forces. The strife between
the wet and dry elements; the ever-
increasing taxes; the unrest because
of the high cost of living; the
strikes; all these are less subversive
of peace and tranquility than the
growing spirit of racial and religious
intolerance, promoted by a dozen
different groups of men even under
te guise of patriotism. Yes, the per
secution of our own countrymen on
racial or religious grounds so pro
nounced at this moment, is our
country’s greatest malady now and
the harbinger of her decadence.
Pagan Rome’s decline began when
she instituted a religious warfare.
The Near East was progressive until
the government made religion its
own affair. The introduction of re
ligion by force in Germany and
England provoked a Thirty Years’
War in the former, and the most
unjust penal laws in the latter coun
try.
“The aim to retain one religion
by force inspired the Spanish Inqui
sition against Protestants, and the
English inquisition against Catho
lics, both sad blots on history. ‘Re
ligion or no religion’ pecipitated the
French revolution. Mohammedism
versus Christianity has long been
at the bottom of the trouble in the
old Bible lands. ‘No religion at
all’ is the war-cry of the Russian
Bolshevist, of the powers that be
in Mexico, Central America, and else
where. In our own country the cry
is ‘Down with the Catholics, down
with the Jews. Close their institu
tions ; keep their members out of
public office’. This, despite the fact
that the very first amendment add
ed to the establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise
there of.’
“Germany, France, England, Italy,
and other countries, harbor a homo
geneous population, primarily, with
only a few important religious
groups. Not so the United States.
All nations and all religions are
represented in our midst. The dec
laration of wisdom of our fore
fathers, and their proud ambition
was to make ‘E pluribus unum’. Our
far-seeing statesmen from Washing
ton to Lincoln, and from Lincoln to
Roosevelt, warned the people that
racial and religious intolerance alone
would prevent a happy union of all
races and creeds; and their judg
ment was correct.
Some Un-American Movements
“There exists today a tendency
for organizations, which have no
governmental connection as such, to
sponsor movements ‘patriotic’ in
theory, but utterly un-American in
fact, not only because they shelter
the unity and harmony upon which
peace and friendly co-operation de
pend, but also because they purpose
to have Constitutional, yes, even
inalienable rights, which are guaran
teed to all citizens, denied to cer
tain groups towards which they en
tertain prejudices. See how they
sin against the Constiution of the
United States, which begins with
this thesis: ‘We the people of the
United States, in order to form a
‘more perfect union’, establish jus
tice, insure ‘tranquility’, provide for
the common defense, promote the
‘general welfare’, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves,
‘and posterity’, do ordain and es
tablish this Constitution for the
United States of America’.
“Therefore, even to lend encour
agement to those who would sever
‘the more perfect union’ and disturb
‘domestic tranquility’ is the anti
thesis of Americanism, and open
rebelion against the attitude of the
Fathers of this great Republic. To
scheme for disunion ‘in secret’, to
create new organizations ‘for the
purpose of dividing people’ locally
or nationally on religious or racial
grounds, is as despicable as it is
treasonable.
“Justification for religious or
political persecution is sought in
the asumption that Catholics, for
instance, owe allegiance to a foreign
ruler, and that, therefore, their genu
ine Americanism is questionable;
and in the further assumption that
they conduct a school system of
their own, and that, therefore, their
members are not cooperating for an
undivided citizenry. These assump
tions are erroneous, and, therefore,
the conclusion is unwarranted. The
allegiance demanded of governments
is that which people owe to Caesar;
the allegiance demanded of the
Church i that which they owe to
God. Christ Himelf precrisbes both,
and every form of religion recog
nizes the distinction between civil
and spiritual allegiance. Every
Catholic would resent, as much as
his Protestant neighbor, any inter
ference with the United States gov
ernment on the part of Rome, or
any interference with his own poli
tics.
Professional Patriots
“Be not deceived by professional
patriots of the 100 per cent type,
for there is much truth in the adage
that ‘patriotism is the last refuge
of the scoundrel’. Be not deceived
by the self-styled Guardians of Lib
erty, for there is much truth in the
lament, ‘0 Liberty, what crimes
have been committed in thy name.
“Our Declaration of Independence
is founded on man’s natural ‘bill of
rights’. Our country’s constitu
tion, if scrupulously observed, will
unite into one vast choir the con
geries of race and religious groups
to sing as with one voice, ‘My coun
try’, ’tis of Thee, Sweet Land of
Liberty, of Thee I Sing’.
“Let harmony, and not discord, be
our watchword; and where harmony
is now broken, let it be mende.d by
face to face friendly conferences be
tween the dissonant elements, with
all th cards on the table. No other
way is effectual.”
GIVES UP LARGE PARISH
FOR WORK IN THE SOUTH
Father Loftus Comes from
Connecticut to Work as
Alabama Missionary.
HARDING MAN OF VISION
So Says Cardinal O'Connell
of President After Visit.
Watertown, Conn.—Zeal for the
spread of the faith in the southern
part of the United States has
prompted the Rev. John Loftus to
give up a flourishing parish in this
city to engage in missionary work
with the Missionary Servants of the
Most Blessed Trinity at Holy Trini
ty, Station, Cottonton, Alabama.
kather Loftus, who was educated
at the Catholic University, will take
up the task of training young mis
sionaries for work among the people
of the south and will also engage
in the direction of the Sisters, Mis
sionary Servants of the Most Blessed
trinity. There are now one hundred
and twenty-five members of this
Sisters’ community, which was start
ed seven years ago by the Rev.
Thomas A. Judge. The Brothers,
Missionary Servants of the Most
Blessed Trinity have also been in
stituted to aid the work and to labor
in abandoned missionary districts.
Throughout his priesthood Father
Loftus continued his scliolastric
work and is possessed of one of the
finest missionary libraries in the
United States. The Church of St.
John, of which he was pastor, is one
of the most flourishing parishes of
the Hartford diocese.
Victor Mark waiter
Certified Public Accountant.
324 MASONIC BUILDING.
Phone 377.
AUGUSTA. GA.
Washington, D. C.—Recent events
in Europe have proved the wisdom
of the statesmen who kept the
United Stales out of the League of
Nations, according to his eminence
Cardinal O’Connell of Boston, who
visited President Harding here last
week. Cardinal O’Connell pointed
to present events in the Near East
as indicative of America’s wisdom
in remaining out of the league.
“There may be, in the future,” he
said, “some league of nations devel
oped that this country might join,
but not this particular league. Af
ter all, our interest is in the welfare
of America, not as cxclusivists, but
for our own protection and for the
welfare of the world. It is enough
to make one weep to think of how
the European nations are sacrific
ing the order of the world just for
their own little one-sided schemes.
There is only one way out of this.
The pope has pointed it out. It is
on the Christian basis of justice to
all and a fraternal sentiment among
the children of God.”
Speaking of President Harding,
Cardinal O’Connell declared that he
is the kindliest and most courteous
president he has ever met.
“He has a broad vision,” said his
eminence, “and may I say it?—he
appears to have hig feet on the
ground.
DR. STORER DEAD
Newport, R. I.—Dr. Horatio Stor-
er, who was the oldest living grad
uate of Harvard University and in
ternationally known as an obstetri
cian died here last Monday at the
age of ninety-two. He was a con-
vert of the Church, and for many
years was active in promoting the
of St. Luke, an organization
ot Catholic physicians. I)r. Storer
was born in Boston and after leav
ing Harvard took up the study of
medicine in Paris, London and
Edinburgh.
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