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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGI \
MAY 9, 19.;
ETHICS BIND FRANCE TO
PAY CARDINAL ASSERTS
Archbishop of Lyons Points
Out That Church Is Ready
to Aid Now As In Past
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Paris. March 1.—Christian ethics
and natural ethics make it an obliga
tion of conscience for France to
meet her financial obligations, de
clares Cardinal Maurin. The Arch
bishop of Lyons devoted his Len
ten Pastoral to the financial crisis
preoccupying the public opinion of
France. He preaches the strict ob.
servance of fiscal duties.
The Pastoral says:
“However heavy it may be, you
'Will not neglect the accomplishment
of this duty. 'The liquidation of
the war brings a crushing burden
to weigh on our country. France
must honor her obligations, and, we
must say it, Christian ethics as well
as natural ethics which is in agree
ment with it, lays down the prin
ciple that this is an obligation of
conscience for us. What are sac
rifices of money when during the
war our. soldiers paid so generous
ly and so fully the sacrifices of
blood? At the present time we
must all, each in proportion to his
resources, strive to put the nation
afloat again and make it prosper
ous.”
The Cardinal then declared that
the Church of France is ready to
come to the help of the state as
in the past, in times of famine, war
or public calamity.
“Despite the injustices of which
we have been the victims, despite
our present distress, we shall know
how to consent to the sacrifices de
manded by circumstances. We shall
accept without bad grace the deci
sion ^at the taxes, already so
heavy * ic further increased if it is
recognized that it is impossible to
do otherwise.”
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The State’s Claims on Catholics
Speaker Over P&ulist Radio Outlines Them and Points
Out Responsibilities of Citizens
“What does Christ expect of us
as individual Catholics?” was the
question discussed in the radio ad
dress broadcast through WLWL, the
Paulist Fathers’ station, during the
N. C. W. C. Study Club Hour, in
New York recently.
After explaining that the general
answer to the question is contain
ed in the Encyclical of Pope Pius
XI. establishing the Feast of Christ
the King, the speaker said:,
“Tonight we shall briefly discuss
Catholic Ideals as they apply to the
performance of the duties of citi
zenship and to the tasks which con
stitute our daily work in the field
of labor- and industry.”
It remained for “The American
Hierarchy.of our time” to issue per
haps the most noteworthy pro
nouncement on the civil and politi
cal duties of people ever given the
citizens of this country, the speak
er said referring to “the new cele
brated National Pastoral of the
Archbishops and Bishops of the
American Hierarchy issued i.u 1919
at the close of the World War.”
“The state,” he quoted in part
from the Pastoral, “has a sacred
claim upon our respect and loyalty.
It may justly Impose obligations
and demand sacrifices, for the sake
of the common welfare which it is
established to promote. It is the
means to an end, not an end in it
self; and because it receives its
power from God, it can not right
fully exert that power through any
act or measure that would be at
variance with the divine law, or with
the divine economy of man’s salva
tion. As long as the state remains
within its proper limits and really
furthers the common good, it has a
right to our obedience. And this
obedience we are bound to render,
not merely on grounds of expedi
ency. but as a conscientious duty.”
“The bishops further call upon
Catholics,” the speaker went on, “to
see that our political system be
kept healthy and that our govern
ment he administered for the best
interests of the people and accord
ing to their express will. The only
way that these results can he ac
complished. they state, is by the
adoption of the right principles,
the choice of worthy candidates for
office and the direction of partisan.,
efforts toward the nation’s truef
welfare and the purity of .elec
tions.”
“With regard to our civic respon
sibilities,” the speaker said later, “it
becomes clear tliat we can show our
love of God and our neighbor by
performing the duties*of citizenship
considerately, persistently and with
understanding. Our religion should
animate, us in all that we do and
supply us the highest motives for
the discharge of our civic obliga
tions. A conscientious member of
the church must necessarily be a
loyal citizen of the state; a citizen
who loves his Creator, must love,
his neighbor and be willing to serve
unselfishly in the righteous causes
of his fellow citizens.”
Advertising to business conditions
and the relationship between capi
tal and labor, the speaked asked.
“But what does all this mean?
‘Stealing,’ ‘defrauding,’ ‘gouging,’
‘something for nothing,’ ‘doing right’
‘not being fair’—those all refer to
matters of justice. They then re
fer to the Ten Commandments and
the love of God. They are moral
questions, and, therefore, are mat
ters of right and wrong.”
“Let us look at it from still an
other angle,” the speaker said, in
conclusion. “Man was created a lit
tle lower than the angels and made
the brother of Christ in the Re
demption. A^l men were so creat
ed and all of us were called to be
Christ’s brothers and brothers of
one. another. We have a high dig
nity both as human beings and as
sons of God and brothers of the
God-man. This dignity must be ob
served. The very minimum require
ment of this dignity in our work
is that we are worthy of a wage that
will meet the normal needs of de
cent comfort. If we are paid less
than a living wage, then our dignity
as men and women is outraged.
Those who so treat us do not rec
ognize Christ as their king nor do
they love God and their neighbor.
Those who are so treated are han
dicapped in the practice of love of
God and neighbor.
“Yes, here too Christ is King by
right, and we must love Him and
love our neighbor.”
Conan Doyle Exposes Medium
Staunch Advocate of Spiriti sm Detects Trickery During
Exhibition of Alleged Manifestations
By George Barnard
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
London.—No less a person than
Sir Arthur Conan Dovle, who re
cently toured the United States
stoutly attempting to justify his
belief in spiritism, has just been
forced to expose here as a fake
Frederick Mannings, until now con
sidered one of the best trumpet
mediums in the country. Sir Ar
thur was present at the dramatic
unmaskipg of the man.
Simultaneously it has been an
nounced that there is being produc
ed, as Esther, in Surrey, a motion
picture designed to expose the
tricks employed by fraudulent me
diums. Arthur Prince, professional
magician, who conducted investiga
tions into spiritism for the Chicago
police, is supervising the film and
playing a part in it. The picture
will be shown to the trade here at
Easter.
The exposure of Munnings is tak
en here as proof that Sir Arthur
Conan Dovle is sincere hut deluded
in his belief and preachings of spir
itism. It came about through a cu
rious accident. Sir Arthur describes
it thus:
“A party of us was sitting with
Munnings in a private house, and as
the electric lights had gone wrong,
owing to a fuse, we were in com
plete darkness.
“We were getting messages
through which appeared to be sus
pended in mid-air. and to swing
round in various directions. Mun
nings was not near the trumpet.
“Suddenly the lights came on
again—a thing nobody expected—
and we all saw immediately that
Munnings had an attachment which
he was using to hold up the trum
pet and move it.
“We upbraided the blackguard
and turned him out of the house.
When Munnings had gone we agreed
that we should have to expose
him.”
Jesuit's Golden Jubilee
Father O’Meara Observes It
at Florissant, Mo,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Florissant, Mo.—A noteworthy cel
ebration took place here recently at
St. Stanislaus Seminary, when Father
James J. O’Meara, S. J, commem
orating the fiftieth anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood,
sang Solemn High Mass in the Sem
inary chapel.
Father James J. O’Meara, S. J.,
was born at Balligasheen, County
Tipperary, Ireland, on the twenty-
ninlh day of September, 1845. After
completing his studies at Stonyhurst,
he entered the Society of Jesus "at
Rochampton, England, September 8,
1863. Soon afterwards, meeting
Father De Smet and hearing of the
Indian Missions of the Rocky Moun
tains in America, he came to this
country, finishing his novitiate at
Florissant, Missouri. He made his
higher studies at St. Louis University-
and Woodstock College. He served as
pastor at various times in Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Charles, Missouri, and
Florissant. He came to St. Stanis
laus Seminary in 1916 where he had
been stationed ever since. Up to
a year ago was engaged in giving
retraets to the Italy.
New Vincentian Provincial
President of Kenrick Semi
nary, St. Louis Appointed
— L
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
St. Louis, Mo.—It has just been
announced that Very Rev. M. S.
Ryan, C.M., who since 1906 has been
president of Kendrick Seminary, has
been appointed by the Superior Gen
eral of his order to be Pronvincial
of the Western Province of the Vin
centian Fathers. Father Ryan’s resi
dence will be at Pcrryville, Mo.,
where he will replace Very Rev.
Thomas Finney, C.M , who has re
signed on account of poor health.
Father Ryan will assume his n«(w
duties during the summer and it is
stated that a new president for Ken
rick Seminary will not be appointed
until next year.
Rare Reliquary at St. Louis
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
St. Louis.—A new $8,000 reliquary
set with 195 diamonds has just been
completed for St. Francis Xavier’s
(College) Church. In it will'repose
a relic of St. Francis Xavier, Saint
of the Jesuit order and patron of
the St. Francis Xavier church.
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