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MARCH 23, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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The Christian Index Draws
Some Startling Conclusions
“The Lone Ranger” Editorial in The Bulletin for De
cember Brings a Reply From the Organ of the Baptists
of Georgia
In the iccue of The Bulletin dated
December 23, 1333, there appeared an
editorial under the title, •■The Lone
Ranger’, which elicited editorial com
ment in The Christian Index,” “the
organ and property of the Baptists of
Georgia.”
This editorial from The Bulletin,
with the comment which it brought
from The Christian Index, is being
reprinted here so that the readers of
The Bulletin, Catholic and non-Cath-
olic,. may have opportunity to draw
their own conclusions about The Bul
letin’s editorial and the comment
upon it in the columns of The Chris
tian Index.
Respectfully, the readers of The
Bulletin are requested to re-read “The
Lone Ranger” and see, if through any
process of reasoning, they arrive at
the same conclusions that were reach
ed by the editorial writer of Tlie
Christian Index.
“DID EDITOR RICHARD REID
FOREKNOW?”
VATICANIANS have the best and
the most extensive espionage agency
on earth. As the representatives of
the Roman Catholic Churchc on the
one hand and the Vatican City State
on the other they have information
denied diplomats of other states, great
and small. Not only so but a repre
sentative of the Pope takes preced
ence over the representatitives of
temporal powers. The New Interna
tional Encyclopedia, published by
Dodd, Mead and Company, defines an
ambassador as follows:
“The highest rank of public minis
ters accredited to a foreign court.
Though used popularly and some
times by writers on public law in a
loose sense as the equivalent of a min
ister, the term is strictly appropri
ately used only of the highest of the
four orders of diplomatic agents es
tablished by the Congress of Vienna in
1815, and that of Aix-la-Chapelle in
1818. The classification then adopted,
which has been generally-accepted is
as follows: (1) Ambassadors, and
legates and nuncios of the Pope; (2)
envoys and ministers plenipotentiary;
(3) Minister resident, accredited to
the sovereign; (4) charge d'affaires.”
Not far from the White House, the
Senate and the Congress and other
government buildings, the American
Catholic hierarchy have caused to be
built the finest embassy in Washing
ton, said to have cost near a million
dollars. The building is to be occu
pied by representatives of the Pope,
in America. Although the present
apostolic delegate is without special
appointment to the government of the
United States, he probably had in
formation that the President would
appoint Mr. Myron C. Taylor as his
personal representative to he Vaican
days in advance of its appointment,
but the nation was not informed of
Mr. Roosevelt s intention until Christ
mas Day. If the Hierarchy knew of
the forthcoming event, it is probable
that Editors of the Catholic Press As
sociation were informed in advance
of the release in order to give them
time to prepare a favorable public
mood.
We wonder what the Editor of The
Bulletin, the organ of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
knew about the appointment which
was announced December 23. He
may have been without any fore
knowledge of what was taking place
in the White House, but it is hardly
reasonable to suppose that the letters
written by the President to Pius XII,
Dr. Buttrick, and Rabbi Adler, was a
happy, Spontaneous, C h r i s t i an
thought. More likely they came after
the President's faithful secretaries
had explored every avenue of such
departure with its probable reactions.
But meanwhile the Catholic Press
got its bearings; with instructions
from the Hierarchy of the course they
should pursue when Mr. Taylor's ap
pointment was announced. With
these instructionsh in mind, Mr. Reid
sought to prevent the shock which he
knew would follow. By publishing
The Lone Ranger, he sought the
sympathy and accquiescence of Pro
testants and Baptists. In order that
our Baptist friends may judge be
tween Mr. Reid’s editorial and ours
of December 7, 1839, to which he
facetiously refers, we publish them
in their chronological order..
—From The Christian Index, Febru
ary 15, 1940)
This is the editorial from The Bul
letin from which the editor of The
Christian Index drew the foregoing
conclusions:
THE LONE RANGER
After twenty-three years of effort,
the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia can report that there is not
a single publication in Georgia which
misrepresents Catholics as a policy,
and only one which does it periodi
cally. That one is The Christian In
dex, “organ and property of the Bap
tists of Georgia”.
Tlie editor of The Christian Index is
constantly worried about “the intol
erance of Rome”, and last summer he
was disturbed when some of his Bap
tist brethren expressed their disap
proval of an attack on the Catholic
Church by a Baptist official at the
Baptist conference in Atlanta. But
he is of tlie same opinion still, for
in the December 7 issue he says:
“Rome preaches tolerance in America,
but one looks in vain for an act of
tolerance in behalf of the Baptists of
Roumania and Spain.”
The Encyclopedia Britannica, four
teenth or latest edition, states that
the State Church of Rumania pro
fesses the “Orthodox Oriental Creed”.
According to the statistics available,
91.5 per cent of the peopule of Ru
mania belong to the State Church and
2.5 per cent, or about one person in
forty, is a Catholic. Catholics have
had their own troubles there. Yet the
editor of The Christian Index blames
Catholics for whatever disabilities the
Baptists also suffer.
As for Spain, Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke
of London, the new president of the
Baptist Alliance, told the Atlanta
World Congress of the Baptists that
pledges of religious freedom had been
received by the Baptists from General
Franco through the Duke of Alva, his
London representative, and Lord
Phillimore. Developments since the
summer have confirmed Dr. RiLh-
brooke’s expressed confidence that
the pledge would be respected.
Facts of this kind do not seem to
impress the editor of The Christian
Index. But they do influence repre
sentative Baptists, who are embar
rassed by his attacks on the Catholic
Church on one side while Stalin, Hit
ler and their ilk are attacking it
from the other, and this at a time
when the organized opposition to re
ligion and particularly to Christianity
requires a united front against the
forces fo irreligion.
Baptist Publication
Revives Fake “Oath”
Cincinnati Catholic Paper
Challenges Item Appearing
in “Baptist Witness”
Russell Appointment
Arouses Indignation
Cathlics and Protestants
Protest Naming of Bert
ram Russell to Faculty of
City College of New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI — The Catholic Tele
graph-Register of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati prints on the front page
of a recent issue photostatic copies
of pages from the Lockland Baptist
Witness, published near Cincinnati,
carrying an article entitled “R Oman
Catholic Intolerance.”
In the article are printed the texts
of four oaths of allegiance to the
Pope allegedly taken by priests, Bi
shops, Cardinals and Jesuits. Among
other accusations, the Lockland Bap
tist Witness professes to “give some
facts concerning the Roman Catholic
oath of allegiance to the Roman Ca
tholic Church to prove that all this
Catholic plea . for tolerance is not
only hypocritical, but is designed as
a smoke screen.”
The same issue of the Catholic Te
legraph-Register carries a quarter-
page advertisement announcing that
the Knights of Columbus in Cincin
nati offer $1,000 to anyone who can
prove the alleged oaths appearing in
the Lockland Baptist Witness to be
true. The same ad is being printed
by the Knights in six other news
papers in Cincinnati within the week.
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK—Indignation is spread
ing rapidly here over the appointment
of Bertrand Russell as professor of
“mathematics and logic” at the College
of the City of New York.
The Brooklyn Tablet, weekly news
paper of the Diocese of Brooklyn, de
votes several columns to an editorial
by the Rev. James M. Gillis, C.S.P.,
Editor of The Catholic World, which
appeared in that magazine in 1969
warning against Professor Russell as
a propagandist against Christian mo
rality.
Assailing the appointment in a let
ter to The New York Times, Bishop
William T. Manning, of the Episcopal
Church in this city, charges that
Professor Russell is a defender o£
adultery and "a recognized propagan
dist against both religion and moral
ity.”
In his editorial, Father Gillis says
the work of Bertrand Russell “tends
to give a philosophical and scientific
justification for what we Christians
call sin” and “every book on his "th-
ical questions contains more potential
harm than a score of nasty novels or
unclean plays.” He adds that the pro
fessors is “bugs” on the question of
sex.
Bishop Manning asks in his letter:
“Can Christian parents, or any other
parents, be willing that their sons and
daughters shall receive such teaching?
Can any one who cares for the wel
fare of our country be willing to e
such teaching disseminated with the
countenance of our colleges and uni
versities?”
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