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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 28, 1948
Msgr. Ready Assails
Attack on Pope Pius
by Fascist Leader
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—Expressing active
resentment o£ the “campaign of vili
fication” being waged against His
Holiness Pope Pius XII and the Holy
See by Roberto Farinacci, Editor of
Regime Fascists and Minister of
State in Italy, the Rt. Rev- Msgr. Mi
chael J. Ready, General Secretary of
the National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. today branded these outpourings
as a “hysterical, lying attack.”
Monsignor Ready says in his state
ment that “they have presumed to
link the basest attacks on American
citizens and even on the President of
th: United States with their assaults
on the Holy Father.” He declares the
supposed basis for the attacks is a
calumny “too gross to merit denial,”
and that it represents a “resort to the
sordid anjd mercenary.”
Monsignor Ready asks: “Has it come
to the point where a leading Italian
Fascist and influential editor, seem
ingly with government consent, finds
it expedient to ape the clumsy, un
scrupulous propaganda methods of the
Nazis?"
“The Honorable Roberto Farinacci,
Minister of State in Italy and former
secretary of the Fascist party, pres
ently is engaged in a campaign of
vilification against the Holy See and
the Pope. Farinacci carries on his at
tack in Regime Fascists, of which he
is editor. These attacks have been so
vicious and reckless that an American
correspondent in Rome terms them
‘an unbridled campaign of abuse.’
Moreover, they have presumed to
link the basest attacks on American
citizens and even on the President of
the United States with their assaults
on the Holy Father. The September
third issue of Regime Fascists, sum
ming up its usual hysterical, lying at
tack, asserts—‘these criminals of the
Vatican are interested in politics, not
in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.’ When
a Catholic reads the continued, vio
lent and calumnious personal attacks
on the saintly Pius XII in the con
trolled press of a country overwhelm
ingly Catholic, he is first surprised,
then pained, and at last actively re
sentful.
“The whole world knows the strict
ly controlled character of the press in
Italy. Such calumnies can be perpe
trated continuously only with the
complacent agreement or connivance
of the Italian Government. A people
enjoying freedom could answer such
attacks in a free press- That is now
not .possible in Italy.
“And what is the supposed basis of
these attacks? They rest on the
Christian compassion of Pius Xn for
the terrible sufferings and grievous
trials of Jews throughout Europe. The
Holy Father's concern and mercy for
the afflicted are shared by all right-
minded men when their fellowmen
face persecution, distress and injus
tice. These sentiments are in the hon
ored tradition of the Holy See. But
such sentiments are considered trai
torous by an official Fascist ”
Monsignor Sheen Speaks on
Prayer for Peace Program
Participates in Special Broadcast in Observance of the
National Day of Prayer for Peace Pro
claimed by President Roosevelt
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Referring to con
scription in connection with observ
ance of a national day of Prayer for
Peace, the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton
J. Sheen of the Catholic University
of America warned that “the mobili
zation of man power on the part of
the state could be very dangerous, if
it were not complemented for my an
awakened sense of our dependence
on God.”
Monsignor Sheen was one of three
speakers participating in a special
broadcast of the National Broadcast
ing Company in observance of the
national day of Prayer for Peace pro
claimed by President Roosevelt.
Other speakers were Bishop G. Brom
ley Oxnaln of the Methodist Church
in Boston, and Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver of Cleveland.
“I cannot share the view of those
who think conscription for defense
means the end of democracy,” said
Monsignor Sheen, “but I do say that
conscription without worship will be
a greater loss than the destruction of
our system of government, for it will
be the surrender of that freedom by
which men have the right to choose
governments.”
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
The text of Monsignor Sheen’s ad
dress follows:
“It is a paradox, but none the less
true, that our Declaration of Inde
pendence is also a declaration of de
pendence. It is a Declaration of In
dependence, for it asserts the right
of man to choose his own govern
ment; it is a declaration of depend
ence, because it holds that our rights
and liberties have come to us from
God.
“In these days when men are more
wont to speak of rights than duties,
of freedom from something than free
dom for something, and of independ
ence rather than dependence, it is in
deed heartening and encouraging to
hear a national call to prayer on the
part of the president of the- United
States.
“It is in connection with conscrip
tion' that I would speak of this sum
mons to prayer. My point is that
the mobilization of man power on
the part of the state could be very
dangerous, if it were not compen
sated for by an awakened sense of
our dependence on God. This is very
easy to understand. There are many
cohesions and groupings to which
men belong which are not exclusive
and possessive; for example, a man
who belongs to an athletic club is
not excluded from joining the plumb
ers’ union or a bridge club. But tXrc
is one grouping which is much more
exclusive than others and that is the
nation A citizen of one country can-
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not be the citizen of another. Be
cause a nation is by its nature ex
clusive of other nations and other
peoples there is always inherent in
it the danger that it may become ex
clusive of all other loyalties includ
ing God.
MOBILIZATION FOR GOD
“Suppose, in a crisis such as this,
we forgot our declaration of depend
ence; suppose we forgot that there
was no higher community of men than
the state; then man would have no
other reason for existence than to
serve the state; then he would lose
his independence as the grape loses
its indtpendence in the wine. Thus
while organizing to combat the Total
itarian evil abroad, we would become
its victim at home.
“That is why it is particularly im
portant for us as a nation to meet
mobilization of men for the army Dy
mobilization for God, and to re-affirm
our allegiance to another community,
namely the brotherhood of man under
the Fatherhood of God. Let those
who doubt the need of the worship of
God in a crisis such as this but glance
over the modem world, where they
will find that in every instance where
there has been universal conscription
to the exclusion of God, there has
been created a slave-state, for where
God is most denied there men is most
tyrannized.
“That to me is the significance of
the presidential proclamation it is noA
a call of individuals to pray to God;
it is a call to America as America,
to the political community as such
to redeem its freedom by acknowl
edging a loyalty transcendent to the
state whence all true freedom is de
rived. By a national act of prayer
and adoration we will prevent the
conscription of man-power from be
coming the conscription of man, end
the mobilization of human functions
from becoming the mobilization of
humans. Just as a parent permits
his child to be educated by the state
without denying that the right of ed
ucation belongs to him, so too we
Americans will conosent to be trained
by the state but without relinquish
ing our service to God. Thus will we
render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, but to God the things that
are God s.
“I cannot share the view of those
who think that conscription for de
fense means the end of democracy,
but I do say that conscription with
out vcrship will be a greater loss
even than the destruction of our sys
tem of government, tor it will be the
surrender of that freedom by which
men have the rights to choose gov
ernments.
DUTY TO PRAY DA1LI
As a Catholic, I feel particularly
happy that this day of prayer has
been set for September 8, for it is the
Feast of Our Blessed Lady, the
Mother of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, to whom the Catholic
Church in this country has dedicated
our nation. But I trust that because
the president has seen fit to set this
one day aside as a day of prayer, we
Americans will not make it an excuse
for not praying on the other 364 days
of the year when we need God’s help
as much as today.
“May this proclamation of the
president then be an initiation of
prayer rather than its one day saluta
tion And since we Americans are
very much inspired by the example
of those to whom we have entrusted
our government and its traditions, we
hope that they will set the example
of America’s need of prayer to God,
and that Sunday after Sunday we
will find. the president of the United
States, the members of his cabinet,
the -representatives in Congress and
the judges of the Supreme Court in
their synagogues or in their Churches
according to the light of their con
science practicing what has been
preached and preaching by example,
what needs to be practiced by others.
“Thus will America give official
cognizance to God as we graven in
our hearts the lesson that ‘Unless the
Lord build the house, they labor in
vain who build it. Unless the Lord
keep the crty, he watcheth in vain
that keepeth it’.”
Savannah Guard of Honor
Ends Year of Service
(Special To The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga.— Members of
the Eucharistic Guard completed
their first year of service at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist, with
nocturnal adoration on the eve of
the First Friday in September.
About five hundred man-hours of
adoration before 'the Blessed Sacra
ment have been served during the
past twelve months by the Eucharis
tic Guard which has as its permenent
intention world-wide peace.
Headed by Desmond V. O’Driscoll,
the organization includes W. L. Bo-
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J. Ryan, John W. Gleason, Robert J.
Harper, Robert McGinley, James H.
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