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TWENTY 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- Gireetings and Best Wishes From Sanckertr DAIRY AUGUSTA, GEORGIA PITTSBURGH ®PAINTS 06 0>£a6i WALLHIOE • FLORHIDE • WATERSPAR • SUNPROOF WALL PAPER * BRUSHES * PAINTERS SUPPLIES GLASS * MIRRORS < SUNDRIES COLORS BY NATURE * PAINTS BY PITTSBURGH . VtffV/ff’gYi PITTSBUR6H PLATE GLASS COMPANY 917 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. DIAL 2—7395 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- dell.( E.' B. Dudley, F. Elmgren, A. J. Ryan, John W. Gleason, Robert J. Harper, Robert McGinley, James H. Martin; William A. Saunders, Joseph P. Doyle, John H. Hennessy, J. K. Calvitt,’ William E. Kavanaugh, George J. Cleary. J. A. Ware, E. V. Rogerson, John F. Canty, Jr.. T. J. Fogarty, Jr., C. A. Bero, C. J. Des- posito, John L. Kenny. George H. Fries, John E. 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