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■AUGUST 25, 1945
jmg_g.ut.LEHN UK THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THEY PEACE M YNKIND’S
WELFARE IN JEOPARDY
Those who have resented the
cooperation of the President of
the United States with Pope Pius
XII in the interest of peace, may
be surprised to learn that Winston
Churchill, former Prime Minister
of Great Britain, and first Lord
of the Admiralty in England
during the World War. admitted,
according to the testimony fur
nished The New York Enquirer
that the collapse of Russia
which resulted in Communism,
and the breakdown of Italy, which
resulted in Fascism, would have
been prevented, had the nations
at war hearkened to the plea of
Pope Benedict XV early in 1917.
Commenting on the admission
of Churchill, a London paper ob
served: “There is no national pas
sion in the Vatican, but only con
sciousness of universality, and
that is why ttie Pope can see botti
sides ot a question without being
deflected to either if. as usually
happens, the path of Justice and
sanity lies between them both.”
The Lutheran daily. Nya Dag-
list Allaliandra, published at
Stockholm, calls the attention of
its readers to something which
Protestantism generally should
seriously ponder, namely, that if
the fundamentals of the Christian
faith are to be preserved in a
world of skepticism. I tie Catholic
Church is the only spokesman
which can defend them before a
world-wide audience. Thus when
ever a Pope speaks on matters of
laith and morals he is serving the
cause of Protestantism as well as
his own Church. Says the paper
referred to:
‘ One would have to be blind J
not to recognize that the resist- |
ance of the Catholic Church to
barbarity is the first line of de
fense of.our own Christian liberty.
Protestants know full well today
that they too are involved in this
struggle . . Solemn and serene,
with a mind pure but informed,
proud but full of humility, the
Popes preach the Christian Gos
pel. In our time the Catholic
Church has had a series of re
markable heads."
What is probably of more im
portance to the American people
is this: Hod the Pope's proposal
been accepted in the winter of
.1917, it would not have been nec
essary for the United Slates to
have entered the war at the cost
of thousands of dead and found
ed, many billions of dollars and
twenty-four years of grief and
regret.
Benedict XV proposed terms of
settlement which were incorporat
ed in substance, in the Fourteen
Points of President Wilson in the
fall of 1918. The Pope’s terms
were rejected by the French
Prime Minister, Clemenceau,
who entertained the same preju
dices against the Pope’s counstl
that many Americans entertain
today.
It was the same Clemenceau
who refused to allow the Pope to
have a representative at the Ver
sailles Peace Conference, to the
great sorrow of most of Europe
ever since. A representative of
the Holy See would not have
agreed to a peace based on ha
tred and revenge, but would have
held out for a peace for all nations
based on justice.
Is it too much to hope that our
present day statesmen Will profit
by the mistakes of their predeces
sors?—(Our Sunday Visitor).
SEVENTEEN
Father Wallace Observes
Golden Jubilee as Jesuit
MEN OF DESTINY
Pope Pius XII continues to gain
entrance into the columns of those
papers which really print all the
news.
Unfounded antagonism against
the Catholic Church is directed
against many of her beliefs, prac
tices and institutions; one of the
most prolific sources of this anti
pathy is her Sovereign Pontiff er
Pope.
To understand the position of
the Pope or Supreme Bishop in
the Catholic Church, one must
know that:
Christ used not a book bui a
group of men to perpetuate His
religion in the world.
One of the original twelve men
lie selected had a preferred posi
tion of authority among others; he
was the head of Christ’s spiritual
society, organization, or church,
whatever yob wish to call it. Origi
nally known as Simon Bar Jona,
Christ gave him the name of
Peter, which means "Rock’.
Not only the eleven have succes
sors but the authority and the of
fice of "the first” also was trans-
<By NCWC News Service)
NEW ORLEANS — The Rev.
James J. Wallace, S. J, assistant
director ^ the Manresa House of
Retreats, observed his fiftieth an
niversary as a member of the So
ciety of Jesus, on August 22 at
Jesuit high school here.
After serving as vice-president
of Spring Hill college, Spring
Hill, Ala.. Father Wallace did mis
sion work in Texas, lie was re
gent of the dental school at Loy
ola University of the South, and
served at Sacred Heart Church,
Augusta. Ga., before coming to
Manresa.
Father Wallace was the first
president of the Southern Con
ference of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association, organ
ized at Loyola.
milled to others.
The first was called Peter or
Rock; his successors pro called
Popes.
Until now (1945) Peter the Rock
has had 261 successors: the Pres-
ent-Day-Pcter is named Pope Pius
XII. He is the 262nd Pope.
As a man. Pope Pius XII, like
all others, must work out his own
salvation in fear and trembling.
As the pope j head of Cb isl’s
Church, Pius XII is the Rock, the
Center of Unity, the Keybearer,
the Shepherd of the-lambs and
the sheep, the Chief Justice of
Christ’s Supreme Court on earth,
the decisions of which Christ Him
self has guaranteed.
'To justly appreciate the work of
the Popes for mankind, something
more than the perusal of a few sor
did anti-Catholic books or papers
is required. A painstaking study
of the truthful history of each,
and the age and circumstances in
which each live' 1 -is necessary.
Many ot the Popes were mar
tyrs; during the first 250, years,
with possibly one exception, all
died for the faith of Christ.
Even more of them were saints,
as their extraordin; ry sancity and
work for humanity attest.
Two, three or almost a half
dozen . f the entire 262 were sin
ners.
But taken as a whole, their
names constitute a roll of honor
unrivaled and uncqualed in the
history of the world. (Catholic Sen
tinel.)
TWENTY THOUSANDTH BREAKFAST GUEST—Pfc. Edward B
button, oi Thompsonville, Conn., and the Charleston Army Air Field,
who was the twenty thousandth member of the Armed Forces to be
a breakfast guest of the parish of the Cathedral of St. John the Bap-
fw , ,r ei t0 "’ S'. 9“ is pictured, right, with the Most Rev. Emmet
M Walsh D. D„ Bishop of Charleston, left and General Charles Pelot
Summerall president of The Citadel, following Communion-breakfast
served at the Cathedral parish hall on Sunday, August 5, at which
Bishop \\ alsh presided and General Sumerall was the guest speaker
Under the leadership of the Right Rev. Msgr. James J. May. V. G., vec
tor ot the Cathedral, members of that parish have been serving break-
*ast to men and women of the Army, Navy, Marine Qorps and Coast
Guard since before the attack on Pearl Harbor.—JPholos by Jacobs—
Coui tesy of J lie Charleston News and Courier!.
Evidence Guild Speakers
Return to North Carolina
(Special to The Bulletin)
WAYNESVILLE, N. C.—At the
invitation of Jhc Rev. Ambrose
Rohrbacker, pastor of St. John’s
Church in Waynesville, the Cath
olic Evidence Guild of Rosary
College, River Forest, 111., is con
ducting its fourth annual street
preaching tour in SI. John’s Mis
sion, which included the eight
western countries of North Caro
lina. Three girl students, accom
panied by two Dominican nuns,
faculty members of the college,
are delivering nightly addresses
at Sylvu, ■ Cherokee. Franklin and
Andrews, North Carolina.
The under-graduate students
from Rosary College who are on
IN AGREEMENT with the Con
cordat signed some yeafk ago be
tween Portugal and the Holy See,
the Portuguese War Office is
making provision for religious as
sistance for expeditionary forces
or those mobilized for campaigns.
Provision is being made for the
appointment of military chaplains
with serving forces and in military
hospitals.
the street-teaching tour in N-rth
Carolina this year are Miss Mary
Constance Woods, Webster Groves, ■
Mo.; Miss Helen McGrath. Akron,
O., an'-’ Miss Marjorie Malay, Gas
City, Ind. They were trained by
U.eir religious teachers at Rosary
College, the Very Rev. Reynolds
Hillenbrand and the Rev. Charles
Burnickcl.
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