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4 For more than 71 Years it has b£en WHITE’S FOR Quality at Low Price! •J- B. WHITE & CO, AN AUGUSTA STORE SINCE 1874- ■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. 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