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DECEMBER 21, 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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CARDINAL SPELLMAN’S
ARTICLE IN COSMOPOLITAN
In his article in the November
Cosmopolitan Cardinal Spellman
knots will) one sentence the cord
that holds together the para
graphs that answer the question
of his title—“Do We Want a So
viet Peace?” Here it is: “It is
not in defense of my faith I write,
but as an American in the defense
of my country, for while commun
ism is an enemy of Catholicism,
it is also a challenge to all men
who believe in America and in
God.”
Stalin and his Soviets do not
like the Catholic Church. She
stands for the sanctity, the dig
nity, the free will of the human
person. Nor do they like America,
for America preaches freedom,
opportunity, order within cooper
ative law. The Catholic Church
to the soviet mind must be oust
ed from America. So must all-
Christian churches if America is
t< merge into the communist pat
tern. Cardinal Spellman indicates
this in one of many telling sen
tences ...” Neither the keenest
vigilance not the -strongest safe
guards will protect us against a
compromising Soviet Peace with
its distortions of truth and per
versions of justice, unless we cling
courageously to the eternal prin
ciples of religion which gave
birth to (lie soul of our nation.”
Unknowingly, perhaps, but
none the less effectively, those
Americans who lash out at the
Catholic Church in speech, ar
ticles of agreement, and direct
action are serving the sinister
objectives of the soviet threat
that stems from Moscow. Should
the Catholic Church be ousted
Irom America, Russia will have
one mighty opposition less to
challenge soviet possession. If
that day eve)’ comes, even Bishop
Oxman will turn a look of yearn
ing on an earlier' happier time.
• The Ave Maria.)
TWISTED THINKING
Bishop Oxnam told 12,000 Prot
estants in Cleveland that "Prot
estants are fundamentally oppos
ed to the philosophy of material-
it.n. on which communism is
based, and to its methods par
ticularly as seen in dictatorship
and repression as in the Roman
Catholic Church."
If the Catholic Church fosters
"dictatorship and repression” it
seems a strange irony that every
repressing tyrant from Nero to
Hitler and every repressive gov
ernment from the Huns to the
Soviet Union has had for its first
objective the destruction of the
Catholic Church. If there be any
point of contact between dicta
torial and repressive governments
and the Catholic Church, Hitler
and Stalin and Tito, and all the
tyrants that preceded them seem
not to have discovered it. The
Church has always been the dear
est object of their hatreds. She
was the first to feel the bite of
persecution. All the martyrs that
satisfied the blood lust of Nero,
Attila. Hitler. Stalin and Tito re
fute Bishop Oxnam’s strange ob
session that the Catholic Church
is the blood brother of dictators
and brutal governments. It is
amazing what_ twists a tenacious
New Ordinary
\UGUSTA — ATLANTA — MACON
COLUMBIA
BISHOP FLETCHER
The Most Rev. Albert L. Fletch
er, D. D., Auxiliary of the Dio
cese of Little Rock, since 1940,
who has been named Bishop of
Little Rock, succeeding the late
Bishop John B- Morris. He was
born in Little Rock, fifty years
ago and was ordained in 1920.—-
(N. C. Photos).
prejudice can give to thinking —
(The Ave Maria).
BACK TO THE VATICAN
The action of President Tru
man in sending Myron C. Taylor
back to the Vatican as his person
al envoy should dispel the feurs
that awukend last June when he
stated that once the peace had
been accomplished the United
States would sever its diplomatic
connection with the papal state.
Obviously, a satisfactory peace is
far from being a reality, and the
furthering of that objective will,
of course, be Mr. Taylor’s first
obligation. There can be no valid
reason presented why American
relations with the Vatican should
not be close and harmonious. It
may be conceded that the papal
city is not a state in the accepted
physical sense, but it has a moral
influence which is apparent in
tradition as well as today’s events
an. with which the United States
should at'all times be in intimate
contact.
Mr. Taylor has been in diplo
matic service there since 19311,
and the results of his labors are
compelling evidence that "his du
ties serve the entire cause of in
ternationalism. — The Albany
Herald).
St. Joseph’s Infirmary
School of Nursing Now
Accepting Applications
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA. Ga. — St. Joseph’s
Infirmary School of Nursing is
now accepting applications for the
term which begins in February.
An applicant desiring to enter tlie
School of Nursing should be grad
uated of an accredited high
school, single, between the ages
of eighteen a;id thirty, and should
apply personally to the director
of the school.
The entrance fee, of $125. cov
ers uniforms, cape, text books,
health examinations and fees,
scholarships are being offered to
deserving young women.
St. Joseph’s is a general hos
pital with a present capacity of
150 beds and offers excellent op
portunity for training in nursing.
The school offers good living con
ditions, active health and social
programs, indoor and outdoor rec
reation, wide clinical experience
and a complete balanced curricu
lum.
St. Joseph's Infirmary is under
the direction of the Sisters of
Mercy. It is accredited by the
Georgia State Board of Nurse Ex
aminers and the Catholic Hospital
Association and is approved by
the American College of Surgeons
and the American Medical Associ
ation,