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-JULY 23, 1955.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
PROMOTION, PRESERVATION
(Continued from Page One)
try resorts, on the streets of cities
and towns, in private and public
places and, indeed, even in the
very house of God, indecent and
immodest styles of dress' are seen.
Some of the styles of dress in
vogue at present are oftentimes of
such a nature that they seem to
serve lewdness rather than the
Christian virtue' of modesty. Be
cause of this, the young particu
larly, whose minds are easily
turned to vice, are exposed to the
extreme danger of losing- their in
nocence.
This is an evil which our Cath
olic women can do much to com
bat and overcome by dressing
modestly themselves at all times,
thereby setting a good example in
this important matter to others.
Our Catholic women are not ex
pected to be old fashioned in their
attire, or even to lag behind the
styles of the times, provided, of
course, the styles are decent and
modest, and becoming to Catholic
womanhood, whose model and ex
emplar in this, as in all other
. matters, mast ever be the most
holy and immaculate Mother of
our Divine . Saviour. The purpose
of clothing is not only to cover)
to protect and to adorn the body,
but also to safeguard and promote
the virtue of Christian modesty.
To follow the extremes in pres
ent day fashidns, which expose
rather than cover the body, is an
evil that must be avoided at all
times and in ail places. Let all of
us ever bear in mind that we are
our brothers’ keepers and we must
be careful lest anything we do
bring evil into the lives of others.
Other sources of Temptation to
our youth of today arise from
lewd and lurid publications of all
sorts, from, indecent and sugges
tive motion pictures and from
certain types of programs and en
tertainment which can enter the
very sanctuary of the home by
means of the radio and television.
Parents have a serious obligation
to protect, to preserve and to pro
mote the innocence and holiness
of their children. They must be
extremely vigilant lest evil enter
into the lives of their children
from any source whatsoever. They
must watch carefully over the
reading matter of their children,
their amusements, their recreation
and their companionships. Oh, my
dear parents, how very important
this is!'Our Divine Saviour once
said: “Suffer the little children to
come unto Me and forbid them
not, for of such is the kingdom of
heaven.” Pie threatened dire
things against anyone who scan
dalizes, that is, is a source of
evil to a child. Our divine Saviour
loves and rejoices in the innocence
and holiness which children re
ceive at the holy font of bap
tism. And it pertains to the par-
their children from what the Holy
Father calls “the corrupt breath
of this world,” to safeguard their
innocence and holiness and to
watch diligently over them at all
times lest they defile their souls,
so lovable and precious in the
sight of our Divine Saviour.
Not only must parents keep evil
of all kinds out of their own
homes; not only must parents
watch diligently over the recre
ation and companionships of their
children outside the circle of the
home; parents must sanctify their
homes bj' daily family prayer;
they must be prompt to correct
any evil tendencies they may de
tect in their children; they must
instill into their children a love
of God and a hatred of sin; they
must imbue their children with
a spirit of prayer; they must teach
their children to pray daily to our
Blessed Mother, the patroness of
purity; they must edify and in
spire their children by their own
faithful and virtuous Catholic-
lives.
All this is of the very essence
of the vocation of Christian par
enthood. Ever so much, both in
time and in eternity, depends
upon the exact fulfillment by
parents of their spiritual duties
to their children. The hope of the
Church of the future rests with
the children of today; that hope
is in the keeping of the parents of
the present generation. But be
yond time is eternity, when par
ents will have to .render a strict
account to Almighty God for the
spiritual care of their children,
for the efforts they have made
or have not made to fashion their
children unto the likeness of Jesus
Christ, to rear them in genuine
holiness of life and to prepare
them for eternal happiness with
God in heaven. In this most im
portant matter the salvation of
parents, as well as the children,
is at stake.
Catholics Hit During
British Church Crisis
(By John A. Greaves
(Correspondent, N.C.W.C.
NEWS SERVICE)
LONDON —- The Anglican
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
Geoffrey Fisher, used a crisis
inside his own Church to be
grossly discourteous to the Cath
olic Church and his Catholic fel
low citizens.
The Anglican primate, search
ing desperately for unity inside
his own Church, lashed out an
grily and with obvious envy at
the serene confidence of Rome.
“Perhaps the greatest hind
rance to the advance of the
Kingdom of God among men lies
in the ecclesiastical apartheid of
the Roman Catholic Church,” he
declared at the convocation of
Canterbury. The Archbishop re
cently home from a visit to South
Africa used the Afrikaans word
for “segregation,” used to des
cribe the strict color bar operat
ed by the South African govern
ment against its non-white pop
ulation.
“The Roman Catholic Church
believes in an ecclesiastical apar
theid as rigid and menacing as
any political iron curtain,’" the
English prelate continued. “It
forbids any kind or degree of ec
clesiastical partnership between
itself and the other Churches of
Christendom—-even the elemen
tary partnership of praying to
gether to Our Common Lord for
grace to grow in partnership.”
Catholic authorities made no
comment on the Anglican pre
late’s attack. However, the Uni
verse, most widely circulated
Catholic weekly here, contrasted
the prelate’s charges with the at
titude of Catholics as expressed a
few days earlier by His Eminence
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Arch
bishop of Westminster.
“It is because we wish to carry
out the mission given to us to go
and teach all nations that all our
endeavors lead toward bringing
others to the Church,” the paper
quoted the Cardinal.
“We set about our task not
in a spirit of antagonism but as
bearers of good news. We cannot
water down our message to suit
the likes and dislikes of those
to whom we take it. We cannot
be indefinite about our teaching.
We cannot claim that one re
ligion is as good as another. We
believe that Jesus Christ found
ed one true Church and that he
entrusted the keys to St. Peter.”
Later during the week’s annu
al “parliament,” the convoca
tions held simultaneously in the
two provinces of Canterbury and
York, Archbishop Fisher and his
entourage in their bid to hold
together the Anglican Church
made two sensational decisions
foreshadowing trouble ahead for
the Church of England.
They agreed to seek contact
with the more active Methodist
Church here to discuss intercom
munion. They also agreed to ac
cept intercommunion with the
oddly hybrid Church of South
India, a group formed in that
country eight years ago and in
cluding not only Anglicans
(members of the Church of Eng
land) but also Methodists, Pres
byterians, Congregationalists and
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Church of South India.
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Dr. John Wand, inconvocation,
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Church of England with the stern
aggressive Protestantism of the
Methodists and widen still furth
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the Holy Family, Rev. H. J.
Deimel officiating.
ed among the English clergy. The
Anglican Bishops accepted
“limited inter-communion” after
considerable argument, recogniz
ing the validity of the orders of
its ordained clergy without ac
cepting fully their theology and
insisting on strict control of such
clergy operating in this country.
The Indian Church has about
a million members, half Angli
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with some of its clergy ordained
and some not, a loose group
without uniformity, formed by
the non-Catholic Christians in
India when it became a republic
and the only Church of its type
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