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St.Matthew's Ground BrokenFor New Jacksonville Church

JACKSONVILLE—Archbishop J oseph P. Hurley broke ground here Christmas morningfor the construction of St. Matthew's church. Presented to the large gathering of parishionersby Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, the Archbishop congratulated the people on theircooperation in the attainment of their goal, hie called it an historical day for the parish.

The ground-breaking was held on the large plot of ground comprising the parish prop¬erty on Blanding Boulevard. After the Archbishop addressed the people, he attended theMass offered by the Bishop at 12 o clock in the parish chapel.Archbishop Hurley remarked on*

ft'r‘pid‘ro““l//ome For Aged BlessedIn Riverside, Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE—The home for the aged here, wherethe Sisters of St. Joseph soon will be caring for feeble and needyold people, was blessed Christmas afternoon by ArchbishopJoseph P. Hurley. The Sisters moved in to the home this monthin order to make preparations for its operation.The Jacksonville home for the*

parish. He said the small chapelfrom Camp Blanding Has no longersufficient to meel the needs.

He mentioned that St. Mat¬thew's wag remarkable in thatin such a short time it needed suchgreatly expanded accommoda¬tions. The new church will seat1000 people.The Archbishop contrasted the

new church to the Stable at Beth¬lehem, saying that here would bebuilt a crib of stone and brickwhere Christ would be born eachday of the year in the Holy Sac¬rifice of the Mass.In conclusion, he gave his bless¬

ing to those who were present,.The children's choir of the

parish, under the direction ofthe Sisters of St. Dominic, sanghymns during ground-breakingceremonies.

Chaplains to the Archbishopwere Bather Harry F. Turnier andFather W. Thomas Larkin. Mas¬ters of ceremonies were FatherBernard F. Diriman and FatherClaude E. Brubaker.The Bishop's chaplains were

Father Edward Condren andFather Patrick J. O'Carroll.

Father Condren gave the Bene¬diction of the .Most Blessed Bar¬rament following the Mass. Theadult choir sang for Mass andBenediction.

Priests also present at theground-breaking and the Maaswere Monsignor Patrick Nolan,V.F.: Monsignor Maurice Sheehy,of Washington; Father William J.O’Farrell; Father Edward T. Far¬rell, S.S.J.; Father John P. Bums;Father Eenedict Weigand, O.S.B.;and Father James C. Salway, C.M.The large crowd that attended

was heyond the capacity of thechapel to hold. Ones un armychapel at Blanding, it was movedto the parish property hpre ir. 1940.

In the beginning, the chapelwas sufficient for the-parishneeds, hut in the few shortyears that have passed sincethen, it became inadequate.The school, staffed by Adrian

Dominicans and five lay teachers,also grew. Today, it offers kin¬dergarten through eigoth gradeclasses to a record high enroll¬ment of approximately 700 pupils.

aged fronts on the St. Johns Riverand is located at 2040 RiversideAvenue.

The ceremony Sunday after¬noon was a private blessing at¬tended by several priests ofnorthern Florida, Sisters of St.Joseph headed by the Rev.Mother Anna Maria, and threeSisters of Charity from nearbySt. Vincent's Hospital.Sister Mary Ursula, superior,

and Sister Mary Magdalen, are

readying the home for the recep¬tion of the first aged persons whowill he admitted.The Catholic Charities of the

Diocese and the Sisters are now

working on arrangements for theopening of the home.

Sisters of St. Joseph have along history in the field of wel¬fare and education in the Dio¬cese. The Jacksonville home forthe aged represents an oppor¬

tunity for them to extend theirdedicated services, it was point¬ed out.

Present at the blessing of theRiverside Avenue home were Mon¬

signor Patrick Nolan, V.F., FatherHarry F. Turnier, Father W,Thomas Larkin, Father Claude E.Bruhaker and Father Bernard F.Dittman.

African Parliament WarnedAbout Abrogation Of Rights

ProductionNotionTermedDeceptive

By G. R. BruneiVATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Pius XII, in bis I7tK

Christmas message, once again has counseled men scattered

j over the earth’s continents that they can find true peace, true■ happiness, true security only by heeding the message om Bethle¬hem.

Throughout the discourse broadcast here on ChristmasEve, the Holy Father spoke out against the "divinization ofman, an overestimation of that technological dynamism”dominating in a world where "the marvelous is confused withthe miserable and prayer has been abandoned through "pre¬tensions to self-sufficiency of which modern man boasts.” Con¬ditions being what they are, the Pope said, "modern man needsalso to pray and if he is wise he is ready to pray for security

♦ as well."The Holy Father was particular-

installation of the cobalt-60 radiation source at Mercy Hospital's new cancer therapyunit has been accomplished in Miami. Dr. John C. Ajac (left), head of the X-ray depart¬ment, and Dr. Joseph R. Galluccio, radiologist, view the operating head of the new theratrortto which the cobalt was transferred from the two-ton lead shield storage container (right) inwhich the cobalt was shipped by the Atomic Energy Commission of Canada.

DURBAN, South Africa (NC)—"When people talk aboutthe supremacy of parliament, meaning that parliament can legis¬late as it pleases about these fundamental rights of man, ourreply must be that such supremacy is immoral, " Archbishop a six-mile journey to the townDenis E. Hurley, of Durban, has declared here.“No human authority,” he said.fCollege. Natal> an An(t,;can ingti.*a n /< aim aiir>k nniune rtVOv man

Pilgrims Spend ChristmasIn Troubled Holy Places

BETHLEHEM, Jordan (NC)—Two groups of Amer¬icans were among pilgrims who went to Bethlehem for Christ¬mas. The crowd was larger than had been anticipated ¡nview of the general uneasiness after a week of rioting againstmoves to bring Arab-held Jordan into the Baghdad alliance.The pilgrims crossed the Israeli-*

Jordan armistice lines in Jerusalem

New HeresiesIn Sacred ArtCalledCriticalROME OC)—A warning against

heresies in modern Church art has

been made here by Celso CardinalCostantini, chancellor of the HolyRoman Church.The Cardinal, an authority in

the field of art, stated that once '

the Church defended her truthagainst the writers of heresy.

Now, he said, she finds her¬self confronted by heresy in thefigurative arts which would takethe aureole of divinity fromChrist and the character of ven-erability from the Blensed Virginand the saints.

The Cardinal pointed out thathis references to heresy were aim¬ed particularly at painters andsculptors.Sacred architecture, he said, for

the most part has overcome thecrisis of change although there arestill some architects who abandon

can claim such power over man.Parliament is bound by the morallaw as much as individuals andmust respect the rights of individ¬uals in legislating for their com¬mon civic prosperity.”

The true purpose of govern¬

ment, he said, is the regulationof social life to achieve the com¬

mon welfare and prosperity forall citizens. When thia purposeis abandoned for some personalor sectional benefit the common

good is endangered and a pre¬carious and deceptive quiet iskept only by much law-makingand enforcement, he said.The Archbishop spoke at Hilton

Cardinal RefusesPolish Red Bribe

LONDON (NC)—In spite of persecution and communistefforts to bribe Him, Stephen Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate ofPoland, has shown himself a "clear-minded, strong-willed man"who steadfastly refuses to compromise with the Reds.This statement was made in the^'

Catholic Times here by Capt. HughDelargy, Catholic member of Par¬liament who recently returned froma trip to Poland to attend the 10thanniversary celebration of tha:country's pro-regime '‘progressiveCatholic” movement

Far from being the simplecreature described by the “pro¬gressives," Capt. Delsrgv de¬clared. Cardinal Wyszynski isthe great man of modern Polandwho has resisted all efforts madeagainst him.The Reds tried to bribe the Car¬

dinal last summer, he wrote, offer¬ing him freedom if he would leavePoland. The Cardinal, however,told the communists, "Gentlemen,I will pray for you here.”The author said that at one an¬

niversary meeting, Boleslaw Pia-secki, leader of the “progressiveCatholics” and author of a bookcondemned by the Holy See, re¬

ported that the Cardinal had beenmoved to a convent in Sanuk inSoutheastern Poland and was al¬lowed to have visitors.But the truth, Capt, Delargystaled, is that the Cardinal hasbean in almost solitary confine¬ment since his arrest. The onlypersons he sees are those chosenby the secret police, he said.He is also a sick man, the article

noted, suffering from a seriouschest ailment.Cant Delargy reported that‘

POLISH REDS, Page S

tution. HU remarks were a com¬

ment on the present political situa¬tion in South Africa, where theNationalist government is tryingto alter the Constitution in order toremove the Colored people fromthe present voters’ registrationlists.

“Much depends on how youngpeople of this generation handlethe problem of their citizen¬ship," he said. "Will they bebrave enough to let the blackman earn his place in the bodypolitic ?”The greatest freedom for man is

free adherence to the moral law,the Archbishop declared. This free¬dom requires more self-disciplineand real courage than man can

bring to the endeavor; it requiresthe intervention of God. he said.“Only religion can give an ade¬

quate exposition of the natural lawgoverning man's behavior,” he con¬cluded. "Only religion can supply asufficiently strong motive to obeythe natural law.”

He declared that man could ac¬

cept certain adjustments to theexercise of his liberty for the

AFRICAN RIGHTS, Page 5

where Mary and Joseph came tofind shelter in a stable 2090 yearsago.

Christmas Eve ceremonies be¬gan at noon with a procession ofthe hierarchy from Latin andEastern rites, priests and pil¬grims. The procession movedthrough the Basilica of the Na¬tivity to adjoining St. Catherine'schurch where pontifical vespersw ere held.

At 11 in the evening, PontificalMatins and Lauds were begunprior to the Midnight Mass. Amongthose who filled the 400-seatchurch for the Mass were diplo-

“Liberals” ChidedCommunism is savagery and

slavery in their vilest form,George Meany, AFL-CIO presi¬dent, recently reminded “lib¬erals” who are preoccupied withattacking those who oppose thecommunist conspiracy. WithRed infiltration encouraged inton many places and with theU.S. the chief target of com¬

munist spies, organized laborwill need alert leadership tooffset Red designs on it. ReadLouis F. Budenz, Page 4.

mats, as well as groups of Bethle¬hem workers and shepherds.After the Mass, Patriarch Al¬

bert Gori, O.F.M., led the pilgrimsin the traditional ceremony fromSt. Catherine’s to the Grotto of theNativity, The gTotto’ marks thespot where Mary wrapped theNewborn in swaddling clothes andlaid Him in the manger on thefirst Christmas Day.

Later in the day, each of theAmerican groups attended itsown Mass in the grotto. Massescontinued to be celebrated at thisspot until three o’clock in theafternoon of Christmas Day.In Nazareth, meanwhile, a Mid¬

night Mass was celebrated in theChurch of St. Joseph, which occu¬

pies what is believed to have beenthe site of Joseph’s workshop.Nazareth is on the Israeli side.Pilgrims who had canceled plansto go to Bethlehem went to Naz¬areth instead.Throughout the world, mean¬

while, the Infant Saviour born atBethlehem 2000 years ago wasadored at Christmas Masses.

Egypt ThreatensReligious Courts,Jails ArchbishopCAIRO, Egypt OC'—An Egyptian

Archbishop is imprisoned and a

Bishop and priests, arrested withhim, are released on bail in con¬

nection with the circulation of a

protest against the Egyptian gov¬ernment's impending abolition ofreligious courts in Egypt.

Archbishop Elias Zogbhi, Vicarfor Egypt of the Melkite-RitePatriarchate of Antioch, was re¬fused bail and held in jail here.Freed on bail were Bishop NatalBoucheix, Vicar Apostolic ofHeliopolis; Father Chautard,Father Gaignoux and FatherKabes, pastors in the area.

Personal status courts, religioustribunals which in Moslem nations but th(>re is a great n<>ed for livjnzhave jurisdiction over matters per- , intimately the drama of Christian-taimng to marriage and divorce. gajd.

ly outspoken in warning againstthe “most dangerous superstition”that production insured mankind'ssalvation. Increasing productioncan never serve as an effecitve bar¬rier against spreading communism,the Pope said, because this fallacyis shared by both communists andnon-communists.“In this erroneous belief,” the

Pope said, "the two sides find a

meeting ground, thug establish¬ing a tacit agreement of such akind as to beguile the apparentrealists of the West into thadream of a possible genuine co¬existence.""In this industrial age the man

who accuses—and rightly accuses—communism of having deprivedof freedom the people over wThomit holds sway should not omit tonote that also in other parts of theworld liberty will be a very dubiouspossession if man’s security is notderived to a greater extent from a

condition of things which corres¬

ponds to his true nature,” the Su¬preme Pontiff warned.He appealed to Christians not to

satisfy themselves with a sterileanti-communism based upon aaempty conception of freedom.Rather, he exhorted them to

themselves to “extravagant laic- build UP a human soc!etF “in whithmen’s security rests upon the moral

Many artists, he said, executemonstrosities in good faith inpursuit of the modern style.There are also those w ho producesuch deformities of the sacredfigures to debase and ridiculethe Catholic faith, he said.The basic doctrine underlying

sacred art does not change, theCardinal stated. The form is free,he said, hut only to the extent thatit limits itself to the truth.It is necessary that artists be

conscious of the great care requir¬ed of them in the execution oftheir sacred subjects, he said.There is no room for romanticizing,

order.”He said Christian* would

commit treason against Christ,if they failed to work towardthat end.The Pope urged young nations

striving for independence to be¬ware against a spirit of false na-

MORAL PRINCIPLES, Page 5

are to be abolished in Egypt onJanuary 1, 1956.Archbishop George de Jonghe

d'Ardoy, papal internuncio toEgypt, has protested the action.

He said that Christian art was

undergoing a grave crisis. Thereare Christian artists, but there isa grave shortage of genuine Chris¬tian art, he said.

Political MoralityThe Christmas message of

Pope Pius XII, published on

page six of this issue, has beencommented upon in an editorialin "L’Osservatore Romano,” Va¬tican City newspaper, NCWCNew* Service report*. CountGiuseppe Dalla Torre, L'Os-servatore's editor-in-chief, saidthat (he Holy Father's message,in it* practical reminders, re¬flected Christian politics en¬lightened by morality.

Rather James J. Walsh

God Considers Spiritual EffortIn Rome, untold numbers attend- | beginning of every new off. If we use the world's stand

*' year, many people cast an un- »rd of judging success (which ised midnight Masses. Otherslistened to the broadcast of themidnight Mass celebrated by PopePius XII in his private chapel, andattended Mass later in their own

churches.

Ground-Breaking For New St. Matthew’s Church* Jacksonville

The small chape] in the background, transferred from Camp Blanding a few short years ago, is no longer sufficient tomeet the needs of St. Matthew's parish in Jacksonville. Ground was broken Christmas Day for a new church that will•eat 1000 people. Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley broke the ground for the new church.

easy glance over the past J2months and then resort to some

mild breast-beat¬ing. Needless tosay, this is a

practice we couldall engage inwith some profit,if the purpose ofthe annualview was toanee the booksof the soul andmake sincere res¬

olutions. However, our point forthe moment is not the importanceof admitting faults and makingsincere resolutions.

There i* another thought thatdeserves some attention at theend of a year, and that i* thequestion of failure and success.

Some of the gloom that settleson those who check over the pastyear is due to a sense of failure.They are unhappy because plansdid not work out. They are dis¬couraged because success by¬passed them.It should be noted, first, that

many a person reproaches himselfwith an unjust charge of failure.If a Catholic becomes depressedbecause he has failed in this orthat respect, he needs to refreshhis mind on w'hat God considers tobe success and failure.

He may be moaning oversomething that actually pleasesGod. What he thinks of as fail¬ure God may consider a steptowards success.In judging the value of the past

year in our lives, we must useGod’s standard of what is worth¬while and what is not, what shouldbe lamented and corrected andwhat should be merely shrugged

far more pagan than Christian)we pile up needless worries andbuild vain hopes.The fact is that what the world

calls success may well he failurein God’s eyes. And what socialconventions judge as a failure mayindeed he success.

Everyone agrees that successmeans the attainment of a defi¬nite object. According to thepagan view, the attainment mustbe noticeahle. Result* have to heproduced and seen. The worldjudges success from outwardappearances only.The business man is a flop if

he doesn’t show a fine profit. Thedoctor is an also-ran, if the well-to-do keep away from his office.The public official loses prestigeif he does not produce votes.In short, if the world cannot

recognize results, the tag of fail¬ure is quickly pinned on » man.

We should know better thanto be influenced by this standard,yet by nature we are stronglyinclined to judge ourselves andothers in the same way. Fortu¬nately God’s way is more merci¬ful and far more broad.Unlike the world, God does not

look for results in judging us. Helooks for effort! And he looks furthe right motive as well as theobject towards which we are work¬ing.For instance, in prayer we may

consider ourselves failures be¬cause the soul is dry and distrac¬tions are numerous. But if one,

disregarding his feelings in thematter, keeps on trying to prayin order to fulfill the duty to God,he most certainly is successful inprayer.

God doe* not Judge m on the

basis of a well-rounded, fervent,fat prayer full of unction andconsolation. He is estimating thevalue of our prayer, however, onthe amount of effort we put init to make it attentive and pleas¬ing to Him.This is true of all our spiritual

duties. A person with a certainweakness may consider himself adismal failure, but neverthelesskeeps on trying to discipline hispassions and remain faithful tothe law of God. Because of hispersevering effort, he is success¬ful in the sight of God even thoughoccasionally he falls or seemsabout to fall.St, Therese hidden away in Car¬

mel seems to the world a sadwaste of talent and personality.Whatever did she DO? Whatdid she PRODUCE on earth? rheyask. Nothing that the world couldmeasure by its tiny rubbery rod.

But Therese, like her Master,vm gaining astonishing successin the things of lasting value,everlasting value. Not in moneymatters, or prestige or anyother passing field, but in thegreat business of the love of Godand neighbor.So, if we are going to weep over

failure, let’s make sure it is reallyfailure involved. And If we‘ areanxious to work exceedinly hardfor success, it is sensible to directall that energy to-the only successthat is worth-while.The one auccess that counts is

the salvation of the soul. Allhuman successes may be merefantasies. The only real auccessthat we ean be sure of, once andfor all, is made known after death,not in this life.There is but one speech of suc¬

cess: "Well done, thou good andfaithful servant.”

I

The Florida Catholic, Friday, December 30, 1955

Priests Sail HomeHONG KONG 0O—Father Justin

Garvey of Ridgewood, N.J.. andFather Marcell us White of Wal¬tham, Mass., Passionist missionar¬ies expelled from Red China inNovember, have left here by boatfor home. They will go to Europefirst and may reach the U.S. inMarch.The last of their community on

the Chinese mainland, each priestlost over 50 pounds while in thecommunist prisons for two year».

Fare Reduction*BONN, Germany (|C — The

German cabinet has voted specialfare reductions on the state rail¬road for families with three ormore children. The reducedprices become effective on March15, 1956.Young people between 10 and

19 years, in the large families,will receive a reduction of 50per cent in ticket prices.

Japanese Martyr*TOKYO 00 — The 50 Tokyo

martyrs of December 4, 1623, werecommemorated here this month inan annual pilgrimage made by 400Catholic men. Two priests, onefrom Italy and one from Spain,and 48 Japanese were publiclyexecuted to frighten 17th centurylords living in Tokyo into activesuppression of Christianity. Thesite of the martyrdom is now deepin the heart of the city

KatholikentagCOLOGNE, Germany 0C> — At

least a million persons are ex¬pected to participate in theKatholikentag (Catholic Con¬gress) which will be held herenext summer.Josef Cardinal Frings, Arch¬

bishop of Cologne, will formallyinaugurate the year’s activitieswhen he offers a pontificalMass in the cathedral here onthe Feast of the Epiphany,January 6.

Relic Of St. IgnatiusGRANADA, Spain 9D—Throngs

from all parts of Granada haveflocked into this provincial capitalto venerate the skull of St, Igna¬tius Loyola. The relic was broughtto Spain from Rome to commemo¬rate the fourth centenary of thesaint’s death.St. Ignatius was born in tho

Basque province of Guipúzcoa in1491, and died at Rome in 1556.He founded the Society of Jesus.

St. Francis’ CribROME (10 — Recent excava¬

tions have uncovered the originalcell of St. Francis of Assisi wherethe saint celebrated Christmasin 1223 at an improvised cribwith a live ox and donkey. Thecell is in the hermitage of Grec-cio, near Rieti.The discovery is reported in a

volume just published here byretired Bishop Cristoforo Ardu-ino Terzí, O.F.M., of Apuaniawho was born in the Rieti Dio¬cese.

St Anthony') Hospital«00 Uth Street

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American College of Surgeons

ILO LiaisonGENEVA (10 — Early in 1956,

Father Joseph N. Joblin, S.J., willassume the duties now handled byFather Albert Le Roy, S.J., at theInternational Lahov Office hero.He will serve as a liaison betweenthe ILO and Catholic social or¬

ganizations throughout the world.Father Le Rcy, who has been

connected with the labor office fortwo decades, will be associated withAction Populaire, headquarters ofthe Jesuits’ social action activitiesin France.

Nun* Leave ChinaHONG KONG C — Mother

Marie Cecile and Mother MarieLiesse, both French, the last twoforeign Carmelite nuns in RedChina, loft Shanghai by boat furHong Kong on Christmas day,after having been compelled byimpossible living conditions andthe deprivation of all religiousservices to seek exit permits.

Soviets At WorkLONDON (Ki—New exhibits in¬

tended to help with the teachingof atheism have been added to thoLeningrad Museum of the Historyof Religion and Atheism. A RadioLeningrad broadcast, it was re¬ported here, said one new additionto the museum shows “proof” onthe non-existence of the eoul. Stillanother, the broadcast said, coun¬tered ''’the myth about the crea¬tion of the world.”

Freed GermansBOCHUM, Germany CCi—Ger¬

man Catholic soldiers recentlyfreed by the Russians will builda church here in thanksgivingfor their liberation. The church,to be dedicated to the Holy Fam¬ily, is to honor particularly theReturn from Egypt.

Indian Bishop DiesDINDIGUL, India DC) — Retired

Bishop Francis 1. Roche, S.J., 78,of Tuticorin, has just died here.He had toured the U.S. in 1948.Ordained a priest on October 2,1910, he was consecrated a Bishop,September 23. 1923. He resignedbecause of age two years ago

Father, What Time Is Mass?Aa a service to visitors and to Floridians as well, we

publish a complete listing of Sunday Masses in the Diocese.Pastors are invited to inform us a* soon as possible whenthe Mass schedule changes, so that those who are travelingmay be able to attend Sunday Mas) on time.

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Start New YearWith ChristTHE whirlwind between Christmas and New Year’s Day! Amerry-go-round-^very merry and very much go- Tound, It’)not the organized parties—you’re ready for them—it’s theimpromptu one» that throw you, and are the most fun.

A gang of young people comet in with a "let s have aparty" air. Ginny’s friends — cocoa andcookies. Teen-agers—just to gab about lastnight’s doings and tonight’s anticipation, overCokes and cookies. “Long - time - no - see"friends of our own who call up with a "Comeon overl" It's wonderful. We put on unwantedpounds, but best of all renew old acquaintance-—and thoroughly enjoy the holidays.With the coming of the New Year, though,

we tend to settle down. All of a sudden, wefind that in writing letters—often thank-yous

for Christmas gifts—we automatically put down 1955. scratchout the five and make it 1956. Subtracting the date of our birthfrom the new numeral, we get a slight sho^k. Time marcheson . . .

This year, w* resolve, is goingfNew Year calls on friends.. Thatto be a really good one. Very first call, of course, should be onsoon after this column is pub- our Best Friend,liehed, we'll hear over radio thescreams and howls from coast tocoast, see scenes of celebration onTV si America embarks on a newyear. IWhether we're in New York,

San Francisco, or Council Bluffs,Iowa—smack in the middle—we'llbe surprised at all the hysteria.It's whoop-de-doodle-do.

Is this the impression ofAmerica, we wonder, that is he-ing given out all over the world?How many of the 165 million ofus are in the night eiubs dis¬played? How many at smallparties in one another's homes?Sitting by our own firesides?In a mid-December column,

Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc wrote:“The Church does not neglect toconsecrate the first day of theyear to God, nor does a Christiancouple regret or neglect to spendthe fiist hour of their marriageat the altar of God . . , Your firstfood is the Eucharist?”The Feast of the Circumcision,

New Year’s Day and a Holy Dayof Obligation, is * fine time forthe starting of a New Year thatis truly holy. A New-Year-In-Old-Year-Out party could appro¬priately end at midnight—as faras eating and drinking are con¬cerned. A few more songs andthat would be it.

Then the new year could andshould begin with reception ofthe Holy Eucharist.To go back to Msgr. DeBlanc’s

column the Church’s consecra¬tion of the first day of the year toGod—there’s an old saying: “What

Joe WÜllams

Robinson Retires A ClicheAPPARENTLY the distinction between a fighter who man¬ages a successful comeback and one who regains his cham¬pionship, has not been defined with adequate clarity, as the fol¬lowing note from one of the customers indicates:

"There was nothing unprecedented about Sugar Ray■Robinson winning back the middleweight titlefrom Bobo Olson. Take a look at the recordbook and you will find that Stanley Ketcheldid the same thing in a fight with Billy Papkeaa long ago as 1908."It was hardly the same. To begin with, Rob¬

inson never lost the title. He retired undefeatedto enter the light heavyweight division. Then,losing to Joey Maxim, he retired altogether.At least this was his intention. But after

some 30 months, during which his cash hold¬ings dwindled to piggy-bank proportions, he returned to thering, had six tune-up fights, then knocked out the current cham¬pion.

To come back, a fighter obviously must first go away,and after having gone he must heed the compulsion to return.By this rule of thumb definition,♦

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It's a heartening thing forparents to know that more andmore young people are endingthe New-Year-In-Old-Year-Outparties with Mass and recep¬tion of Holy Communion at anearly, very early, morning Mass—“Printers’ Mass” or whateverit's railed in your town. So theycome home late? Better to havebeen in church than on a partythat lasts just as late.When they follow the Church

and, as Msgr. DeBlanc says, “con¬secrate that first day of (he NewYear to God,” we need not worrytoo much. It’s up to us to con¬tinue the example and trainingthat make them want to followthose precepts.At our house we have a pe¬

culiar New Year’s custom—super¬stition, if you will, but imbeddeddeep in family tradition and may¬be an old Irish folk belief: Thefirst person to enter the housemust be a male. The custom stillpersists On New Year’s Eve, ifwe’ve been out, the Head of theHouse goes in first, I trail.

Funny thing, we've beenawakened many a time on NewYear’s Eve when one of thegirls has insisted that her escortprecede her into the house.“Maybe Dad and Mom aren't inyet," we've heard the whisperedcomment, “and this is the waywe do it." (The polite but slight¬ly embarrassed date succumbs tothe request.)Dedication of the house to mas¬

culine supremacy? Fine! And

Robinson was an authentic come¬

back, and since all others in similarcircumstances failed, it was unpre¬cedented.

There is nothing about Robin¬son’s accomplishment that isanalogous to Ketchel and Papke.Ketchel lost his title in Septem¬ber and regained it in Novemberof the same year, fighting reg¬

ularly before, as well as after¬ward.

In Ketchel’* day, even regaininga title was considered epochal andwas appropriately rhapsodized inboxing literature. Now it’s com¬monplace.Until recently Jimmy Carter, for

example, made a mischievous prac¬tice of winning and losing the light¬weight title every other Fridaynight, or so it seemed.To describe Robinson's feat as

unprecedented, historically accurateas it may be, is to take imprudentliberties with language values, es¬pecially in view of the soft touchhe faced.

“They never come back" wasthe oldest and most labored

you do on New Year’s Day, you'll dedication of the whole thing todo all year long.” . Christ.This, no doubt, is the basis for Happy New Year!

Coming EventsCharity ball, December 31, Mi¬

ami K of C hall, 9:30 p.m. . . .

Blessed Martin’s Guild meets, St.Mary’s Hall, St. Petersburg, 2p.m., January 2.

Altar Society meeting, Sts.Peter and Paul, Miami, January3, 1 p.m., talk by Mrs. ThomasE. Grady on liturgical vestments.Catholic Woman’s Club, Fort

Lauderdale, card party, 1 p.m.,January 10, Woman’s Club on An¬drews Avenue.

Card party, January 11, AltarSociety, Sts. Peter and Paul, Mi¬ami.

Card party, style show, Cath¬olic Woman's Club, St. Joseph's,Lakeland, at Cleveland Yacht Club,January 17, 8 p.m. .. . Dessert cardparty, Catholic Daughters Hall, St.Petersburg, January 27, 1:30 p.m.

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Schedule Of Sunday Masses(Corrected through December 29, 195^)

ST. AUGUSTINS, Cathedral—4. T, S. 10, 11)0.

*«. Ara» XtHtu-1St. BeicAlvt—1:>0 and I

ANNA HARIA ISLAND—»ARCADIA, at. I*«wl—IAVON PARK, TonrUt Clab—9BAKBRSV1LLK, Oar L.4r •*

C«,t C*iu«l — 4tk Bus-day, 8; other*. 10

BARTOW. H Ttwu — S ead1I:M

■nil GLADS, St. Philip Kta.• —1:11

•■LLEVISW It *»«■■ Mta-—S.

ROCA GRAND), Oar Lady •*M*r«r—Monday*. »

BOYNTON BEACH, at BaratasThMtrl—t and 1)

BRADENTON. St. Jo»ph—7, S.», 14. 11:30.

BROOK3VILLK, St. Aathaay—I.BUNNELL, Otada Cantar—I.BUSHNELL—»CALLAHAN—9:1(CLEARWATER, St. Caealla — T.

t. 9:30. 11CLERMONT BlaaaaA SimaHl

—S and 1:30CLEWISTON. St. HarSarat—1st.

2nd 8unday*. 8: other*. 11COCONUT GROVE, Bl*k Sebaal

—II

CORAL GABLES. Llttla Plawar—T, I. », 1#. 11:10, 12:10

CRESCENT CITY. St. Jaba—»CRYSTAL RIVER, Sadlltr Hall—

>DADE CITY. St. Hita—T and IDAYTONA BEACH. St. Paal—f.

2. S, 10. 11. IIGar Lady at Laardaa —

(Peabody Auditorium)tit. 1:11, 10:11, 11:10

DELAND, New Atum Batidlas—S and 10

PSLaAT BEACH, St. TlaaaatPenar—I and 1»

■LETON, It. Ambraaa—-4th Sun¬day, 10: other*, I

H17ITIB, St. Harr af the Lakea—S, »:I0, U

FERNANDINA, St. Michael—7:10and 11

FORT LAUDERDALE, St. Aa.thorny—6:10, I, ». 1». 11:1»St. Clautaat—I I. lit. 11Chareh af the Aanaaelattaa—It

PORT MYERS, St. Praaal* lat¬ter—1, f, ll.

FORT MYERS BEACH—».FORT PIERCE. St. Aaaataaia—

T,*:S6.10.Bleaaed Martia—It

GAINESVILLE. St. Fan-1eh — A1). 12

Craae Hat), Ealraralty atriarlda—». It. 11, 12

ORBHN COVE SPRINGS. SaaradHeart—T:30 and 10:S0

HAINES CITT. at Falk Ratal—»:tt

HAWTHORNE. St Philip Hart—

HIALEAH St Jaba tha Apaatla—« 7, I I. 10, 11, II

baaraaalata Caaeaptfaa — A», 10. 11

HIGH SPRINGS, St MadaMaa Se¬rbia—1):)»

HOLLYWOOD. Little Flaw**—AT. ». t, 10. 11. II

WEST HOLLYWOOD—»BOBS SOUND. St- Chrteteahee—

IHOMESTEAD. *aerad Heart—T.

t 10. l*:ltINDIAN ROCKS BEACH—» 21INVERNESS, Oar Lady ad Fa-

JACKSONVILLE, Aaaamptleu 1.I It. It, 11. 12

Chl-let the Klnit—7, 9. UMaty Roeary—1:30. 7:10,10:30. 11 .10

taaatilata Caacaptlaa — A7. t 30. 10. 11:3». 11:1»

St Matthew — 7. A ». IS.11. 11.

Bar Lady af Aadale—7 I.II

St Paul—7. 8:10, 10. 11. II.St Pine—7, ». 11

JACKSONVILLE BEACHSt. Pnul—7:30, 6 JO, 10:20,

11:30KEY BISCATNE, St A«aaa—

3:30 and 11KEYSTONE HEIGHTS. St Sa¬

llan—2nd & 4th Sundays.8; other*. 11

KEY WEST. St Mary Star af theSea—I. 7. 3:30. 10 11:30

KISSIMMEE, Heir Redeemer —7:30 and 10 31

KORONA, St. Mary — T:*0 tad10 30

LAKE CITY. Epiphany—lit. 3rd.5th Sundava, 7; other*, It

LAKELAND. St. Joeeph—!, 9. 10,1 1:30

LAKE WALES. Heir Spirit—7and 1 0

LAKE WORTH. Sacred Heart—7.3. ». 10 30

LAND O' LAKES. Out Lady aftha Roeary Hteetoa—(VFW Hall)—* 30

LEESBURG. St. Paul—3 and 1*LIVE OAK. St. Franela Xavier—

*. every SaturdayLORETTO. St. Joseph — * and

10 30MADISON St. Vlneeat—2nd. 4th

Sunday*. 7; other*. ItMARATHON—S and 10MASARYKTOWN. St. Mary —

1010MAYFORT Jaekeeavill* Beaeh

Mlnnlon—9MELBOURNE. «lar Lady af

I.onrdee—ft. 9. 10, 11, 12MIAMI. Corpa. Chrl.tt—1. », ».

10, 11, 11Geaa—5. «. T. A ». IS. 11:3*.12:10

Holy Radearner—I II aaf10 to

Gar Lady af tha Mleeieae—7 and 3:8»

St. Brendan—7:30, 9. 10 30,12

St Mary—), T. I. », 10. 11. 11St. Michael—». 7. 3. I. IS.10:30. 11. II, 11:29

Sta. Peter and Pant — 1:1»,L 10, 11. 12

■t Rone af Lima—T t. A IS.11, 12.

IT1AMT REACH. St Jeaaph—T. A9. 10, 11, 11

St. Patrick—7. I. I. 1». 11Golden Gate audllorlam—3and 10

MIAMI SPRINGS. Bleaaed ma¬lty—*, T:»A 3:30. 11:3*.11:10

MONTICELLO. St Merparat —9:1 A

NAPLES St Abb—9 and 1*NEW PORT RICHEY. Oar Lady

duren of Penee — 7:30, 0,10:13

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, SacredHeart—7. 9. 10. 11

St Rita Mlaaloa—1*NORTH MIAMI. Holy Family—

(. 7, 3. 9, 10, 11, 12St Janta—7, 3, 9, 10, 11, II

OCALA. Bleaaed Trinity—7 9:19,10, 11

St. Antcatlne Mleelon—1130

0KEECHO3EB, Sacred Heart—3OFA-LOCKA, St. Mel—7:30, ».

10:10, 11.ORANGE PARK. St Mary Chapel

-». 7. 1, I.

-7, 3,

ORLANDO. St Ja10. 11. 11

Orlande Air Basa—ISt. Charlee Bórreme*

9, 10:30, 11:20PAHOKEE, St. Mary—1st, 2nd

Sundave, 11: other*. 8PALATKA. St Me*ia* — 7 and

10:30PALM BAY, St. Joeeph—9PALM BEACH, St Edward—7, 9.

11PERRY. la»mace la** Carnea***aw

—1-10PLANT CITT, It Olaaaaal—1:3*

and 19.99PLANTATION KEY. laa Padre

9POMPANO BEACH. Gar Lady •*

the AtaeaapHaa — 7. A*10. 11. 11:1»

PORT TAMPA CITY. St Isa»***—9

PRINCETON—»:!»PUNTA GORDA. Snared Hear*

IOUiNCY. at Americas Ladies

Hall—3.RIVIERA BEACH, St PraaeU af

Aeolnl— 7, S. 9. 10. 11.30ROCKLEDGE. St. Mary—3. 9 10.

IICLOUD. St Thaaeaa Ayaiaaa

—IJOSEPH. Saered Hear*—•:>»

and I 39LEO ABBEY—3:30 and 3,10PETERSBURG. St Paal—

3:30, 7:10, 3. 10 10, 11:45St. Joseph—7, 3. I 10, 11St Mary—1:11, 3. II, 11■t Jade—7-10, 9. 10 to. II;Masnetla Hall: PlmallaaPa-V—»

ImBBBcalnte Ceaeeptlea—IPETERSBURG BEACH. St.John»—7. 1:11 9:30, 10 45, 12ANTONIO. St. Aathaay—7:20 and 9 20

SANFORD, All Sea la—T, I. 1»SARASOTA. St Martha—I II. t

». 10 11SEBR1NO. St. Catherla*—T and

11SOUTH MIAMI. Epiphany—f :IA

», I. 10, 11, 13STARKE. St. Edward—9 20STUART. St Jeaaph—7:39 and

10:20SULPHUR SPRINGS, Heat »•<!

Redeemer — 7, 1:39. 19.11:19

TALLAHASSEE Blaeeed laera-ment—7:30. 9:30. 11:39

TAMPA. Chrtat the King—7, I, I,10:15, 11:30, 12:30

■all Holy Name—I and 19Oar Lady af Perpetmal Help

—7, t, » 10. 11Sacred Heart—I, 7. A S, I»,

11:30. 12:30St Peter Claree—7 and iSt Beuedlrt (Thee City)

—9TARPON SPRINGS. St Uaatlne

—3 and 10TITUSVILLE. St. Thereea — I,

9:10VENICE, Epiphany—I and 1»VERO BEACH. St Helen—7:11.

9, 1LWAUCHULA, St Mlehaal — 9:1*WEST PALM BEACH. St. Ana—

7. 1 30, 9:99, 10:10. 11 ItSt. Juliana—7:10, 9, 10. 1112

ST.

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9:9»Holy Name Chapel. Weea-Nata—7:30, 9, 10:39.

WEST TAMPA. St Jaeayh—7. A9. 10:30

WINTER HAVEN, It Jeaaph—»,10, 11:15

WINTER PARK, St Marfan*and 19Mary—7, 1:11. 9:9*. 19:3*.11:30. 11:1*

ZBPHTKHILLK It Jeaiph — I

cliche in the trade. Thanks toRobinson, it can now be filedaway and forgotten, along withlightning never strikes twice,grays never win Derbies andmoney never makea for happi¬ness.

It seems likely the phrase gainedits original currency following JimJeffries’ effort.The Ohio boiiermaker, who had

retired undefeated, came back aftersix years and was messily batteredby Jack Johnson. More than one

lead story from the Reno press boxthat July afternoon probably start¬ed out: “They never come back.”

For all anyone knows, Johnaonmight have beaten Jeffries thebest day he ever saw, but whatinexorably doomed the comeback-er were the corrosive effects,mental as well as physical, of hislong idleness. Among otherthings, he had irretrievably losthis zest for fighting.When a comebacker answers the

bell, desperation has replaced am¬bition. The sheriff is just aroundthe comer and money must be rais¬ed.

Heavyweights fight more oftennow than in other days.If the titleholder defended once

a year he was regarded as a

fighting champion. It was threeyears before Jess Willard put histitle on the line.

Roughly, he faced the same prob¬lem as Jeffries. He was a ringruaty 38, and Dempsey, 24, torehim apart.Dempsey, like Robinson, and Jef¬

fries before him, was sure he was

through with the ring forever whenhe announced his retirement.Financial colic later compelled

him to change his mind. T was withhim when he resumed training.

“The hardest thing,” he ex¬

plained, “is to get the feel offighting again. I’m in good shape,I'm punching ail right, I can stillmake all the moves, but somehowsomething is lacking.”Desire. Deep down, he no longer

had it. He wasn’t fighting becausehe wanted to, but because he had to.

Sale* On SundayTRENTON, N. J. ()CI—Two bills

banning the sale of automobiles onSunday await the signature ofGovernor Robert B. Meyner hereafter passage by the state legisla¬ture.

One measure makes mandatorythe closing of al) automobile deal¬ers on Sunday and provides finesor imprisonment penalties, or both.The other bill empowers the StateMotor Vehicle Commissioner torevoke the license of dealers whoremain open on Sunday.

NCCW BlessedWASHINGTON (10—Pope Pius

XII has expressed his “cordialgratitude” for a message of re¬newed “filial affection" from theboard of the National Council ofCatholic Women and has impart¬ed his paternal apostolic bless¬ings to the officers and membersof the NCCW.The Holy Father'e message

was sent this week to NCCW ina cable signed by Monsignor An-gello Dell’Acqua, Vatican substi¬tute secretary of State.

Pope* On Marriage Catholic Hour TalksMILWAUKEE 00 _ “Papal

Pronouncements on Marriageand the Family," a new volumepublished by the Bruce companyhere, has been edited by FatherAlvin Werth, O.F.M.Cap., andDr. Clement St. Mihanovich.The writings of the Holy Fa¬

thers from Leo XIII to Pius XIIon these subjects have been col¬lected: origin and nature of mar¬riage, purpose and function ofmarriage, and the family.

Drug Film ImmoralNEW YORK (10 — "The Man

With The Golden Arm,” dis¬tributed without the seal of ap¬proval of the Motion Picture Pro¬duction Code, has been rated“morally objectionable in part” bythe Legion of Decency. Said theLegion:“This film is of low moral tone

throughout because it tends tominimize the moral obligations ofall the principal characters. Ittreats in terms of morbid sensa¬

tionalism with narcotic addictionand in so doing fails to avoid theharmful implications relative tothis moral and sociological prob¬lem. It also contains suggestivecostuming, dialogue and situ¬ations.”

Chaplain*’ DayWASHINGTON <10—U.S.

District Judge Edward A. Tammhas thrown out of court a suitbrought by Frank C. Hughe*, 73,of Minneapolis, self-styled"atheist,” who sought to removechaplains from the federal pay¬roll. Hughes, the judge ruled,

| “does not have status to main¬tain the action."

Cabrini Pilgrimage

WASHINGTON GO—The Nation¬al Council of Catholic Men has an¬nounced that Father Joseph E.Mantón, C.SSR., of Boston, willgive the January talks on the Cath¬olic Hour as the radio program be¬gins its 26th year on NBC.According to Edward Hickey, ra¬

dio director for the NCCM, FatherMantón has entitled the series,“Bell, Book and Candle.”

New Year ThoughtsNEW YORK—"Thoughts for

the New Year" will he given byFather Thomas J. Mardaga, as¬sistant pastor of the Basilica ofthe Assumption, Baltimore, onradio’s “Church of the Air" Sun¬day (CBS 9:30 a.m. EST), it hasbeen announced here.The choir of Old St. Mary’s

Seminary, Baltimore, will sing.

Home’s HallmarkNEW YORK (10—“Hallmark of

the Catholic Home. . . the Cath¬olic Press,” ia the theme for the1956 Catholic Press Month,G, Roger Cahaney, Catholic PressAssociation executive secretary,has announced. The CPA officialhas distributed kits containingPress Month material for use inFebruary.

Jubilee Hour RecordWASHINGTON 00—A thou¬

sand anniversary records havebeen sold of the hour-long 25thjubilee broadcast of the CatholicHour. National Council of Cath¬olic Men, the program producer,sent all buyers the mementobrochure which carries the textof the message to the jubileeradio broadcast from Pope PiuaXIL

St. PetersburgST. PAULAt six o’clock Mass on the morn¬

ing of January 8, Forty Hours De¬votion will begin in the parish,Monsignor J. J. Mullins, pastor,has announced.

He has invited parishioners tospend an hour each day in ad¬oration before tha Blessed Sac¬rament during Forty Hours, andto participate in the Masses andevening devotions.The holy hours will be held each

evening at seven o’clock. SolemnHigh Masses will also be offeredon January 9-10 at 8 a.m.There will also be a solemn no- ;

vena in honor of Our Lady of the !Miraculous Medal to begin in theparish on January 22.

Court Sancta Mana, Catholic i

Daughters of America, sent 157towels to Mary Help of ChristiansSchool for boys in Tampa, and 100towels to St. Mary’s Home, Jack¬sonville.

Also, at Christmas, the CDAmembers sent a large box of toysand a quantity of fancy sand¬wiches to Immaculate Conceptionschool children in St. Petersburg.A box of rosaries, hand-made by

members, was sent also to MaryHelp of Christians School.

JacksonvilleASSUMPTIONForty Hours Devotion will begin

here on January I at the 8:30 a.m.Mass, Monsignor James Cloonan,pastor, has announced. The ser¬mons will be given by Father P. J.Malone, of Lake City.The school choir will sing during

the Mass for the opening of Forty! Hours.

There will be holy hours eachevening, including one at fiveo’clock Sunday, and at 7:30 p.m.,

Monday and Tuesday. Daily Mass¬es will be offered at 6:45 and 8:30

BURBANK, Calif. OC — Cele¬brating the feast of st. France* January TelecastsXavier Cabrini, first U.S. citizen-saint, 1500 persons, mostly formerimmigrant», climbed MountRaphael here on December 22, inpilgrimage to the tiny woodenchapel built by the saint. FatherWilliam S. Vita, a Los Angelespastor, told of her special interestin aiding immigrants.

WASHINGTON (ID—The natureof communism will be explainedon the January programs of theCatholic Hour on TV, it has beenannounced here. Father James J.McQuade, S.J., of Cleveland, willbe featured, beginning January 8(NBC-TV 1:30 p.m.) in the series.

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Augustine will join all otherAmerican Catholics in prayer forthose throughout the world whohave suffered persecution for thefraith during the past year. Thespecial day of prayer will be heldon January 1.

During 1955 oppression con¬tinued to be the usual fate of Cath¬olics behind the Iron and Bamboocurtains, who number about 60,-000,000 persons. The year also sawthe spread of persecution to areasoutside of Red control. Oppressivemeasures were increased in RedChina. There the main target wasnative Catholics Of the approxi¬mately 5000 foreign missionarieswho served in that country beforethe Reds took over, fewer than 30still remain there.

During the year at least 2000Chinese Catholic laymen werethrown into communist prisons.In September, 17 laymen were

killed in Shanghai alone. Thesame month saw the mass ar¬

rests of many of the city’s Cath¬olics, including Bishop IgnatiusKung of Shanghai, who was heldon false charges of “spying” andpossessing arms “for assassina¬tion.’’

At the time of the mass arrestsa picture of China’s top Red, MaoTse-tung, was placed over the mainaltar of one of Shanghai's largestchurches, and a Red flag was hoist¬ed over the Carmelite convent.'Outside Shanghai, other centers

of stepped-up persecution wereCanton, Hankow and Hanyang, aswell as the provinces of Jehol, Fu¬kien, Shantung and Chekiang. Inthe latter province Red officialsoffered bribes in an unsuccessfulattempt to get Catholics to jointhe so-called "Independent Church.1’

Oppression of Catholics alsospread beyond the Iron Curtain in1955, A few examples of the per¬secution suffered during the past

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Home For Aged Blessed Sunday, JacksonvilleI The Florida Catholic, Friday, December 30, 1955

twelve months by Catholics inmany parts of the world were:Churches sacked and burned in

Argentina . . .

A priest assaulted during Massand the Blessed Sacrament dese¬crated in a village in India ...A Bishop, 23 priests and 300

Catholic laymen arrested in one

day in a single Chinese city, Shang¬hai.A Red agent stationed at the al¬

tar rail of a Hankow church toforce the priest to give Communionto pro-communist “progressive”Catholics. . .

Nuns made to work in factoriesand mines in Czechoslovakia . . .

East German boys and girlspenalized for refusing to takepart in pagan “youth initiation"rites ...Priests held as hostages to com¬

pel Hungarian farmer» to handover their production quotas to thenation’s Red masters . . .

Unjust taxes used to impoverishthe Church in Yugoslavia . . .

Hundreds of thousands of Cath¬olics held against their will by theNorth Vietnamese to endure com¬

munist tyranny . . .

A major outbreak occurred inArgentina. Before Dictator JuanD. Perón was finally overthrownin September, the Church theresuffered heavily.Both priests and lay leaders were

arrested. Anti-Catholic laws were

passed which legalized divorce andprostitution and banned religiousinstruction from the schools. ABishop was exiled.Although Person's downfall end¬

ed official persecution, the Argen¬tine hierarchy found it necessaryto warn against the dangers thatstill threatened religiort in theircountry.

In a joint pastoral letter is¬sued in November they said thatthe major threat came from thede-Christianization of largemasses of the people, which wasthe result of the Perón regime’spolicies.On the other side of the world-

in India—Catholics also found op¬pression.Despite the national govern¬

ment's efforts to stop persecution,missionaries were harassed by lo¬cal authorities and Hindu fanatics,a state government launched ananti-Catholic campaign and a billto ban conversions was introducedin Parliament, although later vot¬ed down.

In North Vietnam, communistrulers violated their treaty obli¬gation and did all in their powerto prevent Catholics from cross¬

ing the frontier to freedom inSouth Vietnam. Of the priestswho remained behind to ministerto Catholicn who could not es¬

cape, at least 20 are believed tobe in prison.In North Korea, It was reported,

not a single priest remains to servethe country’a 40,000 Catholics.In the communist-ruled areas of

Europe the situation of Catholicsvaries from country to country.

In the Soviet Union and theBaltic states that have been in¬corporated into it—Lithuania,Latvia and Estonia—the Churchia believed to have been almostwholly destroyed. The same istrue for Albania, Rumania andBulgaria.In Poland, on the other hand, the

churches are filled by large crowdsof the faithful despite the unre¬lenting hostility of the communistgovernment to Catholicity. In thatcountry the Reds, fearful of perse¬cuting the Church openly, havetried to attack it from within byaiding “progressive Catholics” whoadvocate working with the com¬munist regime.East German Reds concentrated

their efforts on the young during1955, They tried to win teen-ageboys and girls away from religionby substituting pagan “youth ini¬tiation” rites for Confirmation andalso aimed special propaganda atchildren between the ages of sixand 14.

Early in the year an intensi¬fied anti-Catholic campaign waslaunched in Czechoslovakia, withthe communists staging nightraids on parish rectories and thehomes of leading Catholic lay¬men.

Hungary was also the scene of a

renewed drive against the Church.A number of priests were arrestedand others removed from theirposts. Although the Reds claimedthey had released Joseph CardinalMindszenty. Primate of Hungary,and Archbishop Joseph Groesz ofKalocsa, neither was given fullfreedom.

Meanwhile, communist oppres¬sors were still jailing and mur¬dering prelates, priests and lay¬men in areas under their control.

Since the Reds began their as¬sault on the Church, close to 200Bishops and other heads of Seesthroughout the communist worldhave been killed, imprisoned, ex¬pelled front their place of work orotherwise hindered in the exerciseof their official duties.Catholic schools, publications and

other institutions that had es¬

caped earlier confiscation weresized by the communists during1955.

The people — especially theyoung—in all countries undercommunist control were eubject-

Scottish Workers Call Off StrikeWhich Bishops Had Condemned

Social WorkersTold Faith Kindles

Charity’s WarmthVATICAN CITY QD—Social

workers need "a luminous faith to

supply the fuel for a charity thatdare not be chilled by suspicion orthoughtless lack of gratitude,”Pope Pius XII has told Americanrelief workers in audience here.“This faith,” he said, “will add

warmth and tenderness to yourservice of the needy.

“You have rare opportunitiesto relieve in person that atarkbareness of the garret or thedamp chill of field shacks whereparents suffer and childrenweep.“You must reap the harvest of

your charity through other's hands.But it is the same love of Christfor men that holds you to yourbusy desks in crowded offices,where your work most often lacksthe consoling sense that comesfrom witnessing an ebbing faithrevitalized, suffering alleviated,the light of hope rekindled and joyrising for families In distress.”Personnel of Catholic Relief

Services—NCWC in Italy attendedthe audience with the Holy Father.

Jax BeachST. PAULParents Auxiliary members, at

their December 21 meeting, werecongratulated by the pastor, Aux¬iliary Bishop Thomas J. McDon¬ough, for the success of currentprojects.

He welcomed the trend towardholier and more Christ-like at¬titudes in the celebration ofChristmas.Crib contest winners selected

from 108 entries were announcedby the judges, Father PatrickO'Carroli, Mrs. Hugh Sease andMrs. F. W. Beidetman. Winners,from the first through the eighthgTades respectively, were:Stephen Topp, Neil Wilson, Ju¬

dith Ann Potter, Ronnie Walker,James Sey, Catherine Robinson,Margaret Parsonage and JamesLynch.The boys’ choir, directed by Sis¬

ter Celine, was presented by Mrs.J. B. Naughton,

On December 22, a pantry show¬er was given for the Sisters, at theschool Christmas party held by theAuxiliary.

ed to a constant barrage of anti-religious propaganda.Attempts to force Catholics into

schism or to make the Church a

tool of Red tyrants continued. Inthe latter effort pro-regime "pro¬gressive” Catholics played an in¬creasingly prominent role.

—NCWC News Service

LakelandST. JOSEPHChristmas traditions in foreign

lands, and how the old world cus¬toms have been incorporated in theAmerican observance of the holyseason, were presented by childrenof St. Joseph School in an enter¬tainment December 21 for the Cath¬olic Women's Club. The childrenwore costumes of the lands theyrepresented. Carols from differentcountries were sung.

Legion Of DecencyRates New Movies

SAVE THESE RATINGS forreference when these filma arashown at your local theatre.

(December 29, 1966)

Unobjectionable for General PatronageAfrican Lion, TheAll That HeavenAllow»

Bfmg&ziiBonny Goodman Story.Th©

Bobby War» I» Mlss-Ins

Ca*« of th» R»4Ron key

Court Martial of BillyMitchell

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Ghost TownGood Morning, MiesDove

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Sincerely Your»Spy Chaser»3 Stripe* In th» SunTarantulaTarget ZeroTexas LadyTop GunToughest Man AliveTwinkle Jn God's EyeVanishing American,Th©

Virgin Queen» Th»Warriors. TheWichita

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Apache AmbushBar Sinister, Th#Blood AlleyBold and Brave, TheCount 3 and FrayCrooked Web, Th»Desert SandsDesperate Hour»DianeDuel On MississippiFootsteps In th» FogGentlemen MarryBrunettes

Girl In the Red V»lv»tSwing. The

Hell's HorizonHold Back TomorrowI Died a ThousandTimes

IllegalDll Cry TomorrowMarital status judgedín light of actualfacts & hook off samen ame.

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TrialTrouble Shooter, Th»Wicked Wife

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Milanese Accord

City’s High PlaceTo Virgin’s StatueMILAN, Italy (10—The Madon-

nina, a bronze statue of the Bless¬ed Mother, has been taken fromthe cathedral spire and re-en¬throned on the city’s new sky¬scraper. President Giovanni Gron-ehi of Italy attended the ceremonythat symbolized Milan’s great Mar¬ian devotion.

Milan's time-honored traditionthat the Madonnina should havethe highest place on the city’sskyline was broken when a 30-story building was erected andthe Btatue on the cathedral spireno longer occupied the highestpoint.Italy’s president, who made an

official state visit to the Vaticana short time ago, meanwhile hassince been received again in au¬dience by Pope Pius XII at VaticanCity. This time, President Gronchiwas accompanied by his wife, Don¬na Carla, and children, Mario andMaria Cecilia.

Capsule ReviewsHie Court Martial

Of Billy MitchellMuch as in “Caine Court Mar¬

tial,” this story by Emmet Laveryand Milton Sperling focuses on thedrama of trial. There is this im¬portant difference. Billy Mitchellis no creature of fiction. Many be¬lieve that although found guiltyhe should not have been; that hefailed to get a fair trial.The picture every inch of the

way holds one in either suspenseor indignation, sometimes hoth. AsBilly Mitchell, Gary Cooper hasseldom, if ever, been better. Thepicture itself really lives and someof Mitchell's words, while underhot cross-examination, make yourblood tingle Go see this one andtake the voungsters. It’s wonder¬ful for whole family.

The Littlest OutlawThis delightful story of devo¬

tion between a little Mexican stableboy and a champion jumping horse,makes a fine addition to Walt Dis.ney’g gallery of live action movies.Set against picturesque Mexicanbackgrounds, it sports some excit¬ing scenes of expert horsemanshiptests. No Legion rating y<t, hut itwill probably be okay for familyaudiences.

Artists And ModelsThose who go for the whacky

comedy of Dean Martin and JerryLewis may imagine Lewis at hi*best in the role of an aspiringwriter of children’s bedtime sto¬ries. This, however, is no story forchildren. The Legion of Decencyfinds it objectionable in part be¬cause of "suggestive costumes, dia¬logue and situations.” Otherwiseit is by no means Martin and Lewisat their best.

Texas LadyThe family can take or leave

this trite Western starring Clau¬dette Colbert. She plays a genteelbelle from New Orleans who in¬herits a newspaper in a small townin Texas. Barry Sullivan is her co-star. The story isn't much; theplayers’ performances, fair.

GLASGOW, Scotland (10—Some7600. strikers, exasperated by afutile seven week work stoppagewhich the Bishops of the area hadcondemned as communist-inspired,have marched back to their jobsat the three Rolls Royce plantshere.The strike had been called be¬

cause the management refused todismiss a man expelled from his 1union. It collapsed rapidly after!Archbishop Donald Campbell of,Glasgow, Bishop James Scanlan of 1Motherwell and Bishop JamesBlack of Paisley issued a joint pas¬toral letter,

“Certain people make it their \profession and business to pro¬mote class war and stir upstrikes in factories regardles ofthe inevitable misery theycause in ever-widening circles,”the Bishops said.It was estimated that the strike

had coat the men over $700,000 inwages. The man over whom itwas called had been thrown out ofhis union for overstepping itsagreement limiting bonus earn¬ings.Following the Bishops’ letter,

the workers decided at mass meet¬

ings that the strike should end.Catholic shop stewards at the

Rolls Royce worka, which aracontributing vital defense equip¬ment for the West, meanwhilebegan a move to prevent similarcommunist - inspired stoppagesin the future.

“We call on fellow-workers,whatever may be their politicalor religious convictions, to joinwith us in making what arrange¬ments may be necessary to ensurethat truth, justice and the law ofGod will prevail in all future at¬tempts to promote peace, increaseprosperity and improve the statusof all our fellow workers,” thestewards stated.The Catholic stewards denied

communist charges that Catholicworkers had “rebelled” against theBishops’ moral guidance. Theythanked the Bishops for “the time¬liness of their pastoral, for theunambiguous warnings they havegiven us against communism, andfor their clear guidance on a moralproblem that has troubled us andcaused suffering to many for sev¬eral weeks past.”

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Catholic CommentThe Holy Name Of Jesus Gives Men Victory

CHRISTIANITY was not very old when itbecame apparent that there is no name atonce more loved and more hated, more re¬

vered and more feared, than the Holy Nameof Jesus. Whatever men may think of Christ,whether they consider Him God. mere man orpretender, they do not ignore His Name. Itfalls frequently from the lips of the good andthe evil, the one to praise, the other to olas-pheme. For some it is always a prayer, forothers always an expletive.

The Name of Our Lord was selected by Godand revealed by an archangel to Mary. Jesusmeans Saviour. In this one God-given nameis contained the story of the divine love whichwills the salvation of all men. It sums up themystery of the Incarnation, and in the widesweep of it* meaning stresses first the tragicfall of Adam and his need of a Saviour. It re¬minds us that we are privileged to know theSaviour and to enjoy the full legacy which Re¬demption provided mankind.No wonder now this Name is reverenced

above all names. For, It expresses the joy¬ful mystery of man s redemption accomplished.God could have redeemed us in countless otherways, but Jesus chose death on a cross andlet its outstretched arms show the infinite em¬brace of H;s love. In this Name we can nowhope. Because of It we can boldly proclaima right to heaven. Through it we have thepower to attain everlasting happiness.

The very Name of Our Lord is a most

powerful means of bringing us closer to God.With the greatest reverence, St. Paul speaksof It as the one Name at which, every kneeshould bend <*f those in heaven, on earth andunder the earth." In heaven indeed angelsand saints bow in adoration before this sacredName, while the demons of hell tremble atits invocation and shrink from It as the dreadName of their Conqueror. We on earth speakthe Holy Name with awe, realizing that “thereis no other Name under heaven given to men

by which we must be saved.When ail other powerful prayers become too

great a burden for the dying, they can whisperthe one Name that will ring throughout heavenand win for them pardon and mercy andstrength. Only God knows how many hardenedsinners broke the shell about their soul byfinally bowing down and saying. Jesus, as ifit were the only cry of help they could utter.Who could estimate the victories over tempta¬tion and the devil that turned on the utteranceof a word, the word, Jesus? How manyspiritual disasters we have been saved frombecause in a moment of fear and panic wecalled out the Holy Name and became awarethat we were not abandoned to our own re¬sources.

Well may the Christian who dishonors thisName be filled with shame. On his lips it shouldever be a prayer, a caress, an expression of loveand gratitude, bis protection in trouble and hiscomfort in sorrow.

New Age Of Faith Proclaims Christ KingrEN we speak of martyrs, we immediatelythink in terms of the past—the thousandskilled by wild animals in the Coliseum orburned as living torches in the parks of Rome.We do not realize ordinarily that great andglorious as were the first centuries of faith, theyare probably being surpassed by the age inwhich we live.

We say this on two counts. First the very

number of martyrs in the 20th century is be¬ginning to make earlier persecutions look morelike "police actions" as distinguished fromwar. No one except God Himself has any ideaof the actual number. Back in the thirties, forexample, the Communists murdered thousandsin Spain in their efforts to annihilate theChurch.

Priests and nuns were lined up day after dayand summarily shot to death. The trail of bloodleft on Spanish soil is an indestructible testi¬mony to the living Church of Christ, As re¬

gards the Iron Curtain who can count the Lithsand Poles. Slavs and Russians, Europeans andAsiatics who lived and died for Christ? It hasbeen estimated that Communist purges havemurdered well over ten million people. Not all

of them were martyrs, but a large percentagedied in witness to the truth.The second point is the kind of persecution.

When we read the history of the first few cen¬

turies, we are repelled by the cruel and bar¬baric means used to kill followers of Christ.Tearing a person limb from limb was awful,but it was fast and and almost kind in com¬

parison with the modern sadistic practice ofbreaking a man mentally and ripping him apartin the slow, diabolically inspired method ofcurrent persecutors.The very thought of swallowing hot lead

makes us wince, but it was easy in comparisonwith the satanic brainwashings of today. Soterrible are these modern tortures that no lessthan the devil himself could think them up.

We can not detract from the glories of thepast. The heroic acceptance of the worst tor¬tures pagan Rome could offer gave the youngChurch the impetus that spread it throughoutthe known world. We do rejoice that we livein a new age of faith. We must pray howeverthat the God Who can change stones into chil¬dren of Abraham, will fortify our poor humannature and enable those persecuted to carry theCross of Christ all the way to Calvary’s summit.

—The Catholic Light

Father Walter S, Schmitz

Decree Regulates Liturgy In Holy WeektT’HE recent Vatican decree,

“Maxima Redemptionia nos*trae,” which changes greatly theliturgical life of Holy Week, hasmany interesting features, not theleast of which is the one concern¬

ing Good Friday and the receptionFather Schmitz, S.8., is pro¬

fessor of Liturgy at the Cath¬olic University of America,Washington, D. C.

of Holy Commonion on that day.Until the official Ordo for HolyWeek reaches us, no definite state¬ment can be made on the regula¬tions governing the Holy Weekrubrics.

The first part of the decreestates, “Nor can there he propercompensation for the loss of theseliturgical functions through thosepious devotional exercises whichare customarily called extra-litur¬gical and which are performed inthe afternoon of these three days.”

From this we surmise that ourThree-Hour Agony service is notaltogether approved and is outof keeping with the liturgicalspirit of Good Friday.Until the Mass of the Pvesanc-

tified or the Communion servicetakes place, the faithful should beoccupied with the adoration of theEucharist at the Repository. Onlyafter the Communion service ofGood Friday should our completeattention be centered upon theveneration of the cross.

It is our impression that therevised Holy Week Ordo aimsat eliminating various services

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consisting of a series of sermons,cantatas, etc., and strives to em¬phasize the liturgical servicesscheduled for Holy Thursday,Good Friday afternoons and HolySaturday evening.

While the devotional servicessuch aa the Three Hours are not

strictly forbidden nor officiallyapproved by the new decree, itstresses the necessity of educatingthe faithful to the importance ofthe main liturgical services by ob¬serving as closely as possible, evento the timing, these events as theyactually took place in the life ofOur Lord.That this is the mind of the

Church has been demonstrated inthe past few years by permittingthe vigil services on Holy Saturdaynight.

According to the “Instructionon the Correct I'se of the Restor¬ed Ordo for Holy Week’’ whichaccompanied the decree, “localOrdinaries and their prieetashould seek prudently to harmon¬ize with the restored Ordo manypopular customs in the observ¬ance of Holy Week which appearto contribute to solid piety.”The rules of the decree must be

followed and such adjustments a*

celebrating the Mass of the Pre¬sanctified earlier than 3 p.m. orlater than 8 p.m. are not allowed.The decree state* that the litur¬

gical service is to be celebratedabout three in the afternoon. Itis allowable to choose a later hour,but not after 8 p.m. Consequently,warning is given to harmonize theold with the new and strive forsome uniformity.

While our present Three-Hourservice is not condemned or re¬

jected completely, it seems thatmany adjustments will of neces¬

sity hsve to be made. Certainlyin many instances the Three-Hour service does not measure

up in any way to the requisitesof the decree.What can be done or what shall

we do to bring these liturgicalservices to our people and our peo¬ple to a deeper and better apprecia¬tion of the genuine liturgical spiritof the Church during Holy Week?Bishop» and prie6ts are mindful

of the working hours and manysacrifices their people make duringLent and Holy Week.After a thorough perusal and

study of the Holy Week rubricaaccording to the new decree, somesolution can be made wherebymoot or many of the faithful

could attend the Maas of the Pre¬sanctified and receive HolyCommunion.

The ideal would be to have theGood Friday Mass as near to 3p.m. as possible but this will notalways, if ever, b« practical.Could not this liturgical service

be arranged for 5:30, 5:45 or even6:00 p.m.? The new decree permitstha liturgical service up to 4 p.m.but says nothing to the effect thatit must be finished by that hour.If an additional service is de¬

sired earlier in the afternoon be¬tween the hours of 12 and 3 (notnecessarily a Three-Hour serv¬

ice) this could be arranged atthe altar of reposition with a

suitable instruction on the Eu¬charist. This would give adequateopportunity for those who failedto attend services on Thursdayevening.The decree itself certainly indi¬

cates that a program of servicesmust be adopted to give specialemphasis to the Eucharist and theveneration of the cross. It will onlybe then that the desires of theHoly See will have been fulfilled.Certainly what we have followed

up to the present time in mostchurches on Good Friday does notconform with what we read in theinstruction. It seems what we haveat present is more of an abuse ofthe real liturgical spirit.The ideal is expressed in the

Instruction in these words: “Thefaithful should be trained to gaina right understanding of the uniqueliturgical services of this day.“In these services, after the

sacred readings and prayer, thePassion of Our Lord is sung sol¬emnly. prayers are offered forthe needs of the entire Churchand of the human race, and theHoly Cross, the memorial of ourredemption, ia most devoutlyadored hy the Christian family,the clergy and the people.“Finally, according to the rubrics

of the restored Ordo, and as wasthe custom for many centuries, allwho wish to do so and who are

properly prepared can go to HolyCommunion, io that, devoutly re¬ceiving the Lord’s Body which was

given for all on this day. they mayreceive richer fruits of the redemp¬tion.”This is what Holy Mother Church

want* us to derive from Good Fri¬day. Up to now we have attendedmemorial services but what we

have failed to do is to relive thoseevents in the life of our CrucifiedLord.

TatKer Leo J. Trose Louis F. Budenz

NothingCanBreakTheBondTHERE are times when the unbreakableness of the marriagebond seems to result in a great hardship. We are thinking of•uch instances as that of a husband whose wife becomes men¬

tally ill. V.She is judged incurable, and will never return from the

hospital where she is confined. The husband isleft with several small children on his hands,yet he cannot remarry as long as his wife stilllives. Or we think of the wife who is obliged,for the safety of herself and her children, toseparate from a drunken and abusive husband.The children need a father, but she cannot re¬

marry as long as her husband still lives. Orwe think of the husband who is deserted by a

spouse who is just plain "no good;’’ and theinnocent party is left to struggle single-handed

in raising the family, or to live a solitary and a lonely life. Therecan be no remarriage as long as the deserter lives.That is, there can be no remar-

Anti-Anti-Communists Undermine U. S.

riage for such persons so far asGod is concerned. They can ofcourse secure a civil divorce (withthe consent of the bishop) if itis necessary to protect themselvesagainst a vicious orspouse.

But the civil divorce cannotbreak the marriage bond. Ifsuch persons enter into a civilonion with a new spouse, itmeans that they cut themselvesoff from God’s grace and livein habitual sin.They barter their eternal happi-

Moreover, even where thereare no children to consider, thesecondary purpose of marriagestill demands a permanent union.The secondary purpose is the

deserting mutual completion which a manand a woman are destined to findin one another—the enrichmentand growth which results fromtheir fusion into a new' unity, one

from two. This is a purpose thatnever could be fulfilled if themarriage bond were temporary orterminable.That is why we say that the in-

ness for the sake of the few years dissolubility of the marriage bondof added comfort which their sec- flows from the natural law, evenond “marriage” may bring. Even aside from any positive decree onthis comfort must be tainted by the part of God. It is based on thethe knowledge that they have sep¬arated themselves from God.We feel a great pity for persons

caught in such a dilemma. We aretempted to ask, “Why i« God soadamant against any breaking ofthe marriage bond. W’hy doesn'tHe make some provision for es¬pecially deserving cases?”

The answer is that God, once

He decided to create the humanrace male and female and tohave men and women cooperatewith Him in peopling the earthand heaven too, was compelledto make marriage an absolutelypermanent union in order tofulfill His purposes.:(When we say "decided” and

"compelled" we are speaking ofGod in purely human terms).If children were to reach adult¬

hood in the full nobility which Godwilled them to have—children ofGod and images of Him—it was

very nature of man as he is.Yes, someone mav sav, that is

all very true. But couldn’t therebe a dispensation in cases of ex¬ceptional hardship? Unfortu¬nately there can he no excep¬tions. if God’s plan is to succeed.When a man and a woman know

that “this is for life,” that theyhave to make a go of their mar¬

riage—-then 99 times out of a 100they will.If adultery were grounds for

severing the marriage bond withthe right to remarry, or brutalityor desertion, then how easy itwould be to provide the grounds.

We have seen that very resultexemplified in our own country,as our divorce-and-remarriagerate grow* and swells. No, thisis a case where God must holdthe line firmly, or God’s cause islost.It is a case where an individual

essential that they should have (an innocent deserted mother, forthe emotional, mental and spiritual example) is sometimes called uponstability which could be achieved to suffer for the common good,only by growing up with their own Those who say that the innocentparents.(The writer, whose principal

work is with children from brokenhomes, can bear witness to the easv.

should not have to suffer, are say¬ing in effect that virtue should hepracticed only when virtue is

harmfulage )

effects of step-parent- By this principle it would beFATHER TRESE. Page 5

Chorlos Lacey

Big Issues, Decisions LoomIT is a cliche of politicians and statesmen—always good foradding a ponderous note to a public utterance—that any yearabout to begin ia, to b« sure, a year of destiny. Sometimes itmay even be true.

Only in the framework of history can anyone say whichJ year ha* more meaning than another. But therescarcely can be doubt that 1956, at home andabroad, it certain to be one of great issue* andgreat decision*.Abroad, the single dominant fact is that

despite all the hopes of the year just ending,the aim of Communist Russia 8 leaders for

/ 4¡. wol’ld expansion is as surely a clear and present\ ^an®er' “J11105! 40 years after the Russian revo-lution, as it has been in the preceding years.

* The need for this country to be aware of theshifting methods of the Soviets continues; the need to shape apolicy to keep the Russians from further penetration of the freeor neutral world is undimimehed. It may call for even greaterawareness now than in past critical years.At home, the nation in 1956 for

the 42nd time will elect * Presi¬dent.

The latter bears on the first:the wisdom or short-sightednessof the course shaped in Washing¬ton—by whichever party is iowin next November s election—

inevitably will determine howsuccessful this country is to hein strengthening the free world’sbulwarks against Moscow.Last summer, at Geneva, th*

initiative in the struggle betweenEast and West for world supportseemed secure with the UnitedStates. But the bright hope of lastJuly has faded before a belligerentsoviet diplomacy, and now the Rus¬sians have taken the initiative withforce and imagination in the Mid¬dle East and Asia,

The clowning of Khrushchev andBulganin is only part of their act;they are men of calculated merri¬ment. The dispatches show plainlyhnw well their international road¬show has been paying off.The Russians ale moving in on

the economic field in these neglect¬ed but rich-in-resources areas. Thedanger our own government seesin this is reflected at once in a

doubling of the funds Congress isto be asked to appropriate nextyear for increased overseas eco¬nomic and military aid.

Granting the waste in pastoverseas spending, there can beno more short-sighted economy

than to curtail these requests se¬

riously at a time when this fiercecontest goes into another phaseand another year.

Other vital issues lay ahead.It needs no great vision to see

the day is not far away in theUnited Nations when decision¬time will come on replacing theChinese Nationalist governmentwith tha Chines* Red*—whn this

country and the world come faceto face with a question of whetherthe communists’ conquest by forceof China is to be rewarded, finally,by a pious acceptance of them intothe family of nations.The U.S. well may be faced with

a decision as to what it is to do inthe mounting crisis between Israeland the Arab countries.

There is the vital matter ofhow far this country can advanceits plans for peacetime poolingof atomic knowledge for thebenefit of little nations, ho ur¬

gently in need of atomic energyfor their development. .

Here at home, the first noisytrappings of the great quadrennialexercise in democracy, to deter¬mine whether the Republicans orDemocrats are to run the countryfor the next four years, alreadyare much in evidence.Leaders of both parties are heap¬

ing scorn and abuse on the polit¬ical enemy. Good faith and honestyare questioned. And the impressionis left that the choice of men tohold the highest offices in the landmust be made from larcenists andporch-climbers. It is not so, ofcourse.

Extravagant attack nearly al¬ways has been part of gettingan American . election campaignrolling, but it probably has littleto do with the public's ultimatedecision at the ballot box.Before President Eisenhower lies

the decision as to whether he is tobe a candidate once again for theWhite House. If he does not run,there is certain to be a great con¬test within the Republican partybetween the Eisenhower Republi¬cans and the more conservativeparty wing. The Democrats like¬wise face a tumult and shouting

CHARLES LUCEY, Pago t

fpHE Daily Worker’s high praisefor the AFL-CIO merger, which

persists through several issues,need not deceive any of us. Thecommunists tra¬

ditionally throwthe mantle of“labor unity”over themselvesin order to for¬ward their own

purposes—the ad¬vance of the Redline within labororganizations andthe heighteningof infiltration of trade unions.“Labor unity” is one of those “re¬forms” which Stalin tells the com¬

munists they must use “as a screenor cover” for their illegal activities—first to undermine the countriesin which they are operating, thento bring about the dictatorship byviolence.The judgment of the CIO com¬

mittees in 1950 still holds good:"The Communist Party docs

not believe in trade unions. Itbelieves in using trade union*.And it believes in using themfor the purposes of the SovietUnion.”

From the page* of the DailyWorker, for the last several weeks,emerges a review of new Red de¬signs on the merged labor organ¬ization. 1The soviet fifth column plans to

smuggle its line into the programof the new federation, (1) by at¬tempting to induce it to come outfor an extension of “peace in the

spirit of Geneva,” (2) by gettingit to approve the “neutralism” ofNehru and Tito, *hd (3) by per¬suading the AFL-CIO to renewedattacks on the internal securitysystem.

To cap off all this, under thepies of "complete unity,” thecommunists propose that theRed-ruled unions expelled fromthe CIO in 1950 be readmitted to

the merged organization.This is a program that will re¬

quire all the alertness and inge¬nuity possible on the part of laborleadership to offset. For it will bebrought forward under non-com¬munist coloration, as somethingthat will “strengthen” the laborunions.In order to open the way for the

advance of the communist line, theDaily Worker has been conductingin recent weeks a running attackon George Meany, president of th*AFL-CIO.

On November 17, William Z.Foster, in assailing the Repub¬licans for falling short of com¬plete surrender at Geneva, turn¬ed his guns on Meany as the rep¬resentative of like “reactionary”views within the DemocraticParty. Indeed, Foster saw Meanyas "the big danger.”But the anger of the communist*

was particularly stirred by Meany'*address to the National Labor andReligion Foundation on December13.To this address, we must give

more than passing attention. For,in this case, the voice of organized

labor as represented by its leadingexecutive wa* vigorously raised insupport of th* deferís* #f th*United States.Mr. Meany denounced Nehro and

Tito and their “neutralist” attitud*ag a great present aid to th* ex*tension of soviet power throughoulthe world.

But he went farther than thatand chided the “liberals” (manyof whom were in his audience)for their preoecupation with at¬tacking those who oppoe* thecommunist conspiracy.The AFL-CIO president declared

that the weakness of these “lib¬erals." which has helped the com¬munist cause, is that they regardcommunism as “something pro¬gressive, although making aom*bad mistakes.”Communism, Meany said, i*

“savagery” and “slavery” in theiivilest form.

These word* were more thantimely, hence the communist in¬dignation at them. Many ‘lib¬erals” have confused "progres¬sive ideas” with protection ofthe communists in their wide¬spread infiltration of Americanlife.

Many of them have thought, andstill think, that the way to be pro¬labor is to prevent any real se¬curity measures from being takenagainst the conspiracy. They havebecome in effect “the reserves”which. Stalin told the communistsin hip "Foundations of Leninism,”must be moved into action in order

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William H. Mooring

Ten Pleasing Movies Produced In 1955i

TF this week I were joining 300other movie critics who annu¬

ally and arbitrarily at this timepick “the 10 best films of theyear,” my selec-tions would beopen to some de¬bate. I do not shyfrom controversy,but I am notabout to name

“the 10 best.” Iprefer to list the10 I personallyenjoyed most. Donot pin me downtoo closely to any order to prefer¬ence but the 10 were:—“Marty,”“A Man Called Peter,” “Okla¬homa,” “Interrupted M el o d y,”"Trial,” “I'll Cry Tomorrow,” "TheDespefate Houfs,’’ “The CourtMartial of Billy Mitchell,” “Th*Left Hand of God,” and "The GlaaaSlipper.”

These include three film* theLegion of Decency rated forfamily audiences, six morallyapproved for "adults” and one,“Oklahoma,” to which the Le¬gion objected because of certainelements of suggestiveness.You’ll see that my tastes run the

gamut from plebeian drama as in“Marty,” to inspirational romantic-drama as in “A Man Called Peter;”from crime versus public con¬science as in “Desperate Hours,”to musical melodrama as in “In¬terrupted Melody;” from musicalfantasy as in “The Glass Slipper,”to dramatic, political expose as in"Trial" and “The Left Hand ofGod;” from historical drama as in“The Court Martial of Billy Mitch¬ell," to motley hingraphy a* in“I’ll Cry Tomorrow.”

And then on to the musical

“Oklahoma” which. to me, anerstwhile Englishman by favorbecome American, takes on color■nd interest peculiarly it* own.

In a very Teal sense this "Okla¬homa” is typical of many other finefilm* which during this year havebeen marred by relatively brief di¬gression* from purity. In severalinstance* the moral lapse* givingrise to Legion objections have beenincidental: sometimes patheticallynon-essential to a satisfying andworldly entertaining treatment ofthe chosen theme.

T* he sure they presentedcause for Legion objections.They also contributed measur¬

ably to the unhappy increase in“B” pictures which recently ledthe Bishops to call for revitaliza¬tion of the Legion of Decency.I cannot help wishing that by

cooperation between the film mak¬ers and the New York personnel ofthe Legion, while the film* wereactually in production here, someeffective remedies might havebeen worked out, aa I believe theycould have been.Here and there slight adjust¬

ments, while not diminishing en¬tertainment values, might havesaved many a film from the Le-gion'a "objectionable in part” list,thus increasing their potential au¬diences by millions.“Oklahoma,” minus some of thescenes added to the stage versionin order to enlarge and freshenthe film, might have passed foradult* if not the whole family.That the producer* made thispicture a bit too “fresh” in spotsI regard as the movie misfortuneof 1955.

No self-respecting critic couldignore qualitative high spots it**uch movies as “Mister Roberts’*(much cleaner than the stageplay), 1“Land of the Pharaohs” (fascina¬ting, if fabulous, acenee of th*building of the pyramids), “ViolentSaturday” (diabo'ically well-timedcrime, thwarted in the end by *man of peace I to mention only •few pictures that made the “B*list through incautiously handledsituations rather than basic im¬morality of theme.This ha* been a year ef perplex¬

ity for any conscientious critic whomust try to balance technical andartistic quality on the one side andmoral or aesthetical quality on th*other, especially one rememberingthe problems of the movie industryas well as the high aim* of th*Legion. a

Still it has been an interestingyear of challenge, in which, Ithink, sincere attempts on th* ,.

part of Hollywood producers t• ‘ ^strike new and sometime* deeper i

story idea*, have tempted ■cm*to east discretion a little tooclose to the wind.

Realistic, mature thematic* suchas found expression in “East ofEden.” “End of the Affair,” “Reb- ^el Without a Cause,” and “The Girlin the Red Velvet Swing,” hav*appeared to meet th* wideningpublic demand for adult dram* 'without stirring any moral objec¬tions.

These met with varying degreesof box office success and helpedconvince me that movies are grow*,ing, even though at times a littl* jtoo wildly, like most growingthings.

Washington Letter

Spain Gave Basis For InternationalLawWASHINGTON (ICi—The admit¬

tance of Spain to the United Na¬tions has an interesting sidelightwhich some scholars have beenquick to point out.Spain furnished the cradle for

international law, as we know ittoday, and in that respect gave theUN the foundation upon which itrests. Its entry into the world or¬

ganisation underscore* the conflictbetween two attitudes toward in-

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minican theologian, and FranciscoSuarez, the Jesuit theologian, whotaught in Spain in the 16th Cen¬tury are credited by non-Spanishand non-Catholic authorities withlaying the foundations for moderninternational law, notably throughtheir lectures at the famous Sala¬manca University.

They spoke out in an era whenthe might of emperors and kingswas great, and the claims andactions of discoverers, explorersand conquerors were more or leesundisputed.Vittoria based his concept of in¬

ternational law on the natural lawand the dignity of the human per-son. To the might of kings andrulers, he opposed the law of peo¬ples. He spoke out on the need ofpeople to associate, communicateand trade with one another, andgeared this exchange to the com-mon good of all mankind.

He was able to formulate •positive law regarding the sov.

ereignty and mutual dependenceof nations. He saw coexistencean based on congenial relations«nd mutual help. He set downthe requisites for a just war be¬tween states.Vittoria defined individual

rights, even to the point of justi-fymg what today would be calledsanctions,” to be imposed fromoutside against regimes that violatethe right* of their own subject».This principle wa* relied upon,

when European nations intervenedwith Moslem sovereigns for th*protection of Christian minorities.The old League of Nations charterbad aome clause* involving th*

WASHINGTON, Pag* f

Unity In Essentials' TermedBasis For Success In Peace

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (NC)—In a world that is now but a neighborhood, the greatest needof the day is restoration of dogmatic belief, James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop ofLos Angeles, has said here,

"More than any other need of our day," the Cardinal said, "is the need for a restorationof dogmatic belief with its moral code, and their promulgation with definiteness and assurance,in order to establish an indispensable basis for the required unity in essentials."There need be no surprise at the*

g that trouble our days,” he truths which can resolve all ourhesitancy of leadership in the con- j ga¡d tensions and free the world, if induct of practical affairs, the Car- j ( , Nations todav en- faith *nd humility we let thedinal said, ‘'for all truth is basi- , because I Sp>r>t of God guide us in new un-caily theological and when our joys questionable success because j , .

the .people are divided into twocamps so opposed in philosophyas to preclude any agreement orunderstanding.”Still, there is in the world today,

Cardinal McIntyre said, a partialfulfillment of the vision of St.Augustine. It is Rome.

leaders outlaw God from the worldHe made, they are blinded by thefolly of their own sufficiency.’’

“Here too," he said, “the peo¬

ple, the rank and file, are sound¬er in judgment, more sober inassessment. They know man'srights are rooted in his dignityas the rational handiwork ofGod.

“Our Declaration of Independ¬ence heralds the self-evident rightsgiven to man by His creator. Theyare the first to grasp the threatto their liberties of an omni-com-petent state, the menace to theirintegrity of a socialism, the dangerto their pursuit of happiness inthe subtle inroads of subversionand infiltration.”These perils would not have

come about, the Cardinal said, hadman held fast, to the moorings ofrevelation and the Natural Law,

“Only a unity of minds in un¬derstanding of these essentialswill bring the resolution andsteadfastness that will enable us

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.. , „ session of the Institute of WorldThe Cardinal described Rome as ; Affairs whjch wag attended here

, center drawing thousands of per- month b 500 Pacific Coastsons from all races and nations, | fducatorsyet united, mind and heart, in the ; __

bonds of spiritual fellowship."Rome is indeed a melting pot,"

he said. “It ia a natural UnitedNations.”

“Yet, in this same setting thatso emphasizes unity in essentials,we find the operation of a freeand unrestrained liberty in non-

essentials, curbed only by theall-embracing call of the charityof brotherhood . . .

“We may further observe thatif, in our day throughout the world,the utterances of the reigning Pon¬tiff are carefully weighed, and giv¬en the respect and attention of anundisputed world leader, this is notbecause of any claim of infallibilityin these scintillating pronounce¬ments, but because the reasoning,

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same principles for the protectionof religious, racial and linguisticminorities.The official thinking of the So¬

viet Union is opposed to all this,if one is to judge by two of itsleading authorities on internationallaw-, ■Korowin and Kotliarevski.

To communists, internationallaw is nol the offspring of thenatural law, but a purely exter¬nal instrument of the state, whichin turn is absolute.

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“This tired world of ours needsa spiritual and intellectual re¬awakening, a new synthesis, adynamic world view motivatedby the Christianity that hasformed the Western mind andthat alone can reform It.

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United Nations may not make anydramatic difference in the waythings go in the UN. But it is just

| possible that it may.Here in the company of most of

j the nations of the earth will standa relatively small country that has

1 given communism its most decisiveYou and I possess fundamental I defeat. Here will be a nation to

which the countries of Latin Am¬erica feel a special attachment.

Here will he the nation thatgave birth to the principles ofinternational justice and coopera¬tion from which the UN seeks toderive its effectiveness,

In 1933, the Inter-AmericanConference voted to place in theHall of the Americas of the PanAmerican Union building in this

1 city, a bust of Vittoria “in homageto him who in the 16th Century,from the teaching chair in Sal-

\ amanea, laid the foundations ofmodern international law.”It may even be that some day

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Message Of Holy Father—(Confina*4 from Piif llxi

that the conviction would not beverified, the more so that therewould be given sufficient reasonto doubt the sincere desire to putinto effect the other two conven¬

tions.We speak so frankly because the

danger of insufficient proposalsconcerning peace depends in largepart on the mutual suspicions thatoften trouble the dealings ofpowers concerned, each accusingthe other in varying degrees ofmere tactics, even of lack of sin¬cerity in a matter basic to the fateof the whole human race.

Preventive PacificationFor the rest, efforts toward

peace must consist not only inmeasures aimed at restricting thepossibility of waging war, buteven more in preventing, eliminat¬ing or lessening with time thequarrels between nations whichmight lead to war.

To this kind of preventivepacification statesmen must de¬vote themselves with greatvigilance, imbued with a spiritof impartial justice and alsogenerosity, within the limits ofthe course of a healthy realism.In last year’s Christmas mes¬

sage We indicated the points ofdispute noted in relations betweenEuropeans and those non-Euro¬peans who aspire to full politicalindependence.Can those disputes be allowed

to run their course, so to speak—a procedure which might easily in¬crease their gravity, sow hatredin men’s souls and create so-calledtraditional enmities? And mightnot a third party come to profitfrom such enmities, a third partywhich neither of the others reallywants, and cannot want?

At any rate, let not thosepeoples be denied a fair andprogressive political freedom norhindered in its pursuit ToEurope, however, they will givecredit for their advancement: tothat Europe without whose in¬fluence, entended to all fields,they might be drawn by a blindnationalism to plunge into chaosor slavery.On the other hand, the Western

peoples, especially those of Eu¬rope, should not. in the face ofsuch problems, remain passive infutile regret over the past or inmutual recrimination over colo¬nialism.Rather they should set them¬

selves constructively to work toextend where it has not yet beendone those true values of Europeand the West which have producedSo many good fruits in other con¬tinents.

The more Europeans strive forthis the more help will they beto the just freedom of youngnations which in turn will besaved from the pitfalls of falsenationalism. This, in truth, istheir real enemy, which wouldpit them one day against eachother, to the advantage of thirdparties.Such a forecast, not unfounded,

cannot be neglected or forgottenby those who handle their prob¬lems of peace at congresses where,unfortunately, there gleams thesplendor of a unity that is ex¬ternal and predominantly nega¬tive.We think that in such considera¬

tions and in such modes of pro¬cedures there Is a valuable assur¬

ance of peace, in some respect evenmore important than an immediateprevention of war.Christ Helps MankindBeloved sons and daughters: If

even today the birth of Christspreads through the world raysof joy and quickens profound emo¬tion in the heart, it is because theimmense yearnings of generationsof men are contained in the lowlycrib of the Incarnate Son of God.In Him, with Him and throughHim is the salvation, the security,the temporal and eternal destinyof humankind.

To each and every -man theway is clear to approach thatcrib to attain through the teach¬ing, the example, the goodnessof the God-Man his proper share

of grace and the things neces¬

sary for this life and the lifeto come.

Where that is not done, eitherbecause of individual sloth or be¬cause of other hindrances, it wouldbe useless to seek it elsewhere, foron all sides the darkness of error,of selfishness, of vanity and sin,of disappointment and uncertaintyweighs heavily.The disappointing experiences of

peoples, of systems, of individuals,who were unwilling to seek fromChrist the Way, the Truth andthe Life, should be seriouslystudied and meditated on by who¬ever thinks he can' do all by him¬self.Today’s humanity, cultured,

powerful, dynamic, possesses per¬haps a greater title to earthly hap¬piness in security and peace, butwill not be able to realize thathappiness so long as there doesnot enter the loftiest and mostinfluential factor into its plansand discussions: God and HisChrist

Let the God-Man return amongmen, their Lord acknowledgedand obeyed, as at every Christ¬mas He returns in spirit to thecrib and proffers Himself to all.Such is the wish We express to¬day to mankind’s great family inthe certainty that We are show,ing it the path to salvation andhappiness.May the Divine Infant deign to

hear Our fervent prayer so thatHis presence in today’s world hefelt almost sensibly, as in thedays of His dwelling on earth.Living in the midst of men, mayHe enlightep the minds andstrengthen the wills of those whorule over nations; to these lattermay He assure justice and peace;may He encourage the 2ealousapostles of His Divine message,

I sustain the good, draw the errantto Himself, console those per-

i secuted for His Name and for HisChurch succor the poor and op¬pressed, assuage the pains of thesick, the imprisoned, the exiled.May He give to all a spark of Hisdivine love so that everywhere onearth His peaceful kingdom maytriumph. Amen.

Moral Principles—(Continued from Ftgi One)

tionalism which would only be to1 the advantage of communism.

He also pointed out that haltingof atomic tests, formal renuncia¬tion of the use of atomic weapons,and effective control must form an

inseparable whole \o bar the dan¬ger of atomic destruction.

Discussing the problem of nu¬clear warfare and measures to

prevent it, the Pope depicted theappalling spectacle of the ter¬rific effects caused by an atomicexplosion.“There will be no song of victory,

only the inconsolable weeping ofhumanity which in desolation willgaze upon a catastrophe broughton by its own folly,” he warned.Before the Holy Father broad¬

cast his message from the Consis¬torial Hall in the Vatican Palace,he. received Christmas and NewYear’s greetings from EugeneCardinal Tisserant, dean of theSacred College, who headed the 16Cardinals and many members ofthe Roman Curia attending theceremony.

Cardinal Tisserant, in his briefaddress which preceded thePope’s broadcast, recalled Christ¬mas of 1954, when the HolyFather's illness prevented himfrom giving his usual address.“Today, we rejoice at seeing you

as vigorous as ever, despite your

j 80 years, carrying out with courage, and strength the duties of youroverwhelming task,” Cardinal Tis¬serant told the Holy Father.

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to gain victories for the communistline.

Hence, the deplorable situationin which we find ourselves today,with Red infiltration actually en¬couraged in too many circles. |In order to appreciate Mr.

Meany’s admonition, we can brieflyrecount what occurred during theunguarded days that followed rec¬ognition of Soviet Russia andcame to a high point during WorldWar II. "

Testimony at the Decemberhearings of the House Committeeon Un-American Activities ha*disclosed that there were at least17 communists at that time on

the legal staff of the NationalLabor Relatione Board alone.

When we add to this bit of in¬formation the extensive records ofprevious Congressional investiga¬tions, we are made aware that Al¬ger Hiss and Harry Dexter Whitewere but symbols of a huge net¬work of infiltration and espionage.All of this data is now confirmed

by a careful study which has justappeared in book form, “SovietEspionage,” by David J. Dallin(Yale University Press).From its pages we learn:“The Soviet espionage network

abroad today is the largest onearth, probably larger than theintelligence systems of all othernations combined.

“Based on the one hand on 46embassies, legations, and missionsabroad, and on the other on 53Communist Parries oí the non-

satellite world as well as a numberof networks independent of sovietembassies and Communist Parties,the soviet intelligence system isone of the most remarkable phe¬nomena of our time."

With the United State* thechief target of this vast systemof espionage, we cannot affordto close our eyes to the fact thatthe present preoccupation withweakening our internal securitysystem is preparing the way forthe most serious consequence*That is why we owe a debt of

gratitude to President Meany andwhy we should encourage him inhis present stand.

Polish Reds—(Continue* troot P*.** Su)

when he asked “progressives"about the Cardinal, who hag beenunder arrest for more than two

years, he got the following an¬swers:

“No responsible person in Po¬land regards the detention of theCardinal as a major problem. W’eall know he is a good man ... Un¬fortunately his holy simplicity hasbeen exploited by shrewd and un¬scrupulous men so that the poorCardinal without being fullyaware of it, has been made a sym¬bol of reaction and was becominga danger even to the Church. Hehas simply been taken out ofharm’s way.”

He wa* also told that Church-state problems must he viewedin “correct historical perspec¬tive” and reminded that 800years ago an English prelate. St.Thomas a Becket. was murder¬ed in his cathedral.Both of these “answers." he said,

were given so often and expressedso frequently in the same words,that he was convinced they wererehearsed statements.

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quite all right for a Catholiccaught in a communist land, todeny his faith if it would keephim out of prison. By this prin¬ciple martyrs would be fools. *ndgoodness would simply dependupon how low the pressure w as.

As for the deserted wife or lone¬ly husband, God know* their prob¬lems better than anyone else. Hecan be depended upon to give theneeded courage and strength andhelp, if given the chance.The abandoned children need a

father, yes; hut they do not need astepfather more than they needGod. God will be doubly a Fatherto them. Surely He can be givencredit for caring at least as muchas we.

Missal Guide(In mo*t Masses, the Prayer

"Against Persecutors of theChurch” is said.)

SUNDAY, January 1Circumcision of Our Lord. (Massof the feast, Gloria, Creed, Pref¬ace of Christmas.)

MONDAY, January 2Most Holy Name of Jesus. (Mas*of the feast, Gloria, Creed,Preface of Christmas.)

| TUESDAY, January 3Pope St. Antheros. (Mass of theFeast of Circumcision, Gloria,Prefnce of Christmas.)

WEDNESDAY, January 4Sts. Priscus, Priscillian and Ben¬edicta. (Mass as on Tuesday.)

One practical conclusion that 'flows from all this is that a

Catholic may never, in good con¬

science, keep company with adivorced person whose true wifeor husband still lives.Such company-keeping is of it¬

self a grave sin, even though mar¬riage is not intended. The occasionof sin, the danger of eventual in¬volvement, is always present.It may be well to repeat that the

marriage of two non-Catholics, byjudge or minister, is a true andvalid marriage, a permanent union.The divorced non-Catholic mayfeel that he is free to marry, butGod holds otherwise.

The Catholic who keeps companywith such a divorced person is in jeffect, turning his back upon God.

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In the next 10 months therewill be a turmoil as to partydifferences on a farm program,foreign afain, social aecurity,taxes, labor, a host of other sub¬jects. Much of it will be onlysound and fury.There will be differences in de¬

gree depending on which partywins, but no abrupt or radicalchanges in course. In social, eco¬nomic and foreign policy questions 'there is much more agreement thandisagreement between the parties.The mood of the country today

is one of moderation. The odd* arethat moderate men, and not rad¬icals or extremists on either side,will carry the day.

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FRIDAY. January 6Epiphany of Our Lord. (Mass ofthe feast, Gloria, Creed, Prefaceof Epiphany.)

SATI' RDAY, January 7St. Lucian of Antioch. (Mass ofthe Blessed Virgin for Saturday,Gloria, Preface of Blessed Vir¬gin.)

SUNDAY, January 8Holy Family. 1st Sunday afterEpiphany. (Mass of the feast,Gloria, 2nd prayer of the Sun¬day, Creed, Preface of Epiph¬any.)

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Pope Counsels MankindSeeking Peace, To Heed Message OfBethlehem11MTH m heart open to welcome””

the eweet joy which the Birthof the Redeemer will once againbring to the hearts of the faithful,We desire to express good wishesto yon, beloved sons and daughters,and to all men without distinction.

We shall drew the subject ofour address, as in the past, fromthe inexhaustible mystery oflight and grace which shoneforth from the cradle of theDivine Infant on the holy nightin Bethlehem, whose brilliancewill never be extinguished so

long as one will hear on thisearth the steps of those who, insorrow, seek amid the thornsthe path of true life.O how We could wish that all

men, scattered over the continents,in cities and towns, in valleys andacross the deserts, on steppes andon vast reaches of glacier wastes,and on the seas, throughout thewhole world could again hear, as

coming to each of them in par¬ticular, the voice of the angel an¬

nouncing the mystery of the divinegrandeur and of the infinite love

The Florida Catholic is pleasedto publish herewith the fulltext of the discourse broadcastat the Vatican on Christmas Eveby Pope Pius XII.

which closed a past of darknessand condemnation and ushered inthe reign of truth and salvation.“Do not be afraid, for behold, Ibring you good news of great joywhich shall be to all the people;for there has been born to youtoday in the town of David, aSaviour, who is Christ the Lord.’’(Luke 2: 10, 11).

Man And The Nativity0 We could wish that, like the

simple shepherds who were amongthe first to hear in silent adora¬tion thd message of salvation, menof today were won over and con¬quered by that same sense of won¬der which surpasses human wordsand which turns the mind to medi¬tative adoration when a sublimemajesty is revealed to their gaze,that of God Incarnate.

Admirers Of Externad PowerThere is reason indeed for ask¬

ing with fear and anxiety ifmodern man is still disposed toallow himself to yield to a super¬natural truth so sublime, to bepenetrated by the joy it has tooffer: this man so convinced ofhis own increasing power, inclinedto measure his stature accordingto the power of his instruments,his organizations, his weapons, theprecision of his calculations, thevastness of his production, of thedistance he can reach with hiswords, his gaze, and influence;this man who speaks at lengthwith pride of an age of easy pros¬perity as if one just had to reachout a hand for it; who is so sureof himself and his future he daresall, urged by an insatiable desireto know nature's deepest secrets,to bend its forces to his own will,eager to penetrate in his own per¬son the interplanetary spaces.

In truth modern man, pre¬cisely because he is in possessionof all that the mind and laborof man have produced, ought torecognize even more the infi¬nite distance between what hecan do and what proceeds fromthe limitless power of God.But the reality is quite differ¬

ent, because the false or limitedconcepts of the world and of lifeaccepted by men not only hinderhim from drawing a sense of ad¬miration and joy from the worksof God, and especially from theIncarnation of the Word, but makeit impossible for him to recognizethat indispensable principle whichgives constancy and harmony toall human works.Not a few indeed permit them¬

selves to be dazzled by the limitedsplendor deriving from theseworks, refusing to follow that in¬ternal prompting to seek theirsource and end, outside of andabove the world of science andtechnology.

Like the construction of the *

Tower of Babel, they are dream¬ing false dreams, "The Diviniza-tion of Man", suitable and suf¬ficient for every exigency of thephysical and apiritual life. Inthem the Incarnation of Man and“His dwelling amongst us”(John 1: 14) do not arouseeither profound interest or fruit¬ful emotions.The Nativity has not for them

any other content or message thanthat which expresses a birth:sentiments more or less lively, butonly human when indeed they havenot been stifled by wordly andnoisy customs which profane eventhe simple value, aesthetic andfamiliar, which the Nativity, inthe manner of a distant reflection,radiates in the grandeur of itsmystery.

Devotees Of A False LifeOthers on the contrsry, in the

opposite way, condemn the worksof God, excluding themselves inthis way from access to the hid¬den joys of the Nativity.

Formed by the hard experienceof the laat 20 years which haveshown, as they say, modernsociety’s brutality clothed in sh" • 'irn, they denounce bit¬terly liie external lustre of itsappearance, denying all creditto man and his works; nor dothey hide the deep disgust whichman’s eieeasiva exultation pro¬vokes hi their souls.At th> asms time, they hope

that man may denounce all thisfeverish external and, above all,technological dynamism, that hemay enter within himself,' wherehe will find the richness of an in¬terior life, all his, exclusivelyhuman, such as will satisfy everypossible exigency.And yet this entirely human in¬

terior life is incapable of main¬taining the promise it gives tomeasure up to all the deman'ds ofmen.

It is rather a withdrawing fromlife prompted by arrogance, al¬most despair, by the fear and anincapacity to give oneself to theexternal order and has nothingin common with a genuine in¬terior life which ia complete,dynamic and fruitful.In the true interior life man ii

not alone, but lives with Christ,sharing in His thoughts and ac¬tions, associating with Him as afriend, a disciple and, as it were,a collaborator, and in turn is as-

, sisted and sustained by Him infacing the world according to thedivine precepts because He is thepastor and guardian of our souls.Indifferent And InsensibleBetween this first and second

type, whom a wrong and erro¬neous conception of man has with¬drawn from the guiding and salu¬tary influence of God Incarnate,stand the vast class of those whoneither feel pride in the externalsplendor of modern society norintend to withdraw into a solitarylife of the spirit.They are those who say they

are satisfied to live for the mo¬

ment, interested and desirous ofnothing else than to be sure ofenjoying the goods of the worldin abundance and to be free fromany fear lest tomorrow bring alowering of their standard of life.

Neither the grandeur of Godnor the dignity of man, bothmarvellously and visibly exaltedin the mystery of the Nativity,make an impression on thesepoor souls who have becomeinsensible and incapable of giv¬ing any meaning to their lives.The presence of God Incarnate

having been ignored or cast asidein such manner, modem man hasconstructed a world in which themarvelous is confused with themiserable, overcome with incon¬gruities, like a road without anexit or a house furnished with

everything but which through thelack of a roof is incapable of giv¬ing security to its inhabitants.In some nations indeed, not¬

withstanding the enormous devel¬opment of prosperity and althoughevery class of people is assured ofmaterial sustenance, there isspreading and increasing an in¬definable sense of foreboding, ananxious awaiting of somethingwhich seems bound to happen.

One recalls the expectancy ofthe simple shepherds of thecountryside of Bethlehem. They,by their prompt reaction, canteach the proud men of theTwentieth Century where it isnecessary to seek what is lack¬ing.“Let us go over to Bethlehem,”

they say, “and see this thing thathas come to pass, which the Lordhas made known to us.” (Luke2:15). The event took place 2000years ago but its truth and in¬fluence must continue to take pos¬session of men’s consciences, thatis, God came unto His own (John1:11).Now mankind can no longer,

without guilt, reject and forgetthe coming and dwelling of Godon earth because it is, in theeconomy of Providence, essentialfor the establishment of order andharmony between man and whatis his, and between that and God.The Apostle St. Paul has describedthe totality of this order in anadmirable synthesis: “All areyours, and you are Christ's, andChrist is God's.” (1 Cor. 3:23).

Thoee who would want to al¬low God and Christ to fall fromthis indestructible order, retain¬ing only of these words of theApostle the right of man overother creatures, would effect an

essential breach in the designof the Creator.St. Paul himself would urge the

warning: "Therefore let' no onetake pride in men.” (1 Cor. 3:21).Who does not see how much thisadmonition applies to the men ofour times, so proud of their in¬ventors and discoverers, who no

longer are oppressed by the hard¬ships of loneliness as formerly,but on the contrary have seized onthe imagination of the crowd, yes,even the watchful attention ofstatesmen ?

However, it is one thing to at¬tribute to them due honor, andstill another to await from themand their discoveriea the solutionof the fundamental problem oflife.

At the same time the wealthand labor, the projects and in¬ventions, the boasts and tor¬ments of our modern age must beconsidered in relation to man,the image of God.If, therefore, what ia called

progress ia not reconcilable withthe divine laws of the world order,it ia most certainly not progress,but marks a way to ruin.Neither the moat perfected art

of organization, nor the highly de¬veloped methods in the field ofcalculations will put off the inevi¬table results. They have no powerto create man’s essential stead¬fastness, much less ean they sub¬stitute for it.

Jesus Christ alone gives to manthat interior steadfastness. “Whenfullness of time came” (Gal., 4:4),the Word of God entered uponthis life on earth, taking a truehuman nature, and in that formentered also into the historicaland social life of the human race,here also “being made like untomen” (Phil. 2,7) though God fromall eternity.

His coming indicates in factthat Christ intended to set Him¬self ae a guide for men and astheir support In history and insociety.The fact that man has won in

the present technical and indus¬trial era a marvelous power overboth the organic and inorganiematerials of the world does notestablish a right to be free fromthe duty of submission to Christ,the Lord of history, nor does itdiminish the need that man hasto be sustained by Him. And in¬deed, the uneasy search for secu¬

rity has become more urgent.Present day experience clearly

shows that forgetfulness or

negligence of Christ’s presencein the world has provoked thesense of bewilderment, and thatabsence of security and stabilitypeculiar to the technical era.Forgetfulness of Christ has

brought about also the ignoringof the reality of human naturefixed by God as a basic factor ofsocial life in space and time.

Principles Of Man’s SecurityIn what direction, (hen, should

the search be made for the securityand interior stability of sociallife, if not by leading minds backto preserve and put new life intothe principles of true humannature willed by God?

There is in fact a naturalorder, even if its outward ap¬pearance changes with historicaland social developments, but theessential lines were, and ever

remain, the same: family andproperty as the basis of pro¬vision for individuals, then, as

complementary factors of secu¬

rity, local and professionalgroups and, finally, the state.

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in conformity with the mysterious,ly linked working of Divine graceand human freedom.

Nevertheless, while the Christ-Man, limited during the periodof His earthly life, consoles andstrengthens us in our limitations.Christ as God fills us with a

higher freedom for He has thefullness of wisdom and power.

On the basis of this reality, theChristian who prepares himselfboldly with all natural and super¬natural means for building theworld, according to the natural andsupernatural order willed by God,will constantly raise his gaze toChrist and will confine his actionswithin the limits fixed by God.

Not to recognize that would beto will a world contrary to theDivine plan, and hence disastrousfor social life itself.We have just now indicated the

damaging results which flow froma false over-valuation of humanpower and from the undervaluingof the objective reality, which,with the sum of its principles andlaws — religious, moral, economicand social—establishes limits and

In obedience to thii principleour peace program cannot ap¬prove of an indiscriminate co¬existence at all costs with every¬body; certainly not at the cost oftruth and justice. These irremov¬able boundary marks, ’ in effect,demand complete observance.Where this is so, including today

in the question of peace, religionis in a sure manner protectedagainst abuse from the politicalquarter; whereas when it has beenrestricted to purely interior life,religion itself is more opposed tothat danger.

Nuclear Arms ControlThis thought of its own accord

leads Us on the ever acute ques¬tion of peace which constitutes anobject of solicitude always presentto Our heart and at this momentone of its partial problems begsfor special consideration.

We propose to direct Our at¬tention to a recent proposalwhich aims at putting a checkon experiments in nuclearweapons by means of an inter¬national agreement.There has been talk also of

. p h° 6 ?ref€nt’ ln accordance fun and ever m0re perfect auto- sible economic crises which al- ting before themselves no otherwith these principles and directives, matic system of production, and ways bring in their train risk objective save the service willeden s rengthened by Christianity supported by better methods of of a return to dictatorship. by God for the benefit of thewere move to put into force, in organization and accountancy— Moreover, that superstition is in world.

ot°th 3n practlc*’ 40 tbe ext®nt will guarantee to all workers a no sense suited to the setting up For the sake of this motive andeuara*'^ P°Wer’ .:”e order which continuous and progressive return of a sound bulwark against com- not out of weakness, let Christians*

r an.ees secunty' for their labor. In a subsequent munism because in it participate group themselves together.,, >U * n\anner 0'“erent from phase this will become so great the communists as well as consid* But let them and more so than goes—tbere arise a new type sand million kilowatts is developedmoderns, ^our ancestors that, by means of community erable numbers of the non-com- others — remain open to every of man\ nam«ly. a man who sur- in an exceedingly short time; this

points out the true path of human taking further steps toward con¬ventions through which use ofthose weapons would be renouncedand all states subjected to ef¬fective arms control.Thus there would be a question

of three steps: renunciation ofexperimentation with atoaiieweapons, renunciation of the use

of such, and general control ofarmaments.

The supreme importance ofthese proposals is tragically il¬lustrated if one stops to con¬sider what science thinks it can

predict about such actions, andwhich We think it useful to sum

up briefly here.As for experiments of atomic

explosions, the opinion of thosewho fear the effects produced ifthey are multiplied would seem tobe finding greater acceptance.Too many such explosions would

in time cause an increased densityof radioactive products in the at¬mosphere, whose diffusion de¬pends on elements not under man'scontrol; thus would be generatedconditions very dangerous formany living beings.Concerning the use: in a nuclear

explosion an enormous amount of

actions.Now the same errors with the

same results are being repeatedin the field of human labor, andparticularly in that of economicactivity and production.In the face of the astonishing

development of technology and,more often, by means of sugges¬tions received, the worker feelshimslf absolute master and lordof his existence, completely capa¬ble of pursuing every objective,of giving actuality to every dream.By confining the whole of real¬

ity within the limits of tangiblenature, he discerns in the vitalityof production the way for man tobecome ever more perfect.

Productive society, which for¬ever appears to the worker asthe sole living reality and asthe power which keeps all inexistence, gives the measure tohis whole life. It is thereforehis one support for both thepresent and the future. In ithe lives and moves and has hisbeing. It grows in the end forhim into > substitute for reli¬gion.In such manner—the thought energy equivalent to several thou-

knew—as well by the errors fromwhirti cu.: measures, it will be able to satisfy munists, ueaiutiy unueruiKing ana to xu . — —», . , r ^osl ITe aPPl>cation the security of those who are not In this erroneous belief the two genuine progress and not with- of the hi*best *thical va1ue- and netlc radiations of very great den-naa not been exempt—that human yet, or no ionger, able to work— sides find a meeting ground, thus draw themselves into a sealed en- worshlPs the worker's society with sity distributed within a vast

healthy undertaking and to all rounda bis work with the aureole energy is composed of elctromag-

,,n,ri;„ ... Mtsbluhnieiit of the young children, the old, the establishing a tacit agreement of closure as if to preserve them-ited and tharof natur« I,m* sick. such a kind as to be able to be- selves from the world. Committedconree tr, °rte u/■ r®' To «stablish security, they con- guile the apparent realists of the to promote the advantage of all

. - pray*r 0 0 that x dude, there will therefore no West into the dream of a possible men, let them not despise othersg er power might make ionger 5* any necessity to have genuine coexistence,good their own inadequacy.The abandonment of ihe use

of prayer in the so-called indus¬trial era ia a most revealingsymptom of the pretensions toself-sufficiency of which modernman boasts.There are too many today who

no longer pray for security, think¬ing that the petition “Give us thisday our daily bread” (Matt. 6:11),which Our Lord put on men’s lips,has been superseded by technical

recourse to property, either privateor collective, either in nature orin goods.

Even so, this manner of or¬

ganizing security is not one ofthose forms of adaptation ofnatural principles to new- de¬velopments, but a kind of attackon the essence of man's naturalrelationships with fellow men,with work, with society.In this excessively artificial

The Church On Communism

who, at any rate if they are sub¬missive to the light of reason, both

In the Christmas radio message teaching of Christianity at leastlast year We set forth the mindof the Church on this topic andWe now intend once again to ratifyit.

We reject communism as asocial system by virtue ofChrist's doctrine and we have a

particular obligation to proclaimthe fundamental principles ofnatural law.For the same reasons We also

what is based on the natural law.Be on your guard against those

who undervalue this Christianservice to the world snd opposeto it a so-called "pure,” “spir¬itual" Christianity. They havenot understood the divine insti¬tution—to begin from its funda¬mental principle—Christ ia trueGod but also true man.

The Apostle St. Paul makes

a kind of religious fervor. gamut of wave lengths even to the....... . ... . «"“St penetrating, and of tinyHigh Moral Value Of Work bodies produced by nuclear disin-There is now being asked the tegration which are hurled at near,

question whether the creative ly the speed of light,power of work truly constitutes This energy is transferred to

and withinx second in¬

creases the temperature of sur¬rounding air masses by hundredsof degrees; their displacementis violent, propagated at thespeed of sound.On the earth's surface, in an

area of many square kilometers.

a -hnuM the the 5teady *uPP°rt of man inde* the atmosphereÍ!“íí:—dJh^í.?:.“ fI? 1--.Í pendently of other values not thousandths ofpurely technical, and if, conse¬quently, it deserves to be, as itwere, worshipped by modern man.Certainly not, for no power what¬soever or other activity of aneconomic nature can be so regard¬ed.Even in the technical era, the reactions of unimaginable vio-

human person, created by God ]ence take place, materials volátil-and redeemed by Christ, remains ¡zed and utterly destroyed by di¬elevated in its being and in its rect radiation, by heat, by me.dignity, and therefore its creativa chanical action, while an enormous

, f r . . whi-u aim- at power and its work bave * Tery smount of radioactive materials ofthe organization of the community nism as a phenomenon or a state setting aright the earthly world h>5_her, pertPan*I1'e'J , varying life-span completes and

achievement, or alternatively, they system, man's security over hisrepeat it outwardly with lips with- own life ia dangerously separated reject the~ opinion that the Chris’- u!"' ... th. fl.ii .,,-ntiai wjiiout an interior conviction of its irom arrangements and forces for tian ought today to see commu-enduring necessity. the organization of the communityF»l*e Annli'r-h-j,. nt are inherent in true nature in the passage of history, one of -¡-n when "he navs**** Sciene# itself and which alone render pos- the necessary “moments,” as it i..'.». .t 1

Thus firmly established, human continues the destruction throughwork is also a profound moral their activity.

. . to Him a

But can it be truly asserted that 4 responsible association of were, of its evolution, and con- ovn-e^sive titles'” “Mediator ” and ^órce, and the human race of work- This is the spectacle offered toan has attained, or is on the men‘ sequently to accept it as if de- *Man- ,Timo hv 2 5) Yes man ’* * society wh:ch not only the terrjfied „aze as the resulttumouiy,, ¿.01. íes. man, produces things, but also glorifies ofcreed by Divine Providence. a, Ig everyone of those redeemed Qod

Warnings In Industrial Age hy Him’way to attain, full self-sufficiency? Somehow, though with necessaryModern achievements, certainly *djustments to the times, family

remarkable, in scientific and a"d property must remain amongtechnical development will assured- ^un<^amen^ai® of the free set-ly be able to give man an extensive tlement Persons. Somehow, themastery over the forces of nature, ^e5Ser soc,al units and the stateover sickness and even over the must be able 40 come together as predecessors in the supreme pas- race in the social and historicalbeginning and end of human life; complementary agents of security, toral and teaching office, against life, but also in that of the indivi-but it is also certain that such Only a one-sided view of the being satisfied with an anti-com- dual Christian, so that as "allmastery will not be able to trans- Present, or perhaps of the imme- munism founded on the slogan and things were made through Him,form the earth into a paradise of dla^e future, and no more, can be defense of a liberty which is de- and without Him was made noth-

But at same time We again Life’s Stability In Christwarn Christians of the industrial Jesus Christ is not only theage, in the spirit of Our immediate steadfast support of the human

assured enjoyment.How, then, will every one of

man's powers be reasonablycared for if the realities of newfalse developments, and also ofnew weakneases, show the one¬

sided character of an idea whichwould wish to control life ex¬

clusively on the foundation ofquantitative analysis and syn¬thesis?Its application to social life is

not only false, but also a simplifi¬cation of many complex processeswhich is dangerous in practice.Conditions being what they are

satisfied with such a test.From this premise there re¬

sults—sometimes over a longperiod—a rash consumption ofreserves and of the treasures ofnature, and, to excess, even ofavailable human power to work;and later there gradually resultsan even greater disproportionbetween the need to maintainthe cultivation of the soil of thecountry in reasonable adapta¬tions to all the possibilities ofproducing, and an excessivecrowding together of workers.There are, in addition, the decay

Man can consider his work as

a true instrument of his sancti¬fication because by working hemakes perfect in himself thaimage of God, fulfills his dutysnd the right to gain for himselfand his dependents the necessarysustenance, and makes himselfa useful unit of society.Bringing this order into exist-

modern man needs also to pray, of social union, and especially ofand if he is wise, he is ready to the family, and in each and everypray for security as well.

Yet this does not mean thatman must abandon new ways,that is to say, give up adaptingto present conditions for his own

security, the order just referredto which has regard for traehuman nature.There is no objection to security

worker and consumer the grow¬ing danger of insurance of lifebased on income from property ofall kinds, which is so exposed toevery form of currency deprecia- ..... ,

tion and the risk of placing that about the return. of T°dtrn S°C'etysecurity exclusively on the imme- m «rgamzations to the sourcesdiate return for labor. made ?acFed by the Word of GodIn this industrial age, the man ma<le fIesh'

ensuring its own stability by also who accuses, and rightly accuses

such use: entire cities, even thalargest and richest in art and his¬tory, wiped out; a pall of deathover pulverized ruins, coveringcountless victims with limbs burnt,twisted and scattered while othersgroan in their death agony. Mean¬while the spectre of a radioactivacloud hinders survivors from giv¬ing any help and inexorably ad¬vances to snuff out any remaininglife.

There will be no song of vic¬tory, only the inconsolable weep¬ing of humanity, which in deso¬lation will gaze upon a catas¬trophe brought on by its own

folly.Concerning control: Inspection

sented to the faithful from "the him, the religious and Christian by properly equipped planes hasearliest days of the Church: by man* that the charge will be been suggested for the purpose of.'St. Peter the Apostle, when, at brought by'some of being an ob- watching over any atomic activi-the portico of the emple of Jeru- stade to peace, of opposing the ties in large territories,salem, he proclaimed Christ as peaceful coexistence of men, of Others might perhaps think ofthe “ton archegon tes zoes” (Acts nations, of different systems, be- the possibility of a worldwide3, 15), that is, the “Author of cause he does not keep his re- network of observation posts.Life,” and by the Apostle of the ligious convictions unspoken in theGentiles, who frequently pointed privacy of his conscience, butout what ought to be the founds- makes them effective even in tra-tion of the new lile received in ditional and powerful organiza¬

tions, in all the activities of lifeboth public and private.It is asserted that this kind of meteorological and seismic instru-

Christianity makes a man over- ments, with equipment for chemicalBut if anyone does not have the bearing, biased, oversure and sat- analysis, with spectrographs andSpirit of Christ, he does not be- isfied with himself; that it leads such like; they would render pos-long to Christ. (Cfr. Rom., 8, 9.) him to defend positions which no sible the real control of many, un-Everyone, therefore, who is re- longer have any significance, in- fortunately not all, of the activi-

reborn” in stead of being open to everything ties which antecedently would ba

void of content. jpg that has been made” (John 1;Rather We urge them to build 1,3), so no one will ever be able ence will obtain for him security,

up a society in which man’s secu- to carry out works worthy of the and at the same time, the “peacerity rests on that moral order of Divine Wisdom pnd glory without on earth” proclaimed by the an-which We have very often set Him. gels,forth the need and consequences, The concept of the necessary in-and which has regard for true tegration and stability of each Th* Question Of Peacehuman nature. life in Christ was strongly pre- And yet it is precisely against

Now Christians, to whom heremore particularly We addressOurselves, ought to know betterthan others that the Son ofGod made Man is the one stead¬fast support of the human racein the social and historical lifealso and that He, by taking tohimself a human nature, hasborne witness to its dignity asthe basis and rule of that moralorder.

It is therefore their primaryduty to act with a view of bringing

Baptism.“You.” he wrote, “are not

carnal but apiritual, if indeedthe Spirit of God dwella in you.

each one staffed by experta ofdifferent countries and pro¬tected by solemn internationalpacts.Such centers would have to ba

equipped with delicate precisa

._. „„„„„„„ If ever Christians neglect this ,1 and rightly accuses , . ., . k 1 *.• deemed, as being _ ^

making use of results in technique communism of having deprived of F1 y °. ,. ei!js y Christ, likewise exists through and everybody, and having confi- outlawed in the field of atomicand industry, yet it is necessary freedom the people over whom it ® .?u,i.. °’’£es 0 e 31 14 Him “unto salvation by the faith” dence that, in a general coexist- perimentation.to resist the emptation to gain holds sway, should not omit to p“ ,C J *’ ?.. * *n a . ^y (Cfr. John 3, 3; 1 Peter 1, 5). enc*. the interior living faith, like We do not hesitate to declare,support for order and security note that in the other part of the e . \p ’ y ° °e . "spirit and love” at least in the — u— !-from the above-mentioned purely world also liberty will be a very lng reason again? « Limits Of Human Powar Cross and the Sacrifice, wouldquantitative method which takes dubious possession if man’s secu- f0°rn^ a^,on cradl'5' of Besides, how could the indivi- furnish a definite contribution tono account of the order of nature, rity is not derived to a greater ex- ehem"*” U ’ CrS * ° duaI> even *■ non-Christian, left the common causeas is the wish of those who en- tent from a condition of thingstrust man’s destiny to the tremen- which corresponds to his truedoua industrial power of the pres- nature.ent age.

They think they are establish¬ing complete security on theever-increasing productivity andon the uninterrupted flow of anever greater and fruitful produc¬tion in the nation's economy.This, they say—en basis ef a

The erroneous belief whichmakes security rest on the ever-mounting process of social pro-duction is 1 superstition, per¬

haps the only one, of our ration¬alistic age of industry. But it

Let the seriousness and deepmotive of the Christian actionbe an effective testimony in theworld and at same time avail

to himself, reasonably believe inhis own autonomy, completenessand stability if reality confronts

In this false idea of a religionand Christianity have we notonee more before ua that erro-

as We have in previous allocu¬tions, that the sum total of thosethree measure* as an object ofinternational agreement ia anobligation in conscience of na-tiona and of their leaders.We said aum total of thoaa

him on every side with the limit* neous worship of the human sub- measures, because the reason they.

. ... within which nature restricts him, jeet and of hie positive life- are morally binding is also thatto dispel the very suspicion of_ which could indeed be ex- force carried over to the super- equal security be established fora supposed aiming at worldly tended, but not entirely demol- natural plane? all.power on the part of the Church, ished.If

Man, face to face with opinions If, however, only the first point,therefore, Christians unite The law of limitation if proper and systems opposed to the true concerning experimentation were

ia also the moat dangerous, be- to this end in various institutions to life on earth, nor would Jesus religion, is, of course, always put into effact, the result would beause k acema to deem impos- and organizations, they ara set- Christ as man withdraw Himself bound by the limits established by 'MESSAGE, Page I