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Father Cinder's views on current events
GOD LOVE YOU
Right M Wrong
H
Most Reverend
Fulton J. Sheen
T
HIS present column was prompted
from the “cloistered” Sisters of Maryknoll
July 31, 1960
Archbishop Hughes:
a fanatic ?
25c postpaid
ORDER BOOK NO. 617
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it
to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue,
New York lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director.
The following is taken from a letter received recently from
a Bishop in South Africa whose school, church and hall were
set on fire and burned down “by a rebellious and instigated mob.”
E Catholics are a people who live
in a very special sector of the American
cultural community. It is bounded on every
side by changeless truth.
It is a comfort to know that what is
true at 4:30 was also true at 3:30 and will
still be true at 6:00 this evening.
We Catholics climb Mt. Thabor at
every Mass and there, like Peter, James,
and John at the transfiguration, we see a
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q zeal to share our joy with
1! our neighbors.
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Who will not react to such an appeal as this? You at home
can be a true disciple of Our Lord. With a minimum offering
of $1500 the Holy Father is able to justify the faith and con-
fidence of such a mission priest. This minimum offering will
build a chapel; an offering of $5,000 will build a church. The
only condition is in allowing the Holy Father to decide where
the chapel or church is to be erected. Send whatever you are
able to sacrifice to him through his Society for the Propagation
of the Faith.
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“The destruction was fearful. Our Church was the last
to suffer. A number of our Catholics attempted to take up
their stand before the Church in order to protect it and to
prevent its being burnt down. But the fanatical mob al-
ready hungered to see the flames leaping higher. The re-
sistance was immediately overcome; our Catholics were beat-
en down with sticks and pushed aside; petrol flowed inside
the Church and in the space of a few minutes the House of
the Lord, the Sacristy and the new hall, which was not yet
completed, went up in flames. Everything which could feed
the fire — floors, benches, altar, doors and doorposts, con-
fessional, sacristy cupboards, pictures, ceiling and the whole
roof — everything which the fire could consume was com-
pletely destroyed. The Mission Church of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary was one sea of flames!
“‘The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away.
Praised be the Name of the Lord!’ The ways of the Lord
are beyond understanding. Our Mission and our Church
have been destroyed but not our courage nor our confidence.
We do not forget the covenant which God made with us on
the day of our sacred ordination to the priesthood, namely
to show His mercy to His people, and to announce to all His
Praise, His Love and His Doctrine. The damage done
amounts to much. Tomorrow the work begins afresh. In
His Name we build again what the hands of devils and men
have destroyed.
“Who will help us to rebuild the House of God, there
to give Him a new home, a new Church in honor of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, His dear Mother? Who will
help us to build a Tabernacle for Our Lord Jesus Christ
from which He can dispense His graces and blessings to
the hearts of the Africans — to their families, their homes,
the whole village and finally the whole of South Africa. He
who cooperates in this is a Missionary in the true sense of
the word — fulfilling thus the command of the Lord, to
proclaim His Name throughout the whole world ‘from the
rising of the sun to the going down thereof,’ so that there
may soon be but one fold and one shepherd.”
by an article on religion and politics ap-
pearing in a recent issue of Life, in which
the great Archbishop John Hughes of New
York, a brilliant figure in the history of
the American Church, was denounced as
“an Irish Catholic fanatic” for expounding
sound Catholic dogma from his pulpit in
St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Archbishop Hughes had proclaimed
the Church’s divine mission “to convert all
pagan nations, and all Protestant na-
tions ... to convert the world — includ-
ing the inhabitants of the United States.”
Now what is wrong with that? — and
how does it brand the Archbishop a “fan-
atic”? A decade or so later, Father Isaac
Hecker founded the Paulist Fathers for the
express purpose of “making America
Catholic.” They are still at it, and doing
a fine job of it. It is the goal of every Bish-
op, priest, and religious in the country.
In fact, a Catholic without such mis-
sionary zeal is hardly worthy of the name.
If I value the Mass, should I not be anxious
— like Peter, John, and Stephen — to
share the experience with those around
me?
No Catholic can settle, with good con-
science, for a policy of appeasement, con-
tainment, or even mere co-existence with
the non-Catholic community. Like the
apostles, we are men with a mission, and
even if they beat us, we cannot contain
ourselves. We must speak out. We believe
that we hold the only key to reality, and
precisely because we love our country so
dearly, we intend to trumpet our message
from one end of this land to the other.
vision. We see the Lord
Jesus become visibly
present before our eyes.
And we descend the holy
mountain burning with
2 OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
Our cry is that of the
/ $ young Stephen: “Behold,
I see the heavens opened,
and the Son of Man
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Beautiful and inspiring thoughts on the
phrases of the Litany of the Immaculate
Heart. The Sisters felt that our read-
ers might want to add these lovely pray-
ers to their devotions. They also hope
that many Catholics through this book-
let will be encouraged to start this de-
votion in their homes. There was no
doubt in our minds that Our Sunday
Visitor readers would be pleased to
know of and use the beautiful prayers
of these Sisters.
It is a fine booklet for any Catholic
home We also recommend it as a most
pleasing and useful remembrance to
nuns everywhere. The devoted Sisters
who teach our children, administer to
the sick or lead contemplative lives will
be delighted to receive a copy of this
attractively covered 32-page booklet
from you.
ORDER FROM
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
Book Department O Huntington, Ind.
A REVIEW copy of “Sacco-Vanzetti,
The Murder and the Myth,” by Robert H.
Montgomery, priced at $5.00, has just ar-
rived from the Devin-Adair Co. of New
York.
One of the foremost legal minds in
Massachusetts, Mr. Montgomery considers
that the accused “were guilty of murder
as charged and were properly convicted by
an uninfluenced jury.” The late Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote to Har-
old Laski that he considered the case an
ordinary murder “turned into a text by the
Reds.”
However, Pennsylvania Supreme
Court Justice Michael A. Musmanno says
of my July 3rd column: “I am very sorry
that you wrote on the Sacco-Vanzetti case
in the manner you did. I was one of the
attorneys for the doomed men in the lat-
ter phases of their long litigation and I
am as positive that they were innocent as
I can be of any objective thing in my life.”
Despite these honest differences of
opinion, the TV shows reflected only the
judgment represented by Justice Mus-
manno.
I should have said previously that I
based my July 3rd article on an editorial
published in The Standard-Times of New
Bedford, Mass., April 12, 1957, entitled
“History Distorted.”
GOD LOVE YOU to J. M. for $3. “Please accept this do-
nation for the people of the world who do not know and love
God, and for the reparation of my past sins. Also please pray
for the vocations of my five children.” ... to M. B. for $56.50.
“The enclosed check has been made up in various ways. Part
of it ($35) was made by collecting pop and coffee bottles that
are left strewn about where I work. About a year ago three
Of us started collecting these bottles and trading them in for
you, with the result that we are now called ‘The Bottle-Snatch-
ers’!” ... to J. P. “Here is five dollars for the Holy Father’s
Missions. I sacrificed on the price of a week’s entertainment.”
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E HE rest of the story must be known
to any American who was not brought up
in a cave. St. Peter had received the power
of the keys from Jesus, making him chief
of the apostles and head of Christ’s Church.
He was martyred in Rome, and his suc-
cessors as Bishop of Rome and head of
the Church, evangelized the world. All of
present day Christianity, in whatever
strange forms it may turn up, comes ulti-
mately from Rome.
But now a strange thing happened.
After 1,500 years of Roman Catholic Chris-
tianity throughout the West — but let us
use Chesterton’s image:
It was as though the Church were
one day holding a procession through the
town square. Priests and bishops were
there in full force, swinging their censers
and tinkling their little bells. Various dig-
nitaries were carrying the sacred images.
A deacon carried the Holy Bible. And at
the very end came a Cardinal with the
Blessed Sacrament.
Now there was an interruption. From
out of nowhere came a band of hecklers
bent on routing the ceremony. They rush-
ed into the line of march and, passing up
the Blessed Sacrament, leaving the pro-
cessional cross and the images untouched,
they made straight for the Book — and,
clutching it to themselves, they disappear-
ed whence they had come.
What puzzled Chesterton was why,
since all had been made sacred by the
Church, they did not scoop up everything.
Why did they not kidnap the Cardinal? —
or make off with the Blessed Sacrament?
— or seize an image of the Blessed Mother?
Nevertheless, they set themselves up
in competition with the ancient Church,
using the Book as a club with which to
beat us over the head. (Ironically, it has
since gone soft in their hands.) And al-
though they were wrong, succeeding gen-
erations grew up in good faith about their
error. They think they are right.
There is no need to discuss the per-
secutions and religious wars caused by all
this. As things stand now in the United
States, we have achieved a balance of
tolerance that is a model for all the world.
But this does not mean that all creeds
are equally true, that our non-Catholic
neighbor is right in his convictions. Prot-
estantism is just as wrong now as it was
in 1517, and it is our privilege, as Catho-
lic Americans, to point these things out
to our neighbor, to rescue him from the
dingy flame of that “inner light” by
which he lives — and which so often
proves to be merely self-interest — and
set him at our side on the slopes of Mt.
Thabor, in the dazzling sunlight of a truth
which is outside ourselves, objective, and
beyond the power of corruption by the
weakness of human nature.
But if it is our privilege as Americans
to work for the conversion of our neigh-
bor — to “push” the Catholic Faith just
as, in other fields, men promote Alcoholics
Anonymous, Moral Rearmament or, even,
Prudential Insurance — it is more than a
privilege: it is a duty incumbent on us as
Catholics to “spread the word” and make
America Catholic.
* *
standing at the right
ughe hand of God.” It was per-
haps tactless and divisive,
Fr. Ginder for we all know the re-
actions of Stephen’s neighbors:
“They cried out with a loud voice and
stopped their ears and rushed upon him
all together. And they cast him out of the
city and stoned him.”
Peter and John got much the same
treatment: “Summoning them,” says St.
Luke, the rulers of the community
“charged them not to speak or to teach
at all in the name of Jesus.”
But the two saints replied that “we
cannot but speak of what we have seen
and heard,” and they spoke the word of
God “with boldness.”
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