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( Odd Organ of the Archdiocese of Perth "1 A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WESTER N AUSTRALIA. ESTABLISHED 1874. Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper. PRICE THREEP
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PERTH, SATURDAY, APRIL7, 1934
Vol. LX
Fight the Forces of Materialism Belgian Catholic Youth Organise
The Brussels or. •Tondent of the The Christian Young kmployers are "Catholic Times" wo.:ti;s: not numerous, but their recent congress The anniversary of Holy Father's at Kortryk was a great success. The coronation, together -.vith the Feast of Christian Students' Action, owing to the Sacred Heart Jesus and the the Flemish question, has been slackFeast of Christ the King. are the three ening; however, things look more pro great days of Cathoo Action in Bel- mising now. The section is flourishgium. ing indeed in the Catholic colleges, w hile among the University students a Those associatioro: ,v1io go under the general denomination of Catholic Acstart was made by the launching of tion are strongly or ,' ;.7The most -Liniversitas," a magazine for the pronumerous section is iliristian Work- motion of Catholic Action in their men Youth: in tic T2'emish part of midst. Belgium they nutr' ..,,r 24,000. No These Youth Associations for Cathofewer than 6.000 wo, - present at the study days organio,O fctr the local lic Action kept the anniversary of ,the Pope's coronation recently. leaders. The Young fat-me: number 17.264, All the parochial sections of the Cadivided into 433 sections: tholic they constitute tht-- Younger branch tivities.Action League joined in the fesIn many parish churches on of the Belgian PoF.o. nbond. More Saturday evening, an hour adoration sat than 7,000 made a t1 o.e-days' retreat the Blessed Sacrament, with sermon during the past year: 2.436 were present on the 25 recoll etion days and and prayers in common. was held. A special feature of the day was the 500 joined in a pilgriotage to Lourdes. publication of a special edition of the The youth of the •Thristian magazine, "The Young Workman." of Class is an organisation of recent but they number 3.000 already. date, . which 2-5.000 copies were sold. The plan De Man—by which co-oper-
ation was sought by Socialists with the Ccristian Storkmen, the Middle-Class Citizens, and the farmers, in order to make a unique front to combat the present crisis—has been duly examined by Christian Trade-Unionism and rejected as being inefficient and even dangerous. The causes of the crisis are of a moral nature and cannot be destroyed by plans in which private initiative and the feeling of responsibility are not taken into consideration.
denounces the economical anarchy which is predominant in the world, together with the abuses of the economical dictatorship in many countries. The Fascist efforts of many financial concerns to get hold of political power are to be condemned. However. measures proposed by the Socialists tc counteract the evil, will create a reaction by which the domination of the banks in Belgium would be strengthen ed and a dictatorial regime would he made more easy.
While Socialist leaders, on account of their speculative agnosticism and "Nationalisation of the banks." as the their practical materialism, are consid- Sccialists confess. "which is the pith of ered to be incapable of conductirw the the plan, will possibly be a cause of necessary moral reform and social up- failure, if it results in a mass withlift, stress is laid by • the Christian drawal of investments." leaders upon the putting into practice Besides, the middle-class people and of the Christian social doctrine in conformity with the prescriptions of the the farmers know very well that if the Gospel and the Church. and according Focialist plan helps them along for t the lessons of "Rerum Novarum" the present. later on they will be crushed by Socialist fiscal policy. and' "Quadragesimo Anno." The truce of God promised by the It must be confessed that the Social- Serialists as far as school warfare is ist plan is in full accord with the aims concerned, cannot be relic(' upon by of the Christian Workmen when it the Christian Workmen
The Pope's Feast in Madrid •
Speeches that Offended the Government
The twelfth anniversary of the Pope's Coronation was celebrated in the Cathedral Madrid, and Church of St. Isidore in the crowd which attended Was the enormous. There was not room in church for all who wished to be Present, The Nuncio, Monsignor Tedeschini, was received by Alcala and the the Bishop of MadridCathedral Chapter. The members of tholic Youththe National Council of Caand the various parochial Youth organisations of Madrid, as well 4 the organisatio ns for' women, were ell represented. The religious Expositio ceremony consisted of n of the r ecitation' of one ofBlessed Sacrament, the Stations e4 the Cross, and the "Te Demn." which was by all 'choir noir of the present, assisted hY the Cathedrai. gave The Nuncio Of the Bles.;e1 Tent,Benediction Sacraand Throne, immediately went where he received the to the homage .:f the half of Bishop and the Chanter on beHis Holinesa. N fonsignor words hiai replied ‘‘ it'll of grat e c le and praise plendid re for the o thering presentv- ive "'Iture of ille t A fter the t d T\ Chapter's homage had been 'Jon i ''-' :11. leader,Angel Herrera, Catholic Acdelivered an address, in 11 11 he 4 I -.:alnst uttered a strong protest the law 4 $ Rseligious O regulating the status rders, and said: `Catho,( ,f_Pain cannot accept the law" 1 (the ,ab`nic?illsdReligious Co ngregafcr.' I 1,-;; . "lies the Divine personatit.. the Church, and does i not nven acL.--•••• IYIES1 Stock
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cord it the rights granted to any legitimate association " In his reply, which was mainly concerned with 'Catholic Ac'ion. the N memo lamented the way Spain had been led astray along a path 'detrimental to herself and false to her history. He said he 'had witnessed the sufferings of the nation himself. and heard the lying propavanda which promised
Spain happiness if she deserted her old paths. It would appear that these passages have been resented by the Spanish Government, which considers them, according to a message in the "A.B.C.." of an officious character, to have beer. misplaced during a Church ceremony, and argues that, as the churches are now State property and only lent to
The Immodesty of Authors
Referring to the tolerance given by the public to authors who go ,beyond the limits of decency in their writings, C ardinal Routine. of Westminster, wrote in his Lenten Pastoral: ' Some five-and-twenty years ago the minds of many were disturbed by what w as known as 'Nfodernism.' Owing to the energetic action of the then reigning Pontiff, that danger was met and destroyed; but recently we have noticed a tendency to another kind of modernism. namely, in matters of morality--a tendency not exactly to defend, but to give a certain toleration to, departures from the traditional modesty, reserve and reticence, which are characteristic of Christianity. "Books have been written by writers w ho claim the Catholic name in which this modernism has shown itself: and they have not met universally with
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the condemnation which they have deserved." On this subject, the Cardinal quotes a passage from a speech he made during the National Catholic Congress in 1929. Part of this quotation reads: "The writer of books, the painters of pictures. the actors on the stage or for the screen'. the women by the fashion of their dress, who render selfcontrol more difficult for the average normal Man or woman. and who, thereby, make the natural craving for sinful self-gratification more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing moral evil and are committing sin in the sight of God. "No silly prating about the necessity of elucidating problems. or that 'to the pure all things are pure,' or that the claims of art must be satisfied, which we frequently hear, can change the moral law, or alter the fundamental facts of human nature!'
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the faithful for the purposes of worship, there is an implied discourtesy ir. any criticism of the Government's a.-tions which is made in a public church. Representations are to be made to the Holy See. expressing this displeasure of the Government. and the grounds would seem to be, in the first place. that the Nuncio. acting as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. organised the c elebration. and invited the accredited representatives in Spain of all countries. Second, on account of the tone which he employed in his address, in which he censured the fundamental law of the Spanish State and the laicising character of much of the legislation approved by the constituent Cortes. It is expected that the Minister of Justice will address an energetic protest to the Bishop of Madrid for having allowed the use of the 'Cathedral Church of Madrid for this purpose, and pointing out that, in virtue of existing ,the State cedes the use of the churches to the faithful for acts of worship only, and not for manifestations of a political character like this one, which the Government. as stated above. regr,rels as an act of censure on the Spanish Republic. "El Debate" points out that the Ambassadors and Ministers of Germany, 'Argentine. Portugal. Brazil, Venezuela, Tapan. Bolivia. the Charge d'Affaires of C' olumbia. as well as representatives from the Embassies of Italy and Prance. accompanied by their families took past in the ceremony, and paid their homage to the Nuncio.
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