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Official Organ of theArchdlocese of Perth A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STATIC OF WESTERN AUSTRALLL PRICE THREEPENCE ESTABLISHED 1874. Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
No. 2,817
Vol. LX
PERTH, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934
Catholic King Who Saved Protestant England "He has for his throne the hearts highly organised army the world had of all England," said Father Anthony ever seen: he knew his country would Lowe, 0.P., preaching at the Requiem become a shambles, an abbatoir; he Mass for King Albert, of Belgium, in saw a great red sea incarnadine of the Dominican Priory Church of Holy .carnage would inundzite the land, that Cross, Leicester, England. the fierce wolves and blood hounds of war would ravage the peaceful sheep"After the leclaration of war in folds of his land: that the waters of August, 1914, during those dark yet bitterness would engulf his people. flaming years of sacrificial beauty. Et"Belgium with its heroic king stood as Belgium. led by her heroic King, up as one man to repel the ferocious amazed the woild by her dauntless invaders, defied the might of Teutonic daring. arrogance and brutality. Belgium and "The Belgians challenged the dark- its chivalrous king stood as an adamanness and found God there. They faced tine rampart against that devastating unflinchingly overwhelming odds, the valanche of German militarism. Belmultiplied apparatus of human malign- gium and her superb King sacrificed ity (for gold thay were not sold). Death all save her soul, her honour, her spiribefore dishonour was their guiding sjar. tual integrity. "How would France, how would Eng"During Auglist of 1914. King Albert had to make a most momentous deci- land have fared if Belgium had had If Belgium had sion, whether, it: order to safeguard the a less heroic King? soul of a natior he should condemn not breasted that storm with her flammillions of his subjects to the ravages ing soul, her patriotism and her splenand rapines of ,lrilcsvering war to a de- dour, France would have been crushed, vastating invasion or bring a tempor- Istigland ruined. ary security at a price of liberty. He "King Albert might have justified knew what a no surrender reply would himself by saying. 'I cannot let the mean to his coo:stn.. whole of 'Belgium be crucified and be"It was no mad act of sublime folly: come a Golgotha. 'Tis a hopeless folly it was no leap in the dark: it was a to face with my small army the invincold calculated decision of superb hero- cible might of Germany. we must humism. He foraosw his country being He our pride and bow down to the inoverwhelmed iss• t'ae greatest and most evitable.' David 'faced Goliath: a soul
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faced 'materialism." So Belgium becam a Calvary for the salvation of Europe. "We English Catholics are proud to remember that a Catholic King and a little Catholic nation with just the pop'ulation of London saved mighty Protestant England from red ruin and grey grief, from dire disaster and dismemberment and her Empire from disruption.
dauntless spirit of resolution. looked into the bright face of danger and smiled: then he faced death time and again amidst the rank and file of his army.
"He was not a_mere courtesy soldier, a figure head, but a flaming splendour, an ardent spirit, a burning torch of patriotism. 'Yet he wept when he saw his -slaughtered soldiers around him like "So we owe an incalculable debt of mangled worms writhing in agony. Not gratitude to King Albert, this lionhis the callousness of Napoleon. who hearted king, whose soul shone as the would sacrifice a millian men unmoved. myriad facets of a diamond. "After the war he could have rested. " 'There is some corner of a foreign worn out and exhausted as he was, for is 'that poppied Flanders field' in but he was a tireless labourer in the There the flowers of ever England.' vineyard of shattered and decimated. both Belgium and British chivalry Belgium. So, he spent all the untirhave blossomed in their dust; there, ing energies of his soul, all the burnthey poured out, commingling together ing activities of his mind, all the the red sweet wineof youth: there, the strength of his heart upon reconstructtwin flames of sacrifice mooated to ing Belgium: to build on the ashes and the altar of Heaven from tha purple ruins of his country a fairer homeland battlefield. making a new heaven and a new earth • his rand, 'and a place fit fot heroes ' King Albert was not only a manly to dwell Europe's king. but a kingly man. grave gay Crusader, who held aloft the ''Let the names of those he wrought torch of Catholic Christianity,- he was a for and the feet of, those he fought for, knight errant 'sans peur sans reproche.' echo around his -bones for ever more. "This fine flower of chivalry, with his Eternal rest give unto them, 0 Lord. deep sincerity, his utter triCdtsty, his and let perpetual light shine- , , upon simplicity., his self effacement, his them."
A Missionary Interviews Ghandi On a r* ecent ‘isit. to Madura, during the course of his tour of South India, Mahatma Gandhi once more explained his views on religion, in an. interview granted a Jesuit missionary. " All religions are true." Gandhi said, "and 1 do not believe that the day is c oming when there will be but one religion in the world. But just as there cannot be permanent SO long as nations. peace here below keep t.heir pretensions to hegemony instead of all Rations uniting in an international or in which they would, at the same time, retain their individuality, so also all religions should unite under the sign of the divine., A simple condescending enough: theretolerance will ,not be most. be the sincere re: cognition of each religion's autonomy. W hen the missionary proposed to him, instead of this fanciful notion of 1-111100, the idea of the unity of all peoples, one fl Mahatma ock under one shepherd, the here that answered flatly: 'It is right we differ radically." • Clearly he In the affairsdoes not wish to intrude of Christians, to enter a field not his own. In return he -expects the same from missionaries, which emberstains, that they should be false to teach syecommand: Going, therefore, all nations. Leaving Politics aside, Gandhi is at oht-' moment preaching a crusade. in South India in favour of the Hai-liana or Pariahs. He solicits subsidies to ,suPPott his campaign and gathers at least 650 dollars every day, often three 1 114.-
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or four times that amount. During his stay of a day and a half at Madura. he collected .1.800 dollars, ar.d in the Chettinad 6.650 dollars. Though he has considerable 'success getting aid, he is not so successful in
obtaining 'immediate results . for the principal purpose of the crusade, namely, the social betterment of the pariahs. The- Travancore Government is open. ing roads and wells for the use of the Harijans, but it has not proclaimed their political equalitss Four or five
Russian Christians Look Romeward Conversion of Archbishop Elect in America The Reverend Vladimir Alexandroff, who made his submission to Rome last year, was born in Odessa, and made hi,; theological studies in Russia. He t hen came to the United States and was ordained in San Francisco by the Russian Archbishop Tikhon. Besides engaging in various missionary activities among his own people, chiefly along the Pacify coast of the United States and Canada, be held high ecclesiastical posts in Russia, being connected with the Imperial Cathedral of TsarskeeSelo and a member of the Holy Synod.
Naturally, the false notions conceit: ing the Pope which have for centuries been current among the churches of Eastern Europe cannot be dispelled at once, but patient sympathy will effect much with people already disposed to listen. There are certain elements of the situation which are distinctly favourable, viz., that Russian orders are recognised as valid, that Russians submitting to Rome would not be required to change their rite, that (as was shown at the Couocil of Florence) docIre had been a priest for thirty-seven trinal differences between them and us years, and had been designated an ate in great degree a matter of phraseArchbishop when he made his obedi- ology. erce to the Froly See. The Episcopalians in the United His action evoked favorable com- States have been making advances to ment from many Russians who have the Russians as well as to people of been led be the present distresses of other churches not in communion with their church and the dis•ouraging fut- Reme, and have succeeded in enticing ure that seems to await'it to c-m3ider some to join them. Only recently an the claims of the Apostolic See on the Armenian Archbishop was buried from Ow Episcopal Cathedral in New York. obedience of all Christians. 41110- 4111,40-
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Hindu temples are permitting the par jabs to enter the enclosure. "Rut the future will be the judge of the importance of these events." says the Jesuit missionary, student st; The enethe Gandhi movement. mies of Gandhi. to draw upon him the wrath of the Government, repeat that he is carrying on a carefully camou• tlaged political campaign. - The Self Respect Movement, a Bolshevic organisation, maintains that he is conniving with the Brahmins to save Hinduism. and that the apparent disagreement with them is orgy a rnahoeuvre to catch the simple,. Others accuse. him • ,setting the Tlindus against. one another, and, by emphasising their lack of unit'-, contributing in the process of keeping India servitude. He denies thatshe has political aims: he is simply -trying, to root from Hindu. ism a social injustice. untouchability. But the social, religious, and political sides are closely connected! if intouch. ability is to go, the reform will have important repercussions in the religious and political realms. "If it is true that Gandhi is no longer the political leader he was formerly," continues the missionary, "and that his social programme is meeting with misunderstanding and antagonism still he holds among the masses his prestige as a social reformer. In spite of all he remains "the Mahatma." the legendary figure whom the people have a great desire to see and to hear. to attend his lectures. even if afterwards they follow him only from afar or even turn their backs upon his ideal ."—Ficles. -41.11W 111.- 41 , 0-0