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No. 2,82
Vol. LX
PERTH, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1934
The Only Way to World Peace One Voice that Speaks with Authority It is not pesimisrn to ruggest that, along the lint. ,. of present-day thought and tendencic::, the world is hurtling into chaos, writes "F. C. D.," in "Catholic News," South Africa. And the only outcome of the chaos must be a new Armageddon. In turn, the New Armageddon cannot fail to briag disaster to civilisation and .the comp'..'te subvers;.,;11 of all law, order and morality. Imlercl, of these three rules of life, very little remains to us to-day. In most of tn. European countrio !aw is deed; cuter lb non-existent; and morali4y is mocked. And the ts f these three is the greatest. An'l the last these thrte is just precis, . .- where the world has lost, and coroioes to Jos.:. most. In every sphere rthics,the "standard of living" is - 2:axed. Seif-inriul self-sati !Pction sellauthority, sanctioned to-day— sanctioned an r nod. In all quarters, e xcept one. Tlic -solitary e.x,,-,,ption the Vatican ny, which housz; Sr. Peter's. whenr-e speaks the one man whose utterancss carry the authority of the Vicar The One Real Authority "So widely it now recognised," wrote Dr. in a recent article, "that the autL-rity exercised by the Catholic Chtirdi ic the one real authority remaining in the modern world, that those whl :Ire most passionate for peace sorneti: 7:-: clamour for the Church to kind of decree, or :'
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AUSTRIA Vienna's Museum of Sacred Art. ,.The new Museum of Sacred Art, Vienna, is of interest to all but especially to those of the Catholics, Germanic countries. The museum is located in a building adjacent to St. Stephen's Cathedral, and has been organised at the suggestion of His Eminence Theodore Cardnal Innitter, Archbishop of Vienna. Msgr. Johann Popp, pastor of St. has been appointed director.Stephen's, It was Msgr. Popp who, in the course of excavations under the C athedral, discovered and identified the body of Duke Rudolph, King of Austria, 1339-136), and founder of the University of sovereign Vienna. The remains of the were covered by a magnificent ceremonial robe remarkably well Preserved. This masterpiece of Gothic Cloth has become one ot the most admired objects in the Cathedral museum. Although the museum is primarily a collection are also of objects of sacred art, there t hat are on display secular treasures the property of the Cathedral. T here are classed asseveral portraits that may be masterpieces, and one portrait in particular has a great significance among German people for it is the. portrait of Rudolph IV. and is to be the oldest known portrait of a German .Msgr. Popp " prince. greatlY of the interested in the development museum and is conducting a !il°roligh research throughout Austria to.acquire third hail objects for the collection. .A additional has been prepared to receive treasures for which space could halls. not he found in the two original
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take some kind of action that wotild secure peace for the world; and this by condemning all war This, however, would be as useless as it is impossible. Catholic moral theology cannot consent to any form of Communism based upon the theory that property is a sin, or to any form of pacificiam that would condemn all war as unjust. This does not mean, however, that corm munal life is condemned as impossible: on the contrary, where it is a religious vocation, it is one of the ways to perfection. Nor does it mean that, even when war may be justifiable on the ground of natural right, it cannot be, or should not be. foresworn from supernatural charity." The Great Need. Besides which. the Church has already sufficiently declared herself in all vital matters of social conduct and international polity. The Vatican, the The authority, has not been silent. need is that men should listen to the voice of the Vicar of Christ. In other words, as Dr. Orchard remarked on the same occasion. "if ever we are to have a just social order and a warless world (and the Scriptures promise both). the foundations will have to be laid in a universally-acknowledged faith followed out in private practice and public policy." The "revolution" that will save the w orld must he within the hearts of There must be a men themselves. change of outlook and, in esfsecial. of spirit. The Great War of 1914-1918 was not very months over when men began to The idealspeak of the "next war." ism which called armies to the defence o f Belgium. and which summoned, too, the legions of the Central European Powers to the defence of their liberties, as they conceived them, was all too cplickIV forgotten--thrown into the rubbish heap of useless and discarded things! Men then began to think of what
they had just been declaring the unThe Great thinkable—the next war. War, that was to end war, was only to be the prelude of the new war! Scientific Barbarians. And the new war will wipe out civilisation, and, for all that we shall have our motor cars and our wireless and all the rest of our empty trappings of modern life, we shall return to barbarity. We may not eat one another. But we shall slay and destroy one another with a savagely ruthless efficiency. Red Cross conventions and restraints were pretty badly shattered in the last conflict. In the new, they will simply be non-existent, and the side which is the more thorough in savagery will be the victor. It will be warfare from the air, hailing down torturing death and demoniac destruction on the civilian populations. The issue will be fought out ,not so much in the trenches. where the manhood of the country lie huddled in peril of screaming, ripping death, but in the homes of the populace. whete the women and children shrink and tremble for the fate of husband and brother and father and lover. An Immediate Peril. And It is an appalling possibility. yet, to-day, it is something more than a possibility: it is an immediate peril. And the terrible, soul-shattering thing is that men talk of it lightly, as something of earl)' inevitability, as some. thing almost desirable! The spirit which pervades the world to-day is the spirit of utter recklessness, of insanity. Old institutions, long-established tlieorie's of government. law and order, are crashing down in ruins all around them. In their desperation. they do not know where to turn. This -device has been tried and That experibrought only disaster. ment has been adopted, to be followed only by worse calamity. . Hope is dead. Despair has set in Yet the youngest Catholic child, who
has any acquaintance with the Penny Catechism, can define for the the profound statesmen and the learned economists of the world, the meaning of despair. It is a want of trust in God. Let us examine and test and analyse all or any of the evils which afflict mankind in these, our unsettled and desThe simple Catholic perate days. child, son or daughter of the Catholic Church. is ready, where all the philosophers fail, to supply the solution. And while the pundits dispute over terms and contest theories, the solution of the child will be stupendously simple. It lies in a greater and deeper faith. The Only Way. Men's souls to-clay are empty: they are barren. They are so taken up with material things that the spiritual is exeluded. But "man does not live by bread alone." He may try: he is try. ing. But he will never succeed. The new spirit—new, but really as old as the Christian era—which must inspire our relationships and our policies, personal. civic, national and international. must come from within our selves in submission 'fo the teachings and authority of the successor of Peter - the Rock upon which the whole doetune and interpretation of Christian practice is founded. Let us all, in this unhapp- moment of social retrogression and moral laxity cry with the great -English. Catholic convert poet. Alfred Noyes-:"God make us better men '111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111411111111111111111111111111l1
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ATTACK ON ZIONISM
HOLY LAND ARABS. (By Dr. Alexander Mombelli, .Terusalem C orrespondent. N.C.W.C. News Service) Arabs' agitation for an international movement to protect the Holy Land against what they describe as the clangers of the Zionist invasion has reached the point where a general Arab Christian Congress in Jerusalem. has been projected. The Falastin. of Jaffa. has gone so far as to suggest that the Arab political Meetings took place every Sunday leaders seek to have the Frenciscan after Mass. Apologetic and social diffi- Custody of the Holy Places, in its culties encountered in tavern and work- capacity of traditional representative shop were treated and solved. Enthu- of Catholic interests in the Holy Land, siasm grew and with it the numbers take the initiative in organising a modo f the tiny group, to-day reaching 63. ern crusade of the Christian world A library is in the course of formation against Zionism in Palestine. Another step in the ,Arab agitation and Catholic youth organisation in the appearance in Jerusalem of a is profitable a proving are countries other weekly paper called "The Arab Federasubject for study. A month ago there took place the offi- tion." This paper, published in Engcial inauguration of the centre, the Bis- lish. has been launched to make the hop's blessing having been secured. The Alab cause in the Holy Land better , Diocesan. Vicar General was both de- known in Western countries, it is said. lighted and amazed to see 2Q0 Young It is edited by an Arab Christian of men approach the altar rails. Repre- Bethlehem, who is a graduate of an sentatives of the Women's Confrater- American Uniyers:tv. The paper's official programme states nity, also founded by Father Franco. attended the breakfast and concert its aims to be to refute false anti-Arab propaganda. to present to the British which followed. However. this demonstration of the people, in Palestine and abroad, the Church's renewed strength was not al- Arab viewpoint, and to, provide the lowed to. go unchallenged by her ene- Western and Islamic worlds with up-tomies. Crowds of youths congregated date information concerning the Arabs outside the assembly hall and stoned and their cause. It is also stated that the Catholics as.they came out. Only "The Arab Federation" opposes the prompt action by the police prevented Jewish political and economic undertaking and aspirations in Palestine. but serious trouble. Hostility of so undisguised a nature that its opposition to Zionism will is a striking testimonial to the unquali- never be based on either racial or relified success of Father Franco's efforts gions grounds.
TO STEM COMMUNISM IN SPAIN
Puente de Vallecas is a great outlying district of Madrid. Here:Father Emil° Franco. an exemplary priest and staunch apostle of Catholic Action, is carrying out in his far-flung parish of 90,000 souls a gigantic task of winning back to the Church the great working masses who have gone over to the ranks of Socialism and Communism. The success of Father Franco's attempt to provide the working class youth with a meeting place where vital social and religivs questions might be discussed, supplies an outstanding ex ample of what can be done with a little hard work and perseverance. His first and most difficult task was the provision of schools for the work mg class children. With the generous help of private donors splendid buildings were secured But Caand the beginniOs made. tIolic education was not sufficient, for threata serious post-school "leatage"benefits. ened to minimise the positive Father Franco saw the danger. andof a mediatelv undertook the formation men Six young study circle group. were recruited and discussions began university under the "tutorship" of a Sodalitr student from the Jesuit
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