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What Does It Presage? Protestantism Shows Fight in Germany
The question occurs to me whether we may not have been too cocksure as to the moribund condition of the reformed religion, writes 6tanley B. James, in the -Catholic Times.' is possible that the forces of modeIt rn Protestantism have more life left in them than we have imagined. Two things have suggested the question In the first place, it is quite evident that the effort of the "German Christians to impose their ideas on the Evang ' elical minority is proving harde r than was supposed would be the case. It must be remembered that the rs of the revolt against ReichhishnileaciA s NI-Idler stands to lose not only their minis terial status hut also their incom es. Further, if they are finally defeated, they will be stigmatised a-; in Herr Hitler's Germany unpatriotic; equivalent to a sentence ofthis is almost exile. Vet they are facing these possibilities with a firm courage which we cannot but admire. Sacrifices of the kind they are making are sure to kindle and this fervour ma- spiritual fervour, e ffects. One can have far-reaching glimpse he possibility of a powerful tion that will perce evangelical reacptibly check the lociernist advan ce. The shrined in the saying thatprinciple en"the blood bf the martyrs Church" has a is the seed of the wider application than that indica tion of theted by a strict interpreta• words 'martyrs' and 'church.' 1 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111911M1111111110111111111111111
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and America
For the ,ther phenomenon has prompted my question, we look to a different part of the must It has been often noted that :he world. v igour of Puritan America has mora) of late years seriously declined. It w hile now since Waldo Frank is some wrote in "Our America": -Columbus made for energy a channel into a boundless outer world. The .boundless innet world of Christ was shrunken by h;.: passage: and Christ was withered. The Puritan movement was simply a chap ter in the long history of religious de dence."
gained a new lease of life. Should sentially Catholic, both in character he succeed, his success must do much and histor ical origin. to restore self-respect to what has been What will be the upshot of this deemed, and has even deemed itself, movement in the Protestant world? a lost cause. Taking into consideration the fact I What shall we say to these things? have noted—that the elements This: It is not the negative element in inent in the "revival" are derive promd Protestantism which, in these cases, is the Church—it can be argued paradfrom revealing its militancy, but the positive cally that the new life shown in oxielement which derves from the Catho- cases by Protestantism points these to a lic Church. In Germany, the Evan- coming wave of Catholicism. gelicals are standing for the traditional Spring shows itself in foliage before truths of Christrian orthodoxy. They ale defending he integrity of Holy it manifests itself in fruit. What Newman called -the Second Spring" maniScript The seventeenth century Puritsn be- of theure, the super-national character fested itself in a renewed interst in Chris tian Society, the deity of Catho came the twentieth century plutscrat, Our lic ecclesiastical and theological Lord Jesus Chtist and that, it seemed, was the end or. principles functioning in Anglican the story. The descendents of JonaIt is a long time since this section circles. This heralded and prepared than Edwardes and his fellow pioneers, of the non-Catholic world was in so the way for the true Catholic Revival. deprived of their stern Creed, could put pugnacious a mood. It seemed, The attention given by Protestants to up but a poor fight against the mats.- fudging from its English representa- liturgical usages, sacramental pracialism soon rampant in the new cows tives, to have submitted rather tame- tices, and patristic learning bore fruit try. Or at least, so one thought. Even ls to its Modernist adversaries. But ia the great movement which, during in its literary form, as revealed in Car in what we call "Low Church" circles, the last hundred Years. brought so lyle and Emerson, this creedless but fr ere is now, it would appear. a fighting many converts into the Church. morally vocal Puritanism seemed spirit. And the fight is one which To-day Protestants are defending at dead. must kindle our sympathetic interest. great risks essential Catholic dogmas But now appears on the scene Presiand characteristic Catholic social prinCatholic, too, are the dent Roosevelt, a typical member of which President Rooseveltprinciples for ciples. As in the last centu ry. the Cathat New England elite which cherishes Is contending. So far as is so brave- tholic revival has commenced his action at the s the traditions of God-fearing ancestors circumference rather than can be judged at this distan And he is wrestling with the mighty President might be drawing hisce, the tre. among non-Catholics at the cenrather than forces of plutocracy as no man in the tion directly from Pius XI's inspira- among ourselves. The new "QuadSpring alUnited States has ever wrested before. ragesimo Anno.- His uttera ready shows it9e1f in rich leafage. But nces have the fruit is to It is early to prophecy, but _up to echoed the Pope's bold declaration of my interpretaticome. Such, at last, is on of the phenomenon. the present he has, despite every kind war against a dictatorial money-power 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M1111,11111111111111111111111 of attempt to undermine his position. os set forth in that Encyclical. held his own. What is more, as those Puritan America shares with Catho who can recall his inaugural speech lic Italy the interest of all those whoArchbishop will remember, he is doing this in the desire to see moral order restored to Downey Shows the Right name of God. It looks as though in our chaotic civilisation. But we must Way. There was him the religious faith and rno:11 not forget that Puritanism's new life Anglican Bishop's Tribute to Catholic no Church. edness when we room for broadmindstrength of a previous generation had is due to the recrudescence of ideals es had to deal with the essential' princip The les Catho lic Church is a triumph of of Christianity. Truth was efficiency, Bishop Ronald Hall, Anglias Euclid's always narrow, as narrow can Bishop of Hongkong, told the offiPoint to straight line running from point. cers of the Victoria Diocese and MisThe path of error ilCas broad, but sionary Association, in an address delow the narrow we were hidden to follivered at Hongkong, on March 14. path of truth. These After reviewing the work of the AnArchbish points were emphasised by glican mission during the year, the op Downes', THE OG BOA PU ST addressing a largely Bishop drew attention to the work of attend pices of the ed rally under the ausSome time ago (writes K. A. P., in the Catholics: "Their organisation is, Not only the Catho priest lic s, but the Shrewsbury Diocesan Council an overseas contemporary), Bishop An- Catholic laity and the Schismatic as you know, a triumph in efficiency. u.ociety, of the Catholic Young Men e at Stalyb thony Malecki, a native of Poland. who priests and laity are being persecut6d, It is secured by the strong central conridge. trol organised in Rome, and by the What was deported from Leningrad, com- and in this the Ogpu has overreached magnifi cent discipline and self-sacrifice W religionpassed for broadmindedness itself. Many of the Schismatic clergy pleted his period of exile in Siberia. He have run away terror-strick of the various Brotherhoods, of which en, with tli wa,s often to-dav, said the ArchbishoP, merely was anxious to get back to his orphan- result that their flocks are leaning to- perhaps the Jesuits and the FrancisOf intellect, failurehopeless nebulosity straight wards the Catholic Church. ed flock, but the Soviet authorities to think in Other cans are the hest known. Their effia ciples line, even where first prinstopped him at Irkutck, and he is still Schismatic priests have expressed their ciency also secured by the high ideal were willingness to submit to the Holy See. of celibacy, which is required of all concerned. in Siberia. „ There priests, and of those women who give think t 'ere those who seemed This tendency towards the Church themselves to the work to hat of the Churc Itntg Was the whole of Christ's teachDuring the past few months, the fol- is being helped by the use of the Orien- in Sisterhoods. No one who lives h comprised in the Eight for ; des, Rite, tal which Beati the Ogpu is. therefore, long in Hongkong can fail to be imThey hold it rt lowing priests have been arrested and e to be a making matte despe a r cufference as to imprisoned:—Father Jorlokas, of Ufa; as they believe rate effort to suppress pressed by the significance of this 11,1e_ved so long what a man that it will succeed In world-wide Christian movement, as he is good—goo he in Father Slachman, of Kieff: Fathers bringing millions of Schismatics jig aR he d into which French, English. Italians, Irish. t ue ice kept out of the hands as Szubert and liii, of Odessa: Father the Church. of American, Portuguese, and so on. can Nit Gavenbeller, of Eichwald, and Father act'mns Women who have been received into all share Sunday by Sunday in the Kun, of Alexandrowsk. Thotjves derived their value from did which the the Church under the Oriental Rite, are same worship. because an international actions themselves language is used in worship and in inSUpp The Ogpu boast that they have clearparticu larly heroic in ed their vast territory of all religion, Faith, and they share defence of the struction for priests. tisn or Were .set These motives for a To those who the forth in the revela that in the whore of Siberia there is persecution with the priest honours- of complain that our Church of England rga tis Jesus ,Ch-ist. final, s, rmili fi 1 definite. doq who pen• selatio organ isation is not one Catholic priest apart from sist in remaining at n. Here the posts. Many son, I would second-rate in comparithere was no than 4_1' broa those in prison, and that in Turkestan of these women, includ ask this question: "Are ing at least one dmind ednes s any more You prepared to pay the price of the and Ural the only Catholic priest at girl of sixteeen. have Driscive"_ilealing been arrest with ed and the establishel large is Father Budrys, whom 9 any they have undergone such tortures in prison discipline enforced with such tremenscience dous heroism and devotion in the have not vet been able to capture. that they have been driven insane. Roman Church?"—Fides
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