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A merica's Radio Priest in London Insistence on Two Great Truths t. t.1111! Vt th all ou: power the Holy Ghost. the Father of the poor, so that IT HE Radio Priest, may inform the mystical tio. Father Coughlin, of the Shrine with His divine life. of the Little Flower. Detroit. -For Catholicism is not so— U.S.A.. was in England in Septhing quiescent. pasive; it tember for a rest. Ile did not .supernatural life. it should r, impress as a fierce publicist. but vatic not only all our thougl is a quiet and zealous priest. but all our actions, individual and In a long interview he lamentsocial. ed the fact that, with all the new "If we accept that—and act inventions—means provided by upon it—social justice is not a God to lighten the curse of matter for argument. It Adam and give us plentiful leisomething we owe to Our Lord's sure—we had not shown ourselmystical body, and in the estabves wise in the use of the malishment of which we shall he in.-hines, or in the use of the leispired by the Holy Ghost." -tire. Father Coughlin has been an If people have more and more outstanding world figure in his leisure, how arc they likely to fight for the rights of the workAt the best in sports use it? ing-man and in his courageous Few arc likely to and hiking. attempt to translate the social use it for spiritual purposes The principles of the great Encycliharvest of the machine has been cals into practical concrete terms accompanied by a dearth of the )f action. a t present in a campaign to prevent spirit. by an ignoring of the Christians Father Coughlin is at presenl in America from supporting Holy Ghost. engaged in a campaign to preGreat Truths Ignored vent Christians in America Trom xxXXS:13gralit1XXXVI. "There are two Catholic facts supporting John Lewis's Comthat nowadays we tend to ignore. ermsne:s. He punished sinners. mittee of Industrial OrganisaThe one is the mystical body of He subdued the enemies of His tion, the movement which seeks to unify American Labour, not Our Lord. The other is the ac- people. "Then, with the Incarnation, only for an economic fight againtive sustaining presence of the bm,-an the reign of God the Son. st employers. but, as is generalHoly Ghost. " We should soon agree about It has lasted until now. But I ly believed, for political action. social justice if we realised that think that we Catholics do not Shrewd investigators expect we are all members of .arist's as a rule pay homage to the that Lewis and his movement mystical body. He is the heart Third Person of the Blessed Trin- will play a vital part in the next Ghost—whose Presidential election. and brain, the eyes and ears and ity—the Holy lips of it. but all of us are the gifts we need so sorely to-day. Open Letter to Clergy. Yes, of course. we members. "So I pray that we Catholics In a long open letter to AmBut do we realise may be continually aware of the erican ecclesiastics. Father Cou',-now that. .••• blinding reality of the mystical ghlin stated that in conversation you. body, of the blessed and terrible w ith some of his fellow clergystrike I that if "Realise njure you, defraud von. I am r esponsibility that each one of us men be had heard it said that smiting the body of Our Lord? I bears to all the others: and that the C.I.O. was the only laboti. wvanisation doing anything for think that we have all done ill through forgetting that. the working-man. Why not "And we must remember at the then get back of it and help it? same time that, just as Our Lord In answer to this, Father is the heart and head. eves, ears Coughlin stated that it was the business of Christians to support and lips of the mystical body. so only those organisations which the ink Ghost is the soul of it. ivere in perfect harmony with "Our Lord has promised to be with us till the end of the earth. the best thought of Christ's Vicar hut not to be everywhere on the on earth and refrain from sup There earth at the same time. porting those other organisaare districts in Africa where once tions which His Holiness directthe Church was strong, and ly or indirectly challenges either which are now given over to the for the4 actua; unsoundness or heathen. If our devotion to the 'or their potential and inherew Holy Ghost is not constant and Nveaknesses." intense there will be no life in In the body of his letter, the famous speaker argued forcibly those members of the mystical body. that the C.T.O. was evolving into The Holy Ghost. political party which already "Before the coming of Our hag a political slate set up in Lord, it was God the Father who Precirlent JOHN I LEWIS Michigan. that Lewis himse' ' of the coir,rnittee was worshipped: the Trinity is tria: Organi,ation, is expectedof toIndusfor 5 tating play was the authority very seldom alluded to. God the a vital part in the next Presidential that Moscow sent 1.11n.fir dolElection. Father revealed the way of right(Continued on Rack Cover.)
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