The Record Newspaper 15 February 1940

Among the poignant anxieties that weigh upon Our mind owing to the raging of a war which We tried by every means though in vain, to avert, We are in a special way affected by the painful situation which has foreibly and suddenly removed you, be oved priests and clerics, far from your ti Id of work for souls or from the [uiet of your studies and set you down in a new wrld of camp and battles

N t accustomed to th life that vou new lead, you are suddenly put to erve in barrcks, in hospitals, in firstaid station: and even in the firing-line itelf- some of you as chaplains,

WHY DOES GOD ALLOW THIS WAR?

German Cardinal Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, answers this question on Page 21

others (and these the majority) tu perform tasks far different from those to which your vocation has called you, Eforts Are Precious

The Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains follow you in your present life with vigilance and care; and We are reassured of their immediate and paternal assistance because of a splendid organiastion untiring, energetic, alert and prudent Their efforts are precious in every way and not least in the acrifices they involve; and inspired as they are with a very deep sense of duty, are crowned in every country with the greatest success It is Our wish, while We bring their work to your notice and assure you of the confidence We place in it, to recommend it at the same time to your gratitude and to that spirit of willing docility on your part that is a necessary condition for it to be effective

Moreover, that you may not be without those spiritual helps that you have need of, both for yourselves and for your work for souls, it is Our inten tion to grant to all the Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains of those nations or districts where the state of war or mobilisation now exists or shall come to exist-without prejudice to the ordinary powers already 'granted-new and ·xtraordin ry powers that will be an ndication to you of the loving care with which We, in Our paternal solicitude follow vou in vour difficulties and trials

But the task of active assistance confided by Us to the Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains does not dispense Us from approaching you directly to open to you Our mind and to exhort vou, in the extraordinary circumstances in which you are placed, to give attentive consideration to the duties imposed on you by your new conditions of life, that you may fulfil them without reserve in the spirit of vour vocation

Counsels Same Spirit

However you may have changed vour dress, the spirit that is in you should not be changed This should go with you in the midst of arms no hood He who to-day permits that less than in the exercise of your priest-

Following is the full text of th% I

Apstolic Exhortation of Pope I

Pius XII addressed to priests and clerics who have been i called upon to serve in the arm ■ mi ed forces of nations

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you be far from your accustomed habits of study and work is the same heavenly Father Who called you to the altar, He called you, remember, not to make of you simply and solely ministers of liturgical worshipthe Catholic priesthood is not limited to this alone-but to have in you, as well, ministers of the Word propagators of the Gospel, living representatives of His Christ, t bear a knowledge of Him to all excite in all the desire for Him, and in all kindle love of Him Yours is the plan and aim of St Paul, who boasted of not knowing anvone else. nor of carrying anything els Continued on Page 7 )

ST TERESA YOUR MODEL" THE POPE TELLS HIS SOLDIERS

e would like to suggest that you take as vour model the lovable St Teresa of Lisieux who in the little sacrist of the Carmel, put all her love in keepng spotless and ever more shining th sacred vessels which were to contain the verv holv body ofChrist,'' the H ly Father told the ficers of the Vatican Army when they presented him with their New Year wishes

You, guardians of the person and guardians of the honour of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, you, too, will preserve and make ever more brilliant your own purity of heart and that depth of soul which are the most beautiful of vour titles so that you may pass on an even more glorious nheritance to your descendants

The steel shining in your hands should svmbolise above all the ardour and strength of your faith," said His Holiness, and he quoted the saying of St Thomas a Becket, "Non est Dei ecclesia custodienda more castrorum" "It is not customary to keep the Church of God as a military camp" Their mission is not only to keep good watch, but also to be exemplars of light and of decorum, the Pope added a s a a mm nm n ?

IA naturalst was walking in the veldt when he noticed a rare snake about to go into its hole Having no weapons with which to trap the reptile, he deeided that the best course would be to catch it bv its tail each time it entered the hole and throw it as far as he could, hoping by this means to tire out the snake and thus make the capture easier

As the snake approached its hole for the seventeenth time, it stopped and appeared to think, then turned right round and entered backwards

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The village warden was going his round when he saw a light from a back bedroom window showing through a corner of a curtain

He knocked and said: "Please put out your light; it shows all your garden up."

Out went the light About a quarter of an hour later the same warden knicked again aying: "Please put on your light I can't find my way out of your garden"

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An old lady of the village was very angry because she had not been invited to an outing her friends had arranged On the morning of the event the hostess relented and asked her to come It's too late," she snapped "Ive already prayed for rain,"

k k k Private Smith was in trouble again Called before the commanding officer, he was accused of insulting the sergeant-major

"What's your excuse this time?" be was asked I didn't mean to insult him sir" replied Smiith "AII I said was that if looks could kill he ought to be careful with the mirror when he shaves himself."

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The air-raid warden was doing his round when he noticed a blaze of light through a half-open door Looking in, he saw an old lady fondling a cat "Lights!" he called "Yes, please," the old lady answered "Three-pennyworth"

s # A motorist, who had a fifty-gallon tank of petrol in reserve when rationing was introduced, consulted a friend as to what to do about it

'Bury it, my dear fellow," was'the reply Accordingly, he gave his gardener instructions next day to dig a hole for it in a secluded spot After a time the gardener returned 'I've buried the petrol," he said "What do vou want done with the tank!"

k i k k Two revellers approached a railway booking office window One was carrying his friend in his arms The weight caused him to stagger 'Two tickets to Manchester,'' he said The clerk studied the money that was handed to him, "Wait a minute," he said "You only gave me the price of one ticket How about your friend?'

The first man looked fondly at the fellow he was carrying in his arms "He's only a baby, mister,"' he explained 'Only four years old'

The astounded clerk took a second look 'Four years old, my eye!" he cried "Why, this fellow you're carrying is over six feet tall, weighs about fourteen stoneand has a beard as thick as a mattress!" The ticket-buyer dropped his burden unceremoniously "You idiot!" he howled at his pal "T told you to shave!'

k k k k A man and his wife, out for a walk, called at a public house for a drink

The husband asked for a pint, and the wife had a cocktail When they were served the woman asked the barman for a cherry for her drink, but he didn't understand and fetched the manager, who supplied one Upon which the barman exclaimed to the husband: 'What would you like in vour pinta toffee-apple?"

The young man had just proposed to the most beautiful girl in the world She had accepted him, and now he stepped into a jeweller's to buy an engagement ring He examined various rings, and finally picked up a beautiful diamond affair that suited his fancy

What's the price of this?" he inquired

That," replied the assistant, "is £350"

The young man's eyes popped, He whistled loudly and longthen pointed to a second ring

'And this one?" he asked

This one, sir,' said the assistant, eyeing the price-tag, "is two whistles!"

k k k k determined-looking woman was having trouble in finding a seat in the train when a porter approached Here, mum," he suggested, its too full here Come with me and III fix you up in iront of the train.'

"Indeed you won't,' she exclaimed, indignantly "I'm no mascot!"

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She was an old Irishwoman on her way back to Dublin from the North The customs man fished out a bottle from its temporary sanctuary in a voluminous nightdress

1And what's this?'' he demanded

"Shure, an' it's holy water," said the woman, clutching for it The customs man had his suspicions; pulled out the cork: sniffed

"This is whisky," he said, sternly

Up went the old woman's hands in amazement

"Glory be! A miracle!"

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'I wish you'd overlook it this time, constable,'' pleaded the motorist who'd been pulled up for speeding "As a matter of fact I was dashing up to town in a bit of a hurry I never drive fast, as a rule, but I've got to see my solicitor on very urgent business''

That's all right, sir,' was the soothing reply 'Now you'll have some more news for him''

k The man in the dock was small and harmless-looking while his wife was just as muscular The magistrate looked from one to the other; then he asked:

'But whaterinduced you to strike your wife?"

"Well sir" was the faltering reply, "she had her back to me, the broom was handy, and the back door open. So I thought Id take a chance."

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"Why are you carrying that brick about?"

"I'm trying to sell my house and this is a sample."

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Jock happened to meet his friend

Sandy coming out of an empty house with a steaming kettleful of water in his hand

Mon ' he exclaimed, "I thocht ye eft that house yesterday'

"That's richt,' replied Sandy "We removed last night, but the penny in the gas wisna' done, so I've just been bilin' up a kettle"

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"Man overboard!' came the cry of dread Instantly all was commotion Boats were lowered and a search was made in vain Then the roll was called and the mystery deepened All were present and correct,"

At last a very scared-looking AB approached the officer of the watch

T think sir as 'ow the man overboard must ha' been me," he said "I went over, but I managed to grab the anchor chain and climbed in again"

Then why didn't you report to me at once?"

"I would ha' done, sir, but being in one of the lifeboat's crews, I had to go away to look for a man overboard"

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Looking at his reflection in the mirror the undersized man was studying the overcoat his wife had bought him

"You know, dear,'' he said, hesitatingly, "this is quite a nice coat The material's good and so's the cut But er don't vou think it's a little on the large side for me?"

'I know, Arthur," replied the lady; "but we can't help that You must remember that it has also to cover the radiator of the car n cold weather

We have to consider that, haven't we?"

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' 'Ere," protested the private, "who spread the butter on this ere bread?"

"I did-and what abaht t?'' growled a burly corporal aggressively

The private subsided "That's orl right chum,' he murmured "What I wants to know iswhos the bloke what scraped it orf again?"

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Teachers' College Dogmas

Seeker, Newcastle:

In dealing with remarks by the lecturers at the Teachers' College, with which you violently disagreed, you upheld the idea that religioustruthmustbeaccepted on authority

Firstly, I do not think there was anything very violent in my treatment of the assertions of the lecturers at the Teachers' College I did speak strongly against certain of their utterances And my comments were justified One lecturer said that where religion is most strongly practised, there crime is most prevalent Another claimed that the fear of God breeds deliquency anl crime; and insisted that more lelinquents come from strict schools than from others-and chiefly from convent schools!

Another lecturer calmly told the students that children should be given no moral training, and that moral training is definitely evil I maintain that a protest against such principles being taught to the future teachersin the schools of this country was more than justified, and that the Depart ment of Education has a grave responsibility to prevent such dangerous teaching from being given in its name But let us turn to your own problem

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A man doesnotdiscovertruthby authority He discovers itby research, analysis, and experiment

A man can obtain the truth, ither by personal discovery, o1 by being to!d it by others who already know the truth In the latter case he attains knowledge by authority Now when God reveals the truth through Christ we have no option but to believe t The alternative is to accuse God of ignorance or of a want of truthfulness Either is an insult to God We therefore acknowedging His authority, accept wha' He says by faith From the very nature of things one must submit to tle authoritv of God, or he will learn nothing much about God, or man's destiny inthe light ofGod. The attit de of those who refuse to do this is rather ridiculous The very foundation of their own education came to them bv authority They went to school, and accepted an immense amount of truth in natural things on the authority of their teachers They built on that knowledge. and dis 2 + covered further things for themselves Can you imagine aperSon deciding to take up the study ot chemistry, yet completely ighormng all that former chemists have discovered on the subject! aith in the authority of experts

s a perfectly valid source of knowledge And religion, with ts demand for faith, is based on that principle Those who won't submit to any authoritv in relig1on demand a licence in respect o that subjectwhich they do not ask in any other feld f knowledge

Forbidden Books

You also admitted that the Catholic Church has an Index of Prohibited Books, forbidding Catholicstoreadcertainbooks

That is true The books forbidden are those which are written in order to attack the Christian religion and the Catholic Church, and which are therefore opposed to the faith of a Catholic, and all books which are obscene filthy, and immoral Is that the Catholic contribution to science?

No But it is a scientific con tribution towards the preservation of the faith and morals ofCatholics, the two most important of all things to be preserved. The contributions of Catholics to science isanother matter altogether And their contributions are legion I could give you a staggering list of Catholics who have more than demonstrated that Catholic Faith and the scientific temperament go hand in hand Would any truly reasonable person everdream ofimposing an Index of forbidden books on others?

Only the unreasonable would refuse to do so Wise parents regulate the reading of their children All intelligent men would wish to prevent the diffusion of ideas they consider useless, wrong and harmful Even those who object to the idea of the Catholic prohibition of certain books would like to prohibit books advocating such restrictions There come to my mind some remark able words of A C Benson, a non-Catholic, in his book, "The Thread of Gold" Speaking of Milton's "Paradise Lost." he says that he read it with anger and indignation Milton, he says, gives a wicked and abominable notion of God, and he declares his conviction that the book has done a great deal of harm Then he adds: "I would no more allow an intelligent child to read it than I would allow him to read an obscene book The hateful materialism of the whole thing is patent I wish that the English Church could have an Index and put "Paradise Lost" upon it, and allow no one to read it until he had reached years of discretion, and then only with a certificate and for purely literary purposes" Reasonable people therefore certainly agree with the principle of forbidden books k k k #k Escape by Determinism

You also attacked determinism, and the newpsychology I did Determinism, or the denialof free will, is aby-productof materialism; and for once I am nclined to agree with Voltaire, who said that materialism is the most enormous of all absurdir ties, and the most revolting folly which has ever entered into the human mind In the driftage from virtue and obedience to God's laws men wanted a philosophy which would deliver them from the uncomfortable sense of sin or interior guilt So they denied free will and moral responsibility

BY REV. DR. RUMBLE«.

altogether So the determinist philosopherscameforward with a variety of explanations to comfortpeoplewhen things go wrong You can blame environment heredity, or that poor old scapegoat-the subconscious In fact, you can blame almost anything except yourself The popularity of psycho-analysis is based on the same motive Thev are all,more or less, escapist subterfuges to get away from the uncomfortable thought of human responsibility Is there any definite proof that determinism is wrong?

Anglicans and Rome

FM, Caulfield, Vic:

Would youpleasecomment upon the enclosed article from the Melbourne "Age"?

It is a review of the Rev. Farnham Mavnard's booklet on the Church of England with which I dealt recently when I analvsed the comments of the "Argus"

The "Age' review is of interest chiefly because of its references to the nonconformist churches, and the question of reunion And this last question is a formidable problem indeed. I will go through the article you send, cov ering the first section very briefly

TheRev Farnham Maynardhas written a vigorous treatise in support of the claim of the ChurchofEnglandtobeapart ofthe CatholicChurchfounded by Jesus Christ

The Rev Mr Maynard belongs to the High Church section of the Church oi England But the High Church claim cannot stand the testof historv There is no doubt that, at the time of the Reformation England broke away from the Catholic Church every bit as much as, in the national sphere America broke away from England by ts declaration of in-

dependence in 1776 And the Church of England could not break away from the Catholic Church, yet still belong to it

The author, who has evidently: made a serious study of his subject, declares that by the 11th centurythePopeofRome wasclaiminguniversal jurisdiction

A still more serious studv of the subject will show that the Pope claimed universal jurisdiction during all the centuries preceding the lHth. century, and moreover that itwasacknowledged by all Englishmen for 1,000 years prior to the Reformation, when for the first time in that country, it was denied

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TheProtestant Revolt

In the 15th century the corruption of the Roman Court and theexactions of thePapacybecamesoscandalousthatagreat revolt took place inthe following century,andthe Church of England set itself free from Papaldomination I have no wish to denv or even to palliate the disedifying lives of many of the Catholic clergy and

The proofs of freedom of will prove determinism wrong, and those proofs are from considerations both intrinsic and extrinsic to man from the philosophical point of view; whilst from the religious point of view, freedom of thehuman will is a fact revealed by God The Christian who denies free will denies his Christian religion I cannot spare more time onthis subject now But, ii you desire it, Iwill amplify these last points for you in future replies e

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Bishops, and even of some F'opes prior to the Protestant Reforma tion But whilst these things clamoured for reform, they did not justify revolt and the establishing of new churches, as Lutheranism in Germany, Calvinism in Switzerland, Anglicanism in England, Presbyterianism in Scotland, etc Also I must point out that, when Henry VIII Droke with Rome, compelling the English Parliament to substitute his own supremacy for that of the Pope, it was his own personal corruption that instigated the move For he wished to get rid of his lawful wife Catherine, in order to marry Anne Boleyn The Pope refused to grant the divorce; whereupon Henry left the Catholic Church, and set up his own Church by law established in England That was in 1534 Mr Maynard's conclusion is that, if England was right, the Church of England is no new Church, but still a part of the Catholic Church founded by Christ at Pentecost England, as such, had no clear notion of what was happening and no say in it Henry VIII , as absolute monarch, decided to break with the Catholic Church for his own purposes And he imposed his will upon all, sending to the block those who opposed him even men like St Thomas More His conduct in thus leavne the Catholic Church was not ri@ht and the Church over which >' • he presided was a new Church, no longer part of the Catholic Church

The author has done his Church good service by publishing this excellent summary of its history and triumphs He has shown himself to be familiar with research work and com petent in weighing evidence The extraordinary thing is that, after paying such a tribute to Mr Mavnard's booklet on the continuity of Anglicanism, the reviewer himself is not convinced by it

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exists in the Catholic and the Greek Churches Anglicans admit it, but do not possess it Nonconformists neither admit it, nor possess it

Mr Maynard's able apologia will confirm the faith of members of the Church of England

The real test is as to whether it will be able to convince others It has certainly left the reviewer unconvinced

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On the other hand it will be said that every other Church makes a similar claim to be part of the true Church High Church Anglicans will not for a moment agree that their claim is to be ranked with the claims of Nonconformists; nor do thev admit those claims They word their claim differently, and are not interested in the question of continuity Continuitv of succession from the Apostles is essential for the transmission of their power and authoritv in the Church It is because High Church Anglicans realise that that thev are so anxious to hold that the Church of England never lost its continuit 'And they reject those Nonconformist Churches which deny the need of continuity, even as the Catholic Church rejects Ang!icanism

Some of them insist that the important issue is whether any Church reproduces the teaching of Christ and His Apostles Not belonging to the Catholic Church which does these things t is not surprising that they are n doubt as to the truth of any Church

They insist that the New Testament knows nothing of an official priesthood That is another essential point on which thev are mistaken, as Catholics Greek Orthodox, and Anglicans agree, whatever their own differences That a Christian priesthood distinct from the laitv was established by Christ is most clearlv indicated in the New Testament That priesthood still

Christian thought at present moves in the direction of the union of the Churches.

In other words nonCatholics are beginning to deplore the divisions that resulted from the disruptive forces of the Protestant Reformation The Anglican Dr. Goudge, Regius Professor of Diinity at Oxford, has recently published a book on reurion declaring it to be absolutely necessary He says, and rightly, that divisions are inexcusable, and those responsible for separation from the one Church violated New Testament principles "In the New Testament,' he writes, "believers in Christ who are not members of the one visible apostolic Church are nowhere to be found The churches" of which we real there are verv different from "The Churches" of which we hear t dav The relations of the Chu:ches to the Church were like that oflocal post-offices to the P O There is only one post-office, with local representatives in every city and town In dealing with the local office we deal with the Department itself " In that description of the New Testament Church, Dr Goudge has described the exact position of the Catholic Church onlv She is one Church throughout the world one in faith, worship, and discip line In dealing with a Catholic priest in London or New York Rome, or Paris, Hong Kong or Sydney, you are dealing simply with the one visible Catholic Church And since she alone conforms to New Testament requirements, the only road to re union is to forsake separated Churches and return to that Catholic Church of the ages from which division was never justified.

One Hope Only

Mr Maynard's book makes a contribution to reunion in so far as it stresses the authority: of Scripture Rome, of course, insists on the authority of Sacred Scripture And no union with her would be possible without the admission of that But the reviewer of the book himself perceives an obstacle to reunion in Mr Mavnard's insistence on other matters which divide him from nonconformity; and from the Catholic viewpoint, Mr Maynard's very effort to justify the Church of England's continued independence of Rome tends to make unity more remote than ever The one real hope of ultimate unity is that those separated from Rome will graduallv come to see that their duty is to return to the original Catholic Church. And, needless to say, that is a hope that gives no prospect of mmediate realisa tion We can but continue our patient explanations, and our prayers that in God's good time there shall be indeed one fold and one shepherd-the Catholic Church embracing all who believe in Christ

Proposed New Education Law in Mexico

Sectarian and Partisan 1n MONOPOLY BY THE STATE

The monopoly of education by the State is a "most sinister scheme for bringing about the disintegration of Mexican society and the ruin of our nationality in the making," Don Manuel Gomez Morin, president of the National Action party and former rector of the National Autonomous University, declared in his statement commenting on the changes in the Education Law proposed by President Lazaro Cardenas

Article 56 provides the same penalty oftwoto twelve months' imprisonment for the director or directors of a private school, and Mexicc City

The proposed law, it is reported by responsible persons, was drafted by Otto Ruehle, a foreigner, whose origin-Russian or German-is still a matter of uncertainty here

The entire nation, unequivocally, has protested against this monopoly and against theabsurdlv sectarian and partisan character " Dr Gomez added, "but those who claim to be the representatives of the nation persist in their plan, and, after having made against the expressed wish of the people, a shameful amendment to Article 3 of the Constitution, now seek to give a new legal aspect to the concrete application o1 the nfamous concepts that inspired this reform '

Nothing that has happened i recent years in Mexico ha aroused such widespread indignation as the proposed lw What s particularly feared is that once this law i rushed through y Cardenas practically at the end of his administration, it will b difficult t have the law repealed or amended later, no matter whe happens to be the Chief Executive

As m details regarding the proposed law become known, dis satisfaction increases The la is a twofold menace, tightening the nooses about the necks of a people already gasping for freedom of religion and academic freedom

There s an old Spanish saying that "What sn't in t!e will s n the codicil" Article 3 of the Constitution, as amended in 1934 makes "Socialist" education obligatory in private as well as public schools, but no one ever went on record as defining the term specifically, and such comments as were made revealed widedifferencesofopinion among theauthorities asto whatactually constituted "Socialist" educa tion

Article 47 of the proposed la not onlv orders that curricula, school programmes, methods of education, calendar, systems ol qualification, text books, hygiene medical serviceandinternal managementof bothprivateand publieschoolsshall be formulated by theMinistrv of Public Education, but provides that the Ministry shall modify these whenever it deems it pertinent

Furthermore, Article 55 provides that private schools that function without the authorisetion of the Ministrv of Public Education and give religious instruction, or violate the law in any similar fashion,shallbe closed; all their property and equipment shall become the property of the State, the proprietor and director or directors shall be sentenced to from two to twelve

months in prison, and the teachers shall be liable to as much as six months' detention

APOSTLE OF SOUTH AFRICAN COLOURED CATHOLIC PASSES

The death on October 14th of the Most Rev Odilon Fages, OSFS, Vicar Apostolic of the Orange River Vicariate, deprived the Union of South Africa of a FrenchPrelatewhohas donepioneer work particularly among that section of the population that is of mixed European and African blood

devoted particular attention to the cause that was always close to his heart, thatoffosteringcoloured vocations and promoting the training of coloured Cath c school teachers The strain of incessant labour had, however, undermined his naturally robust constitution For the past twelve months his condition of health has caused anxiety Early in October a stroke left him without the use of speech, after which he began to sink rapidly, passing away at Keimoes, the fine Mission which is his creation

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confiscation of its property, if a religous corporation or corporations, a minister or ministers of any religion, orany sortofenterpriseor society directly or indirectly affiliated with the propagation of a religious creed has anv connection whatsoever wit!l the school

Article 57 provides increase penalties if the school prior to such "violation" of the law. has received official authorisation: an! Article 58 stipulates a fine of 500 pesos f anything is added t the plans programmes and 1 t hodsoftheschoolasapproved by the Ministry of Public Education

The monopoly of education," Dr Gomez said "is contrarv to human dignitv and violates the functions and essential! prerogatives of the familv It directlv damages the national interest in that it reduces educative possibilities by rendering fruitful private initiative impossible It tends fundamentally., to destrov all future possibilities of conscientious opinion, and those who favour it are doing so solely for the purpose of assurmg the perpetuation ofa regimen that could not exist were consciences free and enlightened

'The sectarianism of this monopoly is rrational and goes againstthe very natureof science and knowledge It ruptures the unitv of the nation and subverts the social order Its confessed objectives are a stupid amalgamation of primary social philosophy nebulous economic doctrines, and openly-directed attempts to deprive education of the moral and intellectual values that make possible the wellrounded development of the person and a civilised and free coexistence"

Mexico City

The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of Mexico, was honoured with greater fervour and by greater crods than ever this year

Archbishop Martinez of Mexico offered Solemn Mass in the Cathedral here in the presence of representatives of all orders and congregations in the country and members of the diplomatic corps

Mexico's illustrated weekl, 'Hoy issued a special Guadalupe edition,

A lad of 16 when he first cameto South Africa Odilon Fa@es was ordained a priest in 1899 at Matjieskloof His first sphere of labourwasatNababeep, the busy centre of the Namaqualand copper ndustry Here he soon won the heartsof the coloured miners and the influential European officials Within a few vears thanks to his unflagging efforts, Nababeep became one of the most flourishing missions in the Vicariate In 1909 thehard-working priest was transferred to a new section of the hinterland of South-West Africa Irrigation schemes along the upper reaches of the Orange River had attracted many white farmers and in their wake followed numbers of coloured labourers When Father Fages reached his new mission of Keimes he found onlv a ver primitive shelter in the midst of wide stretches of uncultivated land covered with bushes and rocks and only 12 Catholics In due course Keimoes became unler his guidance the queen of the Missions in the Vicariate materially as well as spiritually Father Fages was raised to the episcopate in 1928, as Coadjutor with right of succession to the then Vicar Apostolic, Bishop John M Simon O S F S He succeededthe latter in 1932 Duringtheseven vears that he ruled the Orange River Vicariate he

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I would rather the children were killed by the bombs than they should lose their souls" he declared I dislike with all mv heart this evacuation of the children I cannot bear the breaking up of the homes

"Family life is dying out Tc-day, when the Church puts before us the Feast of the Holy Family, we must pray earnestly for an end of evacuation"

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The Curse of the Moderns

LIFE'S MEANING AND PURPOSE LOST

The bewilderment of the contemporary mind groping blindfold after some ultimate belief upon which it can support its own highest values or reasonably sustain even its most necessary codes of right and wrong, is illustrated by the disaster in the world around us

A great change is working throughout civilisation, and none can foresee the outcome There are vast forces moving, not upon the face of the deep, but below the surface, out of sight; and neither men nor nations can tell whither we are all drifting

"Drifting" is the word, for an ultimate goal and purpose in our lives areno longerbelieved to be discernible by the human intellect

The task of keeping afloat a partially wrecked hulk has so engaged the greater part of the population that we have come to look upon the steering-gear as a relic of a superstitious age It s not merely that the gear itself seems to be outworn There is no fixed star, no invariable compass, and no ultimate end at which to aim

The authority of conscience, which philosophers were preparcd to reverence f it might be called the "categorical mperative," has lost its weight for a great part of the contemporary world Together with all the deeper human afections (which also present a blank countenance to the merely scientific investigator of their reality) it has been analysed

The result is exactly what we should expect of our best friend if we made an analytical inquiry into either his friendship or his personal honesty We have lost a light n his eyesa perfectly natural light-which, curiouslv enough, escaped the apparatus of our criticism; and we are now trying to console ourselves for thie loss y remarking that n any case his friendship was an idle sentiment; his affection probably bestial in origin; and his honesty a useful but merely romantic observance of outworn and discredited taboos

There have been former ages in which signs less vivid, though of precisely the same character, have announced that a civilisation was dying Even among the lights and music of the modern cities there must be few who are not sometimes haunted bv the feeling that Baltassar is once more the ruler of the feast, and certainly no thoughtful mind can lightly dismiss the many ominous indications that the long prophesied Decline of the West" has already begun

The signs are glaringly reflected wherever art and literature hold up a mirror to the surrounding chaos; and yet there s one remarkable difference between the evils that broke loose and destroyed nations in former ages and the evils that seem to threaten our own; there has been no age, hitherto, in which thse evils were so largely the result of its own achievement, in z great many directions, of a partial good

We have evolved a race of specialists, each working along his own narrowing line, each developing a language of his own, and each diverging further and further from that central point of view which once enabled us

firom the lost height of a great historic religion) to "see life steadily and see it whole "

With the very best intentions, andinamostorderlyandscientific manner, wehave built an immense Tower of Babel, and we have been gradually overcome by the ancient penalty-a confusion oftongues

In this confusion, the most vital concerns of our life, 'ts our pose, its meaning, the great ives of our destiny, and even the aroe and comparatively simple results of the long struggle for knowledge, have been obscured by masses of analvtical detail

Literature and art in the confusion of all their standards, show plainly that it is as difficult for them to reintegrate their intellectual vision as it is for the physicist to bring flowers and electrons into a single field of view, or for the philosopher to form a picture of the City of God from the statistics of savants who nave devoted themselves to examining, with exquisite prectsion, the atomic structure of hundred stones in its outer walls

The need of the world to-dav is a religious need Consciously or unconsciously, all our thought, our art, our literature are impoverished by the lack, outside the Catholic Church, of any po-tive and fundamental belief with which they can confront, on equal terms, the vast universe openel up to them bv modern science, and feel as other ages felt, the throb of a definite purpose in human life

JESUITS' FOURTH CENTENARY

This year 1940 is a memorable one for the Society of Jesus and its scattered members in the world It was n 1540 that Paul III approved the first formula of its Institute in the Bull, "Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae' Among the many favours that have blessed the Society during its four hundred years' existence, two may be recalled as especially dear to every member on the occasion of its fourth centenary as well as particularly relative to our own country The Society, like other religious bodies, is divided into regional Provinces grouped at pre sent under eight Assistancies Th total for the Society as it enters its centenary year is 25,954 Slightly better than one-fifth of this total, 5,440, is ineluded in the American Assistancy, which with the greater part of the English Assistancy comprehends to-day one-third of the entire membership of the Society There are 4315 in the English Assistaney, but of this number 2,678 belong to the two Belgian Provinces The second noteworthv feature of the fourth centenary year is the 165 Saints and Beat on the Society's list of martyrs and confessors Of that number twenty-four are enrolled among the Saints, having reached tbe last step in the Church's honour roll of distinguished service Of the atter eight shed their blood in North America, three of them within the United States The last beatified, Blessed Joseph Pignatelli the only one who lived in the nineteenth century, was a ink between the old and the restored Societv

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Pius To Pope

Message XII's

Priests and Clerics AT THE FRONT

(Continued from Page 1 )

to the nations, but Christ and Him crucified Christ he carried by his life not less than by his word in every place, in every circumstance, in private and in public, under the free winds of heaven as in the bondage of chains, and so, from that very prison where he received all who came to him and freely preached the kingdomof God, he could write to the Philippians: "Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things that have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the Gospel!"

(Philip 1, 12)

To-day God has permitted that you leave your ordinary occupations and come into contact with men of every type, differing widely in their education, their way of life, their culture, their faith; men often far from God ignorant of Jesus Christ and of His Gospel; men lacking in religious perception, whose interests are centred in anything but in their souls and the things that relate to their eternal salvation The very men who were often reluctant to approach you to receive from you the word of salvation, and with the grace of Jesus Our Redeemer, God brings now to your side by snding you among them, making y u their companions in labours, in danger and in sacrifices of every kind

Know how t make the best of an opportunity that will p: s. Do not judge stances 'rom whie the pre situation has arisen from ly huma standp ever-lo Fath r souls bv me and g t prov you i .petolate, and more n h: th m readily find at every tur suitable and pp rtuniti s fo good, Men of Duty n fremost, it is you or own person We mean, in th midst f should be the living ap stolate 'hrist And that wi, be. even without the use of words, is y u do honour to your vocation above a by an exemplary fidelity to your new duties and by a thoroughly blameless conduct The words th. t St Paul addre: ed to the Philippians exhortiny them to honour their faith in the pagan environment in which the lived, We therefore repet tu y u Let your conversation I w rthy of the Gospel of Christ (Philip 1, 27 and with him We add: "And do all things without murmurings and hesitatins, that you mav bd blameless and sincere children of God without reproof in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you hine as lights in the world" Philip 2 14) Let there be seen in you at all times the minister of God This character of yours ought to make of you men of duty, models of obedience to authority witout prejudice to the law of God, and of readiness for sacrifice; but it ought not, nay it cannot, in any way or for any reason whatsoever, let you yield to any of the frivolous, corrupt or blameworthv influences that mav be found in vour environment

In the field of morals vour conduct should be especially strict, without compromise, concession or weakness, that it mav be at once an exhortation and an example This strictness which is the fitting accompaniment of that meekness of heart by which you should make yourselves all things to all men to win all to Christ and which besides, is entirely in accordance with the strict discipline of the soldier, is the real source of courage; and of courage you should be masters asserting with a calm freedom and independence, no matter what the circumstances your priestly character of your vocation to the priesthood

Though the spirit of the Gospel is a spirit of liberty, and permits you to make yourselves, like the Apostle "being free as to all, the servant of all, that you might gain the more" tcf, 1 Cor 9, 19), at the same time it will often be necessary for you to recall the same Apostle's salutary words, words full of deep wisdom as the standard of your conduct; "all things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify" (I Cor 10 22-23)

Influence WiII Be Salutary

In this way you will exercise on those about you a salutary influence; and in the secret places of men's hearts you will sow consciously or not more or less of that good seed that, on whatever ground it is cast, it takes root and grows without further care on the part of the sower (cf Mark 4, 26 sq)

Thus you will be conscious of not having betrayed your mission and of having borne good witness to Jesus Christ, your Divine Master, n the midst of the most varied society that it is possible to conceive n this world By means of you every social class, every profession, liberal or industrial, men of every sort of culture, of every type of mentality, will have heard yet once more through the roar of cannon the Gospel message of redemption; and to your account there will not be laid the sin of making your companions in arms think that, in the lives of Christ's lowers and their leaders, practice not square with preaching You have won for the Church respect nd sympathy and th personal friendships that you form n the worthy exrcise your military duties will be easily turned into cnqusts of souls, r at least will open the way to such conquests

But do not lose sight of the warnin ven by the Ape stle tu the faithul in th gloris ts days when the Church was on its way the way in1 f suffering, t its triumph Be not overcome by evil, but overcome vil by rood" Rom 12 21)

You see most dear sons what a vat field for good Divine Providence pen up to your zeal by that very act which ems to withdraw you from your holy minitry or from the immei t pi pration for it. It is a mission that ought to fill every sincere heart of prit st or levite with joy, and t least diminish, if not altogether take way, the pain th sacrifices that exeptional conditions of to-day impose on them Besides, it is not by rit es that our actions as well as Ir eahing become fruitful? And is it not by suffering yes even more than by labour, that we bear witness to the Truth?

Experience Profitable.

Think, too, of your own personal profit, your spiritual profit We mean What experience helpful to your own improvement you will gain from contact with men and events in the course of the varied and painful vicissitudes of your military service! It will be precisely that kind of experience which will give maturity to your virtues and hence also to your apostolate There will be n loss of time for you as priests because of what seems to be nothing else than an isolated and harmful episode in your lives; no loss, indeed, if you will be wise and will walk underthe eyes of God not losing hold of His blessed Hand, which, though it lead you by rugged paths, would guide you to the good and to the heights

To walk however beneath the eves of God and not to lose hold of His Hand, means, as well you know, to cherish fervently Christian piety, by which alone you can maintain a loftv spirit and a heart aflame with the desire of the Good That this is possible even in the midst of arms vou can deduce, even apart from further proof, from a consideration of the examples of evangelical piety that the world of arms itself has given in the persons of so many noble Christians and saints In circumstances not tnlike yours they managed to live in God and by God dominated as they

pel should not, by his toil and suffering, be ready to give

You will, in the eyes of the world which to-day looks on you with a particular interest, have done honour to the Catholic priesthood and to the Church whose responsibility in large measure you bear You will have deserved well of your native land itself, for, in this hour which is so fraught with perils for its fortunes, by your example you will have strengthened its sons, and by your efficacious efforts to bring tranquillity to their souls, will have upheld their courage and increased their effectiveness Wives and mothers will rival each other in blessing you, because your charity will, in a thousand ways have consoled them in the persons of their dear ones You will, too, be rewarded by the approval of your own consciences, which will bear you witness that even under present conditions your priesthood suffered no loss but rather gained in the deepening of its spirit its promptness in action and its readiness for sacrifice And above alland this is a prize surpassing every human reward with a humble and joyous heart you will hear, in notes instinct with Infallible Truth, an anticipation, as it were, of the eulogy of your supreme leader, Christ, the Gospel promise: 'Everyone therefore that shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father Who is in heaven" Matth 10, 32)

were by this central idea rooted in their hearts; the accomplishment in all their tasks of the will of God To see the will of God always in everything and everywhere, and, in spite of the repugnances of nature, to accept itthat is what you must strive for daily the short road easy and safe to that piety which in the midst of the present dangers is as much the bulwark of your priestly vocation as throughout the whole course of vour life it ought to be the unfailing fount of strength and power of all your enterprises

But in ordr that the remembrance of this divine will be in you habitual and alive, it is necessary-and who can doubt it? th:t the spirit of prayer, far mom grwing faint by reaon of the obstacle opposed to it by your new duties, burn in your hearts more than ever before and be a iduusly nour hed, not only by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that you offer or by fervent partiipation in the Table the Strng bu also by everything else that the constent experience of the faithful, under the impulse of th Spirit of God has proved to be particularly efficacious to protect the soul from vil and t tim:as it to virtue and perfection There is hardly a situation in the life th Christian and above all in tht f the priest, so di;hcult that it en dprive the wi' ng soul f the possibility of daily re ' lection, by which t is brought back upon itelf, in pious meditation, in sincere examination of conscience, in fervwnt acts of acri.a at the fet cf the Master Whm vwe serve and Wh from His Tabernacles, so often desertd is ever waiting to enlighten with His word and strengthen wth His grace

Will Honour Priesthood Renew your strength then most dear sons, as much as you possibly can from this piety If this accompanies vou in the arduous trial to which Our Lord calls you you will pass through it with advantage to your own souls and with abundant fruit for the souls of your brethren, to whom there is nothing that the minister of the Gos-

In the firm hope that all this may be verified in you, We are with you, most dear sons, in Our paternal prayers for your bodily safety your escape from danger, your spiritual progress And while We beseech the Lord that He shorten for you and for all others the day of trial and, with peace restored to the world, that He restore you to your peaceful abodes of pastoral work or of the training that leads to it, as a pledge of Our paternal goodwill and a source of strength, We send you from Our heart Our Apostolic Benediction

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Born in Eire in 1869 Eugene Callan

evinced from his tender years a vocation to the Religious state, a vocation assiduously fostered by "the Little Irish Mother' in the old home Entering the Novitiate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Belmont, Dublin, the would-be levite for three years pursued his preliminary studies with a characteristic zeal and devotedness which won the admiration of his Superiors

The Days Spent at Liege Scholasticate

Subsequently the youthful Oblate was admitted to the Scholasticate estab lished at Liege, Belgium, where during four years he read a distinguished course in philosophy and theology

And then the long sighed for day a' length dawned for him, and with it the realisation of life's ambition, when in 1894 Eugene Callan, OM I , stood be fore God's Altar his right hand up raised in blessing, a priest of the Catholic Church

His Missionary Years in Great Britain

Receiving his Obedience from the Anglo-Saxon Province of his Order, Father Callan set out for Leith, Scotland the theatre of his future apostolic labours Years rolled by, and then, answering the summons of the Master, he withdrew from rugged Caledonia whose people he had learned to love, to become Superior of the important mission field of Leeds

His Arrival in Western Australia

That his wise and prudent administration received the approbation, of

TFTE RECORD

Late Father Callan, 0.M.l.

A MEMORY OF A GREAT PRIEST

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his Superiors, suffice to pen that, when the then Vicar of Missions in Australia, Very Rev, Father Cox, O MI, of saint ly memory, was called to rule the Church of God as Bishop of the Transvaal, the late lamented Father Callan was chosen to fill his place, arriving in Western Austraia in the summer of 1912

His all too brief sojourn in Australia, for ending towards the fall of 1926, was rich in labour for God and humanity

A life so full finds its fitting counter part in the Gospel story of that Pentecostal morn of long ago: Gold and silver I have not but what I have I give to thee,' and then above the prostrate form of the paralytic rang out the clarion tones of Peter, 'In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth arise and walk,'' for how often had the hum'le Oblate of Mary, that man of hrist-like tenderness and pity of Godlike charity, raised his hand in benediction and in that hour of desolation returned the prodigal to his Father's home

If n the wavs of Providence Father Callan had not been destined for the acred ministry his wonderful conception of all that is rare and beautiful in architectural design would have won for him a niche in the Hall of Famea brilliant career

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St Patricks Presbytery, not to be surpassed even in the Commonwealth, will always remain associated with his name while the Gothic towers in miniature the crowning glory of the facet o!

St Patrick's Church, were his parting offering to the civic beauty of Fremantle City, and enlarging the horizonto Australia

During his regime, and in the main owing to an enthralling personality, he received a gracious invitation from that illustrious prelate of the Irish race, Archbishop Mannix, to establish a foundation of the Order of Mary Immaculate in the Archdiocese of Mel bourne And to-day, from this Missionarv House at Sorrento the sons of De Mazenod go forth to announce the Good Tidings of salvation to every creature, in every city, town, and hamlet in the Eastern States

'Evangelizare pauperibus misit me''

Writing of this truly remarkable man, a tribune of his people there passes in silent review before the memory a big generous-hearted Irishman whose heart went out in flowing measure to all humanity and who loved his Eire and Australia too Than he, no nobler sc'cn of a great Missionary Order has ever preached the Gospel under the Shern Cross

Thursday, February 15, 1940

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As recently announced in our ii = a columns, the death of Very Rev i rater Canan, O.MI, occurred % ii = a at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, on ii 2um. ue. t= •msas m ms:mm

The Catholic people of Fremantle bow down in sympathy with the Oblate Fathers in every land in their Gethsemane of sorrow, "for the Hand of the Lord hath touched them" Vale! Father Callan With you: passing "a giant has fallen in Israel." You will he often remembered before the Altar of God

DEATHS

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LENTEN

1. LECTURE

The first of the series of Lenten sermons to be delivered in the Cathedral by the Rev Father Dyer, 6 SS R, of the Redemptoist Monastery, North Perth, was given last Sunday night It dealt with the need of religion Every race of men on this earth, no matter how primitive or how advanceed, said Father Dwyer, has practised some form of religion Religious expression is bound up with man's existence as inevitably as the use of food, or the expression of human thought through speech or symbol Such a universal phenomenon must necessa t spring from some imperative need implanted in the very elements of mans nature

The

Need

This need for religious expression comes from the fact that man is a creature of God There can be no other rational explanation of human existence except that man was at some time created out of nothing by a Personal Being Who Himself had no beginning, and who is dependent on nothing else for His existence Moreover, God has not only created all things outside Himself but He keeps them in existence He continues every moment to give them the existence He first gave at the moment of Creation Grasping then, no matter how vague-

I»ALAS%AJE €F HUTH

P\L'L Trout guided his newly-acquired sports model skilfully around the seemingly-interminable series of curves in the hills' road and pulled up under the pleasing shade of a gum tree

"Smoke-oh?" inquired his friend, Fontaine, pulling out of his pocket a tin of flaked tobacco, a box of matches, and a nickel case which looked vaguely 'ike a time bomb

Yes I'm tired of that hot wind' said Trout Let us sit over on those rocks awhile and see if we can catch a breath of this fabulous mountain air

The two of them sprawled on a great slab of ironstone, looking down over a ovely valley of rchards and ocher cu;tivation

What a fool a bloke is,'' said Trout, between draw f a very rude cigarette, to keep on living and w king t no apparent purpose in a cit when there are wnderful oint. like thi close at hand'

You ou; t to talk,' grunted ontaine, pointing his camera at the neighbouring peaks like a machine gun

"The simple life is not for you my sn, with your sports cars and luxury gadgets

"No, but seriously Phil, the land is the only place left where a man can really lead a true human life I suppose there ar few craftmen left in the cities though I have never seen them, whe wrk with their minds and their hano wh produce literal manufacture!' which they first of all use, and von ti se they ·ll they like better than the money they receive n exchange."

"Quite It' a first-class sec:.ndal that though Australia should be above all an agricultural cuntry, over half its people liv in six capitwl cities But even those on the land are tied up with these silly notions of mass production for export and are bondsmen to banks or merchants all the days of their lives"

Trout spat impatiently some eight hundred fet 'How long can it go on?" he demanded "One of these days some radical will appal the nation by insisting on his right to live according to his nature and will simply become a peasant''

"The snag in Australia," mumbled Fontaine as he roll d on to his back and addressed a passing magpie, "is that there is a long-standing tradition of servile dependence on the Government Perhaps it was historically inevitable in a land so vast with a population so sparse But anyway it's here and it's got us all in its toils No man will move until the Government has 'done something' It never occurs to men to do something' themselves co-operatively And of course the basis of the whole national inertia is the loss of an organic conception of society for which we have to thank Protestantism"

Trout nodded vigorously I think that's a very important consideration' he said "National life is on a mechanistic basis, not only in theory but in actual livings Did you ever see anything so like robots as the 'hands' in a modern factory or the assistants' in a departmental store? That kind of fife is driving men, and more noticeably women firstly neurotic then immoral and finally mad It can't go on indefinitelv As I said someone will one day go beserk and run out of Woolworths crying out in a loud voice 'I'I1 have no more of this Please God I am a man'' "Weit'' said Fontaine, judiciously, as if about to sentence the world to an indefinable term for being inhuman, "we are agreed that city life, modern industrialism, and indeed the whole structure of social life conspires against the nature of man We sav this even of the accepted agricultural system We want a peasantry and a great mass of

the people on the land Because where men live and work according to their nature, there the Faith waxes strongly It's not much good demanding that men lead a supernatural life when they can t even lead a natural one The one is the super-structure of the other But the snag is how you are going to persuade chaps to have a go at this life?"

'Now you're coming down to brass tacks While the working life of the people is for the most part intolerable in that it completely stifles the exercise of free-will, intellect and even manual competence which comprise the human activiy of man yet to some extent they have been compensated by a surfeit f artificial pleasure and even luxury Otherwise they would long ago have arisen in spontaneous rebellion against the social order They cling to their pleasures very desperately, not because they find in them any thing satisfying, but because they are a form of escape from the mechanical horror of industry (as opposed to work) They are even lured on by the false hope of a Leisure State As workers they would gladly accept more human work, but they cannot yield up the flesh-pots The only way out of this dilemma is to try to convert them to simple, natural pleasures They will find these really re-creative and the notion of human work, where the creative artist has his place in every life plus satisfying pleasures, will gradually wean them from the clovsome sweets of itv life."

Fontaine looked dubious "There's mt te t it th n that," h commented dryly The mass of people to-day are engaged in industry They are not performing work but more often watching machines do it Peasant farming would mean a great extension of hard manual labour Even if they could face the radical change in theory would their physique stand up to t and would they have enough passion for their own liberty to withstand hardship and discouragement?"

"There's no denying it would be difficult, and especially in the beginning there would be a pretty high percentage of failures," said Trout, unruffled 'Physical deterioration is a direct result of their work in cities The young • would soon build up and grow tough And I fancy that once they experienced the thrill of really doing vital things themselves in their own way that no demon of doubt or discouragement would ever lead them back to their urban chains Phil there's a kick about seeing your food and clothes and creature comforts growing under your eyes which is quite unrivalled People don't long for it only because they've never experienced it,''

"Yes, I grant you that a man loves the creatures of his own creation above everything else But there are dismaying practical difficulties Costs of clearing, of building a house,, of living while the thing takes shape-indeed the whole problem of managing without debt capital'

'I'm not saying it's simple But it has worked elsewhere through co-operative movements America has several very interesting successes to show in the way of farming communes What's wrong with us is that we lack a vivid faith Our Lord said that if we had faith even as a grain of mustard seed we could move mountains It seems to me we must have a very little bit indeed, because it's not the immobility of mountains that faces us but the spiritual inertia of human clods It was not for no purpose that God made man out of the slime of the earth and that he shall revert to dust Man was made bv God to reach God through the dust that is his element The faith will revive I feel only when we have induced men to return to the land"

Religion

ly, the great fact of Creation, the human mind instinctively acknowledges God's supreme ownership over all created things, and seeks to express this recogmtion by acts of religionacts of worship, thanksgiving, prayer and propitiation All these elemental acts of natural religion men have performed at all times and in all places

But left to himself and without the aid of Divine Revelation, it is practically impossible for man to attain to a full and accurate knowledge of his relationship with God; for we know from historv that without Revelation man's religious expression invariably manifess itself in some form of crude superstition or moral perversity The grossest errors prevailed among all the peoples of antiquity with the sole exception of the Jews And it is the same with pagans of the present day

Knowing all this, from her long ex perience of mankind as well as from the principles of human psychology, the Church insists uncompromisingly on the religious education of her children from early youth The late Holy Father, the illustrious Pius XI., definitely teaches that religion must be "the foundation and the crown of vouth's training."

We are told at times that education has the obvious purpose of preparing a vouth for the battle of life But that is only part, by far the least significant part, of its purpose If education is intended only to make a man a success in this present, earthly life, according to the world's standard of suecess, then t is not and cannot be a true and complete education, for t neglects what is most important of all, the spiritual and the eternal Man's life does not end with the grave his soul lives on forever Unless education stands firmly on a religious foundation, it can never fulfil its purpose It is like a house without a foundation or a roof. God must be known as the beginning and end of all things human, Therefore the Church insists that religion and her children's education must not be separated And she moreover warns everv human Government that disregards religion in its schools and other State institutions that it is thereby undermining the very foundation of ts own authority and must sooner or later reap the evi! fruits of its false philosophy, for without religion in their he: rts and the moral principl 's that true religion teaches men will not continue long to reverence and obey the State The lat Holy Father tcaches also that religion must be the foundation and crown of youth's training in th higher institutions of learning as well Men may speak or write learnedly about the sciences, but the fasts of science will ever remain meaningless mvsteries unless the scientist knows

and acknowledges that every flower in the fields, every star in the heavens every ray of light every hidden power in the universe was created by God. and is guided by His Providence

The doctor, too, must have religion, otherwise he will utterly fail to appreciate the purpose and dignity of the human body and its powers He will be the better doctor for being a religious man, and for facing the mystery of life with reverence and humility before the Creator so, too, it other walks of life, religion must be tle foundation of all The lawyer the politician the business man will be the better men and the better citizens for being men of religion They ill then realise th.at legislators have the right to make laws, the judge has he right t pass sentence on the criminal, the business man has the right to expect honesty fr:cm his fe'low-man onlybecause God has created man according to Fis div;c plan and est?lished His te, al saretions of reware or punishmnt : human conduet

Yes, God is the ultimate explanation of the world and of man; both were created by God And man's existence is intelligible only when he is seen as a creature depending on God We are all creatures of God He has made us out of nothing Therefore all we are and all we have belongs to Him as to our Supreme Lord and Master It follows we must live according to the designs of God according to the end He had in creating us And God has created man not that he may gain success in the world or become wealthy, or enjoy the pleasures of this life But man has been created that be may glorify His Creator and serve and love God during a short life of trial on this earth, and thus prepare himself for his true life of happiness with God in eternity A manwho is not living accordingto this view of life is not living rationally; he is not living as a man he is not fulfilling the end of his existence And the capital sin of these times is the practical neglect of this truth God has ceased to be an element in the lives ot so many may we not say of most people n the world to-dav I n t the religion of most people, is not the God they are serving money influence, business, social success, pleasure and amusement?

Let us, at any rate, give God His rightful place in our lives He is our Creator, our First Beginning and our Last End Let us live as creatures whose destiny is eternal life with our God Let us begin and end the day in prayer to Him, lifting up our hearts to praise Him, to thank Him to ask His help and guidance and to beg pardon for our sins

And let us resolve to seek His Holv WiI in all things We are not our own we belong to Him Threfore let our object in life be t find 9ut God's Will snd with His gra always to do it

The subject for next Sunday's sermen will be: INFALLIBLE REVELATION"

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MISSION WORLD DURING 1939

Rome

During the twelve months from January lst to December 3st, 1939 the Sacred Congreg:tion f the Propaganda created in those parts of the globe subject to its jurisdiction nine new ecclesiastical territories, namelv: the diocese of Chilaw, Ceylon, the two Vicariates of Masaka, Uganda, and Derna Libya, and the six Prfectures of Bhamo, Burma Urawa, Japan, Ziguic'or, French West Africa, Kinghsien, China, Shunsen, Korea, and Misurata, Libya

Thursday, February 15, 1940

Mary's Mount is a select Boarding School for young boys and is conducted by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition It caters particularly for the health of its pupils, having its own orchards, gardens and dairy The physical health of tle boys is alsoensured by the Tennis and Basket Ball Courts Football Fields and Cricket Pitches with a beautiful fresh water Swimming Pool -all within the Convent grounds special Sports Master and Speech Training Mistress Individual attention given to boys with their study and all branches are catered for, including Latin, French, Music and Singing, affording boys an excellent foundation up to Sub:Junior Standard

The Propaganda appointed two Archbishops, those of Bagdad, Iraq, and Adelaide, Australia; five Bishops, those of Kettar, Krish nagar, jmer and Maitan, India, and Chilaw, Ceylon It also appointed 24 Apostolic Viars,those of Changtingiu, Yurwnfu, Yangku, Wuchow, and Changteh, n China; of Buea British Cameroons, of Swaziland, Port Elizabeth and Kokstad, n South Africa; of the Ivory Coast, in French West Africa; of Malang and Palembang, n the Netherlands East Indies; of Tamatave and Miarinarivo, in Madagascar; of Masaka, in Uganda; of the Benin Coast and Western Nigeria, in Nigeria; of Rabaul, n Oceania; of Langson and Coabang, in IndoChina of Heijo, in Korea; of Derna, in Libya; of Sakania, in the Belgian Congo; and of James Bay, in Canada

The Propaganda also named one Independent Abbot, of Pietersburg, South Africa, and 12 Apostolic Prefects, those of Korhogo and Ziguinchor, in French West Africa: of Bhamo, in Burma; of Urawa, n Japan; of Hainan, Kinghsien, Weihaiwei and Chumatien, in Chin of Lint1ng, in Manchuria, of Lyden!urg, in South Africa; of the Cook Islands in Oceania; and of goja, in 'Vi@cria

There were also appointed one Superior of an Independent Mision, that of Bikoro in the Belgian Congo; three Apostolic Administrators, those of Shunsen in Korea; of Misurata, in Lvbia; and of Lower California in Mexico; and four Coadjutor Bishops those of Llanos de San Martin in Colombo; of Serajevo, in Yugoslavia; of Kirin, in Manchuria: and Baudoinville, in the Belgian Congo

In the sphere of Mission-Aid Work the Propaganda appointed National Directors of the Pontifical Societies of the Propagation of the Faith and of the Republic of Salvador, Yugosla "a, the Lyons Central Council, and Ireland; and National Presidents of the Missionary Union of the Clergy for Switzerland, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Salvador, Guatemala, Luxemburg England Albania the United States and for the clergy of the Latin Rite in Rumania

The Propaganda approved for a period of seven years the Missionary Statutes of the Congregation of the Holy Cross entrusted the Vicariate of Lower California, Mexico, to the Mexican Holy Ghost Missionaries and that of James Bay Canada, to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; gave 'official recognition to the Foreign Mission Seminary of Yarumal, Colombia, and promoted the Most Rev Lawrence Balconi to the Titular Archiepiscopal See of Hierapolis in Phrygia The new Diocese of Chilaw, Ceylon, the new Vicariates of Masaka, Uganda, and Miarinarivo, Madagascar, and the new Prefectures of Ziguinchor, French West Africa, were placed in charge of native secular clergy, while the Vicariate of Chengtingfu China was entrusted to Chinese Vincentians The total of ecclesiastical territories under native (Continued on Page 15)

FRANCISCAN KILLED IN NORTH CHINA

Rome

Due to war conditions, news has only now reached here of the tragic death in China of a Dutch Franciscan, Father Ludwinus Exler, of the Luaniu Vicariate, Shansi Province, killed by robbers on October 7 The motive of the murder was theft On account of the general inse curity in the district, Father Exler had been asked to accept some money for safe keeping Somehow information about this leaked out A band of robbers consequently broke into his house and shot at the priest while he was trying to escape, wounding him first in the abdomen and later fatally in the head They had no time, however, to carry out the rest of their plan and fled empty-handed, as the Mission servants had already given the alarm by ringing the church bells

CATHOLIC

RELIEF WORK DUR ING SECOND YEAR OF SINO JAPANESE WAR

Shanghai Illuminating facts regarding the ex tent to which, during the second year of the Sino-Japanese conflict, Catholic Missionary priests and nuns have looked after war victims in China may be gleaned from the perusal of a report issued by the Sinological Bureau at Zikawei The report is based on data received from the Apostolic Vicars and Prefects of th country

During the first year of the war the total of refugees housed and fed throughout the country was 487,08 This calculation includes those onl who were the guests of the various mis sins for a period of several months During the second year the number cared for was 433819

Certain Provinces which during th early period of the war were the chi theatres of fighting have subsequent! supplied a smaller quota of refugees During the second year in Hopeh Province, for instance, the figure dropped from 55,000 to 9,000; in Shangtung from 145,000 to 18000; in Shansi fron 62,000 to 11,000; in Kiangsu fron 95,000 to 20,000; in Chekiang from 10,000 to 4,000, and in Fukien from 12 to 500 In central and western China on the other hand, there was an in crease in the number of refugees during the second year of the war In Honan Province they totalled 50,000, n Hupeh 275,000, in Kiangsi 22,300, and in Hunan about 4,000 Detailed information from Szechwan, where at least 1,000 are known to have been cared for, is at yet lacking Medical cases receiving attention n dispensaries totalled 835,000 in Shantung Province, an increase of 135,000 on the figure for the previous year, In Anhwei the total rose from 250.000 to 415000; in Kiangsi from 500,000 to 666,000 In Kianbsu, on the other hand, where during the first year of the war the number of cases treated was 2,000000 on account of the fighting in and around Shanghai during the second year it dropped to 1250000 Despite the fact that a number of temporary war dispensaries have been closed down, the total of cases treated throughout the country during the second year of the war reached 9,964,996, an increase on the previous year of about 175,000

As a result of the war numbers of temporary hospitals have been opened in large cities, where war-wounded could receive immediate attention The situation has not been favourable, however, for the opening of permanent hospitals in the interior of the country The number of Catholic hospitals functioning has thus decreased from 247 to 143. In Kiangsu there are now only 9, in Shansi 2, in Szechwan 10 A clearer idea of the extent of Catholic charity in this sphere may be gained from the statistics of patients treated in hospitals, rather than from the number of hospitals actually functioning Before the outbreak of hostilities the total was 96000 During the first vear of the war it rose to 103,292, and in the second year to 106,782 Statistics for all China, apart from Manchuria and a dozen or so Vicariates from which information has not been received, give the total of refugees housed and fed during the two years of war as 920907, Medical cases treated in dispensaries as 19,912,573, and hospital cases that hove received attention as 210074

A Husband

Is of "The

Son of the Founder Record" Diamond

An event rare in vestern Australi1 [ occurred on Februarv 1the Fest of st Brigid- -when Mr and Mrs Charles Reilly of Charles-street North Perth celebrated their diamond wedding A fair number of married couples have reached the fiftieth milestone alng the path of their wedded lives but few have lived to celebrate theirsixtieth anniversary The happy couple, physically able for the day's cselration received many visitors who called to offer their good wishes and congratulations

Mrs Reily wore the dress she wore on her wedding day 60 years agoa stylish robe of grey silk which the finger of time had touched but lightly Both of the parties were born in Perth They were married with Nuptial Mass in Geraldton by the Rev Father De laney in 1880

At that time Mr R lv was accountant to a big firm in Geraldton He aslo served 1l years as a councillor in that town, and then became Mayor He has played a prominent part in civic life and, like his father, the late J T Reilly w a Jstie of th Peace To day his son, Mr Leo Reilly, of Dumbleyuny is Justice of the Peace

Wedding

PRIEST TELLS BOW TO REMEDY LEGISLATIVE AND ELECTION MALPRACTICES

St, Louis, USA

Citing the recent Ohio investigation showing that 85 per cent of the State legislation was initiated and preaassured through the assembly by labour unions, chambers of commerce, teachers' lobbies, realty exchanges, farmers' associations and similar private conspiracies," the Rev Edward Dowling, S._J , an associate editor of "The Queen's Work,'' in a recent address, before the Knights of Columbus in Kirkwood, near here, asserted this was a fair ratio applicable to every State in the Union Father Dowling, who is recognised as a national authority on the correction of election and legislative malpractices, is the only priest member of the Newspaper Guild

"As long as these fountain sources of our laws are kept oligarchic by such anti-democratic devices as inbreeding nominating committees, undemocratic elections, unanimously elected presidents, and irremoveable executive secretaries,'' he emprasised, "the pretence to democracy doesn't rise to the moral level of good clean hypocrisy

mainly ret of "The h N ris book, rs in Wert:illy gives etablish-

Many rifts were offered to the ians, and one in partic :eatjoy-a wedding h two diamonc eir daughter, onvent of Mer M spon Rec tha "Re ern the nd prevailing prejudi the Catholie larly annoying which the new colony were conduct the establihmen f the 'Westrn Aust ord.'

T a serious one consid position of th communi.y but it became every day more and more evident that if progre 1t1ca tan tha okd pr'% and the Rev Fath re was not much difie the Very Rev M Griver the Administrator, to give his consent to the purchase of a press and printing plant Indeed I must here state that the Administrator was always revdy to co-operate in any undertaking that had for its object the spiritual and temporal welfare of his flock.

I was therefore commissioned to make the purchase, and I was very fortunate in securing a very good press and printing plant for the sum of ±120 After the purchase was completed, it was decided to remove the press and plant to Subiaco, so that some of the boys in the orphanage at that place could be taught the printing business, and by this means lessen the cost of publishing the proposed newspaper This decision having been arrived at, the press and plant, after a considerable amount of trouble, were carted by Mr James Corbett through the heavy sand from Perth to Subiaco and in a short time a printing office was fully equipped in one of the large rooms (upstairs) in the orphanage As was to be expected, the issue of the first number of the 'WA Record' was regarded with considerable interest, but, singular to state the contents of the very first issue almost led to its abrupt discontinuance Among the contributors to this number were Father Gibney Father O'Reilly and the present writer, I took for my subject the inadequate amount contributed by the Government towards the support of the orphanage and in doing so indulged in such outspoken and independent language that Governor Weld was highly incensed at its general tone The Governor was however appeased and it is pleasing to add, that the ultimate result was that the amount to orphan children was immediately increased

"I continued to contribute to the 'WA Record' for many years, and in this labour of love I was ablv assisted

by the Rev Father O'Reilly, now Archbshop of Adelaide, who on my leaving the colony in 1879, took over the editorship and the entire management of the paper The excellent results achieved through having a newspaper of our own' were very soon evident The Record' continually advocated Catholic claims, and to its influence must be attributed many benefits that accrued to the Catholic body The power of the Press is fully admitted but if proof were required of its effects in influenceing and moulding public opinion that evidence could be found in the altered feeling of non-Catholics towards Catholics generally, which change was, unquestionably, mainly brought about by and through the instrumentality of the W.A Record.' Father Gibney is the promoter and founder of many valuable works and institutions in this colony, but among those of a useful and beneficent character, none have a wider or more direct salutary influence on the general public than has the 'WA Record,' In the institution and funding f a Catholic newspaper, Father M Gibney accomplished a splendid work, a work which will continue to confer incalculable benefits on the whole community, and with which his name will ever continue to be grate- f Ty associated"

Mr Charles Reilly's mother was brn in Western Australia; his grandmother c: me t the Swan River Settlement with Sir James Stirling on his second trip.

Mrs Reilly's parents were the late Mr and Mrs Bernard Smith of Adelaide Terrace, who also were old colnists Mr Bernard Smith was a tirele defender ot the Faith in the early day·, and the Church in this State ows him a mnsiderable debt of grati- tude

We refer again to Mr. Reilly's book for an estimate of Mr Smith's work: "There was no resident priest in those days' says Mr Reilly, and consequently there were no ministration of religion Protestantism was the prevailing religion of the people, but it n be recorded with satisfaction that in their isolated position Mr Smith and his family maintained the religious of their Faith, and were always r gnised as strict adherents of th atholi hurch As religious intoleran was very marked in the early lays it was often the duty of Mr Smith to defend the principles which he pro! sed, and also very frequently t ·l calumnies circulated regarding the 'atholie Church For hisbold and independent defence of Catholicism the m ·mory of Mr B Smith is well deserv ing of reverence and esteem He was a vanguard of the Faith and his splendid services in that capacity cannot be too highly extolled. Mr Smith, although in the Government Imperial Service, always took a deep interest in the welfare of the colony, and in promoting social, intellectual, and industrial institutions always took a leading part He was one of the founders of the Swan River Mechanics' Institute in the management of which he took a deep perosnal interest; he was a constant attendant at the reading room, and was always ready to take part in the discussion and other classes formed for the intellectual benefit of the members Mr Smith also took part in the foundation of the Perth Building and Benefit Society, and acted as secretary to this institution for a number of years until failing healh compelled him to relinquish his position"

Mrs Reilly's mother came to Western Australia with her parents in the very early days The family sailed from England in their own boat

To Mr and Mrs Reilly we extend our best wishes that the way which lies ahead may be filled with such Divine benedictions as those of the path already traversed.

Paris

Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, finds the Encyclical "Summi Pontificatus," of Pope Pius XII, "truly charming" "It goes with a swing," writes His Eminence in the first of a series of articles commenting on the Encyclical in his archdiocesan magazine 'It is not the ordered, methodical cold, almost impersonal language of the doctor Nor does it contain those cor-

LATE MR. J T REILLY Soviet Regrets Religion Still Survives

·PRAVDA" DECLARES GODLESS NESS AND COMMUNISM ARE IDENTICAL.

THAT Godlessness is identical with Communism and that the cam paign to stamp out every vestige of religious belief and practice from the lives of the Russian people must be pursued with even greater intensity than in the past, since religion survives among millions of Russian workers, is the burden of a lengthy editorial in the official Communist nespaper Pravda''

"Pravda" quotes Marx nd other Communists leaders to the efet that "religion is the opium of tue people,' and goes on to lament laxity in the anti-religious campaign and the survival of religious belief and practice among the Russian people

Many have not yet understood," ' Pravda" observes, "that anti-religious propaganda is an integral part cf all Soviet, political and cultural education

"Certain regional committees cf the party do not introduce in their conferences any anti-religious subjects or consider that anti-religious propaganda has anv relation to the election campaign The Kmsomols and the pro- fessinal unions neglect this anti-religious work

"Numerous Soviet organs do ct understand that anti-religious propaganda in our country has an official tatus Thus, organs of the Commissariat of Public Education and the schools do not inculcate anti-religious educaion in the children and thosewho leave shoo4 frequently entertain religious sentiment. Executive committees cf the regions observe badly the laws con- cerning cults They tolerate violation of Soviet laws by 'popes' and the utilisation of these laws in their tavour Feeble Campaign

'The Soviet press and that of the party do not pay enough attention to the warfare against religious survivals

The great majority of local newspapers and the bulletins of the factories do not interest themselves in these subjects hlt

Thus in the course of the first a ti of 1939 thirty-four regional newspapets of Poronezh did not publisha singe remark on the subject of antireligious propaganda

The press continues to consider as in the past that t is suffcient to revert to these suestions only two times a year-at Easter and Christmas.

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"One of the reasons why anti-religi ous propaganda is pursued feebly is the absence of control on the part of the regional committee and provinces of the Communist Party ,

"We must utilise all organisations and furnish them with the essential elements of anti-religious propaganda to accelerate the suppressionof religious survivals among the millions of workers

rect, carefully worded, terms of the diplomat

ambiguous

It comes from a profoundly priestly soul who gives to us the fruit of his meditations and of his prayers It gives us the truth but a truth that is warm, loving, vital.

"We find in it too an immense charity embracing with a paternal gesture the whole of humanity

"May God bless our Father for these pages that have raised so much enthusiasm and so much hopr throughout the world."

The Cox-Hynicka machine in Cincinnati and Tammy, both plug ugly fronts for plug hat thieves, are now political Smithsonia as a result of a democratic election method devised at a student government election 125 years ago In this period of speedier migration of notions, another st dent government experiment going on here in St Louis may cast even a longer shadow

The most democratic governing bodies in the United States are the Student Senates ofSt, Joseph's Negro High School at St Louis, and the Student Council of Ursuline Academy in Kirkwood Mo and the So dality uncil of the University of Detroit, where the officials are not only elected by but kept;nder the alert whip of the voters by the Proxy Revision Plan of Proportional Re presentation, which was rebnt! dug out of the dusty archives of the Massachusetts legislature where it had slept since it was killed in committee in 1910."

The threefeatures of the governmental structure of thes schools commented n b the speaker were, first, that all executive officials are deprived of legislative v ice nd kept excutive, which, accrding t Father Dowling, "is an essentially flunky status except in a monarchy." The second feature is ti±at each council man has as many votes or proxies n any council issue as hs been case for him

"The third and most focally democratic is the Proxy Revision feature by which any student can secretly change bis proxy holder in the student council eny time he wishes" Father Doling amplified

PRIESTS MAY ABSOLVE WITHOUT CONFESSION IN AIR RAIDS

During air raids, or when air raids threaten, priests now have the power to give absolution without oral confession, according to new facilities issued at the Vatican by the Sacred Congr<gation of the Consistory

Such absolution will release from all sins, even reserved sins, and penitents may afterwards receive Holy Communion But the priest must warn them that the absolution is void if they are not properly disposed and that they must make confession afterwards as soon as possible

A special plenary indulgence maybe given with this absolution if the priest says: "With the faculty given me by the Holy Apostolic See I grant you a plenary indulgence and the remission of all your sins, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen"

The absolution may be given to groups of people at a time

The Blessed Sacrament may be reserved in chapels for troops or in warships of nations at war or in a state of general mobilisation, provided that it is kept in a proper place,that the key to the tabernacle or ciborium is carefully looked after and that a lamp is kept always burning before It

Priests serving as ordinary soldiers and without the privileges of a chaplain may hear confessions and give absolution just before a battle or while it is taking place

All priests may give thegeneralabsolution during or Just before a battl» in the same way as priests in bombed towns Prisoners of War

The Sacred Congregation also announces certain relaxations for priests with the Forces regarding the Eucharistic fast, the daily recitation of the Breviary and other regulations

Finally the Congregation announces that the rules laid down by Pope Benedict XV in 1914 concerning prisoners of war are now renewed

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Enemies

Within

The Federal Attorney-General declared in Sydney during the week that there were enemies inside Australia as well as enemies outside The tenor of the reported parts of his speech seemed to indicate that he was referring to Communism and proNazi sentiment But there is as yet more intimate subversion which is being carried on overtly and secretly in our midst, and one which threatens our national welfare directly, precisely because it strikes at life at its source This is the progapanda for birth-control for which a section of the Labour movement is at present conducting a campaign The first public reaction to the establishment of clinics in Perth and Fremantle was a protest in the morning press Now, however, protagonists of the Stopist heresy have arisen to give us in print their special pleading for this personal and social sin These letters n the press are not characterised by logic or clear thinking, but by sentimentality and misstatements of the case A very effective reply to them was made by a lady parliamentarian, whose approach to the facts was very commendable for its realism, its radical analysis, and its practical solution

We have noted that the public advocates of birth-prevention have not strengthened their case by logical thinking One lady bases her contentions on the very personal element that she has een "face to face twice with destitute widowhood," and a total of five children From her own hardships she goes on to conclude that "mothers are silently but efficiently entering a protest against existing conditions " She seems to miss the point that there is no one to enter a protest on behalf of the unborn child against the existing conditions of modern motherhood Nor does she realise that women who indulge in this depraved vice have scarcely any right to the holy title of "mother,'' and that their protests rebound with greatest vigour against the perversion of their own natures and instincts It is of little avail to pretend that "the birth-control clinics are not intended to still further decrease the birth-rate," when that is their one and only effect, as the lady herself admits when she writes of "efficient' protests But n speaking of the "intention" of the clinics, the lady has touched the nerve centre of the whole controversy The proposal of the clinics has been initiated by people of the best intentions who are none the less social rresponsihles

Subsequently the correspondent writes: "Ii we compel a few to have unlimited families " Here is the cloven hoof of misrepresentation No one compels the poor to have large families, least of all the Church And though in some cases economic conditions militate severely against the family, this is by no means a conclusive case for birth-control Rather it is a blatant display of materialism to contend that economic forces will triumph over the moral law and the human will Furthermore, the weight of medical opinion and the observations of social workers indicate that it is selfishness and a desire to escape responsibility rather than poverty which underlies the general practice of birth-prevention So much for the technique of special pleadings and of misrepresentation There remains the tactic of sentimental speculation This is exemplified by the correspondent who concludes his case with the question: "Which is the greater crime-to bring children into the world with no prospects for them in the future, or to stop them from coming into this world of trouble and poverty?" If married people were deterred from procreating children by the real or apparent shadows of the future, the human race would have perished long ages past

Thursday, February 15, 1940

Death of Archbishop Byrne

Archbishop of Dublinand Primate of Ireland

] First Anniversary of Death of Pope Pius XI.

Twelve months ago, the Catholic, and, indeed, a great part of the nonCatholic, world anxiously watched the bulletins of the late Holy Father's illness Saturday, February 10, marked the first anniversary of his death Special commemoration was made for his soul in all Masses throughout the Church, and Catholies everywhere remembered in their prayers one whose pontificate was so fruitful to the greater glory of God and His kingdom on earth,

FEBRUARY 16th: Preside at eto Convent, Nedands

Quarterly Conference of the[ARCH 1Oth: Bless New PresPriests of the metropolitan bytery, Palmyra area, at the Chapter Hall MARCH 23rd: Bless new Church

FEBRUARY 18th: Canonical of St Kevin. Serpentine (10 Visitation at St Mary's, Leed- a.m ) erville Bless extensions to St Joseph's FEBRUARY 25th: Bless and of- School, Parry Street, Fremanficially open extensions to Lor- tle (3.30 p.m )

The death occurred on Friday last of the Most Rev. Edward J, Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

Archbishop Byrne was 68 years of age He was born in Dublin in 1872, educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, Conliffe, and the Irish College, Rome He was ordained in 1895 In 1901 he was appointed Vice-Rector of the Irish College at Rome, and in 1904 became Curate of the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, holding that office until 1920 He» was appointed a Commissioner of Education in 1920 and in the same year became Auxiliary to Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, and Titular Bishop of Spigaz He had been Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland since 1921 He was appointed Archbishop-Assistant at the Pontifical Throne in 1932 and created a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of Malta n 1932

The Diocese of Dublin is united with the older and much larger diocese of Glendalough Though this name did not figure in the Archbishop's title there is still an Archdeacon of Dublin and an Archdeacon of Glendalough

Archbishop Celebrates 90th Birthday

A crowd of more than 3000 people in the Sydney Town Hall gave a remarkable reception to His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney (Most Rev M Kelly, DD), at the gathering which was held to celebrate his 90th. birthday

Despite his recent illness Arhbishop Kelly was able to walk into the hall without assistance, and he acknowledged the ovation of the people as he walked to the dais He remained at the Town Hall for more than an hour and a hali until the conclusion of the celebration

Those present included Archbishop Duhig, of Brisbane, who flew to Sydney, and the New South Wales Attorney-General (Sir Henry Manning) Archbishop Kelly was presented with an address from the priests and the people of the Archdiocese congratulating him and conveying their sincerest wishes to him on his 90th birthday

Mr M J O'Neill offered to the Archbishop as a birthday gift St Mary's Cathedral completely removed from all encumbrances of debt Mr O'Neill said that the total remaining liability on the Cathedral of £50,000 had been assumed by the united parishes as their liability and as a tribute of their love and gratitude

News and Notes

The 24th Annual Swimming Carnival of the Christian Brothers, Aquinas College, will be held at Crawley Baths on February 21, commencing at 745 pm

The Pope, in a message to the Japanese Emperor, on the occasion of the 2600th anniversary of the foundation of the Japanese Empire, in a message from Vatican City, is reported to have said: 'We ask God may you cease hostilities and may the Japanese and their sovereigns attain greater glory and happy years through Divine aid"

A tender of £13.831 by J B Hawkins and Son, Ltd, was accepted for the erection of the first portion of a tileroof brick and concrete St John of God Hospital at Bunbury, to be completed in six months Contracts for nechanical and electrical equipment have yet to be made The front portion of the building will comprise two storeys and the rear where the ground is lower, will have three storeys The total length will be 112ft with a width ranging from 48ft to 76ft The architect is Mr Edgar Le B Henderson

As announced recently the Cardinalitial Commission, appointed by bis present Holiness for the erection of a monument to the late Pope in St Peter's, has begun its work, together with the Commission of the Archconfraternity of the Lombards in Rome, representatives from Milan, from Desio, and from other Lombard towns, to arrange for the erection of a worthy monument to the late Pope on the sarcophagus in the Crypt of St Peter's where his remains now rest

The monument will be unveiled on June 29, 1940 Feast of St Peter The famous Benedictine architect and

sculptor, Rev Albert Gresnigt, is responsible for the execution of the monument, in collaboration with the painter Piero d'Achiardi The sculptor of the monument itself will be Professor Castiglioni

His late Holiness will also be commemorated on the exterior of the apse of the church of San Carlo al Corso This apse abuts on to the new square behind the mausoleum of Augustus and the position chosen is admirable Two statues, one of St Charles and the other of St ambrose, by the sculptors Dazzi and Selva will flank two inscriptions on marble, one commemorating the fact that Achille Ratti celebrated his first Mass in the church, and the other that the Lateran Treaty was signed during his pontificate The great window of the apse will thus be tramed by these inscriptions Below it will be erected a fountain with the arms of Pope Pius XI The whole group of statues and inscriptions, including the fountain will be most effective

ENGAGEMENT, ELLIOTTHART On January 6, 1940 at St Mary's Church Leederville by the Rev Father Boylan Raymond (Ray) youngest son of Mrs Eliott and the late R Elliott, to Rene youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs J Hart, of Byron-street, Leederville WEDDING

The engagement is announced of Imelda, second eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr J F Whitely, of Perth, to Albert Thomas (Bert), son of A T and the late Bessie St John of Kellerberrin

St.

Vincent C.T.S.

Results Obtained by Paul Sales

de

1939 Was Year of Progress

We publish below the comparative figures of the sales of CT S pamphlets throughout the metropolitan and country parishes and schools in the Archdiocese during the years 1938 and 1939 ±h

The last three years have seen a notable advance m t e numbers of these sales, due to the personal interest of His Grace the Archbishop in the matter, and the efficient organisation of the St Vincent de Paul Society

THE publication;-i oi the Catholic Truth Society, both in Australia and abroad, must commend themselves to every intelligent Catholic, particularly in these times when Catholic Action is making such remarkable strides throughout the world They fulfil many functions They are effective counterfoils to popular ignorance and prejudice against the Church, and to the pornography that is available in a thousand and one cheap magazines They provide an adequate library for the Catholic worker who would not be able to spend money in the purchase of books

Moreover the Catholic Truth Societies of the various countries have been able to enlist many of the most famous names in Catholic literature and learning to contribute so that their publications are completely reliable in their information and most readable in their literary presentation, The printing of these little books is also most attractive and the covers especially are quite up to date with the modern technique of lay-out and design The Catholic in modern times therefore, even the poorest, has no ex-? cuse for ignorance of things Catholic when these invaluable publications are available in the porch of every Church for a few coppers

RECORD SALES

The figures published below indicate a most satisfactory position The sales of last year exceeding those of the pr · vious year by almost 5,000 Yet, considering the Catholic population of the Archdiocese and the availability of the pamphlets, a greater progress yet can be made

The extension of the Catholic Action groups which will take place shortly in the Archdiocese will no doubt give an added fillip to the distribution of the CT.S pamphlets and it is to be hoped that those Catholics who have not yet formed the "pamphlet habit' will at least take samples during the current vear

St Vincent de Paul Society Catholic Literature Distribution Committee CTS Pamphlet Sales

Metropolitan 1939 Perth 6480

Highgate 5064

Freman'le 2700

Monasterv 2796

West Perth 2244

Subiaco 1026

Queen's Park 864

Nedlands 840

Beaconsfield 364

South Perth 348

Leederville 336

Palmyra 312

Victoria Park 300

Maylands 264

Guildford 204

Cottesloe · 132

Mosman Park · 108 Inglewood 96 Claremont 108

Midland Junction 96

East Victoria Park · 24

Anonymous 1668

Chesterton BS and CA 648

Pellegrini and Co. 120

C.BC. Perth 696

Victoria Square 336

St Louis 204 Aquinas 176

Santa Maria 180

East VP Convent 72

Clontarf 84

Castledare 24

CBC, Fremantle Country.

Wagin

Kalgoorlie

CB C, Kalgoorlie

Bunbury + •

Northam Boulder Katanning Busselton Toodyay Kellerberrin Collie Nannup Merredin

Albany Sundry Sales

Grand Total 32,848

Analysis of Sales for 1939

Australian CTS · London CTS

Paulist Press

Irish Messenger

Dublin CTS

Annals Print Cat Lit Socy Los Angeles

Past Committee Carrent Soar

ACABLE from New York during the week announced that the American Hierarchy had issued a pronouncement on the social order which is the most important ofits kind since 1919 The papers declared that the Bishops' statement called for the subordination of economic power to human welfare

That such a demand should 'e made in the 20th century is a devastating criticism on the theory of progress which the liberals have been bowling about during these centuries when the world was decaying right under their noses.

Capitalism rests upon the doctrine of individualism, which in plain language means every man for himself or more simply the removal of moral restrictions on business activity, and hence, greed

The concept of an organic society has been completely lost, so that to-day nobody even talks of the "body politic." The State in this perspective is merelv a herd of individuals thrown togther-fortuitously for purely economic purposes, Those who have th capital vie with one another in unrestricted competition and often by unscrupulous advertising or in these more enlightened times band together in huge combines and trusts

WAGE SLAVERY.

But whether thev cut each other's throats or run in a pack, their aim is the samethe acquisition of money and hence economic and political power

This is one side of the social question and the other is the sad one we call proletarianism, or the condition of wage slavery It arises as a direct result of the belief and practice that the acquisition of money and power is the one and final end of life The pack hunts and the poor are devoured

The process of stealing the people's property which began under a veneer of legality under the Reformation is now firmly consolidated and established by law

In theory it is perfectly sound to claim that the wage contract is valid In practice it reduces the vast mass of people in industrial societies to a degrading level where they are dependent body and soul upon men who think of them not as human beings, still less sons of God and brothers of Christ, but as hands, factors in production on a par with the raw materials to which they apply their labour and from which combination wealth is produced

It is probably one of the most extraordinary anomalies of history that capital which gave us economic individualism, which meant above everything else the dehumanising ofman also gave

Holy Season of Lent

COURSE OF SERMONS IN ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL

cca, she cureh and Ma" a Te following is the List or m 5. special sermons to be preached ii m by Rev E Dwyer C.SS R., in = si. Mary's caieadral uii " # Lant- t = iii ii II. Infallible Revelation a j Pe»a- ! IV. Christ's Redeeming Sacria nee n s v Loyalty to Christ and His i g Church. i mm s am a a s sat A PRIEST CAPTURES FIVE NAZIS.

Paris

\ young Breton priest, serving as a junior officer in the French Army at the Front, has been mentioned in dispatches for capturing five German soldiers single-handed

The priest, Abbe Leviol of Brest, helped to beat back a German attack on an advance post, and in a counterattack came back with the prisoners Saves Comrades

Another priest, Abbe Denis Jourdan, rector of Aix-en-Provence-parish, has been mentioned for picking up an enemy grenade that fell among a group f his comrades thus saving their lives He was badly injured in both hands {maw»sawn4, · = COURSE OF LENTEN = ii i SERMONS E s t

On Sunday evening the first of a series of special sermons on "God, the Church and Man,'' was delivered by Rev E Dwyer, C SS R The sermon dealt with the "Need of Religion," and is fully reported on Page 9

Next Sunday evening Father Dwyer will speak on "Infallible Revelation "

The sermon was preceded by the recitation of the Rosary, and was followed by Pontifical Benediction, given by His Grace the Archbishop The ministers were: Rev Fathers Rafferty (deacon), Donnelly (sub-deacon), McGillicuddy (assistant priest), and Johnston (master of ceremonies)

tificates to all pupils of that school during their secondary course

The Archbishop of Hobart Most Rev Dr J Simonds, nformed the Director·of Education at the time that he was unable to accept the position which would result from the enforcement of this regulation He pointed out that Catholics had purchased, at a heavy price, the liberty to conduct their own sclcols in the interests of th2 parents and in accordance with ther wishes

The regulation in question would deprive the teachers in Catholic schools of the right to prepare their pupils for any public examination desired by the parents

us the pseudo-religious cult of humanitarianism

HUMANITARIANISM

It amounts to this, you break him on the wheel in themorning, and in the evening you pour oil on his wounds because you love mankind It seems a shrieking hypocrisy and yet in many instances it is not so because it is the peculiar outlook of men who see life not as homogeneity but as a series of varied and co-related functions

Small wonder if this welter of selfishness brought forth the twin monster of Communism

The one is crumbling and the other is its only chance of stabilisation, but both are united on this one point that they will deny man the right to own property and so will effectively prevent man from being man There will be no peace, no order, no relief for the poor until as the American Hierarchy claims there be found a 'via media between economic individualists and Socialists, both of whose theories on the use of property have resulted only in harm to the public''

Many parents were desirous that their children should be prepared for the public examination which had been u'stituted for the intermediate The departmental representatives n the cad were equally insistent that the regulation should be enforced, and the motion was dulv carried at the next meeting of the Board As a consequence the Catholic schools were forced to decide whether thev would withdraw from the Accrediting System altogether or accept departmental regulations which would demand the sacrifice of their dearly bought freedom

The Archbishop decided on the former course, and gave notice of the decision to those concerned This is in the nature of a precedent, since Tasmania has been the first testing ground of the system, and if it proves successful there it will doubtless be introduced into the other States In this eventualitv we shall have to examine whether it threatens our Catholic schools in the same wav as it did in Tasmania

Already in this State there has been considerable agitation for the abolition of the Junior Certificate Examination, and though it has not met with any great success, it may be a prelude to the introducion of the Accrediting System

DEATH

ACCREDITING SYSTEM.

*The Australian Education Council, which concluded its conference in Hobart during the week, was largely concerned with the relative merits of examinations and of the accrediting system

Several Ministers of Education opposed the substitution of the latter for the former.

-It will be recalled that earlv last year the Tasmanian Governmentset up the accrediting system to operate in the secondary schools of Tasmania At the time it was arranged that the Catholic Schools should join the Departmental Schools as a unit in the system, It was further agreed that they should be represented on the controlling board and in the work of inspection Assurances vere also received from the Govetrment that the interests of the Catholic Schools would be protcted as this educational experiment was being tested in Tasmania

On the Tasmanian Schools' Board which was set up in January, 1939, to administer the work of accrediting Catholies were given a minority representation and prospects of harmonious cooperation seemed quite hopeful In February however a motion came before the Board which, if passed would be a grave blow at the essential liberties of the Catholic schools This motion, proposed that the Tasmanian Schools' Board should be accepted by the school applying for registration as the one and only authority issuing cer-

KELLY On February 11, 1940, at St John of God Hospital Subiaco, William James Kelly; aged 67 years R LP

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for him -Inserted by his devoted sister, Nellie T Bone

IN MEMORIAM,

WRIGHTIn loving remembrance of our dear mother and .grandmother, who departed this life on the 17th February, 1932 RIP

Also our beloved infant daughter

Therese, who passed away on the 22nd January, 1932, little sister of Molly Teddy and Shirley Cherished Memories

Inserted by O and E Davey and family, Coolgardie

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FOURTEEN

Pioneer Dominicans Celebrate Golden Jubilee 409

Years

at Dongarra of Labour

N Tuesday, January 30, the Sisters of the Dominican Priory Dongarra, celebrated with fitting solemnity the Golden Jubilee of Profession of Mother M, Dominica and Mother M Benignus, two of the pioneer members of the Community

These two religious had left Ireland over fifty years ago to labour for God in New Zealand and when in 1899 band of Sisters had been chosen from the ranks of the Community in Dunedin for pioneer work in Western Australia, Mother M Dominica was one of that courageous band Her companion, Mother M Benignus, followed seven years later, and both have lab oured incessantly and with abundant fruit in the new field of labour prepared for them by God It was therefore with heartfelt gratitude to God for the great blessings bestowed on the Community through their long lives of selfsacifice, that their jubilee was celebrated at the Priory k k

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CEREMONIES

The day of the Jubilee was one o: bright sunshine, and the Convent Chapel lit up by its rays was tastefull decorated for the occasion The altar was adorned with gold leaves and white flowers, while a throne was erected in the Sanctuary for the celebration o: Pontifical High Mass, at which His Lordship Dr J P O'Collins, Bishop o! Geraldton presided The High Mass commenced at 10 o'clock, the Bishop being assisted bv Rev Father Brennan, the Convent Chaplain Rev Fathers Prendergast

The

Tand Lynch being Deacons at the Throne, while Rev, Fathers Bryan and O'Connor were Deacon and Sub-Deacon, respectively Rev Father Gallagher was Master of Ceremonies Present also in the Sanctuary was Very Rev Monsignor Irwin, VG The Proper of the Mass was sung by Rev Father Halpin and Rev Father John Herold PS M while the Nuns' Choir sang the remainder of the Mass The occasional sermon was preached by Rev Father Collins, CSS.R Sermon

We read n the Book of Ecclesiastics the 26th chapter the 1st and following verses these words: "A goodly portion is a good woman Grace upon grace s a holy woman As the sun shining on the world in the high places of God so is the beauty of a good woman As everlasting foundations on a solid rock so the commandments of God abide in the heart of a holv woman"

It has pleased God to place many such in His home which is His Church, The first was Mary, His Mother She was mistress in the holy house of Nazareth from which grew the universal Church

To-day we meet together to do honour to two holy women and to thank God for the grace upon grace that has been bestowed upon this diocese through the lives of these tzo relgious in whose hearts abide the commandments of God and whose lives have been a journeying in His House

PIONEER WORK

There are present this morning some who could tell better than I, who am a

stranger, of those many journeyings that began in June, 1899, when Mother Mary Dominica and her sister religious arrived for the first foundation at Grenough In those early days, owing to the scarcity of priests Mass could be said only very rarely at many of the Catholic centres, but the Sisters were there week after week to teach the little children their prayers and to instruct them in the way of our holy religion The Rosary and the Litany cf the Blessed Virgin were recited and the Mass Prayers were said Many of the grown-up Catholics who appreciated tne blessings would come and take part in the prayers and listen to the words of the Sisters Cue, Dongarra, and Leonora followed quickly, and each tells the same story of good work and generous sacrifice

In 1906 Mother Mary Benignus crossed over from New Zeaalnd, a slort journey in comparison to the former one which brought her to that land, and many a man and many a woman from Dongarra to Malcolm has reason to bless her coming to the West Other foundations were added with the years, Mcekatharra, Three Springs, Yalg0o, and so the good work went on and thank God goes on to-day

Well indeed may we thank God for the blessings poured out on this diocese through the labours and the sacrifices of these two holy religious And we find it a joy to be able to unite with them to-dav and witness the visible proofs of the success of their lives' work

The beautiful convent and college which is doing so much for Cathohc piety and education is one example a pleasing example And as these two holy souls took their place beside Mary and John on Calvary, so, too, after the manner of the blessed disciple they have taken her to their hearts Faithful to the great tradition of their glorious Order they have loved Mary Who can tell the number of souls that have been helped toheaven by the beads of Mary the Rosary of St Dom-

Thursday, February 15, 1940.

inic held in the pious hands of Mother Mary Dominica and Mother Mary Benignus for 50 years?

Yes, indeed, we thank God and we thank them for if the tokens of their success here are to be seen by us the great proofs of their lives' work will be seen only in heaven

Mother Mary Dominica and Mother Mary Benignus, in union with His Lordship the Bishop, we all unite n congratulating you on your Colden Jubilee oi Profession May Jesus Mary and Joseph and your holy father Dominic, bless you to-day with many golden blessings Amen

The Christian Brothers were represented at the jubilee celebrations by Rev Brother Sandys, while the Pre sentation Sisters, Geraldton, were re presented by Rev Mother Thomas and Mother Mary Peter Rev Father Byrne and Rev Father Anthony Wel lems PS M. arrived a little later, and assisted at the Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

At the conclusion of the Mass the two jubilarians, accompanied by Rev Mother Prioress and Rev Mother SubPrioress, advanced to the foot of the Throne, where they received the crowns symbolic of the eternal crown prepared for them by God, and the staff, which symbolises the grace of God, bestowed on them to help them to attain at last the promised crown At the ccnclusion of the ceremony His Lordship the Bishop bestowed on them the Papa! Benediction graciously conferred by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in re ward for their years of faithful service in the vineyard of Christ

After the ceremony the visitors were entertained by the Community at a dainty luncheon, at which His Lordship the Bishop congratulated the jubilarians and the Community, and a:led God's blssing on all their future work Pontifical Benediction, during which the Te Deum was sung, closed the :elbrations

The jubilarians hve received many telegrams and letters of congratulation from their friends and well-wishers tar anl near

English Apostles of the Finns

HE evangelisation of Finland, which began in the twelfth century and was completed in the hundred years which followed, was largely the work of three Englishmen of whom one is better known for other reasons They were Nicholas Breakspear who in 1154 became Pope as Adrian IV Henry Bishop of Upsala and Thomas, Bishop of Finland Nicholas reakspear then Cardinal of Albano, was sent as Legate to Norway and Sweden in 1148 by Pope Eu genius III: and it was he who urged King Erik IX of Sweden to undertake a crusade against the Finns Thee primitive heathen people, Asiatic in origin, akin to the Magyars, Esthonians and Karelians, had migrated from the east in the wandering of the races and, driving out the Lapps, had settled along the eastern shores of the Gulf of Bothnia They were much given to piracy, though inland they had begun to follow the more peacefal pursuits of hunting cattle-raising and tillage They seem to havehad no political organisation at all, living isolated in families and clans, though a number of towns and trading centres sprang up both on the seaboard and further inland The heathen religion was equally primitive, with some vague belief in a supreme being known as Jumala the god of the air, or sometimes Ukko the Old One, or the Father, There were large numbers of other gods, such as Tapio, the god of the woods, and Ahti, the god of the sea; and hosts of evil spirits, at whose head was Hiisi, the Evil One Worship was of the most primitive kind, consisting of prayers and open-air offerings to the spirits, with no systematic ritual, and no recognised priesthood Great veneration was paid to the spirits of the dead and there was a good deal of crude necromancy and divination with the lavish use of spells and magical incantations

It was against these people that King Erik of Sweden began his crusade in 1157. He landed in the southeast of the peninsula near where Aabo stands, and began by offering the Finns the choice between accepting Christianity and doing battle They chose to fight, and were soon utterly defeated Many thereupon embraced Christianity but with little depth of sincerity and without surrendering their heathen customs or traditions These began to take on Christian forms or to be coloured by Christian teaching, sometimes in peculiar ways It was thus, probably, that there grew up the tale of Vainamoinen, one of the

BY ANDREW BECK in "The Tablet."

of the legends of Sukkar:'eiin goddess,of love, and Kiputytto, the maiden of pain In some places the Blessed Virgin bccane the bjet of dive veneration

With the crusading king went Henry the Englishman, who had been consecrated Bishop of Upsala by the Legate Nicholas We know little or nothing about his early history save that, possibly, as happened with other Englishmen, he had sought refuge in Scandinavia after the Norman Conquest The earliest relation of his life says that he left in England happy friends, learned companionship and polished manners jucundi amici, docta ingenia, morum civilitas,'' to find in Sweden the cruel enemies of Christ without learning or religion, He had he'ped however, to spread light in the darkness, and was ready to accompany the king and to assist in the conversin ef the Finns King Erik's direct methods proved superficially effective, anl numbers of the conquered Finns came into the Church The Swedish King returned to his country, leaving Henry to organise and develop the infant mission The new Bishop made a first foundation at Nousis, near Aabo, and began to travel about the country preaching, chiefly in the market town, working northward as far as the river Kumo and the present Bjorneberg He had spent six months on this work when he was assassinated by a convert named Lalli, a murderer already on whom he had laid a heavy eucesiastical penance He was hacked to death in the middle of a frozen ma1, and the legend relates that the murderer took the Bishop's cap and placed it upon his own head, only to find, on taking it off, that he had torn off with it his own hair and skin The martyr's body was taken to Nousis where it was preserved and venerated until the eighteenth century, when it was stolen by the Russians and completely lost It was in January that the Bishop was murdered, and in the following Spring a precious relic was found bv a blind man and his bov who were travelling across the marsh near the scene of the martyrdom The thaw had set in in the marsh, and the two companions were attracted by a raven pecking at something in the ice They approached, and the boy saw, embedded in the ice, a human thumb, with a gold ring upon it at which th bird was pecking, corvo super ipso erocitante, says the legend The boy rescued the thumb, thinking it must be a relic of the martyred saint, and this conjecture was confirmed when, on putting the relic to his eyes the old man

found his sight restored Veneration of the Saint spread rapidly through the northern countries, he was eventually canonised as a martyr and was popularly known as the Apostle of Finland

The Finns, however, proved unstable converts promising to be faithful to their religion when they were threatened by enemies, but lapsing irtto heathenism again when the danger had passed They were attacked repeatedly by the Karelians from the East, and many ot the Bishops and clergy were slain; so that by the end of the twelfth century the missionary work of St Henry had practicaty come to nothing It was Pope Innocent III who determined to begin again, and again it was an Englishman who was given charge of the work a missionarv named Thomas, who may have been a Dominican, though the confusion of dates makes it doubtful, and who had already laboured for the Church in Finland He was consecrated Bishop of the whole of Finland by the Archbishop of Lund probably in 1209 and proved a splendid man for the task With fiery zeal and energy he set to work to revitalise the Christianitv of the Finns, and although he failed to stamp out completely their heathen traditions and practices he succeeded in establishing the Church on the solid basis of property, taking over many of the heathen groves and holy places for the purpose of Catholic worship His labours received great encouragement from the Popes, and it is chiefly from the letters and bulls of Innocent III, and Gregory IX that we have our most reliable accounts of Finnish Christianity Pope Honorius, in fact, supplies what must be one of the earliest examples of Papal approval for an economic boycott, when he writes to the Bishop to urge that the aggression of the heathen Esthonians may be greatly checked if trading relations with them are broken off Bishop Thomas seems to have wished to make his See of Finland independent of Upsala and Lund, and directly under Papal control, and the Popes appear to have favoured the scheme Gregory IX, at any rate threatened with ecclesiastical censure all who should attack the Bishops, clergy or faithful of Finland, as so he declared he had taken them under the special protection of the Holy See. In 1240 Thomas took part in a crusade which Pope Gregory had proclaimed against the Russians The crusaders failed to take Novgorod and were heavily defeated on the banks of the Neva, the Bishop barely escaping with

Racing Selections

By 'The Hawk'

CANNING PARK

Saturday, February 17, 1940 (Before Acceptances)

Maiden Handicap: Prince Merab 1; Lady Proctor, 2; Lady Agrion, 3 Canning Plate: Blue Lake 1; Flame Girl 2; Philock, 3. CanningPurse: Hinda, 1; Pretoria,2; Saladin, 3 Canning Handicap: Owlet 1; Cresting 2; Silvarra, 3 W.A Breeders' Handicap: Great Treat, 1; Daylight, 2; Agrionette, 3 Welter Handicap: Samoan Clipper, 1; Ockley, 2; Dawnlist 3 0-0«0.00«000.0«o0.

Trotting Selections

GLOUCESTER PARK. Saturday, February 17, 1940 Victoria Handicap: Marquis d'Or, 1; Last Choice 2; Wilia's Gifi, s ' South Australia Handicap: Don Sebastian, 1; Huon's Rock, 2; Head Rose, 3 Tasmania Handicap: Gay Polly, 1; Wee Globe, 2; Serene Derby, 3 Championship Grand Final: Grand Mogul, 1; Our Globe, 2; Logan Derby, 3 Ner Zealand Handicap: Kolect, 1; Ruling Globe, 2; Alfred's Double 3 New South Wales Handicap: Earl Pronto 1; Globe Dorell 2; Will o' the Wisn 3 his ife He seems afterwards to ave been engaged in activitis even less episcopal in charactr, including the mutilation of a man who afterwards died He even dared wth devilish presumption, us Pope Inn vent IV ut it, to falsify Papal Bulls For these reasons he resigned his Se in 1245, and went to spend the remainder f his days with the Dominicans in Gott! id Within a few years the work of Christianising the country was completed by the vigorous and ruth, ss methods of the Swedish noble., rl Birger who invaded the countr near Helsinki and, improving on the earlier methods of King Erik, put to the sword all the inhabitants wh world ot accept the Faith. This compellIng method proved successful and. with the establishment of the Dominicans in the country, the future of the Church was assured Catholicism in Finland flourished for another three hundred years until it was almost entirely obliterated at the time of the Reformation

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POPE APPROVES FRENCH PAROCHIAL CLERGY'S "COMMUNITY" LIFE.

Relief From Worries of Temporal Order Paris

The Pope ha: signified his approval of the custom adopted by the priests of certain towr and rural cantons in France of living in ommunity- submitting to a common rule of life and occupying the same residence, from which each membr visis his parish regularly and re@uently

Each year on Community day" representatives from the different communities meet to exchange news and information

On the occasion f the 10th Community day held in Pari, Cardinal Maglione Papal S tar of State sent in the Holy Father's name a letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, in which these "parish cmmunities" were approved.

"Above all., what is necssarv in this wholesome spiritual work,' reads the letter, is that these apostles of the soul, consecrated to the pastoral ministry without lfishness and without reserve, be free a far as possible from worries attending the temporal order

The expansion of this activity has resulted in revising the Faith and Christian piety in regions from which it had been banished This result could not be more encouraging"

(Continued from Page !0 clergy is now 43, namely: one Archdiocese and seven dioceses in India and Ceylon; three Vicariates in Indo-China° one Archdiocese and one diocese and one Prefecture in Japan; one Prefecture in Korea; 16 Vicariates and nine Prefectures in China, and two Vicariates and one Prefecture in Africa All these are in charge of native secular clergy, with exception of three Vicariates entrusted to Chinese Vincentians and one Prefecture entrusted to Chinese Franciscans Furthermore, one Vicariate in China, that of Sienhsien, although not in charge of native clergy, 1sruled by a Chinese Jesuit Apostolic Vicar • As a result of the Motu Proprio ancta Dei Ecclesia," of_ March 25, 838, the Archdiocese of_ Ispahan, in 'n, and Bagdad, in Iraq, and the ;Cariate of Aleppo in Syria ceasedon 'e1 1939, to be subject to the jurIs«Action of Propaganda and passed nder that of the Sacred Congregation or the Eastern Churches Despite this diminution, the eccle@steal territories subject to the jurisction of Propaganda rose during the " {pm 526 to 532. Theses 532 ec{esasti@al territories are thus divided: Archdioceses, 74 Dioceses, 5 Independent Abbeys, 296 Vicariates 123 ''{ectres ii independent fissions. 2 Independent Districts Geo. {"Really ihey are thus distributed: ·; ;ia, 238138 being in China and 55 {'!a.in Africa 150 n Amerea 56 in 4nia 69, and in Europe 19 It is worY_of note that of the 532 ecclesiastical 'rritories subiect to the jurisdiction of ["9Paanda 211 were created during P e pontificate of the late Holv Father us XI tht 192 ': at Is between February 12, and February 10 1939

"Let the People Sing." By J B Priestley

"Let the People Sing" J B Priestley's recently published book which has been broadcast by the B B C. will certainly appeal to all admirers of the type of novel produced by this author It is the fast-moving and vividly descriptive story of a critical few weeks n the life of Timmy Tiverton-a capable little comedian whose name about twenty years ago, topped the bill of any theatre fortunate enough to ecure his services His fame, however has now declined and his energies are directed towards obtaining any re munerative outlet for his talents before all his remaining cash, £3, finds its way from his pocket

After unsuccessful applications to two companies followed by an unfortunate incident whereby the hero is mistaken for an IRA man, he concludes that the police are anxious to meet him The sight of a blue uniform leads Timmy to take cover in a railway goods van, where he encounters the philosophical Czech Professor Kronak whose permit to stay in England has expired before he has received permission to rejoin his son in America The fugitives join forces and alighting at an isolated country station decide to try the hospitality of a gentleman to whom the professor's daughter-in-law has given him a letter of introduction The friend however has gone abroad leaving his mansion in the possession of his eccentric uncle Sir George His idiosyncrasies cause them • trouble but their knowledge of them is later immeasurably useful

Continuing their wanderings they meet Tom Hassock, whose business is to travel from town to town selling various wares to a crowd which he has attracted per medium of a free entertainment Tom is accompanied by his extremely attractive and perspicacious niece, Hope Ollerton, whom they readily recognise from the description of Rodger Liss Timmy and the professor had met this young man, who possesses no mean ability as a fighter, in a road-house where he was looking for Hope She, however, mistaking his natural shyness for lack of spirit, consistently gives him the cold shoulder'

When two entertainers fail to keep an appointment to meet Hassock he engages Timmy and his friend who is a

capable pianist, and the company travels to Dunsbury where Hassock has hired a hall On arrival there thev find that the council has withdrawn permission for musical entertainments to be held in this hall, which has been presented to the Dunsbury people for their musical entertainment bv an ancestor of snobbish Lad Foxfield and her tamely submissive son Sir Reginald An American manufacturing company which realises the hall's possibilities as an advertising medium and Lady Foxfield's party which aspires towards converting it into a museum find themselves opposed by a th.rd contender for the hallHassock, his companions, and a few local allies who adopt the slogan, Let the people sing" Before they can follow the object which brought them to Dunsbury the hall must revert to its former status; hence they devote all their powers to the achievement of this end

Meanwhile Timmy while avoiding the "man who calls 'Hey'!" whom he suspects of being a detective, encounters Daisy, a close friend of his earlier stage years who with the assistance of several former associates, is running a highly successful road-house

From this point Priestley continues to describe the spirited rivalry between the three parties, the interesting personal affairs of the various characters and, among other humorous incidents, the scene when "Dunsburv loses its temper'

The plot is well worked out and holds the reader's interest just as the characters on account of their natural vet extremely original conduct, grip one's absorbed attention

All told, the author, by the use of apt and witty similes, by masterly drawing of the characters and by his style which is graceful and easy to follow has dressed th clever plot of "Let the People Sing'' so attractively that his book is certain to please the most critical reader-M D

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"Their Moods and Mine,'' by Reginald Pound., s written bv a journalist in rather journalistic style It does not deal with any subject n particular neither apparently was it written with any special aim in view being a disjointed collection of anecdotes about and interviews with people well known in journalistic, political and social cir-

cles in London Quite justly does the publisher's wrapper state: "Everyone who is anybody will be found in these pages many of them taken vnawares, many of them caught and registered in the indulgence of foibles or the ssump tion of poses not one of them released without some sparkle of seli-revelation or revealing anecdote' Repeatedly the author's commonsense comes to light in spite of mistaken philosophical or religious notions, where a witty but not mordant remark caps an anecdote Also the author's natural pride in his comparatively large family he has seven children) strikes a very pleasing note throughout the book and the reader has to admire his deep personal interest in their welfare Th k wuld provide good recreational reading for those familiar with London celebrities, and all would know of sore of the personalities de picted-J J OM

1940

THE ECORD

ARCHBISHOP CALLS FOR FAMILY PRAYER

SIXTEEN Liverpool

The revival of the old Catholic practice of family prayers, very strongly urged by Archbishop Doney, is to be a special feature of this year's campaign of the Liverpool Archdiocesan Board of Catholic Action

The Archbishop, in a letter to the clergy, expressed his desire that the campaign should begin on the Feast of the Holy Family

In a letter to Ir C J Doyle, J.P , acting chairman of the Catholic Action Board he recalls the promise of Our Lord to be with those who gather in His name, and says: "It cannot be doubted that such prayers would have special value in making for the restoration of a just and lasting peace"

The present time,'' says His Grace, seems to be a suitable occasion for reviving the old Catholie custom of family prayers, and, consequently, I have asked the Catholic Action executive to make this revival a special point in their programme for the coming year

"Particulars of the Catholic Action campaign are now available, and it is gratifying to all of us to see that the Rosary of Our Blessed Lady is assigned a prominent part

"It is a prayer admirably adapted for public use and, in fact, had its origin as a prayer for peace in time of war

"In reciting it we shall be putting ourselves in unison with hundreds of men at the front who thumb their beads as they implore the protection of the Mother of God."

Catholic Womens' League

The monthly meeting of the League will be hela mn the Cathedral Hall on Wednesday, February 28 at 8 pm It is hoped that all members will endeavour to be present Soldiers' Reception Committee, A committee that will function for the duration of the war has been formed The work of this body s to provide a light repast for the soldiers of the I F as they are passing through Perth The Cathedral Hall is to be -our depot for this purpose

The response of the members of the League has been most generous There will be a meeting of the committee on Monday next, Fbruary 19, at 2.30 p.m in the Leagme Rooms

Chesterton Club

On Wednesday, February 14, Mr James Mccusker spoke on Edward Elgar, the composer Selected gramophone recordings were used to illustrate the work of this great artist Wednesday February 28: Mr Cyril Dudley, well-known leader of the Seccession movement and stage artist, will give an address of Public Speaking Wednesday, March 13: Rev Father Harold Lalor will give a lantern-slide lecture on "The Holy Shroud" Father Lalor, who recently returned from Europe, will have many interesting things to say Should you have the idea of coming along to the Chesterton Club, all that you need do is put in an appearance at a meeting This year socials will be arranged, and we particularly desire to see many more young people take an interest in the Club, which meets at the Central Catholic Library 36 Pierstreet, Perth

CATHOLIC TENNIS ASSOCIATION

By RON"

Summer Snied Competition

The sem-nnals n the , B, and C Graes o tae bummer Shield Competition took piece on Sunday last and resulcea as ,0lows A' Grae: St, Kevin's, 10.81, beat St Joachim s, b o±; St Mary's 10.57 teat Sc Brigia's, 557 'B Grade: Columba, 1287, beat St Brigid's 45; Highga e, 9,69, beat St Mary s, 763 U' Graae: Higagate, 12 88, beat St Joachims 443; St Kevin's beat Theresians (forfeit) Herewith is the draw for the finals to be played on Sunday, February 18: A" Grade: St Kevin's v. St Mary's, at Victoria Park 'B'' Grade: Columba v Highgate at Leederville "C' Grade: Highgate v St, Kevin's, at Inglewood • All matches will commence at 2 pm sharp Trip to Bunbury re you going to Bunbury next weekend (Feb 24-25)? The Association will conduct this trip at the request of St, Patrick's Club, Bunbury The train will leave Perth at 2 pm returning from Bunbury at 7 pm, on Sunday evening The -fare will cost 25s (including accommodation, entertainment etc) The Bunbury Club have arranged splendid entertainment for the visitors, one of the main items being a dinner and dance at Turkey Point The members of St Brigid's Club, Collie, will also be visiting Bunbury at the same time Those members who intend going are requested to get in touch with the Association secretary, Mr J T Edwards, as soon as possible, re transport, etc

Subiaco

Parents with girls and boys over 14 at home or at school are invited to send them to the City Commercial College on trial for a week They will be given the ordinary instruction, and when that period has elapsed we will report to you fully and frankly regarding their chances of becoming ffi-, cient office workers This servic~ is free and places you under no obliga ion C.C C graduates get Gold Efficiency Badges guaranteed first appointments practical experience in our own offices, and Free Employment Service for Life Call or write for 'Guide to Business Training" and "Annual Report for 1939 " No obligation

Annual General Meeting large attendance of members is expected at the supper room of the Perth Town Hall on Friday evening, February 23, the occasion of the thirteenth annual general meeting of the Association Chief business will be the election of office-bearers for the ensuing year, besides the discussion of important items that should be full of interest to both the Association and clubs in general, Nedlands Club The annual general meeting of the club will be held at St Teresa's Hall, corner of Edward and Tyrrell-streets on Monday evening next, I9th inst All members and intending members are invited to be present

r Catholic Women's League

The Subiaco Branch of the Catholic Women's League will hold its monthly meeting in St Joseph's Hall at 8 p.m on Wednesday February 21 There are many important matters to be discussed, and Mrs Maxwell, the President of the Central Executive, has signified her intention of being present Holy Name Society

The third annual general meeting of St. Joseph's Branch of the Holy Name Society took place last Sunday evening in St Joseph's Hall, in the presenoe of a large gathering of members The president, Mr E O'Mahony presided and the spiritual director (Rev Father Brosnan) was also present The branch secretary (Mr J W Wall), in his annual report; stated that the attendance of members at the monthly Communions and meetings had been fairly good, but there was still room for improvement During the year a juvenile branch was formed, and the attendances of its members at meetings was excellent The balance sheet was also read and showed a satisfactory position The election of office-bearers re sulted as follows: President, Mr E O'Mahony vice-president Mr Patter son, hon secretary, Mr. J W Wall; hon treasurer, Mr B L Ryan; members of council, Messrs, Pownall, Hie key, Whitely • St Kevin's Tennis Club

Cogan's are pleased to offer the convenience of Lay-by Buying to those Men who might wish to adopt this help in stocking up their wardrobes before prices rise The possibility of securing "undoubted quality" at present prices should appeal to every discriminating man-the Lay-by is Cogan's way of Helping

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Metropolitan Social Council Bro Burrowes presided over the meeting, and delegates represented District Board Leederville Highgate East Victoria Park, Midland Victoria Park, St Patrick's, Maylands, Bayswater, Subiaco and South Perth

The river trip held on February 2 was very enjoyable fhe annual picnic will be held on° February 18 at Keane's Point Boats will leave Barrack-street Jetty at 1l o'clock sharp good sports programme has been arranged for the afternoon, Free ginger beer and lollies for the children

Congratulations are extended to the members of the Hibernian debating team, who were successful in winning the final of the Oregan debates

The inter-branch debates will take place at Highgate, between Maylands and Highgate The subject is That the policy of the Federal Government in sending troops to fight abroad s not in the best interests of the Commonwealth"

St Joachim's Branch

The vice-president, Bro G Keogh, presided at the meeting held on Februarv 5 Members will be sorrv to know that Sr M Brennan is an inmate of St John's Hospital, Belmont We wish her a speedy recovery The quarterIv Communion of the branch will take place on Sunday, 25th inst, at the 7 o'clock Mass, and we hope to see all members present The next meeting will be held on February 19.

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The No 85 Charities Consultation is now in its fifth week, and will soon be fully subscribed To avoid disappointment intending purchasers of tickets should buy now Further delay in buving might mean being left out of a chance to win £6,000 with 2/6.

The annual handicap tournament of the above club has now almost oncluded, having proved very successful and enjoyable to all who participated The winners of the respective events were as follows: Men's singles K Townshend; men's doubles, F Magurie and P Kirby; women's singls, Miss J Ryan mixed doubles, Miss K. Mitchell and K Townshend The women's doubes have yet to be finalised The club championships will e held in about one month's time Members of the club took part in a social match against members of e Highgate Club at the Deep-Dene Courts in Adelaide Terrace, on Tuesday evening last Altogether some forty members attended, an njoyable time being spent Despite the fact that they were well beaten in the con test, our members voted the evening was first-class Another social match is now being arranged YOUNG MEN'S CLUB NOTES. Athletic Club

The committee have alreadv started on the formation of the Subiaco C Y M Athletic Club, and preliminary arrangements re affiliation, etc are being gone into Already we have had numerous inquiries concerning the club, and have several leading athletes ready to join • Annual Marathon As time draws near our thoughts are turned towards the annual Marathon contest This event is always run just after Easter A sub-committee n Messrs R Morris, G Gee, and F O'Mahony have been appointed to visit the Fremantle CYM S to discuss the matter with them Indoor Games

The Club has now purchased new sports equipment for use in indoor games New sets of quoits, darts, and table tennis, etc., have been procured Jottings

The usual meeting is being held in the hall on next Monday evening Our club library will be functioning shortly A new book-case is being procured Further books would be welcomed by the Club

Catholic Young Ladies Club

Our meeting last week was held at the beach The idea of going to the beach in the hot weather brought very good results, and quite a reasonable number turned up Needless to say, club business was neglected in favour of swimming but we can make up for this on other nights. We have to announce that once more we are to shift from Cathedral Hall This week's meeting will be held at the hall and we will decide then where we will hold future meetings We will need help, so I hope all members will come along and do their bit 3

3¥FMTHE5!$ In Christ

EVERY MANS NEED

AMUCH bandied word in the current vocabulary of Europe is "Weltanschauung" Like charity it covereth a multitude of sins

What it means exactly is hard to define, harder still to translate It is one of those words that everyone seems to understand spontaneously !

It has been variously rendered as a vision of lif, n ide« gy, a synthesis. has even b n b ptied, and we hear talk of a Christian Weltenscharung the Christian way I king at life, the world everything- -the Christian synthesis.

Now that i important Continually we are given fresh evidence of the synthetic character of the thought of to day In every sphere w notice the same tendency to reduce things to some sort of unity The historical justification for it is obvious to even the e sual student of post-Reformation Europe

The trend first became apparent in the latter half of the last century, especiall n the religio-scientific sphere. Todav we see its factual manifestation in the socio-politial feld as well It goes far towards explaining the phenomenn of totalitarianism in its various ·orms

And if the mass mind of to-day has developed this synthetic attitude towards life and, above all, the fundamental problems of human existence, personal and social, so has the man-inthe-street consciously or unconsciously come to share this same characteristic Talk to a bricklayer or a miner in one f his serious moments and it becomes all too apparent Catholic thought on the other hand has sensitively responded to this need and this groping of modern man The Church has drawn aside the veil from yet another aspect of the Truth entrusted to her that she in turn may take, bless and break, and give to men In the mystery of the Church the Truth has even stooped to man, and if in the course of time the issue has become obscured, to-day it has been stripped bare once more: modern man and Christ stand face to face, stark and inevitable, as question and answer CHRIST Christ is the answer to the hunger f the poor to the metaphysic of philosophy to social crisis, to the yearning of a single human heart He is the answer to Youth, and the answer to Age, to wedded love or consecrated virginity, to sweated labour, pain, joy-even to sin No one, nothing can escape Him, be it to glory or confusion. Men and events find their true meaning only "in Christ'' History is HIS story the eternal Fourth Dimension in Whom ur finite being attains the Absolute that is the Thrice-Holy, We desperately need re-orientationa banality, perhaps Let us say reOrientation, remembering the words of Zacharv: "The Orient is His name" (Zac 6, 12) We must learn to see all things "in Christ." That is the Christian vision of things; apart from it there is only chaos for men and for institutions We must integrate every phase of life political, social religious private and public- in Christ In Him must be re-capitulated all things which are in heaven and on earth" That is the divine plan It is Catholic dogma And what this "re-capitulation' means we wish to try and help one another the better to understand, To

see all things in the light of 'hrist, finding their unity, their meaning, their fulfilment in Him

Above all, if we are to preach a New World to a New Youth we owe it to Christ and to them to give them what they are seeking False prophets are blinding the Youth of to-dav with their doctrines pagan syntheses that are at root but the one satanic "Weltanschauung.'

Communism Nazism Fascism Shintoism, Page nism-mass movements that are drawing millions on their wake'! Their prophets know the secret well: they preach with consummate technique the vision that is for each his synthesis of things.

LEADERSHIP

We, too, have our movements, J :ism and the rest Thy have their wn place in the scheme of things. We t. • have our vision not a creature o the human brain, but conceived by the very Trinity in eternity that man might be born agin to God n Christ

We have been called t. lead but it must be intelligent leadership We have much vet to learn, and first things come first The Christian dynamic is founded in dogma There 1s a Christian dialectic too"the dialectic of grace"

And there is a Christian philosophy, a Christian Weltanchauung in which all things find their place as in a vast mosaic, or rather in which all men form the members of one great mystie Person, the Whole Man-Christ, the divine Svnthesis

AT COLLIE

Some' of the Children who attended

On January 13, fifty-four children trom the outlying districts gathered at the Presentation Convent for the Annual Religious Holiday School held under the capable guidance of their parish priest, Rev Father Briody Daily the children were present at two Masses and Benediction At 9 o'clock Father Briodv instructed them about the Mass The eagerness with which the children sought the Word of God, whether in church or school, amply repaid any little sacrifice made by the priests or the Sisters, who curtailed their holidav at Mosman Park

On the second last dav fourteen made their first confession and Holy Communion and were enrolled in the brown scapular, and each child received little souvenirs that would remind them of lessons imparted to them, that they may have a personal love of Christ and His teaching

During the hot weather Father Divinev took the children to the popular Town Pool, where Mr Wiggins awaited their arrival to teach thm to swim; his efforts were thoroughly appreciated The evening recreation (socials or parlour games) passed all too quickly for there was a good deal of protest when the night prayer bell rang out

A farewell tea party was arranged for the final function Tables set in the School Hall were beautifully decorated and weighed down with every uxurv that delights the child-including cordials given by Mr D Meagher who is alwavs to the fore, and a churn of ice-cream kindly donated by Mr Finnev

At last good-bye had to be said and little friends assured each other that thev would write until they met again next vear

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What Century Would You Choose?

If you had your choice, in what century of the world's history would you have been born? By the same token that the distant hills look greenest, to many a man the golden age seems always to lie in some far-off age

So, writes Father Daniel Lord, S J, in "The Queen's Work" (U S A ), we asked twenty thousand young men and women what century, if they. had had their choice, they would have liked for the period of their life Here are their answers:

Give me the twentieth cent tury, my own,'' was the vote of the majority, thus proving the contentment of young people with thingsastheyare "Thisis the century of greatest advantages universal education easyliving moderninventions and,' added a great number of thegirls, "women's rights."

found knighthood n flower and been permitted to fight for the Holy Land"

Hereare unusual and less popular choices : We'dchoosetheageof Shake speare because of the birth of modern drama and the flowering of literature The fifteenth and the sixteenthcenturies, while

IF YOU HAD YOUR CHOICE,

What Century In

i ; The Competition will comprise two sections: (a) Pupils ! over 14 years of age; (b) Pupils 14 years of age and under, on � the closing date Candidates are to give reasons for their I choice in an essay ranging from 250 to 7 50 words ! ] Closing Date, April 30 j Photographs and winning Essays published

Thursday, February 15, 1940

days temptations and dangers were fewer Anyhow I prefer horses toautomobiles It was easy then to getworkand a wife Society in America was more conventional Women were respectedandrespectable"

Wisest perhaps were the young people that voted for the here and now, because "God wills it, and God knows what's best for me"

AMERICAN MONTHLY GIVES POINTERS TO MOVIES

St Louis U.SA

In a salutation to the motion picture industry on its fiftieth anniversary, The Queen's Work" national Catholic monthly published here in its Christmas issue, takes the industry to task for having strayed into a far country and fed swine"

Strange that you should have found criminals heroic and prostitutes attractive and sin beautiful and lies dearer than the truth,'' the article continues

Eventually you learned, though you learned the hard way-through threats and drubbings

'Your first half century is gone What about the next?

Will your giant powers be spent on the silly stories of boy meeting girl? Will you always solve your problems with a gun or a blow? Will you always pretend that all audiences are concerned only with laughter or tears that dry before The End' fades from the screen?

Sanctifying grace you'll never catch with the lens ol a camera; but some day you should be old enough to know that virtue shines in the human face with beauty no mere regularity of line can math

You have shown us how men can break the Ten Commandments Can you shcw us how splendid are the men and women who keep them?

You have pictured the love of man for woman, Can you picture two great cmmandment of Christ, love f God and love of Neighbour? Y ur have glimpsed faintly Chrit and Ma v Perhaps some day y u will really dicover them and the countless millions who with quiet drama and the poet y of sinless ife have followed and still do follow them

"You will teach us truer patriot ·m and deeper purity the courage of g 1ness nd the beauy f unslfishne Your aims will be not merely the laughter but the elevation of humanity Your values will be God's A'l th t lies ahead. Half a centurv is :ust a fumbling start God speed you mn your m rch towards vour century"

SOVIET INVASION MAY RUIN COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL.

Some chose otherwise And here in order of selection are the favourite centuries:

The time of Christ, because I mighthave beenprivilegedto see Him The eighteenth centurv, a time when there was the greatest opportunity for adventure and discovery and at the same time calmer, happier home ife Give us the Gay Nineties, with their romantic'way of living, simplicity of manners, chivalry towards women I'd have liked the colonial days because of their customs and costumes We'd choose to have lived in the Middle Ages, since then itwaseasierto begood Ifwehadlivedduringthetimeof the Crusades, we should have

less advanced than ours, seem to havebeenmoredignified The age of martyrs might havegiven usthechance to dieforourfaith Iwish I couldhave been born in thetwenty-firstor thetwentyfifth century; civilisation may have progressed beyond even wars and persecution Men of theeighteenth centuryseemed to have been gentlemen How about the ages of the cave men? They weren't slaves of convention"

Most remarkable of all is the wistfulness with which modern young people turn back to the nineteenth century one of the most laughed-atcenturies They like the calm Victorian davs, for "during the horse-and-buggy

"The Communist Internation I has been wiped out a a living force and t is now headed for ruin," Melech Eo stein, vetwral member of the Commun ist Party in the United States, who publicly resigned from the party after Russia's pact with Germany and the Soviet invasion of Poland, told a meeting recently in Montreal Hundreds stormed the, building to hear Mr Epstein and n associate, Louis Hyman, speak on 'Wh«· I left the Communist Party" Mr Epstein, for five vwars editor of the morning "Freiheit," Communist dailv in New York accused Stalin and his coterie of leaders of "betraying th true cause of Communism"

HARVEY

MASS TIME TABLE. February 18: Waroona 830 a m Harvey, 10 am February 25: Yarloop, 8 am; Harvey, 10 am March 3: Harvey, 8 am; Waroona, 10 am March 10: Harvey 8 am; Yarloop Io am March 17: Waroona, 830 am; Harvey 10 am March 24: Yarl0op 8 am; Harvey, 10 am March 31: Harvey, 8 am; Waroona, 10 am April 7: Harvey 8 am; Yarloop 10 am April 14: Waroona, 8.30 am; Harvey, 10 am April 21 Yarl0op 8 am; Harvey IO am April 28: Harvey, 8 am; Waroona 10 am

To non-Catholies, and indeed to some Catholics the idea of penance as part of our worship of God is something that needs explanation "Why," these people ask 'must a Catholic partake of a fish dinner on one day of every week Surely he cannot be serving his God any better with his fish than the man who dines on steak The Omnipotent Creator is far above these little differences of quality in food And then take that foolish period called Lent-sackcloth and ashes, and all that It's just a mediaeval relic that should have been discarded long ago'' Flippant criticism born of ignorance

Why should penance form part of the working of the Catholie Church? For the very simple reason that the Catholic Church is the Church founded bv Christ: and Christ said with Divine emphasis: "Unless you do penance you shall all likewise perish."

The object of penance is readjustment, and the necessity for this readjustment arises from sin By sin things are thrown out of their proper order; by penance they are restored to it Sin is a turning of the will away from the Creator to a creature By penance this bent will is straightened out and put back in its right direction Turning way from God is a crime and all crime must be punished To forestall God's punishment which is to come either in this life or in the next the sinner takes the punishment into hi own hands He wishes to give some proof to God that he is sorry for past delinquencies; he wishes to show that he has turned from the creature back to the Creator, and so he makes a definite renunciation of some created gool He says, as it were, to God: My God, by my sins I turned away from You but now I see the folly and evil of my action I turn back to You I have insulted you by my conduct I am sorry and to prove the sincerity of my sorrow I'II do something hard for Your sake I admit that I deserve punishment for my sins, and to show the honestv of that admission I will inflict that punishment myself I will do penance"

To do Penance-these words conjure up a picture f the Fathers of the Desert and disiplines chains and all kinds of instrument of self-torture The word Penance'' frightens us, but it should not When we are asked to do penance we are not asked to do something beyond our strength We are asked to do something proportioned to our capacity, something that will pinch but not overwhelm For instance, a smoker is doing penance when, for God's sake, he foregoes his usual after-breakfast pipe or cigarette A picture-goer is also doing penance when for the same reason, he denies himself the pleasure of a visit to the cinema A youngster is doing penance when love of God prompts him to abstain from lollies The definite renunciation of some created good, be it food drink, comfort or anything else made for the love of God -that is what penance means. The Church, knowing that we all have many things to do penance for, and knowing equally well our capability for putting unpleasant things "on the long finger," simplifies matters for us She appoints lefinite days and periods when all her children get together in spirit and join in united efforts to work off in whole or in part the debt of punishment due cr sn That is the reason we have Frdav abstinence Ember Davs and Lent For these special days and periods the Church marks out a certain amount of penance which is obligatory on all The rest she leaves to ourselves

Here again the critic int-venes to reiterate his old argument. "If your God is so great and infinite, what can you, an nsignificant creature, do that could make any difference t IIim? You really don't tink that by not smoking a cigarette yon want to smoke, or some other trivial th'ng uke that, you are in any way interesting the Omnipotent One," Critic< forget that our God is a Loving Father and we are His children They forget the truth Thomas a' Kempis expresses so well: "It is not the gift of the lover that matters, but the love of the giver" It is th@love that we wrap round the trifles we offer to God that makes them valuable in His eyes God is not likely to find use for the things we offer the cigarette the meat dinner or the cool drink But it means quite a lot that we should sacrifice these things we fain would keep, an! offer to Him Something we want verv much

How a worthless gift can get an mnfused value from the love of the giver we can illustrate from everyday ife

See a child toddle to its fathers knee, and with shiaag eyes f love offer him a battered toy The ridiculous toy was the child's loved plaything It

Penance

was of no interest to the father But now, as the youngster looks up and says, Here, Daddy, this is "or youyou keep it,'' the once worthless object becomes a treasure It tells the father of the love of his child for him, and of the sacrifice his child made to give concrete expression to that love So it is with us and our Father God

The holy season of Lent has started and we should strive to enter into it in a spirit of loving atonement Far from shirking the penances imposed by Church precept, we should perform them generously We should add to them some little penances of our own God means us to enjoy the good things f life, but He never meant that they should master us and we became their slaves To show our love, and to prove that our wills are set in the right direction, we should curtail our use of these good things A fixed programme of self-denial in certain definite things different things for different people should be made and adhered to Be our mortifications ever so small, if they are wrapt in the love of God they are priceless

In this matter we should ever remember the solemn words of Christ impressing on us the necessity of penance and self-denial: "Unless you do penance you shall all likewise perish" We should remember, too, the condition that must be fulfilled before we can call ourselves true followers of the Master Here are His own words; they give us something for meditation and self-examination-

If any man will come after Me

Let him deny himself

1And take up his cross daily And follow Me (Matt xvi., 24)

Those who happen to lead fairly sheltered lives have no conception of how much of the matter on which laughter is fed is sheer prurieney Among men and women who care nothing for religion this is not surprising But how many Catholics are there who seem to think that there is no harm in listening to and worse in retailing jests and stories whose sole point lies in th ir uncleanness? Even in the world good taste and good breeding rule out a great deal of the grosser matter

But though wit may be a sauce it is not a soap; it cannot make clean that which is unclean.

If you are inclined to think that there is no harm in it, and are disposed to defend your view by arguments, listen to the Apostle St Paul, who seems to anticipate this:

Let no man deceive you with ain words For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief''

The anger of God came upon the ancient pagan world not because of their pagan beliefs (as yet for the most part they had had no opportunity of knowing and worshipping the true God) but because of the licentiousness which peremated their lives and because they did that which the unaided human reason could perceive to be evil

There s plenty of good fun to be had and plenty of lawful laughter without having fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness It is not the mark of the true Christian to ee how nearly he may accommodate his wav of life to that of the world without mortal sin

No Catholic unless he has been brought up in an extraordinary ignorance of his religion, can be unaware that there is at least something wrong about the looseness of talk that is unhappily so common And it is surely to the last degree improper that the lips and the mouth, through which have been received the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar, should become the instruments and channels of uncleanness

Jem Mace had the longest fight career of all time He was battling in the ring over a period of 48 years

Georges Carpentier was easily the greatest fighter to come out of France He held the French title at everv weight, and was 14 when he won the Bantam title The Empire title fight for the middleweights Ron Richards and Fred Henneberry will take place at the Sydney Stadium on Monday, March 4

Onlv twice in Griffo's career was a decision given against him and one of these was definitely "crooked'' The referee afterwards said he had "made a mistake"

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Cricket

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST WIN

The story of the famous Test match has often been told, yet on Saturday at the WACA Ground I listened to a discussion on that famous victory, and the statements made were quite wrong

The match commenced on Monday, August 28, 1882, and the opening batsmen for Australia were Bannerman and Massie, to the bowling of Peate and Ulyett Australia's captain was Murdoch, while Hornby led England

The morning's play brought nothing but disaster to Australia At one time six wickets were down for 30 and though Garrett and Blackham made a plucky stand, only 18 more had been made up to the luncheon adjournment

Immediately after lunch Garrett was out and shortly after the innings closed, with the total only 63 which was the lowest score the Australians had made on the tour The English bowlIng was very accurate At one period ourteen maiden overs were bowed in succession and Barlow secured 5 for 19 off thirty-one overs

The Australians were right up against t, but when Spofforth yorked'' Dr Grace for four, and had Barlow caught with the total only 8 their spirits leaped"up, but then, Ulyett after a most uncomfortable first over, hit well, and Lucas played the stonewall game, ±ngland was on top again, and with two wickets down the score was within four of that made by Australia

Then things happened quickly Ulyett was bowled by Spofforth; Lucas was caught behind; Studd clean bowled; Lyttle on caught behind-six wickets were down for 64. The next latsman, Banes, went cheaply, but Steel and Read added 26 in a valuable ;{Hersbip The innings closed for

Heavy rain fell during the night Massie and Bannerman opened, the latter stonewalling while his partner went tor the runs, which came quickly and the first inning's deficit was quickly wiped off Eventually Massie was bowled by Studd for 55, a great innings, for he had scored them in as many minutes, out of a total of 66 The innmgs closed at 122

This time the English captain Hornby and Graceopened the innings to the bowling of Spofforth and Garrett, and with the ·score at 15 Spofforth bowled Hornby Barlow the next batsman, was skittled first ball The crowd became very silent, but revived when Grace and Ulyett added 36 priceless runs Thirty-four only wanted and eight of England's greatest batsmen left to get them!

At 51 Ulyett was caught behind bv Blackham off Spofforth Two runs later Grace was caught off Bovle43253 The batsmen were now Lucas and Lyttleton, and the pair took the score to 60

Then the real battle started Bovle and Spofforth bowled as they had never bowled before Maiden follows maiden, four of them, eight of them twelve in succession!

Then Spofforth whispers to Murdoch and Bannerman, and the latter purposely misfields a hit made by Lvttlton, which brings him at the end of the over to face Spofforth He played four maidens from Spofforth, but that bowler finally clean bowled him Read is out caught and bowled Spofforth Seven wickets are down and fifteen runs are required for an English victory They still have Lucas batting well, if somewhat cramped Banes and Studd

A gasp goes up as Lucas falls to Spofforth Without further addition to the scores Banes was caught at the wickets Peate come in, scores two for a hit to leg, is almost bowled by the second ball, plies his bat like a flail and is bowled! " When this last wicket fell the crowd sat for a moment voiceless and stunned, and then broke over the ground in one wild rush to cheer the delighted Australians Australia scored 63 and 122 to England's 101 and 77

Spofforth was carried shoulder high into the pavilion and if ever a man made cricket history it was he that day Fourteen wickets for ninety was his contribution towards that famous victory and at the final pinch he bowled eleven overs for two runs and four wickets

"Punch' paid tribute to the win with these lines:

'Well done, Cornstalks, whipt us Fair and square Was it luck that tripped us?

Was it scare?

Kangaroo land's Demon,' or our own

Want of devil, coolness, nerve, backbone?'

The Demon" was Spofforth

Boxing

Joe Louis has once more successfully defended his title of world's champiin, The latest challenger,, Godoy put up a great fight, and the champion wn a clce decision on points In the th round Godoy gave Louis a rorgh time but the champion gained the decision mait!y for his better work in punchdirection

THE BEST HEAVIES"

Who, in your opinion, is, or was the greatest heavyweight of all time?

Dont rush in- its not easy, if one speaks after judicious thinking 1he old-timer among readers will probably plump for one of the champs of "the good old days.'' It will cause some great discussion among congregated fight fans

Would you agree with this ranking?'

I Jim Jeffries

2 Bob Fitzsimmons

3 Jim Corbett

£ Jack Johnson

5 Jack Dempsey

6. Gene Tunnev

7 Max Baer

8 Max Schmelling

9 Jack Sharkev

10Joe Louis Im sure I'd net agree. Yet it is the ranking of one of America's leading experts I would certainly lift J~ Louis up into No I7 position at least No fighter of the past has won his battles in more convincing fashion than the reigning champion and one would not be unjustified in placing him right at the head of the list

There's a glamour that hangs round the memories of the old 'uns Manv there are who say none has been born as good as John L Sullivan, but he was mostly of the days prior to the advent of the Marquis of Queensberry rules JESS WILLARD

Many stories have been told concerning how and why Jess Willard became a professional boxer Among others it is chronicled that one day while in a fair-sized American town, with an empty pocket and very little inside his stomach, he was attracted by the sight of a circus

Thinking he might get a job as a rider 1n some cowboy stunt, he presented himself to the managers, onlv to find that cowboy stunts were barred on the grounds of having been overdone As he was turning away his eyes fell upon a printed poster representing that a well-known boxer travelling with the show was willing to give a packet of dollars to any local lad who could stand up to him for four rounds

Being assured that the offer was genaine, Willard decided to see how far he could towards earning those dollars His size and his evident greenness to the boxing business captured the fancy of the circus manager who saw in it a good advertisement for his show It is said that enough money was advanced to Willard to keep him going for a few days, while the town was placarded with bills announcing the coming con'est between the circus

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star and the gigantic cowboy, Willard treated it all as a great joke, and when the time came went into the ring with his good-tempered grin much to the fore The first punch stung Willard the second dazed him and the third nearly brought him down, but he weathered the storm somehow and came up, for the second round in such good humoured fashion that he won a hearty round of applause

He had never had a real lesson in boxing, but if all that is told is true he received one in that circus tent B the time the third round was half through, he had collected almost as fine an assortment of hooks, jabs, straightlefts, and right swings on ear and jaw as any novice might desire to gather at one lesson Still his good temper remained unbroken The circus star'began to grow tired and Willard begen to land on him right and left, and it took the pro'' all his time to keep on his feet until the end of the fourth round and Big Jess had won his first prize money. It dawned upon Willard that if he learned to box he had a royal road to fortune and so he became a fighter His greatest asset was his enormous size, but his gameness and invariable good temper were valuable allies He never learnt to use his feet Years spent n a saddle are a poor preparation for any man of great bulk and the wonder is that Jess did so well-not that he did not do better

GERMAN CARDINALS ANSWER.

Man's Free Will a Factor.

The question so frequently asked by those who have tried to get along wi hout God, and which is evidently heard in Germany as well as all cour tries where atheistic propaganda is rife, was answered bv Cardinal Faulhaber Archbishop of Munich Germany in a recent statement In answer to the question: 'Why has God not stopped the war? Why has He allowed one nation to take up arms against another?'' the Cardinal said:

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"('od permits war because le has

given us free-will," His Eminence continued "If then men choose death for themselves and others, God does not withdraw that gift God could suppress at once all makers of war He does not do so If on the one hand He binds the forces of nature bv immutable laws, on the other He allows the human will to function freely By taking that free will from man, one makes him less, one hurts him more deeply in this fashion than could any war wounds Man without free will would not really be man GOOD OUT OF EVIL-

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The Okleigh Handicap will be run at Caulfield on Saturday There should be an unusually big field This race may result Unishak Graceful Mover 2 Chatsburv

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Trotting

The Inter-Dominion Championships have been an unqualified success the best of all time The Carnival will be concluded on Saturday, when the Grand Final will be held

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The Fremantle Trotting Club will hold a meeting at Richmond Park on Saturday, February 24 Special trains and trams will be provided for arons

Advice Racing

Jim Ferrier says that one of the golden rules of golf is always to allow the club to make the shot never to try to assist the club-head to hit the ball and this applies especially to shots with back-spin on them One of the fatal errors in trying to put stop''on is attempting to over-do the shot by forcibly cutting underneath the ball

To begin with the player should always place his trust for back spin in the loft of the club The average No 7 or No 8 iron has sufficient oft when contracting the ball, anywhere below the centre; unless the direction of the blow be markedlv upward, a certain amount of backspin must be imparted

The club should be the major means of producing back-spin coupled with a slight variation in the swing

Ii God allows war, He wants above all else to change evil into good Men do not consider more than the shadows and bitterness of the present moment; God considers the present in conjunction with the future, in the light of the general plan of Creation, where the shadows must be dissipated before the light and where the momentary success of evil will be wiped out by the definite triumph of good

'People of little faith may have doubted the work of Christ when He was condemned to death and when He was stretched on the Cross but God had taken count of the malice of mankind in His plan We cannot fear, then, that God has given up steering the world By His Sovereign power He will transform the darkness into light, and the catastrophe of war into a work of salvation for manv souls To be able to see the link between the present and the future in the Divine plan would rquire the eyes of God But if that is impossible we must not comploin, or blaspheme

"St, Paul says Oh, the depths of the wisdom and the knowledge of God How incomprehensible are His judgments, how unsearchable are His det signs

PRAYERS ANSWERED.

But, it is asked again, why does God seem so insensible to the innumerable prayers which men have offered up that the terrible trial of war might cease We answer: we have no right to impose on God the moment at which He shall hear our prayers All these prayers were foreseen by Him and have part in His plan

"More, God responds to our prayers in wavs which do not always correspond with our intentions The manner of God's answers to our prayers is one of the secrets of Providence

"Let us continue to pray that God will permit the triumph of the just cause It is not good to pray that God will take part in the quarrels of

G E Dines, 16 Duncan Street, Victoria Park • "Faith in Divine Providence is a ray of light which cuts across the darkness It is not true that we are thrown upon the wheel of blind chance; on the contrary, we are in the hand of Divine Providence." men.

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Thursday, February 15, 1940

LITURGICAL CT€CHISM

SUNDAYS IN LENT TO PASSIONTIDE.

Q How are th Sundays in Lent designated?

A The first four are called after the fir t words of their respective Introits The first Sundav is called Invocabit" (He shall call upon me); the second, Reminiscere" (Remember); the third Oculi" (My eyes are ever towards the Lord); the fourth, Lletare" (Rejoice); the fifth is known as Passion Sunday and the sixth as Palm Sunday

Q What is the chief lesson of the First Sunday in Lent?

A Our Lord's contest with the vietory over Satan are brought before us together with the coming of the angels to minister to Him In our struggle with Satan victory is achieved only by self-denial Assistance from heaven can be confidently relied upon in all our efforts The constantly recurring versicle and response of the Office assures us of this:

V "God hath given His angels charge over thee

R To keep thee in all thy ways" tPs 90 J

Q What is to be noted regarding the Tract?

A The Tract constitutes a whole psalm in accordance with the ancient custom

Q What is to be noted regarding the Mass of the Second Sunday?

A In the night before the Second Sunday in Lent the Catechumens were brought to the Church of St Peter for the Station fixed for Saturday of Lenten Quarter Tense, which lasted on to the Sunday and served as the Sunday Mass When the Quarter Tense Mass the Mass of Ordinationswas fixed for Saturday morning the Sunday which was vacant had a Station Mass provided for it in another church, and n the Sunday Mass the Gospel of the Saturday was retained (cf the Thira Sundav of Advent)

O What instructions does this Mass convev?

A The Gospel, which is of the Transfiguration, brings home to us the truth, thatas Christ had to suffer and so enter into His glory, so it is by penance and suffering that we enter into Heaven The spirit of impurity and the spirit of dishonesty (Epistle) are amongst the great obstacles to our attainment of that goal Self-denial will drive out sin and win us grace

Q How does the Third Sunday warn us in regard to our struggle with Satan?

A, If our opposition to him, our fight against sin, be not constant, Satan with seven other spirits more wicked than himself will return into the house whence he came out Gospel) We must walk as children of the light and be not deceived by vain words (Epistle) We must watch and pray

Q What is the special character of the Fourth Sunday in Lent?

A The FourthSunday in Lent strikes a note of joy. The altar is decorated, the organ sounds, the dalmatic and tunic are worn (cf the Third Sunday ofAdvent) It was the Sunday before the great scrutiny that used to be held on the Wednesdav of the fourth week n Lent On that Wednesday took place the ceremony of the 'aperitio aurium'' the opening of the ears: cf the Ephpheta of the Baptismal service and of the "Traditio symbolorum" (the teaching of the Creed and the Our Father and the explanation of the Gospels) These ceremonies assured the Catechumens of their birth to a new life, of their resurrection on Eas'er morning The joyous anticipation f it all gladdened the liturgy of the Fourth Sunday which is called Laeare" Sundav It heralds for us bv wav of encouragement the joys of Easter before w enter upon the deeper gloom of Pas siontide We should rejoice that we belong to the Jerusalem of the New Covenant to our Holy Mother the Church, who has given birth to us, ikewise, in the Sacrament of Baptism

Lenten Regulations, 1940

SUMMARY OF THE REGULATIONS FOR FAST ANIJ ABSTINENCE.

I On FAST days, those bound to fast are allowed one full meal at mid-day or n the evening In addition, they are allowed two light meals-one of about eight ounces, and the other of two or three ounces Any kind of food, and hence even flesh meat, may be used at all three meals provided, at the two small meals, the limit of eight and two or three ounces respectively be not exceeded

2 On ABSTINENCE days, flesh meat and meat soup are forbidden

3 Lard and dripping may be used on days of abstinence, provided they be used merely as a condiment or seasoning

4 Friday, unless t be a Holiday of Obligation, s a day of abstinence

5 Ash Wednesday and the Fridays in Lent and Ember weeks are days of fast and abstinence,

6 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Lent, and the Wednesdays and Saturdays in Quarter Tense are days of fast without abstinence,

7 There is no fast or abstinence on Sundays or Holidays of obligation

8 St Patrick's Day is exempt from fast; if it falls on a Friday, it s not exempt from the abstinence

9 Those,who have completed their seventh year are bound by the law of abstinence

10 Those who have completed their twenty-first year are bound by the law of fasting; they cease to be bound by it when they have begun their sixtieth year

11 Those who are in delicate health or who are engaged in exhausting work, are not bound to fast Of course, those who are seriously ll are not bound by either fast or abstinence

12 On the days mentioned in No 6, those who are not bound to fast are not limited by the law either as to the quality or quantity of the food they wish to take

13 The Lenten Fast and Abstinence cease at noon on Holy Saturday

Thursday, February 15, 1940

The Bushies'

Dear Cornerites On Saturday we commemorate the Flight into Egypt While He was still a little Child, Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph were directed by an angel to flee to another land in order to escape the wrath of Herod and the terrible massacre of the Holy Innocents Many are the lovely little stories that have been woven around this great drama and many pagan legendary tales were transformed with a Christian meaning when whole nations were converted to Christianity in the early centuries Recently in The Record"you all probably read a number of them for the first time and delighted in their simplicity But most of them do not tell of the very great hardships of the Flight itself the burning heat of the desert, the weariness of the travellers who could not rest but must push forward out of reach of the terrible Herod and his men the stumblings on the road and the many narrow escapes IAII this was part of the Flight into Egypt which was one of the Seven Sorrows of Our LadyAUNT BESSY

Corner

work very hard this year both at my lessons and for the Bushies I have already started saving and have got three money boxesone for the Bushies, one for the 'Far East," and one for the little black babies I hope to get them all filled by the encl of the year, if not sooner

JOHN McADAMS

Dear John,Your good New Year resolutions have certainly been started along the right lines, and the mission should feel 100 per cent better after reading your letter I could certainly wish that a lot of other little boys would follow your excellent example, and then the Busbies might get £200 instead of £100

AUNT BESSY

Mt Lawley

Dear Aunt Bessy I was delighted to know that Sandy was back in the Corner Give him my love Mother holds him up to us as an example of a generous Scotchman .o cause she said they are very rare I

St«tisties of th Catl«lie [Uc'ld

] CATHOLICS IN GERMANY

Effects of Steady Persecution Amsterdam

Circulation of the German Catholic periodical press has increased by a total of 7,000,000 copies since Adolf Hitler's advent to power six years ago, it is learned reliably here

This increase in circulation is the more remarkable when one considers the ruthless measures constantly adopted by the Nazi leaders to destroy all vestiges of an independent Catholic Press.

Their destructive campaign, of course, goes on unabated, "Hochland,' leading German Catholic monthly published in Munich, started its thirtyseventh year on October l, with a meagre issue of only 44 pages, and without the customary heavy cover, while 'Benediktinische Monatsschrift,' liturgical organ of the famous Benedictine Archabbey of Beuron, was suppressed completely under the pretext that pulp was scarce Nazi magazines do not seem to be affected at all by this alleged scarcity

Some 20,000 Catholic schools with more than 3,000.000 pupils have been suppressed in Greater Germany since Hitler's advent to power a recent survey indicates, despite Article 23 of the Reich's Concordat with the Holy See which formally guaranteed the Catholic school system

All the Catholic teachers have now been forced to join the Nazi teachers' union Slowly, even religious classes

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in the public schools are being abolished Monastic Settlements

Every twentieth German is a nonChristian according to statistics published from Catholic courses in Germany in the new edition of "Kirchliches Handbuch," The total of those not professing any Christian faith is given as 3,000,000 in Germany proper, corresponding to 456 per cent of the total population

The number of monastic settlements in Germany increased by 30 to a total of 687 between 1937 and 1938, according to the same source The number of male Religious decreased at the same time by 605 to a total of 16,596, that of female Religious increasing by 1,423 to a total of 101,125 Novices were considerably less during the same period, the decrease in the monasteries being 36 2 per cent and in the convents 17 2 per cent

Just as during the last war, the Holy See has again granted certain privileges to the fighting forces such as soldiers facing a battle and wanting to receive Holy Communion being relieved of the necessity not to have broken the fast since midnight, and priests on military duty not having to observe strictly some of the rules ordinarily guiding their conduct such as those referring to reading the breviary, etc

The Flight Into Egypt one of Our Lady's Seven Sorrows, is commemorated on Saturday next

Dear Aunt Bessy,-Enclosed is I0s for the Bushies' Fund, in honour of the Sacred Heart, Our Lady, and St Joseph PARISHIONER OT QUEEN'S PARK

Dea Parishioner of Queen's Park, Your generous donation to the Bushies' Fund is very acceptoble and I am sure those vou wish to honour in Heaven wil' 'ook after vu. interests n thc

love reading the Corner every week and especially the reminders of the feast davs Mother reads "The Record'' to us before we go to bed on Sunday night and we all look forward to it very much

ALINE MCGILLIVRAY

AUNT BESSY

Subiaco.

Dear Aunt Bessy, Please find enclosed two cards and 5s. I am sorry I was unable to do more for the Bushies in 1939 but ill health was the principal cause Hoping that 1940 will be a good year for the cause and wishing you and it every blessing God can bestow

A CLIENT OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR

Dear Client of Our Lady It grieved me verv much to know that you have not been enjoying good health for some time, and I do hope that 1940 will find you much better I was particularly pleased to receive the prick cards back together with the 5s, and thank you very much for your efforts during the past year and good wishes for tlle present objective

AUNT BESSY

sam: generous way Perth

Dear Aunt Bessy,Just a line hoping you are well Please find a Pinkie and 2/6 enclosed I wish it was more I did not do very much for the cause last year, but I was very ill for a good part of the year Thank God I am myself once again, so I will have another start I did not forget the three Hail Marys night and morning for all who do mission work

BUSHIE BESSY

Dear Bushie Bessy,-The Pinkie, money and stamps all arrived safe and sound, and I was very pleased to have all three I know it has been hard for you to help the Cause during last year, especially if you have been sick, and that really makes your efforts all the more meritorions. Thank you very much AUNT BESSY

Dear Aunt Bessy, I am back at school once again and have gone up into a higher standard I am going to

Dear Aline, Im ever so glad you like the page, and Sandy was really flattered when I showed him your letter, though he did deny that generous Scotsmen were rare He said there were lots and lots of McDougalls and McPhersons all over the world who would give their last penny to help on the Bushies' Cause, and that just went to show that all Scotsmen were very generous AUNT BESSY

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Stirring Scenes at First Convention Catholic

Farmers

Non-Political Movement

At Xavier College, Kew, Victoria, on February 3-4, was held the first National Rural Conference-a conference that must forever loom large in the history of the Church in Australia as one of the great moments in the march of Catholic Action From humble beginnings a few years ago, Catholic Action has grown to embrace every phase of Catholic life----and the Rural Conference has proved indisputably that Catholic Action in our rural communities is a very real and a very wonderful thing.

THE task ahead of the delegates was colossal. Representing groups 1n country centres scattered all over Victoria and the Riverina, groups which are virtually cut off from the main bodv of Catholic Action, operating alone, and frequently under very difficult and very disheartening conditions, they were faced with the problem of uniting all these scattered units into an organisation whose aim was to > 1 throw down a challenge to the unjust conditions which threaten the farmer to-day

Faced with the uncertainty of war faced with the rottenness of an economic system which fattens the rich and destroys the poor, which compels the farmer to depend on a brittle overseas market for his bread and butter, which lures the cream of ouryouth from the land and puts it to work in the factories of industrial cities -faced with all these problems these men have determined to ap ply the remedy with their own strong hands.

Thev have realised that the salvation of our rural community lies not in the hands of political @rafters, but that the hope of the farmer is the farmer himself So with very little to work on, and with a great deal to do, they came together

The result was nspiring Experienced Catholic Actionists who attended the conference were amazed at the enthusiasm of the delegates, and at the speed and efficiency with which they accomplished their task In a remarkable session at the close of the conference forty-two resolutions were proposed, discussed, and carried, resolutions which brought into being, defined the aims, structure and methods of a new organisation, an organisation dedicated to the cause of bringing the nation's rural communities to the banner of Christ the KingTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC RURAL MOVEMENT

FOUNDATION IS LAID

The Conference opened on February 3. with an address by Rev Father Cleary on "Catholic Action and the Farmer"

Pointing out the deep-rooted evils of our timeevils of war and strife, of Communism and atheism, of vice birthcontrol, divorce, and the deliberate wrecking of the family, he showed that Catholics to-day are again being called into battle for their faith-to-day they must mobilise themselves in a vast crusade against false morality, and permeate the world with Christian ideals

The brunt of the battle has so far been borne by the clergy But now is the time to call up reserves now is the time for the laity to enlist in the crusade, and take up the colours in the cause of Christ To-day we are called -each one of us-to answer the same call as the Apostlesthe laity must participate in the work of 'the hierarchv And that is Catholic Action

The work ahead is not impossible

The aim of Catholic Action is the reconquest of the will for Christ Societv will be reformed, not by law, but bv the reform of the individual So the salvation of the farmer is the farmer himself By co-operation, by steady individual effort, the work can be accomplished. But a great deal is to be done, as the Catholic farmer is faced with many serious problems

Half a century ago 44 per cent of Australia's population lived on the land To-day, there are barely 20 per cent, Half our population is crowded into cities

From the Church's view this is a tragic trend A drift is on a drift into dangerous milieux, from the healthy open air to the poisonous air of the factorv Drifting from the country i often drifting from God Great Possibilities

Proceedings were opened on Sunday morning with a talk by Mr B A Santamaria, of the National Secretariat, on "What a Catholic Farmers' Organisation Can Do" It was a concise and remarkably comprehensive review of the problems confronting the Austrlian farmer and clearly showed how such difficulties have been overcome by similar organisations overseas

There is really very little to tempt a young man to go on the land nowadays he said, not only is city life and its uxuries an attraction, but secondarv education of such a character that it tends to drive the country ad into the city And there is nothing to tempt a girl to marry a farmer Rearing a large family under adverse financial conditions is a heartbreaking proposition for any woman

The objects of the organisation, he continued, are fourfold Primarily, it is a religious movement-in the second place it deals with economic problems, But a great deal of its work is socialproving that farming is not just an industry but a vocation near to God

Finally such a movement would be strictly non-political The Rural Movement means a revival of the Catholic tradition of agriculture, which founded the magnificent agricultural tradition of the Middle Ages

k k k k DELEGATES GO TO WORK.

Recommendations from various subcommittees were received by the conference on Sunday evening The various priests attending the conference formed one sub-committee They recommended that the unit of Rural Catholic Action be centred in the parish where the lay apostles would be formed through participation in liturgical functions particularly the Mass, and through being induced to take a special interest in the doctrine of the Mstical Bodv of Christ which is the basis of all Catholic Action All group meetings would include spiritual exereises, and a simple rule of life was

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proposed, including the daily recitation of the Rosary

Another sub-committee was charged with the task of making recommendations regarding the actual formation and organisation of the movement According to their resolutions the name of the movement is to be the National Catholic Rural Movement Its aims are to restore a sense of the dignity of their occupation to the man on the land to bring country Catholics together for the discussion of the difficulties which stand in the way of the prosperity and stability of the rural community, to devise practical remedies in the light of Catholic principles, and to carry out the general work of Catholic Action

A third sub-committee enquired into the services which the organisation could provide for its members It recommended that such services as Pro ducers-Consumers Co-Operatives and Credit Unions be inaugurated as soon as possible; the provision of suitable literature to groups; the investigation of services for women on the landdomestic and nursing training, and the proper education of girls destined to ive on the land; the enlistment of the aid of the various departments of agriculture; the establishment of communty farms It also stressed the need for increased agricultural training in Catholic schools and colleges throughout Australia and attention was also drawn to the work of the Catholic agricultural colleges already n existence

Other Sub-Committees

Other sub-committees discussed the farmers' paper, 'Rural Life," which is now the official organ of the movement Problems of distribution and general management were considered The last sub-committee drew up plans for spreading the National Catholic Rural Movement It will be the dutv of each group to endeavour to extend the movement in its own destrict, under the direction of the central executive Interviewed, the officials of the National Secretariat said that the executive had already been chosen; and that the names of the delegates would be submitted to the Episcopal Committee, and that the first meeting of the executive would be held within the next three weeks

In the concluding speech, thanks were extended to Father Hackett, the priests who attended the Conference and the Campions who assisted in the incidentalwork; and the delegates were congratulated on the great blow they had struck for Australia for the rural community, and especially for the cause of Christ the King.

Pamphlet Attacks Native Missions

The Rev E Worms, PS M , missionary and anthropologist, whose work among the aboriginals in the Kimberleys is well known, has had occasion to criticise in the Melbourne "Advocate," a recent pamphlet, entitled "New Deal for the Aborigines" which has been written by T Wright, vice-president of the Labour Council of NSW

This pamphlet was printed by Forward Press Pty., Ltd., at Sydney which also prints the Sydney Communist paper the Tribune'' (formerly the "Workers' Weekly")

It is Father Worms' opinion that the pamphlet reveals the first public step of Australian Communism on the slippery parquet of anthropology with the aim of banning Christian relig'rn end missionaries of all denominations from the work among the aborgines

"The writer's rage against religion and the missionaries is so blind and irrational," says Father Worms, that even the occupation of the 'professional rank in anthropology'in Australia by a well-known expert of social anthropology does not find mercy before his tribunal because of the former position of this professor in the Church of England"

The first attack by the pamphleteer is directed against the endeavour of the Commonwealth to improve the condition of the aboriginals and the fact that the Minister for the Interior in February, 1939, recognised that there must be some religious training to instil into the natives some stability of character to replace that which has been lost by the destruction of an+int philosophy and moral code through contact with civilisation, inspired Mr Wright to rave about "the criminality of a Government policy which sees in these religious missions a means of deal ing constructively with the problem of the aborigines."

Mr Wright in demanding "urgent reforms," puts forward propositions which Father Worms declares have certain similarities to the Communist aims elsewhere insisting that all organisation established for necessary contact with aborigines should be entirely secular n personnel character and aim, that there should Fe non missionary advisers for the natives and that no mission stations should be nllowed on or in the vicinity of the aborigines' own reserves,

Mr Wright sees n mission work the destruction of the aborigines through social and religious persecution, and he talks of the "destroying influence of the religious missions,'' asserting that the missions have contributed largely to the social downfall and ultimate extinotion of the aborigines, that they have no real appreciation of the scientific aspect of the problem and that they prepare their proteges for exploitation by whites and themselves become exploiters'

who, despite his retirement, has given 20 concerts all over Britain for the Red Cross, to express his "sympathetic admiration for the motherland of Chopin and Paderewski,'' had a rousing reception before a large audience at the Queen's Hall, London, when he was in I great form and generous in encores