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PIRTE. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943.
NO. 3,102.
LATE FATHER VINCENT MCNABB, D.P., CLAIMED :
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"Good May Come Out of Communism" Lenin Plagiarised St. Paul's Formula of Work .
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Red Heretics Overlook Religious Motivation of Social Service individual's duty towards the groups of which he is an individual, e.g., to the family, the city. the nation, the brotherhood of mankind. We cannot give to Bolshevists the credit of discovering this fundamental social principle. It was already known to the Greek Philosophers and medieval Scholastics as the principle of general justice. The analysis. of the subtruth. ject given by St. Thomas Aquinas in The growth of a large number of his "Summa" has surprises and discovthose who live without working is. in eries for students of social science. its bulk, a modern phenomenon. The But this science of the Greek pagan "poor man" of to -day was almost un- philosophers was little better than a known seven centuries ago. The rich science. In other words, it was a man of to -day who lives on invest- thought if not a conviction when it value social of work ments and does no ought to have been a life. was then practically unknown; or was Communists are determind that this known (and detested) as the Jewish social science which gives us the docusurer. The landed aristocracy were trine of general justice shall be a life, not rich in currency or in credit. But even if it costs untold deaths. Indivithe social services they rendered were duals and whole classes of individuals almost as multiple in the executive and who are not of service to the group 49 judicial sphere as those of a modern must be eliminated. Alas! the World .1 As a class War 1, with its victory that cost 10 Colonial Administrator. . . . they had little or nothing in common million deaths, has suggested to enADAM SMITH with the modern rich man who lives thusiasts of social peace the ruthlesswithout working and entirely by in- ness of war. Paul is not really responsible for the A man, a programme, a policy is not I am of the ever-strengthWe have ventured to suggest that principle, but only for that particular vestments. good merely because good comes of it; ening opinion that until the modern especially if the good that comes of it way of putting the principle. It was non -working rich man disappears, and good can come out of (a bad system) Communism, if men of good will only has come by the operation of a good already in the opening beatitude, there see the crying need of the two prin"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the medieval landlord reappears, will. Just as there is nothing so good betsocial of sound hope little be will Heaven!" of ciples we have named-"Everyone, who bad. Kingdom theirs is the that a bad will cannot turn it to pov- terment. can work, should work," and "Everyso there is nothing so bad that a good Man's first and most necessary erty is the poverty of work; his second I say advisedly "landlord," because one should work for the Community." will cannot turn to good. beaten be I hold that Communism can But it can never be sufficiently emIf then, I venture to say that good is the poverty of thrift. Our Blessed Lord seems to give us only by a group of freemen on the phasised that "heresy is a truth in isocan come of Communism, I would very immortal Coman in of work -organisation not to town philosophy In a the editors land. responsible ask humbly lation," and the greater the principle munism can be beaten, and seemingly from which the truth is isolated, the caption me as "The Communist Priest, parable usually entitled "The Unjust on follows story intelligentsia this by an As Steward." is being beaten, Father Vincent McNabb." greater the heresy. Communism as we his applying, with greater intelligence, see it in practice, if not in programme My readers will agree with me in the story of the Prodigal Son and against Comunists their own totalitar- or principle, by denying God, has isowhat I often tell my Communist truculent elder brother, I canthatnever the totalitarianism, lated the two truths from their fundaBut this resist the inclination to think ianism. friends, that the best and most revolt' tionary enactment in the Russian Bol- selfrighteous elder son became the Un- which will drive out Communist slav- mental principle. Only the principle In- of a just God Who died for the indiviery, will not drive out slavery. shevist Constitution is, "If a man will just Steward. It is especially in the adroit thief's deed the present symptoms seem to dual can safeguard the individual in not work. neither let him eat." As may we that conscience-if likelihood of effectively examination that a priori confirm his rights. But the two truths of this Constitution is very has the purely intellectual totalitarianism based on the principle that religion is so say-that Our Blessed Lord man's duty of work and of service are now reaping its first victories over Comso far-reaching that, if isolated from opium for the people, it is a little dis- epitomised the philosophy of work, I am munism will bring in conditions still the principle, they can end only in sotressing that this principle of work "To dig I am not able. To tobegsteal. more servile and more lasting than cial slavery or in social chaos. should not be accorded to its author, ashamed." So he planned us teaches here Lord and Stalin. the of Blessed Lenin by Our sponsored framers those If the Tarsus. Paul of Only the Catholic Church stands bework, if able can come, yet that then, Constitution did not know that the that a man who will not good, The tween the modern world and very effecwhen unable to work, Communism is from best thing in their Constitution came to work, nor beg come, not may tive slavery; because only the Cathoable-bodied, For the stealing. from St. Paul, they will no doubt be the conviction, especially amongst Cadoctrine of free will But if they Work is the only title to the means of tholics, that "if any man will not work, lic Church with its glad to be told of it. and Redemption can look on work and eat." did know it to be St. Paul's, and did living. let him neither service not just as a duty to the State, From the false principle that relinot tell their followers that it was St. but as the will and example of a selfA second great good which may come Bolshevists Paul's, no doubt their followers will be gion is of no social value, of each sense sacrificing God. a lively is re Communism of of ministers Of course St. go on to conclude that glad to be told of it. When Adam delved And Eve span, Who was then The gentleman?
Very consistligion do not "work ' ently they conclude that ministers of religion being "non -workers" should not get the means of livelihood. Bolshevists are to blame for their wrong principle, they are not to be blamed for consistency in applying their wrong principle. Consistency, if not a moral virtue, is at least an intellectual quality which offers some hope for the
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