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Socialisation of Medicine American Religious Leaders Denounced Declare Minimum Requirements of Just Peace Free Choice of Doctor is Supplementary to Healing
building the primary medicine they carry socialisation Foundations from which Catholics Denouncing the State-the home. They the individual's unit an encroachment the powerful moral inalienable rights, the Right Rev. all-pervading moral vice-president Can Work in a Free World signorthe Maurice their every phase Catholic Hospital Association in
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MORAL LAW MUST GOVERN WORLD ORDER The minimum requirements of a peace which Christians can endorse as being fair to all men are set forth in "A Statement of a Just Peace," made public in Washington by the Department of Social Action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference... It Is an identical statement, giving seven basic principles of peace signed by Catholic Archbishops, Bishops, priests and laymen, by prominent rabbis and laymen of the Jewish faith, and by prominent leaders,clerical and lay, of the Protestant communions. Each group has prefaced the state- must be the object of international ment with a special introduction of its concern. own. This is said to be the first time 4. The Rights of Minorities Must Be Secured. in the history of the United States that National governments and internaCatholics, Protestants, and Jews have issued an identical statement on basic tional organisation must respect and guarantee the rights of ethis,s, religious principles of a world peace. and cultural minorities to economic The preamble to the statement says: We present for the consideration of livelihood, to equal opportunity for poseducational and cultural development, all men of good will the following tulates of a just peace as embodying and to political equality. the principles of the moral law and 5. International Institutions to Maintheir prime applications to world pro- tain Peace with Justice Must Be Orblems of our day. To our mind they ganised. express the minimum requirements of An enduring peace requires the ora peace which Christians can endorse ganisation of international institutions as fair to all men. They are the founwhich will: (a) develop a body of indation on which Catholics in a free ternational law; (b) guarantee the world can work from deep motives of faithful fulfilment of international obChristian justice and charity for the ligations, and revise them when necesorder. social building of a better sary; (c) assure collective security by 1. The Moral Law Must Govern World drastic limitation and continuing conOrder. trol of armaments, compulsory arbitradeThe organisation of a just peace tion and abjudication of controversies, of the recognition practical pends upon and the use when necessary of adequate fact that not only individuals but na- Sanctions to enforce the law. tions, states and international society 6. International Economic Co -Operation are subject to the sovereignty of God Must Be Developed. and to the moral law which comes from International economic collaboration, God. to assist all states to provide an ade2. The Rights of the Individual Must quate standard of living for their citiBe Assured. zens must replace the present econoThe dignity of the human person as mic monopoly and exploitation of natuthe image of God must be set forth in ral resources by privileged groups and all its essential implications in an instates. ternational declaration of rights, and 7. A Just Social Order Within Each be vindicated by the positive action of State Must Be Achieved. international national governments and Since the harmony and well being oragnisation. States, as well as indiviintimately duals, must repudiate racial, religious of the world community are equilibrium or other discrimination in violation of bound up with the internal and social order of the individual those rights. or states, steps must be taken to provide 8. The Rights of Oppressed, Weak for the security of the family, the colColonial Peoples Must Be Protected. groups and classes in The rights of all peoples, large and laboration of ofall the common good, a small, subject to the good of the or- the interest adequate for selfliving ganised world community, must be standard of and family life, decent development of safeguarded within the framework conditions of work, and participation The progress of collective security. affecting its welundeveloped, colonial, or oppressed peo- by labour in decisions ples toward political responsibility fare. Cream Physician Flannels; aII wool, 4 Coupons. 7,'11. S/Sleeve, Heavyweight Wool and Cot ton Singlets or Knee Pants, 5/13o 6 Coupons.
reimplicacognise prothe tions, of blems which affect They family life within their homes. cherish :his right as an intimate', fundamental freedom. "With every right there is a corresponding duty. The citizen is also a person, and his personal responsibility means that as a creature he is answerable to his Creator for the proper care Every of the body he has received. man, to the best of his ability, must provide for his own care. He cannot of
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the United States and Canada, told 106 medical and 56 dental graduates at the commencement exercises of the St. Louis University that it is not the function of the Public Health Service to engage in the practice of medicine. Monsignor Griffin delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the graduation Mass.
"In our Democracy each citizen is a
free man in the sight of the Government to which he freely gives his allegiance," Monsignor Griffin asserted. "It is recognised that he has inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happineds-to life and the means of preserving it-to liberty, in the choice of those means-and to the happiness that comes only with the peace of mind in the treatment by the doctor of his own choice. His happiness would be banished by lack of confidence in a cloctt r. His right to it would be disregarded if he were forced to entrust himself and those who are near and dear to him to a doctor in whom he had no The free choice of physiconfidence. cian and the confidence it engenders is
the climatic supplement to the healing powers of medicine
A Fundamental Right. "Responsible men, heads of families, have traditionally deemed this right as concomitant with the responsibility
lightly pass on this perosnal obligation to his Government in the expectation that, on the basis of a social insurance formula, some one else is going to pay for it.
"Our Public Health Service has an important function to perform; its commanding position in its own field is generally accepted, but its work is not the private practice of medicine.
To take charge of medical education and research, the practice of medicine and the designation of specialists, to control hospital, laboratory and all allied services, might be considered justifiable on the assumption that medical education and the practice of medicine in this country had gunk so low as to constitute a national emergency, and that our present voluntary hospital system is woefully incomplete, inefficient and incapable of proNeither of these asper expansion. sumptions could possibly be sustained."
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