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What Catholics Understand Them to illean Liberty Implies a Law to Be Obeyed Fear of bearing children arises from lack of confidence in God How the Radio Has Abused the Right of Speaking the Truth .
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of the religion of others must be guaranteed by every State, and this guarantee should be confirmed by such sanctions as will prevent any nation whatsoever from persecuting its citizens on account of their religious beliefs, declared Archbishop Griffin, of Westminster, in a recorded broadcast recently. This is not the sort of In his talk on "The Christian Foun- your please. We dations of Freedom," His Grace also freedom we are fighting for. said that some of the fear which has want that freedom which is the libmade men and women hesitate to erty of the sons of God: freedom to marry until late in life and then shrink live as sons of God, freedom to do His from having children has been due to will, freedom to obey his law, "You see, therefore, that true freea lack of trust and confidence in God; "but much of it has arisen also from dom implies that there is a law to be obeyed. . The liberty of the sons social unrest and interaational strife." Thus, "only when equitable condi- of God is not just natural freedom; it tions of life have been assured to all is natural freedom limited, controlled, classes of the community by f),..system guided, and perfected by the obligabased upon the Christian principles tion to do not merely what one pleases but what one ought. of social justice, only when men have "When God created man He gave learned to live together in a spirit of him certain instructions as to how his then true Christian brotherhood, only shall we enjoy perfect tranquillity at nature and its powers should be used. It must not be thought that God made home." "Freedom is a word frequently on these laws just to be awkward-if I we when to -day may use such a term of Almighty God. our lips, especially are fighting to preserve it," said His He made them because He created Grace. "But what do I mean by free- man for a definite purpose, and His law is the guidance which He bountidom? "The Nazis said they were fighting fully gives to enable us to attain it. You can ignore or infringe the laW for freedom when they persecuted both Jews and Christians, when they which God has made for your welfare, put thousands into concentration but if you do you spoil yourself; and camps, when they taught children to if you persist you fail to reach your betray their parents. When they de- eternal destiny.. "By 'freedom from fear' we don't voted all their resources to making bombs and tanks and guns it was, they mean from the freedom of breaking This said, to order to defend their free- God's law and offending God. When they invaded Poland, fear of losing God's friendship is, on dom. and Norway, and Denmark, and Bel- the contrary, the mark of the true gium, and Holland. and France, they sons of God and the great safeguard No; the fear claimed that they did so to bring of their true liberty. from which we want to be free is the these countries the boon of freedom. "In fact, for them freedom meant the fear of all those evils which hinder power to do exactly as they pleased, the fulfilment of our duty towards God and our neighbour. We sigh for that so long as it was to the apparent adtranquillity of mind and heart in which vantage of the German race. "Now whatever freedom may mean, alone we can serve God as we ought. "In one generation we've had two it does not mean the power or the liberty to do to say or to think just as world wars, we have had strikes, so.
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cial unrest and revolution. Fearful of what the future might bring, young
men and women have hesitated to marry until late in life; and after marriage they have shrunk from having children from fear of being unable to support them. "Some of this fear, it is true, has been due to a lack of true trust and confidence in God, and to remedy that we must return to a firm belief in the Providence of a Father who know what is needful for us. "But much of it has arisen also from the real lack of security in public life; social unrest and international strife must be eliminated if men are to live Only when in freedom from fear. equitable conditions of life have been assured to all classes of the community by a system based upon the Christian principles of social justice, only when men have learned to live together in a spirit of true Christian brotherhood, only then shall we enjoy perfect tranquillity at home. "And it is by similar means that we shall dispel the fear of further international conflict. No nation must grow rich or powerful at the expense of a smaller nation; unlimited competition between nations must give way to unlimited cooperation; mutual suspicion must give way to mutual confidence. So, by trust in one another and trust in Almighty God, shall we drive out the spectre of fear. No Reason for Any to Starve. "Freedom from fear will lead to freedom from want-freedom from the want of those things which are necessary for the well-being of individuals and of nations. "Nature has supplied goods in superabundance-they need only to be properly distributed. There is no excuse for famine; there is no reason why men, women and children should starve in the midst of plenty, especially in these days of quick transport. "Unfortunately we have seen fruit left to rot upon the trees, fish thrown back into the sea, land left wasted and uncultivated-all this in order to keep up prices and line the pockets of speculators. "After the war it will be the serious duty of the United Nations to make ample provision of food, clothing, and dwellings, not only for the invaded and oppressed countries of Europe and the rest of the world, but also for their own people at home. In our efforts to win the war we have given proof of
real generosity and unselfishness; we must be just as eager in self-sacrifice to help other nations when victory has been won. Tolerance Must Be Guaranteed. "'Freedom to worship according to one's conscience.' This means, briefly, freedom from persecution. "It does not mean that every man is in fact free to worship God in the way he thinks fit; for God Mined has told us how we are to worship Him, and we have therefore the oblige, tion to worship Him as He desires. But no man may be for_ed to embrace the truth against his wilL "We know how violently one religion has sometimes attacked another, and how such attacks have often been delivered under the auspices of State authority, In our own time Jews and' Christians have been murdered, outlawed, persecuted. It has happened in Mexico, in Spain, in Russia, and in Germany, and in some of these countries we have seen Christianity supplanted by a worship of the race or of the State. "Never again must men be allowed to commit such cruelties against their fellows. Toler .nce of the religion others must be guaranteed by every State, and all should be granted equal opportunities to follow the religion of their conscience, and allowed to have their churches, their schools, and their ministers. 'Surely every right,minded man would grant this, I feel; and I should like to see this guarantee confirmed by such sanctions as will prevent any nation whatsoever from persecuting its citizens on account of their religious beliefs.
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we have, thank God, complete freedom of worship, and as freedom -loving peo-
ple we ought to see that such freedom and such toleration are enjoyed by the whole human race. ":Freedom to speak the truth.' Thi's is the last but by no means the least important of the four freedoms. "It does not mean that individuals or nations should be free to say just what they please. Recent years have shown us the dire effects of lying pro-
paganda. "Above all, this marvellous invention, the wireless, which enables me to speak to you now, has been abused by wicked men to spread the seeds of susContinued on Back Cover.) (
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