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grotesque Similarity op 1Warxism to Catholic Church LASKI LIKENED REDS TO *How Communism Capitalised Russia's Its Messianic Dream .
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Catholic Church, Communisin is misled by this worldly wisdom organised hierarchically on an ab- and confuse the fanatical zeal for central execu- social justice with the Christian solute basis. must tive might even be compared to thirst after righteousness Nicholas Berdyaev, who was im- the College of Cardinals, since it choose to ignore the terrible exprisoned and exiled by the Bolshe- exercised a like function and au- amples of Mexico, China, Spain viks for his religion, is one of the thority. as Mr. and Poland. It is worse than stuCommunism greatest authorities on Commun- Laski so often reminds us, has its pid to confuse the caricature with ism, since he has had grim oppor- mission fields, based on the prin- the original: it is a tragic disloytunities of studying its "modus ciple of "one country at a time." alty in these difficult days when at close quarters. The Spanish experiment was an Catholicism and Communism are operandi" . . . Apropos of the Communist opposi- example of such missionary expan- set over against each other in tion to Christianity he has writ- sion. Its failure in the Iberian Titanic conflict. For the modern dream of ism. By Liam Brophy, Ph.B. ten: "Although it is so hostile to peninsula has been more than comAs the Supreme Pontiffs have the Russians to capture the world genin to religion and Christianity remains by its successes be- predicted, Communism When Harold J. Laski was Pro- for Leninism is a secularised form eral, Communism is utilising the pensated for Curtin." Obvious- the gravest and most powerful fessor of Political Science in Lon- of the very ancient Russian dream results of the Christian training of hind the "Iron ly the Communists are trying a force opposing Catholicism in this don University he published an of capturing the world for Christ. Socialist different method for the propaga- post-war world. The In the days before the Revoluilluminating book on Communism. Communism tion of unfaith along their mission compromises with It still remains one of the best tion the peasants of Russia were compromises like the Protestant front. works in English in Bolshevik wont to recite at their gatherings Communism is a mirror held up with Catholicism, are dying out or thought and tactics, though, like the traditional legends called "The distorting a are split into "a thousand sects but to Catholicism, nearly all books in the theme, it Crown of the Kingdom of Babymirror which makes the thing it warring." Even Mr. Laski has is permeated with prejudice and lon" and "The White Hood." The radically opinion reflects seem fit for monstrous changed his decidedly one-sided-the side in first told of a world-wide sovereignmirth. One of the gravest distor- about Communism since his euthis case being the extreme Left. ty destined by God for the land of tions is that of the Christian ideal logy of twenty golden years ago, Though it is not twenty years Holy Russia. "The White Hood" of the universal Brotherhood of and he has lately denounced the since the book was published by was the legend they loved best to Man, which has been contorted Messianism of Moscow as a world Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., in repeat, and it ran briefly thus: into the Communist Comradeship menace, a term which the Rev. which interval both Mr. Laski and "In days of yore Constantine the of the Proletariat. It is doubtful if Henry Townsend used of the Vatthe subject of his studies have ris- Emperor, having accepted the the Bolsheviks would ever have ican when he addressed a meeting en to disturbing heights of power Christian Faith and received absoconceived the idea of universal in London of late. The most arPope, the Sylvester from lution so the principles prominence, and brotherhood without the Christian dent supporter of Communism in clearly and cunningly set forth desired to give the Pontiff a kingprecedent, for it was quite alien the U.S :A., Louis Budenz, managBut an angel appeared ly crown. remain the same. to the older cultures of Greece ing editor of "The Daily Worker," Twenty years ago it must have unto him and bade him give a and Rome, which were essentially has returned to the Catholic Faith seemed fantastic to many to be crown, not of earthly, but of spirit. aristocratic. The Communists took after an intimate inspection of told that Communism would chal- ual supremacy-a white hood like And his words the Christian ideal of the brother- the caricature. Neverthelenge Catholicism in its zeal unto a monkish cowl. hood of all men under the Father- might give cause to the wordy and and universality. These post-war less, the Roman Church laid claim hood of God, and made of it a superficial to think: "Communism months have shown the fantasy to temporal no less than spiritual tool of class-hatred, a doctrine and Catholicism are irreconcilable. give place to grim facts as the power: whereas the angel appearwhich Catholicism will always op- Communism, I have found, aims Supreme Pontiff had foretold, ed unto the Pope, and commanded pose, since it denies the equality at establishing a tyranny over the wrote his him to send the hood to PhiloLaski When Mr. of all men before God. Christian human spirit: it is at unending Communism he gave the Jesuit theus, the Patriarch of Constanticharity embraces more than the conflict with religion and true freeOrder in particular and the Cath- nople; and when he would have of the world. dom." Precisely because it is a olic Church in general a Left- retained it there appeared to the Stalin worked out a secularised workers caricature of the Catholic Church handed compliment. He accepted Patriarch another vision: Constan- version of the Messianic dream of It is enough to make demons is the more insidious. laugh to hear Catholics assert that Communism Catholicism as the one authentic tine the Emperor and Sylvester clever camouflages Russia. Communism is more Christian It has many brand of Christianity remaining in the Pope bidding him send on the disguise itself, and than Christianity. True, the Com- wherewith to the World and the Jesuit mission- hood still further, into the country cleverest of these is Charity. ary as the highest expression of of Russia, to Novgorod the Great the spirit, the. Christian formation munists display an enthusiasm at the this of the soul." In many external times which puts our Catholic Ac- And has not Christ warned His in its apostolic zeal. But when he "For,' said Sylvester that when Antichrist apcompares the Bolshevists to the dream, "the first Rome has fallen respects Communism so closely tion to shame, and it is worthy of followers that it note how alike are the tactics of pears as the false Messias he shall the Communist by her pride and self-will; and resembles Christianity Jesuits and so like the true Christ as to de"Weltanschauung" to Catholicism Constantinople, the second Rome, might seem to be a copy of it. But Lenin's legionaries and Catholic be And, as so often hap- ceive, if possible, even the elect? we are struck by a certain grot- is like to perish by the fury of the when we look closer we perceive Actionists. esque similarity which Marxianism infidel, but in the third Rome, certain grotesque distortions of pens, the children of the world Rus- the original which turn the seem- have been wiser in their genera. Flue Pipes fot Stoves, Bath in practice bears to the Church, which shall be in the land of Heaters, Paints, Varnish, Calcoa similarity that has all the bathos sia, the light of the Holy Ghost ing likeness into an obscene carica- tion than the children of light. Hassell's Stores Perth. B6307. is already shining, and at last all ture. Thus, the Bolsheviks have shown mine. and belittlement of a caricature. shall be united in the RusThe zeal of the early Commun- themselves adepts at seizing opReferring to the Bolshevists Mr. nations dominion under the shadow ists and those who fought in the portunities. They were quick to Phone 13. Box 124. Laski wrote: "They are, as a party, sian the Orthodox Faith.'" October Revolution has often been seize on the enormous advantage comparable to nothing so much as of This Messianic legend is but one compared to that of the early which the Christian training had the Society of Jesus. There is, in Com- given the Russian soul, and the a Christians, who were also EALGOORUE. both, the same rigorous unyielding of the many expressions of kind. immense spiritual dynamism in,et of dogmas, the same iron rigour dream which has lain at the centre munists of a very different and R.A.C. House. C.T.A. When The enthusiasm and fidelity of herent in Russian Messianism, for of discipline, the same passionate of all Russian idealism. One Minute from St. Mary's aims. at of their deaths cruel furtherance the suffered direct who did but those it came selfCommunism Church. loyalty capable of unlimited forgotten The Jesuit who set that age -long dream into ruthless- the hands of the Czarists have And it must never he Water in Hotel confidence. Cold and Hot enthu- that their triumph, despite apBathrooms. forth to preach his faith in China ly practical channels in the inter- been compared to the holy died in the pearances, was more on the psywho of those mission of siasm world-wide the of ests North-West Arctic unknown the (A Refrigeration Throughout. economic the For the chological than With the re- Flavian Amphitheatre. is not dissimilar to the Commun- the Soviet Union. Only Lock -Up Garages in the Orthodox Communists the Messias has ap- plane, for no cause based on a the ist who volunteered to bury the habilitation of Centre of Town. as an In- Theory of Value could have proinfected corpses in the cholera Church, as hostile as ever to Ca- peared in our day, not -shattering world such collective-the as a I. DILLON, Licensee. duced M. has but dividual, Like the Jesuit, also. tholicism, this Messianism epidemic. 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