OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AR CHDIOCESE OF PERTH. Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for transmission by post as a news paper. NO. 2,263.
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animals. At last the tide turns wealth. So they robbed her of her Succeeding completely. In spite of everything temporal possessions. "Now," she triumphs, for lo! The Roman Popes became prisoners. they said, "she will surely die." ToEmpire is converted. day, his city of the in Vatican, A new era dawns; churches and schools are built. Has her final Pope Pius XII., Xing and Pope, hour of triumph came? Can she gives them the lie,' The Church of rest now on her laurels and reap God lived on. Here in your own Australia, in the fruits of victory? No. Down from northern Europe sweep hordes 1879, when he was setting up the of barbarians leaving vandalism Godless State schools, Sir Henry and ruin in their wake, She meets Parkes, Minister for Public Instrne. and conquers them. The years tion, waving the newly passed Eduroll on. From the South surge cation Act in the air, cried: "I hold The following sermon by Rev. mocked in all State schools, The the fanatical armies of Mahomet, Father D. Breslin, 0.313., was impious upstarts have sentenced the The Cross and Crescent meet in broadcast over the National Sta- Primate, ArchbiArop Stepinac, to a "eadly combat. For a while the long term of imprisonment, tions from St. Mary's Cathedral: His issue is doubtful, It seems as if Standing on the verge of a new year only crime, that of being a Ca. :be proud boast of the infidel leader we look back on the events of the tholic Archbishop, who dared to opthat would stable his horses on he past twelve months and make reso- pose the so-called Government in the High Altar of St. Peter's would lutions for the future. It is a time its attempts to stifle the God-given be fulfilled, But at the battle of to realise that the only real failure liberties of the people. The forgHENRY VIII, Lepanto, the Cross of Christ emis the man Who has given up trying. ed documents produced at the traverges supreme. The Church of .--agony of mind and body. It is a time to renew our good re- esty of a trial have been branded God lived on. solves-to begin again to fight our as such by the Holy Father himself, All the powers of hell, the world, own weaknesses and our spiritual so our authority is unimpeachable. Those earthly princes and kings St. Paul exhorts us: The Red Fascists are following in the flesh and the devil have com- who should have been the guardians enemies. "It is now the hour for us to rise Hitler's footsteps and will meet bined to crush her, but though they and defenders, try to enslave her: The night is passed with Hitler's fate. from sleep. Your prayers wound her deeply, they have never use her as a pawn in their game of She is Empire building. Let us, are requested for the victims of this wounded her unto death. and the day is at hand. Indignantly she therefore, cast off the works of new persecution, that God will vulnerable because she is human; reminds them of their duty. Enis Divine. darkness and put on the armour of strengthen them. When will the invincible because she raged, they seek to enforce their light." diabolically inspired persecutors of There have been times in the wishes. Once more she is.victoriNever before in the history of God's Church learn that they are course of her long life when the ous. Henry IV., Emperor of Ger. :he Church of God was it so neces- strengthening the very thing they Barque of Peter was tossed hither many ,on his knees in the snows of on the sary for Catholics to put set out ro destroy. and thither at the mercy of the Canoasa, learns his bitter lesson. armour of light, to be on the alert, That Church stands to -day in the waves, when the howling winds and henry of England and Elizabeth per keen and enthusiastic-fighting fit. The pagan tone of modern society Forty, 1, growing daily worse. even thirty, years ago the world was anti-Catholic; to-day it is anti. Christian. The fruits of Godless living are apparent in crowded di. vorce courts; the startling rise in NAPOLEON, juvenile delinquency, the callousness --died a broken man in exile, of youthful criminals, and the widespread prevalence of social disease world without a parallel in history. the raging sea threatened instant seente her. They die in agony of -this latter phenomenon the result Stamped with the Divine seal of destruction. It seemed as if mind and body. The Church of in my hand what will be the death The storms of the to the calling of the Priesthood of of twenty years of the worship of Unity, Catholicity, Apostolicity, and nothing could save her from being God lived on. the indecent masquerading as art, Sanctity. The most hated and the swamped, yet, somehow, it never so-called Reformation battered and the Church of aome" To -day, Durhappened. At times there has been bruised her, bled her white, Hu- sixty years later, we can look back If this4s the result of twenty years most loved thing among men., of ing nineteen hundred years she has mutiny among the crew, among her manly speaking, she seemed doomed and smile.' It is not the priests of laxity, we shudder to think of perknown form who tried every own ungrateful children to perish, withstood On the evening before who are bewailing about empty what statistics will reveal twenty But far from injuring to wreck the mother who bore them. he died, February 17, 1546, Martin pews and dwindling numbers. Their years hence. Perhaps the most dis. secution. on it, "The helmsman has has thrived Time lifter time the her, she Luther wrote the vain -glorious is biggest worry is :0 find enough benheartening feature of the review the religious illiteracy of many. Be- blood of martyrs is the seed of been struck down from the wheel, prophecy: "T was thy plague in life, ches for their ever growing cona proverb. forward and has become but another sprang dying Christians," I will be thy destruction, 0 after and write read gregations and crowded schools. can cause they Pope," He was a trifle premature! The Church of God lives on. a fashion they pass as educated and Every blow aimed at her has been took his place. A strength The history of the Church of God Almost four hundred years have All their culture and parried from above. Over her enemies from without enlightened. And to -day the in- she has been gloriously victorious; taken that cannot be human sustains her. is one long series of Divine Inter- passed away, knowledge, however, are The illus- She has a peculiar way of growing vention and instances of miraculous fluence and status of the same Pap. so also over the enemies from withfrom tainted sources. From the very earliest ages trated magazine is their Bible and younger and stronger every time preservation, God's finger is manis acy was never stronger or more uni- in. versal. The so-called Reformation, the serpent of heresy raised its the cinema their church. Many of her enemies, watching, vulture like, fest in her protection. cerhave been -fishermen her last breath, Twelve poor illiterate for far from sounding the death -knell head and sought to strike with our fellow countrymen never use the sacred name of Jesus except in tain that this time they have killed from Galilee are her first represen- of the Church, saw her instead re- deadly poisonous fang at the fair Roman Emperor casts their The pagan tatives. Herod, the King, her. newing her youth like the eagle, and their Never bend bride of Christ. Very often it was blasphemy. knees to :their God in prayer. The Diocletian had a statue erected to leader, Peter, into prison, bound in soaring to heights hitherto unreach. no stranger but her own unnatural Chrisof released by an as the destroyer chains. Peter is himself of ed. sense and children, renegade Catholics, who unrest, insecurity In the eighteenth century, Na- sought to kill her. They abandonutter frustration amongst the na- tianity. He was sure he had suc- angel, Herod, struck with a loathtions, so apparent to even a super- ceeded in crushing her. Another some leprosy, is eaten alive by poleon, Emperor of the French, in ed the mother who bore them and The Church of God lives haughty pride, heaped insults upon found nothing too bad, nothing too ficial observer, can be traced ulti- Emperor, Julian the Apostate, con- worms. Pius VII. "Ab," he sneers at the hard, to say of her whom they once mately to a moral cause. Almighty fessed with his dying breath that on. The infant Church grows and venerable Pontiff, whom he has im- loved, What a sickening, wearyGod will not allow His children to he had failed, despite his perverted to the Roman Em- prisoned, "do you think the muskets ing list they make! spreads herself over Docetists, flout Him and at the same time ingenuity and diabolic efforts been times into the pagan there have pire, penetrates even will fall from my soldier's hands?" Arians, Monothelites, Monophysienjoy true happiness and prosperity, kill her. Yes, was itself. The Christ when the fair bride of the Caesars snowy city of Shortly afterwards, on the tes, Eutydhtians, Nestorians, EboViewing the Church universally for 1946, the outstanding event was, hounded to death, crucified like her Emperors weilding unlimited power plains of Russia, after the humilia- nites, Pelagians, the heretics of the all appear. hatDead to diabolical divine sponse. use every torture that In Moscow, the frozen soldiers tion'at Jugoslavia. XVI. century, and so on. All the and still is, unhappy that country a bitter relentless and ances, her would-be murderers have red can invent to stifle her. The let fall the muskets from their heresies and schisms that have atNapoleon died a broken tacked her during the past 2,000 bloody persecution of God's Church flung her contemptously into the heart's blood of her children flows grasp. is being waged. 369 priests have grave, and have danced their dance like a river over the ampitheatre, man in exile-the Church of God years. She casts them off. For a But alas "The Christiana to the lions," cries lived on. The Freemasons of while they lingered on, but in the been killed; thousands of the lairs of death over her body. Like the the pagan mob. But still she grows France, in the 19th. century, boast- course of time crumbled into dust. imprisoned, and the Communist for their fond hopes. tyrants have not spared even the Risen Christ on Easter Sunday and strengthens. In a world that ed they had put out the lights of Jesus had said of old, "I am the The Italian Revolution. vine; you are the branches. Though defenceless virgins consecrated to morning, she, too, after her dark is steeped in sensuality sad vice she Heaven, Charity and aries of 1870, Garibaldi, Gambetta, cut off from the parent stem, a Christ; 12 nuns have been killed, night of persecution, has always preaches Chastity, glorious tomb three hundred the For from Mortification. and the rest, thought they had found vine branch remains green and and 50 imprisoned. Even the Nazis come forth didn't go that far. Atheism is and triumphant-more radiant than years she lives in the 'Catacombs of the aecret of her continued exist. fresh for some time, but sooner or like hunted Her children the Papal States, her Rome. ence. It was before. religion (Continued on Page 13.) being openly taught and
Vulnerable Because Human; Invincible Because Divine
Sustained in Persecution b Christ's Promise
Forty, even thirty years ago, the world was anti- Catholic; to -day it is anti- Christian. But the Church of God lives on!