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That Secular Indifferentism Will Infect Catholics Who Neglect Their Own Papers This issue of "The Record" is the first in Catholic Press Month. The thirty -day period munism is formal atheism; secularism is material throughout Australia to remind Catholics of what on important part the atheism. Clearly, if Catholics are content to live out their written word plays in the modern world in the formulation of ideas and hence of activi- intellectual lives exclusively in the secularist climate ties which affect the lives of each and every one of us. as regards literature (and hence, thought) they will is observed
That is why the secular Press, cut off from the soon exhibit the circumscribed mentality which is In this State, in particular, where there is a newspaper monopoly (at least as regards the daily Press, ultimate realities and in dread of them, tends to making the restoration of the Christian life in the morning and evening) it is almost inevitable that the deepen its materialism through sensualism. After democracies so excruciatingly difficult. It is imperaopinions of the average citizen will be moulded in a all if there is no reality beyond matter one might tive that they live according to the mind of the Church stereotyped direction on national and international as well explore matter in its more delectable aspects and it is surpassingly puzzling to know how they can do that without regularly reading the Catholic Press. --as if it mattered supremely. affairs. Of course, Catholics get a good grounding in their So the secular Press is unable to maintain the Where the issues concerned are "indifferent" this may not appear to be of great consequence. Yet it fiction of being religiously indifferent. Its neutralism Faith in our schools. But the majority of them do is surely a tragic thing that thinking should be stan- is constantly breaking down on the side of irreligion. not go beyond the primary level. After that they dardised. Is not that one of the radical objections This is rarely a matter of direct policy; it is the in- are dependent for their intellectual progress as evitable result of a philosophy which fails in any Catholics on home influences, friends, and pulpit. It is a notorious fact that their growth in things Cathofundamental explanations of life. One of the most flagrant instances of that was to be lic does not keep pace with their secular progress. So it is that the Catholic Press is, or could be the found in the treatment accorded the Spanish Civil Civil War in the bulk of the secular Press and in the chief instrumentality of Catholic Adult Education. Red slanting of news for years afterwards., The It can and must implement the work of the pulpit, secular Press is only a very recent convert to the the influence of which has diminished regrettably in anti-Communist cause, and even now it is not a whole- modern times. In future articles we shall examine to what extent hearted, consistent or reliable convert. Every time the Soviet leaders issue another spurious promise, the Catholics of this State measure up to their responthere is a splurge of irrational optimism and un- sibilities regarding Catholic literature. It may prove fcunded hope. That is because the secularist, pre- an alarming story. For it is certain that the preservascinding from the spiritual, is sheerly incapable of tion and extension of the Faith is inextricably bound understanding the inner nature of Marxism. Corn- up today with the spread of the Catholic Press.
Perth Will Reply To Pope's Plea With Prayer Triduum and fields may In response to the request of the Holy Father in his new En- workshops not be ensnared in the ideoArchbishop directs logies of materialism, athecyclical "Meminisse Juvat," His Grace the that a Triduum of prayer be conducted in every parish through- ism and hedonism. the roads of truth out the Archdiocese during the three days preceding the Feast of mayThat open everywhere and the Assumption and that there be a general Communion of all no one will place obstacles regions and among a 11 in its way, and that misthe faithful on the Feast itself. classes. sionaries may return as
That Christian law may devotions of the The That youth in elemen- soon as possible to their Triduum should comprise be freely promulgated in all tary and high schools, in people. Rosary, Litany and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. These will be offered up for the intentions of the Holy Father outlined in the Encyclical, which are: That pastors who are kept from their flocks or who are impeded in the free exercise of their ministry the democracies raise against the totalitarian regime may be reinstated as soon as possible; of Communism? That the faithful, disIn point of fact, very few things are truly "indif- turbed by deceits, errors and ferent.' Even when morality is not involved, directly discord, may attain comor indirectly, there is no genuine intellectual neutral- plete concord and charity ism. The secularist philosophy on which our culture in the full light of truth; That all who are in the so largely rests is itself a truncation of life, a lopping uncertainty of doubt and off of its purpose and significance. It never assumes who are weak may be Communism atheistic the dimensions of a denial as strengthened by divine grace does. In a way it is worse because it has all the so that they may be ready and willing to suffer anythe doubt of indifferentism. weakness of a doubt thing rather than break The distinction between those mental states may be away from the Christian illustrated by considering the experience of a house faith and Catholic unity. That individual dioceses Burglar. If the householder is certain that the sounds have their own legitihe hears at night are not being made by an intruder may mate shepherd. he will turn over and go to sleep. But if he merely has doubts in the matter he will have them all night. If he gets up to find out, his doubts will resolve themselves one way or the other. Pictured in the pulpit is the Rev. P. McCudden, diocesan director of sacred music, But to lie in bed too fearful to investigate is a as he conducts children of the metropolitan schools in chanting the music of the cowardly flight from reality. Solemn High Mass at the Cathedral yesterday. So it is that the secularist remains a materialist The occasion was Vocations Week. His Grace the Archbishop presided assisted or so vague as to the suprasensory that it doesn't by the Rev. P. O'Mara and the Rev. A. Morahan. The Rev. E. McKenna was matter. He remains a materialist because he has a assistant priest. The V. Rev. Dean J. Hogan, Adm., celebrated the Mass, with the about life full truth finding out the terror of Rev. W. Foley as deacon and the Rev. P. McCrann as sub -deacon. The Rev. F. morbid Walsh was master of ceremonies and the Rev. T. G. Moloney, S.M., preached. infectious. doubts are and 4 and his fears
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