Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-23
THE. KEY TO WORLD PEACE
The Catholic Church the Governing Power Said David Godsten in His Lecture at Town Hall Tuesday Evening Under Auspices of Knights of Columbus

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 en1y to cease questioning our patriot | ism is too much, for so long as men | follow the counsels of ill-will, so long | must Catholics expect to be maligned. | patriotism, upon his elevation to the
 exalted position of a Prince of the
 Church, our own great Cardinal l O'Connell said: Since when a man
 not permitted to love both his Fath- 1 CT and his Mother? Since when
 man not permitted to obey his God
 and his country
 The Key to World Peace.
 The Catholic church holds the key 1 10 World Peace today! Just as
 she brings peace to the soul of the re- | pentent sinner, just as she reconciles ] the differences between man and wife, 1 so has she settled disputes between | King and King. nation and nation. It | was Boniface VIII who established peace between France and England. It l was Alexander VI who adjusted the l differences between Spain and Portu- 1 gal over their new-found Western lands. It was Clement VII who set | tied the differences between Russia | and Poland over Lithuania. It was l Gregory XIII who ended the war be- | tween Bathory of Poland and Ivan the | Terrible. It was our own Great Leo | XIII who adjusted the quarrel between Hayti and San Domingo. While as late | as 1885. when Bismark submitted the | German controversy with Spain over | the Caroline Islands to the Vatican, | an agreement was formulated which | established peace and prevented war. | Aye, but yesterday our Holy Father l Pope Benedict XIV, was selected as arbitrator of the difficulty existing be- tween Peru and Bolivia.
 It is most significant that those powers who have so long ignored Rome are sending envoys to her court, l and who shall say that if England, | Russia, France, Turkey. Germany and l all the other nations now engaged in | envoys to the Vatican. that the great | European slaughter now going on | might not have been averted? Even | though Rome by the rebellion of once | loyal nations is limited in the exer- | else of her Divine power, yet she has ] done more than all the other powers l put together to bring relief to those | thousands of wounded soldiers of all 1 creeds and no creed, who were lan- | gushing in foreign lands. It is the | good offices of our Holy Father that
 are bringing back the wounded soldiers | to the firesides in their native lands | which they love and long for. Let | us hope and pray that the day is not
 far distant when Rome shall again be | recognized as the great Papal Court | of Arbitration and so avert in the flu. | ture the awful slaughter that the world is a witness of today. Ayel it | is Rome alone that will ever bring | about the understanding necessary to | an enduring peace of nations. For
 the Brotherhood of Man divorced from | the Fatherhood of God is a mere
 shock.
 Hamlet With Hamlet Left Out. | What a rebuke this war of many ! nations is to the pride and conceit | which set up The Hague as the pur- veyor of international peace! It is | TJor1 lat rTrifI JaA IAfT ] it stands, a magnificent building-the l Peace Palace at The Hague-to mock | it's founders. The money did not come by multiplying the bits donated
 by the poor-no, the money was rolled | up mountain high by manipulating | the tariff schedules and by grinding | the face of the poor. The Peace l Palace is now silent. It was so filled | with emDtineSs that there was no room | for the Vicar of Christ It meditated vain things and verify it received it's | reward. Is reward was not peace | but the plaudits of those who deny | the authority of the Pope of Rome, of i those who would dethrone Religion in | favor of Science-not knowing that
 theology is the highest intellectual | science of them all.
 | The very idea of The Hague came | from the church. It was a French | Catholic Monk Emeric Cruce, who l some three hundred years ago wrote 1 out a concrete plan for a world court | of arbitration. It was from the book ] of this monk-The New Cyneas-that | Hugo Grotius, Gustavus Adolphus. , our own Charles Sumner and many
 al arbitration are said to have receiv- | ed their inspiration which afterwards | materialized in The Hague.
 1 In his plan, the holy monk gave l first place to the Roman Pontiff, but | at The Hague they would not have it w hof | cold temple stands stark, warning the i world that Christ is the center of l peace and that a rejection of His l Vicar is = rejection of Christ Him. | self?
 The Price of Peace.
 Oh! # is as simple as can be; if we want peace in our hearts, peace in | our homes. peace in our industries. and | peace in the obedience to the law of | Christ. When the Lord is my Shep- | herd. I have no want"
 It was but yesteryear that the world saw an example of national peace established in the name of our | Lord Argentina and Chile had long | quarrelled over their boudary line. 1 when at length the eloquent protest l of the Bishop of Argentina brought 1 these two southern republics from the | state of war to a state of peace. They | finally tHnt to the call of Christ and
 entered into an agreement to end their C1S' theS HLelteu theh CdILOH | to cast a. colossal statute of our Lord. | the Prince of Peace. In the heart of | the Andes, on the mountain pass be- 1 tween Argentine and Chile, the | Christ of the Andes now stands with | 2 cross in His left hand and His right | hand raised to bless the compact be- | tween our southern neighbors. At the | base of the monument there is inscrib- | ed this. their mutual pledge: Sooner l shall these mountains crumble into l dust. than Argentines and Chileans
 break the peace which at the feet of
 Christ the Redeemer they have sworn | to maintain"
 We may cry peace! peace!" but 1 there shall be war until in our hearts
 we erect the image of Christ. until
 in our domestic life, in our industrial | life and in our governmental affairs, | we rule ourselves, our homes, our | business. and our nation by the prin- 1 ciples of peace.