The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27

leadership never to be suspected as
venal or mercenary; a leadership
courageous to advise labor against
overreaching itself and thus prevent it
from defeating it's own commendable
aspirations; leadership that will con-
denim oppression in the open; a lead
ership that will also demand the
Our voice will never be silent in
behalf of the labor and trade classes.
From every pulpit and in every Cath
Ollie home we ask our priests to as
sure labor of our and their sympathy
and at the same time to sound a warn
ing against leaders that are un-Ameri-
can, self-interested, radical, irreligious,
hireling leadership met against the
State, against the Lord and against
His Christ.
Not in word alone, but in deed,
shall we priests of the people express
our sympathy, our protection and our
love by knowing the actual conditions
of the homes of labor, by being fa-
| miliar with their aspirations and their
difficulties, by counselling them to
thrift, by urging them to provide for
the future, by being their friend and
father in sickness and in death Our
counsel must be sound, our devotion
tested by an ever-readiness to serve.
In the natural order let our people be
instructed in their peace-time love of
country and in their duties to the com
mon good and the public interest.
Now it becomes the Office of religion
to teach civic duty, not by espousing
the cause of this or that political
party or creed, but by forming a con.
scientious judgment against a radical
leadership without religion, and also
by the exercise of the ballot in choos-
ing conscientiously public officials who
stand for government by law, for NOR.
ality, for religion, for God. Let every
Catholic man and every Catholic
| woman be urged to vote according to
a Judgment of conscience.
The Holy Father.
Our present Holy Father, Benedict
XIV, has suffered and has been
wronged because of his spiritual and
| moral power, because he refused to
be a partisan by throwing his inf1u
ence to any political power or govern
ment. The Holy Father sought to aid
all, to alleviate the sufferings of all
warning nations, to have justice every
where recognized and enforced and
liberty respected. No power on earth
knows so well as the Holy See that
| governments without justice, accord
ing to the expression of St. Angus
tine, are robbers and plunderers. de
Civ. Del, 4, Cap. ~.
When worldly wisdom and govern
ments cannot employ the influence
and moral force of the Holy See tt
| their own self-interest and for un
| just ends, they then decide to ignore
to calumniate and to limit by every
means at their command the power
| and the influence of the Vicar Of
| Christ. Today in our troubled condi
| ton there is no one who could be 81
| helpful to the masses of all nations al
| the Holy Father. He knows their as
pirations, his sympathy goes out t.
every family and home in the world
He knows the numberless acts of in
justice and the attacks on the dignit!
of human nature by violating liberty
He knows how governments and thu
upper classes have oppressed the poor
whom he loves as only true fathe
can love.
. When, however, we consider tina
God is little thought of, that Christ il
not known and not loved, need we b.
surprised at whatever treatment il
accorded His Vicar on earth? We re
call the program of the Pontificate o
Plus X, "To restore all things t.
Christ" We have, perhaps, forgotten
the great principle that Benedict tn
XIV annunciated in his first messag
as Pope, which was to be his chosel
task and constant endeavor during hi
earthly years as Vicar of the Prime
| of Peace. "To bring men back to tn
power of the charity of Christ.
What is so necessary in the world tt
, day as the exercise of Christ's char
lily? What is so necessary as the low
of God and the love of men? AS on
, august reigning Pontiff has said, 81
| is pretended that the spirit of brotf
! erhood without the aid of the teacf
: ing of the Gospel, or the work c
!, Christ and of His Church has bee
one of the greatest creations of moo
ern civilization"
The present actual conditions prov
: that the boosted of brotherhood is
sham. The redemption of Chris
} founded a universal brotherhood on
: supernatural plane. To come dow
: from it's heights does not mean r
5 turning merely to the natural orde
r for it is the perversion and degrad'
' ton of the supernatural brotherhood
5 of Christ.
Y Special Injunctions.
Let the program of love of Ben
1 dict XIV change the face of the worl
j. We must strive to unite in our sir
J pie, humble way with the Vicar I
S Christ in helping him to carry OF
q the great purpose of his Pontificat
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