The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-07
REv,G, ). DONAHUE
 CRITICS

The following communication has been received from Rev. George J. Donahue, of st. Augustine's parish. and is a reply to certain disquisftious which have appeared in the local prints, regarding the matters which he writer here discusses.
 March 6. 1919. To the Editor of the Times-Farraer.
 Sir:
 We hear a great deal in the present hour Of radical and elemental change that Is finding expression and voice among the smaller nations of the world. The erstwhile trodden reo- uIes of the world have wideued their vision and the light breaking on the hills is filling their weary eyes. Carlos Morales, who not only hides in the Forum. but furthermore protects himself in the disguise of 9 nom de plume. makes it clear that no change is liable in the method or means of attack upon Catholics or the Catho- lie Church. All the morbid fanctes all the re-hash, of Maria Monk. all the gIass-eyed phantasms. all the black bigotry, all the subtle nastiness
  tacks upon Us. Mir Morales and his shadow, Robert Paine. are presently using to vilify and to blaeken us. These Immaculate gentlemen are beautifully, though not inDressiveIr. staging the ancient incident of the voice of Jacob and the hand of Fsau
 It would not be lair to quarrel with Robert Paine about his notion of a personal God because he is not certain Ihow much Christianity he has In his gracious wisdom elected When a man with a six thousand dol lar education in one breath says. There Is no personal God', then il- sistE upon creating Good into a God. then cOnfesses that he and his wee wife cling to bits of the old faith and then insists upon educating his enil- dren in ideas of the Deity, you haze the visible workings of 8 mind that is original if not unique. His college should have raised his educational bill to twelve thousand dollars for a University has a reputation 10 keep as we'll as the individual
 He becomes not learned. but just 9 bit interesting when he refers to Mexico. What would some of us do # a kind Providence had not placed Mexico so conveniently for the broad and keen ciylItzers of the world EtS Mexican knowledge does not impress me simply because the 'iIIiteracy during the last two years simply amazed army authorities throughout inc Country. The hishest. percentage prevailed in South Carolina which can neither be accused of being Mex tcan or Catholic. American officer 7-ey-a told ;cr77-- auce in some of our Southern States is not only crass but stupendous."
 The aim of the Catholic Church. which is the flower Of Christianity, is to save souls. The Church is not hre to expressly to civilfze the world, nor to smooth the face of society, nor to facilitate the movements of Gov ernments, nor to spread abroad knowledge. nor to cultivate the req son, nor for any wordy object. but. as St. Paul says, flor the Elects sake.'' She moves and acts just oppositely to the wisdom and philosophy of the world I do not deny but happily confess that she does educate, heal, beautify, and inspire all the arts, but her first object is eternally the sal walton of souls. The mighty Catho- lie Church, like her divine founder. consults and Ia bOrs for the individual soul. for whom Christ died and who are made over for her, and her Ob- ject for which everything else is sacrificed, appearances, reputation worldly triumph, is to acquit herself of the awful responsibility. If MT Paine will tag this simple idea to his six thousand dollar education and then read 'Diplomatic Days and gtA In 1r's CO'Shaughnessy) he may be surpris- ed by the enlightenment thereby gained and acquired.
 MT. Paine, however, becomes se- rious and personal when he slurs both the Catholic Priesthood and Sisterhood. We Priests are very well able to take care of ourselves but we are very sorry to find the tolerant educated and refined MT. Paine writ ing unkindIy of good women. who in a sense. are defenseless. If he had only known them or had visited their schools and hospitals am certain that his pen would have been stayed even though his heart chafed under the compelling restraint. In The Key to the Worlds Progress" MT. .. s. Debos writes as follows:
 Analogous facts are to be Ohserv- ed among the Americans Their pub lie schools have produced q type that tends to destruction; the high birth rate of oIden times. the Amer ican increase" that so startled Nal thus a century ago, has decayed pari Dassu with the decay of religion. and now the native American is in pro- cess of disappearance: in the case of AIassac chusetts where elaborate statis-