The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-01


PLES-DANGERS OF RADICAL.
ISM IN ovERTURNlNG LAWFUL
GOVER NJ M ENTS - MASSES
SHOULD REAP FRUITS OF uN.
TOLD SACRIFICES OF WAR.
Speaking recently in the Baltimore
Cathedral where Cardinal Mercier
pontiicated, Right Reverend John P.
Carroll, Bishop of Helena. Mont, de-
livered powerful address on the
causes of social unrest Bishop Car
rol said
Bishop CarroIPs Sermon.
Scarcely have the wild paeans of
JOY which greeted the triumph of de-
mocracy died away when there ap-
pears in our midst the heroic figure
of the world war, Desire Cardinal Mer-
cier, Archbishop of Malines. He
comes to thank America for having
saved his country and to seek her aid
in it's restoration. A more welcome
guest America has never taken to her
BOSOM -
If | were cartoonist | would SYM
bolize the cordiality of the welcome
by the outstretched arms of James
Cardinal Gibbons, Americas first
churchman and most beloved citizen,
as he advances to receive Europe's
first citizen to the kiss of peace. For
her help in food, money and man.
power America wishes to assure Bel
GUMS noble representative she feels
amply repaid by the example of ex-
alted patriotism of King Albert and
his little army and by the incorrup-
tibility, the patience, the endurance
and the courage exhibited by the mar
tyr nation under the direction of the
moral hero who occupies it's primatlal
See.
Were it not for Belgiums intrepid
stand at Liege Americas help would
have been in vain. If America won
the war in the end, Belgium prevent
ed it from being lost in the begin
ming. America needed the sinking of
the Lusitania to force her into the
war, but once being in, it was ma
tion of the violated treaty that fur
nished the motive which made her
armies invincible against the hosts of
autocracy at Chateau-Thierry and in
the Argonne Forest along the Meuse.
If the doctrine that might makes
right has been discredited among the
nations, if appreciation of the sane
tity of international law has been
heightened, if the moral obligation of
patriotism has received wider ac-
acknowledgement, if faith in the God of
nations has been strengthened-this
is due to the words and example of
Cardinal Mercier as we'll as to the
splendid preachments of the United
States.
| need not assure His Eminence of
Malines that America will continue
the work she has commenced until
Belgiums economic, intellectual and
religious life has returned to normal.
America never does anything by
halves. --.. E. .~
Welcome to Cardinal Mercier.
For himself personally and the
flock committed to his care, l can
wish no greater blessing than that
contained in the prayer for the Bishop
of the diocese, which the Church puts
on the lips of the clergy: "Stet ct
pascal in fortitudine tua, Domino, in
sublimitate nominis tut" May he al
ways stand erect as he did during
the war now happily ended, clothed, O
Lord, with Thy gift of fortitude May
he never be moved by threats OF
promises to desist from feeding with
the food of sound doctrine the sheer
Thou hast intrusted to his keeping
May he always be lifted up above the
-serdid considerations of flesh and
blood and place all his trust in the
power of Thy holy name.
Brethren, while we rejoice with oul
tory won by America and her asso
ciates, we are not satisfied Nobody
is satisfied with the conditions which
exist as a result of the war, and the
outlook is far from being hopeful ol
promising. This was the note strucl
by Cardinal Mercier in that wonder
full address he made to the clergy o
Baltimore at the close of their annua
retreat
First of ALL the governments of tn,
world are not satisfied. The autoe
racy which attempted the conquest o
the world has, indeed, been crushed
but the greed, the distrust, the jeal
ousy, the hatred, which caused tn
war, are still smoldering, and ma.
break out again, when opportunity o1
fers, into a confagration more cor
sumiag than that which has just bee,
extinguished. The purely material
istic ideals which have hitherto gov
erned the relations of the nation
with one another have not been ger
erously and sincerely put side by al
in the consideration of the terms G
peace.
Americas principles regarding tn
right of self-determination for all ne
tions, great and small alike, were az
cepted as the basis of peace, by bot
friend and foe, but they did not re
ceive at the. Peace Conference tn
plenary application that was expec