The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-06-28

the faith or morals of women arise
owing to any revolutionary changes,
| we may be assured that quick con-
demnation will follow. The protesting
voice of the Church will be heard
throughout the world Her condemna-
| ton will be uttered in terms that can
| not be mistaken. In these days when
false theories are proposed, when
principles and programs are shifted
over night, when there is no coopera-
| ton between Church and state in edu-
cation, when philosophy is divorced
| from theology, when so-called scien-
fists declare that the conclusions of
reason and revelation are irreconcila-
BILE, when the rejection of the prin-
ciple of authority in religious matters
has effected not only division in
| matters of faith, but has put Church
and state at variance on the principles
Of education, when purely intellectual
education is separated from the moral
and religious; when the supernatural
| is overthrown, rejected, ridiculed;
when we are dealing with the conse-
quences of more than three centuries
of non-Catholic education on purely
naturalistic basis; when all this is 60
ling on without the power of the Church
to correct it outside of her own
domain, it is natural that many false
conclusions are proposed and many
wrnno Drjppip1eS unbe1d
Catholic Education.
In this splendid institution that has
such fine traditions you have bene-
| fitted by Christian Catholic educa-
| ton. Not only have you been imbued
| essential for learning, but you have
appreciated during your years here the
harmonious union of intellectual,
moral and religious training, The
| further pursuit of knowledge along
| these lines will safeguard you against
the errors so prevalent in our day
| regarding the nature and necessity of
moral training. The foundation of
/ true philosophy has been laid and you
| have learned to appreciate the value
| of the supernatural in your daily lives.
You have been taught to reject as the
| basis of education the merely natur-
| alistic. May you go forth from this
/ institution determined to preserve the
union of the natural and the super
natural in your own lives and may you
| become champions of the cause of
| Christian education, recognizing that
religion is an essential part of educa-
ton. Surely it seems incredible that
educators of trained minds, who be-
| lieve in a personal God and a future
immortal life, can insist on the mere
instruction of the intellect and on a
vain futile attempt to teach the child
or young woman her duties to herself
and to her neighbor while at the same
time insisting that she ignore her du-
ties to God. In harmony with the
Catholic Church may you welcome
/ methods that mean advancement in
instruction. While the Church is in
terested in and concerns herself about
| these in her educational institutions,
Iyet no pronouncement is heard from
her on such matters. Her duty is to
guard the principles which are essen
tial for Christian Catholic education.
| Dangers In World
| You are going forth into world
where there are so many false appear
ances. Almighty God judges by
realities, by motives and by justice.
| appearances can never deceive divine
Judgment. The hidden and secret
| things of our lives, if they be against
| God, or Gods laws, make us worthy
| of condemnation. The revolt of the
sixteenth century with it's logical con-
sequences asks for judgment on ex-
ternals and on appearance. Such can
not be the judgment of God, nor is
such the teaching of the Church. We
are living in a day when the sense of
Justice is in great measure weakened
and unknown There is wanting in
| our public press a sense of justice. In
our halls of legislatures and in the
minds of legislators, does not in
f1uence count more than justice? We
condemn might for right, and yet
mighty institutions of monopolies ex-
lperience no reproach of conscience for
their injustices, because they are
powerful enough to enforce them. The
rich individual or corporate employer
has not accounted himself as unjust in
depriving his employee of an honest
living wage. .
/ Is it not fear of the power of the
union of laboring men that is bringing
about a changed attitude in capital
| today, rather than an awakening OF
conscience to the injustice of the past Z?
Perhaps, in no war the precise and
| exact purpose in the measure sought
has been attained by any nation
Unquestionably the present war has
won for the laboring classes victories
that neither governments anticipated,
nor that working people dreamed Of
The power of labor today is such that
it's victory can be complete, but labor
also is exposed to the gravest dangers
Governments and capital have lost the
sense of justice and they are paying
the consequences Let labor in it's
hour of triumph begin by injustice or
by disregarding it's duty to cultivate a
sense of justice and it begins at once
on a downward course to ruin and de-