The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-11-05
BISHOP McNlCHOLAS OF DULUTH
ADDRESSED RALLY OF HOLY
NAME MEN IN CATHEDRAL AT
MILWAUKEE, WIS.,, LAST SUM-
DAY EVENING".
The Bishop said in part:
The Power of Organization.

The Power OF Organization.
We are living in an age when the
power of organization is felt in every
domain of activity. The whole world
has been organized The world war
not only assembled it's vast armies but
organized all it's forces of civil and in
dustrial life in order to carry on its
inhuman destruction. The reaction of
this has been to multiply constructive
forces. Legislators, statesmen, cap
tains of industry, have been most as
siduous in perfecting new organiza-
tions in the hope of establishing con-
fidence and restoring material prog
ress. We see the extraordinary re-
suits achieved in municipal, state and
federal governments by we'll organized
minorities. Propagandists, social, well
fare and charitable agencies direct
their activities according to well de-
fined plans. In whatever direction we
look, whatever activity we consider,
we find skilled trained men and WON.
Ell directing organized forces in or
der to achieve greater and quicker re-
suits. We must indeed marvel at the
energy and patience shown and the re-
suits achieved. Let us pause and ask
the reason of it all.
Is it not incredible to think that
practically all our organized activities
are carried on for material and physic-
al advantages, and that the motives
governing them are merely of the
natural order The achievements of
organization for material gain, for
pleasure, for political power, for social
position should make us reflect on the
words of Christ; The children of
this generation are wiser than the
children of light
Why So Much Ignorance About the
Church?
The Church is not a secret society.
She has no secrets from the public.
She invites all, the lowly, the simple,
the unlettered, as we'll as the rich and
the most erudite, to investigate her
every doctrine. She is willing to offer
an explanation for her every teaching
She will satisfy those of one degree OF
capacity to investigate, as well as
those who have ten thousand degrees
of capacity. If complete survey could
be made among the non-Catholics oil
the United States, collecting all the
available information they possess
about the Catholic Church, would no
their ignorance be incredible?
Have we ever paused to reflect why
there is so much ignorance about the
Catholic Church? We Catholics do no
like to think that there is malice, Of
hatred, or bigotry, or injustice in the
minds and hearts of men against u.
and the sublime code of our belief, bu
we are certain that there is great ig
norance about the Catholic Churcl
which we can only deplore. A thou
sand forms of error have erected ;
great barrier between the Catholic
Church and ignorant, prejudiced men
Ii is the barrier of ignorance. Erro
has refused permission to the erin;
to knock at the door of truth.
May not the Catholics of every com
munity in the United States look int
their consciences, and ask themselve
what are they doing to dispel the ig
norance? What surveys have Deel
made among the non-Catholics TO as
certain the reasons of their prejudices
and the extent of their false informs
uOn about the Catholic Church? Wha
means are being adopted to give pull
licity to the truth of Christ? Catholi
teachings, principles, and Catholic di:
cipline are not being preached on tn
highways and byways. The grea
Gaily newspapers and the publication
of large circulation are not carryin
the message which the Catholi
Church has to deliver Are we tryin
to address these larger audiences
There is an intelligent and fair spir
in America willing to hear our me-
sage If we present it rightly. If we ia
by one method of presentation let u
try another. With a thousand failure
we must begin the thousand an
one attempt. We who know tn
Church and her teachings know that
is impossible for any intelligent, fai
minded, and normal man to hate he
provided he will take the trouble t
study her doctrine and her history.
Holy Name Society-Seven Hundre
Years Old.
We are assembled here as member
of the Holy Name Society, societ
that has existed in the Church for Sc
en- centuries, society that proclaim
the Divinity of Christ, society tn;
condemns by organized methods bla
phemy, perjury, profane and obscer
speech, society that teaches public
and fearlessly, that all authority
from God. domestic, civil, and relis
Gus, and that all must respect al
obey its mandates. The Holy Nan
Society in America numbers more ths
million men. We have been busy
organizing branches of the socie
throughout the country. During Il
years that was privileged to dire
Holy Name activities at the Nation
Headquarters in New York, three tho
sand Holy Name societies were esta
lished