The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-11-18
Sources Of Danger.

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Sources Of Danger,
The danger threatening the faith Of
Poland, in the opinion of the Bishops,
comes from three sources. "In many
parts of our land" says the pastoral,
IAN open campaign for socalled Ma.
tional Church is being conducted.
Renegade priests from the United
States Of America are flooding our
country with their writings. Their fol-
lowers, in union with the subversive
parties, have gotten control OF certain
popular newspapers through which
they are appealing to the Catholics to
abandon the Church. Knowing well
that few would follow them IL they
proceeded by honorable methods. they
are endeavoring to mislead the simple
people and persuade them that the
sect which they are striving to in
troduce in their native land is
identical with the Catholic Church,
| merely possessing the advantage over
it of being National Church, an adj
vantage which they claim the Catho.
lie Church lacks. They have retained
many Catholic customs, to deceive the
people, but they have lost Catholic
unity and their recently published
catechism shows that they have re-
jected many Catholic truths. The spe-
cial danger of their activity lies in the
promise Of their demagogues that in
the National Church the people will
hold the reins of administration, and
that the priests will be but "the repre-
sentatives of the peoples will
Although groups are being formed
here and there for the establishment
of the National Church, the Bishops
are nevertheless of the opinion that
a far greater danger for the faith Of
Poland lies in the activities of various
lsects, which, since 1918, have sprung
like mushrooms from the earth and
are working with feverish activity
throughout the length and breadth Of
POLAND. Having important fnancia
resources, they are everywhere erect
ing schools, homes for children, or
phanages, hospitals, and are making
every effort to win the poorer classes
in particular, to their teaching.
Y. IN. C. A. Creating Distrust.
The pastoral closes with a warnip.
against the Y. M. G. A. which is work
ing principally with young people, thu'
constituting grave danger to the faitl
of the coming generation. According t.
the pastoral, the Y. M. C. A. during
the past year has been extremely &C
; tive in the intermediary schools
building up through its branches, AM
through the paper "Czyn,' its offcia
organ, indifferentism and distrust il
everything pertaining to the Catholi
Church. In the higher educational es
Adjustments there has been forme'
an association called the Christian
Students Association of Poland, whicl
lis under the influence of the Y. M. c
A. and is but an imitation of the Worl'
Federation of Christian Students. Al
1 though this Students Association ha
for it's purpose the renaissance AM
reconstruction of the Fatherland, it !
. based on dangerous spirit Of re
. ligious indifferentism which slowl
but inevitably is leading its member
, away from the Catholic Church.
Il 1--WE appeal here" the Bishops sa,
in the pastoral, ito the testimony Q
conscientious and truthful represents
tives of the Y. M. G. A. themselves
The statement of some of them ha
become known to !. us, that the al
filiation of Catholics with the Y. M
, C. A-and the same holds true in tn
, case of related or dependent organize
, tions-is a betrayal, on the part O
, these young people, of their owl
), Church, and that in practice, the ma
, jority of them have already abandone
the Church entirely"