The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-23

passions and violence of the times, she
was yet enabled, In the words Of DIR.
Cunningham, a Protestant writer, to
succeed in moralizing Industrial and
commercial conceptions and institu-
tons, and in inspiring men with a
keen sense of personal responsibility
in the employment of secular power
of every kind (Western Civilization,
vol. II, p. 1O4)." Henry G. Day, S. j.
Democratic Influence Of the Church.
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, ex-President
of the United States, as professor Of
political science whose long years Of
study and research have eminently
qualified him to speak, has this to say
lof the democratic influence Of the
ICatholic Church in: the Middle Ages:
The only reason why government did
not suffer dry rot in the Middle Ages
under the aristocratic system which
then prevailed, was that most Of the
men who were efficient instruments Of
government were drawn from the
Church-=from that great religious
body which was then the only Church,
| that body which is now DISTINGUISHED
from other religious bodies as the Ro-
man Catholic Church. The Roman
Catholic Church was then, as it is now,
a great democracy. There was no
peasant SO humble that he might not
become a priest, and no priest so OBJ
| scure that he might not become Pope
OF Christendom; and every chancel-
lory in Europe, every Court in Europe,
was ruled by these learned, trained
and accomplished men-the priest
hood, and that great and dominant
Church CThe New Freedom, pp. So
1881.
Let Us Have Moral Courage.
The only comment we make is. let
us have the moral courage to be Ro-
man Catholics in our actions, social
and otherwise, even though in this
perverse generation polite society does
not consider it the thing. Don't be
| afraid of that misused word radical. .
1t means going to the root of a thing.
The Church is the great friend of la.
Dor. The true interests of Catholicism
are linked up today as never before
with the masses. in order to pre-.
serve so desirable state of things it
is absolutely necessary that religion
should contrive to possess the affec.
lions, and thus rule the conduct of the
multitudes.' Cardinal Gibbons Me
mortal to the Holy See. "A new task is
before us. The Church has no longer
Ito deal with Parliaments and princes
but with the masses and with the PEG.
pie. Whether we will or no, this is
our work; we need a new spirit and
a new law of life" Cardinal Man.
ming. ITO lose influence over the peo
pie would be to lose the future alto.
gether; and it is by the heart, far
more than by the understanding, that
I'VE must hold and guide this immense
power, so mighty either for good OF
for evil" Cardinal Gibbons.
Since the fifth century," says Oza
nam, "a vast number OF saints had a
greater liking for the Goths and Van
dals, the Arian and idolatrous Francs
than for the effeminate Catholics OF
the Roman cities" Today, too, hon
est men have more respect for the
suppressed Catholicism of the strug
Cling masses than for that same eff
Terminate type of Catholic, lay or cler
ical, who are afraid to call their souls
their own IF we cannot evangelize
the, masses" said Ozanam, then we
are at the end of the world, and SC
at the end of all controversy Get
tres III, D. 224). Behold, then, the
new apologize, the watchword of the
future: Passions aux barbares. Spend
yourselves upon the masses.