The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-11-25
RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS INTOLER-
ANcE HARBINGER OF DEcAD-
ENCE.
(By N. C. w. C. News service.)

(By N. C. w. c. News Service.)
The following address on religious
intolerance was given by the Right
Rev. J. F. Noll for a Huntington, Ind,
radio broadcasting station:
THE cry which goes up from mil
lions of threats in a score Of nations
today is Peace, Peace but the cruel
answer which the cry ever provokes
is, There is no peace a
During the past decade, the people
of the world have become SO Injured to
war and to the tolls of war, that they
could endure little longer the delay
of the return of peace, if only they had
assurance that it would return within
reasonable time. But the signs in
new conflicts from without, and to
overwhelming dissensions from with
in
France and England; France and
Germany; England and Ireland; Tur-
key and Greece, are mutually unfriend-
ly. Hungary is surrounded by enc
mics; Czecho-Slovakia is envied by
five contiguous states, and it's heter-
ogenous peoples will not remain at
peace; Jugo-Slavia is a composite of
races which will not mix; Poland and
Germany have serious differences; the
Croats and Slovenes will not assimi-
late with the Serbs; Austria is already
in her death throes; Russias turmoil
is known the world over.
Nations Chief MaIady.
"Our own beloved Columbia, though
far removed from the disorders of Eu-
rope, and in no imminent danger of
attack from without, is nevertheless,
seething with disorder and hate. The
| warfare between Capital and Labor is
not the most serious Of our dividing
forces. The strife between the wet
and dry elements; the ever-increasing
| taxes; the unrest because of the high
| cost of living; the strikes; all these
are less subversive of peace and tran
quillity than the growing spirit of ra-
cial and religious intolerance, promot-
ed by dozen different groups of men
even under the guise Of patriotism.
GS, Lie Prosecutions III Oul OWN OOuh-
| trymen on racial or religious grounds,
SO pronounced at this moment, is our
country's greatest malady now and
| the harbinger of her decadence. Pa
gan Rome's decline began when she
| Instituted a religious warfare. The
Near East was progressive until the
government made religion its own af-
fair. The introduction of religion by
force in Germany and England provok-
| ed a Thirty-Years' War in the former,
and the most unjust penal laws in the
latter country.
THE aim to retain one religion by
force inspired the Spanish Inquisition
against Professionals, and the English
Inquisition against Catholics, both sad
blots on history. Religion or no re-
| ligion' precipitated the French revolu-
ton. Mohammedanism versus Chris.
| tianity has long been at the bottom
of the trouble in the old Bible lands.
| No religion at all is the war-cry of
4 the Russion Bolshevist, of the powers
4 that be in Mexico, Central America
| and elsewhere. In our own country,
the cry is, Down with the Catholics,
| down with the Jews. Close their in
stitutions; keep their members out of
4 public Office This, despite the fact
that the very first Amendment added
to the Constitution of the United
States reads, Congress shall make no
law respecting the establishment of
| religion, or prohibiting the free exer-
else thereof
| Germany, France, England, Italy
and other countries harbor q homo
4 geneous population, primarily, with
only few important religious groups.
I Not SO the United States All nations