The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-05-06

courage and the daring of our Bishops.
Had they not faced conditions in a
new way, had they as a body persist
ed in regarding their tasks with the
outlook of any old-world Bishop, no
matter how sanity. no matter how
learned, they would have proved them
selves recreant to their charge and
but poorly served the Church. They
heard, thank God, and needed the
apostles word to rule the Church in
which the spirit of God had placed
them. With everything to do, they
set themselves to the task-ungrate-
full and fatiguing though it was-of
building up the material fabrics OF
the Church, of acquiring buildings for
worship, for Christian education, for
all the works of Christian charity.
They labored under the 5compulsion OF
saving their own from proselytism,
| from Indifference, from irreligion.
only begun their Herculean task.
What use will all our buildings be to
us If in twenty years or more they
shall be empty, if we do not now sue
coed in the far more difficult work OF
building Catholic viewpoint in the
hearts and minds of our teeming mil
lions.
| Dangers of Indifference.
| There are none but the Bishops OF
the land to do this work. They can
/ H., scIo ,f hn nth
lands once were permitted to do, that
| the whole machinery of government
will be put at their service. Even
were such contamination conceiv
able, they do not desire it, for well
they know the fickleness of majorities
the instability of public opinion
which is based on no fixed principles
Against them are ranged the surviving
bigotries of the old Reformation pc
riod-the added suspicion of those
without religious utilization who are
yet alarmed at the swarming foreign
finds the only note of welcome anc
the only reminder of home arount
their affairs. Still harder to bear is
the thought that many within the
fold, lulled into the comfortable liner
tia of those whose lot is cast in easy
circumstances, neither see the dangers
ahead of them nor have patience with
lthose who do AS if the French reVO
luton had not been given for our in
struction! What Bishops of France
ever dreamed before 1890, that the cid
est daughter of the Church could ge
ministrations. Yet day came whe1
they fed, not altogether in terror, bu
as if to punish the excuses of theil
turbulent children, confidently expect
ing to be recalled In exile and il
poverty, they waited long years il
: vain-princes and prelates in who's,
veins ran the proudest blood OF
France Yet France rejected them
and even under the Concordat declin
ed to receive them back on their owl
terms Had they but known in 1850
yea, even in ITO, the storm that wa'
gathering against them, how differ
emily might not the history of, the
4 Church have been written.
II Perils in America.
In a country like ours, swayed b!
the surges of passionate sentiment
what justification has any man to fee
himself secure? With shout and
cry and slogan, the old order which
was but of yesterday is swept ava.
| and VIZ hnoir RI h11i1I oil fhinuc
Our national Indifference to princi
pies, as if they sayored of dogmas
makes every new policy advocated
more summary in it's finality and in
creases the dangers of those who. like