Evening star., 1923-11-29
ANNUAL PAN-AMERlCAN
MASS is HELD AT ST.
PATRICK'S CHURCH
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bration of this kind that religion has a
vital place among the Institutions of
All governments? is it device of ex-
pediency to insist that the democracy
| of republics is doomed to certain failure
| without the sustaining influence of the
| catholic Church? Is it untrue to teach
that this republic of the United States,
Wnlch learns much from you and in
whom you hope TO find example for
| permanent achievements, is democratic
Toniy when II allows the Catholic Church
freedom for belief and action unfettered
by tyrannical bigotry and class perse-
cution?
Will Answer Questions.
"TheSe are questions in which you are
interested and which | shall answer.
These are questions which even those
VINO are not here-thoSe who want TO
come and cannot and those who can
| nut do not want to-cannot be in igno-
| rance of II they wish to understand the
vital ana unacceptable forces of every
republic represented here.
| For the representatives of the
pan-American republics to meet here
IN prayer is neither impudent assump-
ton nor an effort on the part of the
catholic Church to guide the political
deStinleS Of our respective states. 1t
is recognition of the fact that, Just
as the individual heart cannot hap
PLY repudiate its Subjection to its
| Walker neither can governments that
represent united human aspirations
lrepudiate religious institutions.
| And from the divine point of the
triangle that represents the indiVid-
uai, the state and the Deity it must
| be remembered that He has the right
not only TO the public profession Of
religion from His individuals, but also
to the public profession of religious
submission of the nations that unite
them. There is not a state that can
divorce itself irrevoCably from the
yearnings of its people. There is no
one OF the citizens of our nations that
can permanently eliminate from his
thought and conduct his ultimate ac-
countabillty to some authority be-
yond this world. What its people
cannot ignore your nation and mine
cannot ignore.
Demands Free Worship.
Every nation. in justice to its cit
Izens, and in recognition OF the rights
OF God whom neither individually nor
1 collectively they can eScape must
provide for untrammeIed public and
| private worship. Ii in history the
wrecks Of unsuccessful governments
can teach any lesson il is that no one
| interested in the success of any re-
| pubic need apologize for the intro
tional affairs
Common sense will show that this
Is Eot an attempt to introduce a
Cathollc church is Interested not so
| much III the mechanics of political
government as she is in the effort
! l" see that all peoples are provided
WIN an opportunity to satisfy their
God-EiTen religious cravings We of
! the Pan American republics have
often met with mutually consoling
| results in conferences that were
| economic. scientific. sociological and
! olpiomatlc. Our religious meeting
81 h.. .
| thoilc Church is not a threat to the
! nation of the west that this church
seeks TO control the political destinies
OF OF, our SISTER REPUBLICS 1t is a prayer
sclentious men. who realize that
neither men nor governments can
! rest happy i'll any success that is
! not built permanently on the stand
afds OF a God who is relentless in
| the eNaction of His own rights and
| limitless in His interest for His
| people
The Catholic Church is not i'm
! rudent in stating this doctrine under
! these auspices. She knows bistory
! knows the people because she has
! .oStered millions of them She knows
! governments and their representa-
! tiVes because she has dealt with them
! tor more than ten times. as long as
! any one of our republics has been
! IN existence.
Need OF Public religion,
she knows Gods will becausa sba
! mas not only received it but has stood
IN perpetual mOnitorship over il
SIhc" II was made known by Jesus
| Christ. She does not wish to- he an
| noy"d by assuming the powers nf
| poItical government, but she can moi
| De true to the facts Of history and
70 IN" continued advancement of
c!viilZation unless she brings to the
I - q rf oil
kind the need of public religious pro
feSSlon in every nation.
HfmiE maintain not only that his
| tory and common sense prove the need
OF reilgion in the minds. hearts and ac
tlons OF peoples and governments hut
also that in the special form of demo-
cratic government, to which every one
here i pledged, religion as sustained nv
lhT tathohc church is democracys
only protection against ultimate failure
! IN TINS statement. knowingly, but salts
! ned IN truthful conviction, | fly in the
lace OF criticism and open an avenue of
attack to higoted sentiment that prizes
political eNpediency above enlightened
! recognition of and coura geouS wrestling
with the actual and ultimate forces
OF destruction within every self-govern-
ment.
"But no Catholic pulpit hesitates TO
state the facts. or sacrifices truth 10 or
for representative congregations. And
therefore, | say that while our republics.
by law, by confiScation. by expulsion,
and by all other means within their
power, may seek to discredit and to
annihiIate the Catholic church. these
deInocrac1eS cannot exist without the
virtues that she is grounded on and for
which she risks annihilation rather than
abandon
self determining democratic govern
ment needs even more than all other
forms of government people so
grounded in habits of obedience to and
respect for law and authority that will
defy the dissolution gradually effected
by false concept of liberty. Fatal to
all government is anarchy. and anarchy
is nothing more than individualism run
wild. Democracy presupposes the will
inguess and the ability Of people to
shoulder the sacrifices that are the
mansprings of real liberty, to condemn
and TO punish the selfish lawlessness
that hides under the cloak of liberty, to
reconcile the dignity and the destiny of
human personality with the rights of
law and authority by which alone a
elf-governing nation can continue.
Urges Respect for Law.
TN a word, the self government of
the republics that we represent can
be successful only so long as our
peoples are ruled by se1f-sacrificine
respect for law and authority and by
self -effaCing regard for the common
veal. say without hesitation that
the Catholic Church, in it's teaching
and discipline in the human organi-
zation that has enabled 1t to survive
the battles of centuries, is founded on
the very principle that guarantees
the pernanency of representative
governments. You may object that
the Catholic Church is monarchical
in it's form of government, and YOU
are right if you limit this to spiritual
matters and if you recognize that
there can be no Self-determination
on the part of mere human brains
where the divine mind has made it
self known.
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