The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. }. o'FLAHERTY.

THE Catholic Church pretends to be
out of politics. OF course, this is
not true. The church is in politics up
to the neck, in every country, some
times openly, sometimes covertly
Here in America it's spokesman tell
US that it does not interfere in the
game. In Italy, the Pope was on Mus
solini's side, even going to the ex-
IRENE of putting the muffler on
Father Sturzo the agrairian leader
who was one of the chief enemies of
the Fascist dictator In return for the
Pope's support, Mussolini waged war
on the Masons, restored Catholic in
struction in the schools and made sew
eral other valuable concessions to the
Vatican.
THE Pope now sees the power Of
L Mussolini slipping and he is not
mapping. Receiving a party of Catho-
lie students recently, the Pope said:
when politics come near to the
altar, then religion, the church and
the Pontiff have not only the right
but the duty to give directions and
indications to be followed by Catholics.
the supreme one of which was given
by the Divine Master, namely: Render
unto Caesar the things which are
Caesars and unto God the things that
are Gods"
THE Pontiff regretted to see many
| Catholics adherring to a party
which boosted it's opposition to every
religious creed. His Holiness was re-
ferring to the radical parties. The al
legged follower Of the meek and low
"" Nazarene saw nothing inconsist.
emit between the bloody policy OF
Mussolini and the Catholic religion.
Neither is there. There is about as
much christianity in the Catholic
Church as there is in the Ku Klux
Khan. Both are political organizations
used to further the. interests of those
who control and substitute them.
n PRIEST from Youngstown, Ohio,
~ who once posed as a radical,
recently returned from a visit to Ire
land. He is a republican in Irish poll
tics and a devoted adherent of canon
DeValera, the alleged president of a
mythical bourgeoisie republic. This
priestly fraud, in an interview to a
youngstown paper, took occasion to
express his views on Communism as
we'll as on Ireland. He is equally ig-
norant of both. He is a typical Irish
American blatherskite, whose chief
stock-in-trade is beating the breast
for ireland and pulling the British
lions tail, but keeping at safe dis.
lance from the seat of trouble.
THIS stupid skypilot learned while
| in London that the British gov
eminent was allied with Moscow, and
that every Englishman is an imperial
list. This assumption is just as rid
iculous as it would be to assume,
after reading the Father Kirby inter
view, that every Irishman is jackass.
Father Kirby is of the opinion that
what is running Europe is not capt.
talism but 1.-THE disintegrating propa-
ganda issuing daily from Russia which
keeps the people agitated and unhap-
py." 81 believe" he goes on, that
there exists today an international con-
spiracy against christian civilization
with headquarters in Russia" There
is no propaganda against civilization
coming from Moscow, but propaganda
to abolish the system that is killing
civilization. Only the overthrow of
capitalism can save civilization. And
one of the casualties, when that is
accomplished will be the opium Joint
with headquarters at Rome, which has
always been the enemy of human
progress and always will be.
THE invitation extended by this
| column TO its readers has not
fallen on deaf ears. Comrade Kruse
comes first with the following, and
promises to be frequent contributor:
THE waiting list" is not only func-
| tioning at the factory gate. The
Salvation Army's training school"
reports the largest class in its history
and more applicants than II can
handle. Col" Thomas Martin reports
that some applicants for courses in
doughnut baking and bassdrum solo
have had to postpone their studies for
another year. The wise worker
knows that the boom and blah Of the
skypilot's band has nothing to do with