Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
RELIGIOUS EXAMPLE
BY OFF|C|ALSU URGED
Priest in Pan-American Mass
Sermon Asks Leaders to
Profess Faith.

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an example to their people and as a
| petition for divine aid in the solution
of their problems because religion is the
cohesive force which binds men to rev.
erence for the laws Of civil government
as well as to devotion to the tenets of
their respective faiths.
This was the counsel given by Rev.
DR.. John K. Cartwright, assistant pas
tor of st. PatrickS Church, to repre-
sentatives of the Is American republics
who attended the annual Thanksgiving
day pan-AmeTican mass this morning.
Father Cartwright made 1t plain that
In advocating governmental profession
of religion he was not speaking about
an established church, or lin any sense,
about a union of church and state"
A government is Christian" he as
to the ministers Of a religion or II it
discriminateS between creeds, but "if in
its laws and institutions 1t takes rev.
Grant notice of Christian morals and
ideals, If its magistrates enter upon Of
fee with an oath which calls upon
the sanctions of the one true God, II its
legislative bodies act in the name Of
God and invoke His blessings on their
deliberations"
Practice Is U. S. Tradition.
Father Cartwright declared that this
sort of public recognition of God was
the practice of the United States Gov
eminent from its inception, and that
each of the governments represented by
his auditors had followed similarly the
Christian tradition of public worship.
He told the pan-AmericanS that for
many years they had Joined with the
United States in making Thanksgiving
day an international one, "a day of
universal American homage to the GOD
who made us all.
Commenting upon the place religion
holds in civil government, Father Cart
wright declared that today the Com
munist seeks success by replacing ira
ditional religion with "a superstition
half trivial and half base" but that in
time he must come to realize what
history so insistently teaches and give
to the people their ancient worship, not
an opiate, as he asserts, but their con-
ISOLATION, their dream, their bond OF
unity" Continuing, the priest said:
"You cannot bind people by mere
interests, for interests are opposing,
contradictory. You cannot unite them
by education, for the aims OF merely
natural education are ambiguous. You
cannot get them to perform the duties
of the citizen: to pay taxes, to obey
laws. to give themselves. to your armies
in a word, to make Sacrif1ceS-unlesS
YOU can bring them to see a reason Tor
the sacrifices and a reward Tor their
toll.
land the reason and reward will be,
not in wealth, for they can never share
great part of it; not in high culture,
for they can never rise to 1t; not IN
mere patriotism, for patriotism in It
self is but the begging Of the question;
not in political liberty, while millions
of them are economic slaves. The rea-
son and reward will be, not in these
things, but in their sense that they nave
satisfied their longing for the ideal ana
that they hold on their consclences the
sanction of an approving GOD.
Urges Solidarity.
Father Cartwright added that before
peoules can. trust In God they must be-
iieye in Him and that in order TO at
tain the consistency and strength OF
that belief they must have solidarity
with one another"
"This union of beliefs. he asserted,
"can come only when society IN It's
highest functions-that Is, the state, and
in its entatives-that Is the clvh
magistracy-lendS its influence. It's pres
tige, its encouragement to the express
sion of these fundamental ana en-
nobling convictions"
THE pan-American mass this morning
was presided over by the Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, the apostolc
delegates, and by Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, Archbishop Of Baltimore.
Right Rev. John M. Mcnamara, AUX
iliary Bishop of the Baltimore arch
diocese, was celebrant of the mass, while
Rev. Charles r. O'Hara was assistant
priest. Rev. Joseph P. Christopher
was deacon, and Rev. I. Mitchell cart
vrigh. brother Of thep rieSt who de-
Iivered the discourse, was subdeacon.
Rev, Joseph M. Nelligan was master OF
ceremonies to the bishop, and Rev.
Frances j. Hurney was general master
of ceremonies.
The deacons of honor to the apostolic
delegate were Very Rev. Francis Nc
Bride, C. S. c., and Very Rev. w. Cole
man Nevis, S. j., while the assistant
priest to the delegate was Rev. P. j.
The deacons of honor to the arch
bishop were RightA Rev. Mgr. E. L..
! Buckley and Right ev. Mgr. e. j. Con-
molly. Very Rev. Bernadin Bid1nger,
| o F. M.,..was assistant priest to the
archbishop
The mass was accompanied by the
traditional pomp which has marked 1t
| since its inception. The flags OF the
| United States and the pan-Amet1can
nations hung from STATS within the
| church.
Those Attending Mass.
! Among those who attended the mass
were:
The Ambassador Of Peru, the Am
bassador of Brazil, the Ambassador OF
Cuba and Sonora de Ferrara, the Am
bassador Of Chile and Sonora de Davila,
| the Minister of Colombia and Sonora de
Olaya, the Minister of Panama and
| Sonora de Alfaro, the Minister Of Vene-
zuela and Sonora de Grisanti and the
| Senoritas Grisanti, the Minister OF Bo-
| Iivia and Sonora de Medina and Seno-
rita Maria Hortensia de Medina, the
Minister of Costa Rica and Senorita
Angela Castro QueSada, the Minister OF
Nicaragua and Sonora de Sacasa and
Senorita Maria Sacasa, the Minister Of
Honduras and Sonora de Argueta ano
Senorita Rosa Argueta, the Minister OF
Guatemala and Sonora de Recinos, the
counselor of the Argentine embassy and
Sonora de Encisco, the charge daffatres
legation of Haiti; the charge d'affaires
legation of Paraguay, and Sonora de
| Vpsfran. Mime Varela and Mile, Adele