The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-18
JUDGE SORRY TIE CAN'T MAKE FINE lARGERF
Archbishop Murray
 Pleads For MIRA
Pastoral Letter of Native of This City Printed in
 Catholic Transcript

The pastoral letter issued by Most Rev John Gregory Murray. archbishop of St Paul, Minn, print. ed in the current issue of the Cath olic Transcript, conforms. to a strict compliance with the MIRA code. It makes a strong appeal to Christian manhood and womanhood and oth- CTS to do all in their power to aid the president in his efforts to bring back prosperity to the nation.
 The. letter is in part, as6ollows:
 within the past decade license and licentiousness have usurped the place of virtue and responsibility to such a degree that a disregard for the proprieties has become the rule rather than the exception in our social life" Particularly fia- grant, the pastoral says. ''is the violation of the accepted standards of conduct in the cases of those who have sought to commercialize the traits of human character and the relations of human intercourse which lie at the very root of duly ordered human existence"
 "It is the duty of every pastor" Archbishop Murray states, mot to
 organize a vigilance committee,
 which is perfectly futile in the pre-. vention of crime, but to educate his flock to abstain from those public activities which are immoral, if not immoral, and to inspire them with the spirit of the apostolate to dis suade their neighbors from drifting
 with the tide of nudism, race sui eide and commercial vice.
 "The places where our youth gather to become innoculated with | the germs of self-destruction should be eliminated by recourse to the proper authorities to take action against the violation of our statutes which seem to have become by word and a scandal in many road | houses and dance halls in the state. If a pastor finds that members of
 his parish have responsibility for these abuses in their official capa- city he is to warn them either to | remedy the abuses or withdraw from material cooperation With evil by retaining places on public | boards that have become obtuse to any conscientious enforcement of l the law"
 "In our agricultural fairs" the
 pastoral continues, "the spectacle or marriage cNCh pCSWSOh SA1OoS
 who are not Catholics as feature of the activities to increase the gate receipts should lead to a withdraw al of participation in the exhibits. attendance at the fair and member
 ship on any board that is respon. sible for the program. Marriage was instituted by God as a sacred
 source of life for society at large and while those who are not mem-
 bers of the church may marry when and where they please, Cath olics by their presence should not condone or approve violation of common deceny. The next stage in | the development of barnyard ethics may become more revolting to
 those who still have any sense of decency left to cover the exhibition of degradation and degeneration. | "Commercialization on the lower level always leads to commercia1iz- ation on the higher leveL The dis l regard for the observance of the
 Sabbath has led to a disregard for the observance of decency in liter ature and the theater and the final
 stage has now been reached in a
 disrgard for the sanctity of the home and of the person, so that to-
 day every little child and every 1 father in the land may be whisked away from the bosom of the family