The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-04
Remnant Of Loyalists
 Reds Expected Now
 Tonight for Cardenas
Father Donnely Completing Series of Lenten Services Warns of Renewal of Campaign of Communists in
 the Name of American Democracy

for the individual souli A revolu- tion that will rescue the individual and save society. A revolution that will rescue mans dignity and re- store his rights. A revolution that will destroy selfishness and injus- tice and greed.
 Encyclicals
 Plus XI, in quick succession in his now famous encyclicals of 1929, 193O I 1881 and 1882, analysed the evils which he said "are crushing human ity and the still greater evils that are threatening" Property, wages industrial function of the state, or ! ganization of labor, Christian mar riage, Goddess education, to all these he lays down without compromise the answer of Christianity. But he said "The longed-for social recon struction must be preceded by a profound renewal of the Christian spirit !. otherwise all our endeav- ors will be futile and our social ed- ifice will be built not upon rock but upon shifting sand" Forty years before him Leo XIII in 1881 after stating ster1lly the principles of the necessary social reform added, And if society is to be healed now, in no way can it be healed save by a return to Christian life and Chris tion institutions"
 "If society is to be healed"-today society must be healed. Two reme- dies are proposed. One, the princi- pies of justice and charity left to us by Jesus Christ; the other, the principles of violence, hate and de- struction left to the world by Marx and Lenin. Today Christianity must heal the wounds of society. Today Christianity must crush Commu- nism which can only poison our wounded society. Today Christianity must crush Communism because Communism is seeking with all its fiendish hate to crush Christianity.
 Exploitation
 My dear friends, we must never forget that Communism arose out of a welter of selfishness of exploita- tion of the poor, of political corrup- ton, of greed, of agnosticism and l'atheiSrn. Communism arose as just protest against an unjust social sys- tenn, a social system that refused to draw the logical conclusions of its Christian foundation, a system that undermined it's justice with injus- tice and its charity with greed. The protest of Communism is just-but the remedy it offers is poison. The Church knows better than the Com munists that the world needs fair CT distribution of the fruits of the earth and the harvest of mans la bor upon the earth. But this can be done and this must be done without sacrificing a single shred of civil liberties, spiritual rights and human culture won by mankind throughout the ages and which Communism would destroy with hate and vio- lence. Christian love is an obstacle to the. development of the revolu- tion. Down with the love of our neighbors. What we want is hatred. We must learn to hate and it is only then what we shall conquer the world. ."-(Lunacharsky). Poisonous hate! A hate greater than the hate it would destroy! Shall we take hate when we may take Christ's love? when we can take his ever new commandment "that you love one another as have loved you. By this will all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another" Put love in mans heart, the love demanded of disciple of Christ and there is no room in that heart for injustice, for selfishness, for unbridled and sordid greed" Revolution! Revolution red with the love of Christ! Possibly true but truly impossible. Impossible? My dear friends, the world has seen many revolutions but the greatest revolution the world has ever seen was the revolution of Christianity. Impossible? Never! It has happened in the past; it can happen again. It will happen again.
 Rise of Christianity
 How like our days were the days that saw the rise of Christianity: Then, too, men were laughing with scorn at religion, at the gods which had proved themselves unworthy, lustful and human. Men had become atheists and agnostics. A small group of plutocrats sat feasting on the shoulders of the multitude. Slavery was universal and from hu- man bodies were wrung the luxuries of the pagan princes of Rome. A |step above the slave was the la borer. Labor was cheap and labor ing conditions were horrible. Po- litical corruption was universal; power and office in Rome was open ly bought and sold.
 Christianity came and overturned this corrupt order. Slavery disap- peared because men were taught their common sonship in a Heaven ly Father. Exploitation of the work ingman could not endure when Christ taught that material wealth must be distributed for the welfare of all men,, As Christianity devel- oped democracy arose--the Guilds, the free cities of Europe, the re- publics of Venice and Genoa were all inevitable. Man was a son of the King of Kings. The new dignity of man demanded a humane treat ment of the sick, orphanages, sym- pathetic help for the poor.
 Plus xI in his encyclical on Athe- istic Communism declared: Tt was Christianity that first affirmed the real and universal brotherhood of all men of whatever race and con- dition. This doctrine he proclaimed by a method and with an ampli- tude and conviction, unknown to proceeding centuries; and with 1t she potently contributed to the abo- lition of slavery. Not bloody revolu- lutbn, but the inner force of her teaching made the proud Roman matron see in her slave a sister in Christ. It is Christianity that adores the Son of God, made Man for the love of man, and become