The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-13

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 "If had to pick out any insti- tuition certain to survive the pres- ent world madness, I should uK- hesitatingly put my hand on the Roman Catholic Church" Thus writes Thomas Lomax Hunter, non-C -Catholic communist of the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 MT. Hunters statement appeared in his column "As It Appears To The Cavalier" and continues in part as follows:
 Against "uncompromising dog. matic supernaturalism" the arrows of materialistic rationalism are as i'm potent as if they were fired against the Milky Way. In this I see the strongest proof and prom ise of endurance in the Catholic Church. Behind those bulwarkS it is inviricible. It has outlived many gchisms and 1t will outlive many more. The schisms change and perish but the Catholic Church remains. Wars and revolutions cannot shake 1t. Mans most faI1- tastic atheisins standing atiptoe cannot touch 1t. It is coeval with Christianity, and It's history is the history of the Christian church. TO its sons and daughters its dogmas are eternally and in- defectibly true. While those dog- mas are 'indefectibly true the Church will remain itnpregnable. Tt lived through the overthrow of the Roman Empire; the rise of Northumberland, and turned 1t back from the conquest of Europe at Tours and Lepanto. It endured the terrors of the Tartar invasions. When hear politicians talking of the overthrow Of Christian civili. zation, l look ct the Roman Catholic Church and am com- fortcd. You can persecute 1t but you cannot kill 1t. stalin and Stalinisin are but 6 passing incl dent. The Church bell will ring for the Kremlin again.
 Tt has seen the likes of Hitler and Hitlerism 6 thousand times. It Is the one institution that is not afraid of Hitler. It detied Nero, Commodus, Caracalia, Caligula and other bloody minded despots. If had to pick out any institution certain to survive the present world madness, I should unhesit- atingly put my hand on the Catholic Church. Armored In It's 'uncompromlsing supernaturalism, there 1t stands eternal and in- defectible."
 Senator Houston, Convert
 Tho elderly Senator Andrew Jackson Houston of Texas who has been appointed by Gov. w. Lee O'Daniel to serve the un- expired term of the latc Sen. Morris Sheppard, is 6 convert to tho Catholic Church. Eight years ago he was received Into the church and conforIned by the Most Rev. Christopher Bylne, of Galveston.
 Tn his conversion Senator Houston follows the example his illustriotis father, Gen. Sam Houston, who was also convert. Texas greatest hero, Sam Houston served as President of the Lone Star Republic before Texas was admitted to the Union.
 A Drexel HeIress
 Fifty years ago the name Drexel was written large on the facade of banks in New York, Philadelphia and Paris. It was a name of para. mount importance in the financial world. Three brothers, Francis, Anthony and Joseph were carrying on the banking firm established by their father. Today the Drexel name still stands high on the social register and still fits through the society pages Of the daily papers.
 But fifty years ago tho name of Katherine Drexel, daughter of the senior member of the firm, was taken from the society column and moved on to write Q beautiful page in the nobler portion of mans history. As 6 young girl Katherine Drexel had visited the South and West and was appalled, ct the conditions in which the Negroes and Indians lived. On 6 visit to Rome she urged Pope Leo XIII to establish an organization to aid these people. The earnestness of her plea led the Holy Father to remark that she had every indica- ton Of a vocation of service to these unfortunates. Two years later she entered a Novitiate In Pittsburg ahd after her profession in 1891, she began with thirteen novices and postulants the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. who added to their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, the fourth VOW of laboring exclusively for the Indians and Negros.
 Tn le4i Mother Katherine and the community now numbering 40 are observing their Golden Jubilee. Fifty years Of service iil- spired and motheTed by ail helresl who gave up all that the world strives for in order that she might follow where Christ led. "Christ'a pioneers in the North American desert" Plus XII calls them in his message of felicitation. And 1t was a courageous pioneer who nobly espoused Q despised cause and Q downtrodden people whose friends l Ii.a.. ...na.o. Ae.Iss afahl nAVi1AA