The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DoNNELLY

viduals of property without due pro- cess of law?
 It would be difficult for the Ainer- ican Red to prove that violence is not 8 recognized tactic of, ComI1iun- ism. They dream of the "revolu- ton" as the continuation of the "class struggle" All in opposition to their plans must be "nquadated." Lenin, whose words are the gospel of the Communist, says in his State and Revolution: Democracy first rallies the ptoletariat as revolu- tionary class against capitalism, and gives it an opportunity to crush, to smash to bits, to wipe off the face of the earth the bourgeois state ma chinery." Surely @ boon to tour domestic tranquility!"
 Without doubt the Communist do protest their lawful intentions. But lying is Q practice that Communist principles call lawful when used in the service of the Party. But the evidence of fact is more trustworthy and we have abundance of the evi- dence in Hungary, Loyalist Spain, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and the rest. The, Communist, if he is true to his Communist doctrine, must admit that the Party advocates the over- throw by violence of all legitimate government and the substitution of dictatorship of the proletariat"-- e practice hardly in keeping with either the word or the spirit of the Constitution.
 WHY AMERICANS PAY
 TRIBUTE TO THE IRISH
 All Americans become little bit Irish on the Seventeenth of March, And be they French or Dutch or Swedish, all Americans on that day pay tribute to the Irish. Curious and almost blasphemous to Irish ears, is the fact testified to by his- tory that the first obServances of the Day in America were held by non- Catholics. When the Charitable Irish society was organized in Bos- ton in 1734, the membership was limited to Protestants. Now 1t is wholly Catholic. When the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was organized in Philadelphia in 1771, only three of the original thirty founders were Catholics.
 But now on St. Patrick's Day ali over our country Americans pay tribute to the Irish. Whyp Is 1t due to St. Patrick the great apostle of Ireland? Partly, but not principally. The weightier reason of America's tribute of respect arises from the glorious struggle that the Irish people have waged in defnse of the God-given rights of man.
 FREEDOMS GALLANT
 DEFENDER.
 Out of the Christian teachings of St. Patrick arose the dedication of Ireland to the cause of Christian liberty. For 700 years Ireland has been faithful to his teachings and for 700 years Ireland has fought and bled and died in the cause of Chris- tian liberty.
 Today as that liberty melts away in the heat of mans hate, the pro- fessed cause of our world struggle is the re-establishment of freedom in the lands of it's death. It is this freedom which the Declaration of Independence declares to be an in- alienable right that man has reS ceived from Almighty God. It is this freedom which we love in America. It is this freedom which we love in the Colonies fought for in l776. It Is America. It is this freedom which this freedom for which we are again going forth to die. And on the Seventeenth of March free America happily pays tribute to the people who have been the most dauntless champions of freedom in the history of the world.