The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-23

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residence Of Cardinal Faulhaber at
Pressing in 1888.
At the time . wave Of hostility
had broken out against the Jews
and the Chief Rabbi Of Bavaria
had been given six hours 20 remove
from his synagogue, When - ona
dared to help him the Cardinal sent
. truck 70 pick up the religious
articles ct the synagogue and bring
them TO his residence,
Hearing OF It the NaSls were furi.
Gus and plastered the city Of Mli-
Mich with signs such 90, away with
Faulhaber, the friend Of the Jewsl"
Later as the feeling against the
Jews grew and their shops were
wrecked Cardinal FAulhaber se.
verely denounced the intolerance In
his Cathedral. The next day the
Na1is demonstrated against him
and In the evening HIS residence
was attacked and partly destroyed.
THE STIPEND FOR A MASS
one Of the most common mis-
understandings Of things Catholic
is that concerned with Mass sti-
ponds. Often supposedly well-in-
formed Catholics have strange no.
tons on the subject. The stipend
Is an offering Of money given 10 Q
priest with the request that Mass
be offered for e particular inten.
ton. But that Offering Is = gift 10
the priest and not price paid. The
Mass has no price. All the worlds
gold could not approach It's value.
In the early Church some Of the
faithful gave the priest bread and
wine ct Mass as the means Of his
support. More gave money 70 be
used by him for his support and
for charity. It was these offerings
Of the faithful which supported the
priest who gave his full time TO
their service. The practice Of Civ
ing the priest Q money gift with
the request that he Offer his Mass
for a particular intention dates
from the seventh century. But this
gift like the earlier gift, retained
and still retains the character Of Q
free offering given out Of kindness,
thoughtfulness, respect and love.
MONEY AND THE MASS
Since money tends to surround
itself with many abuses the Church
has guarded the Mass with many
rules which oblige the priest with
serious obligations and severe PEN
alties. The Church allows no traf.
f1cing In Masses. The stipend
brings an obligation imposed by the
law Of the Church to offer o Mass
In accord with the requested inten.
ton, and this within o reasonable
time. No priest can accept more
stipends than he can care for with
in O reasonable time. The priest
can accept but one stipend for each
day with the sole exception Of
Christmas when he can accept sti-
ponds for all Of his three Masses.
# the priest receives more StipendS
than he can fulflll within reason
able time, he sends the Intentions
and the stipends to priests In poorer
parishes or to priests on the mis-
slons.
THE SENATOR FROM
ALABAMA
Tom Helm standing between Q
picture Of the Sacred Heart and o
Catholic priest ci1aplainl Years ago
such would be only Q Wild dream.
But that was the picture we saw
the other day. The same Tom Hef-
lin who as q Senator from Ala
barna rose 80 often IN his white
waist-coat In the Senate Of the
United States to spout bitterly his
anti Catholic bigotry: the same
Tom Helm who so closely tdenti-
fed himself with the Ku Klux
Khan In the sad days Of It's wide
spread activities; the same Tom
Helm who fought 20 vigorously the
candidacy Of al Smith for the
presidency in 1923 merely because
al Smith was o Catholic.
What does IL Snean2 Surely ct
least that the Helm Of the 40's 10
not the Helm Of the 20's. What
more we do not know.
But perhaps like many before
him, Tom Helm In the intensity
Of his hatred for the Church has
learned more Of the thing he fought
and hatred and thus accidentally
stumbled on the fact that the
Church does not teach many Of
those absurd and silly things at
tributed to her, that the Church
does not ask o blind moral and In
tellectual subServience to her au-
thority, that o Catholic can be Q
good American, or perhaps he has
learned that only he who builds his
defense Of democracy and human
rights on faith In God as the Au-
thor Of human rights, has anchored
his Americanism to its only stable
foundation.