The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Catholic Thought And Opinion
 By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

howled that this is a call to war against Russia.
 But "Pravda" has denounced everyone of its allies and has brought the USA in for special de- nunciation. It smeared Bullitt, Will kie, Dewey and long list of others. It has called the editors of the Army and Navy Journal agents of Goebbels!" And two weeks ago 1t condemned Kent Cooper and the Associated Press.
 With the Daily Worker everybody and everything can be criticized ex- cept what the New Leader call "The Sacred Cow" of the Soviet Govern ment. The New Leaders conclusion: '"The attitude Is a revelation of its connections, its functions and the nature of its royalties"
 FDR'S COUSIN,
 MOTHER SETON
 There is a bit of interesting his tory in the note that the President wrote to Sister FideS Glass of Seton Hill College, GreenSburg, Pa, when he thanked her for copy of The Seton Ballad, little book the nun wrote on the life of Mother Eliza beth Seton, the American convert foundress of the Sisters of Charity, whose cause for canonization has already been placed.
 Our family was closely related to Mother Seton," the Presidents let ter stated. Her nephew, Monsignor James Roosevelt Bayley, Archbishop of Baltimore, was my fathers first cousin. Archbishop Bayley's success sor, the venerable Cardinal Gibbons, who was my close personal friend, often spoke to me about his prede- cessor. So you see the ballad has struck 8 responsive chord"
 DIR. GABRIEL AND LOURDES
 The late Dr. Carrel many times gave medical testimony to the mir acles that have occurred at the great shrine. Until recently, however, few knew that Dr. Carrel was ostracized by the medical society of the City of Lyons in France because he faced the facts of Lourdes. The story was published recently in The Universe in London.
 Dr. Carrel in 1902 accompanied a pilgrimage to Lourdes as its doctor. He had studied the case of a girl under treatment in hospital three years for tuberculosis and peritoni- tis. She was cured at the shrine.
 In his paper on the case the doc fnr ctotod thn foot Nf ho,s but made no comment. Sometime later when he failed to alleviate the condition of a girl suffering from & chronic abScess he sent her to Lour- des. He mentioned this at dinner attended by the principal members of the Lyons medical faculty. His fellow doctors laughed at him.
 But really" he rejoined, it was necessary to do something. And what is curious is that no later than this morning have seen this child returned from Lourdes; and what will seem to you most extraordinary is that she is cured There is something which approaches the category of the miraculous"
 A chilling silence fell on the gathering. so Dr. Carrel continued: : Please note carefully that I neither explain nor discuss. content myself with stating the facts"
 Professor c. then said: Tt is use- less to insist, sir, that with views such as these you cannot ever be received as member of our facul- ty."
 Tn that case" Dr. Carrel, retort- ed, T must go elsewhere.
 He left Lyons and came to the United States where he soon be- came famous and rose to be director of the great Rockefeller Medical In- Stitute.