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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
Rest, Rest To The Weary

That tired old battle cry of separation of
Church and state" has been in great use this year
ii has been worn TO whatever neither substance
phrase can be worn TO. There seems TO be no ade-
uuate adjective TO describe fatigued words, by the
way
People and cloth have many such helpers but
they do not lend themselves well TO words z. men
or clothes be to frazzle, out, thread
bare, to the bone, etc. Tired words cannot be so
conveniently delineated. They have to be experience
ed.
After all the multitudinous mouthings and
ings the "S0CAS" phrase has gotten, we can sense
the chagrin of these words as they reach conven
lent but unwilling haven in the side of ones
head-lyng there, spent, quiverng, frustrated air
vibration--too tired for words.
OF course we know that words or phrases do not
really get tired. II is only the people who use them
that do In the of "SOCAS" it is only the peo
pie who hear il. Those who speak it never tire OF
doing So They have become verbal inebriaes and
cannot foregO its use.
In their mouths il is the answer to the school bus
question. sending Mark to the Vatican, electing
Catholic president and the released time issue II is
cure-all or what they believe to be the incipient
Catholic cancer IN the body polite
II would be too much TO expect them TO drop the
issues just because we're tired of hearing the phrase
and we're asking for this complete surrender at
this time. What we do ask, though, is something in
the nature of moratorium.
We ask that this phrase be rested for while
While in repose, could substitute another phrase
or handy, aphsbetic designation for it, The initial
letters of the phrase separation of Church and
state: SOCAS, look good in print and would satisfy
the modern mode in such matters.
When spoken though SOCAS, because Of its
similarity to such as" would inevitably lead to even
greater confusion than exists.
We suggest some like phrase, as: separation Of
yok and white sheep and goats, or oil and wa
ter Any Of these could be used as easily as the
original Any one sounds as good as the original
And
ANY of them makes much sense in the
issues At stake
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

Mr., Pearson seems to over
look the fact that our own State
Department held its official nose
over the odor that arose from
the trial" Of Archbishop Step
mac. Dean Acheson, then Acting
Secretary of State, said the STEP
mac trial" left very much to
be desired as a judicial process.
Mr.. Pearson said to Tito that,
on the strength of his visits to
Yugoslavia, he was convinced
that you now guaranteed com.
plete religious freedom"
This is very loose way of
speaking. First of all, people can
be confused by one speaking Of
freedom of worship when he
should be talking about freedom
of religion. Worship can be
very private affair, and you
simply can't stop people from
worshipping God. But freedom of
religion means something more.
It includes freedom of worship,
but it also embraces the freedom
to practice ones religion. to
teach it and to preach it. There
certainly is not religious free.
dom in Yugoslavia, as witness
the imprisoned priests and re-
ligious, the restrictions on Cath.
Ollie schools, the Catholic Press,
etc Moreover there is not even
complete freedom of worship.
There would seem to be two
objectives involved in all this.
One is to force our tax money
on Marshal Tito. The other is to
force the communist Tito on the
American people.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
RICHARD P4TTEE
Stain The RedIist'

lands that have shaken off the
shackleS of capitalism.
The fact that the satellite
countries have been created and
capitalism thrust back hundreds
of miles from the Soviet frontier
does not satisfy Bolchevik. The
concept is not a geographical
one, nor does the mere change
of the boundary between capi-
talism and socialism solve the
matter. Stain in July, 1850,
stated publicly that there was no
chance whatever for the "wither.
ing away" of the State ESQ dear
to the Marxist theorists) as long
as capitalist encirclement re-
mains very real danger"
New Conditions
Another favorite Marxist the
sis, the inevitability of war DUR
ing the period of Imperialism,
has come in for some searching
comment. In the works of Lenin
and Stain as well as in the reso-
lutions of the Komintern, the
idea is expressed over and over
again that as long as the imperi-
alist stage of human develop
ment persists, war is inevitable.
A Soviet philosopher Selezniev
recently published a critque of
this problem in a leading Soviet
review. His words contradict
most of the writing from Lenin
on, regarding The absolute in-
evitability of war with capital
ism:
with each year since the last
war changes have taken place in
the relation of the forces of
peace and war. These changes
have been largely favorable to
the peace forces. Therefore, in
the present historical circum-
stance, it is impossible to state
categorically that new world
war is inevitable. The Marxist-
feminist thesis regarding the in
evitability of war during the pc
riod of imperialism was correct
for certain historical circunn-
stances but in view of new condi-
tions cannot be retained as ur1-
conditional"
New Tactical Approach
The forces that will prevent
war and prove the classic thesis
unsound are, according to Selez-
niev. the STRENGTHENING of the
Soviet Union, the development
of its resources, and the will to
peace Of the working class every
where. Stain, in an interview
published in Pravda last Febru-
ary, asserted the same thing in
saying that in present conditions
war was very far from inevi-
table.
1t behooves us to be aware of
a shifting of doctrinal position as
revealed, from time to time, in
the Soviet press.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
Back Up Your Criticism

sure sign that person has reached his
iory Is the fact that he stops criticizlng Pop and
starts TO belittle the city, state and national in.
cumbens.
The Law OF diminishing returns usually convlnces
the teenage junior the voting senior that this is
pleasant but fruitess pastime. II is sad and
true fact that the targets of the criticism seldom
reformed by the knowledge that they have been
designated as fumblers morons cheats and narrow.
minded penny-pinching grafters.
Those who play this particular indoor sport and
all do al times, are only richer in the knowledge
of invective. The whole thing seldom pays off II
is frustrating. II is enough 10 make person cry
and stamp his feet, or swear and get red in the
face-dependlng on tho age OF the contestant.
Such behaviour as Just mentioned is repre-.
hensible but understandable maybe in child In
an adult, though, IL is different StorN There Is
something he do. He exercise his right TO
vote
II he has done this and finds he has made mis-
take or that his choice was not the popular one-he
and should pray. lie should in any event-thlS
is but an added incentive,
Saturday is the feast OF Mary'S Immaculate Con
ception and II is under this title that she has been
chosen the Patroness OF the United States.
Those who are worried about the present state
Of affairs. both national and international have
excellent opportunity to back-up their criticism with
something constructive. They can tell Mary I'm.
maeulae about il and beg her aid and interces.
sion.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

The Negro is coming into his own. The progress
IA SLOW At times, but It is nevertheless definite.
few recent happenings point up the fact.
book. Communism Versus the Negro"
states that the efforts OF the Reds to win the Ameri
csn Negro have proven a miserable failure The
author. DR.. William A. Nolan OF St Louis Universi-
nv, bases his thesis study OF communist docu-
mentS and writings, interviews with 500 persons.
and analyses of number OF important interracial
incidents Here in Columbus recently Negro radio
commentator stated the same thing But he warned
al Negroes to he on their guard against those who
would racial grievances 10 pit them and other
citizens against another. The speaker was MIN
rod p. Allen. executive secretary of the Columbus
Urban League. His dignified and informed speech
gave evidence Of his stature and OF his leadership
Another incident in the this past month
the election OF Negro girl as the homecoming
queen at the University OF Illinois The young lady
was also Catholic, aumnus Of Catholic grade
and high schools.
Here in Columbus last week the Catholic Youth
delegates in their annual meeting at ST. Mary OF
the Springs chose their diocessn-wlde president
young Negro man, He is a convert and gave ev.
dence Of plenitude of ability and zeal for the
apostoIate that he directs
II is good TO note such incidents as these Despite
the fact that Ohio has not seen fit to enact FEPC
law, progress is made in the matter Of interracial
relations Despite the fact that some OF our Negro
neghborS feel and act with an inferiority complex
others assuming leadership that cannot help
but be far effective in roofing out all inter
racial evils
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
Tito Gets Better
Than Prosecuted
Publicity
Archbishop

letters by columnist Drew Pear
son and Marshal Tito which have
been given widespread public
ity. Mr.. Pearson's letter falls into
the same fault that we have just
been talking about. He gives the
impression that the imprison-
ment of Archbishop Stepinac is
the only thing people don't like
about Tito.
Mr.. Pearson's letter indicates
that the people of the United
States do not understand Yugo-
slavia, but he does Che has been
there several times). He says
Catholics form "one large seq
ment" of the American popula-
ton and they feel that the inn
prisonment of Archbishop Step
mac is "a serious obstacle TO our
common friendship" The reader
gets the idea that this is the on
ly obstacle. Nothing is said about
Bishop Guile, the jailed priests
and the religious, the murdered
priests, the various restrictions
on the practice of religion, etc.
Mr. Pearson says the u. S.
Catholic cannot forget the trial
and Imprisonment OF Cardinal
Mindszenty in Hungary and
Archbishop Beran in Czechoslo-
vakia, and therefore, they tend
to put Archbishop Stepinac in
the same category" Mr.. Pearson
doesn't bother TO tell why they
shouldn't put Archbishop Step
mac in the same category"
Maybe it is because his phony
trial took place in Yugoslayia
and the others, just like 1t, took
place in two other Red countries.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
WASHIlNGTON LETTER

WASHINGT0N-(NC)i - Mar
shal Tito, the communist dicta-
tor of Yugoslavia, has been the
beneficiary of SO much favorable
publicity in this country in the
last year or so that some people
are beginning TO ask, with rea-
son, what 1t is all about
Time after time, articles have
appeared giving the impression
that all of the differences be-
tween Tito's Red regime and the
West boil down to and center in
the Imprisonment of Archbish-
op Stepinac. Each time, Marshal
Tito has been given ample oppor-
tunlty to try to show that he is
right, and the Archbishop is
wrong. He has said the prelate
ought to be in Jail. that he won
ders why he has heen so lenient
with him, that the Archbishop
was a collaboration with the Nazi
occupiers in Yugoslavia.
Nothing has been said about
the fact that, as the Vatican has
pointed out repeatedly, the i'm.
prisonment of ArchbisI Iop Step.
mac is but one incident in
large-scale, vicious persecution
of religion, particularly the Cath
{ lie Church, in Yugoslayia. No
mention at most, was made of
the fact that another Catholic
Bishop is in Jail in Yugoslavla;
that hundreds OF priests and re.
ligious have been incarcerated,
and that many have been brut-
ally slain.
All this that has happened IN
the recent past is brought to
mind again by an exchange OF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07


slider how much of its energy
and ingenuity is spent IN trying
to find erSdtz substitutes for
things the medieval Z man took
quite for granted because So
ciety was Christian.
There are, first of all, the big
things: the whole effort to found
Leagues of Nations and United
Nations, World Governments and
Unions now, hankerings after
something pre-Reformation Eu
rope enjoyed. Men from differ
ent countries did not meet then
around green baize tables to try
to reach fundamental agree.
ments; they were already in
agreement, for they were all
Catholic in viewpoint and in
judgment. They might have viol-
ent differences (as, indeed, they
did about boundary lines and
about the degree of Papal super.
vision a monarch should recog.
nize, even about which man was
the authentic Pope. But these
arguments we're conducted with
in an mistaken framework of
First Principles on which all
men agreed.
You might favor this man as
Pope, | that one; but no one
seriously challenged the fact
that somebody was Pope, st. Pet
er's true successor on st. Peters
throne. You might want your
king or baron to expand his ter
ritories at the expense of my
liege lord; but nobody suggest
ed that any king or baron should
secede from Christian culture
No dreamy-eyed reformer
dreamt of One World, because
One World already existed; the
only real problem wfs spreading
it to the corners of the earth
where infidels still reigned.
A Common Rhythm
A common Faith meant a com
mon body of beliefs on all sorts
of matters not concerned primar-
lily with the Faith. Catholics
argue among themselves on
thousand questions-politics, Ia
bor's rights, theology, philosophy
and the Worlds Series. But Cath.
Ollie minds are never so far apart
that they find it impossible to
argue at all. Modern statesmen,
representing East and West, are
forever breaking up their con.
ferences because argument is i'm
possible,
Men who do not share the
same fundamental ideas of what
human life is all about cannot
reach far enough into each 9th
er's minds to bring about a
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

ABOUT emma, the following cpl.
Sodes occurred.
American army officers we're
telling Chang kai-Shek that
he should end the ractice of
political representatives for
the troops in Formosa, even
though that is one way to halt
communist infiltration.
The New York Times re-
ported from Madrid that the
United States would insist on
certain changes" in Franco
Spain before doing anything
about aiding that country's de
velopment or defenses. But at
the same time, it was stated
that the communist regime of
Marshal Tito voula receive
substantial loans from the
United States without any real
string whatsoever. Tito'S per-
secution of the Catholics and
his continued steps toward
fullfledged communism are sp-
psrently of little consequence
in the eyes of a considerable
sector of American leadership.
Prosecutions, insults
Meanwhile. Senator Herbert
O'Conor of Maryland revealed
that Soviet espionage agents
we're allowed to enter America
through specific permission of
the State Department Notorious
among these was Colonel otto
Biheler, military and air attache
at the Czechoslovak embassy.
This Red colonel was able freely
TO move about the United States
and to obtain information on
many delicate military projects.
What is most outrageous about
Senator 0'Conor's revelation is
the fact that this man is the
espionage agent or a country
under Stalinite control which is
openly prosecuting priests and
religious ldymen and has gone
out of its way to insult the dag.
nitg OF American citizens.
Il is little wonder that, on
November 7. The Daily Worker
could exelaim in glee: To-day
the Soviet Union is indestruct
ible. The work of Lenin anc
Stain is immortal" There was
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

ing married life. There was q great deal Of mis-
understanding and confusion as a result
The other day the Holy Father spoke again, re-
peating some of what he had said previously. and
emphasizing some of the things that we're not under
paper had a headline, Marital Duty, Birth Con
troll Speech Clarified by Pope" 1t should be suffi-
cient TO state that the Pope did not clarity speech
that clear in the first place. he merely re-
affirmed what he had said
In his first address the Pope stated: Every hui
man being the infant in the maternal womb,
mas the right to life, Immediately from God
not from the parents any human So
ciety authority Therefore there is man, no
human authority, science, no medical, eugenc,
social. economic or moral indication, which
show give valid juridical title for direct delib
crate disposition concerning an innocent human life
which is to say a disposition that aims at its de-
struction either as an end in itself or as the means
of attaining another end that is perhaps in way
illicit in itself Thus. for example, to the life
of the mother is most noble end, but the direct
killing of the child as means to this end is not
licit"
This should have been clear enough. In other
words, the end does not justify the means The
reports indicated that the Pope had implied that if
there choice between saving the life of a
mother or her child even still in the mothers womb,
the child has the right to live The reports gave the
impression that the mother was to be sacrificed for
the child. What the Pope sressing was that the
child was not directly to be sacrificed to save the
mother Nor is the mother to be directly sacrificed
to save the child.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

Der Is, The Daily Worker went
so far as TO declare that any
talk of "barbarism in China
was an insult to the Chinese
people. That assertion is the
cruelest nonsense: the Chinese
people, as the bloody purges
have shown, are as much the vic
Tins of the Red dictatorship as
are the missionaries. But this
cruel and nonsensica' statement
is directive. The comrades,
through the many channels open
to them. will see that this view
gets around-the argument used
all along for not taking firm
stand on China or the other sat
elites. Voices are always raised
to say that anything worth while
TO alter the growing Soviet rule
throughout the world, might
hurt somebody's feelings. There
is much talk OF opposing com
munism, bat little done IN the
iooy OF actually putting such talk
into operation.
indifference, complseeneY
The Catholic Bishops have just
Solemnly declared that so-called
Christian nations" have shown
an indifference to the persecu.
tion of religion and religious
leaders going on behinu the Iron
Curtain. That applies to the Unit.
ed States as well as to other ma
tions. This indifference is a part
of a whole series of events
which. when summed up, repre-.
sent an astonishing eomplaeency
or unwillingnesS to act.
During the very week when
The daily organ of the Red con.
spiracy was giving its directives
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
GRETTA PALMER
The Real 'One World

change of opinion. When the
representative of a Communist
state and one from a western
power 60 into conference, it is as
if one of them were measuring
the matter in inches and the
other in ounces: one thinks
length all that is desirable, the
other wishes only weight. How
can such differing minds hope
to agree, except by accident?
But agreement between heads
of states was by no means all
that men lost when they lost a
united Catholic Europe. They
lost the whole rhythm of their
common lives.
Caesars World
Imagine culture in which the
great events of the year we're
the great Feasts of he Church,
publicly celebrated by the whole
population and in public. Such
things continue in some Catholic
countries. Imagine if your holi-
days we're all Holy Days. marked
by an appropriate celebration.
Then, instead of saying, Mon
day is holiday; I'll sleep late"
you would probably say, Mon
day is Corpus Christi and the
whole town will De turned up
side down for the procession.
Holidays have a dreary same
ness: in New York there is apt
to be a parade and a band, and
there the modern imagination
stops. The community does not
share in the wonderful variety
of the liturgical year: crowds
do not get up. as a matter OF
course, for the Holy Saturday
blessing of the fire, nor light
their Advent candles. The holi-
day celebrations we know-tick.
er-tape parades. Easter fashion
parades-are pathetic substi-
tutes for the Holy Days the peo-
pie knew when Catholicism spill.
ed out of the churches and into
the streets.
Today we see uplifting quota
tions from Plato or Emerson in
scribed on our public buildings;
the old Catholic world has street
corner shrines with candles be.
fore the Blessed Mother. We
have the MONDAY whistle (or
even the AFRAID siren) as an un-
lovely substitute for the Ange.
lus. Our common impoverishment
would not be greater if, tomor-
row, natures cycle of seasons
and hours we're destroyed, so
that our whole lives we're lived
in the glare of a single, unchang-
ing MONDAY sun.
There was time, under the
Roman Empire and later, when
all Europe spoke the same Ian
guage. There was another time
lasting for many centuries, when
all Christendom lived the same
life. When that ceased to be. the
greatest bond that ever Joined
man to man was also lost. Our So
ciety is still seeking, in a thou
sand places, for bits of string to
join together, at this spot or
that, the tragic tatters of the old
society.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07

Central Committee of the Com
munist Party in the USSR, has
commented on a number of in
terpretations handed down by
Stain in matters of MarxiSt or
thodoxy. The Soviet dictator di-
vides the communists into two
broad classes: those who are
devoted to the letter of the clas-
sical texts of Marx, Engels and
Lenin, and those who are "real-
lists" The former group is con-
demned as scholars and Tai
mudists" while Stain places
himself resolutely among the
''realists." Since Marxism pre-
tends to be absolutely scientific
and capable of rules for the pre-
diction of the course of future
events, there is considerable i'm
portance in the fact that "real-
ism" is proclaimed as the cor
rect attitude - especially when
realism in this case means, in
the words of BolcheUik, ''the
ability to interpret Marxist prin-
ciples in accord with changing
historical circumstance"
Still 'EneireIed'
One OF the major discussions
posed in the Soviet review con-
Germs the old problem of "cap-
italist encirclement." For years
one of the most unmovable and
basic contentious of the Soviets
was that the capitalist world
sought to "encircle" the land of
socialism and that all defense
measures were inspired by this
reality. Since 1945 the Situa-
ton has changed considerably.
With the advent of communist
regimes all along the Soviet
boundaries and the passage of
China into the Marxist camp, one
wonders to what extent "encir-
clement can be spoken of as a
fact. Bolchevik supplies the an
swer to this question with the
statement that encirclement does
continue, that "in spite of the de
crease in the area controlled by
capitalism, the major powers are
still capitalist and through their
pressure, war mongering and
espionage systems, constitute
form of encirclement of the