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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-03-01
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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
Cardinal Won Faulhaber

Back in the days when the world at large knew
little OF the evil that is communism, the late Card
inal Won Faulhaber was crying out a warning that
il was the great danger to world peace. This was
shortly after the first world war He had served
valiantly during the first great conflict, bringing
spiritual consolation TO the German troops. But
he was ever awake to recognize evil and always
courageous to condemn it, This he did he stood
out as patriotic leader in helping to restore do
mesc order in his defeated homeland.
But another conflict already IN the making
Communism was threatening on the east, while the
seeds of nazsm we're being sown IN Germany. When
Hitler came 10 power stronger voice was raised
against him than that of Pope Plus &l and Cardinal
Won Faulhaber The rest of the world today finds
il difficult 10 remember this fact But II is true
that the battle between Truth championed by the
Catholic Church, and communism and nazism has
been going on bitterly for long time And this de-
spite the unpopularity of such stand IN many IN
stances Cardinal Won Faulhaber found il unpopular
10 raise his voice as he did frequently IN condem
nation of the anti-Semitic laws OF Hitler. The
Church endured bitter determinations for this and
Hitler screamed out at the Cardinal more than once
But the Cardinal stood firm for justice
With his cathedral church ruined by World
War H. and his own residence damaged, the Car
dinal undertook once more the task OF aiding his
discouraged, homeless, defeated countrymen. This
Mt the age of rs II is difficult to understand such
courage But when he later saw his country divided
up between the West and the Reds of the East
his heart must have bed for such injustice. He still
stood as rock against the evil that surrounded
him and his people. His courage and leadership
under such long series of historic reVerses
cannot help but insure for him place IN the
hearts of good men everywhere, and particularly
those of his own country Above all, his sufferInes
and abors for justice and truth his constant service
for the spiritual welfare of mankind is certain
pledge of the eternal peace which he must at last
enjoy.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
q. X, Glenn?

one Washington secular newspaper has Just run
q story concerning an exchange of letters between
DR. Glenn L. Archer executive director of Protest
ants and other Americans United for Separation
of Church and State and Homer M. Byington, Jr,
director of the office OF Western European Affairs,
u. S. Department of State.
DR. Archer was quoted as saying that he under
stood from tho State Department reply that Arch
bishop Cicognani has diplomatic passport and
diplomatic visa He said the 1882 National Cath
ollie Almanac defined the Apostolic Delegates Of
flee as "nondiplomatic legate sent TO foreign
countries to watch over conditions OF the Church
in the State" How then" he asked, can the US
State Department accord a diplomatic status TO
an ecclesiastc who does not have the status even
cordinP to the definition of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy tsef?"
Mr.. Byington. in his reply on behalf of the
State Department said'
Neither the Department Of State, any gov
ernment agency now extends to Archbishop CT
cognani the use of United States diplomatic
or official pouch facilities for any purpose
During the war when Mr.. Myron Taylor
was in Rome as the Presidents Personal Rep
resentative TO His Holiness The Pope. when nor
nal communication facilities we're non-exstent the
Apostolic Delegate was permitted a courtesy TO
forward official communications TO the Vatican IN
Department of State diplomatic pouches, with pay
rent Of full postage. This courtesy terminated
in 1e47 by which time normal channels of com
munication had been reestahlshed.
Archbishop Cicognani is in possession of Vat
lean diplomatic passport and while diplomatic
visa has been stamped on his passport this IS in &C
cordance with the long established procedure in
such cases which provides that high ecclesiastical
digntaries in possession of diplomatic passports
may be granted diplomatic temporary visitors
visas without any implication OF official status
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

An American priest last week gave a factual
report the lack of freedom in Yugoslavia He had
visited that communistdominated land only to be
amazed that his country, the United States
could continue to send aid to regime that is every
bit as bad as any Sovietcontroed state He raised
the question. why does the United States send
aid to Tito without demanding guaranty of human
rghts?"
The Yugoslay government is endeavoring TO tax
the churches out of existence All churches, Catholic
as we'll as Others are forced to give the government
from 40 to 70 per cent of their collections Often
enough the officials disregard the statements of the
pastors and impose higher taxes.
A list of the present restrictions on the Church
in Yugoslavia was given by Father Joseph B. Kon-
cius of Yonkers n. Y, who is the who made the
visit to Titoland. The list could we'll be pondered
by Mr.. Acheson in case he is at all Interested IN
religion in Yugoslava.
First religious instruction to children is allowed
during Mass not before or after Mass, privately
Second the number of students in the three still
existing seminaries is rapidly decreasing due to
pressure on the parents and the students.
Third government officials themselves who at
tend religious services become suspected, and lose
their positions.
Fourth the arrests of persons, whether priests or
laity, continues in great numbers.
Fifth people fearful of coming in contact
with foreigners lest they be accused of spying
Hence Father Koncus found ii impossible to visit
many.
Sixth, the village of Krasc where Archbishop
Stepinac is imprisoned, is under 24hour police
watch
These are typical restrictions, and should re-
veal to anyone that there is freedom in Yugo
slavia. Decent Americans do not wish to hold out
the hand OF collaboration to such despot as Tito
Mr. Acheson may do so If he wishes but he should
not do so as representing America.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
FATHER HIGGINS
Labor Woes Abroad

labor headed by Giulio Pastore.
Pastore is one of the most cap
able and most highly respected
labor leaders on the Continent,
but he is also a devout Catholic
and therefore suspect in the
eyes of this dissident minority of
anti-clerical Socialists.
Discrimination Hit
In the case of Germany, the
Socialists have antagonized the
Christiab members of the Ger
man Federation of Labor (DGB)
by violating the principle of re-
ligious and political neutrality
upon which the Federation is
supposed to be based. The spe-
cific complaints of the Christians
are itemized in a recent booklet,
unions in Twilight" written by
Johannes Even, editor of the of
ficial magazine of the Catholic
Workers Movement-an educa.
tionaI movement comparable to
the Association of Catholic Trade
Unionists in the United States.
The DGB, Mr.. Even'S booklet
complains, has openly discrimi-
mated against the Christians by
allocating the overwhelming ma
iority of official union positions
to avowed Socialists. The booklet
cites allegedly anti-ChriStian or
pro-Socialist statements by vari-
Gus Socialist union leaders and
further complains that all news
papers of the industrial unions
publish the resolutions of the
Social Democratic Party (SPD)
but refuse to publish the reso-
lutions of the Christian Demo
cratic Party (CDU, including
those of well-known trade union
leaders in the CDU.
Complaint is also made of pro-
Socialist speeches at DIG May
Day celebrations and of Socialist
union leaders speaking in a
friendly way at SPD conventions.
The pamphlet criticizes the acti-
vities of the Education and Sci
ence Union against confessional
schools and further calls atten-
ton to the difficulties which
arose out of the struggle for Co
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

dangerous fact that many Amer
leans are rapidly drifting to-
wards the spiritual premises of
the Vedas, the sacred Hindu
books. These Americans may
never have heard of the Vedanta
religion; they are, in the vast
majority of cases, unprepared
for the rigorous asceticism prac-
ticed by devout Hindu; but
their intellectual position is
drawing dangerously close to
his.
'Vedanta," says the booklet is
sued by its official leaders in
this country, accepts all the re-
ligions of the world, because it
recognizes the same divine in
spiration in all. Different relig-
ions suit different races, cul-
lures, temperaments." That is
the Hindu premise. Now examine
a few of the recent statements
made by native Americans.
Methodist Bishop Raymond
Archer, addressing his co-relig-
ionists in Pennsylvania, report
ed happily that in Singapore
there is an organization made
up of Mohammedans, Hindus,
Buddhists and others who wor-
ship together in an effort to fur
ther inter-faith cooperation"
SUsrue's Article Raped
The shocking little treatise by
Thomas Sugrue. "A Catholic
Speaks His Mind" contains the
same plea for cooperation at
any price. The author urges
Catholic laymen to meet with
those of other sects to uncover
what common ground lies be-
tween them" He forthrightly
admits, Theology, a science of
disagreement where sectarianism
is concerned, must be removed
from whatever is attempted. Any
question as to who is right about
what must be is deleted from the
agenda. Above all, there must be
no mention of God"
Such Hindu premises turn up
on all sides nowadays. Clarence
Streit who pleads for an Allan
tic Union of picked members Of
the NATO nations (from which
Portugal and Italy are excluded
in his plans has suggested that
parents not pass on their own
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

The term high ecclesiastical dgnitary' would in
clude among others, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Apostolic Delegate of the Holy See and digni-
taries of the Greek Orthodox Church and other
churches.
In the light of these considerations, you will
appreciate that the Archbshop's status is now that
of temporary visitor under the provisions of Sec
tion (2) of the immigration Act of 1924 as amend
ed, and as such, he is subject to the rules regula
tions and laws applicable to other aliens lawfully
admitted into the United States for Temporary
periods
tis an established fact that the course of action
taken by the State Department, as cited above, is
In complete accordance with the Federal Code gov
erning the acts of administrative offices of the
Government.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
INQUIRY CORNER
Who Is Patron Saint
Or Men In Service !?

Q. Why rs so large a percent
age of the prison population Ca
tholtc?
A. Actually the number of
prisoners who profess the Ca
tholic religion does not suffer
by comparison with other relig-
ious groups. According to prison
figures 81 of 100000 Catholics
are matched by 96 and 153 in
100000 of second and third larg-
est denominations. In fact, how
ever, the prison figures are de-
ceiving. While about half our
population belong to some
Church, 900 of the prison pop
ulation profess membership. The
advantage of such profession in
securing paroles and other help
is obvious. At the Illinois State
Penitentiary, for example, of 438
who registered as Catholics only
100 had been practicing their
religion, and only 10 had grad
uated from Catholic high
school, In prisons generally
those listed as Catholic were not
in good standing, even consider
ing the minimum standards.
Many have not even been bap-
tized. Catholics in prison do not
indicate weakness in the Church,
but in men who have neglected
their religion. Like Christ on
the cross the priest welcomes
the good thief" but following
Christ or His Church never made
any man a criminal.
Q. What does the Strth Com
mdndment forbid? Isn't it re.
preSSiUe?
A. God has given us two great
urges as part of our human ma
ture-to nourish and to repro
duce ourselves. With these inn
pulses He has joined pleasure,
but the primary purpose of self
preservation by eating or race
preservation by the use of sex
obviously is not the individual
pleasure. When the pleasure is
sought and the primary purpose
excluded man acts contrary to
his nature and to the will of
God. It is such misuse of sexsthat
is forbidden by the Sixth COM
mandment, whether in CONVEX
sation, jokes, reading, movies,
glanceS, immodest dresses or in
acts alone or with others. This
commandment to right use of
the the body and dedication to
the positive virtue of purity is
the only possible way to happi-
ness. No one has ever been made
more intelligent, holier or hap
pier by impurity, nor has any
one ever been repressed by true
virtue. Puritannical repression,
often considering the body evil
is not Christian. The Blessed
Virgin Mary and thousands of
heroic men and women among
the saints are our models and
our inspiration. Purity for them
was part of their service of God.
Q, Who is patron saint of men
en- the SerUice?
A, Many patron saints of par
ticular occupations are purely
traditional and vary from coun-
try to country. In 1912 Pope
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
W ASHINCTON LETTER

WASHINGTON - Ii seems TO
be the we'll established opinion
here that we will not have World
War III anytime soon, unless
somebody "stumbles" into it.
This may not seem to be start
ling intelligence, but il is of the
highest Importance. II is not too
reassuring, but it is at least
hopeful.
II means that our leaders, by
and large, do not think that Sovi-
ct Russia will deliberately start a
new, shooting world war. At the
same time, they believe and
warn that there may be more To-
cal incidents, like the aggression
in Korea, springing up almost
anywhere in the world.
This assessment of the situa-
zion is particularly timely, be
cause we are entering upon
period-:h2 coming summer and
iall wien it may be m)ce than
ordinarily easy for either the
East or the West TO stumble"
into a world war.
For one thing, the United
States from now until early No
vember will be engaged in the
business of electing our nation
al government. The contest for
the highest office in the land is
expected to be a lively one.
There is every reason to expect
that the subjects of peace, the
fighting in Korea, the situation
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27
WASHINGTON LETTER
No World War Ill., Unless

in Berlin, our relations with Rus
sia and its satellites, and kin
dred topics, will be the subjects
of impassioned oratory.
Despite that on occasion cleo
tions have become somewhat
rough and tumble, it is not like
ly that what we do and say
among ourselves during the COM
ing campaign will contribute too
much toward making the United
States stumble" into war.
There is danger, though, that
the interpretations that other
countries. including our. allies,
put upon our doings and sayings
may help the whole West to
stumble. This threat is height
ened by the fact that the East is
ever ready to propaganda our
frailties.
Perhaps more important con-
sideration than this is the pros
pect that Russia will seize upon
the period of our absorption with
domestic politics to press her
luck as far as possible. Amer
leans know that they and their
Government do not want war.
We know pretty we'll now that
no people, anywhere, wants war.
We do not-at least our leaders
do not ~ believe Russia wants
war. They are convinced, how
ever, that she will press aggres-
sion as far as she can short of
war and as long as she can. That
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

is why it is suspected that Mos
COW will seize the time of our
preoccupation with domestic af-
fairs to apply more pressure. 1t
is feared that, misgauging the
amount of aggression she can
safely show, she may stumble"
and provoke the war no one
wants.
The world is PROSTATE from
World War ii, which at its close
was becoming almost unbeliev-
ably destructive. Now we are
warned that we already possess
weapons which are almost un-
belieyably more destructive than
these weapons and may have
many of them. People every
where recoil from contemplation
of how ruinous another world
conflict could be.
That is why the diplomacy of
most nations today is aimed,
first and foremost, at the preven-
ton of another world war. That
is why diplomats and negotia-
tors, even at the cost of humilia-
tion, strive to keep open every
possible avenue of talk and con-
ciliation.
The people of the United
States hope and pray that nei-
ther they, nor their allies stun
ble". They must hope and pray,
too, that others, now cutting
reckless capers in spirit of
braggadocio, will not lose their
footing.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

determination in the steel and
coal industries.
Speech Causes Disunify
Christian Fette, Socialist preSi-
dent of the DGB, far from at
tempting to placate its Catholic
members, has added insult to in
jury b. preaching the principle
of tolerance and neutrality in a
recent address on the cultural
policies of the German labor
movement. This particular ad-
dress is severely criticized in MIR.
.Even's booklet and was even
more severely criticized by Msgr.
Joseph Schmitt at the most re-
cent convention of the Catholic
Workers Movement. Msgr.
Schmitt is national chaplain of
the latter organization and one
of the outstanding leaders in the
European Catholic social action
movement.
In view of these and similar
reports from Germany and Italy,
the state of neutral trade union
ism in these countries is very
uncertain. There is no immediate
danger, however, that the Chris
tians in Germany will secede
from the unified movement in
spite of their legitimate griev-
ances against the Socialists. They
are willing to give the expert
ment another try. But they have
officially warned the Socialists
that unless the principle of reli-
gious and political neutrality is
adhered to more faithfully in
the future, they will be forced to
separate from the DGB.
We hope to discover upon our
arrival in Europe that the So
cialists have taken this warning
10 heart and are beginning to
come to their senses. In other
words, we are still of the opin-
ion, as we were in 1850. that
while 1T will not be easy for
either group Christians or So
cialists) to forgive and forget the
recriminations of the past few
generations certainly there
is much to be said in favor of
their making the effort"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-06-27

religion to their children since
the children may have different
temperamental needs. This is
pure Vedanta. And you may be
sure that when Hollywood has
completed the moving-picture
life of Gandhi ION which Aldous
Huxley, student of the Vedas
is engaged we shall all be ask
ed to admire "the broad-minded-
ness" of the great Hindu leader.
Conversions Are Few
The difficult aspects of
Gandhi's religion will make few
converts: not many Americans
will reduce their possessions to
a loin-cloth and a goat, or take
up excruciating notifications
as a way of life. But all too many
of them may nod approvingly at
the hodge-podge of Christian
Gospel readings and Oriental
practices of which Gandhi's pray
er'meetings were composed.
The underlying reasons for
Americas rage for such broad
mindedness are not hard to
find. Ours is an untheological
age-an age described by Thom-
as Merton as flowing emotion,
hating thought" 1t is also an age
of lonely things, longing for
love, fearful that intellectual dis
agreements will render such
friendships impossible.
Liberalism Scored
Lack of tolerance is not the
great religious problem of our
country and our day: too much
tolerance of false thinking is a
far more present evil. The Holy
See has not had to speak out to
warn us against lighting the
fires of new Inquisition: but
the Holy See has spoken out,
and within the past few years,
to warn that the Ecumenical
movement has grave dangers
that the laity must not meet
with members of the sects to
seek common ground of be-
lief, and that no Catholic may
blame the condition of the six
teenth-century Church for the
scandal of the revolution which
must be laid at the doors of the
heretics themselves.
For God is Love, as the inspir-
ational writer's forever remind
us. And God is Life, as many
Oriental religions know. But
God Is also Truth, and the Seam
less Robe cannot be sundered-
even in order to eliminate sectar-
ianism. To join the members of
the sects in a lie-for peace and
amity-is to reject that love of
Truth which made men martyrs
for the Faith in ancient Rome
and is making other Catholics
die for a dogma in Communist
China in this very hour.
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reference to the situation in Ger
many and Italy. In both of these
countries, as of 1850, Catholics
and Socialists for the first time
in many decades were cooperat-
ing with one another-however
awkwardly and suspiciously- in
professedly neutral" trade un-
ion federations. II was our opin-
ion at the time that this expert
ment was both feasible and de-
sirable" and was likely to prove
successful, barring unforeseen
developments.
BY the time this present col
umn appears in print we shall
have departed for Europe to take
another look at this very inter
esting and important expert
ment. This time our fingers are
crossed. we are not as confident
as we we're two and half years
ago that neutral trade unionism
will survive either in Germany
or Italy. Reports from both coun-
tries are rather discouraging.
They indicate that the honey
moon is over, that the disillusion-
ed partners are beginning to talk
about divorce proceedings on the
grounds of incompatability.
Ii these reports are accurate
and reliable, il would be fair to
conclude that the Socialists are
more at fault than the Christians.
In the case of Italy. one group
of discontented Socialists has al
ready established separate fed
Grafton of labor and is now at.
tempting - fortunately without
too much success up to the pres
ent time to undermine the
unity of the neutral federation of