The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-23
Catholic Rapids
Broadcast Opens
School Fund Drive

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. "a
Catholic school has but one pur-
pose, namely, TO train good citi.
zens and it seeks by every fair
means to achieve this purpose
This declaration was made by
Bishop Francis ]. Haas Of Grand
Rapids, during radio address
here inaugurating campaign for
more than s1,000,000 TO complete
the Catholic Central High School.
Every child has two sides, an
individual and social side, the
Bishop pointed out, and citizenship
requires that man be trained in
both the social and the individual
aspects Of his nature. The pagan
philosophers Socrates, Plato
and Aristotle - took these things
for granted, Bishop Haas said, but
it remained for Christ to raise
these teachings to heights to
which God alone could raise them
Good citizenship requires child
rem to be disciplined in the new
law that Christ brought iuto the
world which is stressed in the
Catholic school, Bishop Haas said.
This discipline, he added, is ach-
ieved first through the family and,
second, through the school.
"The Catholic family and the
Catholic school are only two sides
of the same coin," Bishop Haas
said. THE Catholic family helps
to make the Catholic school and
the Catholic school helps to make
the Catholic family"
/ Seal Of God
Bishop Haas defined the Catho-
lie family as the union of father,
mother and children held togeth.
er by the grace of Jesus Christ.
"The family in Catholic teaching
is more than a mere coming to.
gether of husband wife bound 10
one another" Bishop Haas said
''They are sealed by the Sacra.
ment of Matrimony. They may
not separate to go their individual
ways. The Seal of God has mark.
ed them for one another until
death.
Away then with the false no.
tion that marriage is q purely pri,
vate affair, something relating
only to the pleasure or conven.
fence of the husband or wife. On
this premise no home can be firm
or stable. II the household IS
only kind of animal mating, the
individual can tear it down when
ever his or her lust or even cap
rice, so inclines."
Respect Authority
Bishop Haas stressed that the
family, in the first place, incul
Gates the great virtue of respect
. for authority without which or
, ganized society can scarcely exist
The Bishop said: Honor thy ia
, ther and thy mother as it is car
ried out in the family, becomes il
civic life Support thy country an,
its Constitution Get along witt
,. your brothers and sisters as it i
observed in the family, become
in public life civic virtue" Tn,
Bishop also pointed out that Il
: Christian teaching the famil,
+ delegates to the school manage
! ment and control of its children
so that the school teacher repre-
sents the child's own parents.
. The Bishop also pointed ou
that in the Catholic school youti
is taught that while he has right
of his own, he must have tn
same regard for the rights of ott
ers as he wants others to have 70
his own. The Bishop added: III
is taught that to the extent tha
, he invades the rights of others h
commits sin before God, just a
he is taught that all he does 70
the good of others he can regar,
: as done for God to be rewardel
c by God"
e "Such is the Catholic theory O
= education" Bishop Haas saic
"Such is the Catholic foundation
!, for citizenship. Need | add tha
D it is difficult to see how goo
S citizenship can stand firm an
mistaken based on any othe
+ foundation"