The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-04

The age oil pSeud0Sclence In which we live is
4 continuous menace to sound thinking. Ii is forever
insisting on the short view it blocks the true per
Spective of life il hammers steadily away at the
false lesson that we have here lasting city and
need not be concerned about one that is to come
Against the evil and deceivng efforts of fake
sccnce,-which is the chief element of what people
call the spirit of the times, we must be un-
remittingly on guard. We know better, of course.
We have the faith and we have reason And yet we
live in atmosphere which utterly uncongenlal to
faith and reason. Despite ourselves we find that
we are speaking the alien tongue and thinking the
alien thoughts OF world that knows not God or
sanity.
For instance: we know that there is not, and
cannot be, such thing a real dissolution OF
marriage; yet engulfed in culture almost
10 be taken in the laboratory Sense) which accepts
divorce normal and necessary Custom among
mistaken people is so general, and by now so long
lasting, that in spite OF better knowledge,
too accept divorce mot indeed for ourselves our
own and divorced people without any sense Of
outrage dismay. In other words tolerate.
with no thought of even an inner revulsion the most
flagrsnt and debasing OF mortal sins against Al
mighty God
Again we tend to forget what we we'll know
and understand and complacently accept the hor-
rble fact that most of contemporaries have
come to regard merely animal thing
iOf Seetuke DfSeHg ny Gn0ite ana plan OF Sp0HseSs
with consideration at all of divine laws and
divine rights Even those who live rightly have
come to state of mind placid and undisturbed in
the face of the openly proclaimed abominations OF
those who live wrongly.
People of modest habits are somehow duled
10 tolerate the 0mnipresence of immodesty. De.
cent parents appear to be unabashed by frankly
immodest spectaces-daiy available on TV for
exsmple.-snd to be undisturbed by the fact that
their children avidly enjoy such spectacles. Re.
tcence. and dignity, and the normal restraints i'm
posed speech and action by Christian morality,
somehow takek to be odfashioned and nopera-
tive even by persons who. in their own conduct,
perfectly conform to the rule OF decency and re-
finement.
And here is notable damage to the mind Many
and many person who truly claim that the cur
rent ooseness OF morals has not soed his soul
or influenced his own habits must admit that 1t
has distorted his objective view; IT has dulled his
understanding of what is right and fine; it has
therefore injured his mind. One man has said that
IN these days of indecent exposure person must
acquire kind OF callousneSs of the eyes. Yet cal.
lousness is but kind of dullness; it involves loss
and lack, not an acquisition
The apathy of decent populace is tragic
thing II is futile Maginot Line against an evil
that must overwhelm the oneomng generations.
good instance OF this duilness, this apathy is af
researches of DR. knsey are received Not long ago,
when the rule of gadgery had not yet lulled us in
TO the hope OF universal relaxation as the great
aim OF life We should have instantly labeled Dr. X,
as cheap and dirty pornographer But to-day we
feel that the who wants TO fill minds with
filth is acceptable il only he is scientific if he has
organization" If he lists and tabulates findings
in neat of statistics.
And here too is manifest mental damage: that
the mind of man can be led to accept anything what
ul1INa In ho lauht H.salt
in the glow of that mysterious thing called
science There is nothing enlightened scientific
in such mental outlook There is only dullness
and stupidity of the type called sophstication there
is only that stupefaction and atrophy of the finer
human faculties which seem 10 be the chief OBJ.
iective of modern university education
The Kinsey report great flood of money
TO DR.. X That is its material meaning and its ex-
PLANTATION. But the fact that people can accept its
postulates matter how much and how justifiably
they question its factual findings, is the alarming
thing about It, And these postulates may be set
forth IN this manner: There need never be
question in mans mind about vocation duty,
or obligation TO God neighbor and self There
need be question only about immediate and
personal and fleShly satisfaction. Man is to do what
affords him the most fun with the least respon.
sbllity, Morality and religion tlnseparable in being
and funcon) are hampering and limiting influences;
these are survivors of an ancient and superstitous
age; they must be dsregarded and, as soon as pos
sble. eradicated from human life.
We can enyision the occasional leering peryert
who reads kinSeyS pages for their umescent effect
But the rank and file of American people are not
leerng perverts Yet this rank and file OF fudament
ally decent people will pacdiy accept the study
OF DR.. kinsey something that must be tax
en- however regretably true and scien-
tfc picture OF modern life. And the rank
and file will accept DR.. KS findings in the light of
The false postulates mentioned above) which he
implicitly sets up, Here is grave damage TO minds
and through minds. 10 souls
The children of the Church are. in this modern
'ime throughly submerged in the world and
the worlds views than they have ever been before.
True, they have greater aids available against all
evil than they have ever had what with the world
wide exstance of the Church and the availability
Of Mass and Sacraments. Now, unless there is
quick and tremendous resurgence of active faith,
of prayer, Of sacramenta living the part of
Catholics, there must come devastating time
gray, foul Shiny time. enRulfing minds and souls
in temporal and eternal wrechedness. One haro-
metric reading which indicates the imminence of