Democracy Needs Religion

DEMOCRACY NEEDS RELIGION Th* Register Has tbs IntemaUonol News Service (W ire ted H aU ), the N. C, W. C. News Service (Inelnding Radies and Cables), Its Own Special Service, Lamen Service of CbittO. International lUnstrated News, and K . <3. W . C. Picture Service. Listening In CURE AGAINST GOD WILLING, Local Local President Roosevelt de Edition Edition clares that tlie prime social POPE TO SEE CALAMITIES OF: and economic objective of his administration is to pro THE vide increased purchasing power for the one-third of VILLA AGAIN OTHER NATIONS America's population that is ill clothed, ill nourished, and ill housed. Pontiff Tells People at Castelgandolfo He Monsignor Ready, N.C.W.C. General Secre Look reports that a gov REG(Name Registered ISTER in the U. S. Patent Office) Hopes to Return to His Summer tary, Speaker at Meeting of Catholic ernment survey in 1934 showed 37 of each 100 city Home Next Year VOL. XIII. No. 45 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, NOV. 7, 1-937 TWO CENTS Women in Scranton families had a total income of $800 or less a year. Vatican City.— God willing, the Pope will go again Scranton, Pa.— “ Tyranny can exist without religion, Pius XI in his Quadrages- to his summer villa at Castelgandolfo. As Pius XI left there but democracy cannot,” the Rt, Rev. Msgr, Michael J. to return to the Vatican for the winter, his parting words Crooner Crosby Saves Stamps, J"*aVhii- Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Wel imo Anno made the moral atelist. Bing, radio and screen star, is shown below at the mission ruling in 1931 that every ade were: “ Until we meet again— if God wills it.” To the stamp bureau conducted by the Jesuit scholastics at Ml. St. Michael's, fare Conference, said at the fourth annual convention of quate effort must be made to personnel of the Papal villa, he said: “ We are now on Spokane, Wash. One o f its largest contributors, Crosby sends n the Scranton Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. “ Reli liave fathers of families re the last page of the calendar, which is in the hands of package each week to the bureau containing the stamps from his gion is this nation’s only defense against the distressing God and therefore in good hands.” 10,000 “ fan letters.” He recently received an honorai^ degree from calamities which afflict the Russian, German, Spanish, ceive a wage sufficient to meet his alma matter, Gonzaga university. Shown with the singer are AliE MADE INTO Before his departure, the Pontiff gave special audi and Mexican peoples,” he said in urging the women to ordinary domestic needs. If in (left) Mr, Darrell F. X. Finnegan, S.J., and Mr. Raymond F. Wood, S.J. the present state of society ences to the people of Castelgandolfo and to the guards strive for perfect unity with all the agencies of Catholic this is not always feasible, so on duty while he was there. To the people of his summer Action. residence, he gave thanks for their, “ Who would ever believe that cial justice demands that re filial devotion; to the guards, he in this age of much-boasted en forms he introduced without expressed appreciation of their im lightenment a government could delay that will guarantee an portant work, that of preserving No Reward Posted Garden City, Kans.— The energy ruthlessly proscribe the Christian SS6 U. S. Citizens public peace, “ the tranquillity of of a hard-working “ dust bowl” religion and set up, under a sub adult workman such a wage. order.” (See page 24, N.C.W.C. Edi priest, the labors of his Mexican sidized Council of the Godless, the Five cars were in the Papal parishioners, and the generosity of propagation of atheism? . that tion, Forty Years After.) procession that took the Holy a railroad and a sugar corporation a government of one of our great We do not wish to connect Father along the Via Appia to For Missionary est and most cultured nations have transformed two Santa Fe Vorking in Cliina the Papal demands with any the banks of the Tiber, then to passenger cars into a unique mis would be debauched in the sav particular American party; Borgo, where he saw the magnif sion church at the hamlet of Deer agery of racial and religious per icent view of St. Peter’s Basilica but we feel that it is the duty field. The priest is the Rev. secution to the extent of honor afforded by the demolition of old By Maryknollers George Spaeth, C.PP.S.; the pa ing the aberrations, of a zealot As Missionaries of all statesmen to push the buildings that had surrounded the rishioners are the beet-field work responsible for a whole system reforms without delay. Vatican. At the entrance of the ers of Deerfield; the railroad is the of national religion based on a new Via della Conciliazione, Ossining, N. Y.— Maryknoll has Santa Fe, which donated the war-god of mythology? . that Washin^ori.— There are at lease* named in honor of the settlement offered no reward for the release 556 American citizens laboring as It is true that wage condi coaches; the sugar company is that a government in this age of re of difficulties between the Vatican of Father Gerard A. Donovan, which has a large factory in Gar markable achievement could deny Catholic missionaries in China, it tions are much worse in other and the Italian State, the Pope captured at his mission in Hopei den City. its citizens the right to Christian is established by a survey just countries. Correspondence to gave his Apostolic blessing_ to the early in October. A statement The priest and his people set education and the free practice completed. These missionaries the Chicago Daily News from work being done to beautify the issued at Maryknoll headquarters the cars parallel and four feet of their religion? . • . that a represent a dozen orders lyid con area around the Pajial residence. here denies the report that the gregations of priests and a score London in late October apart on ground given by the su ^ r government within the past year International News Service de mission society offered to pay company, knocked out the two in could murder thousands of priests of religious sisterhoo Is. It is- , showed that the average clared that Vatican attendants ransom for Father Donovan’s re side wails, built a floor and roof, and nuns, burn a n d pillage emphasized that those covered in British industrial worker were deeply shocked to see the lease. It is true that civic offi and furnished the interior as a churches by the score, and still this survey are actually citizens of makes just about $12.50 a Pope’s obvious weakness on his cials in China have posted a re chapel at a total cost of $700, all retain the support and good will the" United States. In some in ward. Several years ago, the Sa week, according to a survey return. One source said he was for materials. of American citizens who boister stances, there are missionaries of able to stand only occasionally and cred Congregation of the Ph-opaga- The "chapel, 24 by 74 feet in ously advertise their devotion to other nationalities working with conducted by the Ministry of was obviously in great pain. A tion of the Faith in Rome advised size, will accommodate 150 per democracy? these American priests, brothers, Labor. Figures covered 5,- special infirmapr has been con against paying ransoms for cap sons without crowding. and sisters. While this listing is 507,729 working people in structed adjoining the Pope’s bed tured missioners. Campaign Against Church Continues “ A noble democracy demands a believed to be virtually .complete, moral citizenship. A moral citi 230 industries, not including chamber and male nurses are con it is emphasized that :ome later stantly in attendance. SIX MISSIONARIES ARE Nazi Charges of zenship rests upon just one foun reports may add to the total. railways. The printing and His physician. Dr. Aminta Mi- STILL HELD CAPTIVE ‘THROW PRIESTS OUT dation—religion. In the light of The survey has been made by publishing group is paid the lani, accompanied - r m on the auto Peiping.— Six missionaries cap such, axioms, may ws trust in our the office of the general secretary (Turn to Page 4 — Column. 1) mobile trip to the Vatican. tured by a band of Chinese sol Im m orality Are own peaceful national security? of the National Catholic Welfare diers from the Marist house at OF SCHOOLS,’ NAZI CRY With our prevalent spiritual il Conference. here. Since shortly Heishanhu have not yet beeii re P oorly Founded literacy, with the increasing an after the inception of the present Beatification Prayers Approved leased. Four others, captured with archy in family life, with our Amsterdam. — "Throw the are now no longer permitted to struggle in China, the N.C.W.C., them and freed some time ago, strange complacency in regard to at the invitation o f the state de priests out of the schools” is the teach religion in the public schools. Amsterdam.— The German lan had expected tl;eir companions to a variety of social injustices* to partment, has acted as a clearing cry of rabid Nazis in Germany to This is indeed an indication of guage weekly, Der Deutsche Weg, Scandalized Monks, be retui^ed to their home within ward workers, it is time to think house in handling inquiries con day. Systematically the govern coming trials which will amount to published in Oldenzaal, Holland, a few days.

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