Moscow Chapel fo Get Flag From U.S. Capitol Religious Basis of U.S. Law Washington.—An American hope for all people who yearn flag that has flown over the for tre^om . It is more than CapiUd Jbuildi^ will adorn a a challenge to those who seek Catholic chapel in Moscow. to dominate and control the The reqi^est was made by Fa­ lives and souls of men. “To you, to the personnel of Uader Attack, Expert Warns ther Joseph Richard, A.A., at the American Embassy, and a meeting with U.S. Sen. Hu­ to the people of the Soviet New York.—“A powerful, well-financed bert Humphrey (Minn.), be- Union, I send this flag with group in America” is “seeking by court action to Bishop Shoon Soys fmre leaving for Moscow to as­ the wish that it be seen as a a a /waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaau sume bis duties as chapiain at a symbol of America’s love destroy every moral support whidh the state now the Uil. Embassy. for freedom, America’s quest bestows on religion,” charged Father Robert F. In a letter to the chaplain, for peace, and America’s con­ Senator Humphrey said: cern for the progress of all Drinan, S.J., dean of Boston College Law School. Softening “This flag is a message of peoples.” In a sermon at the 33rd annual Red M*ass sponsored by the New York Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Fa­ Of Morality ther Drinan warned that this N atio n al group is attempting to persuade National the judiciary that America must Seen in d.S. prefer the secular “even if such Section Section preference discrimates against Washington.—“I can’t see the sacred.” any greaj; manifestation of Cardinal Francis Spellman of actual religious revival,” THE New York presided over the Mass, which Is offered each Bishop Fulton J. Sheen told year at the opening of the fall a reporter for the Daily term of the civil courts to invoke News here. “On the surface, divine guidance for the admin­ there seems to be a softening ' istration of Justice. of moral and spiritual fibers in Auxiliary Bishop Joseph F. our society.” ' R EG ISTERa«.u.i.Pat.o(L Flannelly of New York celebrat­ ed the Mass, which was held in The symptoms, he said, are St. Patrick’s Cathedral. many. “One is the decline of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961 patriotism. The Greeks said Aggrasahra Atimtk that piety has three aspects: The effort “to prefer the secu­ lar and to rule out the sacred Love of God, love of home, and in all those ever multiplying love of country. And they were areas of education, social wel­ right. These basic loyalties are fare, and foreign policy in which closely related and when one Pope Invites World: grows weak,^the others are af­ the churches seek to extend their influence,” Father Drinan fected, too” charged, is being advanced in The “softening” comes in, he an “aggressive manner by non- said, in the fact that “we’ve Christian and religiously neu­ grown rich and have fallen in Say Rosary for Peace tral forces.” love with our luxuries. When These groups have not Iwen you put such a tremendous em­ Castelgandolfo. — In an Apostolic Letter addressed to the world. Pope successful, he commented, in phasis on material things, spirit­ imposing their views on federal ual values tend to atrophy.” John XXin called for the recitation of the Rosary for the intention of peace or state executive or legislative Underneath the “sofiness,” at public rallies and in private. He called the Rosary the principal form of branches of government. however, “our potential Is still prayer, second only to me sacraments. Its recitation, he stated, should be for But’ he cited efforts to ad­ great,” Bishop SheenJ aald. vance a secular view of gov­ “We have tremendous'moral ‘the great treasure of peace . which touches upon individuals, families, ernment in court cases over and whole nations.” ------------ John England-Christlike Bishop and spiritual reserves waiting threatening disasters and for in­ of persons, institutions, or needs such issues as bus rides for to be tapped In our young The Rosary prayed properly, parochial school pupils, and John England, who became the first Bishop astounding success. In 1822 he established voking the return of prosperity of a personal and social order, people. the Pontiff p elted out, “be­ Bible reading and non^lenom- of Charleston, S. Car., was bom in ‘ Cork, the “United States Catholic Miscellany,” the and social ordet.” I which for a truly Catholic per­ comes the universal prayer of Inational prayer in schools. Ireland, in 1186. As a priest he became known first distinctive Catholic newspaper in the "One of the things modem son come witliin the practice of the individual soul and o l the Warning against reciting the There are three reasons, he for his preaching, and his influence was the U.S. Although he was accept^ on all so­ young people are rebelling charity toward his brothws, a immense community of the re- Rosary like a monotonous suc­ said, why the state shoilld not greatest, next to that of,Daniel O’Connell, cial levels, Bishop England was a special against is the softness of an charity which is diffused in ' deemed, who meet in a single cession of three prayers, the be permitted to prefer the secu­ in the agitation which culminated in Catholic friend of the Negroes, for whom he estab­ older generation which has prayer from every part of the Pontiff listed three'elements hearts as the living expression lar and rule out the sacred: emancipation. To help this cause he founded lished schools and to whom be preached in failed to bequeath them a seri­ of common membership in the world. needed for Its proper recita­ R a lfg fo B 1$ S o v re a “The. Chronicle,” which he edited until he preference to the rich and cultured. His per­ ous purpose in life. American Mystical Body of Christ.” “In personal invocation, it is tion. They are contemplation, “1. By custom, law, and basic left Ireland for Afoerica, having been named sonal poverty was well known, and at times youth are ready to make great for the imploring of graces tor reflection, and Intedlion. Whole World Invited institution of America’s citizens, Bishop of Charleston in 1820. Conditions were he walked the streets of Charleston with the sacrifices if someone will give most unfavorable to the growth of Catholicism bare soles of his feet to the ground. He them a cause to which they can the individual needs of each. In “In, contemplation,’’ he said, Pope John recalled how Leo this country Is a nation whose participation with the inunense “we find ourselv'es |n communi­ institutions depend on religious in his diocese, but he threw himself into the died in April, 1852, after an amazingly fruit­ really dedicate themselves.” Xm , with the coming of each work with indefatigable energy and met with ful apostolate. and unanimous choir of the en­ cation of though! and sentiment October, would invite the Chris­ values; ‘WbHm M m ’a tire Church, it is for the great With the teaching and life of tian world to recite the Rosary “2. Religion is the source and, IX | S O lf?’ interests of the whole of human­ Jesus, Son of God and Son of for the benefit of their own souls in some respects, the only Asked whether strong nation­ ity." Mary, which was lived on earth and the welfare of the Universal source of our morality; to redeem, to teach, and to sanc­ “3. Religion is the ultimate alist feelings have become a Historical Facts Church. This pious practice was Polish Red Regime Forcing tify: In the silened of the hidden and only real fountainhead of serious barrier to the spread In the history of nations, he continued by Pope Leo’s suc­ of Christianity in Asia and Af­ life composed of prayer and cessors. those truths by which we can continued, there have boea work, in the sorrows of His - ¥ triumph over the threatening rica, and if Christianity is be­ “We intend to follow,” the many times before “events blessed Passion, and in the tri­ forces behind the Brandenburg ing denounced as a “White Holy Father continued, “these Shackles on Church Work which marked with nights of umph of the Resurrection.” gate.” man’s export,” Bishop Sheen tears and blood the changing most venerable Shepherds of the “It is not urged,” Father Washington.—Communist or the division of the large ones removal from office are dicta- said: “This notion that anti- fates of the most powerful states The Pope defined reflection as flock of Christ, not only in their Drinan said, “that the Ameri­ Poland is ignoring its is often impossible, because the torial and final. Wranglings Western sentiments have of Europe.” the application of the things intense solicitude for justice and can state should be committed Church-State agreement of presidiums refuse permission. threats, and fines are common. ‘doomed’ Christian missions is He underlined the historical seeh in the contemplative part brotherhood in this life but also to religion, but rather that it Dec. 8, 1956. Particular Reasons given for their refusal Becau.se of taxation, chari­ a folk fable. Nationalism is a to one’s own sanctification and for the fervent seeking of the are the excessive burden for the fact that in all such circum­ should be committed to an at­ roadblocks against the table activities like aicUng the political phenomenon and it the condition in which he lives.