Of Religious Liderty Is Explained

OF RELIGIOUS LIDERTY IS EXPLAINED The Rcfiater H u the International News Service (Wire and Mail), the N. C. W. C. News Service (Includinc Cables), its Own Special Service and All the Dsnaller Catholic S e ^ icu ; also latematienal lllustrsted News u d N. C. W. C. Picture Service. SUCCESS UNDER Or a t o r says For many years, St. Thom Local Local as More, once the Lord Edition Edition Chancellor of England, now SOVIET SYSTEM MAN HAS RIGHT raised to the saint THE hood of the Catholic Church, has been'a MERITS EXILE TO SEEK GOD favorite of well-read Catholics in English-speak ing lands. The ' rejoicing Writer Shows How Russia Would Persecute Priest Shows Idea That Each Could Make over his canonization is Farmer Whose Work Brings Him REGISTER Own Religion Is Absurd, Even widespread. But we find his (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) new conipanion in sainthood, Decent Living Laughable John Cardinal Fisher, al VOL. XI No. 22 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1935 TWO CENTS most as fascinating a charac (Editor’s note: In Lithuania, formerly part of Soviet Russia, in- New York.— “Freedom of Conscience” and religious dividualism is the population’s keynote. Here is the story of a Cath* liberty were discussed by the Rev. James M. Gillis, C.S.P., ter. A great scholar, St. olic Lithuanian farmer, who^e-success, had he lived in Russia, would Dominican Nuns Go to China John Fisher was noted as a have sent him into exile.) in the course of his latest address over the Catholic Hour. university man, adding lus By H. R. Knickerbocker) Declaring that he questioned whether Americans had “a (Copyright. 1936, by International News Service) ' Sterilization Will tre to Cambridge. Some be moderate and reasonable notion of the extent of religious Kovno, Lithuania.— Individuals are rugged in the Bal liberty,” Father Gifiis said that “many of our fellow citi lieve he was the real author tics, and nobody laughs at individualism. In Communist zens will admit no limit whatsoever to religious liberty.” of the famous book on the Russia, just across the border, they sent their rugged in seven sacraments, in which lead World Back “ A man must be left free to seek God, free to find dividualist farmers to Siberia to penal labor— at least 5,- God, to worship God,” he asserted. “ But he is not free Henry VIII answered Martin 000,000 of them. Luther and won the Pope- to fashion God to his own fancy, to warp God into the In capitalist Lithuania, Latvia, and Esthonia they fos mold of his own mind, or to create the kind of God or the given title. Defender of the tered and rewarded their rugged individualist farmers and Faith, to which the kings of To Pagan Horrors kind of religion he thinks he would have helped at least 1,000,000 of them acquire land since like, England have since tena the war. “ Now the Catholic Church, in ciously clung despite the de So, for many years, crops and Vatican City. — (INS)— The spite of all modernistic, subjecti ..ractice of sterilization, if it con Education Rally fection of the nation from livestock decreased in the Soviet vistic philosophies, holds to the unity. It is probable, how Church Gain Is union, but crops and livestock in tinues to spread, will lead the old philosophy that truth exists in ever, that Henry knew the Baltic states have steadily in world back to “ paganism’s hor dependent o f man. Truth is not creased. Peasants have less than rors,” Pope Pius XI told doctors synthetically made in the labora enough theology to write they used to in Russia. They have from 30 nations whom he received tory of the mind of man. Truth P n p u n 1$ Set this work himself. As with Noted in India more than they used to in the in audience. exists whether man exists or not St. Thomas More, Fisher was Baltics. After bongratulating the doc For truth is God. In harmony Jonas Ambrozevicius of the tors, delegates to the International with that philosophy, the Church Washington. — The seventeenth familiar with that strange Madras.— There are now 3,- Hospital and Physician’s congress, Lithuanian village of Vieverai, 20 teaches that no man has a right annual meeting of the Franciscan and erratic but Catholic 888,707 Catholics in India, Bur for postponing discussion of eu miles out of Kovno, is a living to any other religion than the re Educational conference will be genics and sterilization, the Pon ligion revealed by God. To find scholar, Erasmus, who bore ma, and Ceylon, according to sta example of the difference between held at the Monastery of Mary tiff said: testimony that it was tistics given in the 85th annual this part of old Russia and that and to follow that religion, a man Immaculate, Garrison, N. Y., bn part, which is now the Soviet “ Such discussions are out of is free. For this he has an in Monday, Tuesday, ^ d Wednes through Fisher’s influence issue of The Catholic Directory, place. Someone has said steriliza alienable right” that the study of Greek was just published. This represents' union. Jonas would be a kulak day, July 1, 2, and 3, according to if he lived across the border. A tion is now practiced in Germany Declaring that while man has an announcement issued by the allowed to proceed at Cam an increase of 150 per cent in the and that in a few years it will be last 50 years. kulak is a rugged individualist; he certain inalienable rights which office of the secretary, the Rev. bridge, without being inter done everywhere. cannot be taken_ away from him. “ This growth is. all the more is a farmer who has worked hard Claude L. Vogel, O.M.Cap., at the fered with as it was at Ox enough to accumulate a few “ If this happens,* serious conse Father Gillis said that “ no sane Capuchin college, here. remarkable,” writes the editor of quences will follow for the whole philosophy and no reasonable the horses, a few cows. “ A Program of Social Progress” ford. ' The Catholic Leader of Madras in These Dominican nuns from St. Mary’s of the Springs, Columbus, world, preparing the return of pa ology can admit that freedom— Kulaks were considered danger will be the subject of this year’s commenting on the figures, “ when Ohio, are en route to the Chinese mission fields, the first American ganism’s horrors, so well described any kind of freedom, political we take into account the various ous to the Communist state be sisters of their order to enter China. The band includes, left to right: meeting. This topic will be dis Fisher, in his sermons, de cause, having worked harder, they by St. Paul when he said, ‘It was freedom, freedom of conscience, factors that stood in the way of Sister Hildegard of Upper Sandusky, O.; Sister Rosaire, Upper San a loveless and pitiless society.’ ” freedom of worship— is absolute, cussed in papers by prominent nounced abuses that existed missionary progress, such as the enjoyed a standard of living higher dusky; Sister Virginia, Somerset, O.; Sister Felicia, Detroit, and members of the Franciscan order. than the average. The collective unlimited, entirely sui juris auton in the Church at the time spread of nationalism and the Sister Leocadia, Pittsburgh. They 'will assist the 11 Dominican priests omous.” “ There are rules and The program of speakers and spirit of indifference to religion, farms could not expect to have a and two lay brothers in the Vicariate of Kienningfu. Archbishop Sanctions and demanded reforms. He standard of living higher at the regulations, standards and limita their subjects is announced as was fearless in his denuncia the paucity of workers, inade Orchard Ordination tions of liberty,” he added. follows: quate resources, and many exact beginning than the average of its tion of the divorce of Henry members. Therefore, the kulaks London.— The Most Rev. Ar “ We are so zealous for freedom July 1, “ The Meaning of So ing demands made on the time and thur Hinsley, Archbishop of West of conscience and freedom of cial Progress,” by the Rev. John from Catherine. He was energy of the workers with the could not be expected to enjoy or support the collectives. There LAYMAN 100 YEARS minster, expressed his pleasure (Turn to Page 2 — Column 3) (Turn to Page 2 — Column 6) Bishop of Rochester, but the fuller development of Catholic that Dr. Orchard be ordained con life.” fore they were taken from their Cardinal’s dignity did not farms and sent to remote places. ditionally. Owing to grave doubts come to him until he was Jonas would certainly be living concerning the validity of his pre AHEAD ON ECONOMICS vious orders, derived from Nes- imprisoned in the Tower of Catholic Elected to in a remote place if the Bolsheviks came to Lithuania. Jonas’ story is torian rites, and the necessity of SOCIALISTIC, CATHOLIC London, suffering dreadful Oklahoma Mayorality an epic of the sort of personal South Euclid, 0.— How a dis tion, and parent education are waiting until the new Archbishop ly. He was beheaded, and Oklahoma City, Okla.— J. Frank endeavor that keeps the capitalist tinguished Catholic layman, offi vigorously advocated. was consecrated, the ordination Martin, state deputy of the system on its feet in the days of cial, and economist 100 years ago The foreword to the book has was delayed. his naked body was exposed advocated and attempted to real been written by the Most Rev.

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