GOOD THIEF WAS ‘FIRST SMALL HOST’ OFFERED The J^fisttr Has tha International News Service (Wire and Mail), tbe N. C. W. C. News Service (Includinf Radios and Cables), NON-CATHOLICS Its Own Special Service, All the Smaller Catholic Services, lotematiooal Illustrated News, and N, C. W. C. Picture Servict. PENITENT WAS Local Local When, in 1925, John Thomas Scopes, an instruct* COMMENT UPON Edition Edition USED TO SHOW or in the high school of Day- ton, Tenn., was on trial, THE charged with teaching the theory of evolution, we CHURCH GAINS CHRIST’S UNION warned that it was not safe for Catholics to side strongly Catholicity’s Advance in Holland and South with those Fundamentalists By Accepting Repentance at Crucifixion who believed they were de­ America Subject of Special REGISTER(Name Registered in the 0. S. Patent Office) Savior Exemplified His Suffering With fending the Bible against Agnosticism and Atheism. Articles in Papers • VOL. XII No. 11 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, MAR. 15,1936 T W O CENTS Us, Msgr. Sheen Says Our beliefs are far from Gains made by the Catholic Church in Holland and in theirs. A current magazine New York.— ^The penitent thief on Calvary was called South America furnish the subject of special articles in two God in the Unspoken Language “the first small host ever offered in the Mass” by the Rt. article by Paul Y. Anderson, Protestant religious publications. The vitality of the ad­ who covered the trial as a re­ Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen in the course of his address over vances made in Holland are not only frankly admitted but Priest - Martyr the Catholic Hour, which is broadcast over a network of porter and who now reviews described in The Protestant General Weekly for Christian­ the National Broadcasting company, through station it, confirms us in our judg­ ity and Culture, while The Christian Century of Chicago ment. The general assembly WEAF, here, and is produced by the National Council of cites the gains of the Church in South America in a report Catholic Men. of Tennessee had passed a from Argentina. Of Mexico May measure declaring it unlaw­ Speaking on “ The Second Word,” Monsignor Sheen The author of the article in the Holland publication n r * I declared that the Savior, in the Offertory of Calvary’s Mass, ful for any teacher in state- was roundly upbraided by Protestants for the admissions he 10601884 supported schools ‘‘to teach wishes to “ remind us that He is not offered alone, but, in makes, it being protested, among other things, that the union with us. He united with His Offertory the soul of the the theory that denies the article would serve to “ push wavering Protestants” into story of the Divine creation thief at the right.” He said that Our Lord, who offers Him­ the arms of the Catholic Church. self “ to His Heavenly Father on of man as taught in the Bible, But the author would not back El Paso; Tex.— The possibility the paten of His cross as the great and to teach instead that man down. Instead he replied to these of a process for the beatification host, now united with Him on the objections, saying that the “ wav­ is descended from a lower Minister Takes of the Rev. Michael Augustine, Pro, paten of the cross the first small ering souls” among the Protestants host ever offered in the Mass— the Cliinese Given order of animals.” /^he suit S.J., martyred Mexican priest, is must be the “ many thousands of host of a repentant thief, a brand against Scopes Wai" intended young men, who, aware of the seen by the Most Rev. Anthony J. Schuler, S.J., Bishop of El Paso. plucked from the burning, a sheaf as a friendly test of the act, present situation, are breakipg torn from the earthly reapers, the In an article appearing in a local and the people of the rural Up Collection in through the formerly accepted wheat ground in the mill of the Catholic weekly, the Bishop is Honor by Pope frontier and are going on what community were astounded crucifixion and made bread for the might be called an expedition of quoted as saying that the canoni­ Eucharist.” when 125 newspaper report­ spiritual discovery.” zation of the 36-year-old priest, Suffers with Us who was executed by a Mexican Vatican City.— (NCWC Cable) ers descended on their little “ It is bad service to one’s In uniting the sacrifice of the His ^Holiness, Pope Pius XI, has Catholic Church firing squad in 1927, may result thief with His own. Monsignor cause,” the writer declares, “ to nam ^ Lo Pa Hong, eminent in­ town to cover the trial, now from his “ martyrdom and service defend it by giving an erroneous Sheen said, the Savior “ suffers dustrialist, philanthropist, and one of the most famous in in behalf of the Church.” or one-sided view of the principles with us.” “ As Our Blessed Lord president general of Catholic American history. Pioneer, 0.— When a Methodist Episcopal minister takes up the and aims of the opponent. The The Bishop declared that official on that day chose the thief as the Action in Shanghai, a Secret collection in a Catholic church, anti-Popish papers, which pursue steps looking toward Father Leo’s small host of sacrifice,” he added, Chamberlain of the Cape and beatification were started four Clarence Darrow, the Ag­ that’s news, in the opinion of the this method, constitute a much “ He chooses us today as the other Sword, in recognition of works greater danger to the Protestant years ago after thousands who small hosts united with Him on the of charity that have led to his nostic lawyer, and Dudley Rev. Mr. Russell H. Bready, who conducts the church of that Prot­ cause than any of my articles. In claimed; to have received favors paten of the altar.” being called the “ St. Joseph Cot- Field Malone, who at one estant denomination here. the coming struggle against pa­ through his intercession clamored Saying that Catholics today tolengo of China.” time was a Catholic, went to It happened in Chicago, and it ganism, Christianity will be faced for an ecclesiastical investigation. bring thf Offertory contribution Lo Pa Hong, director of electric, defend Scopes. William Jen­ happened this way, he says: with necessity of a new orientation The Bishop, who has personally instead of the bread and wine shipping, and transportation com­ on its own ground, and in this sit­ supervised the investigation, said brought by the Christians of old. panies, has created in Shanghai nings Bryan appeared on be­ He had finished breakfast in a restaurant when he noticed a uation the relation between Cath­ that two or three years more will Monsignor Sheen declared that in alone 16 charitable institutions half of the Fundamentalists. Catholic church across the street olics and Protestants will not be be required for the completion of bringing these two things in the thht he supports with donations of The judge was John T. Raul- He entered and took an end seat involved.” the survey. (Turn to Page S — Column S) $200,000 annually. ston, a local light, who after­ in the last pew. In his article, the writer cited “ In about five minutes,” says wards became a lecturer for the present “ movements and cur­ the Rev. Mr. Bready, “ a priest rents in the Catholic Church,” em­ Japan Land of Queer Happenings the Ku Klux Klan. stopped at my side and handed me phasizing the gains made in the a collection basket, indicating a liturgical and Eucharistic move­ In view of the number of man similarly equipped across the ments, retreats. Catholic Action, aisle. I was quite paralyzed for STATUE OF VIRQIN IN which, he points out, links youth conflicting denominations in the moment. Then I noticed the with the living Church, and the Christianity and the vast dif­ other man giving me the high sign fresh interest in the stu^y of phi­ The Rev. Michael A. Purtell, S.J., editor o|F The Catholic Deaf- ference of opinion in Biblical to step out. I did, and I watched losophy and dogma. Comparing Mute, national publication of New York city, who is Visiting seminaries FAMILY throughout the country to interest future priests in learning the sign FOR 400 YEARS him and followed every movement interpretation, one may see the interior life of Catholicism and he made. Protestantism, the writer .says that language. Father Purte]! for the past eight years has been pastor of how difficult it would be to “Afterward, I wrote a letter to the Protestant goes to church fo ri Archdiocese of New York. Ho has spent 20 years (By George Hagar) not even to speak of it to an out­ opened the secret niche where tha _ ® • . I ________f kl J e ___________________l. J a l.I_ f_ al....... prove legally in an American the pastor, telling him. what had a sermon and a hymn, while the serving the deaf of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia. In these Queer things are always hap­ sider. The modem, wealthy Jap­ statue was hidden and prayed with court what constitutes, jn the happened. I had a very nice reply Catholic goes to come into contact poses he is khown using the sign language to say ( l ) God, (2) Past, pening to the Catholic Church in anese trembled as he spoke at the ancient ceremony. from him asking me to call the next (3) Present, and (4 ) Future. Japan. In fact, the whole history thought of his ancestor’s displeas­ “ ‘Take my life and spare my words of the law, “ the_ story with Christ, working in His Church tfme I was in C kic^o, which I thrnugh^ the .^ r ^ e n L s .