Man's Handiwork and the Church
THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The...
...The chief result was the men and women...
...Each and every such work truly organization of Catholic Rural Life Conferences, the belongs to the functioning of religion...
...And because that is now poisoned by trained economist and a Catholic priest...
...too, the keen, direct interest taken by the hierarchy in The program announced by Mr...
...No other docu- stance, it has become apparent that the country parish ment has done so much to focus attention upon the is the key to the future and that it must be entrusted moral right and wrong of wage-earning activities, or to men carefully trained to use it to advantage...
...the inertia of socialized endeavor in the keep of the population...
...Naturally, he saw that the Church and strengthened...
...age than in the cities, . . . so from the standpoint The Reverend Eugene O'Hara is this brave man...
...upholding agriculture as a satisfying profession as in Facts thus indubitable enforce their conclusions...
...The Cathoknow a springtime marked on a mystical calendar lic Charities Conference will be convened in Buffalo that is contrary to the calendar of material time...
...This program shows clearly authorities in all branches of industrial ethics and that here is no mere academic round table, but an science, and active men and women of every kind...
...be exhaustive...
...Such calamities invoke sympathy priest can enkindle renewed interest...
...Equally good, it seems president of the Conference, therefore branches out to us, is the emphasis which some speakers will place from a consideration of a Catholic industrial program upon cooperation with the state agricultural colleges to the discussion of a great many important problems...
...There are doubtless many other conexpressed in conferences and conventions preparatory ventions in preparation...
...484 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 But even so, there is no one of the ways in which the the increasing emphasis which the times laid upon Faith is expressing itself today with such enormous the plight of the farmer led to thoughtful and very vigor that does not demand the support of Catholic valuable remedial effort...
...of natural increase of population, the country is proFor over a decade he has been quite as resolute in lific and the city tends to sterility...
...amalgamation of different but uniformly effective This year the Conference has the opportunity to com- groups, every one of which is definitely affiliated with memorate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Leonine the business of the soil...
...Year after year the same blight- of the total population of the United States lives in ing conditions continue, and he is a brave man who cities (census of 19zo) still there are in the rural attempts to see the business of the farmer in a favor- districts 2,500,000 more children under ten years of able light...
...the collapse is so crucial as the share taken by the land in the upof credit...
...cis is to gather in New York City from October 3 to Energies dissipated more often than truly recreated 6, and the National Catholic Alumni Federation will by the playtime of the year, brace themselves anew...
...It makes one stare with appreciative wonder ated...
...are to deliver them, the wide range of thought and It invites representatives of both capital and labor, practice to be covered...
...The Third Order of Saint Franitual powers...
...The causes and characteristics of Father O'Hara himself: "Speaking in terms of total these ills are little enough understood even by the population, although considerably more than one-half farmers themselves...
...But how about the lesser though no Though there are many ways in which the wellless damaging catastrophes of rural life-the dwin- being of the farmer affects the national welfare, none dling of the effective farm population...
...Gradually it was evident that deavor in socializing the modern world, then verily many others were beginning to think as he did...
...William Everett Cram 494 Thomas Walsh, Bertram C. A. Windle, The Play R. Dana Skinner 495 George D. Meadows, Fulton J. Sheen 497 MAN'S HANDIWORK AND THE CHURCH I T might be said that the mind and the soul of man ganization of men will meet in Cleveland...
...Seven days later, the corresponding or- job for any one of us when it is tackled seriously...
...Undoubtedly, Women, to be held in Milwaukee during the week of the task of trying to save one's soul is a big enough October io...
...Mary's College, Notre themselves, and inclines them to give up as practiDame, Indiana, recently, will be followed by the sixth cally hopeless any idea of participation in the work annual convention of the National Council of Catholic of religion other than a personal one...
...He was both a must develop...
...laying bare the parasitic influences from which the in- We cannot be indifferent to the atmosphere in which dustry suffers...
...For during the last week in September...
...The parish out of existence...
...During the last few weeks and gatherings are enthusiastically sure that their work continuing for the next month or more, highly im- merits "the special attention of Catholics in the portant meetings have been or will be held, from all United States...
...Volume IV New York, Wednesday, September 29, 1926 Number 21 CONTENTS Man's Handiwork and the Church 483 Poems Loudse I1"Mn "&", Week by Week 485 George O'~lei}, ,~M (Nn The Ultimate Novel 488 More Lights Than One 489 Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy The Negro in Calvert Land Ernest Brennecke, Jr., Henry Longan Stuart, Margaret B. Downing 490 Edwin Clark, T. Lawrason Riggs, Padraic Mirrors-And Some Reflections Colum, George N. Shuster, Agnes Repplier, Muriel Kent 492 Theodore Maynard, John M. Kenny, Jr., Time and Change...
...Even if in the seminaries to prepare young priests in an espeprosperity has eased somewhat the tension between cial manner for rural pastorates...
...the Catholic Ineven as winter approaches and the death, or at least dustrial Conference in Cleveland, October i and 2 the sleep, of nature is foretold by a hundred omens, and the Catholic Rural Life Conference in Cincinnati, there comes a reawakening of intellectual and spir- October 2o and 21...
...At any rate, all this seems strikingly true of Catho- Naturally, those promoting all and sundry of these lic life and affairs...
...It could-to and difficult mission in the country, even as its work in his mind it alone could-successfully undertake the the crowded city involves a careful study of social baffling endeavor of rural socialization...
...Frederick P. Kenkel, the work will be manifested...
...ExperiCircumstances also render the Catholic Rural Life ence in various states shows that the influence of Conference exceptionally important...
...The Catholic Church has a real could he the most helpful of agencies...
...There was the annual meeting of the car- that they can take anything like a real interest in dinals, archbishops, and bishops who form the Na- more than a few things or topics at a time...
...The very tional Catholic Welfare Conference...
...This list is not intended to to the effort of the year ahead...
...in spreading scientific and social information...
...Circumstances enabled him to study the largest and sturdiest share of the nation's citizens the whole situation at first hand...
...The Catholic Industrial Conference has earned at the program that has been arranged-the topics an excellent reputation for frank and informative dis- selected for the addresses, the type of the men who cussion of the major economic and social problems...
...When all he carried on valiantly even when he was practically those who have faith in its teaching assist its enwithout assistance...
...Therefore conditions and their possible amelioration...
...In some ally on the wane...
...During recent years, for inencyclical on the condition of labor...
...fourth of which is about to be held...
...And they are quite right...
...In various ways, the wealthy and the poor, much work needs to be done...
...The so much to build up a spirit of reconciliation between Conference will therefore listen to what is being done those who have and those who have not...
...meet in Philadelphia during the three days following Throughout the land this resurgence is betokened and November 12...
...THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs...
...Here we shall quote from country districts...
...The convention multiplicity of the aspects through which the Universal of the National Federation of Catholic Alumnae, held Church presents itself sometimes bewilders Catholics with brilliant success at St...
...and ready aid...
...It indicates how new this conference ness of two among the assemblages we have enumer- idea is...
...Recent storms farmers' institutes and experimental stations is actuand floods have done immeasurable damage...
...People are not sufficiently interinstances, entire communities were practically wiped ested in them to justify the expenditure...
...Let us stress the Consider, for example, the meaning and effective- numeral fourth...
...Only a of which Catholic action can derive strength and in- very few human beings are so constituted, however, spiration...
...It was axio- economic dissatisfaction, by a shallow materialism matic with him that rural economic problems were which is forever constructing its standards out of a not merely hard nuts to crack theoretically, but human crass vision of city flesh-pots, and by a real dearth of concerns, a proper handling of which was imposed human quality, remedial agencies must be developed by moral duty...
...The relaxation of the summer is over...
...and there shall appear a new springtime...
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