At the Wedding (verse)
Sandoz, Paul
May26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 69 from Germany an indemnity of 2,ooo milliards of individual rights and...
...and temporal spheres, had flung themselves into the He will probably be surprised to learn that the political arena to combat everything that Americans views which I have propounded are, even today, the legitimately love and esteem...
...Maurras and ity, but with no shame at all...
...Let us affirmation in the second volume of my Enseignement suppose for an instant that Calvert, Carroll, Ireland, Social de Jesus, and still more in volumes four and and, above all, the immortal Cardinal Gibbons, in- five, which have just appeared, and in which I treat stead of inspiring and observing a policy of gradual the entire question of justice from the point of view adaptation, prudence, and separation of the spiritual of the Gospels...
...need is for pressmen of live ideas and tenacious will...
...Coleman will find abundant proofs of my chariot wheels of their political adventures...
...Results will depend above by Mr...
...It is right that we should at all costs strive like a blackberry vine to save that religion, so marvelous an instrument of in blossom...
...It would who possibly make less noise than 1 'Action Franbe what it is in France...
...I am one of those fanatics...
...Unhappily, when they Coleman's master, as absolutely irreconcilable with abandon them, they leave without any defense in the Catholic doctrine-indeed, as its antagonist...
...And this situation would caise, that hollow engine of brass, braying in the midst have been its reward from the day it chose to abandon of a nation "en bloc"-I speak of the group of the the sane path which Gibbons had marked out...
...wisely and well, a vast majority, perhaps not yet of I have already written at some length, but I can- voters, but of sympathizers, will be won by them and not conclude without referring to one insinuation made will support their efforts...
...May26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 69 from Germany an indemnity of 2,ooo milliards of individual rights and liberty, are eminently safefrancs in gold, coupled with what was, in fact, a system guarded...
...One of their cluding unhappily two or three priests) who seemed great needs is an adequate press...
...Under empt her authority on behalf of his own shameless their influence La Croix has succeeded in familiarizing disrespect for the individual...
...A democrat rather for rational aspects of the question, which will be written for The Commonthan sentimental reasons, ignorant even whether I weal by ,bbe Felix Klein.-The Editors...
...He states that "these same things all things upon the measure in which they have made were said twenty years ago, with much garbling of their progress, definite and conscientious, and on the quotations, by some fanatics on the other side (in- education of the public by printed word...
...But I declare solemnly that, in my sense and Christian sentiment in that country made eyes, religious peace and the possible realization of short work of their propaganda...
...Common join any of them...
...What would be the views of two or three groups of Catholic democrats, situation of the Church in America today...
...If they play their part loo representative Catholics...
...headed by Marc Sangnier, which has an undeniable This, though Mr...
...All I desire for them are Passlecq, an eminent lawyer and Catholic, of Brussels, clearer and more precise views on these possibilities and the enquiry upon Maurrasism carried out among and the way to realize them...
...Other admirers up to the present, have never seen my way clear to have attempted the same task in Belgium...
...of the group of La Jeune Democrate, and prestige which this great churchman won for it...
...nation the cause which these men have bound to the Mr...
...Coleman may fail to recognize influence on the French masses...
...In this connection, the rights of belief in France, depend on the triumph I would urge him to read a pamphlet written by M. of the Catholic Democrats...
...If there be one formidits rather special public, with a watered edition of able and authentic legacy of Judaeo-Christian civilithe immoral nationalism of Maurras and Bainville...
...zation, it is respect for the individual...
...checks and balances," by which order and authority, PAUL SANDOZ...
...Not only has the "bloc na- others do not excuse Maurras for amputating the tional" fallen under their tutelage, to its own undoing, Church from the Gospel, for presenting her as the but they have drawn into the orbit of their ignorance inveterate enemy of democracy, and seeking to preand passions the majority of French Catholics...
...I have At the Wedding even reproached certain groups with having made the A lean old lady connection between Catholicism and democracy too wears white, inherent...
...Coleman...
...But one thing I am Daudet, will be followed shortly by an article giving other justified in saying...
...I avow it with all humil- (This view of policies attributed to MM...
...faces from men like these...
...It is more than doubt- Democrate, of Paris, nor the elite which is ranged ful that he renders America and his coreligionaries a under the banners of the Semaines Sociales...
...From this Is it surprising to see the French masses turn their point of view I hold the doctrine of Maurras, Mr...
...But a still greater to place their democracy before their Catholicism...
...service in holding up the doctrines of Maurras for I stand quite apart from all of these groups, and, their acceptance and admiration...
...Today, Petit Democrate, who count fifteen deputies among on the contrary, it enjoys full liberty, and the respect their number...
...should be classed as a French Royalist or a French Republican, I nevertheless assert that I have never in my life placed democracy before Catholicism...
...But the errors of Lamennais and a few of perpetual servitude...
...I do not forget the it, is the sole question at issue...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 3
