Communications
June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 157 Ward's famous method. What these children did in the...
...May I be permitted a Sixth, Mr...
...I shall pass over the interesting journal from its first number, I beg to say prejudice of ignorance...
...Studite drew up constitutions, not a new rule...
...fined and thoroughly Catholic...
...was so far in advance of what everyday experience provides If religious oppression were so severe in one country as to that we could make a story about it and nothing else...
...big cities like Montreal and Quebec there are excellent adult Hence, although intervention often ends in war and is somechoirs, and it is not unusual to go into a large church in these times really war from the commencement, it may conveniently cities and hear hundreds of children singing Gregorian Vespers be considered abstractedly from the pacific or belligerent charalmost by heart...
...and that there is a large number of AngliT UNIATS AND THEIR RITES cans who find the word as applied to them offensive and misAbergavenny, Wales...
...leading...
...But may it not be that, also among that I appreciate your fair and friendly spirit in dealing, as the intelligent, inherited or acquired misunderstanding, distrust, you must from time to time, with controversial matters...
...fully entitled to his opinion, and I do not call it a false As greatly as Catholics may take pride in that dignified and one, for I think that he is merely expressing, for the purpose statesmanlike document just so earnestly may they deplore ill- of clarifying the public mind, a personal thought on a subject advised and undignified attempts by some groups to make of with the practical difficulties of which the evidence does not this matter a domestic political issue in the United States...
...Gaselee's rather silly pamphlet on It seems to many people today an important and desirable The Uniats and Their Rites, Mr...
...take...
...know that in Halifax and Kingston good progress has been "The treaties having for their object to secure the peacemade...
...it was of the same type as scores in England and Cardinal Gibbons once said that what we Catholics need hundreds in the States, and of a sort much favored by Orienis an abiding faith in the good intentions of our non-Catholic tals...
...My purpose in writing has been to entirely justified...
...heretofore to study them, I collide-not with those to whom All of this was expressed more briefly and more simply, I my remarks were addressed, but with one of that group of clerical gentlemen in Washington who so ably represent a think, in my communication to The Commonweal of May 5, with which several gentlemen have disagreed so strongly...
...America, if they are asking anything of the American governIt is the rule and not the exception in the rural parishes of ment, are asking for intervention...
...Fourth, there is a Roman Catholic patriarch of Antioch JOHN ALDIS...
...cathedra" there, all three Uniat patriarchs of Antioch are O the Editor.-Mr...
...leaders...
...tative writers on international law...
...To emphasize the existence of anti-Catholic prejudice is a mis- Lenox, Mass...
...They sang in unison and to alleviate the situation would be through an attempt to reach in two- and three-part harmony...
...That the which concern the religion of foreigners not its subjects...
...cannot escape being hostile in its nature, for the reason...
...the Melchites are only Byzantine "intruders...
...foremost adult choirs...
...William Franklin Sands's courteous true governing patriarchs and not titular, as Mr...
...stretched...
...Louis, Mo...
...if we are not making excuses for our own mediocrity when we Since he has thus openly entered the field of diplomacy, continually harp about discrimination against Catholics in however, he will surely not take amiss a brief trespass on my American life...
...where influence is concerned...
...slack ecclesiastical discipline...
...Washington, D. C. FAITH IN PROTESTANT TOLERANCE TO the Editor-Dr...
...Because we but constantly...
...The colleges and high schools of Quebec acter which it assumes in different cases...
...Mr...
...and does not imply on your part the faintest done so, may an unlearned person be allowed to point recognition of our claims...
...CHARLES B. LARGAN, S.J...
...June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 159 When we return to that high standard we shall find that cope, but a phelonion...
...give more time to the study of Latin and Church music than So much for intervention in general, and Catholics in does the average Catholic college in other parts of Canada...
...He sets it down as "false" in the particular case of Revolution than now...
...LATTA GRISWOLD...
...June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 157 Ward's famous method...
...principle, we avoid even in casual allusion expressions that Second, the illustrations, so far as I remember, were of are distasteful to each other...
...Phillemore upholds among the arguable causes of intervention I have reason to believe, too, that before another generation that of "religious grounds" and has this to say: "The pracpasses in our English-speaking dioceses, we shall see equally tice (if it can be called such) of intervention of one Christian edifying traditions established...
...The composers represented were Hamma, for the purpose of either maintaining or altering the actual Nikel, Gabrieli, Attwood, Byrd, Caesar Franck, Palestrina, condition of things within it...
...i.e., of the Latin rite) ; it is a titular dignity and the holder resides in Rome...
...that Tyrannical conduct of a government toward its subjects, mas- it is of necessity an invasion of the sovereignty of the nation sacres and brutality in a civil war, and religious persecution upon which pressure is exerted, such an act bearing within are acts which have nothing to do directly or indirectly with itself the seed of war if the party of the second part resents the such relations...
...The choirs feres in the relations of two other states without the consent that took part sang as trained choruses might be expected to of both or either of them, or when it interferes in the domestic sing, with good taste, pure tones, correct technique, and fine affairs of another state irrespectively of the will of the latter interpretation...
...some of the special grounds upon which intervention effected If I may be permitted to say so here, I think it is under its sanction is based are not easily distinguishable in rather a pity that in urging in this matter prudent consideraprinciple from others which modern opinion has branded as tion of first principles upon those who may have had no reason unwarrantable...
...Hall, another accepted authority has, in part, this to say The evening festival was equally an artistic success...
...prove that he is acquainted...
...most...
...But it is wrong is your opinion, and since the word "Protestant" occurs in the to assume that the fault is entirely our own...
...Writing of this demonstration as it deavored to ensure religious liberty to the citizens of Mexico was given in Toronto at the Saint Gregory Convention in by treaty stipulation...
...This they did government") "several of our Secretaries of State have encorrectly and nicely...
...ment in this matter, and I think they have taken the only Dr...
...Sands that I do Seventh, certainly the ordination of married men, "picture understand the type of American Catholic that we would have screens," beards and long hair are not essentials of Byzantine act as a leaven in our present and future civilization and cul- or any other form of Christianity...
...too many "yes" men for our own good...
...Ryan seems to disagree with both...
...that numerical preponderance and the submitted facts of history are basic factors that will always enter into any discussion DONALD ATTWATER...
...had such men as the three Carrolls, the two Burkes, Thomas Does he really not see that the two things may coexist...
...The priest surely was wearing, not a REV...
...We have had legal title of the church to which you refer, you are technically handicaps and still have...
...May, 1924, the Toronto Telegram praised it in these words: The two things are not only not incompatible, but are "The work of the eleven young singers from New York actually complementary...
...ment, treaty ; or, second, by constructive war-that is, by Hall says also in this regard : "International law professes pressure, by some act which, no matter how pure its motive, to concern itself only with the relations of states to each other...
...French-Canada to have High Mass every morning of the year, Now for the arguable causes for intervention: With a and always there is at least one man-perhaps a baker or a large number of authorities against him Sir Robert Joseph butcher-who sings quite well the ordinary and the proper...
...fellow countrymen...
...Saint Theodore and influence of Catholics in America...
...Our influence in a religious, cultural, and civic way cjuld In your recent appreciative comment on the Seamen's and should be more far-reaching and penetrating...
...gram...
...Note that he derives the force from treaties, not we have not complete information from other centres, but we from fundamental right...
...as unchaste...
...That undoubtedly may disclose just wherein we are to blame...
...Apparently on one only, if, indeed, It may be, since we have attempted to bargain with Mexico it be competent to take cognizance of them at all...
...James H. Ryan returns to the charge, St...
...inconsistent with the character of a moral being as to constitute If we come to that I want it clear what we are doing, for, a public scandal which the body of states, or one or more not only as a diplomat by profession, but also as a responsible . states as representative of it, are competent to suppress...
...very false" the principle or convention that a government has The really big men produced by the Church in this country no right to intervene on the ground of spiritual matters as be- rose to the highest positions because they were best fitted to tween another government and that other government's own hold them...
...the native church of Palestine, the rite, so to speak, of our We have altogether too many "false alarms" posing as Lord...
...and yet if we will but scan the pages Mexico, "because our government, since the days of President of history for a moment we shall find that at that time CathoWilson, has directly and immediately concerned itself with lics had representation in the counsels of the nation altogether religious and educational matters in Mexico, and this, not once, out of proportion to their numbers...
...What these children did in the line of sight singing was of such an excellence that we would be COMMUNICATIONS safe in challenging 9o percent of our professional musicians T MR...
...And why...
...That it is Church Institute you use this phrase: "The church that it is not we Catholics are in measure to blame, and frank discussion connected with is, of course, Protestant...
...We beg pardon that treaties...
...I understand that this type should be learned and re- the highest value to those who have them...
...Let us search our hearts and ask ourselves that implication in his two letters...
...however, that in what I also have said on the same subject I am in full agreement with both matter and form of that letter, The bishops who signed that letter (which should stand as as I am with those authorities on international law, whom I a model) were perfectly conscious of the limitations of govern- have quoted...
...He sets down as from Erin, confessors for our faith...
...The young priests going out from our seminaries and able profession of religion are of two kinds: first, those which the religious from our novitiates, have zeal for this reform...
...F. A. Casey (May 26) asks two perThey composed an original two-part piece from a given theme tinent questions concerning my reference to certain prinand sang it immediately at sight...
...SANDS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW to duplicate it...
...But, after all, these ought to be Syrians...
...Sands says that I lay stress on numbers...
...Orlando di Lasso, Shuetky, Perruchot, and Kalinnikof...
...offer them for consideration, not to stress them unduly...
...Sands thinks I emphasize bigotry and prejudice...
...Sim Lee, the Brents, Barry, Moylan, Meade, and FitzSimons...
...T CIVIC PROMINENCE AND CATHOLICS Fifth, though no one of them lives at Antioch or has his St...
...arouse general indignation among the citizens of a neighbor"If we called it angelic in its sweetness, simplicity, purity, and ing country, the only proper means for these latter to attempt earnestness we would not exaggerate...
...Of course, while saying all this, I am Third, "the Maronites and Syrians ought to he Melchites...
...The of intervention: "Intervention takes place when a state interdemonstration of the Ward method was repeated...
...First of all, let me hasten to assure Mr...
...and more than* ever to my surprise, for he is charging, not TO the Editor:-I am in thorough accord with the sentime, but the body of international law and custom which (I ments expressed by Mr...
...Regarded from the point of view of the state intruded upon I have been asked by The Commonweal to add a few words it must always remain an act which, if not consented to, is an about the movement in Canada generally...
...Gregorian numbers were sung with impressive effect...
...The private citizen, I like to weigh the consequences of my actssupposition strains the fiction that states which are under inter- and I have seen war...
...I did not Ninth, "the nearest living relative of the pre-Reformation intend to stress numbers merely as numbers but to make clear rite (sic) of Catholic England is" not the present Roman Missal, but the Dominican use of the Roman rite...
...take cognizance of them...
...Do you not think it may help to that Certainly it is disliked in the East, but it is a convenient term, end if on both sides, so long as we do not compromise with understood and received in the West...
...underlying broad principle of usage between nations being "These may all be enumerated as instances of Roman what it is (a governing principle in the conduct of nation to Catholic intervention in behalf of Roman Catholic subjects in nation, the existence of which his simple denial does not countries ceded to Protestant sovereigns-an intervention which, abolish) there is no way for one government to intervene with it should be remembered, was almost invariably invoked by another in such a matter except : first, by bargaining, agreethe inhabitants within the country...
...London, Bishop O'Brien of Peterborough, Bishop McNally of The abstract principle of this kind of intervention has derived Hamilton, Bishop Ryan of Pembroke, Archbishop Sinnott of practical force from being embodied in various important Winnipeg, and Bishop Kidd of Calgary...
...There and even bias prevent at times a more generous bestowal of is a small but not unimportant point, I venture to point out preferments and the attainment of positions of influence in to you, to which that fairness and friendliness might be every circle...
...Nevertheless, its position in law is somewhat equivocal...
...He is, of course, possible action...
...On what ground, then, can international law interference...
...A pleasant episode in their ciples of international law (May 5) and the reasons why, if demonstration was when one of their number wrote an orig- my statement is correct (that "our government, as a broad inal melody on the blackboard and the thousands of Toronto principle, has nothing whatever to do with the question of children in the audience were asked to show their resources rights of Mexicans in spiritual matters as against their own in the Ward method by singing it at sight...
...Gray states, rejoinder to my communication published on May 5 in The of the Maronite and Syrian patriarchs...
...From the point of view of the intervening power speaking provinces, I can only say that the traditions of it . . . is a measure of prevention, or police, undertaken Gregorian chant there are far in advance of our own...
...Anglican or Episcopalian is far more accurate a deO the Editor:-If others more qualified have not already scription of us...
...William Franklin Sands in your beg to assure him again) I did not invent, flattering as may be issue of May I9...
...It may and failed, that we shall be forced to exert pressure in some be supposed to declare that acts of the kind mentioned are so of "the hundred ways" with which, he suggests, I am familiar...
...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...ing of each other, and that can only be done as ignorance and First, Mr...
...Moreover, the production of Eighth, 96 percent of the Ruthenian and 94 percent of this highly desirable type must ever claim the best efforts of the Catholic Rumanian secular clergy are married ; have they our educators...
...It could scarcely, indeed, have had any earlier origin...
...0 the Editor:-Mr...
...As for the French- act of war...
...Commonweal, was read with interest...
...THE SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE This was not my intention, and I stated so in my letter...
...prejudice are dispelled...
...not so blind as to ignore the fact that many people in this If one is going to talk in so undesirable a way, "the Melchites country actually dislike and fear us...
...West Syrian Uniats...
...L. Maynard Gray has him- thing that our communions should come to a better understandself tripped...
...Worthy "Prima facie, intervention is a hostile act, because it conof special notice is the fact that Gregorian chant, falso-bor- stitutes an attack upon the independence of the state subjected done, and classic polyphony figured prominently on the pro- to it...
...Let us get over the notion that the American part upon his own particular territory with a plea as strong Catholic Church is an Irish sect, and that we are all exiles as I can make it for at least a "distinguo...
...concern the exercise of religion of native subjects of the inter158 THE COMMONWEAL June i6, 1926 vening state commorant in a foreign land...
...and, second, those That they are not contradictory but complementary...
...But then you know, Sir, quite as well as I do, that the Protestantism of the Anglican churches differs in deREV...
...Again, Mr...
...to say that prejudice against Catholics, precisely as Catho- O the Editor:-As a constant reader of your able and lics, does not exist is also a mistake...
...For the West Syrian Uniats represent people are but a handful...
...We cannot ignore first principles and national law form a kind of society, to an extreme point, and hope for sound procedure...
...The altar was not so much unrubrical nothing can stop us in our career...
...Its large part of the hierarchy through the National Catholic Welimplications will be found also in a letter addressed to Presi- fare Conference, and who have just made public a letter addent Coolidge by the administrative committee of the National dressed to President Coolidge by that group of bishops presenting their views on the Mexican situation...
...out that, in criticising Mr...
...The Ward method has been introduced in the ground of religion dates from the period of the Reformatheir respective dioceses by their Lordships Bishop Fallon of tion...
...But they are customs of ture...
...gree and in kind from that of the Christian bodies the word generally connotes...
...In their renditions of sacred polyphony by Ravanello, Pales- John Bassett Moore's Digest of International Law, Volume trina, etc., they showed a command of phrasing, dynamics, and VI, is entirely devoted in its 1,037 pages to some aspect or ease of technique that we have never seen equaled by even the other of this problem of intervention...
...They sang Gregorian `tunes' a treaty agreement on the subject, since no other valid ground whose rhythms had no square-cut corners, but were floating for intervention exists in the opinion of the majority of authoristrands of melody that you felt as plainly as you heard...
...I am happy to note, Catholic Welfare Conference which has been made public since my article...
...Gaselee is justified in using the word "Uniat...
...They sang, unaccompanied, all kinds of un- Washington, D. C. related intervals from the chromatic scale during a few minutes...
...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...Gaselee is right in saying that "there is only few lines to clarify my previous statement anent the position one monastic rule in the East, the Basilian...
...Louis, Mo...
...Much has been done in the state on behalf of the subjects of another Christian state upon last five years...
...subjects (its own nationals, however called, within its jurisdic- There was much more bigotry during the period of the tion...
...In the sometimes for the express purpose of avoiding war...
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