Brother and Sister (verse)
Stork, Charles Wharton
182 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 and if there existed between these two powers some Rome will need it. In...
...In many parliaments the Cathoofficial relations...
...Surely he'll cast a glance force as considerable as that of the Church...
...Where she is hid by the grimy curtain...
...national organization could venture to dispense with But Catholics themselves cannot forget this insult it for any length of time...
...It may be possible to consider, for The chorus echoes along the street instance, direct diplomatic relations between the Holy As the banners flutter...
...182 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 and if there existed between these two powers some Rome will need it...
...bition they manifest today...
...it will wait for that League would do more damage to the latter than to body to make the first step toward it, with the pa- the Church...
...is possible, and what already has been done for the The idea that the Holy See could be a member of representation and the defense of Catholic interests the League of Nations with the same title and with under the League of Nations...
...We know how much Viscount Cecil had been im- But he turns away, as it seems by chance, pressed, coming back from the United States in 1923, To pass with the others, his face averting...
...She knows her brother's See and the League of Nations, and the right of the High voice outringing so clear and sweet Holy See to send to Geneva pontifical delegates when- In tones that soar above all the others...
...That is also why many Catho- ties, to represent and to defend the Catholic interest lics, as, for instance, Reverend de la Briere, have been in that body...
...She should have feigned Church itself...
...From depend upon the private initiative of Catholics, at this, moreover, derives the principal reason of the their risk and peril, and under their own responsibilcoldness which the majority of Catholics still manifest ity, without engaging that of the ecclesiastical authoritoward the League...
...The question While she hears the notes of the glad refrain has therefore been adjourned-but only adjourned, About truth and spring far away subsiding...
...the outside, and only in questions concerning Catholicism or morals...
...But since that time, political events That she did not expect him to show he knew her...
...The League of Nations having of the credit and should leave the League, the latter ignored the Holy See, and still ignoring it, the Holy would be in very bad condition...
...This demonstration See can only ignore the League of Nations-since it is purely theoretical because it is very doubtful that is above the League of Nations, as eternity is above such a case may present itself, but it suffices to make time...
...in France and elsewhere have given to laicism and to His comrades maybe would not have refrained anti-clericalism the new life and recrudescence of am- From ribald jokes had he spoken to her...
...to the Papacy, nor are they satisfied with the present But as long as there do not exist any official relasituation...
...studying how official relations may be established be- In a further article, I shall attempt to show how this tween the Holy See and the League of Nations...
...by the powerful organization of the American Catholics, which had revealed to him the power of the He couldn't have nodded...
...They fill each corner and whirl in her soul, At that time, the League was weaker than it is now, As with a sunbeam the motes shine rich in...
...The moral authority of the Church is tience of a divine institution for which time does not not of such a nature that a young and feeble intermatter...
...If two or three European countries, even if Church the respect that is shown it by the govern- they are of little importance, should refuse their share ment of Mussolini...
...ever the participation of the Papacy is desired, either There are words about spring in the songs that roll by it or by the League...
...Furthermore, the gov- Her worn hands fall to their task again, ernments themselves seem better to understand the And she fights with the sobs her breast is hiding, importance of the League of Nations...
...At any rate, the Holy See will never take the us realize that a conflict between Catholics and the first step toward the League...
...That is why they never cease to speak on tions between the Holy See and the League, it will every occasion against this political exclusivism...
...In fact, one no longer visualizes the Brother and Sister Papacy taking part in purely political or economic (Translated from the Swedish of Albert Ulrik Baath) litigations, compromising itself in all the questions It's certain she still feels big somehow, which the League is more or less obliged to settle...
...Although but a drudge in a kitchen slaving, The Holy See can only enter into communication with As she sees on her only brother's brow the League as a superior with an inferior, and from The white student's cap he looks so brave in...
...and therefore had more need of conciliating a moral That's he now...
...A solution of this kind would Where she stands by a misty pane of the kitchen...
...because the League will always need Rome more than CHARLES WHARTON STORK...
...the same rights as the other states, has now been abandoned...
...Unfortunately (more for the lics form numerous and influential parties, very League of Nations than for the Holy See) the latter strongly organized, which could unite themselves with was kept away from the League of Nations by the adversaries of the League for the purpose of refusing veto of an Italy which had not yet had the crucifixes the annual credits which sustain the institution in replaced in the schools, nor manifested toward the Geneva...
...have been possible even two or three years ago...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 7
