Communications
244 THE COMMONWEAL JULY 7, 1926 The American...
...On the other hand, the VedenBe praise for all thy beauty, skyites are very active, indeed...
...He was the honite bishop told me that about one-third of the faithful adonly Catholic priest ever elected chaplain of the United States hered to Vedensky...
...and that they are canonically recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople-as the Concordat bishops were sanctioned by (Reverend Charles Constantine Pise was born at Annapolis, Pius VII...
...244 THE COMMONWEAL JULY 7, 1926 The American Flag COMMUNICATIONS They say I do not love thee, TRUSSIA LOSES HER MONASTERIES Flag of my native land...
...Mary's in Emmitsburg, served in made up of 200 bishops, 17,000 priests, 6o,ooo parish churches, Saint Peter's Church of New York City, and died as pastor of and a quarter of all the Russian Orthodox faithful...
...Thou Labarum of light, "Very different from the three Red churches are the VedenWhile in our generous chorus skyite Synodist `Renovators.' This body calls itself simply Our vows to thee we plight...
...They have constituted On thee, blest flag, to trample ! themselves into what the Bolsheviks call the `Living Church of Christ,' an assemblage of men who see in the church only They say that bolts of thunder, a career and a means of living, and who are but too ready Cast in the forge of Rome, to help the Soviets in their destruction of faith in God...
...The Vedenskyites are Jesuits, taught at Mount St...
...He was ordained priest in 1825, studied with the they fight its irreligious propaganda...
...May rise and bring thee under, To me, these remarks seem altogether too sweepingly slipFlag of my native home...
...Newport, R. I. Whose meteor folds above me, O the Editor:-Princess Radziwill (Russia Loses Her To the free breeze expand ; Monasteries, The Commonweal, June 16, 1926) writes: Thy broad stripes proudly streaming, "At one stroke, the Bolsheviks have done away with monasAnd thy stars so brightly gleaming...
...tifical Oriental Institute, Rome, attended the Third National False are the words they utter, Council of Russian Orthodox Churches, which sat in Moscow Ungenerous their brand...
...they are opposed to the TykhonThy grandeur and thy fame...
...today there are more than five hunThen wave, thou first of banners, dred churchmen who have really and validly received bishops' And in thy gentle shade, orders...
...To top all this confusion, the Panukrainian OrthoBeliefs, opinions, manners, dox Church, in southern Russia, is governed by a numerous Promiscuously be laid ; hierarchy, the organizer and first metropolitan of which was And there, all discord ended, unepiscopally consecrated at the hands of his priests and laity...
...who have repudiated the validity of Holy Orders conferred That, recreant, I should make thee according to the old canons of the Eastern church, and ignored Crouch to some foreign power...
...reactionary like the Tykhonites nor blasphemous like the Reds, CHARLES CONSTANTINE PISS (I8oi-1866...
...Czarist Russia had only Mine should be raised to guard thee...
...Against his "the father of Catholic poetry in America...
...His works are scholarly, and he has been justly termed consecrated a number of married priests...
...Maryland...
...bishops of 18o1...
...teries, and monks...
...They do not discuss the Bolshevist government...
...But ever have I reckoned "In order better to wage war, the various rival Orthodoxies Thine, native flag, my second...
...The Vedenskyites assert that they are not My native land forever...
...Therefore, so far as ecclesiastical jurisdiction over souls in Stream on, stream on before us, Russia is concerned, utter disorder reigns...
...shod...
...The most numerous group is the Tykhonite...
...the ancient rule which required bishops to take vows of eterSeduced by license ample, nal chastity, poverty, and obedience...
...a few hundred bishops (diocesan and auxiliary) for nearly seventy Orthodox dioceses...
...Vedensky's weakness consists in having Senate...
...ligieux de Moscow en Octobre, 1925) Whilst, still, in hope above me, "I tried to meet the heads of the different religious groups Thou wavest-and I love thee ! in Russia...
...The And with one blow dissever Reverend Michael d'Herbigny, S.J., President of the PonMy heart from thee forever...
...ites and to the Reds...
...The bodies that merit the name of 'Red'-the Living Church, God is my love's first duty, the Church of the New Birth, the Old Apostolic ChurchTo whose eternal Name are dying or already dead...
...from October I to Io, 1925...
...Moreover, each party has made many new Would touch thee or endanger...
...Orthodox' and may be compared with the French Concordat Unfaithful to thee-never...
...These enemy hierarchies-in order yet better to strengthen Flag of my native land themselves-have surrounded metropolitans and archbishops Though some would fain discard thee, with numerous auxiliary vicar-bishops...
...sees...
...success a serious obstacle has arisen...
...A TykSaint Charles Borromeo's, Brooklyn, New York...
...Our hearts and souls be blended...
...They are unfair to many Vedenskyite churchmen...
...The Tykhonite Orthodox...
...Following is a translation of And rash the oaths they mutter, some extracts from Pere d'Herbigny's report (L'Aspect ReFlag of my native land...
...The Editors...
...vie with each other in creating new bishops...
...suppressed bishops and metropolitans, reThey say I would forsake thee, placing the latter with degenerate members of the White clergy Should some dark crisis lower...
...Every ancient Woe to the foe or stranger see is claimed by two contending titulars, often by three, someWhose sacrilegious hand times by four...
Vol. 4 • July 1926 • No. 9
