Communications
COMMUNICATIONS MARYLAND OBSERVANCE Albany, N. Y. MY dear Mr. Williams:-It is a fine thing that The Calvert Associates are to hold this meeting in memory of the establishment of the principle of...
...New York, N. Y. MY dear Mr...
...There can be no higher civic duty than the maintenance of religious liberty, and America is fortunate in having an organization whose purpose it is to keep it alive...
...I am wondering whether Dom Gray has not given us this quotation with rather more than a hint of mischievous delight...
...They said it was strange and suspicious that there should be a series of similar attacks on Russia from the heads of churches in Italy, England, France and Germany at the same time...
...Sometimes the innocent must be executed in order that the guilty may not escape...
...Edward M. House...
...Around the Church we see, not angels of God, guarding its portals, but gendarmes and police inspectors, upholding Orthodoxy and directing our consciences...
...London Free Press, February 18, 1930...
...Have conditions changed much in Russia since 1889...
...Liberty will have on all these temperaments the effect which a strong wine has on a man unaccustomed to it...
...It is stark masculine egotism...
...For a long time the Pope has had dreams of Catholicizing our Church, which, being firm in its attitude toward Catholicism as a false teaching, could never connect itself in any manner with Rome...
...Happily, and following Thomas Jefferson's influence and action in the neighboring state of Virginia, the declaration of religious liberty as a fundamental principle of our country's life was placed in the very forefront of the Bill of Rights, which is the corner-stone of our whole national structure...
...Nicholas Murray Butler...
...Williams:-If I were in New York I should feel it a privilege to share in the celebration of the founding of Maryland...
...I can only say that in preparing the list the same process and means were followed in regard to Catholic schools as in the case of other schools...
...This ex-Metropolitan of Kieff was not only the most popular candidate for the patriarchal chair at the time Tykhon was chosen by the blind monk, but had openly supported the claim of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch to the throne of autocrat of all the Russias...
...Authority is one thing and atheistic propaganda quite another...
...I may say that a brief questionnaire was mailed to eighteen Catholic schools, and that replies were received from only five...
...Williams:-It is a fine thing that The Calvert Associates are to hold this meeting in memory of the establishment of the principle of religious liberty in America...
...Cannes, France...
...My conclusion was that the others were not high schools...
...It seemed to me it would be a very interesting quest to peer at Aristotle and Plato through his lenses and to venture into the field of his Catholic philosophy...
...Since I joined the Catholic Church, my sole object has been to reconcile my country with that Church, which I believe to be the one true Church...
...Even the Russian Orthodox John Aksakov could foretell the fall of the Russian erastianism: "A church that forms a department of the state, of a kingdom of this world, and wishes to be nothing more, has been false to its mission, and must share the fate of all kingdoms of this world...
...If we believe what is said in the holy Scriptures that all power comes from God, then as a Catholic priest I must admit that this your power also comes from God and perhaps it is sent us as a punishment for our sins...
...The health-giving breath of the spirit of truth, the spirit of charity, the spirit of freedom, and the spirit of life is lacking in the Russian Church...
...Members of the Patriarchal Holy Synod also rebuked the archbishop of Canterbury for his statement about the Russian government's alleged persecution of religion...
...Some time previously Patriarch Tykhon had rebuked Metropolitan Anthony Krapovitsky for his monarchist politics...
...RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:-In a Moscow despatch sent to the London, Ontario, Free Press, and dated February 17, members of the Holy Synod of Metropolitan Serge (patriarchal locum tenens of the Russian Orthodox Church) are reported to have said: "The Pope considers himself the Vicar of Christ, but Christ suffered for the oppressed and down-trodden, whereas the Pope in his declaration proved himself to be in the same camp with the English landowners and the Franco-Italian money-bags...
...I can hear our grandmothers sniffing for centuries back...
...That this attitude toward the West is in accordance with the intentions of Patriarch Tykhon, who died in Moscow in 1925, may be proved from the last testament of the Patriarch...
...NEGRO EDUCATION Charlottesville, Va...
...Might it not be that the women of his day had need of the "wisdom of the serpent" so that the lords of creation might not discover their ladies were but the mirrors which gave them back the image they desired to behold-the weak and clinging vine encircling the sturdy oak...
...Williams:-One of the precious and outstanding events in the history of our American social and political order is the declaration and policy of religious liberty which accompanied the settlement of the state of Maryland...
...After reading the article I think the criticism is just...
...Baltimore, Md...
...The proposed expansion at the institution seems to me to deserve abundant support...
...Metropolitan Anthony's politics have caused trouble for Russians in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, in Yugoslavia, and in Carpatho-Russia...
...John G. Agar's comment on my recent article, Negro Education, permit me to call Mr...
...The abomination of desolation reigns in holy places...
...Unhappily, however, while this principle, so fundamental and so beneficent, is securely embedded in our public law, it is anything but universally dominant in the minds and conduct of large numbers of our people...
...The General Education Board has also made conditional offers and the Rosen-wald Fund has contributed...
...The sight alone of this liberty will intoxicate those who have not yet taken part in it...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Were Saint Thomas one of our influential solons of today we might have a prohibition law just for women and children...
...Quatre Chapitres Inedits sur la Rus-sie, page 26...
...I am now convinced this good and saintly teacher had his limitations, to say the least...
...If with this general disposition of he popular mind here should appear some university Pugachev-for such a one can easily be formed in Russia, where all the necessary conditions exist [Lenin?]-then, according to all the rules of probability, the state will be literally broken asunder...
...It is, therefore, "quite accurate to say absolutely: 'Their charities are the only worthwhile constructive efforts put forth by individual Catholics for the education of the Negroes.'" Rev...
...TO the Editor:-In spite of the criticism of the reference list of Negro schools published by the Slater Fund I read with much satisfaction and interest the article by Father Gil-lard in the issue of February 12...
...That He may aid them in battle and subdue under their feet every foe and adversary, let us pray to the Lord...
...Agar's attention to the fact that I stated: "Their charities [Mother Katharine's and Mrs...
...Every effort will be made to remedy the unintentional wrong impression conveyed by the omission of Catholic schools which should have been included...
...Within a few days we shall issue a special appeal to believers in which we shall discuss these new attempts of the Pope to spread Catholicism among Orthodox Christians in such an indefensible manner...
...The distinction was not an "inadvertence" on my part-it was quite intentional...
...D. Bede Gray, Obl., O. S. B. SAINT THOMAS AND TEMPERANCE Chicago, 111...
...Sobriety is most requisite in women and children...
...It must be borne in mind that two of the petitions of the opening litany of the Byzantine liturgy read as follows: "In peace let us pray to the Lord...
...I have often spoken at meetings in Petro-grad where politics were excluded, and no one present could be found to accuse me of having even touched on politics in my speeches...
...But my respect and confidence have been rudely jolted upon reading the quotation from Summa Theo-logica given by Dom Bede Gray in The Commonweal of March 12...
...President of the Slater Fund and the Jeanes Fund...
...Morrel's] are the only worthwhile constructive efforts put forth by individual Catholics for the education of Negroes...
...I should also like to add that I recently visited Xavier University, in New Orleans, and was very greatly pleased with all I saw and heard there...
...Agar takes exception to the accuracy of the statement...
...There could perhaps be no better proof of the need of the publication to which Father Gillard refers as soon to be issued...
...Thus exposed, without preparation, they will pass rapidly and infallibly from superstition to atheism, from passive obedience to unbridled activity...
...TO the Editor:-Referring to Mr...
...In it, after making a lively attack on Catholics, the last Patriarch of Moscow counseled all Russian Orthodox Christians to submit themselves respectfully to the Soviet government...
...He says: "Surely the group of men who are interested in the work of the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, at Ridge, Maryland, are putting forth constructive efforts in behalf of the Negroes...
...Morrel...
...J. H. Dillard...
...The Russian Catholic Exarch Leonid Theodoroff, who is now in Solovetsky prison, spoke as follows on March 24, 1923, at the trial in Moscow of Archbishop Cieplak to his Bolshevist judge: "My whole life has been based on two principles: love of the Roman Church to which I am united, and love of my country, which I adore...
...TO the Editor:-I had been seriously considering making the acquaintance of Saint Thomas Aquinas...
...Shall the deacons and laity of Soviet Russia pray thus for the de facto government of their country ? Shall we condemn them for so recognizing "Caesar...
...It was dated from Donskoi monastery on April 7, 1925, and handed by the Patriarch's successor, Metropolitan Peter Krutit-sky, to the newspaper Izvestia for publication therein...
...There are numerous Catholic groups putting forth constructive efforts in behalf of the Negroes, but there is only one Mother Katharine and one Mrs...
...He discussed emigrant Russian bishops' mistakes at length, officially annulled all their acts, and summoned them to appear before a tribunal to be set up by a council of Orthodox Russians...
...Strength of mind to resist temptation, indeed...
...Many persons, shockingly numerous, still cherish and express the bitterness, the lack of knowledge and the un-Christian lack of charity which are from time to time so marked in individual and group conduct among us...
...I have always fought against atheism and proved its impotence...
...Saint Thomas had his limitations...
...Speech, the weapon of the mind, is put down by the material force of the state...
...If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years' imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic...
...Without detracting one scintilla of the credit due the devoted gentlemen who are interested in the extraordinary work of the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, obviously a group is not an individual...
...The reference list was not to include lower schools or any schools north of the Potomac...
...Coming at a time when ecclesiastical controversies were numerous and extremely bitter, this declaration and this policy are doubly memorable...
...Mary Foots Coughlin...
...Those of us who profoundly believe in the fundamental principles of American liberty and life must not only ourselves exhibit that faith in our own speech and conduct, but we must untiringly preach that faith to our fellow citizens...
...For our most pious rulers, protected of God, for their court and army, let us pray to the Lord...
...In this connection perhaps I may be permitted to say that two small donations have been made to the Cardinal Gibbons Institute from the funds of which I have charge...
...Was not Joseph de Maistre almost prophetic when he wrote over one hundred years ago: "The serfs, in proportion as they receive their liberty, will find themselves placed between teachers more than dubious and priests without power or consideration...
...Who should know better than they the need of stiffening resolution to tread monotonous daily walks of duty while lordly grandfathers dallied now and again along primrose paths with convivial boon companions or lovely ladies who stooped to folly with calculated wiles...
...Under the old (czarist) government I was imprisoned in Tobolsk for two and a half years...
...Sobriety is most requisite in the young and in women because . . . while in women there is not sufficient strength of mind to resist consupiscence...
...The Russian conscience is not free in Russia, and religious thought is stagnant...
...On the subject of women he appears to have had no first-hand information...
...It has ceased to have in itself any reason for existence and condemns itself to weakness and death...
...As the years go on Lord Baltimore and Thomas Jefferson will stand out more and more as the protagonists of a cardinal truth which is one of the corner-stones of the republic...
...John T. Gillard, S. S. J...
Vol. 11 • April 1930 • No. 22
