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HERE are

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three sections

of the Bishops' Encyclical addressing themselves to

the great problem of the mo dern world-the Christian Doc-

BUT, ON DIVORCE THEIR VIEWS ARE OUT OF DATE

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Is freedom. growth Now this in precisely the claim of dition

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should pamphlet become compulsory reading for all who have to do with pubile life, and for that matter all the rest too. For while Communists shout "Foncord, By the Left!“ and Conservatives "Forward, By the Right!" these sections pose the greal question "Forward But Where To?" While the politician cries: "This is the way," the bishops ask, "But what is the address?"

Tolstoy, in the last century, wrote that there were in fact only three religions, that is, three views of the nature of man and his relation to the Universe.

were

First there was the view of the that life had no who held inan special significance ot all Men born. Men died. In the Interval their business was to achieve the maximum satisfactions of which their nature was capable, regardless of anything or anybody else.

Second, there was the view of those who held that the significance of the individual life was to be found, not in itself, but in the service given by that life to the family, the class, the nation, Dí

which it formed a part.

And third, there was the 'vlew that man's primary function is to And out the will of God concerning him, and then, wherever it led, and at whatever cost, to do it.

In the Report the Bishops waste little time on the first view, very properly, I think. For the man who lives only for self-indulgent pleasure-seeking Is not merels sinner, but a fool. Happiness is a thing which has a habit of lighting on you when you are looking the

other way, and not looking for it. The real argument is between the

and second

the third view in Tolstoy's classification.

if the answer to the

question, "What is the nature

and destiny of mon?" is that he should alve himself entirely in obedience and service to the nation or group of which he is a member, then certain consequences inevitably follow.

In the case of the group, the "Party line" will take the place of a man's own perceptions of truth.

In the case of the State, it would have the right to compol all men to conform to the pattern laid down as host sulted to it by those who

avern lt.

On this basis the suppression of all dissent, the use of all engines of propaganda, regardless of truth, to this end, the denial of all liberties of the individual, are justified, It the State should conclude that, to produce n hypothetical good in the

liquidation"

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It

their

or thin the Bishops SAY:

freedom follows that "gravely imperilled by any claim by the State or any group within it to control the whole of human

Tifc."

Christians must reject this claim. The preservation of all that makes Society exists to serve the needs of life worth living depends on there its members, not to enslave and being in any community enough possess them

Christians men and women who afirm, with wholly. must repudiate this form of Com- Paul. "We ought to obey God rather munism which exalts atheism, and than man." That is the fundamen- puis supreme confidence in material tal religious difference which under- progress... And they must condemn lex all the controversy of the the cruelties, injustice, and lying propaganda which are inherent in

If the third view of Tolstoy's classification be true, then equally, certain consequences foliaw.

married again-so for as the Church is concerned-while the other part- ter to the first marriage is still alive.

Ifere there is fundamental clash as between Church and Slate In which the position of the State is more Christian, in my opinion, then that of the Church. And vastly more merciful.

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the Church that she should be eligible to do so, is turned down by the bishops.

CHRISTIAN VICTORY OVER MARI

By Norman Montellier

"CHRIS

CHRIST has beaten Marx" t

be the theme of the work biggest youth congress next mon when more than 800,000 boys ni girls of Catholic Action meet Itonic,

The convention begins on Septen ber 4 when the girls Youth Cathollo Action opens a three-da meeting. Already 250,000 girls af registered for the meeting more are expected. Tho boy youth section will hold its congrej on September 10-12 and anothe 200,000 persons are expected.

Invitations have been sent to nations to Join in the meeting which will dedicate Catholic yout to a renewed fight against Com munism. Fifteen nations have ac cepted so far.

Directors of the Italian Catholiq Action youth organisation maid:

"The importance of much youth manifestation, the greatest in con

cannot temporary history,

escape those who interest themselves ir, human phenomena and who evalustaj the more characteristic events which pass through the picture of history.)

"Italy, beaten in a disostrous war, morlined by grent misery, ir- ritated still by strikes and un-: employment, knows how to present a spectacle of 50,000 youth, who, paying their own expenses for travel und lodging, will gather in Rome to attest their faith.

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"There are in Europe those who begin to understand that there something new under the sun, of which the April 18 general election In Italy

Д Wis surprising sign. There is a new feeling which agitates

The second is the section deating with the position of women Ih res- pect

A woman of the ministry. may be a deaconess. But she may not take Holy Orders. And a posal from the Chinese section of us, there is something in the air..

SOMETHING NEW

"There is this fact-Communism, while still alive in the old, has not taken many youths and still less.

young. Perhaps the really

Luigi Longo (Italian Communist partisan' chief) and Pietro Secchin (Comin form delegate and vice secretary of the Communists) still attract some the youths with their formula of

Garibaldi partisan brigade.

I can find no warrant in anything reported as having been sald by Jesus which would justify this dis tinction, which indeed could only be modern world, "And while justined on the assumption that Christians may not always be better spiritual Inspiration is confined to than their neighbours, they serve

the male sex. The present prohibi- a better Master."

tion represents an anachronistic survival of carly Jewish customs, reinforced by the authority of Poul, who was not quite normal where women were concerned.

The family, the group, the nation

be will not neglected by Christian. He will probably be the better father, the better trade unionist, the better citizen for this fact. But while he progresses for- In dealing with divorce, the ward in time, he must grow up- Bishops stick by the old position wards to 'eternity. And the con- that a divorced person may not be

While the sections of the report which I have praised represent an up-to-the-minute approach to the

On both of the problems of our times, there are two sections which suggest that on some matters the Church is still living in the remoto past.

these matters one could have wished for a more modern and R more human approach on the part of the bishops. But what they have written on the central problem of our time will stand as a classic.

"Arms and uniforms always have a great fascination for youth. But, once this decoy is shown up, there Is little to do. Spiritually, politically, effectively, among the youth-Christ has beaten

That is Marx, theme."

.

Our

The congress will colebrate the Both anniversary of the founding of the boys" Catholic Action youth movement and the 30th anniversary of the girls' section.

SPY MANIA PACKS THEM IN

BY JAMES COOPER

WASHINGTON. a microphone stuck at the bottom

ten at two sessions a day be in wartime.

One hundred of Washington's papers,

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П

TOBACCO REEK

ESPITE air-conditioning, the huge committee room reaks of tobacco and scorched paper. Near- jy everyone smokes.

courler for others.

A SPY thriller is being writ of in me here the alter would. tion under the dome of Washing- 1,000 newspaper correspondenta joc dignity by correcting suggestions wide open." Kordul arrived, and

It is the only key for places, scramble in and out that she ton's Capitol. melodrama now showing in the with their reports, or signal to wait-

Ing telegraph boys. capital city that has many but not single cinomas theatre.

You have to call the present spy probe a melodrama. It is not a telaf- for the news except perhaps papermen, newsreel photgraphers, and radio commentators, who ,arg spilling thousands of words and scores of pletures daily into every newspaper, cinema, and radio set,

The promoters, the House Com,

Un-American Activities, mittee on have power to call suspected Com munist informers, but cannot force them to talk-and they cannot sen- tence anyone.

the

Yet this New England woman, tions, and is quick to subpoena eduented nt Vassar, America's any new name that crops up. Three Girton, has developed the polse of times one week he has stolen" the a much-photographed celebrity. hendlines.

She seems conscious of her post- First he announced that a my- as Spy Queen In the-story-witness --Alexander - Kordal, streamer headlines of most news- wartime official of the War Produc- and is qulek to assert her tion Board, would "blow this casu

was no more than a refused" to answer questions.

Then Mundt thought of some- She wears a new outfit for each thing - disc. When 1he Russian hearing but no make-up. When she consulate in New York

claimed arrived 17 minutes late one day that they rescued the Russian she revealed that her "pay off" from schoolteacher, Mrs. Kosenkina, from. the Russians was 2500 (which While Russians; he suggested that she later handed to the police) she be called. and the Order of the Red Star.

He gave up the Idea only when Each morning and afternoon ses- The Russians also pressed on her

Russians kept a fur coat and an air-conditioning

her at the sion is like a first night and, like a first night, it never starts

consulate and there was difficulty on time machine. octors

in serving the summons, because of and Visiting

diplomatic MORE WORK

This Owas because celebrities

Immunity. photographed must be

before her leap. before the play begins.

Then the Russlan Ambassador, After a month of living-literally ACH time she mentions the name

alleged informant the Alexander Fanyushkin, protested in the limelight the tension is be- of an

committee

Government ginning to tell....

issues a subpoena for to the United States

Samarin, Mikhall

another Take Elizabeth Bentley, doubling him to appear.

Russian teacher, had been kid- in the title role of heroine and she- That means more work for her napped by White Rusalons. Quickly villain. Heroine for going to the leading man, slim, dark-haired

Mundt rebuffed the ambassador by F.D.I. to tell her story of Russian Robert Stripling. the committee's espionage during the war. Villain counsel, who

announcing that Samarin would be examines witnesses because her own

subpoenaed. story is that she like a prosecutor in a real trial. carried information from Govern

It is monotonous work, because ment officials in

to most Washington Jacob Golos, now dead, but, she their right

of the suspects stand on that they need says, head of one Ruslan spy ring

not THERE is a political backcloth to

this answer incriminating questions.

grentent show on earth. The The counsel connot cross-

Republicans, who In the early

on that; all he can do majority in the House noodlamps so bright that everyone ning to show the strain of waiting, le to call evidence that the witness sentatives under the Democrat facing them needs sunglasses. Press day after day, between two plain- is a suspected Communist. Then he President, claim that the. Roosevelt photographers scramble here. there, exploding flash bulba as near as three feet from the victims' faces, even as they take the oath or reply to questions.

But the show can expose, and a exposing, the witnesses to the public light they escaped for twelve months while the grand jury in New York held the same probe in private. It resulted in not a single indictment.

FLOODLAMPS

AND what a bright light it is. The in New York, fortles, she is begin- examine

newsreel men have

Installed

and clothes men for the

Microphones wired to radio net. works and loudspeakers in, the room crowd the committeemon's bench, the witness stand, and desk of the committee's counsel.

inevitable

that

VOTE WINNER

questioning by Administration

..

have a of Repre-

passes film on for

worked with the moment when she is told to stand committee on

Communists, up. Then, one or other of 32 people

Desplie Truman's daim that It she accuses of giving her informa-

Only the "producer" in this sum is a red herring." ond despite 1lon is asked if he knows her,

mer Theatre shows signs of being his refusal to let the committea She

sits

there listening an red, fie is Karl Mundi, stocky have the Government's confidential . witnesses call her neurotic and Republican Congressman' from files, they regard the drama na vote frustrated, a woman whose story South Dakota, who.

takes winner No.1 in usually

-country as Red is the product of a vivid imagina- the chair,

spy-conscious as America/s tion. Some call her a liar.

So "Elizabeth; -- Bentley," or tho

future, millions of men should suffer Imprisonment, torturg, or death now— The radio commentator, wearing >Her_light brown hair' is outgrow- This 48-year-old son of Western Mystery of the Red Spy Ring" lo. that, too, would, on this view of a gas-mask contraption, faces. the ing the bubble-cut; the shadows ploneers, with wispy for hair likely Lo keep running In man, be justified. To do evil that witness, who sees only the jiggle of under her eyes make her round crossing his broad, balding head, Capitol-and on the front pages- good may come is a right, and even

the radio man's Adam's apple as he face look puity under the fierce nover misses a theatrical, trick. Ho until the Presidential election in a duty.

describes every nervous move into light.

waves his cigar as he asks «ques- November.

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