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4—THE CATHOLIC TIMES
Friday. May 11.1956
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The Jay-Cees Crusade
For The Lord's Day
The Columbus Junior Chamber nf Commerce
u sponsoring a new crusade during the month of
May putting emphasis on the slogan. Come tn
Church." The purpos? is to stimulate and in
crease church attendance on Sundays.
The project deserves attention and support,
especially since if is not just a local one. It is
pari of a nationwide program of the .lay-tees.
Begun last year, it has yet to receive the support
it deserves.
Here in Columbus Monsignor Harry Connelly
nf St. Joseph Cai hedral, a member of the group
tiding the Jay-Ceps in the project, assured them
that Catholics are in accord with th-" purpose of
the crusade in striving for a more exact observ
ance of the First and Third Commandments. “No
man’s life is a success unless he adores and wor
ships God.’’ Monsignor Connelly said, “and he
does this logically and best when he goes to
Church
possibly, if the crusade succeeds throughout
the nation, we can look forward to the day when
the public scandal of commerce going on as us
ual nn Sundays will he stopped Despite local
efforts and those of others in many parts of the
country, the ‘open on Sunday sign is out on an
increasing number of stores Some time ago
two or three of the large grocery store chains
announced that they would not open on Sundays.
But pressure became so great that one of them
has since decided to open on the laud’s Day.
It could he that the laird will have His own
u ai nf reversing I he fortunes of such firms. In
the long run. He is not in the habit of blessing
those who rt-’ly His law. Good Christian people
will he thoughtful enough not to buy on Sun
days, thereby giving encoiiiagi'men* to the mer
chant Perhaps th. e\il can he laid more at the
dnoi nf the buyer than of the *"ller. If so, is not
this an indication of furthei moral decay in the
nation’* May it not be said that general public
opinion accepts too readily the growing practice
nf buying and selling on the laud’s Day
Almighty God did not ask for our consent
u hen He said: “Hem-ember thou keep holy the
lord s Day
SleHilfasI In Pravrr
Having commemorated the Ascension of Christ
mtn heai en. the liturgy now summons the faithful
to imitate the disciples by joining in prayer as
we await the culminating event in the divine
plan for man's Redemption the coming of the
Holy Spirit Prayer should he the first thought
of the Christian whenever a crisis of any sort
arises in his life- in time of danger he should
instin/ lii e|y petition for divine help and pro
tection in lime of doubt ami confusion he should
ask for divine guidance in time of happiness
his heart should speak out to his Creator and
Savior in thanksgiving tor the graces and mer
tips he has received
\nd what a tremendous occurrence it was for
which th" disciples prepared as they came down
from Mount Olivet alter witnessing the As
pension* They weir Io await the arrival of the
Advocate, the Spirit of Truth Who proceeds
from the ather and when the Holy Spirit had
eom^ upon them they were to be no longer dis
ciples hut Apostles no longer weak, timid men,
but courageous preachers of the gospel entrusted
to them no longer intimidated by the might of
the world, hut its evangelizers.
Indeed they could scarcely visualize them
selves in the role to which Christ had assigned
them, they remembered that He had warned
them of the perils and hardships they would en
counter "Vos.'1 He had said, “th" hour is com
ing for everyone who kills you to think that he
offering worship to God” and so they re
fired Io the upper room in Jerusalem, there to
spend the days in prayer until Pentecost should
hnng the fulfillment of the promise This sol
emn pre Pentecost novena of prayer set an ex
ample that still charts the proper course for us,
nineteen centuries later.
For we foo, are called upon Io do the work
assigned to us hy th" Master, to bear our part,
sustained hy the graces bestowed upon us by the
Holv Spirit in winning the world for Christ, in
sming men from the quicksands of materialism
that are engulfing them We mv-d prepare now
Io celebrate worthily Pentecost Sunday, the Feast
nf the Holy Spirit we need Io pray and meditate
upon the .significance, in the life of each one of
•is of this great gill of God a gift which weighs
ns down with the gravest of responsibilities and
renter* upon us the strength and wisdom Io
meet them
Sunday s Mass suggests thoughts foi this medi
tation the laud is my light and my salvation,
whom shall I fear God rules oyer all th? na
tions" we hear David proclaiming, what reassur
ance and exaltation there is in those inspired
words' And ue have Chtist'a own promise “f
will not leave you orphans And the counsel
of St Peter in Sunday's Epistle, is a .stimulus
to worthy thought and conduct Re prudent
and w dchful in prayers Rut ahov al) things have
a constant mutual chants among yourselves
that in all things God may he honored through
Je«us hrisl mu I z»rd
The true reason why there are nn more slaves
In hristian Europe i.k tn be Mound in the very
principle of Christianity The Christian religion
i* the religion of liberty, and it is only Christians
whn accord an infinite value to man as man.
George Hegel, German philosophei of idealism
(1770 IR31)
There may he a great many countries in the
world hut th"ic is onlv one civilization And if a
ration is to achieve progress it must he a part
ff this one civilization Kernel Ataturk President
rf Turkey at the establishment of the republic
Of Turkey Oct 29, 1923
Nn man. Black or White, from North or South,
th^ll draw me down so low a« Io make me bale
hm Bnokcr I Washington word inscribed on
his memorial monument at Tuskegee Institute
Our souls. our hearts, and minds are made
for beauty. It costs a man a little of his manhood
to grow accustomed to ugliness and vulgarity.—
Father Francis Tournier, editor of the New Mex
ico .Register.
Courage, brother! Do not stumble, though thy
path be dark as night there's a star to guide
the humhle. Trust in God and do the right.—Nor
man Macleod (1R12-1R72).
Take the whole range of imaginative liter
ature. and we are all wholesale borrowers. In
every matt.?r that relates to invention, to use, or
beauty or form, we are borrowers.—Wendell Phil
lips (1R11-1RR4)
Gold, we know, is tried by fire the loyally
of friends is tried hy the occasion.—Menander,
master of Greek comedy in the third century
B.C.
Just Aihoiiji Ourselves
CT
Pasting Commant Considered or Inconsiderete
The baseball season is in full swing now, with
much ballyhoo and,—in the older baseball cities,
thin crowds in the grandstands. Much discus
sion continues to disturb th-? atmosphere on the
question of whether the national pastime is as
popular as once it was. Some say the game is
on its way up, others maintain that it is on its
way out. At all events, it is on its way.
There is an ominous note in the fact that
some writers and announcers are now calling
baseball the Grand Old American Sport. As soon
as that phrase ‘Grand Old" attaches to a thing,
you may set it down that the thing has passed
into the state of incipient decripitude. Like the
“Grand Old Men’’ of baseball, the game itself
may ‘be showing the weaknesses of age and
moving into the affectionately remembered past,
Izuik at what has happened to the stage-coach,
and touring cars, and th-?
G.O.P.
not
sure that professional
a long time, for it has
It is, however, pretty
ball will stay with us for
become a kind of big business, and big business
usually has a long gamut to run But in running
its gamut, big business suffers essential change at
fairly frequent intervals, so that when th" race
is finally run. the contestant who emerges looks
very different from the aspirant who started.
Certainly, there have already b-?en many notable
changes in the baseball business.
Sixty years or so ago, the professional baseball
player in the major league (there was only on-3
then) had a pretty good job, but it was a rough
job among rough and often rowdy companions,
and if was not considered quite respectable.
Mr. I
on a
says that the family with a member
ba 'ball team was somewhat ashamed of
and no one had admiration for him but his
brother. The professional ball player W'SS
par with the prize-fighter People went to
little
on a
see him perform, and cheered him, and perhaps
b"t money on him, but few cared to meet him
socially.
In an era wl'*n having an assured position in
a respected profession, or at least a trade, was
considered the normal ambition of sane men, the
professional ball player was just a muscular and
agile lug who was wasting his youth in a short
lived employment that commanded no respect
whatever and promised nothing for the long fu
ture. It was generally thought that if a ball play
er had any sense he’d quit his foolishness and
get himself a solid job.
Bui all that has changed. The player, instead
of
b"ing a misguided lunkhead who gels what
he*can hy playing hall for six months of the
year and loafing the olher six, has become a busi
ness man who commands a princely salary,—or
may
and holdouts and other activities that set him
among Men of Distinction
come to it,—and who deals in contracts
Professional baseball was smoothly emerging
into its status as big business when along came
the first World War to take all supplies of pros
pective big leaguers into military service. After
this upheaval, canny promotors of the sport (as
business) set up “farm systems” to insure a suf
firing flow of candidates
then came bonuses and
Young Men with Talent,
or high school player, or
on his fast ball, was suddenly as respectable a
candidal.? for financial and social success as
the pale student who hoped for eminence as a
professional
Hut with
to the major leagues
other inducements to
A capable sand-lotter
a lad with a live hop
or business man or a scientist.
the social and scientific advance of
baseball appeared
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o
&}?' J-
an apparently
the paying cus
to pay for the
hoarse for the
professional
increasing apathy on the part of
tomers who had once delighted
privilege of shouting themselves
home team. I^z.y fans sat by their radio. Apa
thetic ex Ians took themselves and their clubs
Io a golf course, league races failed to hold the
interest of millions who once thrilled to th?
cry of “Play hall!” It was more and more taken
for granted that the Yankees were permanent
world champions.
Night-play furnished a much needed shot-in
he arm to
were filled
of baseball
light hours
now found
come fans.
grandstands
the novelty
whose day
to business,
professional ball, and
with people interested in
under the lights. Many
were necessarily devoted
new' and pleasing opportunity to be-
But novelty wears off, and people
find that there ar? other attractive places than
the hall park for' an
TV came on, too, with much more appealing
home programs of baseball than
offer. Grandstands in many cities once mor? be
gan to show great open spaces.
evening's entertainment.
radio could
Some cities, three in all, found the support
of two professional baseball teams impractical.
Transfer of franchise aroused new and jubilant
interest in the favored towns. But the old cities,
or most of them, continued to be more and
more apathetic, more bored with the whole bus
iness nf baseball. People were still interested in
the All Star Gam? and in the World Series. But
Ihe ordinal) scheduled game was neglected.
Managers and owners who would once have
scorned the very thought of the thing, began to
present pr
up Indies’
Groups of
vaudeville to set
free to Knot Hole
game programs of
Days to give space
youngsters.
to promote Little
plans were enacted
Shrewd
leagues among very young lads in communities
large and small. Announcers of TV baseball pro
grams never tailed to urge people to he inter
ested in their home teams, professional or am
ateur, and in furthering the activities of the lit
tie fellows. Advertising, with capital A. was
put to work to save the Grand Old National
Game. It is still working. What will it accomplish.’
Who canjell? Maybe it will arouse an enthusiasm
like that described by Mr. Dooley: "It reminds
me of a bonfire on an ice-floe. It looks good
and it burns smartly, hut it doesn’t take hold,
somehow, on th? ire.”
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DJAKARTA, Indonesia You
still see the communist hammer
and sickle with the letters PKI,
for Partai Komunis Indonesia
(Communist Party of Indonesia),
on the walls here.
You also see a rosary with the
initials PKR1, for Partai Katolik
Rcpublik Indonesia, the. emblem
of the athilic party. There are
likewise emblems of Mostem par
ties, the Nationalist Party, the
Protestant Party and scores of
others.
The placards are traces of the
recent general election campaign.
The only election posters permit
ted were the party emblems,
printed in black and white
The communists won 39 sz’ats
out of 257 in the new Parliament,
as against 17 in the old. This ies
not prove any increased popular
support, however, as the previous
Parliament had been appointed,
not elected.
First General Election
This was Indonesia’s first gen
eral election. The communist
vote was only 163 per cent of
the total national vote. The elec
tion was by proportional repre
sentation. 1 have heard nobody
here question its fairness. Of
the whole electorate, which in
cluded all men and women aged
18 and up, 87 6 per cent voted.
TN" six million Indonesians
who voted for communist candi-
MONSIG1NOR DeBLANC
A popular writer has said,
‘Most of us have wished that
children could be turned into
good adults on the assembly
line It would be so easy: take
one healthy baby, add cod-liver
oil, a few years of feeding, lib
eral doses of Catholic educa
tion. at least one hath a week,
a hair cut per month, sprinkle
often with the Sacraments and
the Ten Commandments, and
there he is at 18, new, shiny
and ready to go.”
But Rome wa»n't built in a
day, nor wore Romans.
GOD'S PLAN
s iW-LhJWKlI-^'
riyfHE women who
BUY SMUTTY MAGAZINES
DISTRIBUTOR SAYS
Familiar Tactics in Indonesia
in Al
teach-
early
In a recent workshop
bany, Georgia, school
ers protested against
schools for the two, three, four,
even five year olders. They
found this “schooling” a great
er harm
enrolled
grad?.
than good when they
the child in the first
is a certain training,
security, discipline
There
attitude,
which can be given and given
best in the home by the close
personal attention of parents
no normal nursery will sup
ply this. The different approach
of teachers at that age could
confuse children. 1 alter, even
the best hoarding school for
early teenagers will equal suc
cessful parental training only
by exception.
We can hardly improv? on
God’s plan: th? parental plan.
Animals can have young ones
and generally wear, them a
span and all is well. Human
beings require long parental
care.
THE MIDDLE COURSE
May 1 here question the atti
tude of those who say. “I am
responsible for my child till
hr nr she is tuenty-one." In
spite of the implications of the
law of this country, you have
an obligation to teach your
children as long as there is
life. Your job is to gel them to
Heaven and the dangers and
th? needs ar? not nv?r at twpn
•y on? ... or when they get
SOBSI
The SO RSI, Federation of Un
ions of Laborers in Indonesia, is
conn ynist-controlk d. It includes
about 1,500,000 out of Indonesia’s
2.500,000 organized vorkers. Rut
its lyild on its member unions is
not secure. Some of them are
getting restive.
Romans Not Built inDay
married- that may be when
they need you most.
Not that you should continue
to hand-food them but you
should continue a parental
communication and being re-*
sponsible. Our present creving
for “freedom at 21" has gone
to an unchristian, inhuman ex
treme. We've got to find the
middle course. Good parents
have it.
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Here are a few of the princi
ples that stand ou( prominent
ly in newer studies of child
guidance:
1. Child-parent relationships
are more important than rules
or rewards or punishment.
Much more important than
punishment is the personal re
lationship between parent and
child. It starts ax early as forc
ing babies to eat. When this
becomes a battle of wills, it is
easy to actually pervert their
appetites toward food or to
make them hostile towards
parents.
When parents impose strict
rules SUDDENLY, accompanied
by punishment, shaming or re
jection of the child, it slows up
the whole discipline. When ad
ults with better understanding
adopt a slow, easy beginning,
with pleasant anticipation of
good results, and a relaxed un
emotional attitude, using ap
proval more than punishment,
they will be more successful
and less apt to encounter stub
born attitudes and hostility to
ward discipline in general.
Children want to be sure their
parents love each other -quar
reling between parents, lack of
demonstrated affection
parents, affects their
ship with the child,
wants to be proud of
ents. Drunkard parents, divorc
ed parents, feuding parents
will produce shame, hostility,
insecurity in the child.
W W' 'W'#♦'■•♦■ •iff'
•7/Zo/A
dates do not all w'ant communism. In the universities the com
Probahly very few of them do. munists are maneuvering them
Most of thorn have no idea of selves into top positions in stu
what communism really
and the communists, have
care not to tell them.
means
taken
propa-
The communist election
ganda was largely denunciation
of colonialism and exploitation.
In the regions where the Reds
scored heavily, I was told that
they did it by making fancy
promises. People are poor in
congested central and eastern
Java Th.? Red spellbinders
promised them land and houses.
In one place I was told that they
promised a free trip to Mecca
by plane, an attractive induce
ment to the Moslems, who make
up most of the population.
»r in their election cain
here did the communists
religion or reveal them
as atheists. They pretend
favor religion.
ed to
(‘oinn nism is probably mor?
menacing in Indonesian labor
unions and in the universities
than in the Parliament.
paigns
attack
between
relation
A child
his par-
TO LIKE AND BE LIKED
2. Children "want’' tn he gonrf
and respond to genuinely hon-
dent councils. In one large uni
versity they already conk .1 the
student organization in half of
Ihe faculties.
Here,
as elsewhere in South
Chinese cu'imunist
hidden power. They
to be financing the
east A
agents wield
are believed
activities of
ists. On the large (about 2,500,
000) and
populatio in Indonesian cities
and towns, they exert constant
pressure. They control many
Chinese schools and operate
Chinese newspapers.
Indonesian common-
prosperous Chinese
If a Chinese is known to have
relatives in China, the commun
ists thereby have a grip on him.
They have useful “bases” in the
embassy, consulates and banks of
communist China in Indionesia.
While tb3 Indonesian Republic
follows a “neutralist” policy in
external affairs, the largest par
ties and most of the small ones
and the armed forces are defin
itely opposed to communism.
is
it
it
communist conspiracy
thr-?at to Indonesia, as
all its neighbors. But
unlikely that the commun-
The
a real
is to
seems
ists from inside, or outside, or
both, can grab these islands un
der anything like present cir
cumstances.
est belief of parents in them.
We are often absolutely con
vinced children are devils in
carnate and we need to whale
the sin out of them—with a
crowbar preferably. Believe it
or not. this is not innate bad
n-?s—regardless of what you
think of heredity and in-laws—
it is ignorance, confusion, help
lessness, faulty early training,
early frustration.
Wi«« parents tay, “We have
not thought much of punish
ment our children want to do
right if we are patient and will
ing to help them LEARN the
way." Many add, "You have to
let children know you
them or they turn mean."
ishment never means, "I
you," "You are no good."
MOVS/RVOR HIGGINS -tfl
Hands Across Border
At the conclusion of the
Fourth Congress of the Inter
American Catholic Social Ac
tion Confederation in Mexico
last February,
it was agreed
that there
ought to be re
gional meet
ings of the
Confederation
every year or
two in South,
central and
North Amer
ica. we are
that the first
happy to report
of the North American meet
ings will probably be held in
Canada early this fall.
To the best of our knowledge
this will be the first time that
a truly representative group of
Catholic social action leaders
from the United States and
both French and English speak
ing provinces of Canady have
come together to compare notes
and- discuss problems of mut
ual interest and concern. An
informal g-?t-together of
three groups was held in Tor
onto 10 or 12 years ago. but
this very small gathering could
hardly be described as repre
sentative of the Catholie social
action movement in North
America. Moreover it was mere
ly a one-shot experiment,
whereas the meeting tentative
ly scheduled for October is ex
pected to result in the appoint
ment of a continuing commit
tee and, ultimately, the estab
lishment of a permanent U.S.
Canadian regional unit for the
Inter-American Catholic Social
action Confederation.
the
"Getting to Know You"
The ne-?d for such a regional
organization was repeatedly
brought home to us during the
course of a recent motor trip
which took us from Montreal
to Quebec to Toronto and back
to Ottawa for a series of meet
ings, including the merger
convention of the Canadian un
ions. It also offered opportun
ity for a series of personal con
versations with leaders of the
Catholic social action move
ment in French and English
speaking Canada.
Xt each successive stag? of
this extremely interesting anti
profitable trip, we were increas
ingly embarrassed by our lack
of knowledge of Canada in gen
eral and the Canadian Catholic
social action movement in par
ticular. Our embarrassment was
lessened to some extent when
we discovered how little the
majority of Canadians know
about the Catholic social action
movement in the United States
and how little the French and
English speaking provinces
know about one another’s prob
lems and programs in the field
of Catholic social action.
What impressed us most,
however, was not this lack of
contact between United Slates
and Canadian social action lead
ers. but rather the widespread
feeling in Canada that the time
has come to know on-? anoth
er better. Wbereas 20 years
ago it might have been imprac
tical to propose a regional U.S.
Canadian social action confer
ence, there is general agree
ment today that such a meet
ing is absolutely imperative.
Economic Problomo Similar
How are we to account for
this growing desire on the part
of the American and Canadian
'Catholic social actionists to
break down the barriers which
have separated them for so
like
Pun
hate
any-
Children want more than
thing else to like and be liked
hy their parents—both of them.
This relationship and the par
ents example are the two most
compelling aids in the young
child’s guidance.
LET HIM BE NATURAL
3. Allow the child to be him
self. He has to go through cer
tain messy periods to be nor
mal. Like children as they are
and let them be themselves—
of cours-3. within reason. Accept
their limitations, make allow
ances for their age. Do not ex
pect the behavior of a minia
ture adult, nor expect them to
be a counter part of another
child in the family.
These principles ar^ so ob
vious. yet so many sin against
them.
4. Consider the feeling and
altitudes of that individual
child, not the behathor alone.
I .earn to interpret what he
does. First, what has really
happened? Why did it happen?
Did the child wish to be wrong?
And finally, how can this fault
be corrected?
We will say. then, that dis
cipline is an external control
by others tn teach internal enn
trn) of mirs?lv?s for a good end
and purpose.
sins.
stows
ment
is sorry. It is given in an emer
gency e. g. to soldiers about to
go into battle, when individual
confession is impossible. Each
individual must mention the
sins in the next confession he
makes in somewhat the way
w'e would mention a sin we
had forgotten to mention in a
previous confession.
It removes sin and be-:
the graces of the Sacra
if the individual person
Q. Is it a sin to bring a non
Catholic to Mass? Is it a sin
to go to non-Catholic services?
A. It is not a sin to bring
a non-Catholic to Mass, al
though he is unable to take
a direct part in Catholic serv
ices or receive the Sacraments.
It is a part of Christ's com
mandment of love for our
neighbor that w? strive Io bring
our friends or non-Catholic
many years? To some extent It
is probably due to the fact that
the economic problems of Can
ada and the United States are
becoming almost identical. Th®
rapid industrialization of Can
ada—so strikingly evident ev
en in the most isolated villages
of Quebec province—is under
mining long established cus
toms and traditions and creat
ing new ones very similar to
our ow'n.
Canadians are probably mor*
acutely aware of this economic
and cultural situation than we
are in the United Slates. But on
both sides of the border there
is an instinctive realization that
our growing similarity demands
a closer degree of cooperation
than we have ever had before
in the field of Catholic social
action. Belatedly—but, even aE
that, with surprising haste—-we
are beginning to recognize that
we have much to learn fron
one another in our common,
search for ways and means of
establishing social justice with
in our respective countries.
For Canada and the United
States now' have so much more
in common than ever heforf,
and seem destined to become
even more alike in their basic
culture during the next few dec
ades.
One of the most striking il
lustrations of the almost revo
lutionary changes industriali
zation is effecting in Canada
to be found in the field of trade,
unionism For many years in
ihe Province of Quebec there
have been separate Catholie
unions. Until very recently the
relationship between these un
ions and the neutral unions,
affiliated with the old Trades
and Labor Congress and old
Canadian Congress of I.ahor,
was anything but friendly.
Ten or twelve years ago, at
the time of our first visit tn
Canada, it was taken for grant
ed by almost everyone we met
that tbs Catholic syndicates
as they are called—would nev
er merge with the neutral un
ions, even in the unlikely event
that they should be invited to
do so. But tim-? marches on. and
the old order gives way to the
new.
Top officials of the Catholie
syndicates, attending the re
cent merger convention as ob
servers, were received with the
utmost cordiality and warmly
invited to affiliate their own
organization, the Canadian and
Catholic Confederation of l.a
bor, with the new united labor
movement which will be known
as the Canadian I»abor Con
gress. The odds are that before
the next convention of the CT*C,
the terms of affiliation will
have been agreed upon to the
mutual satisfaction of both
parties.
Mutual Advantage
This unprecedented step
the direction of labor unity
favorably regarded by all
the Canadian Catholic social ae
tion leaders with whom we had
the privilege of conferring dur
ing our recent trip. Th?y desire
closer unity within their own
country and are sincerely an
xious to establish closer con
tact with their counterparts
the Catholic social action move
ments in the United State*.
They teel that they have some
thing to learn from their fel
low Catholics in America.
Inquiry Corner
Father Healey
Q. What is a general con
fession? How is it different
from a general absolution?
A. A general confession is
one
point on one's life (e. g. befors
marriage) in which a person
confesses in at least a general
way all the sins since his last
general confession. It is neces
sary when a person has been
making bad confessions to go
back to the last good confes
sion, but a general confession
is usually iniended as a kind
of rounded self examination
and renew'al of sorrow with
past (confessed) sins reconfes
sed General absolution refers
to the Sacrament of Penance
without confession of
made at some turning
is
of
We in the United States feel,
in turn, that w-« have a great
deal to learn from them.
relatives into the “one fold**
as we se» in the Gospel nf the
Good Shepherd ‘(John 10:ll«.
16). It is sinful for Catholics
take part actively in non-Ca»
tholic services and attendance
without a proportionate reasoq
is wrong. Attending a funeral,
wedding or some similar serv
ice in a non-Catholic church
is obviously social and every
one knows that a Catholic at
tending is not approving th®
sect or its teaching. While Ca
tholics can attend other service®
only by (at least implicitly)
denying the Faith, which
teaches that tb? Catholie
Church is the one, true Church
of Christ, non-Catholics do not
deny their faith by attending
services of other religions.
Q. When was the second
half of the Hail Mary added?
A. In the earlier part of tha
twelfth century only th? angel’s
salutation (Hail Mary, full of
grace, the Lord is with the?)
was in general use. At that tim®
the words of St. Elizabeth were
added so that the first half of
the Hail Mary was taken from
the Gospel according to St.
Luke (1.28. 42). The second
hall of the prayer became gen
eral by the middke of the six
teenth century. St. Bernardini*
of Siena is general considered
to be the first person to mak®
popular the use of the who|®
prayer as we have it today.
to Father
Send questions
Edward _____
Corner, The Catholic Times
Box 636, Columbus (16) Ohio.
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