The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 50, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1958 Page: 2 of 24
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Father Ginder’s views on current events
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The Holy Father’s Mission Aid
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HE point is this: Where along the
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OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, Huntington, Indiana
$300 for her support during her two years peri-
od of intensive training and preparation for
this great work. You will share in the merits
THE HANDS OF THE HOLY FATHER ARE THE HANDS OF
CHRIST . . . MAY HE BRING YOUR STRINGLESS GIFTS TO
THE SUFFERING CHURCH OF THE NEAR EAST . . .
HE WILL BLESS YOUR CHARITY!
REMEMBER YOUR MISSIONARIES WHO DEPEND ON YOUR
MASS OFFERINGS ,
of a life of selfless work and prayer if you can
support a girl in the novitiate. Can you afford
to have a nun in the family? You may pay
, „ the $300 over the two year period in any man-
ned of installments convenient to you.
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hopes—will you share your joy of Easter with them. Will you come
to their aid today?
The Divine Tragedy
In this new booklet Rev. George L. Kane presents
the action of the drama in the form of five meditations,
one on each of the five acts . . . the Five Sorrowful
Mysteries of the Rosary.
Father Kane’s vivid account unfolds each act in a
most understandable running commentary of this pro-
found drama. Excellent reading for meditation in this
season of Lent.
HOW IMPORTANT’ARE CHILDREN! The future belongs to the
children of today and the Church of the future in the Near East
will depend entirely on those little ones who are trying to draw
closer to Christ. Will you help a child to know Christ better . . .
will you build for the future today? $10 will buy a First Holy Com-
munion outfit for a refugee child and convince the child of the depth
and breadth of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ. The
simple prayers of the child will be your reward.
Each must have a total of $600 to pay all the ne-
cessary expenses. What can we say—what need
we say of the essential need throughout the en-
tire Near East for a devoted and educated clergy.
Each day the demand for more priests gathers
additional force as more and more souls are won
for Christ. Will your love for the Mystical Body
supply the bare essentials which will make it pos-
sible for another Christ” to work among the poor of the Near East.
You may pay the $600 over a period of six years and in any manner
convenient to you.
THE MOTHER OF MARY has a special love for Julian and Clem-
ent. They wish to study at the seminary of St. Ann to prepare them-
selves to bring Christ to those who know Him not.
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PRIESTS CANNOT DO ALL THE WORK, or even the most of
it!!! They absolutely require the assistance of missionary nuns. Sis-
emuuusm/ •h ter Lucy and Sister Hyacinth wish to offer
their young lives to the service of Christ in
His poor of India. Each must have a total of
writes Archbishop Assaf, “if they were in
the Holy Land this Eastertide. The poor
refugees of Zarka (Transjordan) remain
homeless and poor in the midst of anxiety
and mounting fear for the future. From the
depths of their need and suffering they
have given $1,500 to build a home for the
Risen Savior. He must be pleased with
their sacrifices.” These people can do no
more. Will you help them to furnish this
simple Church — the child of their faith
in the mercy of God? They need $1,000
to finish the job they began with such high
SUGGESTION OF THE WEEK
Have you thought of something for MOTHER’S
DAY? What could be more fitting than our beau-
tiful GIFT CARD (designed for the occasion)
which will tell of your generosity to the Mission
Chapels of the Near East. We will send the card
anywhere for you and enclose PRESSED
FLOWERS FROM THE HOLY LAND.
dMiearEast Qissions
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President
Msgr. Peter P. Tuohy, Nat'l Sec’y
Send all communications to:
CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
480 Lexington Ave. at 46th St. New York 17, N. Y.
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Father Halton is a thorn in the side
of those self-conscious Catholics who are
forever thinking of “this pluralistic soci-
ety” in which we live. Whenever you hear
or read that word “pluralistic,” watch out!
Nine times out of ten you are about to
witness a sellout. It is the shibboleth of
“the smart set” in Catholic circles. Prac-
tically, it means that we Catholics must
never do or say anything that will get
non-Catholics upset or maybe hurt their
feelings. One almost feels that such people
are working for a “pluralistic” church, a
sort of least common denominator uniting
our pluralistic society. Or they are hoping
at least that we will have the common
decency to forget all about the command
of Our Lord to “go, make disciples of all
nations” or forget it in America, anyway.
You get the impression that these people
are Liberals first, Catholics last.
Under the “pluralistic” point of view,
as Father Halton points out, revealed truth
becomes just another point of view, in “the
free market of ideas.” Doctrine and disci-
pline are surrendered in favor of “academic
freedom” and “tolerance.”
Father Halton has done some research
educational path did most of the members
of the commission become “Catholic intel-
lectuals”? What is a Catholic intellectual
anyway? Apart from themselves, who will
say that the members of the commission
are really Catholic intellectuals? In a word,
what are their credentials? As Father Hal-
ton says, “All we know for certain is that
on June 23, 1946 a representative group
of Catholic intellectuals and cultural lead-
ers met in Washington, adopted a constitu-
tion, elected officers, and proceeded to
downgrade Catholic education.”
“In one university town in America,”
Father Halton said, “there are eight mem-
bers of the CCICA, not one of whom ever
attended a Catholic high school, a Catho-
lic college, or a Catholic university. When
Alger Hiss spoke at their university, they
applauded the open mind of the president
and trustees.
“They supported the university, not
their Bishop, when a priest was expelled
for exposing mediocrity and bigotry and
defending the Faith.
“One member, (of the CCICA) wrote
about his notoriously secularist university:
It has been ‘loyal to the Christian tradition
and inheritance.’ Another member . . . ad-
mitted quite frankly that he isn’t a Catho-
lic intellectual at all. When asked if he
would take an examination on the funda-
mental doctrine in the catechism, he con-
fessed that he hadn’t the vaguest idea what
it was all about. He accepted membership
for only one reason: his friend asked him
to be a ‘Catholic intellectual’ and he didn’t
wish to hurt him.
“As it turned out, the large room in
his home was an admirable meeting place
for the CCICA.”
These are some of the people before
whom Msgr. Ellis and Father Weigel de-
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On May 4, 1955, Msgr. John Tracy
Ellis, professor of history at the Catholic
University, criticized Catholic scholarship
and education before the Catholic Com-
mission on Intellectual and Cultural Af-
fairs in St. Louis. His paper was digested
and published for the delight of the thou-
sands of unfriendly Protestants and enemies
of the Church who subscribe to Time. It was
later published by the Jesuit periodical
Thought.
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on the makeup of the Catholic Commission
on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, be-
fore which group both Msgr. Ellis and
Father Weigel delivered themselves of the
charges against their own intellectual for-
mation.
The CCICA was established in the sum-
mer of 1946 “to bring together a broadly
representative group of Catholics, particu-
larly among the laity, who are members of
the learned professions, creative artists,
writers, leaders of opinion ... in order that
they can get to know one another and have
the opportunity to consult together,” etc.
Thus a spokesman for the group.
In the spring of 1957, Father Halton
tells us, the commission had a member-
ship of 285 persons, the result of 11 years’
search to find and enlist “all distinguished
Catholic scholars.”
Approximately 50 members are priests
(more than 20 of whom are Jesuits, less
than 18 diocesan priests, and the others
scattered among half a dozen religious
communities). No member of the hierarchy
was listed as a Catholic intellectual by the
CCICA in its directory or supplement in
1955.
Father Halton considers the classifi-
cation of members by specified fields as
very significant:
More than 50 Catholic intellectuals are
in language and literature, some 27 in
physics, chemistry, and biology, 38 in his-
tory, 20 in philosophy (including political
philosophy and philosophy of science) 23
in political science, sociology and econom-
ics, and three in theology. Two of the theo-
logians are Jesuit Fathers Weigel and John
Courtney Murray. In other words, if num-
bers mean anything, one could say that
the commission considers history 13 times
as important as theology, and the physical
sciences have nine times more significance.
There is one member of the CCICA in
hygiene, another in civil liberty, one in
soil science and two or three in Common-
weal, a little magazine published by a hand-
ful of Catholic laymen in New York. Father
Halton characterizes it as “the house organ
of the Liberal Establishment.”
But the amazing thing is that, as Fa-
ther Halton says, if we exclude the 50
priests, the overwhelming majority of the
other 235 “Catholic intellectuals” have had
no formal Catholic education. More than 80
per cent of their degrees, undergraduate
and graduate, were taken at secular uni-
versities. They have more degrees from ■
Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton, than
from all the Catholic colleges in the United
States taken together. The President of the
CCICA, 1952-1955, has been studying,
teaching, and administering in secular edu-
cation for 57 years, 44 years in one uni-
versity.
published by The Review
Fr. Ginder of Politics at Notre Dame.
When it comes to discussing the short-
comings of Catholic institutions, the mat-
ter had best be aired among the special-
ists immediately concerned, at a board
meeting or at an otherwise closed panel.
The Review of Politics and Thought are
appropriate organs for the discreet cir-
culation of such monographs among the
interested experts.
“But quoted in journals like Time and
Newsweek,” says Father Robert I. Gan-
non, S.J., former president of Fordham Uni-
versity, “it gave the impression that we
Catholics face a real crisis in intellectual
inferiority.”
More knowledgeable persons than the
present writer have disputed the opinions
of Msgr. Ellis and Father Weigel. Father
Gannon, whom I just quoted, had much
to say on the point in a recent speech in
New York, reprinted in the current issue
of The Priest. Archbishop William O.
Brady of St. Paul likewise came to the
defense of Catholic education:
“We who conduct private schools under
religious auspices have something to offer
to other schools where the Omnipotent
God is not legally admitted,” he said. “For
we do have the only interpretation of sci-
ence which can keep science from sterility
and scientists from annihilation.”
In the last seven of his columns in
the Catholic Press, Joseph Breig has been
analyzing and disputing Msgr. Ellis’ thesis
step by / step. For instance, Msgr. Ellis
drew some conclusions based on the scant
number of Catholics listed in America’s
Who’s Who. Mr. Breig points out that top-
ranking Catholic intellectuals such as Dr.
Frank Sheed, Daniel Sargent, and the late
Father Walter Farrell are not listed in the
particular issue referred to by Msgr. Ellis.
However, Father Hugh Halton, O.P.,
recently excommunicated by Princeton
University for defending the.Catholic Faith
(“We appreciate his . aims but not his
methods,” they said), has pointed out
another aspect in this curious wave of
breast-beating and tearing of hair before
the general public on the part of certain
Catholic scholars.
"THE ANGELS WOULD BE TENSE..."
______ Last April, Father
I Gustave Weigel, S. J. read
a paper belittling Catholic
methods and achievements
in education before the
, same Catholic Commision
mnsag t on Intellectual and Cul-
• tural Affairs in Chicago.
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m- ' gested and published for
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