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A NEW 
COMMANDMENT 

BY 
REV. EDMOND D. BENARD 

Assistant Professor of Sacred Theology at 
the Catholic University of America 

Four addresses delivered on the Catholic Hour from November 4 through November 25, 1951. This program is heard on the National Broadcasting Company network at 6:00-6:30 P.M. E.S.T. and produced by the National Council of Catholic Men. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Thou Art The Man | - 5 

"That You Love One Another , . ." ..... —— 10 

. . As I Have Loved You" 16 

The Fullness Of Christ 22 





THOU ART THE MAN 
Talk given, on November 4, 1951 

My dear f r i e n d s : 
According to a fable written 

by La Fontaine, all the animals 
of the forest and jungle once 
gathered together in a great and 
solemn meeting. Jupiter, who 
had issued the invitations, called 
upon each of the animals to 
speak quite frankly. Every one 
was entitled to complain about 
any fault or failing, any imper-
fection or defect he had been 
burdened with by nature and 
wished to have repaired. Much 
to Jupiter's surprise, every 
single beast declared himself 
quite satisfied . . . with himself. 
But every single beast wished 
also to call to Jupiter's attention 
some truly shocking weakness or. 
deficiency in some other beast. 

La Fontaine's animals not 
only speak like us, they act like 
us as well. Like us, they are most 
clear-sighted regarding the 
faults of their neighbors. Like 
us, they are blind to their own. 
Like us, they have small love f o r 
any one or any thing except 
themselves. And like us they 
would never admit it, perhaps 
least of all to themselves. 

This year I want to speak to 
you about the love of God. 

The things I have to say are 
not easy to say; or maybe—I 
don't know—they are too easy 
to say. I am a f r a i d also t h a t 
they are not easy to h e a r ; or 
maybe, again, they are too easy 
. . . j u s t to hear. I am not de-
liberately speaking in riddles, at 
least not any more than I have 
to; f o r when we speak about the 
love of God, we have to speak 
about the heart and soul of man 
—and man is not unfairly called 
"the glory, jest, and riddle of the 
world." I t is easy, all too easy, 
to speak and hear about the love 
of God as if the words were 
meant f o r someone else, and not 
f o r us. I t is not easy to speak 
and hear about the love of God 
in simple honesty, to look upon 
ourselves as in a mirror, to 
measure ourselves, not others, 
by the commandment Christ 
gave us—for ourselves. 

Two years ago at this time on 
the "Catholic Hour" we thought 
together about Faith—the Faith, 
we saw, by which man lives more 
than he lives by bread. Last year 
the subject of our time together 
was Hope—the Hope t h a t keeps 
us sure and f i r m in Christ, as an 
anchor holds a ship against the 



6 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
wind and wave. We come now in 
this November to the third and 
last of the great God-centered 
virtues, to the climax and sum-
mit of the Christian life, the 
virtue called charity. "Faith, 
hope and charity persist, all 
three," Saint Paul said, "but the 
greatest of them all is charity" 
( I Cor. 13: 13). 

Now charity, as our Lord used 
the word, as Saint Paul used it, 
as the great teachers of the 
Church f r o m the time of the 
Apostles used it, does not mean 
simply the g i f t of food and clo-
thing and shelter to those whose 
need cries out to us. All these 
things are p a r t of charity, signs 
of our charity, not the whole of 
it. Charity in its full and t r u e 
and basic sense means simply 
love: the love of God above all 
things, and the love of our broth-
ers in the world around us f o r 
the love of God. This is all it 
means; but all of our life, be-
lieve me, is summed up in its 
meaning. There is nothing that 
can take the place of charity; 
there is no substitute f o r love. 
We will not be judged by the 
fortunes we build or the honors 
we wear, by the things we have 
or the things we know. We will 
be judged by the things we love. 
Saint Paul really meant what he 
said to the Christians of Cor-

inth : "If I speak with the 
tongues of men, and of angels, 
and have not charity, I am be-
come as sounding brass, or a 
tinkling cymbal. And if I should 
have prophecy and should know 
all mysteries, and all knowledge, 
and if I should have all faith, so 
that I could remove mountains, 
and have not charity, I am noth-
ing. And if I should distribute 
all my goods to feed the poor, 
and if I should deliver my body 
to be burned, and have not 
charity, it profiteth me nothing" 
(I Cor. 13: 1-3). 

During the weeks to come we 
will t r y together, with God's 
help, to understand as best we 
can the meaning f o r us of those 
words of our Lord which are the 
supreme expression of the law 
of charity: "A new command-
ment I give unto you: That you 
love one another, as I have loved 
you, that you also love one an-
other" (John 13: 34). Here, as 
we shall see, in this new com-
mandment, love of God and love 
of our fellow men are bound to-
gether in t h a t tremendous unity 
that we could never even have 
imagined if Christ our Lord had 
not lived and died f o r us. I t is 
truly a new commandment given 
to us by Him who makes all 
things new. 

Before we think about this 



THOU ART THE MAN 7 
new commandment, however, we 
have to think about our own 
hearts; we have to f i n d the 
answer—or t r y to find the 
answer—to the riddle t h a t con-
f r o n t s us when we look into our-
selves. 

Like the eloquent animals of 
Jean de La Fontaine, we use a 
comfortable double standard of 
judgment. We carry a saddle 
bag slung _over our shoulder; in 
the open f r o n t pocket, where we 
can see them, we carry the faults 
of our neighbors; in the other 
pocket, safely behind us, we 
carry our own. I t is perfectly 
true, perhaps, t h a t we judge 
everyone, ourselves included, ac-
cording to a scale of excellence 
t h a t runs f r o m zero (or nothing) 
up to a hundred (or perfect). We 
use the same scale, but we do not 
use it in both cases in quite the 
same way. Everyone else we 
criticize to the extent that he 
falls below a hundred; with our-
selves we are satisfied to the ex-
tent that we rise above zero. We 
are impatient with excuses f o r 
other people's failings; we are 
never at a loss f o r excuses f o r 
our own. We find it very easy 
simply to talk about charity. 
Why? Because it j u s t does not 
occur to us t h a t in every word we 
speak we judge ourselves, and in 

every word we hear, we hear our 
own indictment. 

F o r instance, I am sure t h a t 
no one listening would refuse to 
admit t h a t love of God and love 
of those around us as a rule of 
life is a high ideal—more than 
that, the only possible rule of 
Christian life, the only principle 
worth living by, the only guide 
t h a t will not betray us in the 
end. But be careful, I beg you. 
Love of God and love of neigh-
bor are not words to be lightly 
used, to be glibly spoken or non-
chalantly heard. These words 
are not a sentimental common-
place. They cut to the vitals of 
our selfishness and pride like 
the cold and shining steel of a 
surgeon's knife. To pledge our-
selves to live our lives by love of 
God and neighbor is not like 
taking a drug store sedative, but 
like submitting to a major oper-
ation. This is why it is not easy 
to talk about charity, or to hear 
about it, when we realize what 
charity means. 

Did it ever strike you, in read-
y i n g the Gospels, t h a t our Lord 

gave us a standard f o r judging 
ourselves and others? I t is a 
double standard, too. But it is ex-
actly the reverse of the one we 
find, in our blindness, so com-
forting to our pride. 

In the Gospel of Saint Luke 



8 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
we read how the Master, know-
ing the thoughts of His hearers, 
and knowing how some of them 
rebelled in their secret hearts 
against His teaching, said to 
them simply: "He t h a t is not 
with me, is against me" (Luke 
11: 23). In another place in the 
same Gospel we read how the 
Apostle John came to Jesus and 
said: "Master, we saw a certain 
man casting out devils in Thy 
name, and we forbade him, be-
cause he followeth not with us." 
And Jesus answered: "Forbid 
him not; f o r he t h a t is not 
against you, is f o r you" (Luke 
9: 49-50). 

"He that is not with me, is 
against me." 

"He t h a t is not against you, 
is f o r you." 

There have been some com-
mentators who looked at these 
words of our Lord too quickly, 
and who saw (or claimed to see) 
a contradiction in them. But, of 
course, there is no contradiction. 
Christ has given us His double^ 
standard. When He tells us "He 
that is not with Me, is against 
me," He is telling us to look in-
to our own hearts, to judge our-
selves fairly, and honestly, and 
strictly. We can see into our own 
hearts, and we can know, if we 

have the courage to face the 
facts, whether we are f o r Christ 
or against Him. On the other 
hand, however, when our Lord 
said "He t h a t is not against you 
is f o r you," He was speaking, 
remember, to John concerning 
the judgment John should make 
about someone else. Christ is 
telling us, in effect, "God alone 
sees into another man's heart. 
You can not. You can only judge 
by outward appearance. Judge 
then in charity, and give to your 
brother the benefit of the 
doubt." 

This is Christ's double stand-
ard ; tand it is a direct rebuke to 
the one we ordinarily prefer to 
use. 

When I was thinking about 
this series of broadcasts, there 
was a sentence f r o m the 
Old Testament that constantly 
sounded in my mind. You re-
member, I am sure, the story of 
David and Bethsabee f r o m the 
Second Book of Kings. David, 
King of Israel, became lost in 
the beauty of Bethsabee, wife 
of one of David's captains, Urias 
the Hethite. David took Bethsa-
bee secretly into his palace, and 
Urias her husband he sent into 
the f o r e f r o n t of a suicidal attack 
on an enemy fortress. All worked 
out as David planned. Urias the 



THOU ART THE MAN 9 
Hethite died f i g h t i n g f o r his 
king. 

Then God sent to David Na-
than the prophet, and this is the 
story Nathan told. A rich man 
and a poor man, Nathan told the 
King, lived in the same city. The 
rich man had great flocks of 
sheep; the poor man had only 
one small lamb. A visitor came 
to the rich man's house, and the 
rich man spread a splendid feast 
before him. But instead of using 
a sheep f r o m his own abundant 
flocks, the rich man seized the 
lamb the poor man cherished and 
slaughtered it and served it to 
his guest. 

David listened to this tale of 
selfishness and brutality with 
growing wrath, and when it was 
finished he rose up in anger and 
cried: "As the Lord liveth, the 
man t h a t hath done this is a 
child of death." 

And Nathan said to h i m : 
"Thou a r t the man." 

"Thou a r t the man." When we 
hear attacks upon our brothers, 
and hasten to join in them our-
selves; when we sit in the chair 
of the Pharisee and raise our 
hands in horror at the rumor of 
our brother's f a u l t ; when we are 
tempted to condemn our brother 
by t h a t stern and rigid rule we 
keep f o r others; then, then, if 
we are honest, we will hear in 
our own hearts the words of 
Nathan, words t h a t are meant 
f o r us: "Thou a r t the m a n ! " 

If our eyes are opened as Da-
vid's were; if we have something 
of David's greatness of soul; we 
can say, humbly, as David said: 
" I have sinned against the 
Lord." And Christ's new com-
mandment will break like the 
dawning upon a new heart. 

God bless you. 



T H A T YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER 
Talk given on November 11,1951 

My dear f r i e n d s : 
One day while the human race 

was still young in years but al-
ready old in evil, God said to 
Cain: "Where is thy brother 
Abel?" And Cain answered: " I 
know not: am I my brother's 
keeper?" Then God said to him: 
"What hast thou done? the voice 
of thy brother's blood crieth to 
me f r o m the earth" (Gen. 4:9-
10). 

"Am I my brother's keeper?"^ 
These words are not an inno-

cent question; they are not even 
simply a poor excuse. They are 
hateful words, and death is in 
them, and man's history is bleak 
in their shadow. In hundreds of 
tongues, in thousands of forms, 
and millions of times; in accents 
sullen, defiant, revengeful, and 
cynical, they have sullied men's 
lips. And whenever, wherever, 
men say them, behind them the 
voice of a brother's blood cries 
out to God f r o m the thirsty 
ground. 

This is a sombre background 
against which to speak about 
charity, about the love of God 
above all things, and the love of 
our brothers f o r the sake of 

God; but the love t h a t Christ 
brought us to light up the world 
shines best against the dark. I t 
was in the black hour of His be-
trayal that our Lord gave us His 
last testament of love. While 
Judas Iscariot was hurrying 
through the night to a traitor's 
rendezvous—at t h a t very time 
our Lord was saying to the elev-
en Apostles still around the Sup-
per table: "A new commandment 
I give unto you: That you love 
one another, as I. have loved you, 
that you also love one another" 
(John 13:34). This was truly a 
new commandment; in all the 
world's recorded history, no 
words like these had ever been 
spoken before. It was also 
Christ's own commandment, 
particularly and entirely His. A 
few minutes later He repeated 
it, f o r there must be no mis-
understanding or mistake. "This 
is my commandment," He said; 
—"This is my commandment, 
that you love one another, as I 
have loved you" (John 15: 12). 

This week and next, we will 
t r y together, relying humbly on 
His help, to face in simple hon-
esty what our Lord asks of us 
in His new commandment. It is 



"THAT YOU LOVE ONE A N O T H E R . . . " 11 
not easy. But then, He never said 
it was. 

I think t h a t f o r today we 
should recall what Christ has 
told us about the love of those 
around us, our brothers under 
God. Now to speak of love of 
neighbor first does not by any 
means imply that love of neigh-
bor can be separated f r o m the 
love of God. Neither one can ex-
ist without the other, and there 
is no delusion more dangerous 
than to imagine that it can. Do 
you wish to have it said more 
bluntly? Then listen to Saint 
John: "If any man say, I love 
God, and hateth his brother; he 
is a liar. For he that loveth not 
his brother, whom he seeth, how 
can he love God, whom he seeth 
not? And this commandment we 
have from God, that he, who 
loveth God, love also his broth-
e r " (I John 4 : 20-21). Saint 
Augustine too was f a i t h f u l to his 
Master's teaching when he 
wrote: "Never say—never!— 
when you sin against your 
brother, 'I have offended only a 
man.' It is not so. When you sin 
against charity, you sin against 
God." 

It is a sad commentary on the 
sincerity of our Christian pro-
fession t h a t the basic obligation 
of the Christian life, the one our 
Lord most often emphasized, is 

the very-one in which we most 
often fail. For a ribbon in his 
coat, f o r a handful of silver, f o r 
an acre of ground, a man will 
betray and attack his brother; 
sometimes, even, when there is 
no personal advantage to be 
gained, when the only motive is 
envy, he will t r y by calumny and 
by slander to destroy his broth-
er's reputation. And yet, a t least 
twenty times in the f o u r Gospels 
Christ pleads with us, urges us, 
commands us to love and help 
and forgive and show mercy to 
bur brothers under God. There 
is no other commandment—none 
whatsoever — that is repeated 
anywhere nearly so often. To 
take only one example, how could 
our Lord have spoken more 
plainly than in the great de-
scription of the Last Judgment 
in the tweney-fifth chapter of 
Saint Matthew? Here the Son 
of Man, the King of Heaven, 
Christ our Lord in the glory 
of His angels, says to the j u s t 
men standing a t His right 
h a n d : "Come, ye blessed of 
my Father, possess you the king-
dom prepared f o r you from the 
foundation of the world. For I 
was hungry, and you gave me to 
eat: I was thirsty, and you gave 
me to drink: I was a stranger, 
and you took me i n : naked, and 
you covered me: sick, and you 



12 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
visited me: I was in prison, and 
you came to me." Then the bless-
ed ask our Lord in wonder, when 
did they do all this to Him? And 
He answers: "As long as you 
did it to one of these my least 
brethren, you did it to me." The 
tone of judgment changes, and 
the Lord of justice turns to those 
on His left hand: "Depart f r o m 
me, you cursed, into everlasting 
fire which was prepared f o r the 
devil and his angels. For I was 
hungry, and you gave me not to 
eat: I was thirsty, and you gave 
me not to drink. I was a strang-
er, and you took me not in; nak-
ed and you covered me not: sick, 
and in prison, and you did not 
visit me." The same question is 
asked again, this time by those 
who may have saved, in the 
world, much time and goods and 
money^by their lack of charity, 
but who have lost their souls: 
"Lord, when did we see thee 
hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, 
or naked, or sick, or in prison, 
and did not minister to thee?" 
Once again the answer is the 
same: "As long as you did it not 
to one of these least, neither did 
you do it to me" (Matt. 25: 31-
46). 

There are two things t h a t 
strike us immediately about our 
Lord's foretelling of the Last 
Judgment. F i r s t : those who are 

condemned are not accused of 
having gone out of their way to 
do positive harm to their broth-
er, but simply of having refused 
to help him in his need. We do 
not satisfy Christ's command-
ment of love merely by going our 
own way through life, ourselves 
to ourselves, and ourselves f o r 
ourselves, "looking out f o r Num-
ber One," "paddling our own 
canoe," "refusing to fight other 
people's battles,"—and all the 
rest of the shoddy cliches in the 
vocabulary of selfishness. The 
question Cain asked, and that we 
have atked so many times, is no 
escape. It has only one answer: 
"Yes. You are your brother's 
keeper!" Second, Christ's de-
scription of the Last Judgment 
is not so much remarkable f o r 
what it includes, as f o r what it 
leaves out. We are not astonished 
to have the Lord of Judgment 
insist on love of neighbor. But 
have you noticed t h a t He insists 
on nothing else? Indeed, in the 
whole tremendous scene of judg-
ment, He mentions nothing else. 

What does this mean? What 
can it mean but that our love of 
neighbor is the touchstone and 
the index and the proof of all our 
faith, of our devotion, and of 
our service to Almighty God? 
"He that loveth his neighbor," 
Saint Paul wrote to the Romans, 



"THAT YOU LOVE ONE A N O T H E R . . . " 13 
"hath fulfilled the law" (Rom. 
13: 9). If we seek the measure 
of our love of God, we need only 
ask ourselves an honest question, 
and have the courage to give our-
selves an honest answer. Our 
love of God is in exact propor-
tion to our love of those who 
share with us this earth God 
made. How do I love God? is the 
same question as, how do I love 
my neighbor? If we seek to 
know what we think of Christ, 
and how we t r e a t Him, we need 
ask ourselves only what we 
think of and how we treat the 
least and the poorest and the 
weakest of His brothers and 
ours. These are tests that are 
easy to make. Do we dare, really 
dare to make them? 

As we continue to read 
through the Gospels, we find that 
Christ has given us careful 
guidance on how to live our lives 
in love of neighbor. He has left 
nothing uncertain. He has left 
nothing to our whim or fancy. 
He has left nothing to chance. 
He has given us three things. 
The first is a warning; the sec-
ond is a privilege; the third is 
a command. 

First, the warning. I t comes to 
us, as many of Christ's lessons 
do, in a parable. Our Lord once 
told his disciples a story about 
a king whose servant owed him 

a great sum of money—ten thou-
sand talents, about sixty million 
times the average daily wage in 
Gospel times. The servant could 
not pay the king, and the king 
had pity on him, and forgave 
him the whole enormous debt. 
When the servant who had j u s t 
been forgiven through the king's 
mercy had left the palace he met 
a fellow servant—one who owed 
him money. The amount was 
relatively trifling— a hundred 
pence: only one six-hundred-
thousandth part of the debt the 
king had just forgiven. But now 
the tables were turned. The debt-
or had become a creditor. He 
brushed aside all pleas f o r mercy 
and had his fellow servant seiz-
ed and thrown in prison until the 
last penny should be paid. When 
the merciful king had heard of 
this he called the first man back 
into his palace and spoke to 
him in righteous anger:. "Thou 
wicked servant, I forgave thee 
all the debt, because thou be-
soughtest me: Shouldst no thou 
then have had compassion also 
on thy fellow-servant, even as I 
had compassion on thee?" And 
then the king revoked his for-
giveness of the debt, and treated 
the wicked servant as his selfish 
heart deserved. When the par-
able was finished, our Lord said: 
"So also shall my heavenly Fa-



14 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
ther do to you, if you forgive 
not every one his brother f r o m 
your hearts" (Matt. 18: 23-35). 

Has any one of us failed to 
recognize himself? 

Have we failed to see our f a -
vorite excuse f o r lack of love de-
molished? We say to ourselves: 
"Well, I may have been a little 
bit uncharitable in such and 
such a case, if you want to be 
technical about it. But is was 
such a little thing, so unimport-
ant, so—what's the word I 
want?—picayune. And anyway, 
I was within my rights, wasn't 
I ? I had good reason, didn't I ? 
I have to show people t h a t they 
can't make light of me, don't I ? 
Oh, but why should I bother to 
think about it, even? I t was such 
a trifling, unimportant m a t t e r ! " 

This is what we say to our-
selves. We may not say it in j u s t 
these words, but we say it. 

My dear friends, my brothers 
in Christ, the whole point of the 
parable is that the wicked ser-
vant acted uncharitably in a 
trifling, unimportant matter. He 
refused to forgive his brother 
servant when his king had j u s t 
forgiven him in a matter six 
hundred thousand times as 
great. How could the lesson be 
clearer? As we t r e a t our broth-
ers in small things, so God will 

treat us in the greatest, This is 
the warning. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ al-
so gave us a privilege. He in-
vited us to pray to God to treat 
us a t His judgment seat as we 
t r e a t our brothers on the earth. 
The words in which we exercise 
our privilege are as familiar to 
us as our own name. They are in 
the prayer Christ gave us when 
one of His disciples begged H i m : 
"Lord, teach us to pray." How 
often, how many times a day, a 
year, a lifetime do we plead with 
our Father in heaven to "for-
give us our trespasses, as we 
forgive those who trespass 
against us"? "Forgive us," we 
say, "in the manner, in the mea-
sure, that we forgive our broth-
ers in the world." "Forgive us 
our trespasses, as we forgive 
those who trespass against us." 
Unless we forgive our brothers 
f o r their faults against us, f o r -
give them with a full and open 
heart, how can we nerve our-
selves to ask God t h a t He t r e a t 
us as we t r e a t them? How can 
we act in hatred and revenge, 
and speak to God as if we were 
acting in love? But this is our 
glorious and dangerous privil-
ege: to fix and determine by our 
mercy towards others the mercy 
we dare to ask of Him. 

A warning, a privilege, and a t 



"THAT YOU LOVE ONE A N O T H E R . . . " 17 

last a command. The command, 
of course, is that we love one an-
other as Christ has loved us. 
How has He loved us, and how 
must we love in t u r n ? How are 
love of God and neighbor here 

united in a divine simplicity that 
reflects the very unity of God? 
All this, God willing, we shall 
think about next week. Until 
t h e n . . . 

May God bless you. 



. . AS I HAVE LOVED YOU' 
Talk given on November 18, 1951 

My dear f r i e n d s : 
Some years ago, I saw f o r the 

first time the "Sand Hills" coun-
t r y of North Carolina. As every 
visitor there does, I suppose, I 
a d m i r e d extravagantly the 
beauty of the magnificent long-
leafed pine trees. I remember 
telling everyone who would 
listen that they were different, 
completely different, f r o m any 
pine tree I had ever seen be-
fore. 

A f t e r a few days in Carolina, 
I came back to Washington; and 
the first thing t h a t struck my 
eye on the University campus, 
almost directly in f r o n t of the 
building I live in, and right be-
side a path I travel every day, 
was one of those same long-
leafed pines. 

I t had not been planted while 
I was away, either. I t had been 
there f o r years. 

Probably most of us, a t one 
time or another, have had much 
the same sort of experience—an 
experience that makes us real-
ize t h a t just to look a t some-
thing does not mean necessarily 
t h a t we see it. Sometimes the 
things we are most familiar 

with are those of which we are 
least aware. I t is possible, f o r 
instance—we spoke about this 
last week—to say the Lord's 
Prayer thousands of times, and 
not to realize what we are ask-
ing for, what we are committing 
ourselves to, when we ask our 
Father in heaven to forgive us 
our trespasses as we forgive 
those who trespass against us. I 
said it was possible. It must be 
possible t h a t we j u s t do not 
realize what these words mean, 
or we could not go on saying 
the Lord's Prayer and acting to-
wards our brothers the way we 
do. 

The same thing is true of the 
Gospels. We can read them over 
and over again; they can be, as 
they should be, p a r t of our lives. 
And then suddenly one day a 
word or phrase will strike us in 
all its tremendous meaning, and 
we will discover that, although 
we have looked at it times with-
out number, we have never 
really seen it before. 

Often, during the past few 
weeks, I have felt t h a t what I 
have just been saying is t r u e 
f o r many of us about those 



". . . AS I HAVE LOVED YOU" 17 
wonderful words that make up 
our Lord's last testament of 
love. "A new commandment I 
give unto you," He said, "That 
you love one another, as I have 
loved you, t h a t you also love one 
another" (John 13:34). 

F i r s t of all, what is "new" 
about this new commandment? 
Our Lord had spoken many 
times about the love of neigh-
bor, f a r more frequently, in 
fact, than he had spoken about 
anything else. In the Sermon 
on the Mount, He had recalled 
the "Golden Rule"; while teach-
ing in the Temple a t Jerusalem, 
He had reminded us of the two 
great commandments of the 
Law. Why had He saved His 
new commandment f o r that Last 
Supper with His apostles on the 
night before He died? 

I think we can understand 
the reason why, when we re-
member t h a t the Son of God 
came to earth not only as our 
Redeemer, but as our Teacher 
too. He came not only to make 
the Kingdom of Heaven reach-
able, but to show us how to 
reach it. The last few days of 
Christ's life on earth are the 
climax not only of His work of 
redemption, but of His work as 
a Teacher as well. 

Now Christ our Lord was a 
great Teacher, beyond compare 

the greatest that the world has 
ever seen. He was a careful 
Teacher, and a prudent one. He 
knew t h a t men must be pre-
pared f o r truth, and t h a t the 
higher and nobler a t r u t h is, 
the longer and more difficult is 
the preparation to receive it. He 
knew too that a man's mind per-
ceives the truth, but it is man's 
heart and will t h a t act upon it. 

This is why our divine Lord 
did not teach His people every-
thing all at once. Gradually, 
patiently, He explained who He 
was and why He lived among 
us—the Son of God our brother 
and our fellow human being. 
Gradually, patiently, by His 
charity towards the poor, His 
mercy f o r the sinner, and His 
compassion on the sick and 
wounded of the world, He 
moulded and formed men's 
hearts. From the very begin-
ning He acted and spoke as the 
Messias announced by the 
prophets, and with the wisdom 
and authority of the co-equal 
Son of God; but He made no 
general, startling public claims 
until He had taught His people 
carefully, by His words and His 
example, what the Messias' mis-
sion really was; until He had 
prepared their minds and hearts 
to realize t h a t it was not strange 
or peculiar, but supremely and 



18 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
divinely right t h a t the Son of a 
village maiden and the foster-
Son of a Nazareth carpenter 
should a t the same time be the 
world's Saviour and the eternal 
Son of the most high God. 

In exactly the same way our 
Lord made ready men's minds 
and hearts f o r the complete and 
perfect way of life and love He 
gave them on the night before 
He died — f o r His new com-
mandment, t h a t we love one an-
other as He has loved us. 

Early in His public life, in the 
Sermon on the Mount, our Lord 
said to the multitude gathered 
around H i m : "All things there-
f o r e whatsoever you would t h a t 
men should do to you, do you 
also to them" "(Matt. 7:12). Now 
this is a rule and a good one, 
otherwise Christ would not have 
pronounced i t ; but it is a pre-
liminary rule, and an introduc-
tory one; it is not His final and 
personal word. I t appeals to our 
reason, to our human nature and 
human discretion. And it was 
not new. In its negative form, 
"Do unto no one what you would 
not have him do unto you," we 
find it in the writings of the 
ancient pagan Stoic philoso-
phers; and we find a similar 
expression in the Old "Testa-
ment. I t is a logical rule, since 
all men have the same nature. 

I t is a discrete rule, since we 
should not expect other men to 
treat us any better than we t r e a t 
them. It is a "Golden Rule," as 
f a r as it goes; but it does not 
go as f a r as Christ was to go and 
as f a r as we as Christians must 
follow Him. 

Later on in His public life, 
towards the end of the last year, 
our Lord was approached one 
day in the Temple by a Phar-
isee, a doctor of the Law. 
Whether this man was fully sin-
cere or not is difficult to say, 
but at any rate he asked a clear 
and simple question: "Master, 
which is the great command-
ment in the law?" Jesus ans-
wered: "Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with thy whole 
heart, and with thy whole soul, 
and with thy whole mind. This 
is the greatest and t h e . f i r s t 
commandment. And the second 
is like to t h i s : Thou shalt love 
thy neighbor as thyself" (Matt. 
22: 35-39). Here too we have a 
rule of life, and a fuller and 
more perfect one than the 
"Golden Rule." Here the love of 
neighbor is bound up closely, as 
it must be, with the love of God. 
The f i r s t great commandment 
our Lord recalled to the Pharisee 
is part of t h a t noble prayer of 
the Jewish people called the 
Shema. I t was well known to our 



". . . AS I HAVE LOVED YOU" 19 
Lord's hearers since it was re-
peated twice a day, morning and 
night, by every son of Israel 
grown to man's estate. The 
second great commandment, 
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
as thyself," is found also in the 
Old Testament. Neither one 
could be called completely new. 
I say "completely" new f o r two 
reasons. F i r s t because some 
competent scholars believe it 
probable that our Lord was the 
f i r s t one in the history of His 
people to bind these two com-
mandments so closely together; 
and second because our Lord did 
enlarge and broaden the hor-
izons of his hearers, teaching 
them t h a t by their "neighbor" 
was meant not only the members 
of their own family, tribe, or 
race, but also the strangers who 
dwelt in foreign lands, and even 
their hereditary enemies. So 
even the most familiar words of 
the ancient Law, when spoken 
by our Lord, took on a new and 
deeper and wider meaning f r o m 
Him who makes all things new. 

Now even the great command-
ment that we love our neighbor 
as we love oursqjves is not the 
final and personal command-
ment of our Lord. He who came 
not to destroy but to fulfill the 
Law and the prophets was to 
fulfill beyond any human meas-

ure the law of love. The measure 
of love Christ gave us is not only 
the "Golden Rule" of doing to 
others what we would wish them 
to do to us; it is not only the 
great commandment to love our 
neighbor as we love ourselves. 
We do not find Christ's measure 
in the pagan philosophers; we 
do not find it in the ancient 
Law. Christ's own command-
ment, the one that includes and 
fulfills and makes perfect all the 
others, is to love one another as 
He has loved us! 

All this we are led to think 
about when we see, and do not 
just look at, the little word 
"new." 

We see now too why Christ re-
served His new commandment 
f o r the night before He died. 
Who could understand the mean-
ing of Christ's love f o r us, until 
He had lived His life f o r us? 
Who could ever understand the 
meaning of His death upon the 
cross, unless He Himself had 
told us, in the same breath in 
which He gave us His command-
ment: "Greater love than this 
no man hath, t h a t a man lay 
down his life f o r his f r i e n d s " ? 
(John 15: 13). To see the dying 
Christ on Calvary is to see not 
only what He has done f o r us, 
it is to see what He has com-
manded us to be ready and will-



20 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
ing to do f o r Him. And remem-
ber too, remember, t h a t what we 
do f o r the least of His brothers 
on earth — t h a t is what we do 
f o r Him. The love t h a t could 
say to the penitent t h i e f : "This 
day thou shalt be with me in 
paradise" (Luke 23:43), is the 
love t h a t He expects of us. The 
love t h a t could say about those 
who crucified H i m : "Father, for-
give them, f o r they know not 
what they do"' (Luke 23:34)— 
that is the love He expects of us. 

The love whose pain and cost 
is God's body dead upon a cross 
—that is the love He expects of 
us. 

Please believe me, there has 
been no exaggeration in what 
has been said about the supreme 
obligation of Christian charity 
and the lesser obligations it in-
cludes. Saint John has said it in 
very simple words, and Saint 
John saw his Master live and 
die, and listened to Him when 
He taught. This is what Saint 
John said: "God has proved his 
love to us by laying down his 
life f o r our sakes; we too must 
be ready to lay down our lives 
f o r the sake of our brethren. 
And now, suppose that a man 
has the worldly goods he needs, 
and sees his brother go in want; 
if he steels his heart against his 

brother, how can we say t h a t the 
love of God dwells in him? My 
little children, let us show our 
love by the true test of action, 
not by taking phrases on our 
lips" (John 3:16-18). These 
words of the Beloved Apostle are 
so gentle and childlike t h a t we 
have to look at them closely to 
see how they glow with the light 
and the f i r e and the flame of 
Christian love. 

Once the Master has given us 
the proper master-key, all doors 
come open a t our touch. Why, 
f o r instance, could Saint Paul 
say that "He t h a t loveth his 
neighbor, hath fulfilled the law" ? 
(Rom. 13: 8) Why did he not 
mention also here t h e love of 
God? Can a man love his neigh-
bor without loving God? 

Ah, but Saint Paul knew well 
that we cannot love one another 
as Christ wills us to love, unless 
we love one another in and f o r 
God. Why is no human motive 
sufficient? Because we love one 
another as Christ has loved us, 
and His love f o r us was not only 
human but divine. No human 
motive is strong enough to make 
us live, to make us willing to die 
not only f o r our friends and im-
mediate family, but f o r the least 
of all Christ's brothers in the 
world. No human vision is clear 



". . . AS I HAVE LOVED YOU" 21 
enough to see through the smoke 
of earth's battles, to pierce 
through veils of hate and iron 
curtains, and find among those 
who act as our enemies the souls 
Christ died to save. There is no" 
other way to see all our brothers 
but through the eyes of God. 
We are allowed to hate no one; 
there is no one we can deliber-
ately exclude f r o m our charity, 
however a stranger, however 
a f a r . Humanly this is impos-
sible; but all things are possible 
in God. In God. The love of one 
another Christ commanded is 
bound up with the very inner 
life of God. For our Lord has 
told us t h a t we must love one 
another as He has loved us; and 
He has told us also t h a t He 
loves us even as His Father in 

heaven loves Him (cf. John 15: 
9). 

One final word. If anyone 
should tell you that to think as 
we have been doing together 
about the love of God and neigh-
bor is "impractical," "remote 
f r o m our daily lives," or " f a r -
fetched," do not believe him f o r 
an instant. Possibly within the 
next few minutes, probably 
within the hour, certainly with-
in the day, every one of us will 
be faced with some choice — to 
speak or be silent, to act or not 
to act; and the choice we make 
will witness to God how real our 
charity is. May the Christ who 
loved us even unto Calvary help 
all of us love in turn. 

God bless you. 



THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 
Talk given on November 25, 1951 

My dear f r i e n d s : 
On the twenty-fourth of 

August, in the year 410, the 
barbarian armies of Alaric the 
Goth captured and plundered the 
city of Rome. It was t h e f i r s t 
great disaster in the long trag-
edy of the fall of the Roman Em-
pire, and the news ran like an 
earthquake tremor through the 
world. For a thousand years 
Rome had been the triumphant 
symbol of earthly stability, pow-
er, pride; and even the bitterest 
critics of its luxury and corrup-
tion were shocked to see the Im-
perial City trampled in the dust. 
From far-off Bethlehem we hear 
the words of Saint Jerome: "A 
terrible rumor reaches me f r o m 
the West, telling of Rome be-
sieged, bought f o r gold, besieged 
again, life and property perish-
ing together. My voice falters, 
sobs stifle the words I dictate; 
f o r she is a captive, the city t h a t 
held the world in thrall." 

In northern Africa, the Bish-
op Saint Augustine pondered 
long and deeply over a curious 
contrast: despite the power of 
its once mighty legions, Rome 
was falling; while the unarmed, 

defenseless Church of Christ 
lived on. Why was the one dying, 
why did the other live? These 
questions Saint Augustine ans-
wered in a book that was thir-
teen years in the writing, a book 
he called "The City of God." 

"Two loves," he said, "built 
two cities. The earthly city was 
built by the love of self carried 
even to contempt of God; the 
heavenly city was built by the 
love of God, carried even to con-
tempt of self. The earthly city 
glories in itself; the heavenly 
city glories in the Lord. . . In 
the one, the princes and nations 
it subdues are ruled by the love 
of ruling; in the other, the 
princes and subjects serve one 
another in love. . . The one de-
lights in its own strength, rep-
resented by the persons of its 
rulers; the other says to its God, 
'I will love thee, 0 Lord, my 
s t r e n g t h . ' " 

Not long a f t e r Saint Augus-
tine finished writing "The City 
of God," his own home city in 
Africa fell to the barbarian hor-
des. He lay on his death-bed 
while the Vandal armies were 
drawn up around the city walls. 



THE FULLNE 
Augustine died, and the city he 
lived in was destroyed; but his 
words did not die and they can-
not be destroyed. As Cardinal 
Newman wrote of h i m : "His 
voice is gone out into all lands, 
and his words unto the ends of 
the worid. He needs no dwelling-
place, whose home is the Catho-
lic Church; he f e a r s no barbar-
ian or heretical desolation, whose 
creed is destined to last unto 
the end." 

For Saint Augustine, the City 
of God was both a symbol and 
a reality. As a symbol it was 
timeless; its citizens were all 
those who since the making of 
the angels have carried on the 
battle against the Prince of Evil 
f o r the love of God. As a reality, 
the City of God was that city of 
love t h a t dwells in time and on 
the earth, and is known to men 
as the Catholic Church. 

During this past month, we 
have been trying to understand 
together the meaning of that 
love of God and neighbor Christ 
gave us as a rule of life. "A new 
commandment I give unto you," 
He said a t the Last Supper: 
" T h a t you love one another, as 
I have loved you, that you also 
love one another" (John 13: 34). 
We saw last week t h a t to love 
one another as Christ has loved 
us means simply that we must be 

3S OF CHRIST 23 
ready to live and willing even to 
die f o r the least of Christ's 
brothers on the earth. We saw 
too t h a t such love is impossible 
unless it is founded on the love 
of God. 

Our Lord's new commandment 
is the key to many things. I t 
opens up to us the meaning of 
His life and death f o r us; it 
unlocks f o r us the riddle of our 
own existence on the earth. I t is 
also, I think, the key to an un-
derstanding of the Church 
Christ founded to be His living 
voice forever among men. 

The Church is truly the City 
of God, and built by the love of 
God, as Saint Augustine wrote 
so many centuries ago. Had it 
been an earthly city, built by 
selfishness and lust f o r power, 
it would long ago have vanished 
in the mist of centuries, like the 
empires of Assyria and Babylon 
and Rome. Had the Church been 
an earthly city I would not now 
be speaking these words, nor 
would you be listening to them. 
There would be no "Catholic 
Hour," because there would be 
no Catholic Church. 

The love t h a t built, and builds . 
today God's City is the love 
Christ had f o r us — t h a t love 
f o r God His heavenly F a t h e r 
and love f o r us His fellow hu-
man beings t h a t Christ com-



24 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
manded us to have if we pre-
sumed to use His name. The love 
by which the Catholic Church 
today works and lives, and in the 
blood of martyrs dies to rise 
again, is the love Christ had— 
and has!—for us. It is not a 
love like t h a t of Christ, it is not 
an imitation or an echo of t h a t 
love. I t is the same love. In the 
love of the Church, Christ loves; 
in Christ's love, the Church 
loves. 

Please let me explain what I 
mean, because it is very import-
ant. Unless we understand it, we 
cannot understand the Church. 

Paradoxically enough, t h e 
Catholic Church would not be 
the City of God unless it were 
more, even, than the City of God. 
For the Church our Lord found-
ed to be His heavenly city was 
to belong to Him in a manner 
f a r more intimate and wonder-
f u l than any city, even a heaven-
ly one, could ever do. His Church 
was to be His own living body, 
in a supernatural and divinely 
mysterious sense. This is what 
we mean when we speak of the 
Church as the Mystical Body of 
Christ. 

Do we realize what it means, 
do we dare to face what it 
means, to be a member of the 
Church of Christ? Listen to 
what Saint Paul wrote to the 

Romans: " F o r j u s t as in one 
body we have many members, 
yet all the members have not the 
same function, so we, the many, 
are one body in Christ, but sev-
erally members one of another" 
(Rom. 12: 4-5). Here, too, is 
what Saint Paul wrote to the 
Christians of Corinth: " F o r as 
the body is one, and has many 
members, and all the members of 
the body, many as they are, 
form one body, so also is it with 
Christ. . . And if one member 
s u f f e r s anything, all the mem-
bers s u f f e r with it, or if one 
member glories, all the members 
rejoice with it. Now you are the 
body of Christ, member f o r 
member" (I Cor. 12: 12, 26-27). 

Surely the meaning of all this 
is clear. Obviously the Church is 
not the human, physical body of 
Christ, which is present only in 
heaven, on His Father's right 
hand, and on earth in the Holy 
Eucharist under the appearance 
of bread and wine. But the 
Church is Christ's body — as 
we said a moment ago—in a 
supernatural and mysterious 
sense. The members of the 
Church are bound together and 
act together as a human body 
acts; each member depends upon 
the others, and what affects one 
of them affects all. As the hu-
man mind directs and rules a hu-



THE FULLNE 3S OF CHRIST 25 
man body, so Christ our Lord, 
the Head of the Church, directs 
and rules the members of His 
Mystical Body. And like human 
blood the grace of Christ courses 
through the veins and arteries, 
the sacramental channels that 
nourish His Mystical Body, the 
Church. This is why we are able 
to -say, this is why we must say, 
t h a t when the Church acts, 
Christ acts; and when the 
Church loves, Christ loves — not 
with a similar love, not with a 
parallel love, but with the same 
love! 

Is it so very hard now, when 
we realize this, to love one an-
other as Christ has loved us? 
When He gave us His new com-
mandment, He did not leave us 
to shoulder its burden alone. He 
did not leave us orphans, with-
out help, without a guide. He 
left us with a Church t h a t is His 
body, with a living voice that is 
His own, with a work of love 
to do t h a t is His work, with a 
life of love to lead that is the 
life He leads on earth. 

I said unless we understand 
all this, we cannot understand 
the Church. Why does the 
Church teach, and insist upon its 
right to teach ? Because Christ 
taught, and in His Church He 
teaches still. Why does the 
Church stand humbly yet f e a r -

lessly before the tyrants of the 
world? Because Christ so stood 
before tyrants, and in His 
Church He stands before them 
still. Why is the Church so mer-
ciful to unfashionable sinners, 
and so stern towards fashion-
able sins? Because Christ was 
merciful, and Christ was stern, 
and in His Church He is the 
same way still. 

I shall not belabor the point 
by listing the Church's works of 
charity towards the poor and the 
sick and the unfortunate of 
every land. Our Lord once said: 
"The works which the Father 
hath given me to perfect; the 
works themselves which I do, 
give testimony of me, that the 
Father hath sent me" (John 
5:36). And in His Church He 
says the same thing still. 

When we think about Christ's 
new commandment of love, we 
cannot help recalling the great--
est g i f t of all He left us. We 
think about them together, be-
cause they go together. He 
willed to live in us, and willed 
that we should live in Him, in 
His Mystical Body the Church. 
But He did even more than that. 
On the night He gave us His 
new commandment—on t h a t 
same night before He died, He 
willed and He accomplished t h a t 



26 A NEW COMMANDMENT 
the love by which His Mystical 
Body lives should find its vital 
center and its living food in His 
own body and. blood, soul and 
divinity in the Blessed Sacra-
men of the altar. He took bread 
and blessed it, and said:. "This 
is my body, which is given f o r 
you"; and He took in like man-
ner the chalice of wine and said: 
"This is my blood of the new 
testament, which shall be shed 
f o r many unto remission of 
sins." He said, too: "Do this f o r 
a commemoration of me." (Luke 
22: 19; Matt. 26: 28). So, as 
He had promised, He gave to His 
apostles and through them to us 
forever, His body and blood as 
the food of eternal life. 

When our Lord commanded us 
to love one another as He has 
loved us, He did not hide f r o m 
us what that love means. "Great-
er love than this no man hath," 
He said, " t h a t a man lay down 
his life f o r his f r i e n d s " (John 
15: 13). In the Holy Eucharist, 
His body and blood, the body 
that was bruised and beaten f o r 
us and the blood t h a t was shed 
f o r us, He gave us a commemor-
ation f o r as long as the world 
shall last, of how He has loved 
us, and of how we must love in 
our turn. Remember what Saint 
Paul said about the Holy Euch-

arist? " F o r as often as you shall 
eat this bread, and drink the 
chalice, you shall shew f o r t h the 
death of the Lord, until he 
come" (I Cor. 11: 23). Every 
moment of the day, in some 
corner of the world, the bread 
and wine of the Sacrifice of the 
Mass are changed into the body 
and blood of Christ. And every 
moment of the day, in great 
cathedrals, in village churches, 
and in the secret places hidden 
f r o m the persecutions of a brutal 
century, there rests upon the 
altar the sacramental proof of 
how Christ loves us. Is it so 
hard, so very hard now, when 
Christ Himself comes to us in 
the Eucharist, to love one an-
other as He has loved us? 

The love He asks of us is 
stronger than death is strong, 
and wider than the world is 
wide. It knows no barriers of 
race or color; no oceans limit it, 
or rational boundaries; it em-
braces those who believe as we 
do, and those who do not; no 
man is a stranger, no man 
stands alone; all men are our 
brothers, because Christ died f o r 
all. And whatever we do, how-
ever small, f o r love of God and 
our brothers, helps in some way 
to show to the world the fullness 
of Christ. 



THE FULLNE 3S OF CHRIST 27 
And so, f o r you and me, an-

other month together has come 
to an end. I have tried to recall 
to you — and to myself — a 
little of what Christ our Lord 
has told us about the love of God 
and of our fellow men. I am 
deeply grateful t o ' y o u f o r list-
ening; grateful to those of the 
Catholic F a i t h t h a t in God's 
mercy is mine as well and 
grateful to those who do 
not share t h a t Faith and of 
whose kindness and sympathy I 
have in many ways been made 
aware. No words of mine, I feel, 
would be a fitting close, but 
f r o m the great heart of Saint 
Paul there comes a prayer f o r all 
of us: 

"May Christ find a dwelling-

place, through faith, in your 
hearts; may your lives be rooted 
in love, founded on love. May 
you and all the saints be en-
abled to measure, in all its 
breadth and length and height 
and depth, the love of Christ, to 
know what passes knowledge. 
May you be filled with all the 
completion God has to give. He 
whose power is a t work in us is 
powerful enough, and more 
than powerful enough, to carry 
out his purpose beyond all our 
hopes and dreams; may he be 
glorified in the Church, and in 
Christ Jesus, to the last gener-
ation of eternity. Amen" (Eph. 
3: 17-21). 

God bless you and goodbye. 



THE PURPOSE OF THE CATHOLIC HOUR 
'Extract from the address of the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes at the in-

augural program of the Catholic Hour in the studio of the National 
Broadcasting Company, New York City, March 2, 1930.) 

Our congratulations and our gratitude are extended to the National 
Council of Catholic Men and its officials, and to all who. by their financial 
support, have made it possible to use this offer of the National Broad-
casting Company. The heavy expense of managing and financing a 
weekly program, its musical numbers, its speakers, the subsequent an-
swering of inquiries, must be met. . . . 

This radio hour is f o r all the people of the United States. To our 
fellow-citizens, in this word" of dedication, we wish to express a cordial 
greeting and, indeed, congratulations. For this radio hour is one of 
service to America, which certainly will listen in interestedly, and even 
sympathetically, I am sure, to the voice of the ancient Church with its 
historic background of all the centuries of the Christian era, and with 
its own notable contribution to the discovery, exploration, foundation 
and growth of our glorious country. . . . * 

Thus to voice before a vast public the Catholic Church is no light 
task. Our prayers will be with those who have t h a t task in hand. We 
feel certain t h a t it will have both the good will and t h e good wishes of 
the g r e a t m a j o r i t y of our countrymen. Surely, there is no t r u e lover 
of our Country who does not eagerly hope f o r a less worldly, a less 
material, and a more spiritual standard among our people. 

With good will, with kindness and with Christ-like sympathy f o r 
all. this work is inaugurated. So may it continue. So may it be f u l -
filled. This word of dedication voices, therefore, the hope t h a t this radio 
hour may serve to make known, to explain with the charity of Christ, 
our f a i t h , which we love even as we love Christ Himself. May it serve 
to make better understood t h a t f a i t h as it really is—a light revealing 
the pathway to heaven: a strength, and a power divine through Christ; 
pardoning our sins, elevating, consecrating our common every-day duties 
and joys, bringing not only justice but gladness and peace to our search-
ing and questioning hearts. 



127 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS 

Alabama-

Arizona 

In 4 2 States, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii 
Mobile _...._WALA 
Montgomery WSFA* 

California-

Colorado 
Connecticut 
District of Columbia-
Florida 

-Douglas KAWT 
Globe KWJR 
Phoenix ...KTAR 
Prescott . K Y C A 
Safford— KGLU 
Tucson . . . K V O A 
Yuma KYUM 

Bakersfìeld .KERO 
Fresno KMJ 
Los Angeles KFI 
Sacramento . „.. KCRA 
San Francisco .___ KPO 
Santa Barbara . ; KIST 

_ Denver : , KOA 

Georgia.. 

. Hartford W T I C * 

-Washington.... ; ..WRC 
-Jacksonville ...... ... ..WJAX 

Miami WIOD 
Orlando WORZ 
Pensacola WCOA 
Tampa... .. ... ...„ • .....WFLA 

. Attnntn . ..WSB 
A u g u s t a . — : .WTNT 
Savannah.... WSAV 

Idaho— 
Illinois... 

..K1DO* 

Indiana- . Elkhart 

Iowa  

Kansas-

Kentucky.. 
Louisiana-

Baton R o u g e — ...WJBO 

Maine  

Maryland-

Massachusetts.. 

Michigan  

Lafayette. 8 KVOL 
Lake Charles KPLC 
Monroe..... KNOE 
New Orleans WSMB 
Shreveoort.. .... i . KTBS* 

..Augusta WRDO 
Bangor .... .... WLBZ» 

.Baltimore .WTBO 
Cumberland /.: :............ ¿._.......WBAL 

,. Boston WBZ 
Springfield....:. WBZA 
Detroit-
Flint— 

WWJ 
..WTCB 

Minnesota 

Montana.. 

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...1240 kc 
_ 620 kc 
...1490 kc 
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1230 kc 
... 580 kc 

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1340 kc 
850 kc 

_ Boise ^ 

_ Ch icago WMAQ 
P e o r i a . — • .....__..., WEEK 

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. 970-620 kc 

750 kc 
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_ 1 3 8 0 kc 

- 670 kc 
.1350 kc 

...WTRC 
. - W O W O 
..WIRE* 

Fort Wayne 
Indianapolis 
Terre Haute WBOW 

.. Davenport— _..WOC* 
Des Moines WHO 

„Hutchinson .... KWBW 
Wichita - — ; _ _ — _ . . . K A N i 

.Louisville W A V E * 
-Alexandria...... KYSL 

1340 kc 
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1430 kc 
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Saginaw ... .......WSAM* 
Duluth-Superior WEBC 

-Hlbbing WMFG 
Mankato KYSM 
Minneapoils-St Paul ...........KSTP 
Rochester (CROC 

-Billings KGHL B a u m a n . . KRBM 



127 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS 
In 4 2 States, t h e District of Columbia, and Hawaii 

Butt« . KGIR 1370 ke 
Great Falls K X L K 1400 kc 
Helena K X U 1240 ke 

Nebraska North Platte. KOOY 1240 kc 
Omaha WOW - 590 kc 

Nevada. Reno. KOH* 630 kc 
New Hampshire Manchester S WFEA 1240 k* 
New Mexico Albuquerque KOB 1030 k c 
New York Buffalo. ... WBEN »30 kc 

New York WNBC «60 ke 
Schenectady :.WGY 810 ke 

North Carolina Asheville WISE» 1230 ke 
Charlotte. WSOC 1240 kc 
Raleigh WPTF 680 ke 
Winston-Salem WSJS 600 ke 

North Dakota Bismark KFYR 350 ke 
Fargo l WDAY 970 fcc 

Ohio Cleveland WTAM 1100 ke 
Lima — W L O K 1240 ke 
Toledo WSPD» 1340 kc 
Zanesville WHIZ 1240 kc 

Oklahoma Oklahoma City _ _ . W K Y » 930 ke 
T u l s a KVOO 1170 kc 

Oregon Med ford _ . . . K M E D 1440 kc 
Portland ....: ..KGW» ' 620 kc 

Pennsylvania Altoona WSAN 1470 kc 
Erie . WFBG 1340 kc 
Johnstown ; ...WERC 1230 kc 
Lewistown WJAC 1400 kc 
Philadelphia WMRF _ _ _ 1 4 9 0 kc 
Pittsburgh KYW _ 1 0 6 0 kc 
Reading .KOKA 1020 kc 
Wilkes-Barre WRAW 1340 kc 
Williamsport WBRE 1340 ke 
Allentown WRAK 1400 ke 

Rhode Island Providence WJAR 920 kc 
South Carolina. .Charleston— : WTMA 1290 kc 

Columbia .W'iS* 560 kc 
Greenville W F B C * 1330 kc 

South Dakota Sioux Falls KSOO-KELO ..1140-1230 kc 
Tennessee Memphis ; WMC* 790 kc 

Nashville— , WSM* 650 kc 
Texas Amarlllo KGNC* 1440 kc 

El Paso KTSM* 1380 kc 
Fort Worth WPAB* 820 kc 
Houston KPRC* 950 kc 
San Antonio WOAI 1200 kc 
Weslaco KRGV* _ _ _ _ _ 1 2 9 0 kc 

Utah Salt Lake City __..~KYDL» 1320 kc 
Virginia i Harrisonburg • » WSVA ; 550 kc 

Martinsville .....WMVA 1450 kc 
Norfolk : WTAR» 790 kc 
Richmond WMBG 1380 ke 

Washington Seattle KOMO* 950 kc 
Spokane KHQ* 590 kc 

Wisconsin Eau Claire WEAU 790 kc 
La Crosse. WKBH 1410 kc 
Marinette v̂maM* d/o 

Hawaii ! Honolulu ¿ . ù u / « o Kc 

* Delayed Broadcast 
(Revised as of March 6, 1949 

•* AM and FM 



CATHOLIC HOUR RADIO ADDRESSES IN 
PAMPHLET FORM 

P r i c e s Subject t o change without notice. 
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR is t h e authorised publisher of all CATHOLIC H O U R ad-

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, , J , ' T h e D l * 2 ? e R o m a n c e , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 80 pages and cover. Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 20c each. I n quantities, $10.75 per 100. 

H ' " t C h ? r c h ' " b y R t - Rev. Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, 88 pages a n d cover Single copy. 26c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 20c each. In quantities, $13.00 per 100. 
q , ' , ? 1 " Marks o f t h e C h u r c h , " by Rev. Dr. J o h n K. C a r t w r i g h t , 48 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities. $8.00 p e r 100. 
fR<5 " » h e / 9 r f . a n i i a t i 0 n J , U M i Go™"! 1 »™* of t h e Church," by Rev. Dr. F r a n c i s J . Connell, 
i u a n t u i e s f 8 P ? 0 ^ e r n i 0 0 C O V e r - S m B ' e C ° P y ' 2 ° C P O S t P a i d ; 6 o r m o r e ' 1 6 c «*»>, I n 
M ' ' " j ^ n F ? c t p ™ 1" Economic L i f e , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. F r a n c i s J . Haas and R t . Rev. 
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"Divine Helps f o r M a n , " by Rev. Dr. E d w a r d J . Walsh, C.M., 104 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 80c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $15.00 p e i 100. 
" T b t P a r a b l e s , " by Rev. J o h n A. McClorey. S.J., 128 pages and cover. Single copy, 85c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 80c each. I n quantities, $18.00 per 100. 
" C h r i s t i a n i t y ' s Contribution to Civilization," by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 96 pages 

a n a cover. Single copy, 30c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $13.76 p e r 100. 
, " T h ® t h e Cross," by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 82 pages a n d cover 
(prayer book size). Single copy, 10c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 6c each. In quantities, $4.00 p e r 100. 

„ " < S f f a t f r v " y Re»; Dr. I g n a t i u s Smith, O.P., 48 pages and cover. Single copy, ZOc p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.60 per 100. 
" R u r a l Catholic A c t i o n , " by Rev. Dr. E d g a r Schmiedeler, O.S.B., 24 pages and cover Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $7.60 p e r 100. 
"Religion a n d H u m a n N a t u r e , " by Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Daly, 40 pages a n d cover, s i n g l e copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. . " T h e Church and Some O u t s t a n d i n g Problems of t h e D a y , " by Rev. J o n e s L Cor-^ " " l ' . , . . a n d cover. Single copy, 26c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 20c each. I n 

luantities, $10.60 per 100. 
"Conflicting S t a n d a r d s , " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 80 pages a n d cover j i n g l e copy, 26c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 20c each. I n quantities, $10.76 per 100. 
"The Seven Last Words," by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, ( p r a y e r book size) 82 pages and cover. Single copy, 10c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 6c each. In quantities, $4.00 per 100. 
"The Church and t h e Child," by Rev. Dr. P a u l H. F u r f e y , 48 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
"Love's Veiled Victory and Love's L a w s , " by Rev. Dr. George F . Strohaver. S . J . 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c postpaid ; 5 or more. 15c each. In quantities $8.00 p e r 100. 

Religion and L i t u r g y , " by Rev. Dr. F r a n c i s A. Walsh, O.S.B.. 82 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. In quantities, $7.60 per 100. 
"God, Man and Redemption," by Rev. Dr. I g n a t i u s W. Cox, S.J., 64 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 16c each. In quantities, $9.00 p e r 100. 
" T h i s Mysterious H u m a n N a t u r e , " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 48 pages and cover Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e E t e r n a l Galilean," by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 160 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 40c p o s t p a i d : 5 or more, 80c each. In quantities, $19.60 p e r 100. 
" T h e Queen of Seven Swords," by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen (prayer book size) 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 10c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 6c each. I n quantities $4.00 per 100. 
" T h e Salvation of H u m a n Society," by Rev. P e t e r J . Bergen, C.S.P., 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e Church and H e r Missions," by R t . Rev. Msgr. William Quinn, 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Church and the Depression," by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 80 pages and cover. Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 20c each. In quantities, $10.75 p e r 100. 
"The Church and Modern T h o u g h t , " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 80 pages and •over. Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 20c each. In quantities, $10.75 p e r 100. 
"Misunderstood T r u t h s , " by Most Rev. Duane H u n t , 48 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities. $8.00 per 100. 



" T h e J u d g m e n t of God a n d The Sense of D a t y , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. William J . Kerby, IS paires a n d cover. Single copy, 16c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.00 p e r 100. 
" C h r i s t i a n Education»" by Rev. Dr. J a m e s A. Reeves, 32 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.60 p e r 100. 
" W h a t Civilization Owes to t h e C h u r c h , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. William Quinn, 64 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.00 per 100. 
"If N o t C h r i s t i a n i t y : W h a t ? " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gill is, C.S.P., 96 pages and cover. Single copy, 80c p o s t p a i d : 5 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $18.75 per 100. 
" T h e Coin of Our T r i b u t e , " by Rev. Thomas F . Conlon, O.P., 40 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e P r o d i g a l W o r d , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 140 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 40c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 30c each. In quantities, $19.50 p e r 100. " P o p e P i u s X I , " by His Eminence P a t r i c k Cardinal Hayes. A n address in honor of t h e 79th b i r t h d a y of His Holiness, 16 pages a n d 4 color cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 p e r 100. 
" M i s u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e C h u r c h , " by Most Rev. Duane 6 . H u n t , 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e P o e t r y of D u t y , " by Rev. A l f r e d Duffy, C.P., 48 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more. 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" C h a r a c t e r i s t i c Christian Ideals," by Rev. B o n a v e n t u r e Mclntyre, O.F.M., 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. In quantities, $7.50 p e r 100. 
" T h e Catholic Church and Y o u t h , " by Rev. J o h n F. O ' H a r a , C.S.C., 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c postpaid ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e Spirit of the Missions," by R t . Rev. Msgr. Thomas J . McDonnell, 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 p e r 100. 
" T h e L i f e of t h e Soul," by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 96 pages and cover. Singje copy, 80c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 25c each. In quantities, $13.75 per 100. 
"Society and t h e Social Encyclicals—America's Road O u t , " by Rev. R. A. McGowan, 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 p e r 100. 
" P i u s X I , F a t h e r and Teacher of t h e N a t i o n s , " (On his Eightieth B i r t h d a y ) by His Excellency, Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, 16 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 15e p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $6.00 per 100. 
" T h e E a s t e r n Catholic C h u r c h , " by Rev. J o h n Kallok, 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e ' L o s t ' Radiance of t h e Religion of J e s u s , " by Rev. T h o m a s A. Carney, 40 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. In quantities, $9.00 p e r 100. 
"God a n d Governments," by Rev. W i l f r i d P a r s o n s , S.J., 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" S a i n t s vs. K i n g s , " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 96 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 30c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $13.76 per 100. 
" T h e Mission of Youth in Contemporary Society," by Rev. Dr. George J o h n s o n , 40 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.00 per 100. 
" T h e Holy E u c h a r i s t , " by Most Rev. Joseph F . Rummel, S.T.D., LL.D., 32 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Rosary and t h e Rights of M a n , " by Very Rev. J . J . McLarney, O.P., 56 pages and cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. In quantities, $7.50 per 100. 
" T o w a r d t h e Reconstruction of a Christian Social O r d e r , " by Rev. Dr. J o h n P . Monoghan, 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. In quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" M a r i a n V i g n e t t e s , " by Rev. J . R. Keane, O.S.M., 32 pages a n d cover. Single copy 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 per 100. 
" T h e Peace of C h r i s t , " by Very Rev. M a r t i n J . O'Malley, C.M., 32 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 p e r 100. 
"God's World of Tomorrow," by Rev. Dr. J o h n J . Russell, 40 pages and cover Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. In quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Catholic Tradition in L i t e r a t u r e , " by Brother Leo, F.S.C., 40 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. In quantities, $8.76 per 100. 
" P r o p h e t s and K i n g s : Great Scenes, Great Lines," by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 96 pages and cover. Single copy, 80c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $13.75 per 100. 
"Peace, t h e F r u i t of J u s t i c e , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 64 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. In quantities, $9.00 p e r 100. "1930—Memories—1940," t h e addresses delivered in t h e T e n t h Anniversary Broadcast of t h e Catholic Hour on March 3, 1940, together w i t h c o n g r a t u l a t o r y messages and editorials, 80 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 30c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 25c each. I n quantities, $12.75 p e r 100. " W h a t Kind of a World Do You W a n t , " by Rev. W i l f r i d P a r s o n s , S.J., 40 pages and eover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. "The Life a n d Personality of C h r i s t , " by Rev. H e r b e r t F . Gallagher, O.F.M., 48 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. " L a w / * by Rev. Dr. Howard W. Smith, 40 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 



"America a n d the Catholic C h u r c h , " by Rev. J o h n J . Waldo, 48 p a » « and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15e each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Social Crisis and Christian P a t r i o t i s m , " by Rev. Dr. J o h n F . Cronin, l a , 41 

p a c e s and cover. Single sopy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. In quantities, $8.00 p e r 10®. 
"Missionary Responsibility," by t h e Moat Rev. Richard J . Cashing, D.D., LL.D., 82 pagss and cover. Single copy, 18c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 per 109. 

Questions," by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 64 pages and eover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.00 per 100. 
" W a r and G u i l t , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen of t h e Catholic University of Axaari-

" r 1 0 0 P a e e B c # v e r - Single copy, 60c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 60c each. I n quantities, $22.71 
" T h e Purposes of O a r Euchsristlc Sacrifice," by Rev. Gerald T. Baskfield, S.T.D., SI pages and cover. Single copy, 20c postpaid ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Case f o r Conscience," by Rev. Thomas Smith Sullivan, O.M.L, S.T.D., 82 p a r a and cover. Single copy, 15c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 10c each. I n quantities, $7.50 per 100. 
" T h e Catholic Notion of F a i t h , " by Rev. Thomas N. O'Kane, 40 pages and eover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; G or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
"Freedom Defended," by Rev. J o h n F. Cronin, S.S., Ph.D., 82 pages a n d covar. Single copy, 16o p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 10c each. I n q u a n t i t i u , $7.50 p e r 100. 
" T h e Rights of t h e Oppressed," by Rt. Rev. Msgr. M a r t i n J . O'Connor, 40 pages and cover. Single eopy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" T h e P r a c t i c a l Aspects of P a t r i o t i s m , " by Rev. George Johnson, Ph.D., 40 pages and eover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 per 100. 
" W h a t Is W r o n g and How t o Set I t R i g h t , " by Rev. J a m e s M. Gillis, C.S.P., 80 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $10.75 p e r 100. 
" P e a c e , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. F u l t o n J . Sheen, 160 pages and cover. Single eopy 40« p o s t p a i d ; 6 c r more, 80c each. I n quantities, $19.50 p e r 100. 
" C h r i s t i a n Heroism," by Rev. Robert J . Slavin, O.P., 64 pages and eover. Single eopy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 20c each. I n quantities, $9.00 p e r 100. 
" A Report t o Mothers and F a t h e r s , " by Rev. William A. Maguire, Chaplain, U . 8. Army, and Rev. Christopher E. O ' H a r a , Chaplain, U. S. Navy, 24 pages and eovsr. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e L i t u r g y and t h e L a i t y , " by Rev. William J . Lallou, 82 pages a n d eovsr. Single copy, 20« p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e Catholic I n t e r p r e t a t i o n of C u l t n r s , " by Rev. Vincent Lloyd-Russell, 40 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. In Quantities, $8.50 per 100. 
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" S a i n t s F o r The Times," by Rev. Thomas J . McCarthy, 48 pages a n d cover. Single copy 25c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 20c each. In quantities, $10.00 p e r 100. 
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" T h e Catholic School In American L i f e , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. T. J a m e s McNamara, 

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" T h e E a s t e r n R i t e s , " by Rev. Alexander Beaton, S.A., a n d Rev. Canisius Kiniry, S. A. 
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" A m e r i c a , Morality, And The United N a t i o n s , " by Rev. J o h n McCarthy, 82 pages 
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" L i g h t T o u r L a m p s , " by R t . Rev. Msgr. F u l t o n J . Sheen, 128 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 40c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 80c each. I n quantities, $19.50 p e r 100. 
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" T h e Church Looks a t Some Social Questions," by Rev. J o s e p h E. Schieder, Rev. J o h n F . Cronin, S.S., Rev. Donald A. McGowan, R t . Rev. Msgr. F. Hochwalt. 86 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $8.75 p e r 100. 
" T h e New Crusade," by Mr. Charles F a b y , Mr. F u l t o n Oursler, M r . J a m e s McGurrin a n d M r . Maurice L a v a n o u x ; 64 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 20c each. I n quantities, $10.00 p e r 100. 
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" T h e Love T h a t W a i t s F o r Yon," by t h e R t . Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, 120 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 85c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 80c each. I n quantities, $21.00 per 100. 
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"God's Love And Mine," by t h e Rev. J o h n J . Walde, 82 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 16c each. I n quantities, $8.00 p e r 100. 
" T h e U n k n o w n God," by Rev. Edmond D. Benard, 40 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.50 p e r 100. 
"Of S a i n t s And K i n g s and t h e P r i n c e of P e a c e , " by t h e Rev. J o h n J . Dougherty, 40 pages a n d cover. Single cop>, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.60 p e r 100. 
" T h e Rock P l u n g e d I n t o E t e r n i t y , " by t h e R t . Rev. Msgr. F u l t o n J . Sheen. 104 pages a n d cover. Single copy, 40c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 35 c each. I n quantities, $18.50 p e r 100. 
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" O p e r a t i o n S u r v i v a l , " f o u r documentary p r o g r a m s on Communism, by Robert O. 

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" F a i t h and t h e H e a r t of M a n , " by t h e Rev. J o h n J . Dougherty, 40 pages and cover. Single copy, 20c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 15c each. I n quantities, $9.50 p e r 100 plus postage. 
" C h a r i t y Begins At H o m e , " by t h e Rev. J o h n M. McCarthy and guests, 64 pages and cover. Single copy, 25c p o s t p a i d ; 6 or more, 20c each. I n quantities, $10.00 per 100 plus postage. 
" T h e W o m a n , " by t h e R t . Rev. Msgr. F u l t o n J . Sheen, Ph.D., LL.D., 96 pages and cover. Single copy, 85c p o s t p a i d ; 5 or more, 80c each. I n quantities, $17.00 per 100. 
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