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America And The Catholic Church

Rev. John J. Walde, Pastor

Corpus Christi Church, Oklahoma City

Four addresses delivered in the nationwide Catholic Hour
(produced by the National Council of Catholic Men, in

cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company),
on Sundays from August 4 through August 25, 1940

by

Page

The March of the Cross

The Torch of Liberty

The Torch of Learning and Charity

The Bulwark of the Nation

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THE MARCH OF THE CROSS
Address delivered on August 4, 1940.

The story of the Catholic Church and the story
of the Cross are inseparable. From the day when
Christ bore His heavy cross to the summit of Cal-
vary and, by dying on it, changed it from a symbol
of shame to a symbol of exaltation, the Cross has
been the inspiration for those men and women
whose deeds make brilliant chapters in the annals
of the human race. Followers of Christ have ever
gloried in the Cross. From the earliest days of
Christianity the Cross has been the one outstanding

symbol of the Christian.

As Christian met Christian during those terri-
fying days of persecution which for three long cen-
turies characterized the early Church, the sign of

the blessed Cross was traced in the sand, as a mark
of recognition and as the embodiment of the whole
of Christian thought and practice.

Christian after Christian, from St. Peter on,
was spiked to a Cross until death drew the pain
from their racked bodies, and they were so streng-
thened by the mere sight of the Cross that they
deemed it an honor and a joy to die as did their
glorious Leader, Christ.

When the persecutions finally came to an end,
the Cross became the glorious standard of the
Christian world. Proudly and triumphantly it was
displayed, particularly after heaven itself vouch-
safed a vision of it and made known its power and
eflficacy. To Constantine the Roman Emperor there
appeared in the heavens the impressive sign of a



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however, obtained for him the help of Father Juan
Perez, the guardian of a Franciscan Monastery and
the Confessor to the Queen, Isabella of Spain. The
monk's belief in Columbus brought the necessary
help to arrange the voyage which led to the discov-

ery of our land, 448 years ago.

True, footsteps had appeared on American
shores in years that had gone before. Bold Norse-
men, under the leadership of Leif Ericson, had rov-
ed the sea to Greenland. But that was some five
hundred years before and so far as any practical
and enduring value was concerned, it was but an
incident in history

;
moreover, an incident unknown

to Columbus or the people of his day.
To Christopher Columbus belongs the undying

fame of discovering America. Everything about
the preparation for the voyage, the voyage itself,

and the final landing, had about it the earmarks of
a missionary expedition rather than an exploratory
trip for the discovery of new lands. His last acts
before sailing were consistent with his lofty pur-
poses. Together with his men he received the Sac-
rament of Penance at the Monastery of Santa Maria
La Rabida. Early the next morning he and his men
received Holy Communion and placed themselves
under the protection of Almighty God. The flag-
ship which had been the Maria Galenta was renam-
ed the Santa Maria in honor of the Blessed Virgin.
Befort sailing, the Santa Maria, as well as the Pinta
and the Nina, were blessed by Father Juan Perez
and then the banners of the Holy Cross and of the
King and Queen were hoisted to the mastheads.
While the crowds shouted their good wishes and
the women sobbed their last farewells, Columbus
weighed anchor in the name of the Most Holy Trin-



THE MARCH OF THE CROSS 7

ity, in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
united with the sign of the Cross, and put to sea.

It was a voyage whose days seemed unending.
When we think of modern steamers spanning the
ocean in five days, or our still more modern Clipper
Ships crossing the air lanes in a little more than a
a day, the voyage of Columbus that lasted from
August 3 to October 12, appears painfully long and
exhausting. Nor was it altogether peaceful, for
sailing constantly farther west it is not surprising

that mutiny threatened among the men. But when
the outlook was darkest Columbus would resort to
prayer and hymns, especially the “Hail, Holy
Queen.”

Finally land was sighted. It was in the early
hours of the morning when the look-out shouted
the thrilling cry, “Land.” With joyful hearts
Columbus and his men awaited the dawn and then
as the first official act on reaching land, Columbus
planted the Cross on the new continent and called
the place San Salvador, Holy Saviour. In the ac-
count given us by Ferdinand Columbus we are told,
“The whole company kneeled on the shore and kiss-
ed the ground for joy, returning God thanks for the
great mercy they had received.”

Thus was our country discovered and destined
to become the queen in the galaxy of the nations.
The onward March of the Cross which began on
Pentecost in the year 33 now reached our shores
and the first official act which was a harbinger of
our future greatness was the planting of the Cross.
And here, too, may I be permitted to repeat the
prayer of Columbus when he set foot on America
and dedicated this hemisphere to God. “Almighty
and eternal God, who by the energy of the creative



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word, hast made the firmament, the earth and sea,
blessed and glorified be Thy Name in all places!
May Thy Majesty and dominion be exalted forever
and ever, as Thou hast permitted Thy Holy Name
to be made known and spread by the most humble of
Thy servants in this hitherto unknown portion of
Thy Empire.”

How significant is the very name of him who
discovered our country. Christopher means Christ-
bearer. Since the one great aim of Columbus was
to make known the faith of Christ to the inhabi-
tants of other lands and thus make possible the
bringing of Christ to them, he fulfilled literally the

meaning of his given name. As for the name of
Columbus, which means a dove, and which in turn
is the emblem of peace, may we not look upon this
as an indication of the part our country must play
in bringing peace to a war-torn world through the

power of the Holy Ghost who is also pictured to
us under the figure of the dove of peace.

As Catholics we have a special interest in
Columbus as the discoverer of America, for as Pope

Leo XIII pointed out, on the occasion of the Colum-

bian Exposition in 1892, which marked the quadri-

centennial of America’s discovery, “Columbus is

one of us. The discoverer brought everlasting glory

to the Catholic name and made all mankind the
Church’s debtor.” “For,” he continues, “when one

considers with what motive above all he undertook

the plan of exploring the dark sea, and with what

object he endeavored to realize this plan, one can-

not doubt that the Catholic faith superlatively in-

spired the enterprise and its execution, so that by

this title all humanity is not a little indebted to the

Church
!”



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Not long after the finding of America, Cath-
olic missionaries were sent by the Church to spread

the Gospel from one end of the country to the other.

How extensive was their work is evident from the
Catholic names which our mountains, rivers, and
cities still bear as eloquent testimony to Catholic

discovery and exploration.

In this the great religious orders, the Francis-

cans, Jesuits and Dominicans, played the major
role. Theirs was the task to Christianize the na-
tives and, by Christianizing them, civilize them in
harmony with the true culture which comes only
from Him who died upon the Cross. In doing this
many gave their lives as martyrs, thus imitating
Christ their Master. But how infinitely more heroic
and praiseworthy were their efforts to civilize by
giving, if need be, their own lives, rather than by
exterminating the Indian as did so many whose
expeditons toward the West were not under the
standard of the Cross. The same ideal which spur-
red Columbus on was the ideal of those loyal sons
of the Catholic Church who came after him. To
plant the cross on an ever-widening front and draw
souls to its sweet embrace, rather than the idea of

exploration, urged them to set out for the new-
found America. Those who came to explore and
colonize hailed from three different countries. Two
of them, Spain and France, were Catholic nations,
while even the third, England, which claimed the
far-flung American colonies, was at that time Cath-
olic and based its claim upon the Catholic discover-
ers, John Cabot and his son, Sebastian. The long
stretches of our Eastern Coast were first seen by
Cabot. What is now Long Island was once called
the Isle of Apostles. The river discovered by Car-



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tier is still called the St. Lawrence; Lake George
was first called the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Great Lakes, though they bear no Catholic
names, yet were discovered by the Jesuit LaSalle.
The eyes of DeSoto were first to view the Mississ-
ippi and the great city on its bank was named after
the sainted King of France, St. Louis,

Among the missionaries of the Northeast spec-
ial recognition is due those fearless men who came
from France because they gave their lives as mar-
tyrs to extend the March of the Cross. Brother
Rene Goupil was martyred after most frightful tor-
tures because he had made the sign of the Cross
over an Indian child. Isaac Jogues, most famous of
the eight Jesuit Martyrs who were canonized on
June 29, 1930, and are thus the first canonized saints
of the North American continent, also showed his
love for the Cross by carving this blessed sign on

the trunks of trees as he made his missionary jour-
neys.

Florida also bears a Catholic name. Being

discovered on Easter Sunday, the pascua florida, it

received its name from the feast of the day on which
its fields of flowers were first seen by Europeans.
The oldest of all our cities, St. Augustine, further
shows the Catholic beginnings of the southeastern
section of our country. Then as our eyes travel to
the far West the evidence of its discovery and ex-
ploration is simply overwhelming. The Pacific was
first sighted by Balboa, a Catholic. Those who
established the cities and towns left little undone to

show their Catholic origin. Truly these common-
wealths form a veritable litany of Saints as all
know who have but glanced at the names; San
Diego, San Bernardino, San Juan Capistrano, Santa



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Monica, Nuestra Senora de los Angelos (now sim-
ply Los Angeles), Santa Barbara, and San Fran-
cisco.

The task of colonizing and founding the various
missions along the California Coast was not easy.
The imperishable name linked with this feat was
Junipero Serra, a Franciscan monk, who between
1769 and 1784 founded nine missions, beginning

with San Diego in 1769 and ending with San Buena-
ventura in 1782. To few men is it given to live so
full and varied a life. With prospects before him
of fame as a great University professor, he none-
theless sought the obscure life of a missionary in

an unknown country amid the greatest hardships
and among a hostile people. It was his limitless
endurance together with his great zeal for souls and
an enduring love for the Indians which made him
succeed where one less gifted and less holy would
have failed utterly. Truly is he called the Apostle

of California. His memory is preserved by a mag-
nificent statue in the Nation’s Capitol but it is en-

shrined even more enduringly in the hearts of those
who follow his footsteps.

In various communities of the Southwest there

are pageants and celebrations this year marking
the quadricentennial of the coming of Coronado.
Not long after the door to the West had been open-
ed by Columbus, Coronado followed, treking after
gold. Through the Southwest he came, through
what is now New Mexico and Oklahoma, his eager
eyes searching for the seven lost cities of Cibola.

Each evening brought the dream’s demise, for the
fabled riches faded into the horizon as he marched
onward. But while the Spanish leader rode on
horses trapped in gold and silver, beside him walk-



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ed the spiritual leader of the expedition, Juan de
Padiila, a Franciscan priest. His eyes were not
gold-struck, nor his heart, for both were set on souls
to win to God. He was the first Christian minister
to explore and Christianize the Indians of the South-
west. Because of his love for the souls of the Red
men he ventured forth to bring the Cross to a hostile
people and gave his life, kneeling in prayer—the
first martyr in a new and lonely land.

From the day when Columbus planted the
Cross and faithful missionaries picked it up to
bring its message to others, the Cross has been
marching on. From East to West and from North
to South, there is felt today its inspiring influence.

On thousands upon thousands of churches, schools,
hospitals, and orphanages, this blessed sign points

heavenward, a welcome beacon of hope to mankind
sick in soul and body and groping its way in a
world that unfortunately has lost its bearings and
followed a standard other than that of the Cross.

The Cross is the eternal magnet drawing all things
to itself even as Christ foretold when He said, “And
I, if I be lifted up from the earth, shall draw all
things to myself” (John 12:32).

Yes, the Cross marches on! From that sad
noon hour on Golgotha when the lightning flashed
upon the bloodless body of Our Saviour, the Cross
has radiated its message down through the centur-
ies, giving strength to the weak, courage to the

oppressed, and hope to all the world. Planted be-
side the flag of empire, it lives long after the em-
blem is torn to tatters or moulders into dust. In
long, white rows in poppy fields, it tells its story,
that men were born for peace beyond the grave.
Let nations pull down its crossarms from the sky,



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let atheistic rulers blot it out from hall and class-
rooms, let savage conquerors uproot its tree from
Christian soil, still the Cross marches on forever
and forever, emblematic of Christ, of His life and
our redemption. As of old, so today : “In this sign
thou shalt conquer.”



THE TORCH OF LIBERTY
Address delivered on August 11, 1940.

During this hour last Sunday we stressed the
part played by Catholics in the discovery and ex-

ploration of America. Inspired by the Cross, val-

iant explorers and zealous missionaries have ever
dared to extend the frontiers of the Kingdom of
Christ. Across the wide expanses of this land they

have left their imprint, as Catholic names of moun-
tains, rivers, and towns so gloriously testify. Be
it said to the everlasting credit of those who dis-
covered and explored our land, as well as to our
Founding Fathers, that their religious faith played
a prominent part in their lives. It gave them the
courage to hew a new civilization out of a virgin
country. In the face of opposition they enacted

legislation which guaranteed freedom and equality
and thus laid the foundation for a great nation
which has been the pride of its citizens and the envy
of other people.

Perhaps at times we have fared too well.
America has prospered as no other nation on the
face of the earth. It has been the haven of the
oppressed, the melting pot of various nationalities.

Its tremendous opportunities for material advan-

tage have made many forget that “sufficient for
the day is the evil thereof.” In their frenzied eager-
ness to amass material goods many have failed to
remember that all things come from God and that
we are but the stewards of this world's goods.

But the Christian heritage of America, cast
aside by some, has been chiseled on the cornerstone

of our nation. Liberty, religious liberty in partic-



THE TORCH OF LIBERTY 15

ular, the Declaration of Independence, and our glor-
ious Constitution, all these have a religious back-

ground which historians have too often omitted or
to which they have failed to give proper proportion.

Much has been said of the foundation of relig-
ious liberty in the United States, but not all the

claims are true. Maryland is truly the cradle of
religious liberty in the United States. From its
very foundation in 1634, toleration of all religions

was an accomplished fact. This was brought about
through George Calvert and his two sons, Cecil and
Leonard. George Calvert was knighted by James I
of England in 1617 and created Lord Baltimore, of
Baltimore in Ireland. Following his conversion to

the Catholic Church he resigned his position as
Secretary of State but the King through friendship
retained him in his cabinet. His interest now turn-
ed to the new world. In 1629 he obtained a tract
of land near the Potomac but died before he could
be granted a charter from the King.

Cecil devoted himself to the project started by
his father, and obtained a Charter for the “Land
of Mary.” Two ships were prepared for the jour-
ney, the Ark and the Dove. Leonard Calvert, the
brother of Cecil, was placed in charge of the ex-
pedition which landed March 25, 1634, on what is
now Blackiston’s Island, but which was then named
St. Clements. Here a stirring scene took place.
Father Andrew White, one of the members of the
expedition, after celebrating the first Mass on land,
tells in his diary of the thrilling moment. He says,
“Having hewn a great cross out of a tree., we took
it on our shoulders and going in procession to the
place selected, the Governor, the Commissioners and
the other Catholics all assisting, we erected it as a



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trophy to Christ our Saviour, after reciting humbly
on our knees, with feelings of profound emotion,

the Litany of the Holy Cross.”

Lord Baltimore took the greatest care that no

one be offended because of his religious convictions.

The Ark and the Dove had a special significance;
the Ark wTas symbolic of the ideal that this new land
was to be a veritable Ark of religious freedom, and
the Dove was symbolic of the hope that religious
peace would be the very cornerstone of the new
colony.

Thus under these auspices religious freedom
was first heralded in America. It was fitting that
the day coincided with the ancient Lady Day, known
now as the Feast of the Annunciation, so that Mary-
land, named after Queen Mary, was also dedicated
in a very special way to Mary, Queen of Heaven.
The permanent settlement was made at St. Mary’s
City which, under the gracious patronage of Heav-
en’s gentle Queen and the tolerant government of
Catholic settlers, became the first community in the
United States where true religious freedom fully
blossomed. Lord Baltimore had instructed those
who sailed on the Ark and Dove that toleration must
be extended to those of other faiths and that neither
in word nor in act should anything be done which
would later reflect upon them either in Virginia or
in England.

In 1649 the settlers who came on the Ark and
Dove enacted the famous “Act Concerning Relig-
ion,” whereby freedom of religion for all was made
a law. It was a proud moment for those who had
left home and country to escape the oppression
which prevented them from serving their God ac-
cording to the dictates of conscience. It was a mem-



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orable landmark also for the Catholic Church in
America, and to this day it is a great reminder that

through all these years, back to 1649, Catholics and
the Catholic Church have championed the cause of
religious liberty for alk

It is a sad fact in American history that for a
time this glorious law of religious freedom was
obscured. By reason of the liberality and justice of
those who settled and ruled Maryland, the oppressed
in other colonies were welcomed with open arms.
Instead of gratitude for their generosity, the new-
comers turned against their friends and actually
succeeded in repealing the “Act Concerning Relig-
ion,” that granted religious freedom, and then pass-
ed laws which refused protection to those who pro-
fessed the Roman Catholic faith. As a result vio-
lent persecution for a time blotted out the peace of

Maryland. However, most of this intolerance had
ceased by the time of the Revolutionary War. To
safeguard religious liberty for the future there was
written into our glorious Constitution that radiant

gem of religious toleration known as the first
Amendment which reads, “Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The year 1776 is another important landmark
in the history of the United States. It is the year
when the American colonies declared themselves
free and independent. The preamble to the Decla-
ration, written by Thomas Jefferson, enunciates a
series of self-evident truths which form the basis
of all lawfully constituted authority, and the basis
of true democracy. Two principles stand out above
the rest, namely, the doctrine of human equality
expressed in the words, “We hold these truths to



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be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Lib-
erty and the pursuit of Happiness,” and the other
that the right of government is derived from the
consent of the governed. These constitute the very

foundation of our American republic. So long as
these principles are safeguarded we will be forever
free from the doctrines which upset nations in the
past, namely, “That the King can do no wrong,” or
the counterpart in some of the present dictators who
are strutting across the pages of history.

It is but natural to suppose that controversy

should arise as regards the origin of such glorious

principles. Too frequently they are traced back to
the Bill of Rights given in England in 1689; yet
neither of these two doctrines, which are the very
foundation stones of American democracy, are con-
tained in the English Bill of Rights. Rather do we
discover them in the Virginia Bill of Rights also
written by Thomas Jefferson. Next we trace these
principles to Algernon Sidney who was executed in
1683 for his democratic teachings, and to John
Locke whose Two Treatises on Government appear-
ed in 1679. Going back even farther we find the
same principles enunciated by St. Robert Bellarmine
in the same century, by St. Thomas Aquinas, the
greatest theologian of all times, in the 13th century,

and even in the manuscripts of the early Fathers
of the Church who recorded the beginnings of Chris-
tianity. Hence, contrary to what so often appears
in history, the principles of our American Declara-
tion of Independence are Christian and Catholic,
for the principles which constitute the foundation
of American democracy were taught by Qajholic



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theologians as far back as the third century. In a

hundred ways the Church’s scholars, foremost
among them St. Robert Bellarmine and St. Thomas
Aquinas, fought for the preservation of the demo-

cratic ideal of government, for civil and religious
liberty, and had it not been for such great thinkers

these sublime doctrines might never have been en-

shrined in the document which gave birth to our
nation.

Merely declaring our independence did not

make our freedom an accomplished fact. There
followed the bitter days of the Revolutionary War
which taxed to the utmost the resources of Wash-
ington and his supporters. What made it so difficult
was the fact that the colonists were sharply divided

;

there were the Tories who remained loyal to Great
Britain, the Whigs who were the revolutionaries,
and the middle class which despised the Tories but
at the same time feared the Whigs as radicals and
agitators. The result was that while Washington
should have been able to call upon 200,000 men,
there was a time in the Spring of 1777 when he
had a mere 4000 regular soldiers under his com-
mand. This is when he needed help and he received
that aid from countless Catholics residing in the
colonies, from the Catholic Indians of Maine and
the Old Northwest, from Catholic Canadian volun-
teers, and from the then two most outstanding Cath-
olic countries, France and Spain. Besides, an out-
standing group of individuals helped, among them
first and foremost Charles Carroll, the wealthiest
maa in the colonies, who put his vast fortune at
the disposal of Washington and the Revolution.
Then there was the gallant general Pulaski, who
was killed at the siege of Savannah, and General



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Kosciusko, Commodore de Grasse, and a host of
others who stand out as Catholic heroes of the Revo-
lution. Finally there was Commodore John Barry,
the Father of the American Navy, who in his good
ship Alliance fought the last battle of the Revolu-

tion and thus brought an end to the war.

In view of all this it is not surprising that

Washington should have written to a group of out-
standing American Catholics who had extended a
congratulatory message to him. To them he said:
“As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be
more apt to allow that all those who conduct them-
selves worthy members of the Community, are
equally entitled to the protection of civil govern-

ment. I hope ever to see America the foremost
nation in examples of Justice and Liberality. And
I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget
the patriotic part which you took in the accomplish-
ment of their revolution, and the establishment of
their government, or the important assistance which
they received from a nation, in which the Roman
Catholic Faith is professed.”

Besides our Declaration of Independence there

are two other institutions of which we as Americans
are justly proud. They are the Constitution of the
United States and our Supreme Court. The Con-
stitution has been described, and justly so, as the
greatest document which ever came from the mind
of man. Eleven years after the Declaration of In-
dependence, the Constitution was made the law of
the land. It contains the fundamental legislation
which makes the people’s rights secure and directs
and governs those who exercise the powers of the
National Government. The framers of the Con-
stitution knew well the religious jealousies which



THE TORCH OF LIBERTY 21

had caused so much discontent among the colonies
and even though at the time there prevailed a heal-

thy state of liberality, still our founding fathers

scanned the future and wisely inserted this precious

jewel of religious liberty, namely, “No religious
test shall ever be required as a qualification to any

office or public trust under the authority of the

United States.”

Eminent in character and far-reaching though
it was, yet the Constitution did not explain or in-

terpret itself. Something over and above was need-
ed. The builders were face to face with two plans

:

Private interpretation by individuals with all their
private virtues and vices, emotions and sentiments,
coloring and shaping their final judgments; or, on
the other hand, the plan laid down by Christ in the
establishment of His Church. This latter meant
the institution of a supreme teaching body lawfully
constituted to render final judgments through a
supreme justice. It was this plan that the American
patriots of 1776 followed in establishing a Supreme
Court which is the final word when there is ques-
tion of the law of the land. Much does our Country
owe to such a wise plan, for without it we would be
but the tattered and torn fragment of a nation with
some 130 million opinions instead of one nation,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

America has been great because it is founded
on great principles. We pride ourselves that we
are a Christian nation with a civilization and culture
which is Christian. These principles are not of
yesterday but came down to us from the day when
Christ commissioned His disciples to go and teach
“whatsoever I have commanded you;” and it is
through the Church founded upon the Apostles, with



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St. Peter at the head, that these principles of Chris-

tianity have been preserved. If at times these prin-

ciples do not produce their proper effects, as is all

too evident in many nations, including our own, it
is not the fault of the principles but rather because

human perversity, pride, and selfishnes, have been
permitted to gain the upperhand. Liberty and
security can be preserved only at the cost of eternal

vigilance, and if America is to ramain great among
the nations those who guide her destinies must ever
remember that we are founded on Christian laws
and principles and that we should go humbly to
Christ for aid in preserving what we value even
more than our lives.

May I add one final thought. This coming
Thursday we celebrate a great feast in honor of our
Heavenly Queen, the feast of her Assumption into
Heaven. It is significant that our country is dedi-

cated to the Blessed Virgin, not under the title of

her Assumption but rather under the title by which
she made herself known to St. Bernadette Subirous
when she appeared to her at Lourdes and said, “I
am the Immaculate Conception.” Thus is she known
as Mary the Patroness of the United States. We
do well, therefore, if we appeal to her ; for as Christ
came to us through Mary so there is no safer ap-
proach to Christ than through His Blessed Mother.

Prayers to her will bring us many blessings and an
appeal to her to safeguard our country at this cru-

cial moment will not go unheeded. As our heavenly
Patroness may she ever watch over us, and over this
our beloved country.



THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND
CHARITY

Address delivered on August 18, 1940.

When Pilate asked the tremendusly significant
question, ‘‘What is truth?”, he did not realize that

he was standing face to face with Truth. Christ is

the Truth for He Himself has told us, “I am the
way, and the truth, and the life” ( John 14:6). For

this purpose He came to' “give testimony to the
truth” (John 18:37). Unfortunately there are still

ton many Pilates who either do not recognize truth
when they see it or, seeing it, sacrifice truth for ex-
pediency.

Of all truths, those of religion are the most vital.
They form and fashion character

;
they equip us for

the struggles we must face in this life and prepare
us for the next. In order that the truths brought

down from heaven might be continued through the
ages, Christ commissioned His Apostles to “teach

ye all nations . . . teaching them to observe . . .
whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-
20). Upon their shoulders was placed the responsi-
bility of teaching, upon the shoulders of their hear-
ers the obligation to hear and do. “He that believ-
eth . . . shall be saved: but he that believeth not

shall be condemned” (Mark 16:16).
No further reason need be stated for the exis-

tence of our Catholic schools than the command giv-
en by Christ to teach. After the persecutions the
Church lost no time in establishing her schools. The
pages of history are emblazoned with names of the
schools, colleges, and universities erected under her
care, so that she merits the title of the mother of



24 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

education who has held aloft the torch of learning
down through the centuries.

The earliest schools in our country had a relig-
ious origin. Even as the faith was brought by those
who discovered and explored our land, so the first
schools were opened by the Spanish and French set-
tlers and by the English colonists in Maryland. Even
before the 16th Century came to a close, Catholic
schools had been established in Florida and by 1604
a classical school had been opened in St. Augustine.
At about the same time Franciscan Missionaries
started schools in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Before 1640 French Capuchin monks were teaching
the Indians of Maine, and in Maryland the Jesuits
were building their first grammar school. Follow-
ing the pioneering work in education carried on by
the monks in the North, East, South, and West, the
greatest boon conferred upon education came from
the religious orders of women. As early as 1727 the
Ursulines from France established the first Convent
School in New Orleans. In 1799 the Visitation Nuns
offered courses at Georgetown Convent in Washing-
ton, and by 1833 had schools as far away as Illinois
and Alabama. The Sisters of Charity, founded in
1808 in Emmitsburg, Maryland, spread rapidly so
that by 1850 they had 58 schools in various parts of
the country. To Mother Duchesne, recently beati-
fied, we owe the first free schools west of the Miss-
issippi.

Time does not permit narration of the outstand-
ing part played by these devoted women in the glor-
ious cause of education. Women came after the
soil had been broken but in most instances they

pioneered among the Indians and the first settlers
and not only taught early Americans the art of



THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND CHARITY 25

learning, to equip them for a useful life here, but
what is more important, lifted their minds and
hearts heavenward to the goal for which all of us

must strive. And today the nuns are teaching more
than 2,000,000 American boys and girls and train-

ing them to be useful citizens as they instill into
their hearts a love of God.

Education today is facing a serious problem.

We realize only too well the exceeding difficulties in
having religious courses of study for our state-

supported schools which would satisfy the diver-
gent religious opinions of our American people

;
and

yet, religious education is of the utmost importance.

President after President, from the Father of
Our Country on down through Coolidge and Roose-
velt, have expressed the need of religion as a basis

for democracy and as a necessary condition if
democracy is to survive. To say, “Let the home and
the Sunday School take care of the religious train-
ing,” simply does not solve the problem, for the

fact remains that three out of five in the United

States are not connected with any church; three
out of five have never attended Sunday schools and
have no Christian education

;
three out of five never

have worshipped, never have read the Bible and,
the assumption is, have seldom prayed.

The strange fact which we are forced to face
here in the United States is that on the one hand
religion is considered essential for our well-being

and our very continuation as a democracy, yet in
our educational set-up religion is generally ignored.

And what is more, those schools which teach relig-
ion are penalized for doing so. Education without

religion is admittedly detrimental to the welfare of

our country, yet every dollar of state aid is shower-



26 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

ed upon schools where religion is omitted. On the
other hand, those who, from conscientious motives,
set up schools where religion is a definite part of the
curriculum, must not only bear the whole burden
of these schools but must contribute equally with
other citizens to the support of the state-maintain-

ed schools. One would expect at least a word of
gratitude for doing what presidents, statesmen, and
educators deem is of paramount importance for the
welfare of our country. While regulations have

been adopted providing free, time for religious in-

struction in some places, which is proof that the
need of religious training in the schools is recog-

nized, yet this is but a beginning compared to the
solution of the problem in Canada where religious
schools are supported by the government and grant-

ed allocations in proportion to the Catholic or Pro-

testant population, respectively. Why should this
not be feasible in our Country dedicated as it is to

the principle of equality and justice for all?

Not only are we as Catholics alarmed at the
godlessness of our day, resulting in a great measure

from our godless education, but Protestant minis-

ters are also becoming duly alarmed. Not long ago

the pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Washington, D. C., Dr. Peter Marshall,

speaking before the Laymen's League of New Or-
leans, had this to say: “Church people don’t have

any idea of the situation. They are in the habit of

thinking of America as a Christian nation. But

what about our social customs, our gambling, the

divorce situation, the slum problems, the race ques-

tion? Are these Christian? We the Church people
are a minority of the population. There are 60,-

000,000 of us but there ar& 70,000,000 others. Young



THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND CHARITY 27

people are being brought up in a pagan way. Na-

ture abhors a vacuum and unless Christian education
is inserted then pagan education will seep in.”

It is true that parents have the first responsi-

bility in training the child and seeing to it that the

child is brought up with proper guidance, reverence

for religion, and due respect for the true principles

of Liberty and Democracy. But should not religion

be a part and parcel also of daily education? With-

out religion, education is too often just a training

in the art of beating the other fellow.

The principles embodied in our Catholic schools
are that the spiritual interest of the child, while not

exclusive of other interests, is supreme
;
that moral-

ity, next to religion, is the most important matter

in the life of the child and that it is best taught
when based on religion; that despite the fact that
enemies of the Church have at times considered
them un-American, our schools teach patriotism of
a high order and the results show they teach it
effectively. They teach morality and the lives of
her children prove the result. They teach religion,
thus constituting, in an age that questions every-

thing, a great institutional force on the side of

belief in God, in religious obligation, and in definite
moral responsibility. Finally it should not be for-

gotten that the hundreds upon hundreds of Cath-
olic schools with almost two and a half million pupils,
save many millions of dollars annually which the
non-Catholic population would otherwise have to
pay in providing public schools and teachers for
these two and a half million pupils.

In teaching religious truths not only to adults

but also to the children in her own schools, the Cath-
olic Church is scrupulously carrying out the com-



28 AMERICA AND THE, CATHOLIC CHURCH

mission given by Christ to teach His truths to all
mankind. But Our Divine Saviour stressed another
work both by word and by deed. He Himself went
about “doing good,” healing the sick, and He defi-
nitely commanded the obligation of charity to those
who are in need. In this matter, as in education,
the Church has no choice. To neglect the helpless
poor or those who cannot help themselves would be
a real lack of true Christianity. In this the Catholic

Church has not failed, for nothing has been more
characteristic of her down through the ages to the
present time. From the beginning Bishops were
commanded to be hospitable and to care for the
needy. Through the Middle Ages monasteries were
always centers of charity and in times of famine or

need the people would go to the doors of these in-
stitutions, knowing that the religious practiced
charity out of love of God.

In America this same spirit of charity has been
characteristic of the Catholic Church. Hospitals

were founded at an early date, the first on the Amer-
ican Continent being the one established in Mexico

by Cortez in 1532. The earliest Catholic hospital
in the United States was established in New Orleans
in 1720. At the present time there are approxi-
mately 709 Catholic hospitals in this country and
179 in Canada. Besides, more than 300 allied agen-
cies in the United States and Canada render medi-
cal aid in one form or another. Almost without ex-
ception these hospitals are staffed by religious Sis-
ters and Brothers who devote their lives to the care
of those who are sick in body and often, too, in mind
and soul.

No task seems to be too difficult, no danger too
great, no disease too loathsome, but our religious



THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND CHARITY 29

Sisterhoods are in the vanguard to take care of

the need. Of all diseases that of leprosy is the

most abhorrent. The world still rings with the
praise of a Father Damien who ministered to the
lepers of Molokai and gave his life for them; for a
Brother Joseph Dutton, an American citizen, who
worked with him and who, because of his unselfish
charity, was honored by President Roosevelt, then
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who ordered the
Atlantic fleet, on its cruise around the world, to
make a detour from Honolulu and pass by the leper
institution because he considered Brother Joseph

Dutton one of the world’s greatest heroes.

Sisters are now in charge at Molokai as they
are in nearly every leper colony in the world. They
staff the one leper colony in the United States which
is located at Carville, a short distance from New
Orleans. Where many with hearts less stout would
dread to enter, even for a moment, through fear
that the shunned disease mark them for a victim,
these noble souls dedicate their very lives to min-

istering unto those, the least among God’s children.
In our National Capital there is a monument

erected to the Nuns of the Battlefields. It is a glow-
ing tribute, but faint in comparison with the trib-
ute of love which their kindly, gentle hands evoked
in the hearts of those to whom they ministered. To
those who gave their services in the Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln paid this tribute: “Of all the
forms of charity and benevolence seen in the crowd-
ed wards of the hospitals, those of some Catholic
Sisters were among the most efficient. I never
knew whence they came or what was the name of
their order. More lovely than anything I have ever
seen in art so long devoted to illustrations of love,



30 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

mercy and charity, are the pictures that remain of

those modest Sisters going on their errands of

mercy among the suffering and the dying.”

Catholic charities embrace practically every

type of organized service to meet human needs. This
service is directed and shared both by religious and

by laity. The wide extent to which the religious
communities take part in this work of caring for
orphans, delinquent girls, for the sick in homes and
institutions, is evident from the fact that there are
over 24,000 religious women engaged in social and
charitable work. At present there are in the United
States seventy-two Catholic child-caring institu-

tions with over 15,000 children under foster care

and 375 Catholic orphanages with over 45,000 orph-

ans.

Among the laity, outstanding work has been
accomplished by many societies both for men and
women. Outstanding among them is the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul which offers relief to the poor
and the unfortunate. Members of this society or-
ganize themselves voluntarily and without remun-
eration, in conferences, and there are at present

over 2,700 such groups in the United States with a

membership of over 30,000 active and 7,500 honor-
ary members. Going about quietly, seeking out the
suffering members, these zealous and charitably in-
clined men have written a glorious page in the an-
nals of Catholic charity in our land.

To facilitate the work of Catholic charity and
coordinate the efforts aimed at helping those in
need, we have today a Bureau of Catholic Charities
in practically every diocese throughout the land.

These in turn come under the National Conference



THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND CHARITY 31

of Catholic Charities in Washington, D. C., which

has a membership of approximately 2,500 individ-

uals and 130 constituent organizations.

The primary work of the Church is to lead souls
to God. This is done chiefly through the Sacra-

ments which Christ instituted as so many channels
through which the life of God flows into individual
souls. Over and above caring for the purely spirit-

ual interests of mankind the Church has ever con-
cerned herself with the mental and physical well-

being of her children. Hence her vital interest in
education and her constant care for the needy and
those who cannot care for themselves. Christ Him-
self gave the example and the Church can not well
neglect following His example if she is to remain

true to the commission which He entrusted to her.
In reality the attitude which the Church has

ever manifested and which individuals as well must
foster, becomes clear from the words of scripture
which describe the scene of the final judgment. Not
the more serious crimes, condemned so strongly in
other passages, but how we have treated our fellow-
man, will be the basis of our judgment. “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 in : Naked, and you covered me : Sick and
you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to
me” (Matt. 25:35-36). To the great surprise of
those on the right side who will ask when this
service was rendered to Christ, He will say : “Amen
I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these
my least brethren, you did it to me” (Matt. 25:40).
And likewise, for those who will hear the terrible
sentence, “Depart from me, you cursed, into ever-
lasting fire” (Matt 25:41), it will be because they



32 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

had failed in charity, because selfishness blinded
them to the needs of their fellowmen.

Never before, either at home or abroad, has
the appeal for help been more heartbreaking than
now. What an opportunity it affords for Christ-
like charity and imitation of the Master who “went
about doing good.” Through the plaintive voices
of those in need, Christ appeals to you and me. He
gave His life for us, He expects us to carry on His
work. From the hill of Calvary, charity for man-
kind casts its shadow across the world. May it
find lodging within our hearts so that love shown
for others now may reap for us the eternal love of
God in heaven.



THE BULWARK OF THE NATION
Address delivered on August 25, 1940.

What a wonderful institution is the home.
Round about it cluster those virtues which bring
peace and security to individuals as well as to na-
tions. The magic word “HOME” ! How it quickens
the heartbeat wherever we may be. For it the sol-
dier gives his life in battle; the pilgrim envisions

it on all his journeys; it lights our life from child-
hood days and calls to us through all the years. Our
most sacred memories are entwined around the
home, the sanctuary of happiness. The world may
hem us in with its trials, its sadness and despair,
but the home gives comfort, softening the blows,
shutting out a world of strife, shutting in a world

of love. It’s man’s castle by day and night with an
altar of peace built in every heart. Here lies the
father’s kingdom; here the mother’s domain; here
the children’s paradise!

In song and story the sacred character of the
home has ever been extolled. Other songs may have
their vogue, rise to popularity for a day and are
then forgotten. But songs about the home and
songs about mothers who make the home, touch the
heart as do no other subjects, and thus last for-
ever.

Christ Himself, our model in every virtue,
sanctified the home, and made it something to be
cherished by all peoples. He spent thirty out of the
thirty three years of His earthly sojourn within the
confines of a little home in Nazareth. He came to
teach mankind the truths of heaven and called Him-
self the Way which leads to peace and happiness.



34 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Christ taught us both by word and by example. His
living thirty years within a home clearly reveals
the importance of this institution. If then we are
looking for peace and security in a world which has
lost its moorings, we need to go back to Nazareth
and there learn the virtues which make for strength
to preserve the home, the bulwark of the nation.

The family and the home is The foundation of
society and the nation. Before there were nations
and governments there were homes and families;
but as they increased it became necessary for heads
of families to relinquish some of their authority
and vest it in one man, or group of men, for the
sake of protection against an enemy, either from
within or from without. This is the true principle
of democracy, namely, that civil authority resides

within the governed, for it is by their authority that
certain ones are placed in power. The leaders of the
State have the solemn obligation to safeguard the

rights of individuals under them and to procure
their temporal welfare. And even though we see the
exact opposite today in what we call the totalitarian
states, which usurp the right of individuals and
claim absolute authority, it is still the dictate of

right reason that government derives its authority

from the consent of the governed.

We are facing troubled days. We cannot help
but wonder whether or not it is God’s visitation

upon the nations for permitting evils which have

all but ruined homes. Greed, love of ease and pleas-

ure, and, above all, blinding selfishness, have mili-

tated against the sanctity of the home and permit-
ted such evils as divorce, birth prevention, and

filthy literature, to wreak havoc with what should

be a nation of Christian homes.



THE BULWARK OF THE NATION 35

Our hearts bleed at the thought of the hundreds
of thousands of homes which have been ruthlessly
destroyed during the past year. We talk of broken
pledges and with justice we rise in anger against
those who have failed in their plighted word. But
somehow we are inclined to close our eyes to the
broken pledges on the part of one out of every six

couples in our country who either before priest,
minister, or judge, made a solemn vow before God
to remain husband and wife, “until death do them
part.” More homes have been destroyed by divorce,
and with far more harmful effects, than by all the
bombs and shells of terrible wars. The marriage
vow is not just an ordinary contract but a solemn
vow made to God to found a home and safeguard it
to the end. Yet selfishness is permitted to enter and
break even so solemn a promise.

We pride ourselves on being a Christian na-
tion, a nation based on Christian laws and prin-
ciples. Above all things these laws and principles
regard the sanctity of the home, and therefore, ap-
ply in all their vigor to the question of divorce. Read
again the words of Christ as recorded in St. Mark’s
Gospel, Chapter 10, beginning with the tenth verse.
Our Lord was explaining this question to those who
came to ask Him concerning it. He was in the home
with His disciples and to them He gave the final
instruction on marriage and divorce when He said

:

“Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry
another, committeth adultery against her. And if
the wife shall put away her husband, and be mar-
ried to another, she committeth adultery” (Mark
10:11-12). These are plain words and they are the
words not of the Church but of Christ; and yet di-
vorce continues to wreck one out of every six mar-



36 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

riages, leaving, according to a, recent estimate,

1,800,000 divorced men and women at the present
time in the United States.

Against this evil of divorce the Catholic
Church has ever lifted her voice, not only here in
America but at all times and among all nations.
Thus she has championed the cause of our greatest
institution, the home.

For this America owes her a debt of undying
gratitude. Never throughout her long history of
nineteen hundred years has the Church ever sanc-
tioned a divorce. She has upon careful examination
found that some supposed marriages were clearly
no marriages from the beginning, and has rightly
declared them null and void; but never has she
permitted divorce from the bond of a marriage
which was lawfully entered. Well did the great Car-
dinal Gibbons state the doctrine of the Church in
regard to marriage and divorce when he said,
“Marriage is the most inviolable and irrevocable of
all contracts that were ever formed. Every human
compact may be lawfully dissolved but this. Na-
tions may be justified in abrogating treaties with
each other; merchants may dissolve partnerships;
brothers will eventually leave the paternal roof and

like Jacob and Esau, separate from one another.
Friends like Abraham and Lot may be obliged to
part company, but by the law of God the bond
uniting husband and wife can be dissolved only by
death. No earthly sword can sever the nuptial knot
which the Lord has tied, for 'what God hath joined
together, let no man put asunder’

In marriage and the home the child holds first
place. So it was from the beginning among the
Chosen People where parenthood was the great



THE BULWARK OF THE NATION 37

ideal for the Jewish husband and wife. To them a
large family was looked upon as a distinct bless-
ing from Almighty God, while childless homes, even
when unavoidable, were considered a curse and a
visitation from God. That same ideal of mother-
hood has been extolled through the centuries in
imitation of the Motherhood of Mary who is honor-
ed and loved chiefly because she is the Mother of
Christ the Lord.

Motherhood should ever be the great ideal for
every maiden who enters the sacred state of matri-
mony, for no greater honor can come to her than
that of bringing new life into the world and then
forming and fashioning the lives of the little ones
entrusted to her care. What greater honor than to
have children born into the world to be reborn
through baptism for an eternity of bliss? This is
an exalted mission which husband and wife under-
take before God when they are united in holy matri-
mony; and on the manner in which they acquit
themselves of this mission will depend to a greater
or lesser degree their happiness in their old age, and
also their reward or punishment in the life to come.

Much has been said these days of national
dangers that bore from within. They are a challenge
to any nation. But the most destructive forces
within any country are those which a former presi-
dent, Theodore Roosevelt, called the “Apostles of
race suicide”.

About fifty years ago, before these “apostles”
formed such a huge army within our borders, there
was an average of one divorce for every eighteen
marriages. Now the average is one divorce for every
six marriages, and with the momentum the move-
ment has attained there is every chance for an even



38 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

lower ratio. Compared with Canada, where there
is only one divorce in every 186 marriages, our rec-

ord is indeed deplorable.

God loves families. That is why in the begin-
ning, as Christ tells us, “God made them male and
female . . . [wherefore] a man shall leave his father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife. And they
two shall be in one flesh . . . What therefore God
hath joined together, let no man put asunder”
( Mark 10:6-9). He further commanded that they
“increase and multiply” (Gen. 1:28) and care for
the children which complete the family. Every
safeguard was placed by God around the home, to
protect and preserve it against every danger.

The whole plan given us by Christ for our sal-
vation is a family matter. He wanted all of us to be
united in one great family, or one great body, of

which He is the head and we are the members.
When Christ came down on earth He united His di-
vine nature with a human nature and thus raised
up a human nature unto participation with the di-
vine. That all of us might share in this glorious par-

ticipation in the very nature of God, Christ insti-

tuted a sacrament whereby we are reborn and thus
receive the Life of God which makes us children of
God and heirs of heaven. What a glorious concept
this is of being united with Christ and thus consti-

tuting His Mystical Body which is the Church.
According to this plan of Christ we are to be mem-
bers one of another and brothers in Christ. He is
the Head, we the members ; He is the Vine, we the
branches. From Him we have Life and in Him we
have our being. United with God we are to love God
above all things, and our neighbor, our fellow-

beings, our brothers in Christ, even as ourselves.



THE BULWARK OF THE NATION 39

What a magnificent plan it is, this banding of
all mankind into union with Christ and forming
thus the family of God on earth. What a paradise it
would make if selfishness and human pride and per-
versity did not constantly step in to prevent it from
flowering into full bloom. The plan is perfect and
workable if only the old, old sin, the sin of the

fallen angels, the sin of our first parents, the sin

which has wrought havoc so often among the na-
tions, the sin of man wanting to be even like unto
God, did not worm its way in to destroy God’s plan.
Some day the fulfillment will come, for we have
Christ’s promise that “there shall be one fold and
one shepherd” (John 10:16).

In the meantime let us just take a glance at
what would happen if we made a sincere effort to
understand God’s plan of His Mystical Body. Would
there be today the hatred and the destruction and
the bloodshed which have made our generation the
most cruel and bloodthirsty in the annals of all his-
tory? Would men not realize that to kill one an-
other is a sort of suicide, for to kill another united

with us in the very Life of Christ is more than
murder—it is a destruction of a member of the body
of which we ourselves are an integral part. And
what is more, the bomb and shell and sword-thrust
aimed against a brother in Christ is in reality
pointed against Christ Himself, for it is Christ’s

plan that we form one body in Him. When St. Paul
of old was on his way to Damascus and Christ struck
him down from his horse, St. Paul asked in fear-
some wonderment “Who art thou Lord?” Christ
answered, “I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou
persecutest” ( Acts 22:8). St. Paul had no idea of
persecuting Christ Himself but was concerned only



40 AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

in bringing the Christians in chains to Jerusalem.
But Christ made it evident that what Paul planned
to do against the Christians, he was doing against
Him; for so intimately is the Christian made one
with Christ that what is done to the Christian,
united with Christ, is done to Christ Himself. Here
St. Paul learned the meaning of Christ; here he
learned what constitutes the very heart and soul of
Christianity. From that moment he was on fire to
make known this wondrous revelation to all the
world. By word and example he preached this doc-
trine the while he himself was so imbued with its
transcending beauty that he could say, “For to me,
to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). Or again, “I live,
now not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal. 2:20).

This, my dear friends, is the plan which we
must learn if we would have peace and happiness
reign once more in this war-torn world. This is the
plan of Christ, the Prince of Peace, who came on
earth to teach us how we all can be brothers one
with another in Christ and thus form the family of
God on earth. Until that day arrives, when all man-
kind shall accept the sweet yoke of Christ, there

may be difficult times ahead; but let us face them
with unshaken faith.

No matter how dark the cloud which may over-
shadow us, we may rest assured that Christ is ever
near and that He will not fail to hear us if we call
upon Him with trust and confidence. Often let us
call upon Him to guide our faltering footsteps along
the paths of peace and justiae, as in the words of

Adelaide Procter

—



THE BULWARK OF THE NATION 41

“For one thing only,
Lord, dear Lord I plead

—

Lead me aright,
Though strength should falter and though heart

should bleed,
Through peace to light.
I do not ask my cross to understand,
My way to see;
Better in darkness just to feel thy hand
And follow Thee.”
My dear friends, it has been a great pleasure

to meet with you over the air waves during the past
four weeks. To the National Council of Catholic
Men and to the National Broadcasting Company, I
wish to express my sincere gratitude as well as to
you the listening audience. If anything I have said
has helped to give you deeper faith or renewed con-
fidence in God and in your country I would humbly
ask a prayer in return. May God be with you dur-
ing the trying days ahead; and, in the words of
Cardinal Newman

—

“May the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Support us all the day long,
Till the shades lengthen,
And the evening comes,
And the busy world is hushed,
And the fever of Life is over,
And our work is done.

“Then in His Mercy
May He give us a safe lodging
And a Holy Rest
And Peace at the last.”



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Jacksonville WJAX,
Lakeland WLAK,
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Pensacola WCOA,
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Chicago WMAQ-WCFL,
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Fort Wayne WGL,
Indianapolis WIRE,
Terre Haute WBOW,
Wichita KANS,
Louisville WAVE,
New Orleans WSMB,
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Portland WCSH,
Baltimore WFBR,
Boston WBZ,
Springfield WBZA,
Detroit WWJ,
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Omaha WOW,
Reno KOH,
Albuquerque „ KOB,
Buffalo WBEN,
New York WEAF,
Schenectady WGY,

North Carolina Asheville WISE,
Charlotte WSOC,
Raleigh WPTF,

North Dakota Bismarck KFYR,
Fargo WDAY,

Ohio Cincinnati WSAI,
Cleveland WTAM,
Columbus WOOL,

Oklahoma Oklahoma City WKY,
Tulsa KVOO,

Oregon Medford KMED,
Portland KEX,

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94 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS
In 41 States, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii

Pennsylvania Allentown WSAN, 1440 kc
Altoona WFBG, 1310 kc
Erie WTiEU, 1420 kc
Johnstown WJAC, 1310 kc
Philadelphia KYW, 1020 kc
Pittsburgh WCAE, 1220 kc

Rhode Island Providence WJAR, 890 kc
South Carolina Charleston WTMA, 1210 kc

Columbia WIS, 560 kc
Florence WOLS, 1200 kc
Greenville ., WFBC, 1300 kc

South Dakota Sioux Falls KSOO-KELO, 1110-1200 kc
Tennessee Chattanooga WAPO, 1420 kc

Nashville WSM, 650 kc
Texas Amarillo KGNC, 1410 kc

Beaumont KFDM, 560 kc
El Paso KTSM, 1310 kc
Fort Worth KGKO, 570 kc
Houston KPRC, 920 kc
San Antonio WOAI, 1190 kc

Utah Salt Lake City KDYL, 1290 kc
Virginia Norfolk WTAR, 780 kc

Richmond WMBG, 1350 kc
Washington Seattle KOMO, 920 kc

Spokane KHQ, 590 kc
Wisconsin Madison WIBA, 1280 kc
HAWAII Honolulu KGU, 750 kc
SHORT WAVE Schenectady, N. Y WGEO, 9.53 meg

(Revised as of January 6, 1940)



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