FAITH ÄND THE 
HEART OF MAN 

BY 

REVEREND JOHN J. DOUGHERTY 
of the Immaculate Conception Seminary 

Darlington, New Jersey 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

FEAR 5 

LONELINESS ...:..., - l'O 

LOVE 15 

JOY p 20 

HOPE 9 25 





F E A R 
"When I was a child, I spoke' 

as a child, I felt as a child, I 
thought as a child." (I Cor. 13: 
11) When I was a child, I feared 
as children fear. "Now that I 
have become a man, I have put 
away the things of a child." 
{ibid.) I have put way childish 
fears, but I have not put away 
fear.. Fear is part of me. It is 
part of the human machine. 
Philosophers list it under human 
passions. I cannot cast out fear 
any more than I can cast out 
love. Love, the passion of pur-
suit, and fear, the passion of es-
cape, are like the heart and 
lungs standard equipment for 
mortals. Fear does not make us 
abnormal. We would be abnor-
mal without it. Do not be afraid 
because you are afraid of the 
atom bomb. It is something that 
normal and wise men fear. But 
I think it should not be your first 
fear. The first fear of Christians 
is not for survival, but for sal-
vation. Regarding your fears I 
think these two questions, are 
important: What things do you 
fear most? How desperate are 
your fears? 

Human passions are problem 
property. They are an asset and 
a liability. The animal fears and 

controls his fear by instinct. 
Man fears and is expected to 
control his fear by his mind. 
Fear can become so great that it 
sweeps away the controls of the 
mind, tears down the very walls 
of reason, and there is a swift 
flight from the world of reality 
through the broken gates of the 
mind. Pray for the mentally ill, 
and pray that a cold ruthless 
world tha,t destroys so many 
minds will learn mercy and be 
kind. 

Fear is the passion of flight, 
and how violent the passion and 
how headlong the flight depends 
upon the size of the evil in itself 
or in our minds. The loss of a 
mother is seen as an immeasur-
able evil by the little boy, who 
cannot imagine his room, his 
house, his world without his 
mother. He cannot imagine play-
ing without mother to come 
home to, or praying without 
mother to straighten him out 
when he mixes up his Our Fa-
ther with his Hail Mary. The 
boy become a man still sees the 
loss of mother as evil, but not 
the immeasurable evil it once 
was. For now his world has 
grown larger. His room is now 

0 • shared with another who is 



6 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
mother to his children, his house 
is filled with the running of their 
laughter and the tripping of 
their prayers. His world is filled 
with people, places, and things— 
and mother, and he sees death 
differently now. His love has not 
altered, but his fear is changed, 
for his vision of God and heaven 
have grown too. 

Why do you fear? Your fears 
will help you determine your 
values. If you fear the loss of 
health, money, friends, beauty 
more than the loss of God, then 
God has taken second place in 
your life, and there is disorder 
at the heart of the matter. If 
your first fear is sin and the loss 
of grace then you are a Chris-
tian. Why do you fear? That 
question helps you to answer a 
more important one: What do 
you love? All of us do not fear 
the same things, for all of us do 
not love the same things. Your 
fears are the other side of your 
loves. The fears of mothers are 
for their children. At five they 
are afraid they'll fall, at fifteen 
they are afraid they'll fall in love 
too soon, at twenty-five or forty-
five they are af ra id they'll fall 
into sin. Soldiers fear for their 
lives for they are young and 
their lives are dear- to them. 
Saints fea r sin. They love God 

so much they fear to lose him 
even for an instant. The passion 
of fear sleeps until the danger is 
imminent. A mother's passion of 
fear burns bright when the night 
hours lengthen and her girl has 
not returned from the dance. The 
soldier's fea r bursts into flame 
when the battle flares and the 
air-is filled with swift hot steel. 
Fear is a movement of fleeing, 
and all within flees as he ad-
vances toward the danger of 
death, and the greater the fear 
the nobler his courage. Wise 
men fear for themselves, afraid 
of their weaknesses and the 
threat of loss in them, the loss of 
esteem, of honor, of self-respect. 
These are more valuable than 
silver or success, and a wise but 
weak man fears fo r them. 

Fear is not evil, no more than 
love is evil, or hunger or thirst . 
Fear is human. Fear can lead us 
to good, and long ago God in-
spired the words, "The fear of 
the Lord is the beginning of wis-
dom." (Prov. 1:7) . In one of 
his letters John the Apostle 
wrote, "He who fears is not per-
fected in love. There is no fear 
in love; but perfect love casts 
out." (1 John 4:18). He means 
that the fears of saints are not 
the fears of earthly men. The 
man who has perfect Christian 



FEAR 7 
love sees one thing as supremely 
evil, the loss of God. Your loves 
determine your fears. Listen to 
St. Paul : "Who shall separate 
us f rom the love of Christ? Shall 
tribulation, or distress,, or perse-
cution, or hunger, or nakedness, 
or danger, or the sword? (Rom. 
8:35). Tribulation, distress, 
hunger, nakedness, the sword— 
these are things that men fear . 
To love "Christ like Paul is to 
cast out the fear . And what of 
the little people who fear to be 
saints and martyrs? If perfect 
love casts out fear, surely a little 
love will keep fear f rom consum-
ing us. "Let us therefore love, 
because God first loved us." (1 
John 4:19). Let us make a be-
ginning of love, that we may be 
a little less afraid. 
_ Since fear is par t of man, 

Jesus met it in the men He knew. 
He accepted fear as a reality, 
and in His preaching He strove 
to give it direction and control. 
He told us what to fear. He said, 
"Do not be afraid of those who 
kill the body, but cannot kill the 
soul. . . Are not two sparrows 
sold for a fa r th ing? And yet not 
one of them will fall to the 
ground without your Father 's 
leave. But as for you, the very 
hairs of your head are number-
ed, Therefore, do not be a f ra id ; 

you are of more value than many 
sparrows." (Matthew 10:28-31) 
How thoughtful of the Son of 
God ! How kind of Christ to 
compare us to the birds, tha t 
each time we see a sparrow we 
might be reminded of his words 
and be lifted up by fa i th in 
them. We are worth more to 
God than many sparrows. The 
very hairs of our head are num-
bered. How often do we fear 
that we do not really matter to 
man or God? The fear tha t we 
are imperceptible even in the 
eyes of God in the vast fog of 
men. I t is a f r ightening 
thought that we have no value 
to anyone, tha t we are nothing 
more than a name in the phone 
book, a number in a census, as 
little as a sparrow and as un-
noticed. If even that f r igh t as-
sails you, remember the words of 
Our Lord, "Do not be afraid. The 
very hairs of your head are 
numbered." 

At times the world around is 
inhospitable and hostile, the 
world of hurricane and flood and 
tidal wave, the world of auto 
accidents and plane crashes, of 
polio and cancer and the atom 
bomb. There are a thousand 
things to fea r in our world, and 
only the fool has said in his 
heart, "There is nothing to 



8 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
fear ." Wise men are af ra id of 
the future , and Christ seems to 
be asleep. He seemed to be asleep 
that night long ago when the 
sea was hostile with wind and 
storm. "There arose - a great 
squall, and the waves were beat-
ing into the boat, so that the 
boat was now filling. And He 
Himself was in the stern of the 
boat, on the cushion, asleep. And 
they woke Him and said to Him. 
"Master, does it not concern 
thee, we are perishing. . . Then 
He arose and rebuked the wind 
and the raging of the water; and 
they ceased, and there came a 
great calm. And He said to them, 
'Where is your f a i t h ? ' " When 
nature or man turn hostile there 
is the sudden upsurge of fea r in 
us, the violent passion to escape, 
and the impassioned plea, pray-
er, complaint to Christ, " i s it no 
concern of yours, we are perish-
ing!" In the midst of the panic 
perfect love casts out fear, but 
so few have perfect love. Above 
the wind and storm of fear again 
the voice of Christ is heard, 
"Where is your fai th. Fear not 
them that kill the body and have 
nothing more that they can do." 

This is my first and greatest 
fear, the fear for my soul. This 
is a fear deep within me, as ele-
mental as hunger or the longing 

to live. This fear is seen when 
man lives on human level or tries 
to. When one lives on purely 
animal level he may not see it, or, 
if he sees it, call it a mirage. A 
thinking man is concerned with 
the interpretation of this anxiety 
within himself. He is concerned 
with the question of his destiny, 
if only because so many good 
men before him have been anx-
ious about it. The man who puts 
his fa i th in Christ has a f a r 
greater reason. When Jesus told 
us not to fear them that kill the 
body, He added, "Rather fear 
Him that can destroy both body 
and soul in Hell."'. (Matthew 
10:28) The Christian's fea r is 
not panic, but a deep anxiety 
within. I t is so bound to his na-
ture as to be part of it, a con-
dition of i t s existence. He can-
not escape it. The fear of the 
unknown is linked to the fear of 
the known, the world he lives in, 
in which he must save his soul. 
He is anxious lest his soul's life 
be crushed out in the world, 
anxious lest the world force it-
self between his soul and God 
and effect the great divorce, the 
disastrous endless separation 
that is Hell. In that anxiety he 
strains again to catch the sound 
of the voice of Christ in answer 
to the deep fear within his heart, 



FEAR 9 
and then it comes across the 
world f rom the Supper Room: 
"Take courage, I have overcome 
the world. Father, I pray for 
them . . . fo r those whom thou 

hast given me, because they are 
thine. . . I do not pray that thou 
take them out of the world, but 
that thou keep them from evil." 
(John 16:33; 17 passim) 

Why are you af ra id? 



I know of no loneliness like 
the loneliness of a man hanging 
on a cross between the earth and 
the sky "stripped and bleeding 
and alone." I know no prayer in 
all the history so lonely as the 
cry, "My God, my God, why hast 
thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 
27:46) What loneliness to hear, 
as you die, the taunts of your 
country-men, "If thou ar t the 
Son of God, come down from" the 
cross." (Matthew 27:40) "Let 
him save himself, if he is the 
Christ, the chosen one of God." 
(Luke 23:35) "He saved others, 
himself he cannot save." 

There is a loneliness like it, 
now that I remember. I t is the 
loneliness of Jesus in the olive 
garden that night with only the 
soft shadows .cast by the moon 
as companions—and sleeping dis-
ciples; the loneliness of the plea, 
"Father, if it is possible, let this 
cup pass away, yet not as I will, 
but as thou wiliest"; (Matthew 
26:39) the loneliness of the 
hoarse whisper of Jesus, "My 
soul is sad, even unto death"; 
(26:38) the loneliness of the 
mental anguish that made Jesus 
sweat blood; the loneliness of the 
complaint to his disciples, "Could 
you not watch one hour with 

me?" (26:40) This was the first 
surge of the flood of loneliness 
of the Son of God; on the cross 
they pierced his hands and feet ; 
in the garden his soul was pierc-
ed—-by our sins. 

Loneliness is the emptiness of 
the heart, the hunger of love. 
Like the heart of man, the heart 
of Christ was capable of loneli-
ness. His heart could be filled 
with the companionship of his 
Father in heaven and of his 
brethren on earth. Always it was 
overflowing with the joy of those 
who behold God in man and in 
things, and more—the joy of the 
Son of God, who beheld always 
the infinite beauty of the Father. 
On that night and that day, in 
the garden and on the cross, the 
sin of the world choked oif the 
joy of the vision of God, and the 
heart of i esus was as lonely as a 
man. Since that night and that 
day the loneliness of man has 
taken on a meaning. Now we 
have a reason for accepting lone-
liness, and this is i t : the h e a i i 
of the Son of God was lonely." 
God, wha made the human heart 
with the burden of loneliness, 
bore that burden himself, that 
we might believe that it was 
given to us not in harshness but 



LONELINESS 11 
in kindness, that we might know 
that we are lonely on earth be-
cause earth is too little to fill our 
hearts, that we might see that 
the deep loneliness of the heart 
is a hunger for God, that we 
might pray, "Thou hast made us 
for thyself, 0 God, and our 
hearts are lonely till they find 
companionship with thee." 

There is loneliness very much 
like to Christ's, the lovely loneli-
ness of Mary. She missed him 
when he left at twelve and was 
lost for three days. She missed 
him when he set out at thir ty to 
begin his mission. But tha t lone-
liness was bearable, for she 
would see him once in a while. 
They would meet at the marriage 
feast at Cana, or at the lake 
town of Capharnaum. Then sud-
denly came the loneliness of the 
cross, the three long lonely 
hours, when her heart broke and 
her arms yearned to hold him. 
What loneliness filled her when 
he said; "Woman, behold thy 
son," (John 19:26) and she knew 
he was giving her John for a son 
because he was going away. How 
lonely was Mary when she saw 
the stone roll across the tomb 
and the darkness embrace her 
son! 

The measure of loneliness is 
love, and since there was no love 

like the love of Christ for men, 
there is no loneliness like His. 
The measure of love is goodness, 
and none was so good as the sin-
less Christ. Never was there a 
son like Jesus, and never was a 
son missed as Mary missed 
Jesus. But why do I recall these 
things today. We are approach-
ing Christmas, not Good Friday! 
Is it not out of season to speak 
of loneliness? This is the season 
of companionship. I t will be out 
of season to speak of loneliness 
when there is no more, that is, in 
heaven. For some Christmas is 
the season of supreme loneliness, 
for the sound of Christmas bells 
and the f ragrance of holly can do 
strange things to the heart . I 
speak of the loneliness of Jesus 
and Mary because we are inclin-
ed to think of our own loneliness 
first. That is understandable for 
we think of our own pain first 
because it is ours. If you are 
lonely at Christmas, remember 
the loneliness of Jesus and Mary. 
If you are lonely, put on your 
hat and coat and take a walk to 
the nearest hospital, or the near-
est orphanage, or the nearest 
cemetery, and you will see that 
many are lonely. If your Christ-
mas is filled with the companion-
ship of children's laughter and 
parent's love and fr iends ' affec-



12 FAITH AND THE 
tion, do not forget the childless 
parents, the parentless children, 
and the solitary stranger in your 
midst-, or the boys who are 
strangers in Korea. 

Widow " is a lonely word. 
Orphan is a lonely word. How 
deep the loneliness only widows 
and orphans know. If widows 
and orphans alone were lonely, 
there would be enough loneliness 
in .our warring world, for they 
are many. But no! I have seen 
the loneliness of the old in the 
homes for the aged, as, mothers 
spoke of children who never 
came to see them. I have seen 
loneliness in mental institutions, 
where the look in men's eyes sad-
dens you more than the bars on 
the windows. I have seen the 
loneliness of the children of di-
vorces, their little minds mixed 
up with fear and confusion. But 
loneliness is not limited to these. 
I t knocks on the door of every 
human heart. Sometimes it 
surges up within you without 
apparent reason. You are sur-
rounded by family and fr iends 
and laughter, and suddenly there 
is a sense of loneliness. There is 
a loneliness that comes to actors 
a f te r applause, loneliness tha t 
comes to people a f te r a party, 
loneliness that comes to sinners 
a f te r a sin. 

HEART OF MAN 
Since loneliness is as much a 

part of the human heart as 
blood, we should make some seri-
ous effort at interpreting it. 
Sooner or later in life every man 
"awakens to the consciousness of 
his unavoidable, ultimate loneli-
ness." (R. Allers, The Psych-
ology of Character p. 299) 
Whether he is married or 
single, practical or poetic, 
prominent or plain, rich or 
ragged, he comes to recognize 
"his final dependence upon him-
self." (Ibid.) Loneliness is an es-
sential condition of the human 
heart. You can't get on without 
it. In reverse it becomes one of 
the drives of our nature, tha t 
makes us run a f te r someone or 
something that we hope will fill 
the emptiness. There is the es-
cape that sends a chill through 
us every time we read it, the es-
cape of self-destruction. The 
awesome thought is : what do 
they escape to! There is the es-
cape, or—'better—the surrender, 
in the abnormal behavior of the 
recluse who cuts himself off f rom 
the community. Escape is sought 
in alcohol, but when the aleohol 
leaves the body there returns a 
new and greater loneliness to the 
mind. Some confuse the loneli-
ness of the heart with the hung-
er of the body and seek escape in 



LONELINESS 13 
sex excesses, but a f te r the sin 
comes the strange loneliness of 
the sense of guilt. Some com-
pensate for loneliness by domi-
neering and antagonistic atti-
tudes, some by feverish activity, 
by working or playing at the 
pace that kills, some by insati-
able greed, some by applause, or 
adulation, or infatuation. I 
think there is a fallacy common 
to all these escapes, the illusion 
that the inner condition of the 
human heart can be altered by 
something outside. it. It 's like 
curing cancer of the blood with 
cold cream. 

Loneliness is not the same 
thing as being alone. I remem-
ber a house on the Aventine Hill 
in Rome that bears above the 
door the inscription: 0 Beata 
Solitudo—0 Sola Beatitudo, 0 
Blessed Aloneness — The Only 
Blessedness. Solitude has been 
sought by man as f a r back as 
Buddha, and as recently as 
Thomas Mer.ton. The Trappists 
live solitude. They do not even 
speak. Consecrated women in 
the Carmelite convents across 
the world live solitude. These 
men and women seek aloneness; 
they do not seek loneliness. I t 
is the deep loneliness within 
them that drives them into mon-
asteries and convents. They in-

terpret it aright. They see it as 
a depth too deep for any mortal 
to fill, as a hole in the heart cut 
to the size of God, the infinite 
depth of the divine. Augustine 
felt it when he wrote, "Thou 
hast made us for thyself, O God, 
and our hearts are restless until 
they find rest in thee." This is 
the interpretation of loneliness. 
Our hearts must be lonely on 
earth because they were made 
for heaven. God made our hearts 
lonely because he made them 
for Himself. 

"But," you say, "Father , 
you've scotched the snake, not 
killed it. We will accept the 
proposition that God is the an-
swer to our elemental loneliness, 
but the problem is with the here 
and now. A religion that post-
pones all its solutions to the 
hereafter may find itself devour-
ed by a philosophy that deals 
with bread and blood in the 
here and now." I confess tha t 
sounds like a reasonable objec-
tion but underneath it, I believe, 
there is a misunderstanding., I 
think that God recognized better 
than my objector that the prob-
lem is with the here and now. 
That 's why there was an Incar-
nation. The Son of God came 
into the here and now to do 
something about it. For that 



14 FAITH AND THE 
reason I began these remarks by 
talking about the loneliness of 
Jesus. I think that human loneli-
ness is a spiritual condition, and 
that it becomes reasonably bear-
able by a spiritual life. I be-
lieve that Christ came to give 
us that life. He said, "I came 
that they may have life, and have 
it more abundantly."- (John 
10:10) He meant the divine life 
of grace by which a man is able 
to bear .loneliness, fear, and all 
the shadows of the valley of 
death without the artificial es-
capes of superficial stuff. I be-
lieve fu r the r tha t this life that 
Jesus promised is not something 

HEART OF MAN 
vague and abstruse like the will 
to win, respectability, or middle-
class morality. I believe it is an 
intimate personal relationship 
with the living Christ, an I and 
thou relationship. Jesus prom-
ised, "I will not leave you orph-
ans; I will come to you . . . you 
will know that I am in the Fa-
ther, and you in me, and I in 
you . . . Abide in me . . . Abide in 
my love." (John 14:15 passim) 

What prayer can I pray for 
the lonely heart of the world? 
The prayer of another John: 

' "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Apoc. 
22:20) Come! 



Love, does a lot of damage and 
a lot of repair. It is at once the 
most constructive energy in the 
world and the most destructive. 
People die for love and kill for it. 
It drivés' men to drink, and they 
have been known to starve for it. 
Women dress for love or put on 
sack-cloth for it. You find it in 
the funny fuzzy people in Ug-
anda and in the pretty precious 
people in Paris, in abbeys and in 
alehouses. So much folly is per-
petrated in its name that it is 
talked of as sort of blindness, 
and so many wondrous deeds are 
wrought by it that it seems to 
give a sort of .supersight. I t is at 
once the most perplexing and 
profound, disturbing, baffling, 
wonderful and exciting problem 
of man. Like the pituitary 
gland,; we may not know much 
about it, but it does a lot to us. 

There must be a reason why 
love is the root of' so much mis-
ery and so much ecstasy, and the 
reason must be in man rather 
than outside him, because the 
misery and ecstasy are prover-
bially independent of how much 
you have or how little. Since lové 
is in a person w 3 may get some 
light on it by seeing what a per-
son is. We often call a person an 

individual, and that tells us 
more. A person is separate from 
others and self-enclosed. Second-
ly, a person is human, that is 
different from an animal, differ-
ent because " a person has the 
power to think and choose freely. 
These are spiritual powers and 
reside in the spiritual part of a 
man, his soul. The other part of 
a person is his body, and he is 
therefore a composite of matter 
and spirit. The parts of a person 
do not operate separately and 
singly like the radio and tele-
vision in your combination-set. 
Rather are their actions inter-
locked like light and heat in your 
electric bulb. Body and soul in-
fluence each other mutually. 
People have ulcers of the stom-
ach because they have worries in 
their minds. It- is the third 
thing about a person that gives 
rise to the real problem. He ex-
periences in himself a condition 
of conflict between matter and 
spirit. Paul the Apostle was no 
exception. He wrote, "I see an-
other law in my members, war-
ring against the law of my 
mind."- (Romans 7:23) And at 
another time, "The flesh lusts 
against the spirit, and the spirit 
against the flesh, for these are 



16 FAITH AND THE 
opposed to each other." (Gala-1 
tians 5:17). 

I am sure you will find these 
things confirmed by your own ex-
perience. There are certain ex-
periences arising out of the fact 
that we are self-enclosed and 
separate. Have you found it 
difficult to talk to another about 
yourself ? I do not mean the sur-
face chatter about where you 
have your hair done, or your golf 
score, but your inner self. Do 
you find it difficult to tell the 
whole story of yourself to your 
confessor, your doctor, or your 
wife? And when you have tried, 
do you have the uneasy feeling 
that you really have not got all 
of yourself across to the other, 
like a 'phone conversation over 
a poor connection?' You are ex-
periencing your solitariness, the 
reality that as a person you are 
set apart f rom everyone else. I 
am sure, secondly, that you have 
had experiences like these: turn-
ing pale at hearing bad news, 
finding it impossible to restrain 
a tear, blushing against your 
will. These are signs of the in-
teraction of the mind and body. 
Thirdly, I point to one experi-
ence of the conflict within us: 
Gauge the distance quickly be-
tween what you are and what 

HEART OF MAN 
you want to .be in the sight of 
God. „ 

Now love is tied up with these 
three aspects of a person. First , 
there is self-love. Because you 
are separate and self-enclosed by 
nature, it is natural for you to 
love that independence and auto-
nomy. I t is necessary and natu-
ral to love yourself. Proper self-
love is the foundation of self-
respect and personal dignity, the 
drive to self-realization, the root 
of a sense of responsibility re-
garding personal gif ts . By 
reason of it you grow and be-
come more a person. Our Lord 
took that for granted in an of t 
quoted commandment, " T h o u 
shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
self." Our Lord set self-love as 
the ideal to aim at in loving 
others. He knew proper self-
love was not evil, but good. I t is 
self-love with disorder that is 
evil, self-love blown-up and mis-
shapen. 

Although you are separate and 
self-enclosed, your existence is 
violently marked by a pull to-
ward other persons. Your whole 
person experiences this pull, 
your body and your soul. As a 
person you need response in both 
of these, and you need to give in 
both respects. Because marriage 
is a union of two persons, it re-



LOVE 17 
quires more than the giving of 
the body. I t requires the mutual 
giving„ and receiving of self. 
Without such giving it will be 
an incomplete and unhappy re-
relationship, and lead sooner or 
later to mutiny or to shipwreck. 
Humans need human love. I 
think this demands emphasis, for 
I fear tha t too many look upon 
love as primarily, or even ex-
clusively, a matter of sex. Such 
love is traveling under an as-
sumed name; its real name is 
lust. I t is the love of the male. 
I t is found in animals as well as 
men, and is therefore not the 
mark of a man. I t is a good, 
God-given power ordered to the 
wonderful "and mysterious real-
ity tha t is life. God asks humans 
to look upon it with reverence, 
and to subject it to the control 
of the mind and of law. It is 
anarchy to abuse it. As a person 
a woman requires the love of a 
man, not merely the love of the 
male. And thè same goes for 
man. Physical love in marriage 
is the natural and good expres-
sion of the love of. man for 
woman. I t can keep human love 
alive, or it can kill it. A person 
may need it to live, but it is not 
enough to live "on. For the body 
may be satisfied and the spirit 
starving. A person needs not 

only to be satisfied but to be 
loved. The need of a person is 
for a person. 

It is in the marriage relation-
ship that we witness the dra-
matic clash of loves, the love of 
self and the love of another. 
When a person begins loving an-
other he does not stop loving 
himself. He cannot. Love of an-
other is not intended to choke off 
aelf-love, but to balance it and 
help it. When either partner in 
a marriage forgets this, and the 
dignity of personhood that un-
derlies it, and stops treat ing the 
other as a person he will kill her 
love for him before he will kill 
love for herself. This is the law 
of life. I think it merits some 
thought. 

Take another example of dis-
ordered self-love. There is love 
of self in a mother. The child is 
the response to her proper love 
of self as a mother. With all 
love there is the desire to belong 
to another, and this is in the 
child and the mother. So f a r so 
good. This self-love can become 
disordered when that sense of 
belonging turns t o possessive-
ness. This is an ugly distortion 
of natural love. You can own a 
car, but you cannot own a child. 
A child is a person, and no per-
son can be owned by another; 



18 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
nature has placed them beyond 
ownership. You cannot own a 
friend or a wife. You may call 
them yours, but they are always 
and ultimately their own. 

So the conflict is twofold: the 
war of the flesh against the 
spirit and the war of self-love 
against the love of another when 
it is threatened. In both respects, 
as f a r as I see, it is an unfair 
fight, the odds are against us, 
we are not equal to the opposi-
tion, we can't win—alone. 

There is no conflict in God, 
and there is no victory in human 
conflict without God. The law of 
my members fights against the 
law of -my mind, and God takes 
up arms on the side of my mind. 
God fights on the side of the 
spirit and He never gives in. He 
does not fight f rom a distance 
but within us. Grace is the di-
vine energy within us, the shar-
ing of the divine life. This is 
possible because of the Redemp-
tion of Christ. The Son of God 
became one with humanity, and 
by that oneness made it possible 
for us to become in some* way 
one with divinity. This oneness 
was expressed by Jesus when He 
said,, " I am the vine. You are 
the branches. He who abides in 
me, and I in him, he bears much 
f ru i t . For without me you can 

do nothing." (John 15:5) I t was 
expressed by St. Paul when he 
wrote to the Corinthians, "You 
are the body of Christ," (1 Cor. 
12:27) and, "You are the temple 
of the living God." (2 Cor. 6:6) 
Christianity is a matter of Union 
and union is a matter of love. 
Paul could say, "In all things 
we overcome because of Him who 
loved us." (Romans 8:38) 

The second conflict is the 
clash of love of another with 
love of self. The sign of defeat 
in this battle is selfishness. The 
sign of victory is altruism. This 
is the second love of Christianity 
and its second great command-
ment, "Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself." Christ 
showed us the way in this, com-
mandment - f rom Bethlehem to 
Calvary. Lest we forget it, he 
said, "Greater love than this no 
one has, tha t one lay down his 
life for his fr iends." (John 
15:13) And lest we forget it, 
he did! To this example he ad-
ded another motive. He identified 
himself with the other he asked 
us to love. "Amen I say to you, 
as long as you did it for one of 
these, the least of my brethren, 
you did it for me." (Matthew 
25:40) John the Apostle could 
say bluntly. "If anyone says 'I 
love God,' and hates his brother, 



LOVE 19 
he is a liar." (1 John 4:20) 

"Christianity is primarily a mat-
ter of love of God, and the 
surest test of that is the love 
of neighbor. 

I t all comes down to th is : 
Persons cannot live human lives 
in themselves or towards another 
without divine help. Paul wrote 
to the Romans, "All have sinned 
and have need of the glory of 
God. They are justified freely 
by his grace through the re-
demption which is in Christ 
Jesus . . . the charity of God is 
poured for th in our hearts by 
the Holy Spirit who has been 
given to us." (3:23 5:5) -

Charity is the Christ-life in 
us. I t is the life and love of God 
in us. Without it we are, lost. 
Our loves have consumed us. I 
am helpless to tell you how 
necessary it is, and so I turn to 
Paul again. "If I should speak 
with the tongues of men and of 
angels, but do not have charity, 
I have become a sounding brass 
or a tinkling cymbal . . . and if 
I have fa i th so as to remove 
mountains, yet do not have char-
ity, I am nothing. And if I dis-
tribute all my goods to feed the 
poor, and if I deliver my body 
to be burned, Yet I do not have 
charity, it profits me nothing." 
(1 Cor. 13:1-3) 



J O Y 
Look at what you are doing! 

Giving gif ts for Christmas. How 
do you feel about i t? Happier 
than you have felt in months? 
If it brings you joy to give at 
Christmas, it may bring you joy 
to give on the Fourth of July, 
and on Sunday through Satur-
day f rom January to December. 
There may be a connection be-
tween joy and giving. There may 
be a vital connection between 
them. It may be a law of life 
that joy is the f r u i t of giving. 
Look at what you are doing. 
When you finish wrapping your 
gifts, fold your hands, bow your 
head and look at what you are 
doing in your heart. Why are 
you giving, and what does giv-
ing do to you? Are you at your 
best at Christmas? Was Dickens 
telling the t ru th whein he 
had Christmas unfreeze even 
Scrooge? What do you see in 
your heart? This t r u th : Christ-
mas is a season of joy because 
it is a season of giving? 

But someone may say it is a 
joyful day because the shops 
have rolled down their shutters, 
and the money changers have 
locked their boxes, and the flame 
and the blast of the furnace is 
still, and men have escaped to 

the fairyland of the home, where 
the competitors do not compete, 
and bosses do not boss, and mer-
chants do not haggle, and crowds 
do not push and bruise. Someone 
may say that Christmas is 
twenty-four hours of a magic 
cottage, a brief sweet dream of a 
magic world that man can keep 
alive only for a day, a mid-wint-
er night's dream that vanishes 
like the f ros t with the new day's 
heat. Do we have to disguise the 
air with holly and fill the air 
with carols to make men differ-
ent ? Or does that make them dif-
ferent? Are they different be-
cause of convention, because of 
a social custom that has enslav-
ed'us so that we go through mo-
tions without meaning, giving 
with the hands and withholding 
the heart? God forbid! I think 
there is no cynicism so cold that 
the warmth of -a Christmas carol 
cannot melt it, no scepticism so 
sharp that Christmas prayer 
cannot dull it, no blindness so 
black that it cannot catch the 
white glow of a Christmas candle 
beside a Christmas crib. All of 
us are living a t ru th at Christ-
mas. We are preaching a sermon 
to ourselves that we forget too 
soqp. The t ru th we are living is 



JOY 21 
this: Man is at his best when 
he gives; he i s most human 
then; and when man is most 
human he is most happy. Joy is 
the f ru i t of giving of gifts, but 
I would tell you of a greater joy, 
the giving of self, and I would 
tell you on Christmas of one 
who gave himself as no one ever 
gave before or since. 

This story begins in heaven 
before time began. It begins with 
God the Father giving divine life 
to the Son. He that is born of 
the divine Father is rightly call-
ed the Son. Since God is Spirit 
it is a spiritual birth, and the 
divine Son is the living likeness 
of the Father. He is the expres-
sion of the Father, and hence 
may be named the Word. So in 
your Christmas Mass you will 
read the lovely words of St. 
John's Gospel: "In the begin-
ning was the Word, and the 
Word was with God, and the 
Word was God." (1:1) The be-
ginning of time marked God's 
first giving to man, the prepara-
tion of a world for him, the gif t 
of creation. All this was given 
through the.Son. So John reads: 
"All things were made through 
Him, and without him was made 
nothing that has been made.", 
(1:3) And when the fullness of 
time had come the Father 's 

greatest giving came, the gif t 
of the Son himself, the g i f t of 
the Incarnation. As John 
wrote i t : "The Word was made 
flesh and dwelt among us." (1:4) 
Mary called her Son Jesus, which 
means Savior, and when He told 
men why He had come, He said it 
was "to give his life as a ransom 
for many/ ' (Matthew 20:28). 

He began that life of giving 
at the first moment of His exist-
ence in the virginal womb of 
Mary but made it manifest to 
men in a miraculous way for the 
first time when Mary told Him 
of a simple need of people at a 
wedding feast. They needed 
wine, and amid the music and 
fun of a wedding the glory of 
God was seen as Jesus began 
His life of giving. His giving 
was not a thing to be measured 
out cautiously. The gaiety of 
men and their laughter was suf-
ficient reason for his giving and 
the request of Mary, who said, 
"They have no wine." There was 
to be no end of the giving then 
begun. You might see Him each 
day in the towns of Judea or 
Galilee giving His words ft) all 
who came to hear Him, especially 
to the poor. He gave not only 
of His light, but of His power 
as well. The blind came to Him 
and He gave them sight, the 



22 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
sick came and He gave them 
health, the crippled came and He 
gave them power "to walk, sin-
ners came and He gave them 
release f rom their sins. When 
the crowds followed Him across 
the lake and had nothing to eat, 
He gave five thousand bread to 
eat with a few loaves. There was 
no end to His giving. Mothers 
brought their children and He 
gave them blessing. He gave life 
to the dead, to the son of a wid-
ow He had never seen before and 
to the brother of a friend. He 
gave His time, His energy, His 
wisdom, His power, His love, His 
mercy, His tenderness. And 
when the world Was asleep He 
gave His night hours in prayer 
to His heavenly Father. 

Then came the day when the 
world of evil and the power of 
darkness tried to bind the hands 
of the Giver. They did bind His 
hands with nails to the cross, as 
if to say, "We'll put an end to 
your giving." But even as they 
bound Him He prayed, "Father 
forgive them, for they know not 
what they do." (Luke 23:34). 
Forgiving is the hardest giving 
of all. There was no end to His 
giving. On the cross He gave 
Paradise to a thief, He gave 
Mary a son, and John a mother. 
He gave His blood to the last 

drop "a ransom for many." The 
night before He gave us "a re-
membrance of His wonderful 
works." (Psalm 110:4). He left 
us the eternal symbol of His 
everlasting giving from the 
heights of heaven to the depths 
of Calvary, the Eucharist. He 
gave us His flesh to eat, and His 
blood to drink. And at that same 
moment He shared His priest-
hood with His Apostles and their 
successors, who would through 
the Mass, extend His Incarna-
tion to all times and places. 

Joy went where the Giver 
went. Imagine the joy of the 
paralytic when he took his first 
step and walked. Imagine the 
joy of the blind man when he 
first beheld the color of the 
earth and the sky and the eyes 
of Christ. Imagine the joy of the 
sinner when released f rom Sin. 
Imagine the joy of the Giver of 
these gif ts . The Gospel is mark-
ed from beginning to end with a 
note of joy. Gloom is an alien 
body in Christianity. The very 
word Gospel means good news. 
Mary's Magnificat in the Gos-
pel of St. Luke is a song of joy; 
her spirit rejoices in God her 
Saviour. When Mary came to 
visit Elizabeth who was also 
with child Elizabeth greeted her 
with the words, "The moment 



JOY 2 3 
that the sound of thy greeting 
came to my ears, the babe in my 
womb leapt for joy." (Luke 1: 
44). John the Baptist was that 
child, and later he was to say, 
"I am not the Christ, but have 
been sent before Him . . . the 
friend of the bridegroom, who 
stands and hears Him, rejoices 
exceedingly at the voice of the 
bridegroom. This my joy there-
fore is made full." (John 3:29). 

Jesus often spoke of joy. We 
meet it in His parables of the 
kingdom of heaven. "The king-
dom of heaven is like a treasure 
hidden in a field; a man who 
finds it hides it, and in his joy 
goes and sells all that he has 
and buys that field." (Matthew 
13:44). It appears in the lovely 
parable of the lost sheep. The 
shepherd leaves the ninety-nine 
in the desert to go in search of 
the one that is lost. "And when 
he has found it, he lays it upon 
his shoulders rejoicing. And on 
coming home he calls together 
his friends and neighbors, say-
ing to them, 'Rejoice with me, 
because I have found my sheep 
that was lost.' I say to you, that, 
even so, there will be joy in 
heaven over one sinner who re-
pents, more than ninety-nine 
just, who have no need of re-
pentance." (Luke 15:5-7). What 

is there to compare with the joy 
of the father in that loveliest of 
all parables, the Prodigal Son. 
Remember the father 's excited 
words upon his son's return. 
"Fetch quickly the best robe and 
put it on him, and give him a 
ring for his finger and sandals 
for his feet; and bring out the 
fattened calf and kill it, and 
let us eat and make merry; be-
cause this my son was dead, and 
has come to life again; he was 
lost and is found." (Luke 15:21-
24). Picture the joy of the peo-
ple as they listened to Jesus and 
beheld their kindly Father in 
heaven through the thin lovely 
veil of the story of the Prodigal 
Son. Picture the joy of Jesus as 
He told it. 

In the Upper Room the night 
before Calvary Jesus spoke to 
His disciples of joy. "These 
things I have spoken to you that 
my joy may be in you, and that 
your joy may be made full." 
(John 15:11). He prayed that 
night that His joy might be 
theirs. "But now I am coming 
to thee, (Fa ther ) ; and while 
I am still in the world I am tell-
ing them this, so that my joy 
may be theirs, and reach its full 
measure in them." (17:13). He 
reassured them with these 
words: "Your gladness will be 



24 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
one which nobody can take away 
from you." (16:22). 

I t is Christmas Eve and the 
time opens a door to merriment 
and mirth. Merriment is a bub-
ble that is moist for a moment; 
joy is a well-spring that never 
runs dry. I speak to you serious-
ly not to restrain your merri-
ment, but to enrich your joy. 
Merriment can be a mask that 
wears thin in a day; joy is as 
deep as the heart of man. Mer-
riment is not a thing to be scof-
fed at. It is a human response 
to a human need. I t is the ex-
pression of the human heart that 
needs company, song and laugh-
ter sometimes. We do right to 
wish men a merry Christmas, for 
human hearts are made to be 
merry at times, especially a t 
Christmas time. It is r ight tb 
wish men a merry Christmas, 
but it is not enough to wish 
them. Add to that wish a prayer 
that they may find joy. A prayer 
is necessary because joy is not 
a thing that men find easily. We 
find merriment with a jolly com-
pany, -or with the aid of cakes 

and ale. Joy is not born of such 
trivial parents. I t is deep down 
within a man rooted in the fiber 
of his soul. I t comes not f rom a 
good time, but f rom the good 
life. It too needs companionship, 
the companionship of Christ and 
His grace. I t thrives on exercise, 
the exercise of giving. More than 
a giving of gif ts it is a giving of 
self. This self-giving does not 
so much consist in doing this or 
that, but in an atti tude of mind 
and a disposition of heart, a like-
ness to Christ, Who said, "Learn 
f rom me, for I am meek and 
humble of heart ." (Matthew 11: 
29). 

All these words of mine are 
but the introduction to a wish 
and the preface to a prayer. I 
wish you all a merry and a joyfyl 
Christmas. My prayer for you 
now and in my Christmas Mas-
ses tomorrow is th is : May you 
learn the a r t of giving and the 
joy of living f rom Him Whose 
birthday we celebrate, Blessed 
Mary's Son. And I shall ask 
you for a gif t . Please say the 
same prayer for me. 



HO 
Religion is not a substitute 

for common sense. You need 
common sense in a church as 
much as in a grocery store or a 
service station. In f a r too many 
cases religious beliefs of some 
persons are a substitute for 
sound judgment, particularly in 
matters dealing with prophecy 
and the future. The Bible is one 
of the most difficult books in the 
world to understand and inter-
pret. The oldest parts of the 
Bible were written more than 
three thousand years ago, and 
all of it was written over 
eighteen hundred years ago. It 
was written in a distant land 
and in ancient and alien tongues. 
To interpret the Bible with some 
sort of authority one needs edu-
cation in history, language, and 
theology. Wishing will not make 
one a biblical interpreter any 
more than it will make one rich. 
Prophecy is the most difficult 
phase of Old Testament inter-
pretation, and in the New Testa-
ment the Apocalypse, the Revela-
tion to John, is the njost difficult 
book to understand and explain. 
For many texts we can arrive 
only at probable interpretations 
and conclusions. To take these 
texts and to deduce f rom them 

PE 
with mathematical precision pre-
dictions about the future contra-
dicts not only the nature of 
prophecy but common sense as 
well. And it does harm to the 
cause of religion among think-
ing people. There is much too 
much private interpretation of 
the Bible, and it is a most un-
fortunate situation. 

Man is religious by nature. He 
is, not educated by nature. Man 
is emotional by nature. He is 
not self-controlled by nature. He 
acquires education by effort and 
self-control by grace. In the 
meantime we can exploit his ig-
norance and his emotions in the 
name of religion or in the name 
of anything else. This is not only 
a possibility, but an all too fre-
quent actuality, particularly in 
the field of religion. I attempt 
no estimate of responsibility in 
the matter. I point to the fact 
and lament it. In this most criti-
cal year in the most critical of 
centuries I appeal to all religious 
leaders for a greater sense of 
responsibility. I appeal for "it in 
the name of honor, honesty, and 
humility. I carry that appeal 
beyond religious leaders to those 

-who mold public opinion in the 
press or on the radio, to those 



26 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
who shape the minds of the 
young through television and 
moving-pictures. I appeal to par-
ents and educators, to everyone 
who is responsible for anyone 
for a fuller sense of responsi-
bility, a greater awareness of the 
awful seriousness of the hour 
and a courage to match the over-
whelming proportions of the 
crisis. I appeal for a clear head 
and a humble heart, for that 
minimum of unity without which 
America as a nation cannot long 
endure. 

All that is preface to my re-
marks on hope. Hope is a man's 
act, not a child's game. Hope is 
conditioned by reality. In a burn-
ing house you do not hope the 
house will not burn; you hope to 
get out alive. Let us reason to-
gether about hope with fa i th 
and common sense. 

A Christian lives in two 
worlds, the City of God and the 
City of Man. He is a citizen of 
the State and a member of the 
Church. He considers both 
worlds important, but he holds 
the spiritual world supreme. He 
believes that "heaven and earth 
will pass away" (Mark 13:31), 
that is, this visible world of 
earth and sky. This is not news. 
You may read it in St. Paul or in 
Sir James Jeans. But this ques-

tion is news! Will man destroy 
the City of Man before time 
does? That is an altogether 
reasonable question in 1950, un-
dreamed of in 1900. The Chris-
tian believes that the City of 
God is eternal, for it is a city 
not built with hands. Christ said, 
"My words will not pass away." 
(Mark 13:31). He said, "I go 
to prepare a place for you 
that where I am, there you also 
may be." (John 14:2) I believe 
in everlasting life with Christ. 
That will not pass away. 

These beliefs condition my 
hopes. A Christian is a man 
with a hope in each hand, a hori-
zontal hope and a vertical hope. 
The vertical hope runs upwards 
toward heaven. He hopes to go 
there where "neither moth nor 
rust consumes." (Matthew 6: 
20). The horizontal hope points 
across the face of the earth. He 
has hope for the City of Man too, 
for he believes in God's provi-
dence as well as in God's pre-
destination. 

Let us look at the horizontal 
hope first, the hope'for the world 
that man has built, the world 
that is in such imminent peril. 
This is the hope that needs the 
hard and fas t control of bal-
anced judgment. I t is the hope 
for America stretching between 



HOPE 27 
thé shining seas, where more 
than ever before on earth the 
hopes and dreams of man have 
been realized, a world that is not 
all good but in which there is 
more good than evil, a world 
which makes iti^ share of mis-
takes but knows how to forgive, 
a world that is truly worth sav-
ing because it is the hope not 
pnly of Americans, but of- all 
lovers of freedom, a world that 
has might and the responsibili-
ties of might. 

What is our hope for i t? Our 
hope is conditioned by the mon-
strous regiments that surround 
it, by the dreams our foe dreams 
by the hopes he harbors, by his 
vision of a world to be undone 
and of his power to undo it. Do 
we dare hope to sit out our days 
by the quiet fires of compro-
mise? Is ours the feeble hope 
that will accept a desolation and 
call it peace? I think we are con-
fronted with a choice: slavery 
or battle! The first is not hope 
but despair.. My humble and hon-
est hope on this last day of the 
year is not for peace but for 
victory. The reason for my 
judgment is all the reasons you 
know and this is one: evil does 

-not die; it must be killed. Com-
munism will not compromise 
any more than Satan. 

The present conflict is not 
new. There are new names and 
new weapons. Do you remem-
ber this question and answer? 
"What leads to war? . . . I will 
tell you; the appetites which in-
fest your mortal bodies. Your 
desires go unfulfilled, so you fall 
to murdering." (James 4:1) 
Does that sound like an excerpt 
f rom this morning's paper? It 
was written by St. James almost, 
nineteen hundred years ago. Do 
you recall who said, "Do not im-
agine I have come to bring 
peace to the earth; I have come 
to bring a sword, not peace." 
(Matthew 10:34). Jesus of Na-
zareth. Even the peace of the 
first Christmas was. conditioned 
peace. "Peace on earth to men of 
good will." (Luke 2:14). The 
peace that Christ brought was 
not political but personal, a 
peace that remained whether 
men turned their swords into 
ploughshares or their plough-
shares into swords, a peace that 
neither the world nor war can 
take f rom you. 

The hope that the world that 
man has made will know no 
more war is perhaps an unfound-
ed hope. There is nothing in the 
past to give us reason for it. 
Historians date the beginnings 
of military imperialism with 



28 FAITH AND THE HEART OF MAN 
Tutmoses III in Egypt about 
thirty-five hundred years ago. 
From Babylon to Moscow man 
learns ever so slowly that peace 
is the f ru i t of justice. Only when 
justice prevails on the earth will 
there be an end of war. Some 
fear that perhaps we are ap-
proaching the last war of the 
world, the battle of Armageddon, 
the apocalyptic struggle between 
Christ and Anti-Christ. I do not 
think so, although our foe bears 
many of the marks of the beast. 
I think this is one of the wars 
between good and evil, the great-
est man has known, but not the 
last. A war between good and 
evil does not mean that all those 
who oppose us are evil. Many 
follow leaders without knowing 
where they lead. Many have lost 
the will to resist. Many are teo 
hungry to resist. Many too much 
afraid. Many love bread more, 
than freedom. Many are be-
fuddled by words, words, 
words. Many are benighted, 
many bewitched. We are not 
all good. Many on our side 
think that goodness has lit-
tle or nothing to do with the 
case. We have our share of con-
fusion, stupidity, and vice, but 
our cause is the good cause. Our 
banner is white although the 
hands and hearts that bear it are 

soiled. In this J s our hope that 
we fight for the right, that we 
love freedom and hate tyrants. 
Christians are convinced of vic-
tory. They believe that Christ 
is stronger than Satan, and there 
is much sacred blood to be 
avenged. 

The Christian remembers the 
victory hope of his ancestors 
written in the Apocalypse in the 
figure of the white horse and its 
rider, who "rode out victorious 
and to win victory." (6:2) The 
rider "bore for his title, the 
Faithful, the True; he judges 
and goes to battle in the cause 
of the right . . . the name by 
which he is called is the Word of 
God . . . And the title is writ-
ten on his cloak, over, his thigh, 
The King of Kings, and the Lord 
of Lords." (19:11-16) The 
Christian confidence is in victory 
of the cause of r ight because it 
is the cause of Christ. His prayer 
is that all who fight in that cause 
will share in the whiteness of 
Christ, for then the victory will 
be swift and sure. 

The vertical hope is that hope 
for the hereafter . This is the 
hope that is sister of fa i th and 
charity. I t is the hope that St. 
Paul speaks of in Romans 5. "We 
are confident in the hope of at-
taining glory as the sons of God; 



HOPE 29 
nay, we are confident even over 
our afflictions, knowing well that 
affliction gives rise to endur-
ance and endurance gives proof 
of our faith, and a proved fai th 
gives ground for hope. Nor does 
this hope delude us; the love of 
God has been poured out in our 
hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom 
we have received." (5:2-7). The 
hope of Christians is to come to 
the raven of peace af ter 
the storms of this life, 
to find rest a f te r turmoil, to 
behold light a f te r the darkness. 
Therefore the Church prays for 
her departed: "Eternal rest 
grant to them, 0 Lord, and let 
perpetual light shine upon them." 

May they rest in peace." The 
Christian hope is not for a Uto-
pia here below bought with other 
men's blood, but for a heaven 
beyond purchased by the blood 
of Christ. 

As the first half of the twenti-
eth century runs out tonight I 
think the Christian hope for our 
world is like the hope -and the 
certitude of Christ, the hope for 
an Easter a f ter a Good Friday, 
the hope for the resurrection of 
the world af ter the tomb of war. 
This hope, and only this, gives 
the Good Friday we face a mean-
ing: victory for our cause and 
glory for our dead! May God be 
with you. 



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 grat i tude 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 for 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 ffrowth 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 tha t task in hand. We 
feel certain that i t will ha \ j ^ both the good will and the good wishes of 
the great majori ty of our countrymen. Surely, there is no t rue lover 
of our Country who. does not eagerly hope for a less worldly, a less 
material, and a more spiritual s tandard among our people. 

With good will, with kindness and with Christ-like sympathy for 
all. this work is inaugurated. So may it continue. So may it be ful-
filled. This word of dedication voices, therefore, the hope tha t this radio 
hour may serve to make known,- to explain with the charity of Christ, 
our fai th, which we love even as we love Christ Himself. May it serve 
to make better understood that fa i th as it really is—a light revealing 
the pathway to heaven: a s t rength, and a power divine through Christ; 
oardoning 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 
In 42 States, the District of „Columbia, and Hawaii 

Alabama-

Arizona 

California— 

.Mobile .. ... WALA 
Montgomery —; _ WSFA* 

.Douglas KAWT 
Globe .— : KWJR 
Phoenix -•:-—.—..... KTAR 
Prescott : KYCA 
Sofford..'. ' - — KGLU 
Tucson ... KVOA 
Yuma..._..: -i. KYUM 

-Bakersfleld -
Fresno.. 

I S KERO ....:„.:. .KMJ 
Los Angeles - KFi 
Sacramento ——- KCRA 
San Francisco- .— KPO 
Santo Barbara KIST 

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Colorado- _ Denver.. KOA 

Connecticut..., 

District of Columbia 
•Rorida : 

—Hartford ..WTIC»  
.. Washington : WRC 
-Jacksonville ¡ ¿ i .WJAX 
Miami..;.: „ — ~ WIOD 
Orlando § WORZ 
Pensacoia _ WCOA 
Tampa - -WFLA 

Georgia - Atlanta-
Augusta 

Idaho— 
Illinois.. 

m ; i.: wsb 
i— .WTNT 

Savannah - WSAV 
,—- ...KIDO* 

Indiana.. 

_ Boise .r_.—..—— — —— 
. Chicago....i_ ...i -...........;.....•...-WMAQ 
Peoria „WEEK 

. Elkhart ;—i:— WTRC 
Fort Wayne .-..-... WGL 
Indianapolis WIRE* 
Terr» Haute— _.WBOW 

Iowa 

Kansas.. 

.. Davenport 
Des Moines..— 

..WOC* 
WHO 

Kentucky.. 
Louisiana-

Maine 
Maryland-

Massachusetts... 

Michigan...,::— 

. 850 kc 

-1090 kc 

—Hutchinson KWBW 
Wichita.—.: y u— KANS 

„Louisville — - WAVE» 
Alexandria KYSL 
Baton Rouge -L WJBO 
Lafayette ......'. : KVOL 
Lake Charles KPLC 
Monroe KNOE 
New Orleans . ; WSMB 
Shreveoort - ........... KTBS* 

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..Augusta .WRDO 
Bangor £ - WLBZ* 

.Baltimore ^ —,— WTBO 
Cumberland WBAL 

. Boston :— —— WBZ 
Springfield - WBZA 
Detro i t .—. :--— T — W W J 
Flint— S I I —— rWTCB 
Saginaw ,.....:.........WSAM* 

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127 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS 
In 42 State*, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii 

Minnesota ___Duluth-Superlor WEBC 
Hibblng I S WMFG 
Mankato • - ^ • _..KYSM 
Minneapolls-St Paul .....:.... KSTP 
Rochester ...KROC 

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.1300 kc 
.1230 kc 
-1500 kc 
.1340 kc 

Montana .Billings-

Nebraska.. 

: KGHL 
Bazeman ......... . KRBM 
Butte KGIR 
Great Falls. :....:_..;.........,. ..KXLK 
Helena i ::: —._.... ..KXU 

„North Platte _.... ........KODY 
Omaha - , i WOW 

Nevada 
New Hampshire.. 
New Mexico 
New York 

Reno.—. 
Manchester 

.-. Albuquerque...... 

North Carolina.... 

North Dakota.. 

Ohio 

Oklahoma 

Oregon..-

Pennsylvania.. 

...,..: KOH* 
.'- WFEA 

.-;.'. .KOB 
.. Buffalo........ •••.•••••••••••.•••••••.••—WB EN 

New York : WNBC 
Schenectady. ...:..... .... WGY 
Asheville.. .,:,„ : | — ..WISE» 
Charlotte WSOC 
Raleigh & WPTF 
Winston-Salem —-— W S J S 

..Blsmark I - .........V.'. KFYR 
Fargo —— _—...:... .WDAY 

-Cleveland...!... '. ..........WTAM 
Lima ... ...— WLOK 
Toledo WSPD* 
Zanesville 1- _ _ WHIZ 

..Oklahoma Clty„ 

Rhode Island .... 
South Carolina-

South Dakota.. 
.Tennessee 

Utah ? 
Virginia .... 

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WKY* 
Tulsa ........... % KVOO 

.Medford l,.'-.,, , .,".,' V.' ~ ..„KMED 
Portland........ù........iyv£- KGW* 
Altoona WSAN 
Erie c "l 1 WFBG 
Johnstown............ i. „'..;. WERC 
Lewi stown WJAC 
Philadelphia....;. WMRF 
Pittsburgh KYW 
Reading . .KDKA 
Wilkes-Barre WRAW 
Williamsport - WBRE 
Allentown i , ùà .WRAK 

. Providence ...WJ AR 

. Charleston .WTMA 
Columbia..... | WIS* 
Greenville Z « WFBC* 

-Memphis... 
Nashv i l l e . . 

..WMC» 
-WSM* 

-Amarillo £ ; KGNC» 
El Paso KTSM* 
Fort Worth I J .WPAB» 
Houston....:............:...... .. KPRC» 
San Antonio WOAI 
Weslaco KRGV» 

.Salt Lake City - KYDL* 
Harrisonburg ** ..WSVA 
Martinsville WMVA 
Norfolk ,• a,,,.- : WTAR» 
Richmond ...... WMBG 



127 CATHOLIC HOUR STATIONS 
In 42 Stata*, Hi* District of Columbia, and Hawai i 

Washington Saottlo-J..'... J ' ,.r,,',.-' : KOMO* 950 kc 
Spokane .............. KHQ* _ 590 kc 

Wisconsin...... ........l.Eou Clolro • ' ,>' 1 — . . W E A U kc 
La Crosse .WKBH MIO kc 
Marinette...., — _ _ I— — W M A M * ^ 570 kc 

Hawaii -„¿a4- Honolulu ! .............;..:—...:KGU 740 He 
» Delayed Broadcast 

(Revised as of March 6. 1949) 
• * A M and FN 



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