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w BJLBISHQP FUliTON J. SHEEN The spirit of the world, which issues from the \Prince of this world\ or the \god of this world\ is the present and probably the last enemy that Christ and His Church will ever have. \Turning\ \from Scripture \Jg^n^fature7~lnTeg~ works of the last -century-; touch on this theme: Robert Hugh Benson's Loril of the World; Fedoor Dostoievski's Grand Inquisitor which is found in the chapter Pro and Contra of Brothers Kara- BM&SQAV and finally Vladimir Solovyov's Three Con- versations. We pass over the ~ftrst, for it-didV-not-aehievt the same .prominence as the other two works. In all three works, however, there are common ideas: O^aaie^rhiirph will in th<> fjn f n] conflict.with evil, be betrayed from within.7 2. Worldliness or secularism wilFeifa in a world tyranny. I. BetrayainFroniIV ithin The Judas j>f the Last Days, like~the Judas of the Last Supper, will be from within the Church.... According to these writers, he will be a Cardinal e»r-one closest to the Vicar of Christ. Only those who, like Judas, are cradledin the sacred associ- «— ations of the Church, know where to find Christ in the Garden, OTr^ieTrtest-to^se4ze^the^6huEchx^he- Divine is so sacred even to those who would de- stroy it from Within, that they prepare their be- trayal by a mark of affection, as, \Hail Rabbi, and he kissed Him\. The Grand Inquisitor, in Dostoievsky's novel, is a Cardinal. The scene is laid in sixteenth cen- - tury Seville during'the time of the Inquisition. One day Christ appears walking near a Cathedral. Everyone rushes to Him as they recognize His leveUsessf -'The sun of Jove-burns.. in_ His Heart, light and power shine from His eyes, and this _ . JG»diancjB._siied_on_the_ people, ._stirs_ their hearts with responsive love\ .--A funeral- procession passes- bf and a grieving mother throws herself at His Feet pleading that her child be restored to life. Our Lord raises the child from the dead. At that moment, the Cardinal, the Grand In- thiat every man is the supreme arbiter of right and \ wrong; this creats\confusion If a herd of sheep no longer follows the shepherd how does one reestablish a semblance di a flock? By sending a sheep dog barking at their heels forcing them into tne -Mfty^-¥3 freedom Lead to tyranny.. —- The false definition of freedom as the \right to do whatever I please\ causes a reaction to the op- posite extreme in which freedom is defined as \the right to do whatever I must\. As Engels, the co-founder of Communism with Marx, fauptTa le—Js-Jgee-to-fall-heeausfi- it \oheys-the law of gravitation; so citizens of a Socialist state are free as long as they obey the will of the dictator, Tlie Christian concept of freedom as the \right to do ^—aAateyjer Limght!Lis swallowed up inthese two extremes. Thus, the world will pass trom asking tfiie ifuesttonr^Do ym^-te^ to the question: \Do you believe in the. Beast?\ the name in the Apocalypse for this highly organized society under its invisible head, who irthTTPrinW— of the world. c Abortion: A Report Think, Then Talk l i .. • , • : L_ private schools. Afti^ReqneM Editor: During the past three months it has been my privilege to serve as co- chairman of the. Rochester Right to Life Committee. It has been an event- ful time:—I—hiaye been fortunate enough to have witnessed two of the three .state legislative hearings on \aBgfttourl was uiere-whefrrthe-New- A formal sex education program iiirouF schools \iiss' treen^long\ over- - due and we really don't want \No program at alb—Howeverr-we-do-be— lieve that caution should be the watchword, especially for the little ones. But, when their curiosity is aroused-we do want the right answers to be there. York hearing was interrupted by the advocates of no abortion law at all, and \heard Sen. Thaler tell them that- \anarchy was no substitute for due \\* ir~woTitd~nrary^e-Tronder^ _„ know that the teachers who have our children for so many hours of their young lives are ready, willing and able to tell_theia the same sitory we quisdtor, passes by. \He is an oh± man, almost ninety, tail and erect with a withered, face\. See- ing the child come to life \... he knit his tluek- .grey brows and his eyes gleamed with sinister fire. He holds out his finger and bids the guards seize Christ'^J^OAjane^jJare^protest. —Unlimited -freedom-Jead&._to_ unlimited ..tyjmnx A Socialistic State of Orwell's 1984, or the rule of Big Brother, is the forcible organization of the chaos created by the lawlessness of the individual's will. This world where the\\ ego \is 1 'the - -sole\'tte- - i»nninant-of -maniarepares-f or-4he-destruc4:ion-_Qf itself by begetting from within itself a dictator. In Letters from the Underworld, Dostodevski ob- serves: \I shall not be a bit surprised if in the midst of this Universal Reason that is to be, there will appear all of a sudden and unexpectedly, some common faith; or \rather -cy nicaf—and—sneering gentleman, who with his arms akimbo will say to us, 'Now then, you fellows, what about smash- ingall this Reason to bits, sending their logarithms to the devil and living as we like accordihg~~tcT~ pur own s^lj^ wills. All that he needs is an inde- - pendent-willr whatever it may cost hini—and wherever it may lead him . . . Only in one single case does_rnan consciously and deliberately want something absurd, and that is the silliest thing of all/namely, toliave the right to want the absurd, .and not-te-ho bound by the necessity of wanting— heaiing had to._be moved behind closetdjdfters in order to- continue. At the New York hearing a psy- chiatrist from Colorado-lestifjecl ^hat _ he had wnttelr-f5en^fTers\\mith.cnri^— ing abortions in that state. Since ap- proximately 600 abortions have been JM£Lin2Q3Qradp for psychiatric in- dications\ undsr~the~hewTaw, this means that he alone wrote letters -that—could—leaver\ 25 percent or one-quarter of these abortions. (There •~are\X>ver 100--other- psychiatrists in Colorado). And yet, other witnesses wante\d\a1)oTti\Gn^i:o~bezMt--in~the— hands of the doctors.\ In Rochester, I heard a doctor from Buffalo testify that even under the present law (which allows abor- tion If the life of the mother is en- dangered) abortions had risen at Buffalo Children's Hospital from 34 jmr .year_in 1&65. to 5.93 per year in 1968. This evidence- bf - stretching; of the present law was never mention- ed in the two Rochester daily news- papers. I have heard the advocates of easy abortion say that only Catholics are opposed to abo-rtioa. But on the other hand Dietrich Bonhoeffcr, the Luth- eran anti-Nazi theologian who was executed by them, wrote: \Destruc- tion of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon ~v^rrreiat& it Xney^aWWW^ngflF tb^situajiQiis arise around them mak- _ing it necessary- to comment. ' Perhaps those who are willing to dc* some ioud protesting—would—do r well to do some quiet thinking \TirsT.\ Ask yourselves: \Why have educa- tors found it necessary to come out with a sex syllabus?\ The answers of course are many and varied; but, as long as we live in a world where the word \sex\ is no longer spoken softly, sex educa- tion must take its proper place in the thought of higher tax^s and the. VtfSp: of support bjr the non-Ga^hoHa^jna-^ _ THam^ty^aTe~probably~i*e=-two^#st- „ reasons, why private school gygfems should not be too\optimistic ab^ut\r<£ -ceiving publia financial help soon. I would like to suggest that the \Catholic sc3iooTsy\ste1m^ia^C:nie-\col- lege or university type approach to raising funds. First, solicit their alumni, look for tmst funds and be- queath in wils. Secondly, contribu- tions from industry, small businesses and-thfl-gPtifrial pnhlirr should be in- vestigated. ~-Any money raised should 4>e'inr vested to provide dividends and in- \4erest»A^ii?J;-?qg-j> e -4 lse d-to-jhftln re- duce the per pupil educational cost. —Also5-argeneral-reque§t-*>r-ideas -on now to solve the 4inanciaLp_roMem should be solicited from the pulpit jor-through the Catholic press. —William E. Selke,* Rochester. Fr. Nacca Praised —school—eurrfceluta, as—well as in the., home. We can't continue to ignore the fact that times have changed enough so that they must learn more at an earlier age than was previously deem- ed advisable! However, we as parents do have a right to make our dis- . satisfaction . and/ or approval known — Witn -reverence and\ respect. -We- are confident,, too, that constructive, specific criticism by informed and interested parents will never fall on deaf—ears.. — —Mr. and Mrs. Paul DeCarolis, Rochester. ' School Finances Editor: We live in a world where selfish- ness abounds on aH-sidesr-Wfie only what is reasonable\. The Grand Inquisitor set himself against God in the name of man. In the temptations on the Mount, during hib earthly life, Christ would not 'destroy human freedom for the sake of gaining The next day ttarGrand Inquisitor visits Christ fottJwersrltoQttgi^^ in prison and says to Him: \ 'Is it Thou? Thou?' cal wonders, such as throwingJHimself from the Receiving.no answer, he adds, 'Don't answer, be steeple, or by courting • political and military silent . . . Tomorrow I shall condemn.Thee and P° wer - Tlx6 Grand Inquisitor argues now, on the burn Thee at the stake as the worst of heretics. contrary, that freedom, is incompatible with hap- piness. He accuses Christ-of-acting as if _he_jclid_ And the very people, who today have kissed Thfy feet, tomorrow will rush to heap embers on Thy are'.\ _ There, follows the reenactment of the three temptations in the .Gospel,. hj .which Chris$t, never M speaks a word. Thte\8feer*t'©t>*hfi' Gran^IncpisitcikV is that he wears the garb of religion; he seeming- ly defends the freedenvof-4nan t JiulJie__cloes not ~ not love man because He gave him freedom. \In- stead of taking away man's freedom, Thou dost in- crease it. Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice of \than freedom; Mrt conscience, but n&mrigtcattses , him more suffering 1 '. this nascent life, To raise tne ques- liofi whether we are iiere concern^ cd already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.\. It is obvious that learned and re- spected men of many faiths are con- cerned aibout the right to life of the unborn child. -4—nslt-yim-ttfc writp yf>nr Assp.tnhly- Editor: objective ooserver eOTOes^-aeross-^a— priest of such obvious goodness, then, one feels obligated by the virtue of justice to come forward to say a few words in praise of Father John J. Nacca, pastor of St. Francis, Au- burn. Appointed pastor of St. Francis in 4flAt>, oniy_ gight_ ynars_ after ordina-_^ tion, good Father Nacca \M§\buHf 'sr^\ modern school and a large outdoor , 7 shrine. Intense spirituality and sincere dedication are the hallmarks of JFath- er Nacca's priesthood. This man of God, has come unto his own; for the most part to poor and lower-middle class Italian immi- grants and, very happily, his own have received him joyfully and com- plctcly. —— The \more sul fM t By MARGARET Where Sister JJ now, summer com and \middle class' 1 U.S. standards. The Mercy nun vacation up here gent Christmas spent MrsT. ForHlie-gast several-years-1 have listened to many good arguments, both pro and con, regarding public —Charles J. Lauricella, Rochester. believe in God. ^reedonvhe continued to argue, is a burden — man and Senator if you have not al- ready done so, and to write again if you have. If you are not yet sure -how you stand, ask that the legislation be delayed until more information can be*obtained T by everyone; -Otherwise, thiS^tfupdwilP \^«?t^We««tfn\\in -sfcprtrf* even-though* the :Quayle report has' showh tihat ''almost six otit of ten New Yorkers are uninformed or mis- rs. \James TCenrT veled around visiti and has been st; weeks with her ': principal at Our Lai Sister-Mary Karen, She'll be glad, goodbyes,\ to go Chile, on April 1 can still get alonj Chilean Spanish, 11 work. Sister Jane and field Live in a \wl borhood of run-i where 60 to 70 d the average famil a cost-of-living-liki Rochester Mercy i places In Santiago slum, for fiutana Vladimir Solovyov, born in Moscow in 1853, _also depicts the Church betrayed from within. There is hardly any problem of tne present troubled world which Solovyov did not foresee. As a mail of' the burden'of responsibility. .Men'do not want it. They fear hunger worse. They will give up free- dom anytime for a full stomach. If man is to be happy, has conscience must be loved, but thlsus can be done only by taking away his freedom' of informed about this.\ —Thomas R. Sweeney, M.D. Rochester. \insight \he claimed-feat-he——ehoteera*-is-d«ne-in totalitarianism Sp the ^ri. owed it to special revelations he had received from God which he depicted in his poem Three Meetings. At 14 he became an atheist and tried to.destroy faith in others with the same zeal with which he sought later to regain\~pe^pTFto~t?hris=— \tiaaity. After his recapture to the fartir-at-the— agfe of 23, his last work, Three Conversations, writ- ten on the eve of his death in 1899, pictured the rise of the universal rule of anti-Christian totali- tarianism. -^^e^Gr^at=3torIcLJ^ader_of_jJhe glsjjrentury^ has conquered the world and has summoned - a conference of religions in Jerusalem. A vast num- ber of Protestant Christians gather there under the leadership of Ernst Pauli. John, the Russian elder, is the spokesman for the Eastern Church, while Pope Peter II heads the Catholics. The World Leader offers to restore Byzantine culture for John, the Russian elder, and to revive a study of Christian origin for Pope Peter II, and to found institutes of Biblical study for Dr. Pauli. . Not all of the followers of Ernst Pauli, or of Christ ridicules Christ for having offered Heaven- ly Bread: \... Thou didst promise them bread from heaven, but can that compare with earthly bread in the eyes of this everlastingly sinful, thankless,~trtfirm and human race? And if thou--- ~sands-and~tens-of thousands-turn-to Thee for the sake of the Heavenly Bread, what is to become of the millions and the tens of millions of those who do not have enough strength to forego earth- ly bread for the heavenly? ... it is the weak that .we are concerned for. The spirit of the earth will— ^a^ainstjrhee_in the name of this earthly Youth Urged to Put Idealism to Work Vatican City - (NO — Pope Paul .John, or of Peter II follow'The WorldLeaderT though many do. Peter II arises to ask the leader if he believes that Chrjst is the Son of God. It is thenjthai^., cardinal on the stage killsJPope Peter II: Persecution is-4aunehed against all of the faith- ful. Elder John, who was the first to recognize the anti-Christ in the social reformer, dies suddenly. The leadership of the Christians falls on Dr. - PWiHlriKrlt&ds^the -MthM--£ewdnto^ttf ^e^rt.— _As president of the United States of Europe, he \ThereTlnWTfienrestoTa^^ -H and-elder-John -in -the darkness of-the-nighLon ^Peoples~o£ -the_eartX my_.peace_J_jiveJintojou bread. A new building, another and terrifying - Tower of Babel, will rise in pla(?e of-Thy temple.\ The Anti-Christ Will Appear As a Humanitarian The anti-Christ is seemingly a lover of human- ity. He is full of pity for man, a democrat, a social- ist, alluring because masquerading evil is good. Solovyov also makes the anti-Christ a benefactor of mankind. He authjors a book On Peace and Prosperity he introduces reforms: he is the first man to establish universaTTpeace and~wahls to do away with all social and racial antagonisms; he accepts the existence of God, but cjbmes to ^ave~;mankind in his own name; he* is met every- where by overwhelming enthusiasm, and a vast majority of Christians accept the insight and leadership of the universal dictator. VI has appealed to the world's rest- less youth, to put their idealism to work, for a positive *goal \\ The Pope spoke from the central altar of St Peter's basilica after dis- tributing palms to pilgrims present . at Palm Sunday services. Asking young people to pay close TSelSuWTirsaiar = *^ris=tro 5= to=yt^ people today to reveal to the world that Christ, the true Christ, the Christ still living in the Church that preaches Him and peisonifies Him and communicates Him, that, this Christ is the savior of the world.\ Word for Sunday Who Will Roll Back the Stone? By Father Albert Shamon NOT TOO BMP—HOWS VOJR PRIESTS'SENATE GOING?\ Religious trai Santiago Men \off~a\\\nefa a high and lonely place, was accomplished the union of churches.\ The darkness was suddenly illumined 4>y-a4)dghtJsplendOT-_aiKl there appeared a great wonder in the heavens: a woiftstn clothed in the sun, and the moon under her feet,~and a crown of twelve stars on her'head. The Psalmist had already depicted this theme that the Church would have its greatest enemies from- within. ^Were it ah enemy who insulted me \I\roiuH''pTiTliplvlth~'that; Had a rival got the better of mo-1 could hide from him, But you, a man of my own rank, A colleague and a friend, To whom sweet conversation bound me, In the house of God\. (Ps. 55/12) that all of the social reforms are successful. Henceforth, no power will have the temerity to -^y-JwiL'^w^enJ^ay 'peaceV' Over \against the Church, as a community, will stand the Absolute State; or against the Mystical Body of Christ will be the Mystical Body of the Anti-Christ. All tyrants who have ever set them- selves up\ as tin-gods, such as Hitler and Stalin in our times, \are quasi-fignres or prototype^ and rehearsals for the anti-Christ. These are only lit- tle embryos, which eventually will divide history into two parts,, according to Kirilov, a product of the atheistic state: \All history is divided into two parts, the first from the gorilla to the Death of God, the secondTrom the Death of God to the death of earth and man.\ The neroes of Easter morn were iteHioly^omsnr^l d^rin^ftaHP^^ !Ic^ffe~W~6WT^rtirtlI^ — istered—to-Kfajw-Sut-Jor—most-eyes— their services were unseen because of the noisy crowds that constantly thronged aroQnd Christ. The nightin- gale, for instance, is celebrated for Its singing aTnsighlrYerirsings--als(r- at day. But its daytime song is lost because of the noisy din thal^ fills the day. So only in the still loneli- ness\ of Christ's death did the undy- ing services of the holy women be- come manifest — enshrined forever in the Easter Gospel\. The leader of the holy women -was-Mary—Magdalene. b\ofn to rule. women went on and found the stone -i^movedr^t^^^as*\not--sHnply--«)Hed-\ -awayrH^h^-feeenHiifted~-out--of-4ts- socket and thrown down on its flat side, as no single man could have done. And sitting on it was an angel. This Easter event teaches two les- --sonSr-Eirstj-it. teaches._that_m.en.jire ... never so like angels as when they - remove hindrances out of the way of those who seek Christ. Bift never so like devils as when they throw ob^ stacles in their way. the Faith is deferred\— \Who will rotlHaSgfc-^e\'^stonei^r^~^v\;-r^r\^5^ What a stone a bad marriage js! \YetTflris does am~aW6rveT<^athoiic from doing all he can. If. one trap- ped in such a marriage does what is possible — says his daily prayers, goes to Sunday Mass, brings the chil- dren- up^atK6TIc,TceleWlin;M~5flrer— commandments — can.we not hope that someday, someway God will roll ., back the stone? Do what is possible; Clod will do the impossible! Secondly, it teaches that men should never let obstacles,, keep them from doing what. they ...Ought.. How_,oJfferi the mere thought of problems^ has FT- -5 PopePaiuX Tvrvr discoursVott^eer-7 7 -1968 T said the Church was undergoing \self-destruction as if the Church were beating herself.\ II. Worldliness Becomes the x Omnipotent State The logic by which this will happen will be by a reaction- against~a- freedom whieh has turned into license. When everyone makes himself a little god, a State arises to correct the riotous confusion of such polytheism by making a monotheistic god •k As St. Thomas Aquinas says in his Commen-%- tary on the Epistle to the ThessalonianS: The potentia sccularis, or World Power, will be. the -instrument of the anti-Christ. The history of the world is not best expressed in ter x ms of culture, buto in the freezing of worldliness or-seeiiljBFisnv - into the Absolute' State. Christian churches vrill «, end by suffering a martyrdom. 1 There will be, as \\ <lContinued oh Page 16> •• , i'U. '' ; v . \'- '• Her presence was strength and her example was inspiration. Very early in the morning, while the city slept, she, with Salome 1 and Mary, the mother of James and Joseph, hur- ried to the ^gard^sn behind the hill of Calyary, to anoint the body of Jesus. The earnestness of their in- tent kept them silent. Only as the dawn streaked- the east did -the-djffi- culties of meFrlfflvenftreThTt^h^m. Their silence was shattered as they kept saying to one another, \Who win roll back the stone for us from tEe^entirance to fee tomb?\ The - wheel-like -stone- mujst '•foave been at\ least four feet, to5 close an opening big\enough to let-men carry in a corpse. Perhaps three men fyad to roll it into the socket at -the en- trance. DesOih) the difficulty^] ithe -1wpl7-xme~troiir-dolng~r-go0d deedr Confession is put off — \who will roll back the/ stone?\ Conversion to The stone did not deter the holy women. When they arrived, it Was no .Jonger there, The troubles, the prob- Jems, we .expect seldom ever happen.'\ \When we set-out—to—do-? i what we ; '\ ought, the difficulties we feared often vanish. r* COURIER-JOURNAL NfwS'm t Of V*l DlOCfll Ol IOCMISK1 fc/ BISHOP FUtTON J. SHEEN ••\ President .. Msgr. Johrt S. Randall Rey; Richard Tornrey ! '\ Aifrthimy J. Gostellorr H Editor ' ~ r_ Advertising Doctor '. Managing Editor Carmen J. Viglucci Asspciate Editor M» \ Arthur P. Farren, 'Associate Editor , i MAIhfvOFFICE ...... 35 Scio St. -, 454-7050 - Roeh»«t»r, N. Y, 14404 , .' ELMIRA OFFICE 317 Robinson Bl'dgi., Uk« St. .. life 2S4M or HE'i-3423 \\\\ \\ OFFICE 168'E. Gent'sea S».' •-••'<•,' : .AL 2-44*4 u '\' - ^\ ••- '»>' ' v ' '\ -'V '' -r 1.1\ 11 \.'j ,:0 L 1 I \ i '' V r.f ;-f • -«te4 ^\.^^-^y-t^t- !r~ 1 Sex This is the wh- in a series on the cation syllabus us< mentary schools. JOURNAL hopes analysis of the go .J«ed_hi_Jhe_jBrpg misunderstandings the content of t which has provoke lirnseyerat ~commi cese. \\ \\ The authors of education syllabus doctors, parents, headed by Dr. \\Rochester*\physici3 their--tiext-~th ~nr _should be given t of^understahdiilf ally from one gra Beginning witt teacher is assign© coinTnTInlcating~-a- standings per yei one, a maximum The .program is — cts& a—^!!course!l charged to \bull fundamental cone* family to a reaso man sexuality and —slbJUltles__CLOd atta Criticism of til from the. contents that \too much ir too, soon,\ has bro; —t hat-ehild ren^shoo; in such personal i setting and that c teach the \facts some elementary nuns, are not equi material. . This article is i ob|«.tiveIy:the ms bus for dasstpbin \-^-•?-and. 4 iThe syl through 5 was\ Courier-Journal, fc i the basic urid cred in the 6th gi : of life-conception;, the man and ih^r' neV life in uiiion quite detailed cov
