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Newspaper
Texas Catholic
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1952
Page
8
The text extols giving thanks to God for His great glory and asserts gratitude as the root of love and loyalty. It highlights knowing God through evidence, appreciating Christian heritage, and preserving liberty of conscience and law against ingratitude.
A Catholic explainer from Msgr. Riley in The Pilot outlines that the Church’s exclusive claim as the true Church must be reconciled with religious liberty. It rejects coercion or forcing beliefs, supports conscience, and urges peaceful coexistence with non Catholics while defending Church rights within civil law.
A Catholic meditation contrasts the general judgment with earthly life, recounting an Irish Massa audience and a parish priest dialogue. It cites scripture from St John and Isaiah on a new heaven and new earth, describing a luminous earth and enduring renewal for humanity, with a note that the discussion continues.
The piece argues Christ’s divine simplicity and spirituality, contrasts water as a composite, praises God as uncaused and indivisible, warns against materialism in public schools, and urges maintaining national faith in God. It cites St. Thomas Aquinas and calls for public action to defend liberty and equality.
The excerpt argues that across political ideologies schooling must cultivate moral character. It asserts that history shows moral life is the sole safeguard of a state, with a prosperous society impossible without virtue and a nation’s decline signaling political collapse. Bird Coler emphasizes morality over religion in appraisal of education’s value.
In Milwaukee in November, the Catholic Literary Foundation announced December’s selection, a Margaret Yeo biography The Greatest of the Borgias about St. Francis Borgia. Louise Altmann, book club manager, disclosed the choice.
Francis McGrade presents a 34 page colored catechetical manual from Catechetical Guild Educational Society. Readable for the youngest child or a child who can read anything at all. Published in St Paul Minnesota at 147 E Fifth priced at 25 cents.
Renascence carries Francois Mauriac's My Work and My Critics translated by Gerard Hopkins with editor Dr. John Pick noting it as Mauriac's first response to critics. The issue also reviews Stolen Journey by Ollie Philpot, a two year WWII POW account with escape, detailing camps, hazard, and a dramatic finale.
The novelist must justify his resignation to vocation while acknowledging doubts about fate as a divine will. Mauriac argues he may be created to write against revolutionary metaphysical literature and sees literature grounded in psychology where man mainly sneers at himself.
Rev. Hugh P. Smyth recounts the Lord's Supper as both heavenly banquet and earthly memorial. He parallels a penniless Jewish immigrant transforming into a benefactor with Christ offering the Eucharist at the Last Supper, a farewell pledge of eternal love and divine gift.
Dr. John C. H. Wu warned that Christians risk becoming illiberal to God when too liberal in practice. At the Catholic Association for International Peace silver jubilee, Wu urged that true peace begins with individuals and that Marxists remain more faithful to Marxism than Christians are to Christianity. Catholic peace advocates were urged to keep the spiritual core at the center of pursuit.
A reflection on the fresh reception of the Gospel, seen as timeless good news that awakens in the hearts of young readers and in the hearts that resemble children.
Letters to The Texas Catholic praise Father Hugh P. Smyth for forty years as pastor of St. Marys in Greenville Texas. Friends, Protestant and Catholic, recall his tough early days and steady work keeping the flock and fighting hardship. The editor notes a reprint of one sermonette and the writers extend thanks for the diocese’s new newspaper. The Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart offer congratulations and prayer for the paper’s continued good influence.
A new book titled Why I Became a Priest by Father George L. Kane assembles a roll call of prominent North American Catholic priest authors. Newman Press plans an early December release with all proceeds to fund vocational work for young men considering the priesthood. The Antigonish notes quote Bird Coler on religion and society.
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