PRESERVING RELIGION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 14

PRESERVING RELIGION

FIGHTING WAR’S THREAT CATHOLIC ATTITUDE “One of the most glaring weaknesses of the moderns is their failure to regulate life by any real standard of values,” states an editorial in the Sacred Heart College Magazine. “People do not differentiate between pleasures and happiness, luxury and comfort, between the temporal and spiritual, transient slogans and the eternal verities, between the mortal body and the immortal soul. Christian morals and ideals that governed and inspired Europe for long centuries have been largely discarded. “It may be that in the providence of God the war that is now raging will bring men’s minds back to Him once more,” the article continues. “For it is clear that whatever political motives have swayed the counsels of the Allies in declaring war, there is a widespread feeling among the French and British peoples that the very existence of Christian civilisation is at stake.

“No attempt to destroy Christianity has ever before been organised with such diabolical ingenuity. In face of the martyrdom of Catholic Poland and the undisguised threat to root out the Christian religion, no Catholic who is worthy of his faith will hestitate to do his part in defence of our priceless Christian heritage.”