SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 4

SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

An organisation has been formed in England under the presidency of Cardinal Hinsley to co-ordinate and intensify the efforts already being made by the Roman Catholic body to fit themselves by prayer, work and study to contribute as much as they can to the national cause. Cardinal Hinsley has suggested that the organisation should

be called " The Sword of the Spirit," the title of his national broadcast on December 10, 1939, and has written a message saying: "The fundamental Tightness of our cause must be clearly kept before the gaze of all. We must insist that Nazism and its allied brands of absolutism are radically pagan. The gods of racialism, of rampant nationalism, and of State supremacy can never cease to war against the Peace of Christ. The successive invasions of Poland, of Norway, of Holland, of Belgium, or Luxemburg, are evidence that

ruthless force is the guiding principle of the anti-Christian power against which we are fighting. The violation of treaties, the broken pledges, the avowed principle of self-interest as the only test of truth, show that no part of the civilised world is safe from the brute violence of aggression. Great Britain is, in this struggle, on the side of truth, justice and freedom for all nations, great and small, weak and strono.-"