AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 379, 18 February 1927, Page 14

AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

The American r . uholic Church has published a little booklet on prohibition, the following are extracts from it:— "Cardinal Merrier, when visiting the States after the war, said: 'lf universal prohibition could be introduced, more lives would be saved than by universal disarmament. Alcohol kills more men than war, and does it less honourably. When a man dies in war, a life is snuffed out; hut when the drinker ceases to live, the evil continues to exist.’ ” A Conductor on a passenger train between Atlanta and Chattanooga, asked by Father Zurcher whether he met many drunken people on trains, said: “I have not seen a drunken man on my train in at least six months.” "Whatever the difficulties in enforcing Prohibition. America Is not going to go backward. The mind of America will no n\ore submit to defeat by an internal enemy, than to subjugation b> an outside foe. The psychology of America does not comprehend tin possibility of defeat." — Father P. J. O’Callaghan. It is true that God is in His Heaven.” It is not true that “all’s right with the world.” The- “world” has the power to push aside the best, and choose the second best or the worst. And, because that choice can be influenced through the spiritual agencies prayer calls into action. — we must needs pray.