English
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08/31/2019
God gives us freedom, faculty of free-will,
But not the right to choose ‘twixt good and ill.
God gives us freedom, faculty of free-will,
But not the right to choose ‘twixt good and ill.
From God alone comes culture that is best.
In trash must wallow the God-forsaking West.
When God is “dead,” then culture dies.
In His “rebirth” its one hope lies.
As suburbs are to downtown, culture true
Both flows from true Faith, and upholds it too.
Come listen to Dr White, if still you can,
To relate the true Faith truly to modern man.
A friend writes that he sees the Newsociety failing to denounce cultural problems. This failure makes it more than vulnerable.
Modern art, like many revolutionary movements today, may express the problem, but it moves still further away from the solution.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.