One Lord, One World, No. 5 of 16 No. 5 of 16

During the next half hour, the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations have made their facilities available to the National Council of Catholic Men as the public service for the presentation of the Catholic Hour. The Seatning, the right Reverend Monsignor Fodin J. Sheen will deliver the fifth in the series of 16 addresses under the General Title One Lord, One World, and Warren Folly will direct the choir of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament New York City in a musical program. The Seatning, the choir under Mr. Polis Direction, opens the musical portion of our program with Sessor Frank's, Operatory Motette, Dexterre Domini. The Seatning, the right Reverend Monsignor, opens the musical portion of our program.enda pol�x Today, the right Reverend Montsenior Fulton J. Sheen again addresses the Catholic R. Radio Christians. The subject he has chosen for this evening's talk is the political condition of world peace, Montsenior Sheen. He is broadcasts is to enlist all men of goodwill, Jews, Protestants and Catholics in the preservation of the moral law. Next Sunday we will speak of the moral law in domestic society, today in politics. The basic moral principle of the political order is the state exists for the person, not the person for the state. Democracy is founded on this principle. Totalitarianism on his contrary. Why is our position right in the moral point of view? First because the person is prior in origin to the state. That is, persons existed before states. God made man according to his image and likeness. Man makes the state according to his image and likeness. And the state exists for the person because the person is nobler in nature than the state. The person has an eternal destiny, whereas the state has only a temporal destiny. Third, the state exists for the person because the person having a dimple of soul is the subject of rights. Centipedes have no rights, neither have cabbages, and they have no rights because they have no soul. This moral truth of the supremacy of the person is enshrined in our constitution and in our American traditions. Our Declaration of Independence declares it is a self-evident principle that the Creator, the Creator, has endowed man with certain non-Aden of rights, among which are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To our founding fathers it was clear that rights and liberties flowed from a divinely created personality. And to further safeguard this self-evident principle, the ninth amendment to the Constitution stated that when the Constitution did enumerate certain rights, it must never be assumed that the people have no other rights than those how enumerated. In other words, since rights and liberties were not state-given, but God-given, no state could take them away. Now all that we've been saying up to this point could be summarized as follows. Our Constitution puts politics under theology. Democracy under God. We now want to point out a great change that is taking place in the modern world. Today's theology is put under politics. God under democracy. The supreme and absolute determinant of all things today is politics. And once lived in the age of the theological man, then came the age of the economic man. Now we are in the age of the political man. The theological man lived for God. The economic man lived for profit. The political man lives for the state. What economics was to the days of dying liberalism that politics is to the modern man. So important has politics become today that man judges religion now by a attitude toward politics rather than politics by a attitude toward religion. How did politics become so important in the world today? Through a loss of belief in the moral law, in the days when Christianity was the soul of civilization, when all men recognized they had a common end, both eternal and temporal, politics and economics held a very secondary place. But today, when men abandon the common philosophy of life, that is when they disagree about ends, such as why we are living, where we are going, whether God exists, whether the moral law should be obeyed, they begin to concentrate their attention upon memes and particularly upon politics. Politics thus becomes an absolute. Once men agreed that to enjoy shooting, they should have a common target. The kind of arrows they used were deemed of little importance. Today they disagree about the target, but insist that everyone should use the same arrows. Once when men sat down to table, they were agreed on the necessity of eating, and sought the manner of eating to be of less importance. Now they disagree on eating and insist that everyone use a uniform ritual about knives and forks. When men agreed about the purpose of life, they admitted certain political relatives. But now they differ on the purpose of life, and they make politics a theology and direct the means of life about which there should be legitimate disagreements into an end of life about which no man may rightly disagree. That is the reason why in all totalitarian countries, Russia, Germany and Italy up until a recent political demise. There is only one party. Everyone must think alike, and whenever one thinks alike, there is no thinking. The result is that in our society politics enjoys the same status that theology enjoyed in the Christian society, and appropriates even the very same emotions which once surrounded religion. The heretics today are the enemies of the party, not enemies of God's truth. Fashism, not seism and communism have their inquisitorial sanctions, which make the religious persecutions of the past parallel into insignificance. The modern man would only smile if you told him that his attitude was not Christian, but he would knock you down if you told him that he was a fascist, and fascism is only communism in its village. To say a word against Russia today would be regarded by many as more serious than to blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God. In fact, if one says today it is cold in Moscow, he has labeled a fascist. Well, it is cold in Moscow. And because of this tendency to enthrone politics over theology, Caesar over God, an additional burden has been placed upon men of good will in order to preserve the moral law. And that is why we ask prayers of all of you. And hour a day from Jews, from Protestants and Catholics. And we ask to the charitain for a little booklet entitled Friends, which we are publishing, will send to you free. Purpose, this little booklet is to break down bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity. For saying there's a burden on men of good will, this burden is threefold today. First, keep America on the moral standard. Second, love America because it is morally right, and thirdly suffer rather than permit America to be wrong. The first duty of men of good will, keep America on the moral standard. We must not have one code for certain nations and another code for other nations. It would be wrong when one country absorbs another into its health to say, let us go to war. But when a third country absorbs a fourth into its health to say, it will make for world peace. It would be wrong when one form of totalitarianism extinguishes all other parties and allows no freedom of press to call it fascism. And when another country does exactly the same thing to call it democracy. It would be wrong when one country breaks a treaty with another in order to defend its own selfish interests to call its international boundary. And when another country does exactly the same thing to call itself defense, it would be wrong to have one's standard for soldiers and another for civilians in defense plans. Calling it a crime for a soldier to desert his post of duty and calling it a pogress when a defense worker deserts his. There must be no choosing among barbarities. Right is right if nobody is right. And wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. The second duty, men of good will, must love America because it is morally right. It is an historical fact that a country begins to decline at that moment. When its citizens begin to love a foreign country more than they love their own. And this happens at that very moment when justice and morality cease to be the root of patriotism. It happened for example when Frederick the Great refused to learn German and became so enamored of the godlessness of France that he loved it more than the decent traditions of his own land. The spiritual zero of morality was reached when Frederick invited Voltaire of France to Germany to absorb some of his atheistic responsibility. When these two individuals looked into one another's empty souls they made a sneer that was as eternal as the smile of a skull. And what Frederick did for the moral heritage of his people? We must not do to our own. There is a danger that it may be done. One of the largest metropolitan daisies in the United States recently said that if a certain moral power, foreign power rather, wanted to seize other nations, that foreign power should be permitted to do so. And if this meant scrapping the Atlantic charter, then it would be well to scrap it. Men of good will. The America that we love must be the America that is right. Not the America that appears of evil. And that brings us to our third duty. In a time of crisis, the difference between those who believe and live by the moral law and those who do not becomes intensified. Here I am pointing out the duty of being ready to suffer if need be to keep America right. The less moral we are and the less Christian, the more we will be accepted to the world. As our Lord was accepted on Palm Sunday when it was thought that his ideas coincided with those of the mob. But the more Christian we become, the more God-fearing we become. The more we insist on morality and education, family life and politics, the more we will be regarded with suspicion and with hate. Our very existence will be regarded as a danger. We need do nothing to bring this reaction against us. Any more than the early Christians of Rome, they were good citizens. They were guilty of no other crime than at her refusing to call near our fear or God. So strong is this spirit of repudiating the moral law in the world today that one can predict with in-palible accuracy. Which of the two to contending groups in any state of Europe? We'll be favored by most of those journalists, commentators and publicists who are making world opinion. It will invariably be that party, that group and that underground whose background is irreligious, atheistic or evenity Christian. As the world grows into an ideological uniformity in which all men are supposed to think alike, the believer in the moral law and particularly the church will come in increasing conflict with it. It is beginning to be clear now that the liberalism of the last century was in reality only a transition between the society whose basis was Christian and the society that will be anti-Christian. It will take great courage to resist, but our Lord expects us to do it. Remember He said, but He that shall deny me before men, I will deny Him before my father, who is in heaven. One thing we must never do is to purchase a passing freedom by the sacrifice of God's truth. If the choice is to certify ourselves by sacrificing our moral security for a false peace, or to enable ourselves by suffering persecution, let us in God's name choose the enoboamance of persecution. And please, God, it will not take a world war III to make us see that the strong America gives the right to America. And that brings us back to the beginning. What is an American? And America is one who believes that His rights and liberties come to Him from God. Therefore they are innate and noble, and no state on the face of God's birth can take them away. Such is an American. On April 30, 1777, George Washington, fearful that some of his men were more loyal to foreign powers than they were to their own country, posted an order that was to be obeyed absolutely at night. And now, this men forget for God who made them free. And this darkness settles over this earth, and over this beloved land of ours, we need must repost that order of Washington. Put none but Americans on guard tonight. How true it is night. Put none but Americans on guard. Monsignor Sheen has just delivered and addressed entitled the political condition of world peace. Our listeners may obtain a copy of Monsignor Sheen's talk by writing to the National Council of Catholic Men Washington, D.C., or to the station to which they are listening. We regret that the book with friends referred to by Monsignor Sheen is not yet off the press. We hope, however, to have it ready for distribution as soon as wartime conditions will permit. In the meantime, we beg those who have written in for the book for it to be patient. If you have not, as you have sent in your request, we urge you to do so now. Or in that way, we will assure you and you will assure yourselves of getting your copy that much sooner. And I, Mr. Foley, directs the choir in Mozart's devotional setting of the Benedictine hymn, Ave Vieru. I, Mr. Foley, directs the choir in for the book for it to be done. Or in that way, we will assure you and you will assure yourselves of the Benedictine hymn. And I, Mr. Foley, directs the choir in for the book for it to be done. Or in that way, we will assure yourselves of the Benedictine hymn. Or in that way, we will assure yourselves of the Benedictine hymn. Or in that way, we will assure yourselves of the Benedictine hymn. We now invite all those listening to join Monsignor Sheen in offering up this prayer in time of war. O Lord Jesus Christ, who in thy mercy hear us the prayers of sinners, for forth we beseech thee all grace and blessings upon our country and its existence. We pray in particular for the Presidenst, for our Congress, for all our soldiers, for all who defend us in ships, whether on the seas or in the skies, for all who are suffering the hardships of war, we pray for all who are in peril or in danger. Bring us all after the troubles of this life into the haven of peace and reunite us all together forever O dear Lord, in thy glorious heavenly kingdom. Next Sunday, Monsignor Sheen will deliver another talk in the Catholic hour. The subject of his address will be the domestic condition of world peace. The choir of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New York City, will perform the music. We will praise thee forever, O Lord Jesus Christ, we know all of you. We will praise thee forever, O Lord Jesus Christ, we know all of you. We will praise thee forever, O Lord Jesus Christ, we know all of you. We will praise thee forever, O Lord Jesus Christ, we know all of you. The music on today's program was directed by Warren Fouley. 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