One Lord, One World, No. 8 of 16 No. 8 of 16

During the next path hour of 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. Today the right Reverend Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen will deliver the eighth in a series of sixteen addresses under the general title One Lord, One World. The music on today's program will be provided by the choir of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Warren Folley Organist and Conductor. Today's program will be under the direction of Edward Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The tenor soloist is author Ulysses. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. The choir opens the program with the well-known Pamis Angelicus by Sezor Frank. Today we discuss the basic moral principle of the international order. The world is one because it was made by one Lord and is governed by one law. The world is one because it was made by one law. That is why there will never be one world until we all learn to pray, our Father, who art in heaven. The only alternative to one world based on one Lord and one moral law is to have many worlds and many Lords. For each nation is its own law and its own God. Like the workers on the Tower of Babel, each nation will then speak a different language and live by a different code, and having not in common, the project of world peace, like the Tower of Babel, will end in confusion worse confounded. In that case, there would be no way to decide whether Japanese atrocities were wrong, and American humanitarianism was right, except by a war between these gods in which might decide what is right. To all who have eyes, it should be as clear as the stones in the road that the day we make a godless world, we will also make a loveless world. We have had political expressions of this moral law in the fine traditions of America, in the Atlantic Charter, in the poor freedoms, and in these magnificent words of the State Department which make one feel proud of being American. Namely, unless the relation between nations, a governed by the rule of reason and of justice and of law, the basis of modern civilization itself cannot be preserved. Because Americans generally accept the moral and religious basis of an international order, they are embarrassed by attacks on religion, whether official or unofficial. Some inspired by the very best sentiments protest against such attacks on religion, on the ground that those who make them forget that politics is separate from religion, and that it hurts international relations to confuse them. This criticism is based on a 19th-century attitude which no longer fits 20th century facts. Limiting ourselves solely to facts. During the 19th century, religion and politics established a kind of modus v. Vendi or tacit agreement not to interfere in the other's domain. It was an arrangement like a husband and wife who lived peaceably so long as the husband stays out of the kitchen. But what actually happened was that while religion was staying in the parlor, euriligen, the next door neighbor came in and stole the political wife. In other words, while politics asked religion not to interfere, politics became euriligious. Just with communism, then with the fascists and finally with the Nazis. That is why the church condemned all three. And the church condemned all three ideologies not because they were bad political systems, but because they were bad religions. In other words, the new politics is euriligen, a false mysticism. In today's secular, the temporal smothers the spiritual. This war is therefore more a religious war than it is a nationalistic war. It is a conflict between two totally different philosophies of life. Never before in the history of Christianity has the cause of God and man, of religion and freedom, been as nearly identical as it is at this very hour. As Joan of Arc fought simultaneously for the kingdom of God and for France, so America is fighting in an analogical sense for a political ideal which is essentially a moral ideal. The tragedy of attacks on religion within our camp then is not that they may endanger our military success, but that they reveal a disparity of ideals as different as night and day. There is therefore not much point in reminding the enemies of religion that religion and politics are separate because to them politics is religion. In the sense that politics is not here religious and it myths of now at a law or code or morality that itself. From quite another point of view, there is such a thing as looking at disturbances in the international and moral order through the eyes of faith. There is nothing new in the world. There are only the same old things happening to new people. The gospel is the prehistory of the church. No sword is ever lifted against Christ's church, but that Christ feels the wound. Each new agony and woe he can say, my pain, my grief, my death. Hence when I read of attacks launched against religion or if I hear it said that the church is opposed to the freedom-loving peoples of the world and there could be no peace in Europe until religion is Christ. Somehow or other my mind immediately begins to think of the day the son of the most type God was standing on that sanded balustray to the fortress Antonio and the same charges were hurled against him. Remember the charges? We have found this man perforting our nation refusing to give tribute to Caesar and saying that he is Christ the king. That was a roundabout way in those less clever days of name calling of saying that Christ was a fascist. They were all lies, but what difference did it make? Did not Hitler say you can never get people to believe little lies, but they will always believe big ones. That both said of his power, the words of the Savior still ring above him in a pain of hope. You would not have this power unless it were given to you from above. And then when I hear the enemies of religions say the church is hated, is hated in Belgium, it's hated in Italy and France and Holland and Great Britain and in the United States. I remember how our Lord foretold that this very day would come to pass. For his words, if the world hates you, no ye that it has hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own. But because I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. Yes, he was hated too. Once the record in his ears is shout, crucify. Who cried for his death? The masses, everyone, everyone hated him. But who moved the masses to hate? The leaders, the ancients, the makers of public opinion in the simple language of the gospel, quoting St. Matthew, they persuaded the people. St. Matthew here reads like today's newspaper, the people are still being persuaded. These attacks against the church will continue. Or in this day, the devil has a long rope. But holds audibly to your moral principles. As Washington said, no nation can survive without religion and morality. And if we lose morality, we endanger the nation. The disintegration of any civilization or a crisis in history, such as we are in today, bears within itself the threat of an interim of barbarism. As in the physical order, the putrid remains of the unburied dead create a pestilence. So the disintegration of the secular civilization through which we have just lived, and which was strong only because it lived on the heritage of Christianity, creates the possibility of chaos. Securism left to itself is really only a transition between a culture that once was Christian and one which will be anti-Christian and barbarian. And by barbarism we mean the destruction of moral values, or the repudiation of the funded heritage of culture. I do not mean that the barbarism of this new era will be like that of the Huns of Old. So it will be very different. It will be technical. It will be scientific. It will be secular. It will be propagandized. This barbarism will not come from without, but from within. For barbarism is not outside of us. It is beneath us. Older civilizations were destroyed by imported barbarism. Modern civilization breeds its own. Pray then. Pray for the world. Pray for the church. Pray for the enemies of the church. That is why, long as we have been talking about this moral order, we have asked you to make a holy hour every day. Jew's Protestants, Catholics, set aside an hour a day. Now that land is coming on, may every Catholic who hears my voice attend daily mass. If it is possible, extend that mass for half an hour and make a holy hour, reparation for the sins of the world. For what happens between you and God when you are on your knees is a vital importance to the world? Pray for Russia. Every morning, every priest throughout the world prays for Russia. Those prayers we say at the end of every low mass are for that intention. Dostoyevsky foretold a day, his own country, namely one he said in which after it had passed through a diabolical anti-god stage, his Russia would one day sit at the feet of Christ and learn his gospel. And through the dawn of that day our eyes expectantly look, wherein nations can live in one world because there is one moral law and one Lord. These are hard days for the church. Churches maligned and smeared and misunderstood, but really all that it is trying to do in this world. At this moment is to preserve the negatives of a moral order as the warring nations tear up the photographs. The church is no more interested in political regimes than was its master. Christ in his church rides through the world, not on a war horse, conquering all before him, but on an animal which is the symbol of dosity and peace. And he rides it into the very jaws of death. Hold fast to your God. Keep your faith. Your church. The time is now five minutes to twelve. We are in the valley of discussion. Either the bloom or the light. A new crime is arising in the world today. Be prepared for it. The crime of being a Christian. The crime of believing in God. So help us, God. You have just heard Monsignor Sheen deliver an address entitled, the International Condition of World Peace. You may obtain a copy of his talk by writing to the National Council of Catholic Men, Washington DC, or to the station to which you are now listening. The choir now sings a favorite Catholic hymn, Jesus, my Lord, my God. The boy, Sopana Solarist, is Robert Waska. Jesus, my Lord, my God, my Lord. How come I know the eyes are young? I'm now revealed this one to us, give. So pass away, sin, hope, hope. Switch the grommet with the other. Oh make us love the more and more. Oh make us love the more and more. And I but marry sin, yes, oh. To love me with my dearest being. I'm now revealed this one to us, give. Thy goodness, Jesus, who do I sing. Switch the grommet with the other. Oh make us love the more and more. And now we invite all those listening to join Monsignor Sheen in offering up this prayer in time of war. Oh Lord Jesus Christ, who in thy mercy hear us the prayers of sinners. For forth we beseech thee all grace and blessing upon our country and its citizens. We pray in particular for the President, 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 line, into the haven of peace, and reunite us all together forever, O dear Lord, in thy glorious heavenly kingdom. You are invited to listen to the Catholic Hour next Sunday at this same time, when Monsignor Sheen will deliver an address entitled, The First Word to the Cross. The music will be performed by the choir of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New York City. The music on today's program was directed by Edward Frank, your announcer is John Patrick Costello. The National Council of Catholic Men has presented the Catholic Hour through the facilities of the National Broadcasting Company and its independent affiliated stations, which have been made available as a public service, and as a contribution to the religious life of America. This is the National Broadcasting Company.