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official publication of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> authorities, is
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398277000. Authoritative works of reference, which take amazing
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pains to ascertain exactly how many tons of steel are produced
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annually in, or tons of rice imported into, <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> give
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annually in, or tons of rice imported into, <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States give
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world-totals which similarly differ from each other by tens of
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millions when they turn to "the venerable <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>."</p>
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@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ national totals which are forwarded to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. Two things, a
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others, are reported: how many <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in the loose sense --
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baptized persons -- there are in the parish and, particularly, how
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many of them are real <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> as testified by attendance at
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church on Sundays and the number of confessions at Easter. But
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neither local prelates nor <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> ever publish these results.
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church on <ent type='LOC'>Sundays</ent> and the number of confessions at Easter. But
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neither local prelates nor the Vatican ever publish these results.
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The nearest approach to an official international annual is <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent>
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>us, and it gives no world-total; though if you add up the
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statements for each country the total runs to about 350000000.</p>
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@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ dishonest method, but even professors of sociology who include the
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Countries which, from geographical or historical conditions, never
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accepted the Reformation are still called <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries, and
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the whole population is usually included in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total or
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only from 1 to 5 percent is allowed for <ent type='NORP'>Protestants</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, and --
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only from 1 to 5 percent is allowed for Protestants, <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, and --
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though they generally form the largest body -- skeptics. These
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countries (<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and its colonies, <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and its former
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colonies, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> and its colonies, <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, and generally
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@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ bulk of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> figure. For other countries the figu
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equally fantastic. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer in the Encyclopedia
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives 11000000 to <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, where no <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> claims more
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than 3000000 and there are now certainly not 300000: 39000000
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to <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, which have had for quarter of a century a
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to <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and Hungary, which have had for quarter of a century a
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total (mixed) population of only 15000000: 24000000 to <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>,
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where the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is in ruins: 35000000 to <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, which is at
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least five times too much.</p>
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> baptism. <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers are uneasy about this
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arrogant theory of their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> that you cannot secede from it, and
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they are shifty and evasive in defining what they mean when they
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claim that there are more than 26000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in the United
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<ent type='GPE'>States</ent>. In a fantastic -- <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> call it a scientific -- work,
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claim that there are more than 26000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
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States. In a fantastic -- <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> call it a scientific -- work,
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Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith? (1925), Fr. G. <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent> says
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that by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> he means one who has received <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> baptism, </p>
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does know, that <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>, and other <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> commonly marry
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in the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and allow the mothers or relatives to have the
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children baptized though they have definitely abandoned it. From
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quotations given in <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?' (1931)
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quotations given in Moore's 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?' (1931)
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it appears that in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> periodicals Fr. <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent>, a professor
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at a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> college, is accustomed to give the usual definition
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of a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>: one who was baptized in infancy. This is the strict
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connection with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
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<p> The only real test is attendance at church. There are two
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vital differences to bear in mind in comparing <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> and
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vital differences to bear in mind in comparing Protestant and
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> statistics. Many <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es do not baptize children and by
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"members" they mean the adolescent and adult, but the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> counts babies a week old. The second difference is that a man
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may be a genuine member of a <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> yet attend the
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may be a genuine member of a Protestant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> yet attend the
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services very irregularly. A <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> cannot. He is, unless there
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is "grave reason" (illness, etc., not a social engagement or
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tiredness.), bound to attend every Sunday morning as stringently as
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tiredness.), bound to attend every <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> morning as stringently as
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he is prohibited adultery and much more stringently than he is </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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<p>forbidden to lie, get drunk, be cruel, or rob this neighbor. It is
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only a rare and abnormal type of mind that, holding this belief,
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can miss Mass Sunday after Sunday -- hell every time. though the
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can miss Mass <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> after <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> -- hell every time. though the
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sentences run concurrently since they are eternal -- for frivolous
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reasons; and to question the law is to question <ent type='ORG'>the authority</ent> of
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the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or the whole distinctive structure of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> teaching.
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, etc., today. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> is, in all these totals, credited with
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39000000 or 40000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in a total population of
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41000000. It is amazing how <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> swallow this.
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Until the political alliance of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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government began in 1919, on the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s promise to curb rebellion
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Until the political alliance of the Vatican and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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government began in 1919, on the Church's promise to curb rebellion
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in <ent type='GPE'>Alsace</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Lorraine</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> had thundered against that "government of
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<ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Freemasons</ent>" for 50 years. It had ruined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and defied the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s. And it had the vast majority of the
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<ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Freemasons</ent>" for 50 years. It had ruined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and defied the Pope's. And it had the vast majority of the
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people with it, since, in free elections, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> could
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hardly get a deputy, much legs a statesman, in <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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culture was solidly anti-<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>. Its hundreds of scientific men were
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were under the ban of excommunication. I traveled all over <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> in
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1904 as a delegate to a <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> of Freethinkers, and my yellow
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ticket evoked friendly smiles and reductions of price everywhere:
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except, I regret to say at <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. Nine-tenths of the leading
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except, I regret to say at the Vatican. Nine-tenths of the leading
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novelists, poets, and dramatists as well as the scientists were as
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in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, Freethinkers. . . . But enough. The electoral figures I
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gave in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason prove that at the time when
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established at one free election after another in spite of the
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hysterical curses of the hierarchy, had ruled <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and defied the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> for five years, and it took the sweepings of
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<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, assisted by a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Society for Non-Intervention (or for
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Europe, assisted by a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Society for Non-Intervention (or for
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Protecting Intervention) and an <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Embargo, to put Humpty
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Dumpty back on the wall, where he wobbles until the day of freedom
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returns. The <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> Jesuit -- and if you know anything more orthodox
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January 23, 1937, that there are in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> "ten or fifteen million
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>." Split the difference and say 12000000, mostly
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belonging to the illiterate 40 percent of the nation, and strike
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another 15000000 off the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total for <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>.</p>
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another 15000000 off the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total for Europe.</p>
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<p> In that total the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na counts 26060000 for <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and
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13000000 for <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer is, of course, aware
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13000000 for Hungary. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer is, of course, aware
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that this is a reference -- and not accurate even as such -- to the
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population of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> before 1919. Nearly 20 years before
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population of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>-Hungary before 1919. Nearly 20 years before
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he wrote this article <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> had been reduced to a population of
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7000000 and <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> to one of 9000000. In <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, moreover,
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7000000 and Hungary to one of 9000000. In <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, moreover,
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the Socialists had been in the majority and held power in <ent type='GPE'>Vienna</ent>
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and several other cities for years, so that the <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>, mostly
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peasants, were not 93 percent (<ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent>) of the population but, </p>
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<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
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<p>certainly not more than two-thirds. In <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, which recoiled into
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<p>certainly not more than two-thirds. In Hungary, which recoiled into
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Fascism after the unfortunate <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> episode, they are not
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13000000 but are officially returned as 65 percent of the actual
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population or 6000000. Deduct a further 12000000.</p>
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blasphemy would be painful. This was 45 years ago, and the
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> have waged an even battle with the contemptuously anti-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and Socialists ever since until the devout <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
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murdered the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s critics for it. <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> (7000000) is said
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murdered the Church's critics for it. <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> (7000000) is said
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to be "mostly" <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>. As it is still 50 percent illiterate I
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would not mind much, but the fact is that it kicked out its
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> king 32 years ago and kept its angry <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> to heel until
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the butcher <ent type='PERSON'>Salazar</ent> joined <ent type='ORG'>the Butchers Union</ent> of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> (15000000 until 1939) is described in the <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent> as 80
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the butcher <ent type='PERSON'>Salazar</ent> joined <ent type='ORG'>the Butchers Union</ent> of Europe. <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> (15000000 until 1939) is described in the <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent> as 80
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percent <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>. Turn over No 5 of the last series and see how the
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leading <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> weekly in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> acknowledged a loss of 2000000
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in five years after 1919. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was in ruins until <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s
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in five years after 1919. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was in ruins until Hitler's
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salvage Corps set it up again in <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, one of the most
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illiterate regions of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>.</p>
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illiterate regions of Europe.</p>
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na says that there are 183000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. How
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na says that there are 183000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in Europe. How
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consoling to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns! But on the safest of grounds -- full
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particulars and authorities in earlier numbers -- we have had to
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strike off something like 100000000 of these and in the next
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and 44000000 in the <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>. Not being an <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n I have
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to be modest, but as the population of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is about
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90000000 and half its inhabitants are illiterate, I should be
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inclined to grant it at least 50000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s. On the other
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inclined to grant it at least 50000000 Catholic's. On the other
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hand, even if we grant the 20000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> demanded in the
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<ent type='GPE'>States</ent> and the 4500000 claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Canada</ent>, and the 14000000
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States and the 4500000 claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Canada</ent>, and the 14000000
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claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, I hardly see how they amount, even in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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arithmetic, to 50000000. Pray do not be impatient with my little
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jokes. I am showing you how the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total is made up.</p>
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<p> It is of greater interest here to examine the situation in the
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United <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>. Let us first get a clear general idea what
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> means. It consists of immigrants from <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>
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United States. Let us first get a clear general idea what
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> means. It consists of immigrants from Europe
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(and partly from <ent type='GPE'>Quebec</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>) and their descendants. And in
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this connection I have to notice the funny and learned book of
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Father Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent>,'Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith?'
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<p> Apart from these little oddities of apologetic literature
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> statistics are weird and wonderful. In the last
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edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was revised by
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s in order to secure accuracy about their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, it is
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Catholic's in order to secure accuracy about their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, it is
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said that the "official figure" for the year 1928 was 19689049 --
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the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Press Directory said 21453928 -- the "generally
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accepted" figure, 22733254, and the "true" figure 25000000.
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<p> I made a very thorough study of the matter, following upon the
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analysis of official statistics in my Decay of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>
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(1909), in No. 1 of the Appeal to <ent type='ORG'>Reason Library</ent> (ch. 5, 1925).
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There I give <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> evidence, largely taken from J.F. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s
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(1909), in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason Library (ch. 5, 1925).
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There I give <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> evidence, largely taken from J.F. Moore's
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useful book 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?', (1931), that priests
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do in fact, and are sometimes so advised by the bishops, deceive
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the public by counting lapsed as actual <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>. A check on their
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THE MAXIMUM OF CRIME</p>
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<p> My <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> papers report today (March 13) that "<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> has
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protested to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> 'because it is encouraging' a Jap Bid to
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Stir up Trouble." What precisely the <ent type='ORG'>State Department</ent> objects to is
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protested to the Vatican 'because it is encouraging' a Jap Bid to
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Stir up Trouble." What precisely the State Department objects to is
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not clear but the public is informed that it is to "the
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establishment of relations between <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and the Holy See, as asked
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for by <ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent>." Those relations were, as I have repeatedly
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most graceful courtesies, exactly in proportion as the Japs sank
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deeper into crime and corruption. In booklets (No. 2 and No. 4) of
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the first series on <ent type='ORG'>the Black International</ent> I traced the whole
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story and told from the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s own newspaper, how one of the vilest
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story and told from the Pope's own newspaper, how one of the vilest
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of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese agents <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent>, fresh from the final meeting of the
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bloody conspirators in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> (1941), was received with special
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honor and warmth at <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and granted a gold medal by the
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honor and warmth at the Vatican and granted a gold medal by the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>.</p>
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<p> And the press would now like us to believe that after ten
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years of this unconcealed courtship <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> has just discovered,
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presumably through its <ent type='ORG'>Secret Service</ent>, that the Japs have
|
||||
approached <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>! What is really wrong about the matter? Very
|
||||
approached the Vatican! What is really wrong about the matter? Very
|
||||
certainly <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> knew every step in the development of the
|
||||
relations of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the Japs, and there must have been few
|
||||
editorial offices of any importance in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> in which
|
||||
relations of the Vatican and the Japs, and there must have been few
|
||||
editorial offices of any importance in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States in which
|
||||
they were not known. Why were they concealed from the public or
|
||||
mentioned only in obscure paragraphs as items of little
|
||||
significance?</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ significance?</p>
|
|||
to <ent type='ORG'>the Black International</ent>. The interest's of trade had a good deal
|
||||
to do with the suppression of discussion as far as <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> is
|
||||
concerned. But there was little to discuss in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> seeking an ally
|
||||
in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The monstrous thing was the closer and closer approach
|
||||
of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> as it strode foully and bloodily from one
|
||||
in Europe. The monstrous thing was the closer and closer approach
|
||||
of the Vatican to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> as it strode foully and bloodily from one
|
||||
province of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> to another. Can there be the slightest doubt that
|
||||
one of the advantages the Japs sought in the alliance was that the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> influence should counteract in all countries, and
|
||||
|
|
@ -572,11 +572,11 @@ concerns us here is that press and politicians say that the <ent type='ORG'>Chur
|
|||
of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> is so important an institution in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> that they are
|
||||
bound to consult its wishes and are naturally reluctant to see
|
||||
anything wrong in its proceedings. Most of us will not accept the
|
||||
apology. Many <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n papers told in 1935 how <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and
|
||||
apology. Many <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n papers told in 1935 how the Vatican and
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> were arranging an alliance; and many others told in the same
|
||||
year how <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> seethed with patriotic societies, some of them two
|
||||
to three million strong, which demanded the expulsion of all
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns and <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>ans from <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, and how tableaux depicting just
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns and Europeans from <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, and how tableaux depicting just
|
||||
such a destruction of part of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n fleet as occurred
|
||||
recently in <ent type='LOC'>Pearl Harbor</ent> were publicly exhibited to jubilant crowds
|
||||
in the chief streets of the cities. But there were no editorials or
|
||||
|
|
@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ something less than 15000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='GPE'
|
|||
not 390000000 but less than 200000000 subjects. Seeing,
|
||||
however, that the chief excuse given for subservience to the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is that it contributes materially to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n civilization,
|
||||
it is still more important to examine the quality of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s
|
||||
it is still more important to examine the quality of the Pope's
|
||||
subjects.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We have already seen the hypocrisy of the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> claim of moral
|
||||
|
|
@ -634,13 +634,13 @@ for skill in literature, sport, the cinema, church-organization,
|
|||
banking, or striptease.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> With this qualification we see a pregnant significance in the
|
||||
analysis of the names which Professors <ent type='PERSON'>Huntington</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>
|
||||
analysis of the names which Professors Huntington and <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>
|
||||
published in their Builders of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> a few years ago. They found
|
||||
that <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> are represented in Who's Who by only 7.4 per 100000
|
||||
of their body (7 men and 0.4 women), and these are very largely --
|
||||
but the professors do not point out this -- ecclesiastics. You will
|
||||
gather what this means when I add that even the <ent type='ORG'>Mormons</ent>, with 11
|
||||
men and 5 women to the 100000, outshine them; while the <ent type='NORP'>Methodists</ent>
|
||||
men and 5 women to the 100000, outshine them; while the Methodists
|
||||
have 18 men and 0.6 women. The <ent type='NORP'>Episcopalians</ent> have 156 men and 18
|
||||
women: the <ent type='NORP'>Unitarians</ent> (who are largely freethinkers in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>)
|
||||
have 1185 men and 103 women per 100000. In other words, the
|
||||
|
|
@ -661,12 +661,12 @@ witnesses, J.F. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent> (Will <ent type='GPE'>America</en
|
|||
<ent type='PERSON'>Shane Leslie</ent>, Benson, (Father) <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent>, (Father) <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent>, and
|
||||
Sheila Kaye-Smith. If you have read these you will reflect that the
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> body must be very poor indeed, in illumination if
|
||||
it is outshone by that galaxy: especially as <ent type='PERSON'>Chesterton</ent>'s
|
||||
it is outshone by that galaxy: especially as Chesterton's
|
||||
brilliance -- if you care to use the word -- was increasingly
|
||||
dimmed and his influence increasingly more mischievous after he
|
||||
joined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and became a sort of pensioner of it. The
|
||||
"brilliance" of Father <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent> and Father R. <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent> must be a
|
||||
little joke of Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s, as he is usually judicious. However,
|
||||
"brilliance" of Father <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent> and father R. <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent> must be a
|
||||
little joke of Mr. Moore's, as he is usually judicious. However,
|
||||
against these <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> giants of the pen <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> can, he
|
||||
says, put only <ent type='PERSON'>Joyce Kilmer</ent> -- what a pity he died nearly a quarter
|
||||
of a century ago -- though he elsewhere adds <ent type='PERSON'>Carlton Hayes</ent>, Michael
|
||||
|
|
@ -682,10 +682,10 @@ none of these intellectual prejudices about truth and reality and
|
|||
is as ready to embrace any creed that is prettily dressed as
|
||||
anything that is pretty undressed. So we do not wonder at the
|
||||
number of artists. To the literary artists (<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>)
|
||||
given above add <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent>, Sir P. Gibbs, <ent type='PERSON'>Compton Mackenzie</ent>, W.
|
||||
given above add <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent>, sir P. Gibbs, <ent type='PERSON'>Compton Mackenzie</ent>, W.
|
||||
Meynell, <ent type='PERSON'>Christopher Dawson</ent>, and a few other good second-raters.
|
||||
Then there are devout artists like Sir <ent type='PERSON'>Seymour</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Lady Hicks</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Laughton</ent>, Sir F. Brangwyn, Sir <ent type='PERSON'>John Lavery</ent>, and Sir G.G.
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Laughton</ent>, sir F. Brangwyn, Sir <ent type='PERSON'>John Lavery</ent>, and Sir G.G.
|
||||
Scott.
|
||||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
||||
|
|
@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ provide five rich prizes every year for the world's most
|
|||
distinguished workers in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature,
|
||||
and the cause of peace. However, the prizes have been awarded for
|
||||
nearly 40 years and apart from a little patriotic bias in favor of
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Scandinavian</ent> and the little nations, the awards, based upon the
|
||||
Scandinavian and the little nations, the awards, based upon the
|
||||
reports of competent committees in every country, are the safest </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
|
|
@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ analysis I can find only <ent type='PERSON'>Alexis Carrel</ent> who is recogniza
|
|||
Here we should understand that the judges stipulate for "an
|
||||
idealist tendency" in the works and are themselves religious, so
|
||||
large numbers of the greater writers of modern tames (Wells,
|
||||
Conrad, Zola, D'Annunzio, Sudermann, Capek, <ent type='PERSON'>Galdo</ent>'s, Ibanez, Gorki,
|
||||
Conrad, Zola, D'Annunzio, Sudermann, Capek, Galdo's, Ibanez, Gorki,
|
||||
Tolstoy, <ent type='ORG'>Santayana</ent>, etc.) have been excluded because they were
|
||||
freethinkers, while a few sentimental writers belonging to small
|
||||
countries and hardly known outside these countries have been
|
||||
|
|
@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ proportion of them shrinks into invisibility.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> Hilaire <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent> said to me (with his characteristic thump of
|
||||
the table) some years ago: "I don't care what you say, McCabe, the
|
||||
intellect of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> has been warped ever since the 16th Century."
|
||||
intellect of Europe has been warped ever since the 16th Century."
|
||||
It is one of his favorite themes that his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> alone develops the
|
||||
intellect on sound lines or teaches folk to think clearly. In one
|
||||
form or other it is a common plea of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists. Well,
|
||||
|
|
@ -891,12 +891,12 @@ or absurdity of the creed that drives them out.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> with considerable general knowledge and mental
|
||||
vitality will generally be found to take the creed with great
|
||||
license. <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pius X</ent>, the peasant-<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, in his blundering campaign
|
||||
license. <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Pius X, the peasant-<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, in his blundering campaign
|
||||
against Modernism was at least honest in trying to drive all these
|
||||
people -- the real "bad <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>" -- out of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and there
|
||||
was a notable exodus of cultivated people. Unlike the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
|
||||
apologist the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> did not care two pins about cultural quality. He
|
||||
wanted folk who recited the creed every Sunday to mean what they
|
||||
wanted folk who recited the creed every <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> to mean what they
|
||||
said. But every history of that campaign will tell you that while
|
||||
a few conscientious men like <ent type='PERSON'>Tyrell</ent> walked out the great majority
|
||||
protected themselves by silence or, if they were in official
|
||||
|
|
@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ only these but such works as the Encyclopedia of Education, the
|
|||
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and the Encyclopedia of
|
||||
Religion and Ethics, which ought to give the facts on this
|
||||
important social-moral issue, are completely silent, I look for the
|
||||
clerical censor. To adapt a phrase of <ent type='PERSON'>Huxley</ent>'s, there is a
|
||||
clerical censor. To adapt a phrase of Huxley's, there is a
|
||||
barricade to sociological research with the notice: "No Road, by
|
||||
Order of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ that this means that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics
|
|||
criminal population by 247 per 100000 of their body. Even the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, to which large numbers of convicts profess to
|
||||
belong (since officials insist on some creed) whether they do or
|
||||
not, had only 118 per 100000. The <ent type='NORP'>Methodists</ent> had 10, the <ent type='NORP'>Baptists</ent>
|
||||
not, had only 118 per 100000. The Methodists had 10, the <ent type='NORP'>Baptists</ent>
|
||||
9, per 100000.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1913 I discussed the subject in his office with my friend
|
||||
|
|
@ -1021,9 +1021,9 @@ English figures given above include a strong <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> elemen
|
|||
<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Liverpool</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Newcastle</ent>, etc. -- let him study the statistics
|
||||
of crime in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries. It is impossible to get complete
|
||||
figures, as <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries, being less efficient in such
|
||||
matters than <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> countries, rarely gave reliable statistics
|
||||
until, recently (if at all), but the data in <ent type='PERSON'>Mulhall</ent>'s Dictionary
|
||||
of Statistics for the last century and <ent type='ORG'>Webb</ent>'s continuation of the
|
||||
matters than Protestant countries, rarely gave reliable statistics
|
||||
until, recently (if at all), but the data in Mulhall's Dictionary
|
||||
of Statistics for the last century and Webb's continuation of the
|
||||
same work for the first decade of this century fully confirm the
|
||||
truth as far as they go. Whatever allowance you make for different
|
||||
standards of classification and degrees of police efficiency, the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1049,16 +1049,16 @@ but <ent type='PERSON'>Mulhall</ent> gives authoritative tables. From these we l
|
|||
since 1840 grave crime has been reduced to one-third of what it
|
||||
used to be though the population has nearly trebled. Other social
|
||||
offenses have been reduced in the same proportion. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> has the
|
||||
next best record in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, especially since 1880, when education
|
||||
next best record in Europe, especially since 1880, when education
|
||||
was taken out of the hands of the clergy, the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was shut out
|
||||
of public life, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> fell to one-sixth or one-seventh of
|
||||
the population.. <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, where until the last few years <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>
|
||||
claimed to be a third, and were at all events more than a fourth,
|
||||
of the population, has a less flattering record; but it is better
|
||||
in <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> than in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> provinces. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> had one
|
||||
of the worst crime records in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> until the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> was deprived
|
||||
in Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> than in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> provinces. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> had one
|
||||
of the worst crime records in Europe until the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> was deprived
|
||||
of secular rule in 1870, and it fell back -- as any, person can see
|
||||
by the official <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> figures in the <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>man's Year Book --
|
||||
by the official <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> figures in the Statesman's Year Book --
|
||||
into a terrible increase of crime when <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> handed back the
|
||||
schools to the clergy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
.
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>present book. The government of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> is confronted
|
||||
<p>present book. The government of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States is confronted
|
||||
with a claim that it must pay special heed to a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> who has
|
||||
300000000 subjects and a national <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> which is not
|
||||
only the largest religious body but the finest educational and
|
||||
|
|
@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ include religion amongst the factors of civilization, and our
|
|||
politicians, journalists, and essayists are quite sure of it. But
|
||||
in an age in which most other statistics are precise to a doctrinal
|
||||
point the statistics which bear upon this question are grossly
|
||||
neglected. We saw this in regard to the number of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s and
|
||||
neglected. We saw this in regard to the number of Catholic's and
|
||||
the relation of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism to crime. It is the same in regard to
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and illiteracy; and, I Might add, in regard to
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and drink, illegitimacy, and other relevant matters.</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ backward countries are more apt today, when a high percentage of
|
|||
illiteracy is a reproach, to give a false or arbitrary figure. Some
|
||||
countries again include infants among the illiterate, some only
|
||||
citizens over the age of 5, 10, or 15. With an allowance for their
|
||||
difficulties I reproduce the table from the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> University
|
||||
difficulties I reproduce the table from the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> University
|
||||
Encyclopedia of Education (article "Illiteracy") which is the most
|
||||
reliable authority and the most recent, fairly full list I can
|
||||
find. It has the advantage also that in nearly every case the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
<p> One other caution is necessary. There are no annual reports on
|
||||
this point. The leading civilizations boast of their very low
|
||||
percentage of illiterates, but backward nations are coy, and you
|
||||
get little help from the usual year-books such as the <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>man's
|
||||
get little help from the usual year-books such as the Statesman's
|
||||
Year Book and World Almanac. This list therefore relates to the
|
||||
situation in the first decade of the present century. That has its
|
||||
advantages, and I will point out presently the immense alterations
|
||||
|
|
@ -1210,14 +1210,14 @@ etc.). But first let me give this impartially compiled list:</p>
|
|||
percent of percent of
|
||||
Country population Country population
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> (over 20) 0.03 <ent type='GPE'>Serbia</ent> (over 20) 36
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Denmark</ent> 0.2 <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> 40
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Denmark</ent> 0.2 Hungary 40
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Sweden</ent> (over 20) 0.3 <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> 48
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent> (over 20) 0.5 <ent type='GPE'>Argentina</ent> 54
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent> (over 20) 1.4 <ent type='GPE'>Greece</ent> 57
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Finland</ent> 1-5 <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> 58
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Scotland</ent> (over 20) 1.6 <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> 59
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Wales</ent> 1.7 Rumania 61
|
||||
United <ent type='GPE'>States</ent> (negroes <ent type='GPE'>Bulgaria</ent> 65
|
||||
United States (negroes <ent type='GPE'>Bulgaria</ent> 65
|
||||
and immigrants) 7.7 <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> 70
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> 14 <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> 73
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Ireland</ent> 17
|
||||
|
|
@ -1245,10 +1245,10 @@ selected by men, but by the highest educational authority in the
|
|||
<ent type='GPE'>United Sates</ent>, you have the facts, and they make a mockery of the
|
||||
claim that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is the mother or inspiration of
|
||||
education. They show that it is, on the contrary, the enemy of
|
||||
education. It professes a zeal for it only when a large non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> majority watches it critically. In the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> table all
|
||||
education. It professes a zeal for it only when a large non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> majority watches it critically. In the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> table all
|
||||
countries with less than 2 percent had small <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> minorities of
|
||||
no public influence in 1900. <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> is an exception but,
|
||||
notoriously, it was <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> that forced the educational
|
||||
notoriously, it was Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> that forced the educational
|
||||
development. On the other hand all countries with over 30 percent </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
|
|
@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ majorities; and the higher the figure of illiterates the higher the
|
|||
majorities or (as in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>) had recently secularized education.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If I were able to give the full figures for all countries of
|
||||
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> they would be in harmony with the above. <ent type='GPE'>Norway</ent>
|
||||
Europe and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> they would be in harmony with the above. <ent type='GPE'>Norway</ent>
|
||||
has little illiteracy: the <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Republics generally have
|
||||
a high percentage. So the plain teaching of facts is that where the
|
||||
clergy have, or until recently had, great influence on the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ where an occasional rise to power of the <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> had at
|
|||
more for education than was done in more priest-ridden <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>. I
|
||||
found that the real proportion of illiterates was said by eminent
|
||||
educationists to be 68 percent (78 in <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>), not 58 as reported
|
||||
by <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent>, but what was called "literacy" was often so ridiculous
|
||||
by <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent>, but what was called "literacy" was often so ridiculous
|
||||
an accomplishment that the figure of percentage meant little.
|
||||
Teachers received -- when they were paid -- $100 per year, but the
|
||||
state would not pay it, and the parents generally refused. A law
|
||||
|
|
@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ necessary to be quite clear that the reduction of illiteracy in
|
|||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries points to no zeal on the part of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> but
|
||||
to the pressure of critics. Study the language used by the <ent type='ORG'>Vichy</ent>
|
||||
group of pious traitors today. Petain is honest, if senile, and
|
||||
must embarrass the <ent type='NORP'>Darlans</ent> and Lavals, if not <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. He sees
|
||||
must embarrass the <ent type='NORP'>Darlans</ent> and Lavals, if not the Vatican. He sees
|
||||
a monstrous evil in the industrial development, the growth of a
|
||||
large educated urban population that very soon sees through the
|
||||
imposture of the priests. The world must return to the placid,
|
||||
|
|
@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ bovine, agricultural life, so that it can be more easily ruled by
|
|||
the priests and squires.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We must make short work of this point, and fortunately it is
|
||||
easy to do so. Glance at <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> in 1800, or at the date of the
|
||||
easy to do so. Glance at Europe in 1800, or at the date of the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent>, I have shown elsewhere that except in three
|
||||
countries 95 percent at least of the workers were illiterate and </p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>incredibly ignorant. The three countries of which I make an
|
||||
exception were <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>, Great
|
||||
exception were Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>, Great
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> was the next to become civilized in this respect, but its
|
||||
clergy had been little better than the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> priests, and in 1800
|
||||
certainly more than 90 percent of the worker's were illiterate. In
|
||||
|
|
@ -1337,18 +1337,18 @@ educating the workers. The leaders in the reform -- Frederick the
|
|||
Great, Tallyrand, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Roberi <ent type='PERSON'>Owen</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Bentham</ent>, etc.
|
||||
-- were all skeptics. Once <ent type='ORG'>the Holy Alliance</ent> and the true <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> or
|
||||
Anti-<ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent> of those days, had extinguished idealism for the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> all this itching to educate the workers
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>ern Europe all this itching to educate the workers
|
||||
was destroyed and the priests settled down everywhere to a renewed
|
||||
lease, as they thought, of their medieval power and exploitation of
|
||||
the people. It will be enough to consider the case of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, one-third of which was ruled by the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s and administered almost
|
||||
exclusively by priests, while the southern section in addition was
|
||||
in the closest touch with and subservient to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>.</p>
|
||||
in the closest touch with and subservient to the Vatican.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The southern part of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, the kingdom of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, is as
|
||||
conspicuous a monument of the real <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> spirit as the Statue of
|
||||
Liberty is of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n ideals. Before the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>irean statesmen and a liberal-minded monarch had made it one
|
||||
of the most progressive areas in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The troops of the
|
||||
of the most progressive areas in Europe. The troops of the
|
||||
<ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent> overran all <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and strengthened the anti-clerical
|
||||
humanitarianism of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>. But when they were forced to withdraw,
|
||||
the royalty and clergy, acting in the closest collaboration, had a
|
||||
|
|
@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ decade packed in the horrible jails. All educational and social
|
|||
work was, of course, extinguished. The party which had advocated
|
||||
such work and had had even in so small a kingdom at least half a
|
||||
million followers also was extinguished, and the region became one
|
||||
of the most backward in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. And our elegant essayists instead
|
||||
of the most backward in Europe. And our elegant essayists instead
|
||||
of looking up this bloody story of the extinction of sound stocks,
|
||||
which our manuals of history will not tell today from fear of
|
||||
offending <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>, talk in their charming way about the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ is, on the contrary, the work of priests.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> The kingdom of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s in Central <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> was just as bad. It
|
||||
was, according to all authorities, one of the foulest areas in
|
||||
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> from the moral-social angle. It will be enough to quote the
|
||||
Europe from the moral-social angle. It will be enough to quote the
|
||||
official figures for 1901, when the national government had been
|
||||
conducting for 30 years such educational work as the poor resources
|
||||
permitted. Still 44 percent of <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s over the age of 20 were
|
||||
|
|
@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
|
||||
<p>Sardinian government which succeeded them had done more, the
|
||||
illiterate's were 28.3 percent; and the statesmen who had thus
|
||||
reduced illiteracy were under the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s ban of excommunication. In
|
||||
reduced illiteracy were under the Pope's ban of excommunication. In
|
||||
the central and formerly Papal provinces (including <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>) the
|
||||
illiterates were 51.5 percent, and in the southern provinces they
|
||||
were 69.7 percent. In <ent type='GPE'>Piedmont</ent>, the old center of the damned
|
||||
|
|
@ -1398,13 +1398,13 @@ percent.</p>
|
|||
<p> Well, there's the real <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> for you. That is what the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> does for education, when it runs a state or has, as in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, absolute power over the kingdom. You will find these
|
||||
figures in any of the older works of reference -- the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent>
|
||||
figures in any of the older works of reference -- the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent>
|
||||
Encyclopedia, we saw, gives 48 percent for the whole country -- and
|
||||
the facts about the condition of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s own kingdom are in
|
||||
the facts about the condition of the Pope's own kingdom are in
|
||||
every older historian, even in the standard <ent type='GPE'>Cambridge</ent> Modern
|
||||
History (Vol XI). Your historians and sociologists of today won't
|
||||
tell them. It would hurt the feelings of our <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> fellow-citizens -- to say nothing of hurting the circulation of the book.
|
||||
So the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists break into raptures about the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s
|
||||
So the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists break into raptures about the Church's
|
||||
zeal for education, about the way in which this misguided modern
|
||||
world thwarts its noble efforts to teach folk to think clearly,
|
||||
about the fearlessness with which it confronts all facts and all
|
||||
|
|
@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ come back to the refusal to educate; and <ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent> is today t
|
|||
area on the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Continent for the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> persecution of
|
||||
idealists. Add the <ent type='GPE'>Philippines</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Belgian</ent>, and
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent> colonies. Notice how the little states which <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> is
|
||||
permitting <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to set up in the wilderness his troops make
|
||||
permitting the Vatican to set up in the wilderness his troops make
|
||||
-- <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, etc. -- are patches of deep <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and
|
||||
dense illiteracy. Read how the moment a state falls back under
|
||||
priestly domination, after a spell of anti-clerical control its
|
||||
|
|
@ -1435,9 +1435,9 @@ and <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GP
|
|||
their friends the priests to power. <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> loves the illiterate. They
|
||||
are so easily persuaded to burn heretics and kiss bogus relics.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Above all examine carefully this sacred fury of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
|
||||
<p> Above all examine carefully this sacred fury of the Vatican
|
||||
against <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>, or <ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent>. As I have earlier pointed
|
||||
out, <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> dare not say that its anger is kindled by the
|
||||
out, the Vatican dare not say that its anger is kindled by the
|
||||
political and economic theory of the <ent type='NORP'>Marxists</ent>; nor can we suppose
|
||||
it to be particularly interested in their choice of a color. The
|
||||
bitter hostility to them which was roused by the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s throughout </p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ to undo the work in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and he blessed the savage vanda
|
|||
his allies in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, where for three years educational progress had
|
||||
commanded the respect of all experts. There remained two countries
|
||||
in which education was making rapid progress, <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>,
|
||||
and <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the whole <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> continued to shriek for
|
||||
and the Vatican and the whole <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> continued to shriek for
|
||||
the blood of these.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is not a point on which I can linger here, but I say, and
|
||||
|
|
@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ have proved in earlier works (especially in the Appeal to Reason
|
|||
Library), that the most rapid and devoted work in the world in
|
||||
educating the workers was found ten years ago in <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and that there is no dispute on that point in
|
||||
paedagogical literature. We have seen what <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> did in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
|
||||
paedagogical literature. We have seen what the Vatican did in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
|
||||
and <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and tried to get done in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>. I say again that the
|
||||
most wonderful educational work in all history was being done in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, as leading educationists in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> admitted, and the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ They claim a privileged position in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> on the ground
|
|||
are the largest religious body in the country and their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is
|
||||
the largest and most important in the world. On the first point we
|
||||
reflect that the fact that <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> form one-eighth -- it is
|
||||
probably nearer one-tenth -- of the population of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
|
||||
probably nearer one-tenth -- of the population of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States
|
||||
seems an amazing reason for seeking, as they do, to interfere with
|
||||
the lives and literature of the non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> seven-eighths and for
|
||||
thinking that they ought to be consulted by the head of the state. </p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
|
||||
<p>That they do so interfere we have seen in every chapter. They
|
||||
dictated policy on <ent type='EVENT'>the Civil War</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and attempted to dictate
|
||||
it in regard to: <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and the <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an War. They fly at medical
|
||||
it in regard to: <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and the European War. They fly at medical
|
||||
and civic authorities who would relieve non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> mothers of
|
||||
excessive child-bearing, take the lead in fomenting racial
|
||||
bitterness against the <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, dominate the school-system (even non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>) in some cities, arrogate a most insolent control of
|
||||
|
|
@ -1552,17 +1552,17 @@ different perspective. The fact is, apparently, that of the
|
|||
90000000 are totally illiterate. Turn back to the table I gave.
|
||||
Taking one <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Republic with another the gross
|
||||
illiteracy of the whole 80000000 people is over 60 percent. The
|
||||
Encyclopedia <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> 68, <ent type='GPE'>Nicaragua</ent> 60, and so on.
|
||||
Encyclopedia <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> 68, <ent type='GPE'>Nicaragua</ent> 60, and so on.
|
||||
For the whole, 60 percent is moderate, and it will hardly be
|
||||
disputed that these illiterates are not the millions of workers
|
||||
who, joined by many men of a middle-class which has a long
|
||||
tradition of anti-clericalism, made <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> shudder 10 years
|
||||
tradition of anti-clericalism, made the Vatican shudder 10 years
|
||||
ago. You can very safely say that 50000000 adult <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> from
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Patagonia</ent> are as illiterate as babies of a weird and
|
||||
wonderful ignorance. The state of <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent>
|
||||
possession's is as bad, and particularly all the illiterates of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> are good <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>. Add the millions of the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Philippine</ent> Islands, the <ent type='GPE'>West Indies</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Philippine</ent> Islands, the West Indies, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>,
|
||||
Eire, and the foreign missions. The grand total of illiterate
|
||||
subjects of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> must approach 100000000. Add these to the
|
||||
50000000 under the age of ten.</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ one or two cities, were, of course, like the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> sch
|
|||
today, to prevent their own children from going to the pagan
|
||||
schools. And there is no more dispute about the fact that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
|
||||
school system was entirely destroyed when the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> obtained
|
||||
power over <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, and that during the next five centuries you
|
||||
power over Europe, and that during the next five centuries you
|
||||
could count on your fingers the schools existing at any time.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
|
|
@ -1642,10 +1642,10 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
Dark Age "preserved the classics for us." lt took <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> scholars
|
||||
nearly two centuries to dig up such <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> classics as we have, and
|
||||
some of these and all the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> classics were not preserved at all
|
||||
in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The leaders of this enterprise -- <ent type='PERSON'>Petrarch</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Boccaccio</ent>,
|
||||
in Europe. The leaders of this enterprise -- <ent type='PERSON'>Petrarch</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Boccaccio</ent>,
|
||||
etc. -- despised the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s, and the work was nearly complete when
|
||||
the first <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> to take an interest in it, the not very religious
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Engenius IV</ent>, mounted the Papal throne.</p>
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Engenius</ent> IV, mounted the Papal throne.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Well, says the apologist, these classics were in very large
|
||||
part, if not for the most part, erotic poetry and comedy -- the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ works of <ent type='PERSON'>Aristotle</ent> were got from the <ent type='NORP'>A
|
|||
the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>s -- and the revival led to a terrible lot of immorality.
|
||||
Was that why the good monks preserved them? Never mind that, says,
|
||||
your apologist, but think of the zeal for schools and learning
|
||||
which beyond any question swept <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> (except <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, let me
|
||||
which beyond any question swept Europe (except <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, let me
|
||||
interject) from the 11th Century onward.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> As my <ent type='PERSON'>Peter Abelard</ent> (1901) is one of the chief studies of the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1679,11 +1679,11 @@ school-men, as it has been discovered that the inspirational ideas
|
|||
of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent> and Constitution came from them. Yes --
|
||||
discovered by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists. I confess that it always puzzled
|
||||
me why they could not fake a better mare's nest to discover for
|
||||
this purpose than the works by <ent type='PERSON'>Cardinal Bellarmine</ent> until I learned
|
||||
that the chief reason was that one of <ent type='ORG'>Bellarmine</ent>'s books was found
|
||||
in <ent type='GPE'>Jefferson</ent>'s library. My godfathers! When I die, in a few years,
|
||||
this purpose than the works by Cardinal <ent type='ORG'>Bellarmine</ent> until I learned
|
||||
that the chief reason was that one of Bellarmine's books was found
|
||||
in Jefferson's library. My godfathers! When I die, in a few years,
|
||||
they will find in my little library many works of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> or
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> piety, some on <ent type='NORP'>Hindu</ent> metaphysics or Theosophy, the
|
||||
Protestant piety, some on <ent type='NORP'>Hindu</ent> metaphysics or Theosophy, the
|
||||
Little Flower of St. Fraieis, the Bible in three or four languages,
|
||||
Rabelais, Mark Twain's description of conversation at <ent type='ORG'>the Court</ent> of
|
||||
Queen Elizabeth. . . . I will take up the point seriously in the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ practically all <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> works written from the 2nd Centu
|
|||
13th Century are contained in the immense Migne Collection. I
|
||||
should say that the only work in that collection of 1000 years of
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> learning that anybody reads today, in translation, is
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>'s City of God, and very few read that. Few literary men
|
||||
Augustine's City of God, and very few read that. Few literary men
|
||||
would shed a tear if the rest were burned.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Anyhow, take a good short history of literature; and literary
|
||||
|
|
@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ science until the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> snuffed them out. The work is, li
|
|||
history of literature, really divided into three parts: <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Persian</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>Modern Science</ent>. As to the pioneers of the modern
|
||||
development -- <ent type='PERSON'>Vesalius</ent> and Pare, Galileo and <ent type='PERSON'>Torricelli</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Galvani</ent>, etc. -- no one really knows what most of them thought
|
||||
Galvani, etc. -- no one really knows what most of them thought
|
||||
about <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>ry. They lived in an age when men of science adapted the
|
||||
counsel of St. Paul and said: It is better to go to church than to
|
||||
be burned.</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1789,13 +1789,13 @@ minor chemists and mathematicians in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, none in <ent
|
|||
the most authoritative biographers, men like <ent type='ORG'>Pasteur</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Fabre</ent>,
|
||||
Mendel, and <ent type='PERSON'>Marenni</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> But did not <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> welcome science by founding a great
|
||||
<p> But did not the Vatican welcome science by founding a great
|
||||
astronomical observatory? Yes, in the day's when it was still
|
||||
understood that "the heavens proclaim the glory of God." At all
|
||||
events the observatory, of which you do not hear much today,
|
||||
proclaims the glory of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. Was not <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII</ent> enthusiastic
|
||||
proclaims the glory of the Vatican. Was not <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII</ent> enthusiastic
|
||||
for historical science, in spite of his ignorance in it, and did he
|
||||
not throw open <ent type='ORG'>the Secret Archives</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to the world's
|
||||
not throw open <ent type='ORG'>the Secret Archives</ent> of the Vatican to the world's
|
||||
scholars? Yes. After -- as the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> historian Dr. Pastor tells
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us -- removing the more compromising documents. Doesn't the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> spend hundreds of millions on education? Yes, in its own
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<p> But let the apologists speak. One of their chief propaganda
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bodies in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is the Calvert Association. and Dr. N. Murray
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Butler of <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> and other <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n scholars generously sponsor
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Butler of <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> and other <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n scholars generously sponsor
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it. Its chief publication is The Calvert Handbook of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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Facts. This has a section titled "Great <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>." You will hardly
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<ent type='LOC'>the Middle Ages</ent> in search of great men (Ferdinand of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, etc.)
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I find it lists as great <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns who were <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> only Thomas,
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Lloyd, J.J. Montgomery, and <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>. What, you never heard of them?
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For the last 200 years of world-science it gives <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Galvani</ent>,
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For the last 200 years of world-science it gives <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>, Galvani,
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Ampere (who vacillated all his life between skepticism and </p>
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