Consolation, August 18, 1943
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Contents
“All Roads Lead to Rome”
The Art of Concealing Information
Myron Was the Right Man
The Pope “Blessed” the World
A Beautiful Crawfish
Skilled Planners of Mischief
5 Geopolitics
*Who Murdered Free Speech?
The “Holy Water” Spigot
Hierarchy Double-Talk
Buddhism and Roman Catholicism in Japan 14 “Thy Word Is Truth”
Worst Judgment of Religious Court
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Apartment Tenants Win Freedom
The Flag Disgraced
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“Four Freedoms” Clarified
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Back to Religion in Chicago
♦ The London Catholic. Times has an imposing story with a triple headline reading, “Protestants Launch Back-to-Religion Movement in U.S.A.” That ought to be good in the city of Al Capone and Robert McCormick. It is now a little more than eight years since Chicago made its last grand Protestant rush toward religion. That was good, in the time of it.
The Bible plainly teaches the existence of a personal Devil. If you desire you may look up some of the evidence. See Job 1:6-12; 2:1-6; Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Matthew 12: 24-27; Luke 8:4-15; John 8: 44; 14: 30; 12: 31; 16:11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2; 1 John 3: 8. There are many others, which you can find with the help of a concordance.
Of course, neither these scriptures nor any other have any weight with clergymen, and so, when they had this last previous religious spasm in Chicago and a questionnaire was sent out to all the Protestant ministers of the city, 24 percent of all the Baptist clergymen replied that they did not believe in a Devil; so, also, 45 percent of the Episcopalians, 44 percent of all the Congregationalists, 59 percent of the Presbyterians, 70 percent of the Methodists, and 100 percent of the Lutherans. If these dominies were strong for religion (religion is the teaching of anything that contradicts the Bible), then they ought to be miles ahead of their 1934 stand by now.
Probably, by this time, there isn’t a minister in the city that would admit that he believes in a Devil. And many of them, if they were cornered, would be forced to admit that they do not believe in one word of the Bible, nor in the God of the Bible, and that they are in the religious business because it is a soft way to get a living and stand well in the community without doing any work.
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“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A.R.V. r
Volume XXIV Brooklyn, N. Y,, Wednesday, August 18, 1943 Number 624
“All Roads Lead to Rome”
WHOEVER got up the saying, “All roads lead to Rome,” was a good observer and hit it right. The frequent fairy tales that the pope is about to jump to Brazil or some other place are pure invention. He never had such an idea in his life, nor will he. The newspapers must have something to fill their columns and it pays them to invent tales and then deny them. And this suits the Hierarchy perfectly. They get in the papers-twice, instead of sitting in quiet on a back seat. Publicity and power in this life is the only reward any of them will ever get, and they want the publicity and the power right away, now.
Lord Robert Montague, at one time a Catholic, made this sweeping statement of the Vatican as a center of information : •
The Curia is a Cabinet of long standing and knowledge of affairs. It never “goes out” by the action of an adverse majority in a representative Chamber. All have been carefully trained for their work; while from reports derived from priestly confessors all over the world, the best and most detailed knowledge . of the characters and intentions of statesmen, and of the people, are ready to their hand. The Vatican is the center of all the information of the world; and every Bishop has periodically to visit Rome in order that his inmost soul may be probed, and his continual reports may be tested. Such is the Cabinet with which the Protestant statesmen hope on equal terms to cope.
Referring to this same thing the psalmist said, “They search out iniqui-' ties; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of
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them, and the heart, is deep.”—Psalm 64:6.
The Art of Concealing Information
Not only is the Vatican the center of the “wisdom of this world”, which the apostle, in 1 Corinthians 3:19, describes as “foolishness” because it seeks to circumvent the purposes of Almighty God, but it has a skill, born of centuries of experience, of hiding the truth, and making light to appear to be darkness, and darkness to be light. Thus, with radios blaring in every country, and with the truth widely published that Hitler and Pacelli have steadily worked together, and are still doing the same thing, it is a great achievement to hornswoggle the United States into thinking that the pope is against Nazism. He is nothing of the kind. He has never said anything . against it, and never will, despite lying misrepresentations by reporters and editors who are told what they must say. Once in a while the truth gets out, as in this statement by The Associated Press, published in the Washington Post:
A Vatican stand against Nazism, continental observers said, would have reverberations among Catholies from Lisbon to the fighting front in Russia. On that front Itai-ians, as well as Catholic soldiers recruited from the Balkans, Spain, France and other Axis-dominated countries, are motivated partially by the belief they are engaged in a Christian crusade. Condemnation of National Socialism also would have a telling effect within Germany, where a population faces another war winter, and in Italy, where the press has hammered home the notion that the fight on the Eastern front is against the Bolshevist foe, which to the average Italian means the foe of Christianity.
To the full extent of its ability the Vatican has spread far and wide the idea that it alone stands between the yvorld and Bolshevism. It was an idea to sell; it was business; so it was sold. When World War I was fought there were only 16 nations with representatives at the Vatican, but the Bolshevism scare was sold so skillfully that ,the number is now 40, if Myron Taylor is included in the number.
Myron Was the Right Man
Though nominally a Protestant, Myron Taylor is one of the most religious of men, and has the utmost reverence for the pope and everything of which the pope is the center. His gift of $500,000 to the pope was made four months before he started on one of his trips to Vatican City. It takes a few months for a gift of $500,000 to soak in. Myron is no fool. He knew how to manage the Steel Trust, and to come away, while still a relatively young man, with money by the hogshead: something around $20,000,000, which is _ “quite some coin”. There has been talk ’ of making Myron a full-fledged ambassador, but it has not gotten that far yet. To date he is still President Roosevelt’s personal representative.
In an address to a Catholic club in New York Myron said:
In those wide and unhappy lands where tragedy and death are present there remain but few reservoirs of peace. Among them there is one toward which the eyes of all are turned with reverence and confidence and hope, the majestic figure of the Holy Father in the Vatican. In him we can well have a supreme confidence founded solidly not only on his holy office but also on his embracing spirituality, his vision and his very great talent. Within the historic walls of the Vatican one finds as in no other place among the war-torn nations an atmosphere of tranquillity, of thoughtful analysis, of deliberate judgment, and of courageous and unchanging resolve.
Reading that too hastily one might get the impression th'at Myron was talking about the Holy Father in heaven; but he seems not to have thought of that. In. his address to the (Catholic) Carroll Club, Myron went on to say:
The supreme duty of all of us is to exert ourselves to the utmost to thrust from the world the irresponsibility of hate and revenge, and in its place to put the responsibility of good-will, so that the people of the world may cease to tear down what through the centuries they have built, and may start building for the centuries to come.
That’s a nice idea, about doing away with all this practice of hate and revenge. One wonders if among Mr. Taylor’s audience was that amiable gentleman, the “Reverend Father” Harney, of New York, who explained to a New Brunswick, N. J., audience that the Catholic Church would cheerfully murder every “heretic” if it had the power. That would include Myron himself, money and all.
The Pope “Blessed” the World
On one of the recent occasions when .the pope “blessed” the world it took the London Catholic Times more than two columns to tell about it. In the story occurred this expression: “Many of our fellow men need the succor of the Father of Christendom, succor which not infrequently he alone can give.” A little more than seven months later, when his “blessing” had either been forgotten or had had time to sink in, the pope broadcast the solemn fact that the world had been plunged into darkness by fatal errors. He told the truth that time. The errors center about the place where he does business, and where most of them originated during the Dark Ages.
In an address at New Orleans, the “Reverend Father” John McMahonf of Our Lady of the Lake College (371 students in this “college”), said that the only way that peace will ever be obtained is
by an international police force. Pre-, sumably that police force, in his foreview, would be under the control of the Vatican. That is not God’s purpose. Peace will come by direct action of the Prince of Peace, and “of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end",—Isaiah 9:7. ,
Backing up Mr. McMahon, but not backing up the Scriptures, the Hierarchy in the. United States said officially that “the spirit of Christianity can write a real and lasting peace in justice and charity to all nations, even to those not Christian”. But the facts are that after doing their best for fifteen centuries, the world is now in worse condition than it was when they first tried to get the Boman Empire to mend its ways.
Have one more speech on this subject. This time it is from the lips of Robert O’Brien, of the Jersey City tax department. Please read it privately, so as not to gag in public: .
American Catholics must see that Great Britain does not dominate the peace table at the end of the present World War. . . . America must dominate the peace conference with the pope, vicar of Christ on earth, sitting in to see that justice is meted out. . . . The present war was brought about by the very people for whom we are fighting this war: the present war is directly traceable to the peace conference table of the last war, when Christ was told there was no room for him. The Vicar of Christ- wanted to be represented ' at the peace table then and Catholics must see that he is represented when this war is over. (In view of the fact that Catholics constitute but 15 percent of the population, this gentleman needs nothing for his nerves.)
Inconsistency Gone to Seed
It is well known that the Roman Cath. olie Hierarchy is a strictly Italian racket. Other bishops and archbishops are taken in, and some of them are made cardinals, but never enough to overthrow the Italian control, which has persisted for generations. As a matter of policy, not of AUGUST 18, 1943 principle, the Hierarchy instructs its bishops to profess great loyalty to their particular government where they chance to be located, but always with an eye to political favors at the expense of the common people. If any government, as, formerly, the Spanish Republic, tries to be honest and just and give the people a fair deal, the Hierarchy is its worst enemy.
A Beautiful Crawfish
A writer' of Catholic sympathies in John A. Lee’s Weekly, New Zealand, admits perforce that the Italian bishops and archbishops were squarely behind Mussolini in the Ethiopian war, and because they were Italians and had the same murder rights as other Italians. But when he came to discuss the pope, who was also an Italian bishop at that very time, and actually is yet, he made this beautiful crawfish:
He, and he alone, ean reasonably be expected to be above all national loyalties, and to speak, if he speaks at all on a national issue, for the Church throughout the world.
In an address in New York city the “Reverend Father” James J. Navagh wonders what would have happened if a generation ago some priests had gotten hold of little Benito Mussolini and little Adolf Hitler and taught them the Catholic idea. That’s just the trouble. They were taught the unscrupulous, selfish, lying, abominable doctrines of the Hierarchy, and today are doing their best to make the whole world bow once more to the wicked system of Oppression, lies, cruelty, hypocrisy and meanness with which both are still connected.
The pope was oh so glad to turn the Italian church bells over to Mussolini, so that they could be made into the cannons, trucks and other things which sons Adolf and Benito need in everincreasing quantities. This news came from Rome via the International News Service.
H. G. Wells, famous British writer, wants something done about the pope’s
petting of the Fascist powers. In the London Sunday Dispatch he said:
The present pope is in open alliance with the Japanese. He is a declared enemy of our ally, Russia. There is a Japanese mission at the Vatican operating actively as an intelli* gence center, . . . The Vatican is plainly Resolved to turn this present conflict into a religious war against Russia. . . . Why not a 2,000-pound bomb in the Vatican garden as a warning now? Why not a score of them upon the Vatican, Quirinal and Palazzo Chigi, and then if liberal elements don’t wake up to their responsibilities and send the pope and his Japanese allies skedaddling across the Alps, why should the Allied nations refrain froth a 1,000-plane raid upon the Eternal City? There would be no real vandalism in that. The charm of Rome has always been its ruins.
The Seattle Masonic Tribune takes notice of the fact that the pope put up a holler to President Roosevelt to prevent the bombing of the Vatican, and that the pope did not put up any holler to Hitler not to bomb Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, neither of which places has been spared by the Nazis.
A statement in the New York Times says that “inhabitants of Rome say frankly that their greatest air raid insurance is the pope”. Commenting on this the Jesuit magazine America says: “How true in the wider sense that js! The Papacy, and what it stands for, can be the only insurance against recurrent war. But that can come about only if the pope be given his rightful place at any table round which the peace terms will be, in God’s own time, discussed.” In other words, the Jesuits will not hesitate to incite wars eternally in every corner of the world unless they are given the privilege they crave, of dominating the whole earth.
No "Vatican-Axis Break Expected"
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Herald carried the above headline but left out the most important word. That is the little word No, of two letters, that precedes the quotes. Reading the story over carefully, it merely recites that certain Italian newspapers objected to the visit of Myron Taylor to the pope. As far as the relations between the pope and Benito and Adolf go, that means nothing, not a thing in the world. The man who wrote that fairy tale probably gets so much a column for it.
The pope’s fleet of four merchant vessels might even be carrying supplies to Benito and Adolf this very minute. This fleet, which flies the Papal flag, runs between Italy and South America. There are only about 1,000 persons in Vatican City, and all that they could consume could be conveniently brought in one small schooner or ocean-going tugboat; so why so many ships?
Here is another one, and quite recent too (March 6, 1943), in the Washington, D.C., Times-Herald. The bold headline is “Vatican Flays Nazi Brutalities”. You read it over and don’t find anything whatever about either Nazism or Fascism, and you don’t know what it is all about until you get to the last paragraph, which reads:
The broadcast did not charge Germany directly with these acts, but the inference was clear.
You bet it was clear, clear as mud. The man who wrote the headlines knew he must work in that word “flays” and insert the word “Nazi” or he would have to go home Saturday night and tell the wife he had lost his jdb; so he fixed it to suit. The Hierarchy are not taking any back talk from the Times-Herald. That’s the paper that refused to print Judge Rutherford’s address, even after they had set it in type, because he said something about an unnamed “foreign power” which the Times-Herald correctly judged might be intended to mean the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
Glancing backward a little, the Kansas City Star had a two-column story about the pope’s most recent Christmas broad-
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cast, and gave it the stirring title “Pope Lashes Nazis”. If it were not for the waste of space, it would be a pleasure to reprint the whole broad-, cast, which contains not one single reference to the, Nazis. This was all home brew in Kansas City; the headline writer might even have had this lifte standing in type or had a slug on it, with instructions to work it in just so many times in a year, wherever it can be squeezed in. In the broadcast the pope as usual straddled the fence.
For the same broadcast, the Passaic (N. J.) Herald-News cooked up the headline “The Sin of Totalitarianism”, while the Newark Evening News made it “Brutality of Nazis Condemned by Pope”. The New York Weekly People hit the nail on the head with their own summary of the same talk by a four-column headline which said truthfully, “U. S. Papers Twisting Papal Talk into Attacks on Fascists.” That is just the plain truth.
What Are the Facts?
A single issue of the London Catholic Times (June 12, 1942) quotes an American journalist, Jack Fleishner, returning from Berlin to America, as saying that “the churches are filled, often to overflowing”, and a denial by Archbishop Conrad of Freiburg, Germany, that he had ever attacked National-Socialism. How does it come, if the pope is “lashing” and “flaying” around so savagely against Nazism that this archbishop denies that, as far as he himself is concerned, he had ever done anything of the kind?
’ Baptized a Catholic, and hating Jehovah’s witnesses with incredible feroci^ as the British government has adnSted in its White Paper, Hitler is stilr as good a Catholic and as perfect li^ehild of the Devil as he ever was. In the magazine Look it has been noted that though “Nazi leaders have mined t from the national reserve every spare bit of metal and other materials, even to the point of taking brass ash trays
AUGUST 1S, 1943 from state railroad cars, only the wealth of the Church has remained relatively untouched”.
The Vatican’s strong influence with Hitler can be seen in the fact that: throughout central Yugoslavia the priests and teachers of the Greek Orthodox Church were moved to Rdfnan Catholic communities, so that nothing could interfere with the forward march of the Pacelli-Hitler conspiracy for world control.
And, by the way, in the unlikely event that Hitler should win this war, this is just to tell you that the Roman Catholic Church would be made the official and only church of Great Britain and of the United States; that American public schools would all come under Roman Catholic control; that tithes would be exacted, certainly from Catholics and probably from all; that it would be stipulated that in the United States as in Argentina the president must be a Roman Catholic; that the America you have known would be only a memory, and a short one at that, for the history books would all be thrown into a big bonfire, along with the books put out by Jehovah’s witnesses, and new ones would be written to glorify the most accursed hypocrites and murderers that ever disgraced the planet.
Skilled Planners of Mischief
The Jesuits do not stumble into mischief. They plan it. The “Lord Haw Haw” whom they use in Berlin to ridicule Britain is William Joyce, born in New York city in 1906, and educated for his present work by the Jesuits in Ireland. He places Adolf Hitler on a par with one to whom he refers as Almighty God, but who is, in. deed and in truth, the real god of both Hitler and himself, and PacelU too, i.e., the Devil.
As showing the perfect system by which these murderers work, M. W. . Fodor, in a .story entitled “The New World War”, tells in the Chicago Sun (July 24, 1942) how, three days before
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria was murdered by Hitler’s comrades (which took place less than one and a half years after Hitler’s rise to power in Germany), all newspapermen in Germany were told about the “Communist revolt” which would tak^ place in Vienna on the date | set. Pictures were taken in advance, so that the newspapers would have the latest photographic evidence of how Nazism had come to the rescue of Austria and of mankind. Four hours before the newspapermen at Vienna itself knew what had happened, the editor of an important Catholic paper in Vienna, Dr. Friedrich Funder, arrived on the scene and inquired for details about what had happened, when, as a matter of fact, it had not yet happened. He had been tipped off that it w’ould happen, and had been given the “story” he was to print.
How perfectly the Jesuits carry out their conspiracies! The only awkward thing about them is that they make their preparations so thoroughly, and so many people are in on it, that the truth occasionally leaks out, as in this instance.
' Geopolitics
If you can get hold of a copy of Life, of the issue of December 21, 1942, read the entire story entitled “Geopolitics”. Briefly summarized, it points to the fact that ocean control of the earth has ceased, and land control has come, because the air bases are situated thereon. Singapore’s guns were pointed the wrong way: they looked out to sea; the Japanese came by land. The essence of the study, which occupies eight pages, and is engagingly illustrated, is that whoever controls Russia will eventually control the whole earth, for the reason that planes centered there can go anywhere and back with the least resistance of time and space.
You will be interested in the first three . paragraphs which, after pinning the bug on a Jesuit priest, carefully remove it, sprinkle perfume on the spot, and give him a certificate calculated to divert all
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suspicion from him as being in any way hooked up with this colossal Jesuit scheine for world control. The dame who was grabbed knew all the details of the-scheme and was useful to this Jesuit. The magazine, more or less deftly (and rather less than more), tries to inject a sex problem into a situation in which it
' does not exist. But here it is:
Some months before the U. S. entered the war, the FBI picked up the trail of a German girl who had come to this country as a student. The girl, an attractive blonde, settled down in Washington, D. C., and began frequenting the campus of Georgetown University, which is not a coed institution. There she focused her attention on Father Edmund A. Walsh, Georgetown’s greatest scholastic luminary. She sought frequent conferences with him to . discuss her “studies”—in private. When he traveled to other cities to lecture, he would find the girl in his, audience. In order to assist the FBI, Father Walsh, after taking suitable precaution and placing a secretary near by, received the girl from time to time in a public office. If, as the FBI strongly suspected, the girl was a German agent sent to frame the good Father by creating a scandal, she never had a chance to carry out her plot. In December 1941, when the U. S. declared war on Germany, the girl was promptly picked up and taken before a special tribunal of the Department of Justice which found enough evidence to intern her for the duration.
Now Father Walsh is a kindly, peaceable man, an eminent scholar and a Jesuit priest, hardly the man to inspire a foreign government to melodramatic plots against him. But the Gestapo might explain it in a word; Geopolitics. For the past 16 years Father Walsh has studied the rise of the German school of geopolitics and blazed the way for an America^ school fundamentally different in its objectives. His studies enabled him to analyze and forecast with remarkable accuracy the military power of both Germany and Russia. His classes at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service are attended by army officers and members of the diplomatic service. In the light of these facts it is not
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surprising that the Nazis wanted to shut him up. They may well have wanted it badly enough to send a blonde agent to compromise him- .
Such goings on would seem scandalously oiit-of-place in most fields of scholarship. But with geopolitics they are quite a character. This applied science has had a brief but melodramatic history on the great stage of world politics. To most Americans the very word “geopolitics” has a sinister glamor. It comes from the German. It is tied up with the rise of the Nazi party and the German plans-for world domination. It suggests dark plots, evil intrigue and black magic.
The Balkans Are Restive
The Balkans are restive over the Jesuit plan for world domination. There is a religious issue involved. No one ■knows this as well as Paeelli and Hitler. Their accord manifestly calls for the elimination of the Greek Orthodox clergy, and the work is well under way. Four ' high dignitaries of the Orthodox church were executed in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on a single morning. The charge against them was that they had permitted parachutists to hide in their churches. The charge may have been true: they knew they had to get either on the Vatican bandwagon or on the hearse, and they got on the hearse. A few days later, Adolf, an obedient son of the Roman church, ordered the dissolution of the Czech Orthodox church in the Nazi “protectorate” of Bohemia and Moravia, and the confiscation of their church properties. Adolf will surely be made a “saint” for all this.
The Jews, too, are catching it, James J. Murphy, in the magazine The Converted Catholic, explains:
Right Reverend Joseph Tiso is Hitler’s pup pet-President of Slovakia. He was recently commended by the Nazi government for his ruthless liquidation of Jews. Pius XI honored Father Tiso by making him a papal chamberlain and member of the papal household. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency News of August 18, Msgr. Tiso chose a Cath-AUGUST 18, 1843 olie church meeting in Holiteh to declare that in deporting Jews “Slovakia is acting in accordance with the Lord God’s command”. He added, “Slovakia wanted at last to be rid of its eternal enemies and in doing so acted in a primitive Christian way. We would be very badly off if we had not rid ourselves of this element harming the state.” The Vatican court and the pope have concurred in their silent approval of all that Msgr. Tiso has said and done to Nazify both church and state in Slovakia. [Tiso’s death was reported early in 1943.]
One of earth’s ablest mischief-makers, Franz von Papen, made the statement recently in Turkey that “Hitler may lose the war, but the Germans will not lose the peace”. He anticipates a Catholic federation of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia, with Otto of Hapsburg as the ruler of the new, even if abbreviated, “Holy Roman Empire.” But the Czechs don’t want him. A recognized leader of Czechs in the United States, Oldrich Zlamal, of Cleveland, Ohio,-put it this way:
So far as the Hapsburg problem is concerned, it can be stated, without further discussion, that the Czechoslovak people will not listen to them. We are through with them once for ever and will never compromise with them. The Catholics are the last ones that would wish for their restoration. The politics of the Hapsburgs was one of the reasons why the Czech people parted with Rotne. They stood always as a barrier between our nation and the Holy See and were the very source of all difference and even the cause of Czech prejudice against Catholicism.
It seems necessary to explain that Mr. Zlamal is a monsignor of the Catholic Church, and he may be speaking for the Czech people and not speaking at all for himself. If the pope wants Otto to go in, why, in he goes, Zlamal or no Zlamal.
Just what form the “IToly Roman Empire” will take when it has fully emerged from the pit of oblivion will be interesting to watch and see. Meantime read the booklet Peace-Can It Last? which is the most illuminating and in-
structive presentation of this subject that has ever been made.
Notice the special favors that have been extended to Boman Catholic Croatia, mentioned by Sedgwick in the New York Times, and observe how these 1 Roman Catholics have recompensed their * Greek Catholic neighbors in Yugoslavia, as narrated in the Manchester Guardian:
The meager information filtering through from Yugoslavia gives details of atrocities carried out with sadistic cruelty by Italians, Croatians, and Hungarians against the population to break their spirit of resistance. At Ljubljana 45 school girls of prominent families were taken to barracks and turned over to the lust of the Italian soldiers. Wild scenes followed, and the local population, alarmed by the cries of the girls, stormed the barracks and attacked the soldiers, with severe casualties on both sides. Complaint was addressed to the Vatican, but the only effect was the dismissal of the Italian police commissioner.
In the village of Ogulin Croatian. Ustashis (terrorists) entered a church in which a Serbian wedding was being celebrated and took away the [Greek] priest, the bride and the groom, whose dead bodies were found with nails driven into their feet.
The occupation authorities in Belgrade have prohibited bathing, laundry washing, or drinking the water of the rivers Danube and Sava because of the great number of mutilated bodies of Serbian [Greek Catholic] men and women killed by the Hungarians [Roman Catholic] and thrown into the river that are floating downstream.
Looking Toward the East
Looking toward the east, first comes Poland, and Poland was the first to feel the undiluted wrath of Hitler. The “Reverend” Dr. John C. Heenan, in an address at Manchester, England, said:
The devotion of the Polish people to Mary, the Queen of Poland, has been such as to compel the admiration of the whole Catholic world. What great things could the Russian people, already doing great things, not do if they were marching under the banner of the Legion of Mary?
The headline of this story was “Poles Will Give Our Lady Back to Russia”.
Farther east is Finland. There are almost no Catholics in Finland or Sweden, yet Hitler is so faithful to the “church” of his choice that he has compelled both these countries, to send representatives to the Vatican. The West Virginia edition of The Register (Roman Catholic) carries a story with the headline, “Finland Seeks to Spread Work of Catholic Church,” which is just a plain lie. There are only 2,000 Catholics in Finland all together. Finland is going along with Hitler because it must. Sweden is in the same predicament. Maps, printed in Germany, show Sweden as a part of Hitler’s New Order.
Next to the east is the world’s geo-politic center, Russia. The Roman Catholic Church has long had in mind to swallow up the Greek' Catholic Church, as a big snake swallows a little one. This work is now under way in Occupied Russia under the leadership of Cardinal Levitrano, of Palermo, Italy, • who has for years been training priests for this very work. As the Italian soldiers marched into Russia the soldiers distributed pictures of “saints” popular in Russia. Italian priests, Jesuit trained, selected such pictures as they calculated would make the biggest hit both with the Italians and with the Ukrainians.
Far to the East Is Canada
Far, far to the east is Canada; or if you choose to go west it is the same. One of the best-posted men on Canadian ffffairs is J. J. Murphy, of the Converted Catholic magazine, who was educated in Montreal and knows whereof he speaks. Rome is in Quebec in full power, and assuredly all roads lead to 'it from the most powerful and privileged ecclesiastical body’ in the world.
Mr. Murphy declares that Catholic church property and securities constitute 10 percent of the total wealth of the province. There is a compulsory church tax of 4 percent on all farm produce, and
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this takes precedence over other taxes. Failure to pay the priest means imprisonment. Auctions are subject to a church tithe. Alt church schools, welfare institutions and asylums are financed by the government.
With about the same population and the same total wealth as the Protestant province of Ontario, the province of . Quebec produces only half the farm revenue, and has only half as many telephones and a third as many automobiles. It has twice as great infant mortality, more than twice the tuberculosis death rate, and almost twice the contagious disease death rate. It expends only half as much for education. The average teacher’s salary is less than half. The percentage of illiterates is double. The number of public libraries is but 26 in Quebec as against 460 in Ontario.
Cardinal Villeneuve, real boss of all Quebec, described democracy as ‘'wild, lying, atheistic democracy" and referred to the United States as an “ogre". Canada is already 41-percent Roman Catholic, and it is confidently anticipated that by 1970 the Roman Catholic population will be in the majority and Canada will cease to be Protestant, progressive or intelligent.
In one of his addresses Mr. Murphy says:
It is interesting to note that official Nazi declarations contained in reports to the New York Times in April, 1940, declared that the real purpose of the present war is, not the overthrowing of the principles of the Versailles. Treaty, but the destruction of the principles of the Treaty of Westphalia, which, they declared, were the beginning of our present “democratic corruption". It added that it was the intention of the Nazi government, at the successful conclusion of the war, tn sign the treaty of peace at Westphalia to wipe out the sordid memory of the treaty signed there three hundred years ago.
The battle of Authoritarianism against Individualism has been carried on from the time of the Reformation by the Jesuits, the founders of the eounter-Reformation. They have never ceased to long for the day when an end could be put to Protestantism and the individual liberties for which it stands. They looked forward to the re-establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, which would restore the Church to its medieval political power. In the Memoirs of Kaiser Wilhelm II, page 211, we find him narrating the following conversation held at the Vatican, at the time of his last visit with Pope Leo XIII:
“It was of interest to me that the Pope said to me on this occasion that Germany must become the sword of the Catholic church. I remarked that the old Holy Roman Empire of the German nation no longer existed, and that conditions had changed. But he stuck to his words.” Rome never changes. And all roads still lead to Rome.
Who Murdered
Professor Colston E. Warne, president of Consumer’s Union, was a man who believed in the all-time American tradition of freedom of speech. To honest folks, freedom of speech used to mean the liberty and opportunity to speak the truth.
When Professor Warne wanted to tell his fellow citizens how the press and radio are feeding them devilish falsehoods instead of truth, he bumped head on against the fact that the advertising
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Free Speech?
racket brings publishers $2,000,000,000 (yes, two billion dollars) a year, and the American Newspaper Publishers Association maintains the strongest lobby, in Washington (except, maybe, the American Legion lobby) for just such purposes as fighting down Congressional measures that might keep drugmakers and other racketeers from poisoning and cheating the people. These vile and deathdealing “business” concerns are among the chief advertisers; and newspapers and radio being both in their hire, neither could afford to give Professor Warne time and space to expose their rackets.
Finally, the Columbia Broadcasting Company, on condition that he should not mention the names of offending manufacturers and their offenses, agreed to give Professor Warne thirteen (13) minutes. No doubt the things he wanted, to tell the people would have made a honey of a broadcast; for even after the real meat was eliminated there were some juicy morsels left:
Indeed, for a good many years advertising has been a blending of downright lies, slippery superlatives, pseudo science and irrelevant appeals. The more honest leaders of the industry have repeatedly sought to check its excesses by self-regulation and co-operation with federal authorities. Yet its basic insincerity has persisted, and has caused consumers to call down a plague on its house.
Our indictment of current advertising practice, as I see it, runs something as follows: We feel that advertising has, by its frequent abuse, (1) stressed inconsequential values; (2) brought a false perspective as to the merits of products, often bewildering rather than informing; (3) lowered the ethical standards by insincerity in its appeals; (4) corrupted and distorted the press; (5) wasted much good timber and chemicals and spoiled much landscape and radio enjoyment; (6) blocked the speedy use of correct medication; (7) created many parental problems by abominable programs for children (I speak with feeling about this); (8) turned our society into one dominated by style, fashion, “keeping up with the Joneses”; (9) retarded the growth of thrift by emphasizing immediate expenditure; and (10) advertising has fostered monopoly through its large-scale use by only a few flnaneially-favored companies.
These opinions are not mine alone. They represent the attitude of millions of Americans who resent being pestered to death by advertising twaddle. We realize that on occasion advertisements are valuable, and that advertising furnishes revenue for the radio and press. But we would gladly pay in one lump sum the true cost of keeping good programs on the air and having news, if we could be spared the bother of wading kneedeep in questionable advertisements wherever we go. We might feel differently about this if we were able to detect any distinct connection between the amount of advertising of a product and its quality. But we cannot.
Let me review briefly a few of the highlights of Consumer's Union findings about quality in some highly advertised lines. We have discovered (and you can check this in your own home) that in a true blindfold test, covering leading brands of cigarettes,_ the usual smoker cannot detect his own favorite brand, and he cannot tell the difference between 10c and 15c brands.
Consumer’s Union has also accented the opinion of medical authorities, that all so-called “eold cures”, sold by high-pressure advertising, are frauds and that laxatives are valueless for the treatment of colds. Furthermore, we question whether the ordinary person has any great need for dosing with vitamin tablets or following the advertisers’ advice and getting vitamins through cough drops or skin cream. Dietary problems should be solved by impartial medical advice, not by shouted claims.
Consumer’s Union has repeatedly pointed out that high-priced cosmetics, cold creams, lotions and tooth pastes are primarily compounded out of advertising. Most of them are safe, but they are distinctly not best buys.
If you ever want to observe the depths to which advertising has plumbed, you should note the “cease-and-desist” orders issued by the badly overworked Federal Trade Commission. Their docket has 1,300 cases to be heard and covers only the more flagrant instances of advertising abuse; still, in recent years they have bagged hundreds of leading companies for making false advertising claims. These cease-and-desist orders of the Federal Trade Commission are not printed in the daily papers (that would be indiscreet), and I confess I have never heard one over the air. (You might write your local station, asking why.) I had culled for this broadcast a few typical Federal Trade Commission cease-and-desist orders and stipulations, orders which involved leading companies, and I hoped to read that list. Unfortunately, the counsel for the Columbia Broadcasting Company insists that I shall not mention on this broadcast the names of the offending companies and their offenses, due to the possible liability of the broadcasting system. Though I disagree with this policy, I must in courtesy comply. If you wish information concerning companies on the Federal Trade Commission dishonor roll,' write tnern at Washington or address Consumer’s Union at New York City. From the record it is clear that in many fields the American consumer has often been the unwilling victim of ^ross deceit and undue pressure.
The “Holy Water" Spigot
Of course, one doesn’t always have to buy advertising to influence the news. The women don’t do it that way. Some men practice such unspeakable methods in running their newspapers that they seem to feel that only “holy water” will save them, and to please the Singing Harlot they will print any lie, no matter how big it may be. .
Now, there is friend Hearst, owner of 220,000 acres of Mexican lands, taken from the peasants. When a liberal Mexican regime threatened to confiscate this property and that of the “church” for the benefit of the Mexican people, these two leeches, Hearst and the Hierarchy, found in each other the most ardent supporter in trying to engage Uncle Sam in a war with Mexico. Newspapermen agree that Hearst is the most notorious Red baiter and labor fighter; and the New York State Supreme Court labeled him anti-Semitic; so Hearst and the Hierarchy take to each other like ducks to the water, as graphically shown by George Seldes in his book Lords of the Press, page 215:
In the Hearst press the same trickery is used in the general Red-baiting campaign in every town. It is very easy to call up the head of the American Legion, the leading Daughter of the American Revolution, the loudest Knight of Columbus or other Catholic organization with which Hearst has worked ever
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Holo the Hierarchy Got Control
So, you see, to control the press, the Hierarchy don’t have to take out big advertisements announcing that “Pius is wTell awTare that the Catholic Church can never hope again to dominate the civilized world until America kneels, beaten and penitent, at her feet”. Nah, nah! Better'ways to kill the goose. The thing has to be slipped over discreetly, and takes Jesuit cunning and long planning, A Catholic press itself alone could not do the trick, for reasons apparent in these words from E. Boyd Barrett’s Rome Stoops to Conquer, page 93: '
The Catholic Press in its present phase [1935] is a fighting Press. Its effort is expended in stirring up Catholies to more and more action, so that the great victory [domination of America] may be achieved. It is reckless, truculent and violent in its methods. Part of it descends to vulgar abusiveness; part of it is almost maniacal in its fury.
In other words, Americans, used to liberty and independence, would not stand for such bulldozing, so the Hierarchy had to concoct methods by which to pour its virus beyond the narrow confines of its 'own publications into the general press, until everybody’s press became what it now is, a Catholic press “under the able supervision of the National Catholic Welfare Conference”.
Dr. Barrett continues:'
Catholic ideas and Catholic news items have poured into the public mind through a thousand channels. In the pages of the public press reports of Catholic ceremonies, functions, speeches, activities and so forth have mysteriously outnumbered and outspaeed reports of all non-Catholic religious events combined. On the air Catholics have considerably more than their proportionate share of the time.
Hierarchy Double-Talk
. Ex-priest Barrett wrote those words seven years ago, and the average American still loves to think that this is the
land of free speech, still looks to his newspaper and radio for facts and figures, and, without blinking an eye, swallows huge and devilish lies about how Hitler and Japan are destroying the “church”. '
_ The American public has been lulled Itp sleep by the diabolical double-talk carried on by the Hierarchy, wThich cries on Uncle Sam’s shoulder about Axis “persecution’7 at the same time that it cries on Hitler’s and Hirohito’s shoulders about Anglo-American and Communist “persecution”. This devilish system got fully under way back when Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were pulverizing the Spanish Republic, as may be seen from another item from Mr. Seldes’ book, at page 166: ■
But a new element entered into the [Spanish] war: the Catholic church. It sided with the rebels. The rebels had sworn to return the church to power. . . . The American press got its .first facts fairly straight. Its errors were unintentional. But from the beginning of August, 1936, the Catholic Hierarchy in America, as distinguished from the Hierarchy in Europe, where no such attempt was made, began a crusade against the newspapers which truthfully reported events in Spain.
Now you see! There’s the Hierarchy in Europe. Here’s the Hierarchy in America. Two different packs of liars, from the same house, of course (the Devil’s house: see Matthew 12:25,26; 1 Corinthians 14:33; John 8:44). The European Hierarchy boasts lustily that “the Third Reich is the first power in the world not only to recognize but to translate into practice the high principles of the Papacy” (Papal Chamberlain
von Papen), and, to prove that its heart is where its mouth is, furnished gobs of specially trained priests to follow “Holy Crusader” Hitler into Orthodox Catholic Russia. .
Meanwhile, over here, the newspapers and radios blare and scream heart-rending stories of how “Catholic bishops fight Nazis by restating rights of man”, quoting liberally from some “pastoral letters” showing how Catholic bishops are throwing everything into Hitler’s teeth from the American Declaration of Independence to “holy water”.
Over there, a “great jubilant cry” goes up when the bishops of Fulda pledge to their 'dear Adolf’ that “as Catholics we are ready, in spite of the mistrust shown toward us [even Hitler mistrusts such vipers], to give to the State what belongs to it, and to support the fuehrer in his struggle against Bolshevism and in his other tasks” (his “other tasks” being to smash all nations that stand in the way of “the high principles of the Papacy”), Here, the Readers Digest publishes a superman yarn about “the heroic defense of the Philippines” in which windy epic a colonel and a corporal are riding in a truck with a Jesuit priest, and as they pass through the Japanese lines the colonel and the corporal kind of “seroneh” down in their seats while “the priest sat bolt upright”. As we thrill and trill to the tips of our toes at the bravery of this Jesuit, Tokyo and the Vatican are chuckling to each other over their concordat and wondering how on earth Americans can continue to be such superlatively idiotic fools.—Marley Cole, Tennessee.
Buddhism and Roman
READERS of Consolation will be interested to know why Roman
Catholicism has found such a ready acceptance in Buddhist Japan, and why the Japanese see no incongruity in the union of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Ro-
Catholicism in Japan
man Catholicism into what is styled as a “pure Japanese form of Christianity”. When it is known that there is very little difference between the outward forms and the teachings of Buddhism and Roman Catholicism, the reason for the
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rapid growth of Roman Catholicism in Japan and its recognition by the Japanese government as an approved religion becomes clear. ,*
Rapid Spread of Buddhism
Buddhism was first introduced into Japan in A.D, 552, The religion spread rapidly after it received the imperial favor. This it did the more readily as, with rubber-like elasticity, it stretched itself to include the greater part of the more ancient Japanese faith, Shintoism. Who can fail to trace a comparison in this with the conversion of the emperor Constantine to “Christianity’" as misrepresented by the Papacy, and its policy of incorporating within its rites the devotions of the pagan nations which were in subjection to the Boman Empire?
By this time the original Buddhism of India had been very greatly altered. It now had a vast and complicated ecclesiastical and monastic machinery, a sensuous paradise, definitely located “hells” and “purgatories”, of which the priests kept the .keys, regulated the thermometers, and timed or graded the torture or bliss.
In Tokyo, the most famous temple of all is the temple of Kwanon, at Asakusa'. The great altar, on which is a splendid gilt statue of Kwanon, is protected by a wire screen. Before the screen is a large coffer, and into this each worshiper before engaging in prayer easts a coin. Then he kneels, repeating his prayers and telling his beads. Often one will buy from the priest a written prayer, put it in his mouth and chew it to a pulp, and then throw the “spitball” at the screen. . If it sticks, he believes the prayer will be heard; if it falls, he expects the prayer to fail.
By making gifts of money the worshipers may have extra candles, representing special prayers for-themselves, placed on the altars by the priests. The moment a person dies in Japan, priests are immediately sent for, who light the AUGUST 18, 1943 candles and who recite their prayers. The priests, carrying their rosaries, head the funeral procession as it goes to the temple, where religious ceremonies are performed with more or less pomp, depending on the wealth of those who pay the priests for the services. The relatives pray for the deceased, that he may be freed from the pains of “purgatory”.
The above description of Buddhist rites and beliefs, and which include the use of penance, fasting, pilgrimages, convents, amulets (“blessed” medals), holy water, celibacy of priesthood, rosaries, candles, and even the reading of the sacred Buddhist books to the people in an unknown tongue, finds its exact counterpart in the rites and beliefs of the Roman Catholic religion. In the latter, Jesus takes the place of Kwanon, and the “Virgin Mary” the place of the Buddhist “Goddess of Mercy” who 'delivers souls from “purgatory” ’. The Catholic “saints” find their counterpart in the Buddhist “patron gods” who 'preside over the different pursuits and callings of men’. .As it is obviously to the interests of the priests to encourage worship, of whatever kind, at their temples, there has never been any difficulty in adding a god or two to the Pantheon; and that goes for Roman Catholicism too. '
With this information before us, it is at once seen that there is nothing in the least ludicrous in the union of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Catholicism into a “pure Japanese form of Christianity”, except that the term should be changed to read “pure Japanese form of Roman Catholicism”.
For the historical data and the description of Japanese Buddhism I am indebted to a book entitled “Story of the World’s Worship”, by Frank S. Dobbins, A. M.; publishers, The Dominion Company, ’Chicago, U.S.A., and copyrighted by H. L. Barber in 1901.—C. H. Yaxley.
TiiyWORJ) is Truth”
-John 17:17
Worst
Judgment of Religious Court
FOR three and a half years the Son of man went about in the earth and taught and ministered to the people and did good to everyone and evil to none. All the time that He was thus ministering and doing good in Palestine, the religious scribes, Pharisees, doctors of the law, and other religious dupes engaged in misrepresenting and persecuting this Son of God, sought to kill Him. Why did they do this? Because, as He told them, they were instruments of Satan the Devil, the first murderer.—John 8:44.
The Devil knew that Christ Jesus -was and is the promised Seed whom Jehovah God had promised to the patriarch Abraham and in whom all families of the earth should be blessed. (Genesis 22:18) Christ Jesus is also the Seed of God’s woman foretold in the divine statement at Genesis 3:15. That Old Serpent, the Devil, therefore, in every way sought to destroy Jesus, who was teaching the Jews the message of God to lead them in the right way, and to open to them the "way of everlasting life. Jewry’s scribes and Pharisees were opposing Him and therefore were the enemies of the people. Jesus said of them: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat” (Matthew 23:2); meaning that they had assumed the position of leaders of the people. Because they blinded the people Jesus said to them: ‘You are hypocrites, blind guide's, fools; you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; you devour widows’ houses and fbr a pretense make long prayers; you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of Gehenna than yourselves. You are guilty of fraud and deceit, and you are like white sepulchers, which are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness; you are serpents, a generation of vipers. You do not understand my speech because you cannot hear and understand my word. You are of your father the Devil.’—See Matthew 23:13-33; John 8:43,44.
Jesus foreknew Tie was to die on the tree, and He told His disciples of His coming death. The last night He was on earth with them He spent teaching them great truths which not only were a blessing to them but have been a great blessing to everyone from then till now who has loved the Txjrd and sought to know and do His will. While Jesus was thus doing, th'e enemy was preparing to take His life. The Sanhedrin was then the high tribunal or religious court, composed of seventy-three men, made up of priests, elders, and doctors of the law, religious hypocrites, the seed of the Serpent, blinded to God’s purposes. That body was the highest court of Israel, and it was the duty of this court to protect the innocent as well as to punish the guilty.
The members of the Sanhedrin beheld Jesus doing good and the people Hocking to Him. “Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council [a court], and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take a-way both our place and nation. And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he' prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation. Then from • that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.”—John 11:4751, 53.
In other words, this supreme tribunal secretly met, indicted Jesus, prejudged His case, and agreed to put Him to death, only waiting for an opportunity. They acted as grand jury, prosecutor, and trial court. They entered into a wicked conspiracy, which was formulated by Satan, their father, for the destruction of the Son of God. They conspired with Judas and hired him, for the paltry sum of thirty pieces of silver, to betray the Lord into their hands. Satan himself entered into Judas as the latter executed the betrayal. Then they organized a mob, sent it out after the Master, arrested Him, and brought Him before this supreme court for trial at night, which was contrary’’ to their own laws. “They that had laid hold on Jesu^ led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled,” in furtherance of the wicked religious conspiracy’.—-Matthew’ 26:57.
The meek and defenseless Lamb of God was led into a den of ravenous wolves thirsting for His blood. They did not dignify His case by even filing a formal charge against Him. They Sought, contrary to the law, to make Him testify against himself. They knew nothing themselves against Him. Notwithstanding that they sat as the high and dignified court of the nation of Israel, they resorted to subornation of perjury’. “The chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; but found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, y’et found they none. At the last came two false witnesses.” This exalted tribunal, in violation of every law and precedent known to Jewish jurispru? dence, demanded that Jesus testify against himself. “The high priest arose, and said unto him, ... I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.” When He told the truth, saying, “Ye say that I am,” they said, “What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.” (Matthew 26: 59-63; Luke 22: 66-71) They immediately voted that He should die, also contrary to their law, w’hieh required that each member of the court should consider the case and then vote individually’. Holding the session of court at night to convict Him, they knew they’ were proceeding contrary to law; so they’ convened the court the following morning to ratify the sentence, which was likewise contrary to law.
Then they condemned Jesus to death. Knowing they’ had no legal power to put Him to death, they led Him before the Roman governor, Pilate, and placed against Him the charge of sedition, saying: “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.” They’ knew the Roman governor had power to put Jesus to death, and for this reason they sought his judgment.—Luke 23:1, 2.
Pilate, not convinced of Jesus’ guilt, was not willing that He should die, but sought to release Him. “And they’ were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up . the people. . . . And they’ were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.” (Luke 23:4-24) Thus the political power yielded to the importunities of religious ecclesiasticism, and Jesus was led away’ and impaled at Calvary. And Pilate, more honest than the religious judiciary,.posted over Jesus’ head the sign: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Thus was executed the worst judgment of a religious court, the forerunner of the wicked judgment that like religious courts of “Christendom” would execute upon those who are faithfully conformed to the image of Christ Jesus as a witness of Jehovah God.
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