Show PRELATE TE HITS I RELIGION LACK LACKIN IN EDU EDUCATION Bishop Kearney Talks Talk s sat at R Rotary tary Club Meeting Chargi Charging that religion has been too greatly overlooked especially inmany inmany in inmany many of our institutions of higher highe learning the Most Rev James E. E Kearney D. D D. D bishop of the Salt Sal Lake Catholic diocese asserted before before before be be- fore members of the Rotary club Tuesday at the Hotel Utah that tha these Instructors of our youth knew only the assumed material materia progress of our age Not seldom said the bishop a propaganda of atheism Itself direct and unabashed has been carried on from the professional chair Godless Speculation He accused instructors of pointing pointing point point- pointing ing to a purely materialistic education education education edu edu- cation to a godless philosophic speculation and a deterministic sociology so sociology sociology so- so to the amassing of riches and the fabulous proc production o of mammoth factories to the huge Iii fir fi financial Ii- Ii i r mergers and far flung lines of commerce to aircraft and sub sub- marines radio and television am and whatever else the modern world could boast These are th thy y gods 0 O Israel they shouted into the ears of their hapless pupils that have brought brough thee out of the land of Egypt Bishop Kearney warned that re religion religion religion re- re ligion also has been too greatly overlooked in the home in the state in the marts of business inthe in the shops of industry in councils of the nations in literature in drama and on the screen In the midst of what was once presumed to be a Christian civilization civilization civilization civil civil- asserted the speaker the world wandered from peace onearth onearth on onearth earth good will to men We recall how the Israelites In Inthe inthe inthe the desert made for themselves a golden calf out of the earrings of jf their wives and sons and daughters daughters daughters daugh daugh- and how dancing about bout it and arid offering up their sacrifice they shouted These are thy gods 0 O Israel that have brought thee out oui of the land of Egypt Scene Is Repeated It is precisely this scene that has so frequently repeated itself in inmany inmany inmany many a century classroom Ignoring all aU that Christianity has las done which alone preserved the he world from being plunged into the he darkness of an engulfing barbarism barbarism bar- bar which built up the Christian Christian Chris- Chris tian ian nations and achieved for mankind mankind man- man kind cind the supreme triumphs of 01 poetry and philosophy of art and architecture these architecture these instructors of our youth knew only the assumed material progress of our age Bishop Kearney pointed out that we all aU are aware western civilization civilization tion lon is passing through one of the most crucial periods of history With society slipping into disorder disorder disorder dis dis- order law into license religion into nto indifference and as a consequence consequence consequence conse conse- quence virtue civic and individual into nto vice he asserted it would seem eem that the greatest need of the day is to reach down with our feet and find the lost rock which once was firm standing ground the ground the rock which th the flood of evil was always successfully breasted in the past Music was furnished by the Holy Cross Glee club composed of student student stu- stu dent ent nurses |