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Show TEMERITY, TIMIDITY AND SANITY. "We arc narrow if- we do. or certain to get the church" Into trouble, or sure to injure other Catholics' chances of success in some wayO If we find our co-religionists deprived of their civil or political rights, because of their faith, we are urged to say nothing. If, as in the Philippines, we find a systematic effort made to deprive hundreds of thousands of our fellow Catholics of their faith, we are still urged to say nothing lest we may get ourselves talked about, or, in some way, involve the church in politics." So says the Catholic Telegraph. This Is true. And-it has always been so, not only here, but in England, Ireland Ire-land and other countries. O'Connell in his struggle for Catholic emancipation emancipa-tion was referred to as "that rash young man," by Lord Fingal and other i Irish Catholic peers. Temerity is rash: timidity is cowardly; coward-ly; but sanity is 'what we want. We have all three . dispositions present among the Catholics of , the United States. We prefer temerity to timidity, but we prefer sanity the sanity of moderation and wisdom to either. It Is probable that back of much of the timidity we complain of' in Catholic opinion we may find sheer indifference to Catholic interests. The remedy for this, of course, is largely through the ! Catholic press. Without a Catholic j press, Catholic public opinion is aj shorn Samson. The. Catholic press not only educates, but it represents and gives force to Catholic opinion. |
