ATTITUDE TO WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 52, 3 March 1941, Page 5

ATTITUDE TO WAR.

ROMAN CATHOLICS. BISHOP BRODIE'S COMMENT. (0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The. attitude of Roman Catholics to the war was de lined by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, the Mo«t Rev. Dr. M. J. Brodie, in an address at the jubilee reception to him in IChristehurcli.

"Our faith is inseparably bound up with our duty to our country and our Kmpire," said Bishop Urodie. As aJ bishop and a citizen, he would make that! clear.

A pronouncement on the war had been made l>y Pope Pius XII. In the first place, that said, it was the duty of e\ery man in the world to strive for an honourable and lasting peace. But, while it was true that a man who made 'war from an unjust cause must stand [before God for judgment, it was nevertheless aUo true that engaged in |war should give of their best in the idefence of their fatherland.

Publicly, as bishop, he would be ashamed should any man in the community prove a shirker. That then; were none *uch might be. found by reading the list of Victoria Crosses so far awarded ill the present war. The first awarded was to a Catholic; so. too. a Catholic won the lirst (ieorgc <_ro~s, the new civil award.