ROMAN CATHOLICS AND SOCIALISM.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1931, Page 6

ROMAN CATHOLICS AND SOCIALISM.

CONCERN AMONG BRITISH LABOURITES’. FATHER WOODLOCK’S EXPLANATION Received Wednesday, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, May 27. The British Labourites are still concerned at the Lope's saying tiuit no good Roman Catholic can be a true Socialist. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Lossiemouth, said he was waiting to hear some pronouncement from u. - Roman Catholics about what the saying really meant. Father Woodlock, the Jesuit controversialist, writing in the Evening Standard, stresses the significance of the word “true,’' which, he argues,, here means one who is materialistic in his conception of. society, ignoring dr opposing Christian teaching. The Lope equally condemned the capitalistic conception of society insofar as it was materialistic. The British Labour Party had not hitherto adopted materialism or anti-clericalism as its programme. The Encyclical blesses all political parties working for the good of mankind, defending the dignity of the individual and the inalienable rights of the family against the aggression of Communism or any other form of “true Socialism.”