INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, 21 November 1918, Page 31

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Rev. Roland Knox, son of an Anglican Bishop and a recent convert in England, writes: "It is wrong to join the Church because the Church "seems to you to lack support which you can give. You must come, not as a partisan or a champion, but as a suppliant for the needs in your own life which only the Church can supplythe ordinary daily needs. You must join the Church as a religion, not as a party, or as a clan. But if I am asked if I find peace in being a Catholicdoes it look like it? Rather it seems to me that in the disintegration of the world, and of Europe in particular (far greater perhaps than we yet realise) which must follow the war, men will look for guidance to the two institutions which overide the boundaries of country—lnternational Socialism and the Catholic Church. And the forces of disintegration which will be at work will be in conflict most of all with the latter institution, because, being more centralised, it will be at once more formidable and more vulnerable. To feel every stab the Church feels, to rejoice in the triumphs she celebrates, that should be enough to keep a man's interests active and his heart awake."