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o return to he -old policy of "laissez faire." Prv:?ress we musl Let us avoid the pitfalls th~t are in our path. There Is on the one hand the prob- 1~m of curtatling indivi.d iall•m s-i as to prevent for all time the , plollation of the worker and c 0? the other, there 1s th, n~ less important problem of re- , tau~mg . PE!!SOnal hb 0 rtf, . without which llfe 1s not worth ltvmg. The popes these man): years have poin!• problems but their voices for g~n- ~ations pave been as men crymg l., poor. ed out the soluti?n °~ the ,vorld s _Explains Church's Stand While we, _as Catholics, are critics of C?mm_umsm and of its social theories. it cmnot be alleged that the church is against the interests "status quo" or that easy policy of leaving w~ll enou~h alone. No stu- I dent of history will deny that the church has been the strongest cham- pion of the well being of the worker. There is no body on earth that has so_ persiste?tly insisted on the in- ?-l1enable nghts of every human be- the wilderness. ,_..,.__

You bi hop comPS to be a teacb- u and n ll"ader. Iii! m· Ion, like that or the early Francl cans, l., for the sah·allon of souls. He come rl'ady, also, to play a man's part in the social and civic better- ment of this community and in evt"ry activity that will make for a greater and better San Diego. Pri- marilv, it will be his duly to di- rect a·nd to oversee the building of a great superstructure on the foundations that these many years have bepn laid in the blood and tears and sweat of de,·oted men and women. He will recall spirit- ual tradition~. that lie dormant, and restore to those who have for- gotten a belief in that God who for generations has stabilized our government and made the United States of America the envy of the nations. While we pay a well merited meed of praise to the intelligent and heroic work of the Jesuit and Fran- ciscan fathers in the great south- west, it is well to remember that the descendants of the Cavaliers, Pres- byterians, Quakers. Baptists, Luther- ans and the Wesleyans, emulated one another in a desire to have their children instructed in the Commandments of God and in their father's faith. Generously they built and supported churches and schools. The government of the day, too, went far in giving encouragement to every religious endeavor, and its appro\'al to every worthwhile mor- al development. Despite the pio- neer's fierce struggle with nature, despite the mighty task of subdu- ing a continent, despite besetting I temptations to luxury and forget- fulness, he cherished a deep rever- ence for the God of his fathers. He • gathered with his family in church and chapel and conventicle to re- new his trust in Him and to teach his children to love Him who led their fathers out of bondage into a land 1lowing with milk and honey. That old sense of religion. un- happily, is nearly gone. The change is more marked in one place than another: but the general truth that men are unmindful of their depen- dence upon Almighty God is, 1 think, self evident. You may ask what is the cause of this forgetfull- ness of religious principles, this popular admiration of theories foreign to American thought, prac- tice, and tradition? 'Teach,' First Mission Christianity, you know, is a re- ligion that must be learned. Th, first mission given to the Apostle was fr.1t they should teach. Th, faith that they preached is the basi of 1111 righteousness. That faith i a

This absence of a practical be- lief in the existence of God and of man's accountability to llim is largely responsible for the unrest that is in the world today. St. Augustine, a long Ume ago. ,note: "Thou, O Lord, hast made us for Thnelf and our hearts shall nev- er ·be ~t rest until they rest i!l Thee. Thou, 0 God, in the be- ginning didst makP Thy people for Thv s.-rvicl', and they shall never know content until they acknowl- edge the World's Hope and Jesus Christ Whom Thon hast sent, Who is the Expectation of the to Europe for signs of discontent. Doubt and suspicion fill the atmos- sphere at home. One political party has fallen a Yiotim to the social dis- turbance. Men, like the foolish seek- ers after buried treasure in the ruins of the old missions, are dig- ging and prying at the very founda- tion stones of organized govern- ment. They are heedless of the gen- eral ruin in the pursuit of pet eco- nomic theories. They follow every Pied Piper that lures them with any kind of cure-alls. ages." It is not necessary for us to look

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BLA ES WORLD STRlfE, UNREST ON EMPTY PEWS The Most Rev. John Joseph Cant- well, D. D., archbishop of the Prov- ince of Los Angeles, presided at the ceremonies attendant to the induc- tion of the Rt. Rev. Charles F. Buddy yesterday as the first bishop of San Diego. The text of Arch- bishop Cantwell's address: . The first bishop of the two Calt- fornias-upper and lower- in the year of 1840 entered upon a ravished and lonely inheritance The missions, once a riot of beauty, had lost all their loniliness. Those bells whose voices once sped men's minds across the ages to Bethlehem. to Nazareth, and to Calvary, were silent. The Indians had bee.n forced back to the wilds. Poll- ticians laid greedy hands on the patrimony of the poor. The abomi- nation of d~solation stood in the holy place. Father Junipero_ Sen:a these many years was sleepmg his last sleep anigh the Mountain of the King in his own well-loved Carmel. He and the men of God who fol- lowed him had come to California to fulfill a hil(h vocation. Missionaries Arrive As a venerable successor of the Fisherman sent by Augustine to England, Patrick to Ireland, Boni- face to Germany, Cyril and Metho- dius to the Slavs, so came the first missionaries to our land. If chal- lenl(ed as to why they did the things they did. they would have answered that they had come "by the Grace of God and the Favoi; of the Apostolic See." That same au- thority in the papal document read here this morning, sends to you a bishop of your own. He sets up his chair of teaching in this venerable city. and from it will rule the flock of Christ. He comes with the oil of consecration glistening upon him even as the oil was poured forth upon Aaron and ran down to the hem of his garments. Happily, he is in the fullness of his manhood, ripe in experience, a priest, prudent and faithful, whose unselfish labors have rejoiced the Church of God. When Bishop Garcia Diego y Moreno established his Episcopal See beside San Diego's silver strand, he found here a pueblo of 150 souls. He moved his residence to the more promising and more firmly estab- lished city on the Santa Bart>ara channel. There he lived, and there his mortal remains rest until this day before the high altar in the Mission church. Hopes Realized The erection of this diocese of San Diego as a Suffragan See of Los Angeles is a testimony to the devoted zeal of the priests and peq- ple of the new diocese. It is the witness of the sovereign pontiff to the importance of this commun- ity, to its advancement in education. in art, and the cultural amenities of civilization. Your hearts rejoice when you see this city of your love accorded an important ecclesiastical distinction. The induction of a bishop into the See of San Diego is the fulfillment of anxious hopes, the dawn of a new day, and the promise of a glorious future. You may well say "This winter is now the rain is over and gone, the flowers have appeared in our land ... The fig tree hath put forth her green figs; the vine and flower yield their sweet smell." The har- Yest is yours to sow and yours to reap. May God grant that the I gloriou~ Yision thnt once passed OYP'' 'hi~ larict w·n bP sf'en aim 11 .

Most Reverend and dear Bishop, today for the first time you grasp the crozier of St. Didacus. May it e a support to you unto many years and happy days. Men of God- I some \'eterans in the army of Christ -have pledged to you their rever- ence and their obedience. They will I not fail you. A devoted laity will I bind you to their hearts and homes with strands of affection. Priests and people will march with vou unto difficult tasks as they h·ave done with the unworthy one who has preceded you. They will help you to strengthen the stakes of the holy place and extend its curtains. To you-their father and leader- they shall look for advice and guid- ance and correction. He who called you from out the workshop of the carpenter, Joseph, to be His witness in broader fields will not be want- ing to you. He will sustain you in the Eternal Arms and the Light of His Spirit will guide your feet· and His servant, San Diego, whos~ b

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name is upon this city and is the mg than the great Church of Christ. r property of this diocese, will be to Founded by Jesus Christ, the re- a you a tower of strength and a puted Son of Joseph, a carpenter, If fount of consolation now, in death the Church of God is neither Jew a and in the Day of Account. ' nor Gentile, master nor slave. rich c nor poor. Oh. how the workers d have cause to bless the memory of 5

Personal Freedom Denied Leo XIII and Pius XI. The "Rerum The attack of the_ mater!alist is ,Novarum" of the former and the r made on every possible pomt. In "Quadragesimo Onno" of the lat- the social order the rights of father- ter are by their kindly humanism hood and of personal freedom arn and wise principles in striking con- denied. Parents delegate their na- trast with the hard the bitter and tural rights to others, and rest con- inhuman teachings' of the "Com- ' tent with being "pals" or "big sis- munist Manifesto" of the German j ; ters" to children that are theirs to materialists, Marx and Engels. I , raise for God and country. The Nevertheless, the mission of the rights of proper.ty are laughed at. ehurch, as it has been presented j · The right to have a noble ambition to you In the past, and as it will : in life is condemned. In the moral be represented to you in your · public, or an aristocracy, so can in education. The philosophy that : she live and prosper under any looks beyond the sense to a world economic system that does '-not that lives above matter is travestied violate th e rights of justice. as a fraud. Human life is held at The church is in this world but such little worth that its disregard is not of this world. To think so has made the highways a peril. Sup- would be to harbor a delusion as pression of crime is now taxing the carnal as that of the Jews who ingenuity and every resource of our desiderated a Messiah to restore police departments. the ancient splendors of Zion. The Brother Slays Brother church was not founded to solve A world, once religious and God- unemployment or to regulate the fearing, with complacency looks on currency crisis any more than she while religion is travestied, while exists to achieve success in litera- ture, in art, or drama, or music. sanctuaries are deS t royed, while Her ethical teaching, her rich and men of God are slain, while conse- varied life, will find expression in ~~-~\7 1 ~rv~\!~sb~roetha::.i~isa~~ww~~: ways econoI?ic and artistic. She . . . • . . exists to bnng to the world that tenallstic state, drunk Wl th its new- peace of Christ which surpasses all found power, would not only de- understanding. Her real successes stray religion but by every means are regarded not in the wealth of at its disposal banish the very idea nations but in the sanctification and and thought of God from human salvation of souls for whom Christ minds and d e face His image died. • stamped on human souls. The com- Strong Leaders Needed mandments given to Moses are. no Oh, that someone had a voice so longer a curb on_ human self1Sh- strong that it be heard by the mul- ness. hum~n_ pas~ion, and human t.itudeli-a voice ~ith a power that ?reed. Religion, rightly understood, would turn men's minds from the is not something to be believed - 01111, but something to be lived. j ephemeral trifles of politics and "Faith," said the great apostle, • business and pleasure to Christ, "without good works is dead." The I even as Elias spoke of old· "Hear enemy of that living faith in the · supernatural is in our day Com- all ye heavens and hear all ye munism. Communism-the abortion earth, for the Lord has spoken. of materialism-is an economic the- "I have brought up children and ory; but it is more. It is the bit- have exalted them and they have tere~t _fo~ of organized religion, of despised me. The' ox knoweth his Chnstiamty, and of the fmest • Amer·ca t dT It 1 t owner, and the ass his master, but 1 . I!- ra i io_ns.. . comp e e- Israel has not known me and my ly sll:cnfices the m~vidual on the people have not understood." altar of the comm~~ty. You, my dear friends, Catholics Sees Lesson in Tragedy' and Protestants, have a share in . y~ars ago there was great re• molding public opinion unto better Jo1cmg when a new flag floated things. You have a part in guiding over the wmter palace of the czar. the destiny of our nation. Today a An ,.expectan_~ world looked t~ _the new leader has risen up among you. Sonets to bmld up a freer P?htical You must sustain his arms even as I and more equ1tabl_e econ

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revolution. too. will influence the course of history in the 20th cen- tury. The former brought to the forefront the political problem-the I Russian revolution emphasizes the economic. No goyemment in our day can afford to ignore it or dare