Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

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[Columbus Good Proof That Science Does Not SpurnThe Supernatural Bishop Buddy in Radio Talk Pays Homage to Childlike Confidence of Columbus; Campares Great Discoverers' Life with Shallow, Faithless Thinking of Today To the people of the Diocese and to the citizens of San Diego the message of His Excellency, the Most Rev- erend Charles Francis Buddy anent the blessings which the Constitution safeguards and the example Christopher Columbus sets, was carried over station KGB Tuesday_ at 6:30 p.m., Discovery Day. Bishop Buddy's address is here printed in full: I Today we commemorate the · 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. This morning, in the Ca-

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thedral of San Diego, priests and people knelt in humble adoration to thank the Divine Giver of every good and perfect gift for this sub- lime charter which guarantees the rights and liberties of a free peo- ple. It is well indeed that we pause to reflect and to be grateful for the blessings which the Con- stitution has safeguarded through the past century and a half of growth and progress. The twelfth of October is also Discovery Day and it is significant 1 that the President of our country j has chosen this anniversary to stress the benefits of the Consti- tution. It will also be thought- provoking to review the elements that formed the great character of Christopher Columbus. Fertile and versatile genius. exnert naYl• gator, well versed in the principles of cosmography and astronomy, Columbus was a man of original ideas with a winning personality and a magnetic optimism. These talents, however, and even his re- sourcefulness in meeting obstacles would not have made him a suc- cess were it not for his persever- ance, courage and unflinching de- termination all inspired by his beautiful faith and childlike con- fidence in God. Beyond the hope of discovering a new land, the soul of Christopher Columbus burned with zeal to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the pag- an hordes of the new world. Even critical historians admit this pri- mary object of his expedition.

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