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...evil which demands the Church's attention. Jesus didn't campaign against war. He fought dishonesty, injustice, oppression and selfishness. Above all, he taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. War is only a means to an end. . . . This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within...
...Religion must reassert its leadership as a living force in the moral values of the nation. Our form of government was devised on principles flowing from deep religious conviction. . . . Every essential of any free society springs from the concepts of morality, family life and duties and faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Each of these is denied by the purely materialistic philosophies of totalitarianism...
...story of the Melekhov family, and of its bravest son, Gregor. Even in his youth, Gregor "soberly and tranquilly" reflected: "I've lived and experienced everything in my day. I've loved women and girls, I've trodden the steppe, I've rejoiced in fatherhood, and I've killed men, have gone myself to face death, and delighted in the blue sky. What new thing can life show me? Nothing! And I can die! It won't be so terrible. I can play at war without risk. I'm not rich...
...Counter-Attack. "In strengthening our youth against the Nazi lie, we must make their faith glow in the truth which is that the essence of democracy is belief in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the dignity of the individual soul. . . . This we can do if, in addition to holding firmly to our Bill of Rights ... we formulate a Bill of Duties...
Around traditional Catholic doctrine, which remained the core of his school, he organized "activities." In the first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...