Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vying on the issue of whether it is the moral obligation of Americans to fight for the U. S. in any war, sixteen men were selected from the Harvard Debating Council in the first of a series of elimination trials for the HYP Triangular debates, held last night in the Adams House Common Room...
...subject for debate tonight is "Resolved that it is the moral obligation of every American citizen to fight if called upon by his Government in any war in which the U. S. may become involved...
According to the Cardinal's secretary, Groupers on the continent "made propaganda use" of a laudatory letter which they said was written by Dr. Kinsley but which he could not recall writing. But his condemnation of them rested on theological rather than moral grounds. Wrote he: "The Group Movement is so tainted with indifferentism. i.e., with the error that one religion is as good as another, that no Catholic may join in such a movement so as to take any active part therein or formally to cooperate therewith...
Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church forbids priests to take sides in political conflicts or civil wars. But Catholic theologians make a broad distinction between material, partisan politics and politics in which moral issues are involved. A priest may attack sterilization laws from the pulpit but not denounce a political party as such. On this controversial subject, much misunderstood by non-Catholics, Pope Pius XI last week made a pronouncement. He gave his august backing to an eminent European prelate who had written: "The hierarchic authority is perfectly entitled to pronounce on any political party or political movement...
...Catholic Church considers its current war against Communism as moral, not partisan. As vigorous an anti-Communist as any churchman in North America is His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. No believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided...