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...poll of isolationist sentiment among practicing Catholics has yet been made. That it would run as high as Catholic clergymen's response to their poll is unlikely. Lay Catholics include a strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...
...such an association; Germans and officials are forbidden to join them; 3) these associations may not have central headquarters or keep in touch with any group abroad (i.e., the Vatican) ; 4) all religious education and all convents and monasteries are to be suppressed; 5) every priest must have a secular job, so that he can perform spiritual duties only in his spare time...
...printed about Catholicism. Through the years the number of letters has fallen from 100 a week to about two a month. Says Editor Richard Reid of the New York Catholic News, who for 21 years led this campaign of putting pressure on the press : "There is not a single secular newspaper in Georgia today which may be regarded as hostile to Catholics...
...latest book, from exile in Britain, Rauschning told how these words had inspired him: "End of the Revolution, Conservative Revolution, perhaps Revolution of Reconstruction-call it what you will! . . . Every revolution sets out to burst oppressive limitations. But the current of destruction introduced by the great secular movement of human emancipation is going far beyond the natural rhythm of destruction and rebuilding. Here it is no longer a question of relative destruction and losses, but of absolute and irrevocable sacrifices of the very nature of man, of the human qualities formed by the untold thousands of years...
Three reasons were suggested by Father Garesché: the changed economic position of women; the fact that since 1929 many girls could get jobs more easily than their brothers and often had to help support their families; growth of more secular social work, which offered the satisfaction of service without imposing so many restrictions. A fourth reason was suggested by Sister Christina, Immaculate Heart of Mary: The declining size of the average Catholic family. Her supporting data showed that girls from large families are much more apt to embrace a religious life in a nunnery...