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THE ATHANASIAN
A publication of
Traditional Catholics of America, Inc.
Editor: Fr. Francis E. Fenton, STL
Vol. Il, No. 8
December 1, 1981
A NATIONAL DISGRACE
Chalk up another day of infamy for the USA: Monday,
September 21, 1981. On that day the U.S. Senate, by
the overwhelming vote of 99-0, confirmed the Reagan
appointee to the Supreme Court, pro-abortion, pro-
ERA Sandra Day O’Connor. Since Senator Jeremiah
Denton of Alabama, one of the alleged Catholics in
the Senate, had refrained from voting for O’Connor in
the committee hearings, | had assumed – when | first
heard the 99-0 count – that he was the one who did not
vote for her. Such was not the case though. Senator
Denton went right along with the crowd and voted for
O’Connor. The only one who did not was Senator Max
Baucus of Montana who was out of town on that par-
ticular day. How could a man like Senator Denton,
who had endured the hell of a Communist prison for
several years and remained loyal to God and country
throughout those years, and who had refused to vote
for Mrs. O’Connor in the committee hearings on her
nomination – how could he then proceed to vote for
her when the entire Senate voted? Could it be that,
while he had the courage and the fortitude to survive
the torture and loneliness of a Communist prison, hey
could not take the heat or stand the pressure of being
a loner among his Senate colleagues?
The nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the
Supreme Court by President Reagan and her confir-
mation to that position by the U.S. Senate (some of
whose members were elected on the strong pro-life
stance they displayed when they were campaigning)
are downright dishonorable and constitute a further
contribution to the moral degradation of America.
That Mrs. O’Connor is a pro-abortionist is crystal
clear from her voting record as a member of the
Arizona state legislature. She claims to be personally
opposed to abortion, by which, presumably, she
means that she is opposed to it in conscience. But, if
she is opposed in conscience to the murder of unborn
infants, how could she have voted in favor of such
murder without gravely violating her conscience? And
so her claim of personal opposition to abortion rings
hollow indeed.
— Fr. Francis E. Fenton
Over 10 million unborn infants have been “legally”
murdered since the horrendous abortion decision of
the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. Thanks to
the jurists of the highest court in the land, the
wholesale murder of the most defenseless of all
human beings has long since become the order of the
day. Sandra Day O’Connor should feel right at home
in such judicial company. Her nomination and elec-
tion to the Supreme Court is a national disgrace. In
my opinion, no action of theirs is a more likely reflec-
tion of the true caliber and character of President
Ronald Reagan and the current U.S. Senate.
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FREEMASONS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
There are a number of Masons in the U.S. Senate and House
of Representatives. A partial listing follows:
Senate
Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona
Charles Grasstey of lowa
Roger Jepson of lowa
Robert J. Dole of Kansas
John Stennis of Mississippi
Jesse Helms of North Carolina
John H. Glenn of Ohio
Mark Hatfield of Oregon
J. Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina
John G. Tower of Texas
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. of Virginia
Henry Jackson of Washington
House of Representatives
William L. Dickenson of Alabama
John Rhodes of Arizona
LA. Bafalis of Florida
Claude Pepper of Florida
James E. Jeffries of Kansas
M. Gene Snyder of Kentucky
Nicholas Mavroules of Massachusetts
William J. Hughes of New Jersey
Jack F, Kemp of New York
Samuel S. Stratton of New York
James T. Broyhill of North Carolina
John M. Ashbrook of Ohio
Delbert L. Latta of Ohio
Jack Hightower of Texas
James C. Wright, Jr. of Texas
W.C. Daniel of Virginia
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WHAT ABOUT MORAL MAJORITY?
Because of the vast publicity it has received, just
about everybody must be aware of the existence of
the organization called Moral Majority. Although it
was established only about two-and-a-half years ago,
its impact upon the American scene has become an
increasingly significant one and it is today an infiuen-
tial force to be reckoned with by such as politicians
and the mass media. It certainly appears to be a
highly organized movement with a number of able and
dedicated individuals working within it. That Moral
Majority has aroused the consciences of many
Americans and has made some noteworthy ac-
complishments toward the moral improvement of this
country, there would seem no question whatsoever.
And for this, Reverend Falwell and his associates
deserve the commendation of all honorable people.
But Moral Majority is not Roman Catholic – and
there's the rub. While we would agree with many,
though not all, of its positions and objectives, the fact
remains that Moral Majority is an organization whose
basic principles are assuredly not entirely Roman
Catholic. While not a religion as such, it is a Protes-
tant, fundamentalist movement, a number of whose
prominent spokesmen are ministers or preachers of
one or another non-Catholic denomination.
*" And here we have another very good example of the
tragedy that has befallen our beloved Church over the
past 20 years or so. That our nation is sunk deep inim-
morality of every imaginable kind and is sorely in
need of a spiritual and moral revival, no honorable
person will deny. But in any such moral crusade the
Roman Catholic Church should be in the forefront
because that Church alone has the complete answer
to the evils that beset our nation at the present time.
But what do we behold? A massive crusade to bfing
God and morality back into the mainstream of
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American life begun and waged by the clergy and laity
of various man-made religions and heretical sects.
What a paradox! The One True Church, reduced to a
remnant of traditional Catholics by the destruction in-
flicted upon it and surviving in pockets of traditional
Catholicism around the country – and around the
world – while the preachers and practitioners,
however sincere, of false religions and distorted
morality campaign far and wide to bring America
back to God. How ironic! As for the (formerly
Catholic) Conciliar Church, whether it is, all things
considered, an asset or a liability to the betterment of
the moral climate of the USA is, to say the least, a
very debatable question.
Throughout the Christian centuries no institution by
far has made a greater contribution to the spiritual,
moral and intellectual well-being of mankind than has
the Roman Catholic Church – an historical fact to
which no honest, informed, unbiased person could
take exception. Even considered as a merely human
institution that Church has been a force for good and
has exerted an impact upon the world scene without
parallel in Christian history. And now, within a span of
but 20 years the universal grandeur and glory of that
Church has become a thing of the past and the extent
of its spiritual and moral influence but a fraction of
what it once was. When Protestant, fundamentalist,
“born-again” preachers and laymen are found in-
itiaiing and leading a national campaign for the
much-needed moral house-cleaning of America, that
surely speaks volumes for the current sorry state of
the Roman Catholic Church in this country. Inciden-
tally, there is almost certainly not a single traditional
Roman Catholic in the entire United States Senate or
House of Representatives.
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TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLICS
AND PROVINCIALISM (PAROCHIALISM)
The term, provincialism, as employed in this article, is
defined in the dictionary as narrowness of outlook
while the dictionary defines parochialism as nar-
rowness of thought, interest, or activity. Hence, in the
present context the two words are synonymous and
connote a mold of thought, an attitude of mind which
is limited in vision or perspective. A person is correct-
ly described as parochial or provincial who, whether
due to prejudice or selfishness or ignorance, has a
narrow and distorted viewpoint on a particular sub-
ject or situation. While labelling a person as provin-
cial in the sense in which the word is here used is no
compliment, it may well be that the individual so
labelled is not aware of this deficiency in his or her
character and so is not guilty of any moral wrong.
Over the past eight years or so | have conversed or
corresponded with untold numbers of traditional
Roman Catholics across the country. In fact, | can
honestly say that – apart from the performance of my
personal priestly duties (daily Mass, Breviary, rosary,
etc.) – | have done precious little during that period
which did not involve, directly or indirectly, dealing
with traditional Catholics in one way or another. As a
result of this experience, plus considerable reading, |
believe | have a sound comprehension of the authen-
tic traditionalist movement in this country and of the
attitudes and convictions of the generality of those
who are, in varying degrees, a part of traditional
Catholicism. Consequently, | guess | might be
qualified to draw a number of conclusions which
might be of some value. In this article, however, it is
my purpose to draw but one conclusion and to make
some comments on it – and that conclusion is that the
vast majority of traditional Roman Catholics are,
tainted with the virus of provincialism, and some of
them exceedingly so. Of this | am very convinced.
We have in our Roman Catholic Faith the most
precious treasure in all the world. There is literally
nothing of value under the sun to be compared to it. It
is a thing of priceless worth to be cherished more
than life itself. !mdeed, so incomparably magnificent
is membership in the Roman Catholic Church that, as
Pope Pius XII put it, ‘nothing more glorious, nothing
nobler….can be imagined.” As the millions of saints
and martyrs have incontestably proved all down
through the Christian centuries, no sacrifice is too
great to make in testimony to the unique truth of the
Roman Catholic Faith.
That Faith, in all of its beauty and greatness and
grandeur, exists and is found today in traditional
Catholicism – and nowhere else. And there are many
traditional Catholics today in ail walks of life to whom
that Faith means every bit as much as it did to those
—Fr. Francis E. Fenton
heroes of the Church in ages past. While the current
disastrous plight of the Roman Catholic Church has
surely no parallel in its entire history, there are, as we
know, Roman Catholics to be found everywhere
-priests, religious, laymen – who are “hoiding fast” to
the entirety of the Faith. And for their unflinching
loyalty they are suffering persecution in one form or
another, one such being the mental and
psychological trials they experience in the despicable
treatment they receive from the bishops of the Con-
ciliar Church who were once their spiritual leaders
-that is, before those bishops ceased being Roman
Catholics. But, whatever be the form of persecution
those traditional Catholics must suffer, loyal and
true, by the grace of God, they will remain to their
God-given Faith and to their beloved Church.
And now to get to the subject | set out to treat in this
article. The primary obligation incumbent upon every
human being created by God is the salvation of his
soul. No matter how successful a person may be as
the world judges success, if that person fails to attain
the eternal happiness of Heaven, if that person loses
his soul – then his earthly life has been a total,
abysmal, irrevocable failure. Such is the mind and
teaching of the Church. Whatever morally lawful in-
terests and occupations one may have, his chief con-
cern must be his own spiritual welfare and eternal
salvation. And this equally applies to Christian chari-
ty, supernatural love. The principal object of one’s
love must be, under God, oneseif because, again,
man’s prime duty is the salvation of his own soul.
Beyond that, of course, we have the obligation to
have a Christlike love for all men (even our enemies)
but, first and foremost, for our families and those of
the “household of the Faith.” As the saying goes,
“charity begins at home.” We refer, of course, to
authentic Christian charity, that supernatural love of
the Son of God for all men in which all participate who
have in their souls the life of God, sanctifying grace.
Now, taking the word “home” in a somewhat broader
sense of including not only one’s family but also the
group of people with whom one associates and with
whom one shares similar ideas and convictions – and
especially those ideals and convictions associated
with traditional Catholicism – while, again, “charity
begins at home”, it assuredly should not end there.
With all too many individuals, however, | think it does.
As | see it, traditional Roman Catholics are, in
general, decidedly provincial or parochial – decidedly
narrow, that is – in their attitude and outlook in prac-
tical matters pertaining to the Faith. And this applies
to some of the best of them. They may be very
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dedicated to the preservation and growth of the Faith
in their particular area (and that’s all to the good) but
their dedication apparently ends there. They evince
little interest in or concern for the state of traditional
Catholicism in other areas. They have their own local
traditional undertaking to which they must give their
time and attention and support. How their fellow
traditional Catholics may be faring elsewhere seems
to be of no significant concern to them at all. This is
provincialism. parochialism. a form of selfishness
which again, in my opinion, is widespread among
traditional Roman Catholics.
One of the many distinguishing marks of a traditional
Roman Catholic ought to be a genuine solicitude for
the spiritual and temporal well-being of his fellow
Catholics nationwide and worldwide; a concern
which is not limited to those within the confines of
his particular local group or congregation but which
extends itself to ail those who share with him the
common bond of traditional Catholicism and who,
having the same ideals and convictions, are likewise
engaged in the arduous and challenging task of
preserving our divine Faith at all costs. A solicitude, a
genuine concern for our fellow traditional Catholics
is, it seems to me, the natural outcome of authentic
supernatural charity and manifests itself not only in
prayer for them but, when the opportunity presents
itself. in assisting them in their efforts to the extent
one is able to do so. Again, the spiritual and moral
welfare of the members of one’s family is rightly the
primary concern of a traditional Roman Catholic, and
the well-being and growth of the true Faith in his par-
ticular locale rightly warrants priority in his time and
labor over traditional groups in other areas. But the
plain fact is that any traditional Roman Catholic
whose sOlicitude for the Faith is, for all practical pur-
poses, limited to the areas just mentioned – and who,
though able to do so. will not help his fellow
Catholics elsewhere – the plain fact is that such a per-
son has a narrowness of vision in relation to the
Church which ill befits him as a member of the
Roman Catholic Church. In this respect at least, such
a person is deficient. to whatever extent, in super-
natural charity towards his fellow members of the
~household of the Faith.”
As noted at the beginning of this article, the nar-
rowness Of thought or interest, the distortion of
outlook. the lack of proper perspective to which | refer
is known as provincialism or parochialism – a failing,
a defect which, sad to say, | have found to be
widespread among traditional Roman Catholics. So
many of them. it seems, think of traditional
Catholicism (the Roman Catholic Church) more or
less exclusively in terms of their local chapel or Mass
center and manifest precious little regard for the
state of the Faith elsewhere. Assuredly, this frame ot
mind. this tunnel vision is not to the credit of such in-
dividuals and is a far cry indeed from the spirit of
sacrifice. the literally catholic (universal) vision, the
charity which ought to characterize every traditional
Roman Catholic. Provincialism, parochialism (in the
sense in which | have employed the terms in this arti-
cle) is entirely out of place in our ranks and ill
becomes any traditional Roman Catholic who is
tainted with this virus. It is fondly to be hoped that,
through an examination of conscience, those who are
so tainted will come to a realization of this – and act
accordingly.
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“What About Moral Majority?” cont. from page 2
But, despite the fact that we are relatively small in
number and that the preservation and promotion of
our Faith is rightly our predominant concern, we tradi-
tional Roman Catholics would be derelict in our duty
if we were otherwise to leave the vital matter of our
nation’s moral well-being largely in the hands of
others. Just as we have an obligation to expose and
Oppose the enemies of the Church, so also is it our
Obligation to stand up against the enemies of our
country, whoever they may be and in whatever form
they are carrying out their work of destruction. As has
been said and written on numerous occasions, the
root cause of the moral foulness so rampant in
America today is the rejection of God and His moral
law by multitudes of this nation’s inhabitants. While
Moral Majority, Religious Roundtable and other non-
Catholic organizations are making a notable effort to
remedy that situation, it is the Roman Catholic
Church (traditional Catholicism, that is) which alone
has the answer – the revealed truth and moral law of
God in its entirety. Only in the doctrine and moral
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church is the
authentic solution of the grave problems of this coun-
try and of the world to be found. There is no other
solution but that which, by the grace of God, we tradi-
tional Catholics possess in the fulness of the Faith
which is ours. A remnant though we are, then, let
none of us he found wanting before God through our
failure to do our part to bring our beloved nation back
to Him and, in the words of Saint Paul, “to re-
establish all things in Christ."(Eph. 1,10)
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A Roman Catholic Looks at National Defense Policy
— Past and Present
(continued from previous issue of newsletter)
An attempt was made in the last newsletter issue to
show that the limited wars in Asia have resulted in
tremendous loss of potential souls for Christ’s
Church, a huge toss of freedom and life, as well as a
decline in the prestige of the United States. There was
also a treatment of the MAD defense mentality that is
immoral and provides America with no defense at all.
Lastly there was a discussion of the practical
benefits of producing defensive weapons.
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The present administration is really no different than
its post-World War Il predecessors when it comes to
defense policy. We hear talk of producing the long-
delayed B-1 bomber. But the fact that Russia has
MIG-23 fighter bombers in Cuba is ignored. Add to
this the facts that our radar warning system is quite
literally full of holes and that we have no anti-aircraft
units operational in the continental United States –
and one can see how far MAD has influenced the
government. Why produce a new bomber, as needed
as it may be, when we have no defense against enemy
bombers that are constantly threatening our shores
and cities?
The media daily fill in the details of the debate be-
tween the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of
State as to how the MX missile should be deployed,
air launched or ground launched. Air launch would re-
quire a fleet of transport planes that do not exist, ad-
ding to already high defense costs. And present
missile silos are just too soft to survive a Russian first
strike. Congress is thus given the choice of financing
a ridiculous pian or an absurd one. But the insanity is
that while this debate continues our cities have no
defense against Russian ICBMs.
We do not even have a minimal civil defense program.
And such a defense against incoming missiles has
been technologically possible since the Nixon ad-
ministration. Yet on the very few occasions that we
hear of ABMs in the news it is usually mentioned that
if they were constructed at all the government would
probably put them around our missile silos to protect
our ICBMs. What insanity! Protect our means to
destroy the enemy’s population centers and leave our
own cities defenseless!
The famous Jesuit moral theologian of the 1940's,
Father Henry Davis, wrote that atomic weapons were
intrinsically evil. He posited that their destruction
was too widespread to be considered moral. That was
before Russia put together its nuclear arsenal. Many
— R. Lance Lohr
equally traditional theologians. have taken the op-
posite view since then, even Pope Pius XII. For some
this may prejudice the argument, but even Vatican
Council If accepted the rationale for the maintenance
of a deterrent nuclear force. In all cases it is
presumed that such weapons be targeted on essentially
military targets.
Simply put, nuclear weapons are not intrinisically
evil. Where they are targeted makes all the difference.
But at the same time the lack of a defense of our own
people, when such a defense is possible, escapes
both reason and morals. In short, our present defense
policy and its noticeable trends are both insane and
immoral.
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A treatment of contemporary strategic or nuclear
policy and the weapons produced to implement that
policy should not lose sight of the fact that the tac-
tical or conventional forces of the United States also
suffer and have suffered from the two-fold cause of
poor and frequently immoral policy and the lack of de-
cent equipment and personnel.
The fact is that the United States military was
defeated both in Korea and Vietnam. Some will argue
that these defeats were the results of civilian political
decisions and they are correct. But this does not alter
the reality of defeat in both wars. Unlike most so-
called conservative authorities, this writer believes
that the damage done to the military cannot be
repaired, given the present system. This is not as alar-
ming as it may sound considering that the present
system dates from shortly before World War | and has
continually concentrated more and more power in
Washington. It has permitted the federal government
to take part in foreign military interventions on an un-
precedented scale and, in most cases, to do so ina
manner neither in accord with morality nor in the best
interests of our nation, Today we see a military, in all
branches, whose officer corps is, in large part,
nothing more than bureaucratic timeservers and
whose enlisted men are often obviously lacking in in-
tetligence and patriotism. This is difficult to write but
officers, especially staff officers of the kind of MacAr-
thur, Patton and Walker, just do not exist, with but
rare exceptions. And intelligent, aggressive enlisted
men, like York, Murphy and so many others of the
past, seem to have all but disappeared.
For the manning of strategic weapons, like ICBM
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silos and atomic submarines, bureaucratic techni-
cians are acceptable and our universities and service
academies produce them in large numbers – accep-
table because the powers that be do not want in-
dependent types at the controls of such weapons.
Declaration of war is best a civilian (congressional)
decision but conventional fighting is best handled by
the soldier in the field. Once committed to a positive
objective (something never done in Korea or
Vietnam), officers and men should have great latitude
in reaching that goal.
How can the present situation be corrected? By rever-
ting to the way the Constitution advises, and this
means limiting that military power, especially in con-
ventional warfare, which the federal government has
usurped over many years.
Many Americans seem to think that a large standing
army prevents war. Our founding fathers felt that
large standing armies were a cause of war. When the
former opinion prevails it is not too long before men-
tion is made of sending our army overseas. Like the
ICBM, the army is in the hands of politicians who are
just as likely to misuse an army as to employ it cor-
rectly. Even when our armies were allowed to win
militarily in World War | and Il, it is doubtful that
Europe after either of those wars was or is better off.
Remember that the primary purpose of the military is
to protect us from unjust aggression, a purpose dif-
ficult to reconcile with our recent wars.
As an alternative the United States would be wise to
develop an organized militia with as little control from
Washington, D.C. as the Constitution will allow. If
America had a militia of part-time soldiers from coast
to coast no power on earth could seriously threaten
our country. The internationalist politicians would not
like it nor would the military bureaucracy, but both of
these groups have a habit of creating situations that
require overseas military involvement. Again, a militia
is essentially defensive, and moral as well.
As a people we have been propagandized to accept
interventionist policies. The fact is that, while we
have been busily ‘helping’’ nations defend
thernselves. many of them have gone Communist
anyway – and, very often, not in spite of our “aid”, but
because of it.
Some readers will be understandably skeptical of a
militia as a major portion of the solution to our pro-
blem. Yet George Washington admired the Swiss
militia) and history shows that Switzerland has
weathered war, including two World Wars, very well. It
is not that Switzerland could not be occupied. It sure-
ly could. But the cost to an enemy would be too great.
Or even if occupied the nation stili would not be con-
quered because of both active and passive
resistance. The Swiss National Guard has a book en-
titled Total Resistance that deals with this in detail.
A well trained and equipped citizen army (the current
national guard and reserve forces are the creatures of
Washington) would be the uitimate deterrent force. It
would stand ready to thwart the three even remotely
possible hostile actions against our country: the first,
and least likely, an invasion by troops from neighbor-
ing countries; the second, and also unlikely, overt
Soviet action; and the third and likely alternative,
domestic chaos caused (or at least contributed to) by
a fifth column of terrorists operating within our
borders. It is estimated that there are twelve million il-
legal aliens in the United States. If known KGB agents
operate on Capitol Hill, rest assured that Castro has
infiltrated professional terrorists into the country. He
has already done so into every South American coun-
try.
In one area of defense a part-time military proves
itself every day. At present the Air National Guard pro-
vides well in excess of 50% of the tactical air cover
for the continental United States. In addition, its
pilots consistently score higher on proficiency tests
than do their regular service counterparts. Their
maintenance standards are also superior. This is a
dramatic contrast to the seemingly epidemic aircraft
accidents of the regular services.
This author does not mean to suggest that the regular
military be abolished entirely. But its activities should
be restricted to primarily strategic roles, leaving the
bulk of tactical defense to a part-time militia not
directly controlled by the federal government.
During the early 1930's Douglas MacArthur was chief-
of-staff. President Roosevelt did not allow much
money for the Army and General MacArthur was forc-
ed to economize. One area he never cut back on were
the Army training schools. The present United States
Army is little more than a welfare program. Drill in-
structors at our better training centers openly ques-
tion whether recruits will fight or not. Put bluntly, to
reduce the army drastically in size would leave the
best men to train a voiunteer militia. There would be
an obvious saving in presently useless full-time
salaries. The saving could be used to equip the militia
as the Constitution prescribes.
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The conclusion to this lengthy discussion should be
obvious. In conventional as in strategic defense our
federal government has failed miserably. Or, for the
conspiracy-minded (a position much more reasonable
than to attribute everything to mistakes and chance),
the federal government has succeeded very well in
serving the interests of our enemies.
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In spite of the best efforts of satanic forces, east and
west, rest assured that Communism will be destroyed
as a military threat within a generation. It is already
ideologically dying. But the military machine
motivated by Russian imperialism is very much alive.
This does not mean that its ideology will not continue
to affect masses of people around the world for some
time. It will. At present these masses include a good
number of supposedly Catholic clergy! But ex-
perience shows that Communism so abuses the spirit
of man that it has been and will be the victim of its
own sons and daughters. At the same time though we
would be naive to think that the Russian military
machine that we watch coming ever closer to our
borders will disappear of its own accord. It will have
to be confronted.
Thirty years ago in Korea or, as General Patton
wanted, right after World War II, potential Russian ag-
gression could have been quickly neutralized. But in
the years since that time we have continued to create
an enemy with the result that today we face a spectre
that is increasingly frightful. Yet our probable military
inferiority is not our major problem in the face of Rus-
sian might. The lack of a moral base on which a na-
tional spirit can be rebuilt is our major problem.
We cannot undo the past. But we can and must deal
with the present in a practical and, above all, moral
fashion. It is therefore imperative that the moral
regeneration that America will, hopefully, experience
will lead us to rethink our political and military situa-
tion and, as a result, to turn away from the overcen-
tralized authority that has caused our problems. In
the context of this article this would entail a reduc-
tion of the much abused authority of the federal
government in military affairs, thereby decreasing the
prospects of future catastrophe. Without un-
necessary government involvement a real defense”
could be constructed which would be both moral and
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Nop TCA TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SCHEDULE A
COLORADO MINNESOTA
AURORA (Denver area) ROCHESTER
OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHAPEL OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL
2566 Sable Boulevard 5820 Viola Road, NE
(303) 364-8040: (507) 282-5163 or 289-8522
Masses at 9 & 11 a.m. (every Sunday) Mass at 11:00 a.m. Dec. 27, Jan. 10, Jan. 24
Weekday Masses at 8:00 a.m.
COLORADO SPRINGS MONTANA
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL GREAT FALLS
815 South 25th Street IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHAPEL
(Christ the King Schooi) 2020 Second Avenue North
(303) 636-1575 – Call between 9:00 a.m. (406) 452-8826
and 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday Mass at 11:00 a.m. Dec. 13, Dec. 27, Jan. 24
Masses at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. Dec. 6, Dec. 27,
Jan. 3, Jan. 10
PENNSYLVANIA
DURANGO ESSINGTON (Philadelphia area)
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
Durango Savings and Loan Ramada Inn
1101 E. Second Ave. Airport South, Route 291
(303) 884-2878 (215) 876-8737
Mass at 10:00 a.m. Jan. 17 Mass at 10:00 a.m. Dec. 13, Jan. 17, Jan. 31
STRATTON
OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHAPEL UTAH
(303) 348-5454
Call for time of Mass Dec. 20 SALT LAKE CITY
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Hilton Inn
FLORIDA eon) 787501
PORT RICHEY (Tampa area) Call for time of Mass Dec. 27
ST. JOSEPH’S Mass at 11:00 a.m. Jan. 31
Gulf Highland Club House
900 Gulf Highland Drive
(813) 868-0166 VIRGINIA
Mass at 7:00 p.m. on 3rd and Sth RICHMOND
Sundays of month OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHAPEL
§217 Futura Avenue
' (804) 737-8211 or 262-4354
LOUISIANA Mass at 11:00 a.m.
OPELOUSAS (Lafayette area) Dec. 6, Dec. 20, Jan. 3, Jan, 24
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL
Route 1, Box 195
(318) 942-9053
Mass at 6:00 p.m. on 2nd and 4th
Sundays of month