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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Catholic Press Is Guide for Readers, Instrument of Truth This month is patriotic, no doubt about it, with Washington and Lincoln's birth days pointing the fact. It is also sentimental St. Valentine's Day is hearts and flowers as well as a commercial institution But what we must not overlook in February is that it is Catholic Press month. There are no commercial interests to push the Catholic Press, and the job it does, to our immediate notice. And the Catholic Press has little time to give pub licity to itself. Its energies and its ink are directed toward more enduring goals the immediate goal being the dissemination of truth, and the next-removed goal being the development of Catholic attitudes in Catholics. It is only a jejune Valentine sentiment to hold that Catholics, by virtue of Bap tism alone, are Christ-minded. This is a pagan world, and it is a pagan culture that permeates it. Catholics, to be truly Catho lic, must learn to buck the stream of pagan ism, and often (even more important) must be brought to realize what pagan currents are, so that they can know when and why to oppose them. The Catholic Press is to a world that seeks direction a voice and a guide or rather, it could be the voice and the guide if more Catholics would make use of it, and appreciate its office. How can we, the Catholic public, use and appreciate the Catholic Press? First by realizing what it is, and recognizing its place as an extension of the teaching Church Christ founded centuries ago, and not by condemn ing it because it does not, in secular mat ters, run parallel to the big city secular daily or the slick popular magazine. Second, by consulting it on all aspects of current problems so that the Catholic slant on labor vs. management, the Catholic slant on social problems, the Catholic verdict regarding books, movies, plays, is ours, for our use. Christ came that the truth might be known and made manifest to all men. The duty of Catholics to be informed is both patent and paramount. This is February. This is Catholic Press month. Let us resolve today to support the Catholic Press. Comprehensives The Sum of All Parts In February, a senior's fancy turns to thoughts of passing comprehensives Many definitions have been offered for the term comprehensives but a real ex planation of them is possible only after four years of study. The average freshman has her hours of bewilderment about the relationship among the basic courses she is required to carry. Often she sees no underlying principle co ordinating Science and Principles of Econ- onftcs or the History of Western Europe with Fundamentals of Speech and English Rhetoric. By the time she becomes a sophomore, this student begins to realize that there is some pattern in a curriculum which requires Psychology and Moral Guidance, that there is a connection between the Industrial Rev olution and the literature of the nineteenth century. Entering her junior year, the student becomes increasingly aware of the unity in her program she sees that Logic is a help in her study of History or Sociology or Science or Literature, and that knowl edge gained in one course lights up facets of material studied in another. Finally, as a senior, she realizes how much (as well alas, as how little) she has learned in four years, and how each sub ject has interlocked with the others in de veloping skill or in creating a comprehen sive viewpoint. The comprehensives are an ordeal no doubt about it but preparing for them is like taking a new and valuable orientation course, and the long-range result will prob- bly be enduringly valuable. February 25, 1946 Dear Duchess-, Studying for the comprehensives has been a form of pre-Lenten penance for us, and today's the day we must give back all we've learned. Wish us luck Come to think of it, Lent isn't so very far off, at that. I counted only nine more days this morning, and it's high time that I start thinking about what I'm going to do this year. Last year, much to my regret, I stressed the things that I WASN'T going to do, and when Easter rolled around, I found that I had put very little into Lent, and, as a result, I had taken very little from it. Sounds complicated, doesn't itt But it really isn't. I've profited from experience, however, and this year, I'm going to stress the posi tive side. Going to Mass and Holy Com munion every morning and saying the ros ary every day are habits that I'd like to cultivate this year. Certainly I can say the Stations every day in the College Chapel. The small sacri fice entailed will bring in valuable positive results. There are other ways of stressing the positive side of Lent, like doing assign ments regularly every evening, being friend ly and helpful to others, and remembering, with a smile, that God is in His heaven even when things are going all wrong in my part of His world. I'm going to make these 40 days stepping stones toward a fuller realisation of the meaning of Redemption and sure as any thing I'll be a better, stronger person East er morning. See you then and keep your fingers crossed for comprehensives. Tina MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Spring Promises a Rainbow Do you see the rainbow? Yes, it's there just look ahead a few months and you will see it. Sea the freshness and the brightness of the green that comes from March? Erin lends us a touch of her own vivid color, and don't you think St. Patrick, himself, would be proud to see that sparkling bit of green in our rainbow? Look just a little farther see the penetrating purple of Holy Week? Notice how it's changing into a softer shade, and there there its bursting forthwith the brilliance and the glory of the Resurrec tion. Easter seems to have a color all its own. Its utterly white, spotless, and clear. And then the April rains, they bring forth some love ly colors just what we needed for our rainbow. The yellow tulips and jonquils, and the pink camellias yield their delicate hues to make our rainbow almost com plete. Now, didn't you just know that May would supply tb rainbow with blueness-H blue that is tranquil am pure? The month of Ma; and the month of Mary ar synonymous. As constant a the recitation of the Aves i the warmth and lovelines of May. The subtle beaut that May brings with i makes our color scheme ani our rainbow quite complete Yes, there's the rainboi stretched before us. Do yon see it? Each day of the com ing months look around Find it soon, find it befonJJ you come to the end of it, r roi Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters op Charity, B.V.M. 1 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, - at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. . . v Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. . J. Vol. XVI February 25, 1946 No. 7 ' All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 ? Co-Editors-in-Chief Eleanor Arends, Lois Hintze Associates Mary Martha Cooper, Patricia Curran, Dolores Hartigan, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Templeman Feature Editors Florence Jankowski, Dolores Toniatti, Genevieve Urbain Associates Mary Beecher Mary Em Harrigan, Alice Marie Horen, Colleen Rettig, Mildred Stanek. Copy Editors Regina Bess, Dolores Cervenka Associates Margaret Monckton, Rosemary Templeman News Editors Katherine Burwitz, Regina Milligan Associates Dorothy Doyle, Marilyn Tamburrino, Martha Wade Sports Editors Mary Cannon, Jean Ondesco Art Editor Margaret Mary Campbell Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Coletta Clif ford, Lucille Cook, Mary Patricia Driskill, Jean Engbring, Barbara Fallon, Beatrice Goldrick, Kathryn Malatesta, Jeri Mangold, Ramona Marino, Mary Leona Merrick, El lenmae Quan, Lorraine Stajdohar, Mary Louise Sullivan, Frances Wager, Grace Wurst And Did You Know .. . . . That the titular church of His Em inence, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, is the Church of St. Agnes Outside the Walls? * ... That at the fourteenth annual con vention of the National Catholic Confer ence on Family Life at the Catholic Univ ersity of America, President Truman rec ommended that a fight be made for the family? The measure of civilization is the measure of its family life, stated Mr. Truman. . . . That a ground floor room in the Catholic University of Tokyo is the first headquarters of the Japanese National Catholic Welfare Conference? The Bis hops and ecclesiastical superiors of Japan held their first meeting there fifteen weeks after the surrender. . . . That at an audience with the Apos tolic Delegate to Japan, Emperor Hirohito expressed his gratitude for the relief activ ities carried through by his Holiness, Pope Pius XII and extended an invitation for the continuation of material and spiritual reconstruction in Japan? . . . That Clare Boothe Luce, playwright, Republican representative from Connecti cut, and wife of Henry Luce, publisher of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE, was re ceived into the Catholic Church on Feb. 16 by the Most Reverend Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, D. D.? . . . That both newspapermen and priests are prevented by the Russians from cross ing into the Soviet-occupied zone of north ern Korea? Because missionaries are ur gently needed in that sector, it is hoped that that present negotiations in Korea may ef fect the removal of the barrier. . . . That Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil of Chicago had a private audience recently with His Holiness Pope Pius XII? Bishop Sheil had just concluded a six-week tour of Germany and France. . . . That one of the deepest recollections of the Reverend Thomas P. Gilbert, Army chaplain who has returned after more than a year of service in the European theater of war, is of the strong faith and anti-Nazi Students of UNO 'Work at Peacef for World Understanding In its 150 years of existence as a political entity, this country has engaged in no less than eight wars, some civil, some merely in this hemisphere, some international, but all disastrous if only because they emphasized the philosophy of force. There is little need of repeating here the horrors that were perpetrated in the name of World War II. We all are convinced ofj the evil of the genus war, and, specificallyj of the species scientific war. We all are not yet convinced, however, of the sure means of removing its threat from the world as we know it today. The College, recognizing the necessity for positive education for peace, has instituted a new course, The United States and the) U.N.O. Students enrolling in the course will be led to investigate the history of the problem of world peace, factors which bring about peace, why we have not yet perman ently captured the illusive entity, and conj siderations about present-day U.N.O. prob- lems. This much we know. A great deal off intra-Europe troubles, and, consequently, U.S. involvements with those troubles, has arisen from misinformation or just plaid lack of information. If each citizen is in-l formed about the causes of the turmoil which directly or indirectly caused him sufferingj he will be able, in the future, to act and to vote in such a way that courses of actioo and foreign entanglements, previously prov ed unwise, will be avoided. Peace, just likej war, must be worked at. sentiment existing in the hearts of the Austrian people ? The greatest enemy Hit- ler had was the Austrian Catholics, he said. . . . That The Catholic Hour, broadcast through N.B.C., received for the program, Letter from Paul, one of seven citations of merit awarded to the radio industry for fostering religious tolerance and brother- hood?
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1946-02-25 (2)
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