Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ATI-IEDRAL COLLEG CREDO The lamp of night hung high above the hills And hovered o'er the quiet fields below, The twinkling stars shone down upon the rills, While clouds passed by like spectres, stately, slow. Alone in all that solitude and peace The unbeliever gazing up with awe, In silent contemplation could not cease To marvel at the wonders that he saw. For he beheld the order and the force That governs every sun and moon and star And gleaming counstellation in its course, And guides the reins oi planets, near and far. And then, o'erwhelmed, he dropped upon his knee And Whispered, God, I do believe in Thee. FRANCIS MURPHY, '37 THE HORIZON The sparkling sea, Gray sand, blue sky, Attracted me As I passed by. I think that where Clouds touch the deep, A man, right up To God, could leap. CARL W. DENGEL, '37. YZ

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OOCATHEDRAL COLLEGE The Persecution of the Cathoiic Church in Nazi Germany T was the Christmas Season. The world thrilled to the strains of GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEC, while clouds of reverent incense rose, bringing with them the prayers of humble homo to the Christ-Child in the poor stable. All over the world men were kneeling in unobtrusive, unpretentious adoration. All over the world save in the North of Germany, where instead of the people bringing their gifts to the CHRISTPKIND, they beheld a strange new way of celebrating Christmas. Lol Instead of the Prince of Peace coming forth to bless His children, Woden, god of the fire and the sword, the king of the old German gods, brought on Christmas Day an heroic celebration, a day of festivity in honor of war. Motorcycles, on which were seated ANGELS clothed in white robes, and with wings o'erspread, but with the ugly grey steel of the German trench-helmet crowning their heads, sped from the barracks. They moved toward their TANNENBAUM and fired machine-guns as they madly encircled it. And then, a mountainous tank rode from the barracks while on it, between two machine-guns, sat old ST. NICKOLAUS, smiling his traditional cheery smile. fn irony that was deriding, his sack revealed its contents- miniature tanks. , The lapanese have an old pagan proverb, First among men, the war- rior. It would seem as if the New Germanism is striving to its utmost to wrest this adage from the people of the Land of the Rising Sun. A Christian govern- ment follows paganism's idealsg a Christian government for more correctly, one that bears the name CHRISTIANJ puts aside Christ as a child would an old rag doll that it has always cherished but has grown tired of, it puts aside Christ and reaches into the mist of ancient Nordic mythology for a new god to worship-a new god who will approve their actions-a new god who will smile hypocritically in approbation of what is to come-a new god-WODEN IN PLACE OE CHRIST-Death in place of Everlasting Life. For a long time, the National Socialist Party had been making formidable strides towards achieving the popular favor of the German people. With its young Austrian leader, a splendid statesman, growing more and more appeal- ing to the Prussian eye for militaristic leadership, Naziism promised to become the salvation of Deutschland. Von Hindenburg alone stood in the way, but even he, in a national crisis, finally put his VATERLAND under the restrained dominance of the Brown Shirt. Hitler was created Chancellor with certain curtailments. He showed himself to be just what was needed until Von Hin- denburg's death and then he proved himself a veritable boomerang. Plaunt- ing, as does the pirate, the colors of another, Hitler campaigned as the avenger of French insults, the settler of internal disputes, the righter of wrongs, the friend of the capitalist, the friend of the laborer, the friend of man, and won the election. Within a short time after his election, the German people saw not all these in him but realized that he was a real wolf in sheep's cloth- ing. They beheld not the friend of man as their dictator but an uncurbable 74