Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE” REVIEW p «r— Universal Church. In a bold statement that won the admiration of all Christians, he clearly laid down the principles that all Christian Churches must follow if they are to return to the true fold; and more recently he ended the imprisonment of sixty years by regaining the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See. It is our sincere hope that the Almighty will grant many years of service to this illustrious vice-gerent that we may enjoy the blessing of the wisdom and zeal of one whom history has already marked as Pius the Great. The signing of the treaty and concordat by the representatives of Italy and the Vatican marks one of the greatest steps towards international amity in the history The End of the of the world. The representatives of a temporal power have recognized the necessity of independent sovereignty for the head of the Universal Church and have granted this in a pact remarkable for the accord that it signified. Formal ratification of these documents has yet to take place, it is true, but as the main items contained therein have been broadcast to the world by our indefatigable news-gathering agencies, some comment is appro- priate. By the settlement the position of the Popes is clarified and the bugbear of inter- national diplomacy, the ‘Roman Question, is ended for ever. Up to the time of the treaty, there were two sovereigns in Rome—the government and the Papacy— neither of whom recognized the priority of the other. The reason for this situation was the unwillingness of the government to grant any measure of temporal sovereign- ty to the Holy See and the inability of the head of a body as international and cos- mopolitan as the Catholic Church to be subject to a civil ruler. To the overtures of the government, made throughout fifty-nine years of voluntary imprisonment, the answer of the Popes was always a dignified “Мот possumus'' until the far reaching agreement of this February was made. The danger of being shackled to a civil power in the manner by which the Patriarchs of Constantinople were tied to the Byzantine Tee and the Archbishops of Canterbury to the British crown was too great to risk. The concessions in the treaty are large in principle rather than in size. The Pope receives temporal dominion over the smallest principality on the face of the globe— but receives absolute freedom in his international actions. The concordat which is complementary to the treaty is perhaps of greater importance to the people of Italy, for by it the anti-clerical measures of past governments are repealed and the Church is granted its rightful position: that of a ‘‘free Church in a free state. Sacramental matriage is recognized, religious teaching is re-established in the schools, and the right of the Church to govern herself according to canon law is granted. That the Church has gained immeasurably in prestige by this regaining of power none can venture to doubt. We do not believe that this aspect of the question can be better summed up than in the words of Professor Carlton Hayes: “Роре Pius ХІ has demonstrated that the Papacy of the twentieth century appreciates the modern changed conditions of politics, economics, culture and society, that it does not dream of a political theocracy or content itself with negative protests, that it in- sists only on such temporal power for itself as is strictly necessary to render it inde- pendent of any country, and that outside of the tiny Vatican state it insists only on such rights for the Catholic Church as shall make it a free spiritual agency in the civil society of modern nations.”’ Roman Question. {2}

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW joa Iml The age old question whether science and religion conflict and, if so, how, has again been brought into prominence by the indefatigable reporters of the daily press, жағаны О seldom let a week elapse without publishing some startling utterance ы ОЮ оп the subject. From the general tone of these '“$гагетепїз”” it appears ES that the policy followed in these matters is that a theory becomes news only when thoroughly discredited. An example of this type was furnished last December when Professor Barnes astonished the majority of civilized human beings by announcing that we need a new concept of the Supreme Being. The reason for this, as far as can be gathered, was the fact that the established idea of the Omni- potent One failed to harmonize with Professor Barnes' development of a branch of the evolution theory. By a simple process of assigning the task of forming a new concept to a leading divine and asserting the dominance of his unproved theory over established truth he gained headlines in every journal in America. It seems rather incredible that such a divergence should occur between the leaders of a search for knowledge (which is essentially truth) and the upholders of truth on earth. The only possible explanation is that, being unwilling to accept the logical deductions of posee and the revealed truths of religion, they are striv- ing to find a material explanation of the universe, a search that so far has proved impossible, and since it is fundamentally misdirected must ever remain so. Defend- ing the true concept of the universe and its inhabitants stands the Catholic Church, the protector of fundamental truth on earth. Strange as the fact may appear in face of the assertions of Professor Barnes and others as to the nature of Catholicity and its stand on scientific matters, the Church has always supported true knowledge and her sons have been among the greatest scientific leaders. Cardinal Hayes, 1n showing the absurdity of Professor Barnes' statement, not only demonstrated logically that no discovery has ever in itself been opposed to religion but also brought out the fact that among the adherents to the present concept of the Almighty were such men as Newton, Bacon, Mendel and Pas- teur. Their falas аа и have proved useful because they have not attempted to leave the path of conformity with truth for the uncertain fields of conjecture. It is impossible for progress to take place unless each step is firmly established. The theories that attempt, on the basis of fragmentary evidence, to attack the established truths of religion, are detrimental to scientific advance and must, in the eyes of thinking men, be regarded as distinct from it. и y Ап innovation at Loyola this year which has proved strikingly successful was the introduction of student teaching. This branch of educational effort, which is Südant carried out оп а large scale by Georgetown and some of the other American Teach Universities with High School facilities, was brought to Loyola this year caching (through the efforts of our revered Dean of Studies who assigned three Seniors to High School classes. Their duties followed the same general lines as those of the regular class professor, and the necessity of inculcating knowledge and enforc- ing discipline at one and the same time produced a very effective training in executive ability which should be strongly felt in after-life. Edwin Murphy, Eugene Savard and Quinn Shaughnessy were the three students who put themselves to a great deal of inconvenience in order to obtain this extra course. Making up lectures missed during spare time and undertaking all the burdens oe ОА,