Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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a tourist with a purpose, with a mission. He discovered that only twenty-five churches were licensed and that to each of these churches is permitted but one priest. Twenty-five priests to care for almost one million Catholics! Grave penalties endanger the liberty and life of any priest who attempts to perform his duties without a license. But restrictions of this particular kind might only serve to inspire and stimulate faith, were it not for a more devilish means taken by the Mexican Government to rob the Church of its greatest treasure,—the heart and mind, the soul of a child. Father McDonald writes: “И was next made compulsory to send all children to the newly-created State schools, and a course of studies was outlined for them that is so openly atheistic, communistic, and sexual, that no one can mistake the real intent to wipe out religion, even at the danger of corrupting and ruining the youth of the country.” Restriction of freedom to practise one’s religion, and naturalistic education are the two fundamental lines of the Mexican anti-Catholic campaign. We do not propose to enter into further detail. Our sole intention has been to point out that there really is no foundation for the attitude of Catholics outside of Mexico. There really is a persecution. To say that there is not, as so many of us have said, is to deny Father Pro the crown of a martyr, and the “Viva Cristo Rey!” which fell from his dying lips, its ring of sincerity. “Viva Cristo Rey!” is the death-cry of the persecuted of Mexico. May it become the battle-cry of the Catholics of America! The Graduates’ Retreat The Graduates’ Retreat, held during Holy Week, is a definite tradition at Loyola, and the one held this year was in every way worthy of its predecessors. The unanimous expres- sions of appreciation voiced by all the retreatants bore eloquent testimony to the masterly fashion in which the Spiritual Exercises were given by Rev. Father Daly, S.J., Dean of Studies of Regiopolis College, Kingston. The best criterion of a rerteat’s success is the permanence of its impressions and results. As the same enthusiastic interest in the lessons and reflections of those important three days of Holy Week was evident even on the very last day of the academic year, it may safely be taken for granted that our graduates not only received something unusually precious but that they treasure this souvenir of their last days at College and will continue to profit by its benefits. The late N. А. Timmins, Esq. It is only fitting that we should record our deep regret at the death of N. A. Timmins, Esq., which occurred in the course of the past year. The late Mr. Timmins had a very strong claim on our gratitude, for һе was one of Loyola’s foremost friends and benefactors. The sincere sympathy of all at Loyola is offered to the family in their bereavement, especially to Noah, Leo and Rodolphe, former Loyola students. ` ` Ordinations, — 1936 Elsewhere in this issue appear the pictures of six Loyola alumni who have just recently been, or very soon will be, ordained to the priesthood. They are the Revs. George Thoms, Edmund Way, Norman Griffin, Francis Dowling Burns, S.J., J. Hutchison Mitchell, S.J., and Bernard Lonergan, S.J. We regret very much that we were unable to secure the photo- graph of another Loyola boy also ordained on June 9th, the Rev. Louis (Hugh) Clarke, O.C.D., of the Carmelite Monastery, Washington, D.C. This makes the largest group, thus far, of new Loyola priests. May their ranks continue to increase! LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Page three

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From a drawıng by E. Fitzgerald, '37.

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We are also happy to record the approaching ordinations of the following former mem- bers of the Loyola staff: the Revs. Harold Bedford, S.J., and Joseph Jordan, S.J., at the Immaculate Conception College, Montreal; Edward Brown, S.J., and Elliott McGuigan, S.J., at Milltown Park, Dublin, Ireland; and Bernard Lonergan, 5.Ј., at the Gregorian University, Rome. : To all are extended our warmest congratulations and best wishes for many years of successful work in the sacred ministry. Rudyard Kipling This year has been an unfortunate one for the Empire. Its Sovereign and its Poet dead! Just as George V was in every sense a Sovereign of the Empire, loved and followed by all, so Rudyard Kipling was, first and foremost, the Poet of the Empire. No man ever touched more surely those strings that bound England to her Empire, no man ever sent forth from those strings so fierce a song of strength, so noble a ballad of valour, so fearless a doctrine of right. And yet, though his fierce patriotism and loyalty to the Empire led Kipling to his greatest glories, the same patriotism and loyalty were his greatest weakness. He represented an age when the Empire was a fetish, an imperialism, an unwritten form of national creed. When the fetish vanished and the creed became outmoded with the constitutional progress of the Dominions, Kipling's age had passed, though he lived on. But the value of his prose and poetry in that they crystalliz e and honour an England that is passed and dead make the loss of Kipling an irreparable one. In fact, one is sometimes inclined to think that the loss of Rudyard Kipling marked even more the closing of an epoch in the history of the Empire than did the death of its Sovereign. George V had competent hands to which his work might be entrusted, but Kipling lives no more and his special and particular task will find no one to continue it in the manner peculiar to the Bard of Empire. Page four LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW