St George High School - Georgian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Witlz Full Right the Church Promotes Letters, Science, Art-Founding and Main taining Institutions Adapted to Every Branch of Learning and Degree of Culture Our Sophomores The Sophomores of Room 101 have worked hard to spread Catholic literature the pamphlet way. They have purchased over a hundred booklets and besides circulated them among their companions. They urge their parents and friends to read them and spread them among members of the Armed Forces. The Hobby Lobby Club THE HOBBY-CATHOLIC ACTION THE LOBBY-ROOM 202 Catholic Action is the participation of the laity in the apostolate of the hierarchy. -POPE PIUS XI. To most Catholics this definition goes in one ear and out the other. The single purpose of our Hobby Lobby Club is to correct this faultg Hrst, among ourselves, then among our neighbors. To further this end we have done many things both spiritually and materially. Nearly all the members have listed a service man's name with the promise of attending one Mass and receiving one Communion a week for his benefit. Our spiritual treasury has greatly increased because of the number of evening devo- tions and Stations of the Cross being attended by our members. Medals, holy water bottles, holy cards and Christmas gifts were sent to Father Henryls Negro Mission. Stamps were collected to ransom pagan children. By all these actions we have endeavored to carry out the wish of our Holy Father Pope Pius XI of blessed memory.

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In the SlI0l'l'II?.S'.S', .Storm-1111rrow1'd 111'1'1111 of 11116 press of 1111: world and its UIH'l01lS f7lIl'l0S012l1Zil?S of life, the C1lll1oIirf Press slmttld 51111111 as Il s1'1fr and j1r12j1lzet. Our Catholic Press ll' ever there was a time in the history of the United States when the impera- tive demand for an intelligent, militant Catholic press was strikingly evident, that hour has arrived. Our ,'x1llCI'lC'2lIl Constitution is attacked as a conservative instrtt- ment: our great industrial lile has been exposed as a horrible evil and a mark ol shame: our educational system has almost completely removed Cod and Christian inlluence lrom the character building ol' millions ol' American children. Obscenity in its most brazen lorm stalks through the land, both in literature and on the stage. 'l'he whole social and political structure ol' America, weakened by the loss ol' Christian education and morality, is now besieged by an evil ideology-call it any ism you wish-and we are shamefully unprepared to withstand the attack. Ten thousand able writers must. be recruitedg volumes of printed and spoken words ol' defense and attack must be distributed, to appease and enlighten the discontented and to soften the fury raging among tl1e misinformed and deluded. XVe need to support our press so that the diocesan Catholic newspaper may extend its circulation until one may truly say: XVe deliver each week a Catholic news- paper into every home of the diocese, without exception. The picture above illustrates the Freshmen acquainting the student body with the value ol' Catholic magazines and books. The play was part ol' a literature assembly held lor the purpose of spreading Catholic literatttre among the student body and also in their individual homes.