St Johns College - Ozanam Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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UENVOI I OLDEN YEARS of youthful preparation have melted into Ef f? memories of times replete with blended joy and toil. And now COM- MENCE! Before you lies the sphere of limitless endeavor. Actuate your high ambitions! Crystallize your hopes! Let not the pressure of the combat sure to come, repress the ar- dor of well-founded aspirations! Bravely begin! Courageously stride on! The gate is open: the road is wide and Iongj but, ere you cross the threshold, accept our offers of un- feigned congratulation and fond fare- Well.

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8 THE OZANAM observes the natural law and the moral law, he is obligated in conscience to adhere to his conviction, and acting accordingly, retains his claims to salvation. The public school has become the target of Romanismf' thinks Dr. Fama. It would be closer to the truth to say that the Catholic school has become the target of atheism. As if the Catholic Church has any desire or any business meddling with the pub- lic school! and likewise, as if the pub- lic oiiicials have any business med- dling with the Catholic school, as long as its policy violates the rights of no one. It seems to grieve Dr. F ama that The Church says this institution is Godless because it does not give instruction in religion, and he asks, Is there no time to teach reli- gion after school or on Saturdays or Sundays? Any system of education which excludes God and religion from its curriculumi certainly is without God: therefore, it is Godless, if words mean anything. The twenty-seven millions in America today who are not receiving religious instruction, do not seem to think their time after school or on Saturdays or Sundays would be well spent if it were devoted, even partially to religious consideration. Are we to expect that these people, though products of the public school, will turn out to be ideal, God-fearing citizens? The fact of the matter is that Catholics do not want their chil- dren enlightened by a liberal educa- tion, says Dr. Fama, forgetting that all the oldest and the most celebrated universities were founded by Cath- olics, who have always shown them- selves the defenders of true liberal educational ideals. As the crowning calumny our friend concludes on no objective evidence whatever that Catholicism stands self-condemned, condemned that is, by its own utter- ances to be a religion so opposed to all that we call American that no citi- zen can practice both whole-heartedly and at the same time. Undoubtedly, one of the intentions of Mr. Williams and Dr. Kinsman, was to clarify some of the popular misunderstandings and perplexing difficulties of our Protestant country- men. judging from the replies of Mr. Chapman and Dr. Fama, the real object has not been very satisfactorily accomplished, more fuel has been heaped upon the fires of prejudice, and a greater misunderstanding will perhaps result. That the Roman Catholic Church is the enemy of America, would be the poorest, were it not the most obnox- ious joke of the generation. So fel- low-Americans have not the slightest fear for yourselves or for your coun- try, and above all things, do not allow this worldly-wise nonsense of Mr. Chapman or Dr. Fama to disturb your dreams by night. And fellow-Cath- olics, remember, if the Catholic Church is the true Church, as you be- lieve it to be, it would really be un- usual were it ever free from persecu- tion. It has always been persecuted in the past, it is so at presentg and in the future, as Christ, its Founder, predicted, it will be a chief object of men's scorn and criticism. Defeat, however, and extermination, can never be its lotg for Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world CMatt. xxvii.20j. Its para- doxial history has been-the more severe its persecution, the more glori- ous its triumph.

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l Q , - 1 -- gl JULIUS bl. l,'ILLlOD Our vulediclurizln. has Wim enviable lzlurels through his forensic aeemimiplislnnenls and ath- letic prowess. Numerous have been his mus- terly orations and subtle debates: numeruus, loo, his stellar plays on the lnzlsketbzlll court. President of the Student Council, president uf the Senior class. captain of the varsity bus- lcetball teaun-these are some of the inlpurtzml uliiees he has so eupubly lilled. xvllilt the lu- ture holds in store for him is diflicult tu proph- esy, but we feel assured 21 place of prominence is reserved for him, Q e- fe ee rr sl