"Battle for Autarchy" Broadcast Talk Given by Rev. W. McGoldrick Il Duce Praises Wheat Qn Sunday in the Catholic Hour Series Growers, Asks for More has served his country with much honour in former days.
UR last lecture in this series dealt with the tragic delusion of communism as a system to remedy the world's evils. Let us now see what the Catholic Church has to offer—see if the working man hàs better chance of finding justice and contentment under her social system. The fundamental injustice of communism is its denial of a future, life. By this denial it would rob man of his richest i f 'Against this we have the social teaching of the Catholic' Church—that man's life does not end gt the grave, and that he was never intended to find a paradise on earth, As St. Augustine wrote sixteen hundred years ago: "Thou hast created us for Thyself, © God, and our heart must ever be restless until it rests in Thee."
That is the final destiny mapped out for man, and the world-system which. alone will help him to attain it is Christianity. And the programme. of this system was proclaimed to the world on-the first Christmas night above the Redeemers birthplace: "Glory te God. in the highest" (that is, in heaven) "and on earth peace to. men of good will" An eternal destiny with God in heaven, and: for the present, (during our years On earth) peace to men of good will—that is, to men who are willing to abide by the Creators laws. This is, briefly, God's "plan, and since it has to be worked out op earth, the Catholic Church, "as the official mouthpiece of ber Divine Founder, is here. to direct the work. Not that it is her place to draw Up a technical schemié of socíal of economic adminis-is not her province.
lays. down certain guiding of justice and right which, inviolable, local adjustments according to different Cine Ree of time and place, and people. These principles are founded om the Ten Commandments of Gog, which define man's social relations towards' his fellów-man both as regards his goods and his person. In proportion as these principles are adhere to, man will attain to that natural measure of peace and contentfüént to "which he ig entitled and Which is: the most to which he €an aspire in this life. Contentment, peace on earth, and heaven hereafter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.