The salvaging of our present civil. ization demands an awakened social sense, the forging of new bonds of brotherhood, the abolishing of class hatred as well as religious intoler~ ance, This can only be brought about by a true renewal of the Christian order, a return to Christendom in the real sense of the word. That is the most solid foundation upon which we can build our human hope for our present civilization, Christendom was an international order not built by force and fraud, but on wisdom, experience, and faith, on light and law and love. The Greeks taught the Western World logic and metaphysics and rational psychology. They showed us how inward life, and outward peace, must be based on reason and logic. "The Romans had a genius for law and they taught us the goodness of justice. Christendom added io these contributions of Greece and Rome the unifying principle of Christian charity. But modern pride has rejected the truth of the ancient philosophy of reason; greed has rejected the good in the ancient code of law; lust has rejected the beauty of the Christian conception of love. Unfit we return to wisdom, men are bound to fight and kill their fellow men, and order is simply out of the question.
The scholar, Nicholas Murray Butler, has coined a phrase which is well known to advocates of peace among nations. It is "the international mind." The phrase implies a readiness and ability to look upon questions that involve the interests and welfare of races and nations, not only from the viewpoint of one's own people, but from that of the common good, the peace of mankind. This idea has always been favoured and promoted by the Church. She is the Church Catholic or universal and the whole world is her care. Catholic Action is striving to hasten this glorious era of social peace,
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