Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1951 — Page 16

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Between Religion and

By Msgr. MAURICE S. SHEEHY

APTER TWO T were stars in his eyes and music in his soul as he led the national Anthem at the conclusion of divine services

aboard the U.8. 8 one Sunday in August, 1943

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to help the Protestant chaplain. The next day his plane was reported lost. We were based at Espiritu Santo, in the Philippine Islands, and the search led to a lofty hillsides It took several hours for the doctor and his party to scale the heights. The path of the crashed plane was discovered, and the group sought to assemble the severed parts of the flier’s body, Wisely the doctor decided to dig the“grave at the mountaintop. Two sailors fashioned a rude cross. The identification tag wis placed on it. “Has anyone a prayerbook?” asked the doctor. tA Catholic lad had a wellworn missal. The doctor

through it until he ,

to what was described as Mass of the Dead.” “He didn't know just what it meant but he decided to read it ‘anyway. His companions uncovered and stood respectfully at attention. . Afterward, a8 they were going down the mountainside. one young sailor asked if he might return for a moment to the grave. Permission was granted, “Why did you go back?” asked the doctor. “A fellow who died for his country ought to have something religious near him.” answered the boy. “So I buried ty 8t. Christopher medal on grave.” ; # = » » NONE 'of this group, I am

Thomas Aquinas, who also linked religion and patriotism. The virtue of religion disposes man to give to God the service due Him; the virtue of patriosm is to give the fatherland

mands. + The enigma of patriotism in my mind is this: fourteen million Americans came to the

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Note-—Monsignor Sheehy, head of the Department of Religious Education at Catholic University of America, ‘Washington, D. C, was born in Illinois, ‘brought up on an Towa farm. Graduate of Loras College, Du buque, sports editor of th» Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, he gave up newspaper work to enter the priesthood. Father Sheehy served as naval chaplain with the rank of captain in World War IL Holds the bronze medal, six battle stars, These articles are taken from HEAD OVER HEELS, A GUIDE FOR THE BETTER SELF, copyright 1951 by Maurice 8. Sheehy with the permission of the publishers Farrar Straus & Young, Inc.

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aid of their country in World War II to help protect what we called the American way of life. Vaguely they felt that something called freedom, something called democracy, might be at stake. More clearly, they did not want bomb# falling on their home town, on Pop and Mom and the kids at home And yet many who were willing to die for their country then are now not anxious to vote, to share civic responsibilities, to give without thought of getting; and the income tax is a sore spot in the life of many a so-called patriot, They justify this attitude by declaring that Marx and Lenin suggested the income fax as well as several other legal gadgets which are irritating us now. i No man is a good man unless he is also a good citizen. He may be a good citizen and criticize his government, but. deep down in his heart he

should feel, “This is my gov-

ernment, and its authority is from God, I owe it loyalty and obedience as I did to my father. This is my fatherland. I owe it duty in peace as in war.” » a 5 ONLY ONCE in the history of this country has a chaplain been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Father Joseph T. O'Callahan, 8. J, earned that distinction, . : He was aboard the U. 8. S.

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Franklin because, at his request, I released him from my district, where he had a pleasant assignment. His real glory is not in his heroic behavior on the burning ship but in the fact that after 27 months of sea duty he insisted that he could not rest at night as he saw shiploads of his old friends go into combat. If God had him by the hand during awful hours, it was because Father Joe willed it so, Time and again I have witnessed, in Washington, another

form of patriotism, When a | government official resigns

rather than compronrise ‘his conscience—even though he be in error—the country is safe. Once I ruined a man’s career. He was called to testify before a Congressional committee. He came to me for advice. “I have my choice of doing two. things,” he said. “I may do what my political bosses ask—or I may tell the truth on which countless lives depend.” “Certainly you won't hesti< tate about that,” I answered. “No,” he said with a smile. “I have to live with myself a few years yet.” He told the truth, He was fired. And 15 minutes later seven men stood up in Congress to extol him for his courage.

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THERE ARE two ways in which the state is jeopardized today: First, by a growing disrespect for lawful authority. Secondly, by refusal to bear one's share of the support our country requires financially, morally, and emotionally. The disrespect starts at the top. We have not been suffering from a punitive government; we have been falling apart because our just laws have not been enforced. All over the country cunning exploiters have been evading law. Without spiritual convictions our form of government cannot work. It is not working. Why? Simply because God is today an exile from many political swivel chairs. If a certain segment of American youth is friendly to eommunism, the fault lies somewhere in our educational proecess. Are we educating young people to appreciate life, or merely to criticize? How many - college graduates know what is right with their country. The question we should put daily to the Better Self is: Do 1 deserve the advantage of living In a {free country when

{ countless others live as slaves | in a police state?

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FOSTER MEMORIAL—This is the Stephen Collins Foster Me- | | morial at White Springs, Fla., now a tourist attraction. It honors | the composer of the state song, "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River." The composer never saw the river, but picked the romantic name from a map.

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Her present husband, Bf Charles Kirkwood, waited outside With pennies she saved,

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{New York night club entertainer, Conn.), early “this year when a|

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week from the mountain near Berwick, Pa. which made her THE CASE of Sigmud Engel, famous, Mrs. Mary O'Neill, PennChicago, who said he made a sylvania’s oldest resident at 113 /fortune by wooing and fleecing years, will move to nearby Shickwidows, will be heard by the Illi- shinny to be accessible to doctors mois Parole Board this week. He's who have had to climb the “hill” ‘serving 2-10 year sentence in ito treat her. |{Stateville Prison, Springfield, Ill. on a charge of fleecing Mrs. Reseda Corrigan of Chicago out of her life savings. i

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Pittsburgh, Pa., went home from the hospital to await the arrival of Santa Claus tomorrow. Christmas has to come early this year ‘because doctors said Kathy would | k. live only three months at the) most. to wants ! { Braids,” her favorite doll bought)

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