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Bishop Fulton Sheen — Part 3

51 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: May 11, 1956 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Bishop Fulton Sheen · 51 pages OCR'd
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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Y -— oi? t / : RO taps . terme i ° tlt I" urs ACC Ere . NED eta Parsons . © Yaffe léD a i Fol t aye COTO s) a; zc soo ! . SAS a Lone Trotter a f \ Ue ‘ wet CE er) SS N f ; ‘ Ja z Tele. Room —_—— , Holloman ae . thousand boys to—put~all Gandy Bishop Sheen Writes: their ‘marbles into a’ barrel “LIBERATION began with the idea of liberty, but liberty understood as freedom from something rather than freedom for something. Com- , munism began with the idea ‘ of equality, in which it was .; hoped to’ m&ke everyone > happy by establishing a class- ‘Jess society. Communism was not so much concerned with : political equality won by ‘which all men were ma ‘ equal before the law, but ‘ rather with economic equality | which was not yet won. , _The argument of the com- “ munists was as follows: The reason there are inequalities in the economic order is be- cause of private property. By . its very nature, private prop- erty is the basis of exploita- apart from this general ob- sbrvatierethere are two great BQNOV 2 Communism a Buys Equality at. Cost of Freedom de for man is absorbed into the et fashion that a drop of water is absorbed into a glass of | 2. defects In the conmmunistic scheme of equality. ao (COMMUNISM “purchases uality at cost of free dom. uality is indeed de- sirable, but not when it is purchased at the cost of free- dom, and man being what he ® is, there is no other way to achieve ‘it. There is no dom to assert personality, state very much in wine; there is no freedom to own property, for the state |. ig the sole employer and re- serves for itself the right of exploitation; there is no free- dom of religion, for that is equivalent to admitting that [ God is above the party; there is no freedom to dissent po- & divide for himself the choice ; spoils. It is one thing-Casask : 619570) ~ and it is quite another thing to be sure that the ten boys who were picked out to di- vide the marbles wiil equally. distribute them among the . 990. Where find the economic g& eunuchs who will be so free from passion both of wealth. and power that all will re A ceive equally? Communism . is not the answer... .° NOT RECORDED MO.NOVA6/737 _—— — Waste Post and Times Herald TO 4 tion, communism ‘argues. It . thas’ built up a syeiern in litically, for no rival bgt Wash. News ‘| which one man works for an- are on erated, each being _ Wash. Star other for wages, and as a re- Poured In‘o the mold of the} 4 | suit, has divided society into State; there ig no freedom to Lo N. Y. Herald two classes: the exploiting think, for propaganda backed Tribune class; and the exploited class. 4 y terror determines The way, therefore, to do ™ at one shall think, what . N. Y. Journal- away with all inequalities ig one shall do. Lo Poot American to do away with private prop- _ Freedom thus becomes erty by putting all productive identified with the will -of N. Y. Mirror _-____ private property into the the party, which in Russia. N. Y. Daily News ——__ ands of the state; then all represents only 142% of the : become equal because all are population. _ : State . N. Y. Times e servants of the state. ‘ Me race WEALTH fs held in com. Daily Worker Such a ‘solution attributes mon with communism, The Worker all the wrongs in the social jbut administration {s not: New Leader order to something outside of [common. It fs only natural ’ something inside, namely, to [therefore for everyone to - private property instead of wish to become an adminis. avarice and injustice. But trator in order that he might Date | 4 m4 we wet wt Owodi nn «&
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