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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 3
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Action is neccesary to prevent tbe bloodsveass of Americs {ron becoming,
cootemineied. There on be po ‘That this situation exists is
90 reflection upon the sincerity of the American people, but it does demsad
thet we think straight and seck the truth,
’ It is 0 sud commentary indeed that the teaching of seligion haa been 20
orely neglected, because Ameticaniam finds ita wast lofty expression le terms
of opiritual development. ‘The Ten Commandments cacnot be improved upon,
nor can the Sermon @n the Mount be surpassed as # guide foe ethical conduct.
‘Yet the godless focces of totalitarianism scoff ot everything spirituel and re-
ligious, They have weed every device at their command to place their ancuth-
pients mpoa lechwe platfoems ead ia educational institutions to expound in «
subtle manoer, of times with 4 veneer of petriotions, their un-American theocies.
‘The American Comenunist Pasty, despite its claims, is act traly « polltical
perty ... it 4s « syatem of iotriges, actnted by fuoaticies. It kaows a0 rules
of decency. Its unpeincipled converts would scil America shost if it would
help their cause of fusthering an alica way of life conccived ia dacknese sod
motivated by greed for powss whose witimate sim is the destraction of our
cherished freedom,
Hntellectual freedom is Aaseciam, Intellectual Uicense and debsuchery is
wo-Americon. Ie tighteous indignation it is tise to drive the debsuchert of
‘Amcesica out la the open, whene their true purposes may be revealed. As we
face the oew exa that lies aheed, let on realize our cespoosibilities to those who
have fought and died thet democracy might live, by dedicating every fibre of
our being to the preservation of the America we love. Let us forever pledge
that we sball keep bese im America a way of life thet ia wholesome demo-
cratic, wheee citizens wall cpasciously and fearkessly as free men.
1 know of ao greater cause; I know of mo cause more entitled to rective
the entiuslastic support of every American intescsted ia the porservation of our
country’s instivations.
‘The struggle in which we exe engaged calls epon every maa, wore, and
dhild to be Americans fret, last and always,
If we wonld protect America, we mast determine that wo group of e:plon-
age agents oF cxbvertt, and no sedition of paid antivAmerican propagentisst
thal ssney as from one American wey of life.
We, of this generation, bare fuced two great mensces ia America —
Fexien sod Communiom. Both are materialistic; both ere totalitarian; both
tre anti-teligious; both are degrading end inhamen. In fact, they differ lite
exept in name, Commnnniae bes beed Pusciom ond Fesclam spewne Com
yf
‘hee 00 place fe America, ae
a ‘The Hin, Tojo sad Masala boa of Sion won it td
3. om the battlefield, All those who stand for the ; Mile
ie tries and defent Red Fescienn lo Ameria by fecusing-wpwe't typ spotlight of
7, public opinion oad by balding ap barsion of yeich 05
. Cannot penatzate, . 4 ie
: To iow Amscica te became tafected wih
2)’ Communion is 4 bewach of ont treat tw teow 7
jf peleciplen, bon fA
mronition througheut the country. Write thom, ton, 1
Tipvect the? tay aoa a cacti tig gion “CONT
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