"I stand before you to-night as the one man in

this audience who has any right to call himself a Communist," With this challenge, Fr, Agnellus Andrew, 0.F.M., opened a talk on " Communism or Christ," before an audience of 300 at the Old Trafford Technical Institute, Manchester, last Wednesday.
Though Fr. Agnellus, before his address, threw out a challenge to " let questions rip," the opponents of Christian thought were shy when, at the end of the 90-minutes lecture, the Chairman, Mr. Frank Doyle, opened the meeting for questions. ,,I live in a community which has no personal property of its own," said Fr. Agnellus. "Every penny I earn I am bound ttndrr vow In nos,: on to my community. My whole life, aspir
ations, anu meals shar wire errors with whom I live in the closest possible communism."
But, he added, there was a vast difference between that kind of Communism—the Communism of Christ— and the Communism of Marx, Engels, Lenin or Stalin, with which the greater part of the world was confronted today.
Man's Freedom The three points of present-day Comniunism, which were all at variance arid opposed to fundamental Christian thought and practice, were: 1. The Communistic doctrine of pure and utter materialism; that this life on earth was the be all and end all of human purpose and human existence without any question of a spiritual existence, the existence of a God or a creator, or of a heaven after death. 2. The Communistic doctrine of attacking and depriving man of his right of private ownership, either of property or of anything else. 3. The Communistic doctrine of devoting themselves to relentless class warfare with the object of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. Fr. Agnellus said that the Church believed that man ultimately owed his existence to God; that man was here in the world to develop and fulfil as far as was given to him, and that life
must be ordered in any just society in thc way best calculated to enable man to fulfil himself most perfectly, and
that anything, any society, any political, social or economic process which impeded man from achieving perfect fulfilment was an error.