THE BISHOP WAS " UNIMPRESSED "

Cease criticising Communists and get on with the job of securing social justice yourselves was the advice a bishop gave delegates to the National Catholic Social Action Congress held recently in Cleveland (U.S.).
The bishop was Mgr. Lucey, Bishop of Amarillo, Texas; and his vigour was emulated by 75 per cent. of the delegates, who in their discussions on labour, foreign relations, wages, etc., outdealed New Deal proposals in enthusiasm for radical reform.
Mgr. Lucey said: " There is much talk in our country to-day of the threat of Communism, Fascism, and dictatorship. Personally this sound and fury leaves us unimpressed.
" A handful of Communists will not take over our Government, nor will the Fascists have their way. No man who wishes to be a dictator has yet appeared on the American scene.
"The threat to our Christian democracy comes not from the radical and the zealot, but from the apathy and lethargy of a Christian people.
" The major threat is not in the Communists; it is in ourselves. If instead of denouncing and opposing we would emphasise and practise social justice, Communism would die the death it deserves.
"Radicalism feeds on injustice. Let our battle be for human rights."