ENGLAND AS STRONG AS HER MORAL LAWS

—Fr. Martindale, S.J.
" In proportion to her abandonment of the Moral Law hogand has grown steadily weaker.
If she would become strong again in all departments of national life she must return litst to the standards of Christian morality."
This statement formed part of a sermon delivered in Chelsea last Sunday by Fr. C. C. Martindale, of the Society of Jesus. It was Fr. Martiodult's second public appearance and first sermon since his return to London after his sojourn in vo oss during the German occupation.
He proposes dealing with various aspects of Divine and civil law and their relations to each other, in a series of sermons, the second of which will be delivered in Farm Street Church of the Jesuit Fathers on Sunday.
Fr. Martindale took as his exemplar St. Thomas More, who had deliberated on the Sacramental aspect of the ways before him and had chosen the Sacrament of Marriage as his Sacrament in preference to Holy Orders, St. Thomas had held out before Henry, for the supernatural values of Marriage. These were the values that had to be kept constantly before us. As the Stute aspired to becoming almighty its attacks on marriage and the family grew proportionately.
The Catholic parent had the right and duty to insist on the type of schools
he wanted • I ER EFORD HO USE
Fr. Martindale made his first appearance in public earlier in the month when be visited Hereford House for the opening session of the Newman Association's 1945-46 international meetings.
in a short address he said how pleased he was after an absence of four years to be among members of the University Catholic Federation. During his sojourn in Denrgark he had often wondered what woula be the fate of Ictx Raltlatla and its confederate groups throughout Europe and how the groups in Britain would fare amid the difficulties of war. Ile returned, he said, to see the development of an International Centre at Hereford House and to learn of the work of the Newman Association and the Union of Catholic students which had expanded in spite of the war and which had led the revival of Fax Ramona throughout the Regional Congress in London.