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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 6, June 24th, 1949.

Laying a Ghost

Laying a Ghost

It is time that it was made clear that no Christian body of any importance is fascist. Listen to Pious XI on Fascism: "A regime based on an ideology which clearly resolves itself into a true, a real pagan worship of the State . . . the Statolatry which is no less in contrast with the natural rights of the family that it is in contradiction with the superatural rights of the Church." June 1931.

Every other Christian body has expressed similar views. There arc similar and stronger quotations condemning inequitable wage systems, the exercise of competition so that it offends the common good and reforms in the present system for the benefit of the people in any nation as a whole, Statements which make the suggestion that the Church only worries about the hereafter as ridiculous as the person who is ignorant enough to believe and propagate it. All the Churches realise that conditions here and now are vitally important in relation to man's End. Any other assertion is contrary to fact.