The Light of the East August 1943

And as to the lasting effects of Christianity on the societies and nations which once accepted and practised it we have the testmony of the present Pope that the habit of Christian living handed down by their ancestors has shaped the fashion of their minds and struck deeper roots in them than they know ". But this explanation only deepens the obscurity of the second mystery of Comunism th [...] The Nyaya-Vaisesika on the contrary realized that if there was anything that could not be prsupposed to the causation that thing was the effect since by effect nothing else can be meant than the fruit the result of the activity of the cause — what therefore cannot exist before the causation since it only exists owing and through the causation. [...] What of those who have never cut the life-line of Apostolic Tradition and who to this day profess the same faith as the Fathers Eastern and Western and the Popes and the first seven Ecumenical Councils (4)* in regard to the position and prerogatives in the Church of Peter and his successors ? Admittedly the problem of Roman Claims to call it so has deep dogmatic iplications. [...] He entitled it " The Eastern Churches and the Papacy ". The work is divided into three parts : the first deals with the-period ending with the Council of Nicaea ; the second " the most important section of the book. commences with the foundation of Constantinople.. an event fraught with such tremendous cons111"quences to the history of the Church and deals with the next six Ecumenical C [...] The apple of the orchard's eye Is rotting in the sterile shade And we who carved the woodman's axe Have felt the keenness of the blade.