Signs of the Times  

     "We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him."
                                                                                  Paul Scherer

     "Not a man exists who talks bravely against the Church, but does not owe it to the Church that he can talk at all."                                     Cardinal John Henry Newman

      "Freedom, as we understand it in America, is not an economic discovery.  It is not...even a political discovery.  Freedom, in the last analysis, is a religious discovery."

                                                      William J. Grede, Boad Pres./Nat'l Assn. of Manufacturers

      "Freedom is a need of the soul and nothing else.  It is a striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom.  God alone is the incitor and guarantor of freedom.  He is the only guarantor."
                                                                 Whittaker Chambers, from "Witness"

     "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohbiting the free exercise thereof."
                                                                             Constitution of the United States-Amend.1


                              WORLD EVENTS AND MARIAN FEASTS

    During WWII, Italy surrendered tot he Allies on September 8, 1943 -- the Feast of the Nativity of Mary.

    The signing of the Peace Treaty in Japan at the end of WWII took place on August 15, 1945 -- Feast of the Assumption of Mary.

     Six years later Japan signed a formal pact in San Francisco pertaining to its surrender.  It was called the Second World War Peace Treaty.  It was signed on September 8, 1951 -- the Feast of the Nativity of Mary.

     The signing in Washington of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty (INF) by M. Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, abolishing medium range missiles in Europe, took place on December 8, 1987 -- the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

   The Berlin Wall fell on January 1, 1990 -- the Feast of Mary, the Mother of God.

    The Communist Party died in Russia on August 22, 1991, when M. Gorbachev survived the aborted coup by the Communists -- Feast of the Queenship of Mary.

     The leaders of Russia announced the dissolution of the Soviet Union and agreed to establish a Commonwealth of Independent States--in effect, a new nation -- Sunday, December 8, 1991 -- Feast of the Immaculate Conception.


  to be continued.....