It was a day like today.
On November 3, 1950 the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw passed on.
On November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration in Great Britain noted that “His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.”
On this date in 1734 was born Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, Indian fighter, and politician. A few years later in 1755 was born Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born future queen of France who was to meet her end at the guillotine during the French Revolution after purportedly recommending cakes to starving French peasants. Also born on this date in 1865 was Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States.
Today in the Western Church is All Souls Day, which is a commemoration that dates back to the 9th century AD, is the day on which ceremonies are performed for the souls of the faithful departed. It became a generalized feast in the West by 998 AD. In Naples, it became the custom to thrown open mausoleums which were lighted up with torches and decked with flowers while crowds thronged through the vaults to visit departed loved ones.
Words of Wisdom: “If by ‘interference in politics’ is meant the interference by the clergy in the political realm of the State, the Church is unalterably opposed to it. For the Church teaches that the State is supreme in the temporal order. But when politics ceases to be politics and begins to be a religion, when it claims supremacy over the soul of man, when it reduces him to a grape for the sake of the wine of collectivity, when it limits his destiny to be a servant of Moloch, when it denies both the freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, when it competes with religion on its own ground, the immortal soul that is destined for God, then religion protests. And when it does, its protest is not against politics but against a counter-religion that is anti-religious.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Characters of the Passion.
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