octrine of Christ assume this
new shining armour of sane aggressiveness, come more into the open, and
throw down the gauntlet to unbelief and indifference everywhere rampant
and openly defiant? For, if conviction is the father of devotion, if
our belief in the mastery of ideas is genuine, we cannot help but be
aggressive. Needless to say we are not asking for vulgar
aggressiveness, we are not asking for cheap sneers and attacks on the
ignorance and the illogical position of others. By aggressiveness, we
mean coming out in defence of truth which it is our privilege and
responsibility to possess. Never have times been more inviting for an
aggressive Catholicism. The great war has been for Protestantism the
acid test. The result is for the Anglican and Evangelical Churches a
complete failure,[2] and, as the soldiers said "a wash-out." They have
lost their grip on the masses who are rapidly slipping into a religious
chaos. The universal disintegration of creeds, strangely combined with
a secret thirst for truth and unity now sweeps the English-speaking
world. Are not these portentous events that manifest, as "The stirring
of the waters," the movement of the Holy Spirit.

Our policy of aggressiveness, if it be true and resolute, will find
expression in an intelligent, active and persevering propaganda.
Propaganda is the dissemination of ideas, with the view of giving them
a strong foothold in the mind. The gradual development of the message
it carries and the recurrence of its lessons at stated intervals are
the principal factors of this great force. To be efficient and
successful our propaganda among our non-Catholic brethren will assume
two distinct forms: The open and the silent form.

The _silent propaganda_ is the spreading of Catholic ideas through the
contact of our every day life with those who are not of our own Faith.
Willingly or unwillingly we are bound to leave an impression of our
belief in the business and social circles into which our life is cast.
Our silence and abstention alone often militate against the Church.
Let then the purity and spirituality of our lives, the honesty of our
commercial relations, the sanctity of our home, bear witness to the
sacredness of our religion and to the seriousness of its teachings.

A true Catholic life is in itself a living antithesis of the prevalent
neo-pagan ideals, and stands as the best proof of our Faith's sincerity
and of the depth of its conviction. "