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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 9. August 10th 1949

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If Communism is opposed to Catholicism it is impossible to subscribe to both ideologies. I do think it possible to believe in the desirability of a socialist state for reasons other than those prescribed by Communist apologists. Furthermore, one may ask to what extent politics and theology are coextensive. I think that [unclear: Communism] could be condemned on moral grounds, but surely there are moral offences just as great committed by Fascists which did not incur excommunication. One is justified in concluding that in the light of the Vatican's past reticence the present decree has been made on political grounds.

We then asked him his opinion of the Papal Bull; he declined to answer.