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for knowledge. The most embarrassing of these outpourings 

 are the vitrioHc attacks on scientists in which the epithets 

 " godless " and " atheistic " are cast with irresponsible abandon. 

 Catholic scientists are embarrassed and humiliated by them, 

 and are hard put to it to explain to their non-Catholic col- 

 leagues that such effusions represent editorial opinion, and not 

 the official stand of the Church. 



It would be most advantageous if every Catholic periodical 

 were to have one or more competent Catholic scientists on its 

 editorial staff, or available as consultants. Nothing on science 

 would be published without their approval and, more positively, 

 they would write, or commission, timely, popular articles on 

 scientific subjects, A program such as this would make the 

 Catholic reader more aware of the importance of science in his 

 life, and would put in proper perspective the relations between 

 science and religion. 



The News Service of the National Catholic Welfare Con- 

 ference might do well to establish a panel of scientists as con- 

 sultants on whom it could call for advice on its releases con- 

 cerning scientific matters. Catholics would, on the one hand, be 

 spared the embarrassment of ill-advised attacks on science and 

 scientists, and, on the other, accept with confidence news of 

 science appearing in the Catholic press. 



The regrettable demise of the Catholic Round Table of Sci- 

 ence has already been mentioned. Although its dissolution had 

 been inevitable, many of the members missed the annual ex- 

 change of views at the convention of the A A AS. Some of them 

 had approached the present writer regarding the possibility 

 of reviving it. The notion had little initial appeal in view of the 

 difficulties involved. Encouragement came with the forwarding 

 of an enquiry from Mr. Kenneth Kelleher, a research physicist 

 then with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. Mr. 

 Kelleher asked Monsignor Hochwalt, executive secretary of 

 the National Catholic Educational Association, whether there 

 existed an organization of Catholic scientists and suggested, if 

 there did not, that one be formed for the purpose of discussing 

 problems concerning religion, philosophy and science. Mon- 



