518 PATRICK H. YANCEY 



the Alhertus Magnus Guild. The annual meeting of the Guild 

 has been held every year during Christmas Week in connection 

 with the A A AS convention, since this organization embraces all 

 the sciences. Luncheon or dinner meetings are held at the 

 conventions of other learned societies, such as the American 

 Chemical Society, American Physical Society and the American 

 Institute of the Biological Sciences, Since 1956 the Guild has 

 sponsored, at each meeting, a " Science Sunday." A Solemn 

 Mass is celebrated at the Cathedral to which all attending 

 the convention are invited, and at which a sermon is given on 

 the relations between science and religion. This has been very 

 well received, and similar programs are now sponsored by 

 other faiths. 



Local chapters of the Guild have been organized with great 

 success in many cities. The smaller groups hold more frequent 

 meetings, and devote themselves to special projects: lectures, 

 the promotion of scientific careers among students in Catholic 

 schools, the study of the handling by textbooks of matters 

 relating to faith and morals. 



Even before the founding of the Guild, the writer had 

 attended the World Congress of Pax Romana, the international 

 movement of Catholic intellectuals, at Bonn in 1953. This 

 organization of Catholic professors and students has as its 

 purpose the bringing of Catholic influence into intellectual and 

 social movements, such as UNESCO, throughout the world. 

 It is organized by both national (the United States member is 

 the Catholic Committee for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs) 

 and professional groups and meets every year in a different 

 country. 



Impressed by the work of the organization, the writer sought 

 the advantages of affiliation with it for the Guild. The Guild 

 voted to apply for membership in 1954, and this was done at 

 the 1955 meeting of Pax Romana in Nottingham, England. 

 Due to the good offices of Sir Hugh Taylor, then president of 

 Pax Romana as well, the Guild was admitted as a Corre- 

 sponding Member. In 1958 the Scientific Secretariat of Pax 

 Romana in a conference at Louvain decided to organize the 



