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is gratified in an unhealthy atmosphere «... This evidence, coming as it does from a body absolutely above suspicion as a result of thorough investigations and methodical inquiries conducted from 1925 to 1927 by the Secretariat of the League of Nations, renders unnecessary the producing of proofs, which can easily be multiplied. No other justification is needed by Catholics who, in the name of their faith and with all their charity, occupy themselves with, and are perturbed by, the cinema.
Who can then find fault with them ?
It is the right of all to take an interest in what is nobody's monopoly ; at the same time, as Mgr. Julien, Bishop of Arras, said in the course of the address he delivered at the Mass of the Catholic Cinema Congress in the Madeleine Church of Paris on November 7th, 1928, «there is nothing in the spirit of our organizations that can give umbrage to the ideas or interests of film producers in France or even in the world ».
It should not be thought that these organizations are concerned merely with certain productions of a religious character or with wTorks adapted to children ; on the contrary, they are interested in the cinema as a wThole. They are not known as the« Committee of the Catholic Cinema » or as the « International Office of the Catholic Cinema », but as the « Catholic Committee of the Cinema » and « International Catholic Office of the Cinema ». They could not have acted otherwise because all films are always, more or less, « educational » or « anti-educational ».
It is, however, far from our thoughts, as a few foolish and malignant people have insinuated, to turn all picture-houses into austere temples or every screen into a tedious teacher of morality. The Church has never recognised as its children those who want to rob the flowers of their colour and fragrance . We do not insist that the screen shall become an untiring « preacher of morals » ; we know and teach the adage « everything at its proper season » and « everything in its proper place ». More than this, we affirm (and this may cause surprise) that the « moralising film » should be banished from the public picture-theatres, convinced as we are that the cinema can hope to « teach public