[8] "THERE IS STILL ANOTHER lurking danger in connection with fashion and social codes. Our Catholic women are practically everywhere in the minority. In aspiring to social prominence, some accept prevalent standards that are manifestly unchristian. As every Catholic woman individually should be herself and stand firmly on Catholic principles, refusing absolutely to make concessions to the pagan spirit of the day, whether it be noisy, or cultured, or intriguing; so every group of Catholic women in the minority must likewise stand inflexibly against the insidious encroachments of neo-pagamism in our modern social life. This is not because we have the least desire to stand as a group apart, but because we cleary recognize that for us there can be no possible compromise where the very fundamental principles of Christian morality are at stake.
"If our Catholic women are to exercise the powerful influence that it is possible for them to exercise, they should have thought not so much of their numbers, or of political affiliations, but rather of the high and ennobling principles by which they must be guided and which are guaranteed by their divine religion. It is simply impossible for any group of women to live truly Catholic lives and to stand unalterably for basic Christian principles without influencing profoundly and permanently the community in which they live."—From Archbishop McNicholas' Sermon at the Cleveland Convention of the N. C. C. W.
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Source: "Archbishop McNicholas Points Out Dangers in Connection with Modern Fashions and Social Codes," National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin 10, no. 6 (November 1928): 8.
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