Our sympathies to The National Football League Players on the loss of their recent strike.

The mark of a mature personality is in the wisdom they show in their relationships with other people. This wisdom is esential for happiness and spiritual growth. It is very necessary for personal success as well as for social welfare and advancement. When building a career, what a person knows, what his equipment and training is, is not enough. Success is not simply a question of how much skill one has, but of how well he can get along with others. Many well educated and talented people fall in society because of arrogance, pride, and lack of personal charm and warmth. Others with less education and talent many times reach great heights because they are endowed with loyalty, humility, and cooperativeness and most of all morals and ethics.
Relations and how they are handled are essential to the growth of the individual soul, because the individual in his essence is not an isolated entity. We grow through social intercourse with others. We are inseperable from groups, the community and the country. We all belong to a larger perspective international family. From a broader standpoint the social context of the cosmic whole is then an essential ingredient of the individual. So the development of an individual as an individual requires increasing skill in the adjustment of one's relations to others. It consists in joining hands with others in constructive cooperation without loss of inner freedom and sense of value.
The purpose of life is then not freedom from relations but freedom in and through manifold relations. It is in the midst of a thousand and one social bonds...the bonds of love and action- that dynamic success is built.
Relations shape and mold our characters and determine our happiness and self fulfillment and our success in life.

This September The United States was visited by Pope John Paul II, and though we are not Catholic, we were glad to see this kind and gentle man visit America.
Pope John is the leader of a faith that has a vast influence on America, and he is a leader that we admire greatly. For he stands by the principles of his religion and will not compromise them because of public opinion, but stands fast for those things which he holds to be true. Though we sometimes disagree with him, we must admire him, and the great work that he does.
As long as The Catholic Church has such a leader as this, those who would tear it apart, change it into something else to suit their own perverted interests and desires, will fail in their endeavors and The Church will still be a force for good in the world.