Philperiodicals

No Footsteps coming out

The Cross: National Catholic Magazine was the official bi-monthly organ of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines, a catholic order brought to the Philippines in 1905 and filipinized in 1918. The Cross included all kinds of opinion articles, but also reader’s contributions, prayers, news digest, and book reviews. During the Cold War, it followed a strong anti-communist line, following Piux XII's encyclical Summi Maeroris (1950). On May 1950, it expressed the fears of Asian Catholics, after the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese civil war and the establishment of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 with an editorial cartoon, “No Footsteps coming out” from the Moscow Cave. The image, portraying Mao dressed like a Mandarin, suggested the end of traditional Chinese culture, to be devoured by the Soviet Union, and the submission of the Chinese State to the Soviet strategy as it had happened in Eastern Europe. In March 1950 the Chinese government launched a Stalinist anti- counterrevolutionaries campaign the image interpellated the reader's fear of an enemy now at the doors of the Philippines. As the front page of the number shows, the Catholic Church saw itself especially menaced by these soviet victories.

Fecha

February 1956

Fuente

“No footsteps coming out”, The Cross, Vol. V, N.º 6, May 1950, p. 3

Relación

Related bibliography (if the event, topic or character that the object is related to has
been studied in a book, article etc. it may be indicated here).

Kauffman, Christopher J. “[About the Cover]: Columbus and Columbianism and the Knights
of Columbus, 1882-1900.” American Catholic Studies 118, no. 4 (2007): 93–100.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44195574 .
Morgan, Joseph G. “A Change of Course: American Catholics, Anticommunism, and the
Vietnam War.” U.S. Catholic Historian 22, no. 4 (2004): 117–30.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25154936.
Zafra, Nicolas. “Review of American Institutions in the Philipines (1898-1941), American
Business and Philippine economic development and Americans on the Philippine Frontiers,
by Lewis E. Gleeck”. Philippine Studies 25, no. 1 (1977): 124–26.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/42632374

Materia

The Cross: National Catholic Magazine
Knights of Columbus in the Philippines
Mao Zedong