The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 24, 1960 Page: 1 of 24
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The Lone Star
Catholic
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Democratic ticket. Greeley and B.
See Sen. Kennedy, page 7A
Funeral Rites Held for Fr. Gorek
to Rey Catholic Church in Austin
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State League of Texas
Closes 62nd Convention
Kennedy is 3rd Catholic
Presidential Nominee
But more important, the group
provides for education during the
week. The youngsters are either
BRENHAM — Funeral services
for the Rev. Anthony A. Gorek, 84,
chaplain of the Saint Jude Hos-
By THOMAS E. KISSLING
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
Nomination of Sen. John F. Ken-
nedy as the Democratic candidate
for President of the United States
marks the third time that a Catho-
lic was so honored.
No Catholic has ever been elect-
ed President or Vice President of
the U.S.
Both previous nominees were de-
vout and practicing Catholics at
the time of their nomination, and
remained so the rest of their lives.
The first, Charles O’Conor,, was
the candidate of the insurgent
Democrats in 1872. A resident of
Edition of Our Sunday Visitor
Official Newspaper of the Diocese
of Austin -
Three years ago when we arrived in Austin, two people
came to the quonset hut-where we lived to greet us even be-
fore we got unpacked. One was Mary Koock, who is certainly
one of the most gracious women we’ve ever known, and the
other was Remo Picciandra.
Now thousands of people know Remo Picciandra but many
reading or for distribution to oth-
ers. All copies found willing tak-
ers.
Ben G. Reininger, San Antonio,
See Texas League, page 7A
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New York City, where he was born
in 1804, he was the son of an Irish
immigrant. He became a promi-
nent attorney and won many fam-
ous cases.
Mr. O’Conor, though not oppos-
ed to slavery, was a firm believer
in state’s rights. In January, 1861,
he presided over the so-called
hand persecution of the church
at the hands of the Bolshevists.
He repeatedly defied the Bolshe-
vists and was the last priest to lose
his parish in Eastern Poland.
One Sunday, after Father Gorek
had completed first communion
services for a large group of 400
children while celebrating Mass in
the street, the Bolshevists came
and closed his parish.
HE WAS arrested and sent away
to slave labor camps in Siberia.
There, he was required to perform
manual labor, cutting and logging
timber at a camp consisting of
about 900 prisoners.
After spending 11 months in the
camp, he had the good fortune of
being one member of a group of
36 priests who were exchanged
for the same number of high-rank-
ing Bolshevist prisoners from the
re-established nation of Poland.
After living in Poland for a
short time, Father Gorek left for
the Vatican in Rome to study and
received a Doctor of Canon Law
Degree.
“Pine Street Meeting,” in an ef-
• ' fort to dissuade the South from
25 secession. He disapproved of the
use of armed force to coerce the
00 i rebellious states. At the end of
the Civil War he became, with
S Horace Greeley and others, one of
® the sureties on the bond of Con-
' federate President Jefferson Davis,
a He acted as his senior counsel
| when he was charged with, treason.
His sympathies for the South
A
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er convention at Louisville, in
September. They nominated O’Con-
or for President and John Quincy
Adams of Massachusetts for Vice
President. Both men were also se-
lected by the Labor-Reform party
when their original nominees de-
clined to run.
Although O’Conor, refused to be
a candidate and did not take part
in the campaign, his name along
with that of Adams appeared on
the ballot as the Straight-Out
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of House' Bills, H.R. 7379 and H.R.
11516, which deal with obscene lit-
erature, and urged members to
write their representatives in Con-
gress to support their passage. Op-
position to the admission of Red
China to United Nations Member-
ship was voiced in Resolutions ad-
dressed to the Resolutions and
Platform Committees of both the
Democratic and Republican Na-
tional Conventions. As is custo-
mary in its first official Declara-
tion of Principles it affirmed its
loyalty to His Holiness, Pope John
XXIII.
The 377 registered delegates
and other visitors heard His Excel-
lency, Most Rev. John L. Morkov-
sky, Bishop of Amarillo, and Jo-
seph Meisner, Field Secretary of
the National Catholic Rural Life
Conference, Des Moines, Iowa,
speak on the farm problems, and
among other suggestions and rec-
ommendations, urged that parents
should use proper planning and
at the right time so that the fam-
ily farm may be passed on to one
of the children and not fall into
Requiem Held,
For Austin
Newspaperman
AUSTIN — John L. Sulak, edi-
tor of the Fayette County Record,
died Thursday, July 14, in a San
Antonio hospital at the age of 52.
The funeral Mass was said at Sac-
red Heart Church, La Grange, an
July 16.
Survivors were Mrs. Sulak, a
daughter, Jane Frances, a son,
Timothy, and former State Senator
and Mrs. L. J. Sulak, his parents.
Besides being editor of the
newspaper, Mr. Sulak was presi-
dent of the South Texas Life In-
surance Co. and was active in
veterans affairs.
Mr. Sulak,was a graduate of St.
Edward’s University, class of 1931,
having received the degree of
bachelor of arts in journalism,
magna cum laude.
from James Connally Air Base who
first put it into action. But the
whole town has rallied to its sup-
port.
The Knights of Columbus have
enthusiastically supported the pro-
ject, so have the sodalities, the
Castle Club, the Holy Name So-
ciety. .Father Fred C. Nachtigal
was assigned to act as administra-
i tor of the organization. Dick
Chmielewski was named chair-
man and Staff Sergeant Frank
Hines became treasurer.
Volunteers go to the Home to
bring the youngsters to the church
on Sunday morning. The superin-
tendent of the Home has given his
fullest cooperation because he
wants each of the youngsters to be
be done in other cities they will
be glad to correspond with others
: who want to know how their group
was organized. They’ll also be glad
: for financial help from those who
i want to help sponsor the program.
The address is Operation State
. Home, Box 26, Waco.
When Dick left Waco it was
. only for a little while. He’ll be (
back in four years and although j
he was reared in Minnesota, he
considers Waco his hometown. His ,
children and his wife’s mother 1
went with him — his wife died ,
suddenly a few years ago — but '
more than this went with him. He 1
See Editor’s Desk, page 7A ]
HE CAME to America in 1932,
arriving in Vancouver, British Co-
lumbia, as a visiting priest. Later
he went to Michigan where, be-
cause of impaired health, his
physician advised him to move to
either Florida or Texas, where he
could spend some time along a
warm sea coast.
The late Bishop Byrne of Gal-
veston invited Father Gorek to
his Galveston Diocese, appointing
him pastor, of a parish in Palacios.
In September, 1949, he became
chaplain of Saint Francis Hos-
pital here and later Saint Jude
Hospital where he spent the re-
mainder of his life.
FATHER GOREK was an Apos-
tolic Notary who helped with the
tabulation of votes during the
election of the late Pope Pius XII.
This honor was extended him for
the election of the present Pope
John XXIII, which he declined
because of bad health.
Survivors include two brothers,
Franz and Gerhardt Gorek, both of
whom live in Poland.
the hands of the commercial farm-
■ ing interests.
1 Bishop, Morkovsky was also the
celebrant of a Solemn Pontifical
Mass, Wednesday morning during
which Father R. J. Gronle, Assist-
ant Pastor of St. Mary’s Freder-
icksburg in his sermon, using as
his text from St. John’s Gospel,
“That they all may be one, as the
Father in Me and I in thee: that-
they also may be one in Us: That
the world may believe that Thou
has sent Me,” and then bringing
to his listeners the purposes of
the founding of the Catholic State
League, one of whom stated “A
Union of all Catholic Soiceties in
Texas.”
On Wednesday evening’s pro-
gram St. Thomas Society of Slaton
was awarded a plaque as winner
in the Membership Drive Contest.
Also the local St. Joseph’s Society
as a remembrance of the Conven-
tion presented St. Mary’s Parish
with a beautiful Ciborium. Father
Albert G. Henkes, in the name of
the Central Bureau of the Catholic
Central Union accepted a beautiful
Chalice presented by the Catholic
Life Insurance Union in memory
of Father Jacob Lenzen, who for
many years served as Spiritual Ad-
visor of the League. It is to be
given to a missionary in the for-
eign Missions. Father Bertin Roll,
National Director of the Archcon-
fraternity of Christian Mothers,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, address-
ed the meeting on the “Inside
Story in the Home” and kept his
audience interested by his humor-
ous presentation of the problems
in a Christian Home and Family.
Mr. Meisner also spoke on this
program.
In the Annual Rural Life Con-
test, six awards were presented to
three girls, namely Vivian War-
minski, White Deer; Margaret
Fiedler, Westphalia, and Kathryn
Matus, Moravia; and three boys:
Norman Warminski, White Deer;
Eugene Dierschke, Rowena, and
Joe Sagebiel, Fredericksburg. Ad-
ditional Awards in the National
Catholic Rural Life Conference’s
“God-Home-Country” Contest were
given to Joe Sagebiel, Fredericks-
burg, and Joan Jacoby, Stonewall.
The Mission Exhibit, annually
sponsored by the National Cath-
olic Women’s Union, Section, Tex-
as, under the chairmanship of Mrs.
Laura Sutter, New Braunfels, dis-
played the work of this group,
which included 170 items for the
altar, and hundreds of items for
the Missions. These articles are
given gratis to any priest or mis-
sionary who needs them and makes
his request to the group.
The Press Committee, under the
chairmanship of James Dryer, Ro-
wena, displayed 160 different Cath.
who know him won’t know who
I’m talking about until I tell you
he is known as Joe the Barber.
Joe looks like Danny Thomas with
a nose bob, has a singing and
speaking voice like Danny, too. He
has long been a favorite With the
Brothers at St. Ed’s and with
people all over town who know
him.
A member of St. Ignatius par-
ish, he has a houseful of children
— I forget whether it is five or
six — and a lovely wife. I men-
tion him now because Joe, who is
my barber when I remember to
get a haircut, called to ask me to
say that he’s moved his barber
shop into the Terrace Motel. “You
can add that I will make appoint-
• ments by phone,” he said.
Now obviously I can’t give any
such information. That would be
advertising and it doesn’t belong
in the editorial columns. But Joe
is such a pleasant fellow, and
since he was so quick in welcom-
ing us to Austin, I do not want to
explain to him in this public man-
The Convention voiced its oppo-
sition to the “Equal Rights”
Amendment to our Constitution
and encouraged its members to a
greater interest in the Christian
Family Movement: urged women
to more modesty in dress, and a
continued study of the problems of
the “Family Farm,” so that the
present trend of swallowing these
farms up by the large commercial
interests can be halted before it is
too late.
It also recommended the passage
by Bishop Louis J. Reicher. Burial
was in the. Assumption Cemetery
in Austin.
Father Gorek died in Saint Jude
Hospital.
Born in Milow, Poland on June
13, 1876, the Rev. Gorek was once
a prisoner in a Siberian slave lab-
or camp.
He was ordained a Catholic
priest in Poland on Feb. 24, 1903,
and celebrated his Golden Sacer-
dotal Jubilee on Feb. 24, 1953,
while chaplain of Saint Francis
Hospital here.
AFTER HIS ordination, Father
Gorek served as assistant pastor
of several parishes in Eastern Po-
,, .- land. At the close of World War
able to worship in their own faith. I, Father Gorek’s parish Was in-
cluded in the new boundaries of
Soviet Russia.
Here, he experienced first
■■■■v ,, otP attending private schools.
JULY 24, I960
FREDERICKSBURG—The Cath-
olic State League in its closing
session here July 14th strongly
urged our citizens to keep them-
selves informed on present world
conditions warning that “all that
is necessary for the triumph of
evil is that good men do nothing,”
protested the discriminatory Fed-
eral Aid to Public Schools Bill re-
cently passed by both Houses of
Congress, which bill contains pro-
vision for funds for general wel-
fare purposes for children, but ex-
hub* eludes such benefits for children
driven by volunteer drivers or by
taxis paid for by the organization
to the Catholic schools in Waco.
On Sundays, the organization pro-
vides social hour entertainment
for the youngsters at the Home.
It has grown into a community
project with the support of dozens
of people. Among the volunteers
some are called Big Brothers, some
Big Sisters. Among the Big Bro-
thers are Henry Snyder, William
Patterson, Captain David Hopkins,
Airman William Walsh, Captain
Ed. Pawelek, Airman Al Esper-
anza, Lieut. Robert Gazzola, Lieut.
Frank Connelly, Lieut. Tim Mc-
Grath, Lieut. John Forrester and
Lieut. Dick Fife.
The Big Sisters include Mrs.
Tony Falsone, Miss Joan Neeley,
Lieut. Nona Espen, Lieut. Patricia
Mikulich and Lieut. Generose
Winnike.
An even longer list of sponsors
includes Major General Karl Trues-
dell and a long list_of others.
Because the group in Waco be-
lieves what they have done can
ner why I can’t make the an-
nouncement.
Dick Chmielewski left Waco last
week. The Air Force shipped him
off to Hawaii and. Dick has left
the town he has chosen as his
home.
But Dick Chmielewski is leaving
behind a kind of a memorial which
will assure him he will be remem-
bered until his overseas tour is
completed and he returns to Waco
permanently.
It is called Project State Home.
Dick, who is a tech sergeant,
recognized that not enough was
being done for the Catholic young-
sters at the Waco State Home, an
orphanage. So he started the pro-
ject that has mushroomed into a
major project that has the en-
thusiastic support of dozens of lay
people and the clergy of Waco.
It was Monsignor J. J. Kearns
who gave the go ahead for the pro- , , , .
ject and it was mostly servicemen- -pita here, were held at the Chris-
1 04 were perhaps the cause of his
ill nomination for the presidency,
when a group of Democrats — re-
Jhh pudiating the action of the Nation-
„dgs al Democratic Convention at Balti-
37880 more, in June, 1872 — held anoth
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