The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 24, 1960 Page: 21 of 24
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The Cardinal said:
“The first point concerns the
cinema in general. One would like
to see the civil authority intervene
in a more decisive way for the
banishment from public life of de-
grading spectacles, whatever be
Puerto Rican Politico
Sees Rough Sledding For
Catholic-Oriented Party
By WILLIAM E. RING
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Vatican 3-Point Plan
Seeks to Protect Youth
From Objectionable Film
VIENNA —(NC)— The Holy See has proposed a program
to safeguard young people from the harmful effects of ob-
jectionable movies.
The program was outlined in a letter written in the name
of His Holiness Pope John XXIII by His Eminence Domenico
Cardinal Tardini, Vatican Secretary of State.
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AUSTIN — Brother Raymond Fleck, C.S.C., president of
St. Edward’s University, represented the Catholic High Edu-
cation Committee of the Knights of Columbus last Saturday
and Sunday at two regional conferences of the Knights.
Saturday night the first of the conferences was held in
Halletsville following a barbecue served by the K. of C. Coun-
cil of that city. The second conference at which Brother Ray-
mond spoke was at Kingsville Sunday morning.
The conferences, according to Edwin D. Gunter, executive
assistant of the state council of the Knights, were primarily
for grand knights and financial secretaries, but the other of-
ficers and degree corps of the various councils all interested
members were, invited to attend.
AUSTIN — Red tape, delays and other difficulties result-
ing from failure to make a will were detailed by John Selman
•at the Friday meeting of the Serra Club of Austin.
Selman indicated that the Texas community property law
brought some easing of the situation when a husband or wife
dies intestate, but that it still leaves a lot of problems. He cited
for instance the case of separate property, such as an inheri-
tance, also the case of a husband and wife dying simultaneously,
as in an accident.
Other matters that could well be taken care of by Catho-
lics, the speaker pointed out, are provisions for Masses, donations
to a parish, the Catholic education of children, and similar items.
Their suffrage is no small power.
“They must insist that the State
or government respect and pro-
tect their inherent liberty to bring
up their children in accordance
with the law of God and His
Church.”
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here for the Democratic national
convention, said the one big hur-
dle the new Christian Action party
must vault before it can function
is the opposition of Puerto Rico’s
Gov. Luis Munoz Marin.
Mr. Vidal, who is a Catholic, is
sympathetic neither to the Chris-
tian Action party (CAP) nor to
Gov. Munoz Marin. He said that
putting the Catholic-oriented party
into the field was tantamount to
putting the Catholic Church into
'politics.
Mr. Vidal said Gov. Munoz Ma-
rin has been in power for 20 years.
Organizers of the CAP have said
it has been just that length of
time that the political parties of
Puerto Rico have failed to act
favorably on Catholic-backed legis-
lation.
- The final incident which led
directly to formation of the Chris-
tian Action party came in May,
when the Puerto Rican House of
Representatives killed a Catholic-
supported bill to set up a released-
time religious education program
for public school pupils.
Mr. Vidal explained what the
CAP is up against before it can
; Antioch, Turkey, said that union
’ among Christian churches will be
■ strong deterrent to communism.
! Union, however, should be based
’ on apostolic tradition,” he added.
- “There was a time when the
: communists had power in the Mid-
dle East,” the patriarch said, “but
today the governments there are
persecuting them.”
He stated that the influence of
the communists has been reduced
to almost nothing in the Middle
East, including Iraq where he was
born.
There are approximately 2,000
Syrian Orthodox in Detroit.
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. to fill out the required affidavits
( certifying that the required num-
ber of voters are registered. The
judges could all go fishing at the
same time, you know.”
(Meanwhile, in San Juan, R.R.,
a leader of the Christian Action
10 per cent of the voters of a
district or of a town. Obtaining
the required number in a district
permits the party to function in
all towns in that particular dis-
trict. But a 10 per cent registra-
tion in a town restricts the party
to functioning only in the particu-
lar town.
To function in all seven districts
in the island, Mr. Vidal estimated,
the CAP must register some 70,-
000 voters between now and the
August registration deadline if it
is to place. candidates in the field
in the November elections.
Mr. Vidal said this is a tremen-
dous task, but added that Catho-
lics number more than 90 per cent
of the island’s population and
could rally successfully to the
cause.
He said there is another ob-
stacle in the path of the CAP.
After the required 10 per cent of
the voters are obtained, they must
be certified by a judge of the
voting district.
“All of these judges are mem-
bers of Gov. Munoz Marin’s party,”
Mr. Vidal said, “and there may
be some difficulty in getting them
primarily on the family and the
Church.” But, he declared, “the
civil authority, for its part, can-
not ignore the spiritual welfare
of young people.
“On the contrary, in view of the
common good and in harmony
with the family and the Church,
it must assure them of the protec-
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Syrian Orthodox
Prelate Calls
For Christian Unity
DETROIT — (NC) — A Syrian
Orthodox prelate visiting here has
called for unity of all Christian
churches to face the growing com-
munist threat.
Patriarch Mar Ignatius Yacoub
III, head of the Syrian Orthodox
Church which has its seat in
contributors had been contacted
for the project. ,
The university announced in
September, 1959, it would produce
the new encyclopedia, which will
replace the original Catholic En-
cyclopedia, published 53 years ago.
MSGR. MCDONALD said at the
time the project would cost more
than four million dollars. The en-
cyclopedia will be issued in 15-
volume sets by the McGraw-Hill
Book Company, Inc., of New York.
The headquarters building here,
adjacent to the campus at 701
Monroe St., N.E., has been com-
pletely equipped with modern
business equipment, lighting, air
conditioning and service facilities.
Msgr. McDonald said the new
encyclopedia will cover the doc-
trine, organization, activities and
history of the Catholic Church. It
will also include all institutions,
religious, philosophies, scientific
developments and various move-
ments that have affected the
Church.
LOS ANGELES — (NC) — The
newly formed Catholic-oriented
party in Puerto Rico faces rough
sledding, according to a veteran
politician from that island.
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(NC) — The Catholic archbishop
here declared that “the Catholic
Church will never assent” to any
attempt to have the education of
children “completely • subjected”
to the government.
Archbishop Patrick Finbar Ryan,
O.P., of Port-of-Spain in a pastoral
letter took issue with the report
of a special education commission
of the government of Trinidad and
Tobago. The general tenor of the
commission’s report, he said, in-
volves “a camouflaged claim to
exclusive control of education by
the state or government.”
Against this, Archbishop Ryan
reiterated the Catholic teaching
that it is parents who have the
primary responsibility for the edu-
cation of their children, and that
it is the task of the state to aid
them.
Asserting the right of Catholics
to their own schools, the prelate
quoted from Pius Xi’s encyclical,
Divini Illius Magistri:
“Let it be loudly proclaimed and 4
generally understood that when
l the Church demands Catholic 1
schools for her children, she is not :
raising a question of party politics 1
but simply performing a religious
duty rigidly imposed upon her. •
She has no desire to divorce her 1
children from the national spirit
and way of life. On the contrary, ।
she wishes to mould them in ac-
cordance with it in the best sense i
and in the way most advantageous 1
i to the nation. For every true Cath- i
olic, trained in accordance with ;
Catholic doctrine, is by that very <
The Cardinal acknowledged that
under any legitimate form of gov- “the education of youth depends
and towns. To function, a new
Alfred Vidal of Santurce, P.R., party must obtain registration of
function.
Puerto Rico is divided into
seven political districts. Within
these districts are 77 voting cities
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR 5A
July 24, 1960 Lone Star Catholic Edition
. spectacles are the less well pro-
fact found to be an excellent citi- tected and more impressionable
zen, a sincere lover of his country, souls of the young.”
ing instructed in its efforts to com-
ply with the required registration
procedures.
(Mario Davila, acting president
of the CAP, said • that despite a
pledge by Gov. Munoz Marin to
help the new party eliminate diffi-
culties in the registration process,
the situation is “unchanged.” Mr.
Davila stated: “Despite the gover-
nor’s word, the election board is
handling only one list daily and
judges are no cooperating.”
(In Comerio, 20 miles west of
San Juan, local leaders of the CAP
asserted that they have been warn-
ed by the mayor and other city
officials not to continue their ef-
forts on behalf of the party.
(Bishops James P. Davis of San
Juan and James E. McManus,
C.SS.R., of Ponce, P.R., recently
issued a letter urging Catholic
clergy and laity to help with the
CAP’S registration efforts.) '
Mr. Vidal said juvenile delin-
quency has risen rapidly in Puerto
Rico in the past five or six years.
He said that 15 or 20 years ago
a case of dope addition would
have been a scandal on the island,
but today it is commonplace.
It is because of this deteriorat-
ing moral climate that the Church
is seeking passage of a released-
time bill for religious instruction
of public school children in Puerto
Rico, he stated. There is no such
instruction in the schools today,
he added, and the majority of
Puerto Rican children attend pub-
lic schools.
Mr. Vidal said, however, that he
believes the Church’s aims could
be obtained without a political or-
ganization like the CAP.
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Headquarters for New
Encyclopedia Opened
Washington —(NC)— The Catholic University of Ameri-
ca’s headquarters for the five-year project of producing a new
English-language Catholic Encyclopedia was formally opened
here.
Msgr. William J. McDonald, rector of the university and
editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia, said that more than 100
the public for which they were
produced.
“The best undertakings in fa-
vor of youth would, in fact, run
the risk of bearing little fruit
should youth be able to be led
to believe that once they have
reached a certain age, they will be
free of every objective rule of
morality and not exposed to the
dangers inherent to human na-
ture . . .”
The letter was addressed to
Msgr. Jean Bernard, president of
the International Catholic Office
for Motion Pictures. It was read
at the office’s study congress on
“Movies, Youth and Public Author-
ities,” held here from July 10 to
14.
The Vatican’s three-point pro-
gram calls for:
1) The banning by public au-
thorities of “degrading spectacles”
regardless of the public they were
produced for.
2) Effective enforcement of
laws forbidding youth • to attend
movies judged fit only for adults.
3) Production of movies, specifi-
cally for the young.
Cardinal Tardini noted that “it
is unfortunately a notorious fact
that every year•sees an increase
in the number of immoral films,
and the first victims of these bad
K In his conclusion, Archbishop
■ Ryan reminded the Cathlics of
F these islands that “heaven helps
i those who help themselves?’ To
Lf this he added:
F “Catholics are roughly one-third
of the population and include
representatives of every section
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