The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 24, 1960 Page: 3 of 24
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Fund for the Republic Booklet
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Catholic Outlook
Fr. McLeaish
now or very soon, necessitating lars annually directly to the poor.
“enormous expenditures.”
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Says U.N. and U.S. Should Be
Neutral on Birth Control Issue
Teachers Prefer Competence
Rejects Ministers' Protests against
New P.S. Superintendent, a Catholic
Synod Urges
Circulation of Catholic
Press at Working Spots
especially high schools. “Who will in the Mystical Body — and let us
finance these in the next genera- remember: “He who has the goods
Priest Cites Opposition
Of Aid to Catholic Schools
Catholic Layman
To Head Elks
The kernel of spiritual aid is the
— Legion of Mary which has fought
to keep the multitude of the spir-
itually unfortunate within Christ’s
Body, the Church.- An inroad into
mental confusion has been at-
, tempted by Catholic family groups
sponsoring conferences for the
married and for those planning
marriage. But the fight has bare-
ly begun — for our impoverished
both by God and His Church. CYC
needs funds to enlarge their suc-
cessful work with our youth.
MATERIAL AID: imagine your-
self as a pastor in a poor parish —
or a rich one. A person comes to
you for material aid — and we
send them to the Catholic Salvage
Catholic Charities
Father Donald McLeaish
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NEW SEMINARY
St. Bonifacius, Minn. —(NC)—
Archbishop William O. Brady of
St. Paul, Minn., will dedicate Jesu-
it College, new seminary of the
Jesuit Fathers’ Wisconsin Prov-
ince, on July 31.
suitable books and publications.
Catholic parents are reminded
of the grave responsibility which
they have of insuring that Catholic
publications are available to all
the family.
Parents are also warned to keep
publications out of the home that
are offensive to Christian morals
and give scandal to the young.
and will they keep the faith?
The day is not in the far flung
future when we shall begin to
make steps against these evils. Fi-
nancial inability and the lack of
trained personnel — and above all
— the lack of sufficient help from
the ones who have time, ability
and money — has made for the
delay. Let us look to the valiant
efforts of the Ladies of Charity to
expand their work:
1st: The Ladies have determined
See Father McLeaish, page 7A
plishing for the good
morality, he states.
Mr. St. John-Stevas
cite evidence that ;
The league also had opposed
the appointment of Mr. Franchina,
who is of Italian ancestry, on the
ground that he does not have a
doctor’s degree. A doctorate is not
listed as a requirement for the
superintendent’s post. Mr. Fran-
china holds two masters degrees
and is working toward a doctor-
ate.
The board of education stated
that the proposal made by the
ministers’ league is “opposed to
good moral and ethical conduct”
and. also is “illegal and retrogres-
sive.”
groups today are working for a
general ban on contraceptives in
the United States.
HE NOTES that only 20 states
and the District of Columbia do
not have laws about birth control.
Of the states that do, only the
laws in Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut have practical effects, he
writes.
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Santa Barbara, Calif. — (NC)—
The U.S. government and the Unit-
ed Nations should be neutral in
the conflict over the use of arti-
ficial birth control, according to
a British Catholic lawyer.
Norman St. John-Stevas argues
in a new Fund for the Republic
booklet that the two bodies should
avoid a commitment to approve or
promote artificial birth control in
recognition of an “irreconcilable
conflict.”
“To dub such a policy one of
allowing the minority to dictate to
the majority is to misstate the is-
sue. It would better be described
as judicious recognition of the ex-
istence of a considerable minority
opinion, the flouting of which
would inevitably lead to serious
THE MINISTERS’ stand that se-
lection of public scool personnel
should be based on “the same re-
ligious proportion” as the "reli-
gious composition of the commun-
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3) Many Catholic schools built panel of material aid rendered the
in the early part' of this century poor is found in the Ladies of
in the larger and well-established Charity organization which dis-
DETROIT — (NC) — Catholic
schools will not receive govern-
ment aid in this or the next gen-
eration because of the opposition
of three powerful groups, the dean
of Boston College’s law school
said here.
Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J.,
told Detroit’s First Friday Club
that the three organizations are
the National Council of Churches,
the National Educational Associa-
tion, and the American Civil Lib-
erties Union.
These groups are so emphatical-
ly opposed to aid for Catholic
schools, Father Drinan stated, that
the possibility of aid to Catholic
schools in the foreseeable future
“seems very dim indeed.”
“Every Catholic is familiar with
the many arguments which are
regularly advanced by Catholic
parents and educators on behalf
of Federal or state aid for Catho-
lic schools,” he said. “While these
arguments seem self-evident to
Catholics, virtually no non-Catho-
lics find them convincing.”
Father Drinan also urged a
diminution of civil peace,” he
writes.
3 does not
any Catholic
trol should agree with this aim in
recognition of “the susceptibilities
of the minority,” he declares.
THE LAWYER also writes that
Catholics would be unwise to imi-
tate U.S. Protestant efforts to leg-
islate morality, such as the late
19th Century anti-birth control
state laws and recent anti-gam-
bling and liquor statutes.
By seeking a ban on the use of
general sale of contraceptives,
Catholics would be supporting an
unenforceable law and would be
causing more injury to their own
church than they would be accom-
The day shall not come when
we will not have to ponder the
plight of the needy — for “the
poor you have always with you.”
The needy are the materially im-
poverished, the morally afflicted,
the mentally confused and a
myriad of others. The primary pur-
pose of a Catholic Charities is to
manifest the love that burns with-
_ the juvenile department to the
dioceses, need total replacement burses well over six thousand dol- Baptist home in Round Rock __
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scribed as a student of the rela-
tionship between law and morals,
expresses his opinions in a book-
let entitled, “Birth Control and
Public Policy.” It was published
by the Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions, a Fund
for the Republic agency which has
sponsored discussions and publica-
tions on the role of religion in a
free society.
Mr. St. John-Stevas argues that
Catholic groups might legitimately
and prudently fight movements
proposing governmental approval
of artificial birth control.
Catholic efforts should be direct-
ed at securing. government neu-
trality and advocates of birth con-
religious bias.”
THE TEACHERS’ organization
asserted that appointments of
teachers should be made strictly
on the basis of professional com-
petence, and called the sugges-
tions of the ministers’ group “of-
fensive.”
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR 3A
July 24, 1960 Lone Star Catholic Edition
“thoughtful reconsideration” of
whether or not the Church in
America is overextending itself in
the construction of new schools,
ROME — (Radio-NC) — Rules
adopted at the Rome diocesan
synod urge Catholics to circulate
Catholic publications at their
places of work.
The synod rules, which guide
Catholic life in the diocese of His
Holiness Pope John XXIII, also
call upon Catholics to read the
various publications available, con-
tribute news and articles and to
provide aid for the success of
Catholic publications.
The rules, aimed at renewing
the Christian character of Rome,
are effective November 1.
Five articles of the new consti-
tution resulting from the Rome
synod are devoted to the duty of
Catholics regarding the Catholic
press. The full text of the consti-
tution has not yet been released.
Rome’s Catholics and particular-
ly members of all forms of Catho-
lic action are urged to regard full
support of the Catholic press and
Catholic publications as an “honor
and. a duty.”
Catholic journalists are urged to
promote Christian morals and re-
port Church triumphs and perse-
cutions fully. The new rules also
call upon them to defend the
Church from attacks and to “bring
the teaching of the Church clear-
ly and accurately before their
readers.”
- The new constitution urges pas-
tors to work for the spread of
Catholic literature in their parish-
es and to maintain display racks of
Catholic publications in their
churches.
Parish priests are advised to or-
ganize and maintain parish libra-
ries where Catholics may obtain
The citizens’ organization Said the CYC — a Catholic Youth Coun-
it opposed “vigorously any sugges- cil that is sustained on meager
tion that religious beliefs, racial funds to embattle the entrenched
origins or political affiliations apostolate of indifference found in
should have any bearing on the the Y-Teens. The positive efforts
selection or advancement of teach- of CYC to permeate the souls of
ers.” The group added that set- our youth within the flowing oils
ting up a “quota system,” as pro- of sacramental love is scattered by
posed by the ministers, would be the unwitting participants in non-
“an encouragement to racial and denominational youth movements
— Which are strictly forbidden
DALLAS, Texas — (NC) — A
Catholic layman was elected
Grand Exalted Ruler of the Bene-
volent and Protective Order of
Elks at the organization’s 96th
Grand Lodge convention here.
He is Judge John E. Fenton, 61,
of the Massachusetts Land Court
and former president of the Mas-
sachusetts Elks Association.
Judge Fenton, who resides in
Lawrence, Mass., is a graduate of
Holy Cross College. He is a Knight
of the Grand Cross of the order of
Holy Sepulchre, an honor accorded
by the Church.
Store (which is to be called St.
Vincent de Paul’s Store come
July 19th). But because our Cath-
olics support the Salvation Army,
the Goodwill store and others more
than our own — the Catholic Sal-
vage Store at times is unable to
help. Then the pastor must send
them to the Salvation Army. This
is particularly true of when a re-
quest is made for children’s shoes
— and experience has shown that
in NOT A FEW cases, the poor
have lost their faith.
CLINICAL AID: an expectant
mother of a sixth child goes to our
welfare clinics — and the aid is
given along with professional in-
sistance upon a grave sin: an op-
eration to prevent childbirth — the
selling of our birthright for a
mess of pottage!
MARITAL COUNSELING: in
the absence of adequate Catholic
facilities, it might be possible for
our people to find themselves ad-
vised to separate or divorce with-
out the permission of the Bishop
or their pastor.
CHILD WELFARE: the lack of
Catholic facilities finds homeless
Catholic children being sent by
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Stamford’s board of education has
rejected a ministerial league’s pro-
test against the appointment of
Joseph J. Franchina, a Catholic, as
superintendent of this city’s public
schools.
The Stamford-Darien Ministers’
League, composed of 63 Protestant
ministers and Jewish Rabbis,
urged that “ethnic and religious”
considerations be taken into ac-
count in the appointment and ad-
vancement of teachers in Stam-
ford’s public school system.
THE LEAGUE proposed that
“evidence be given- in the selec-
tion of new teachers and their ad-
vancement in line with a fair and
equal regard of the true ethnic
and religious character of our
city.” «
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He then cited three trends in and sees his
connection with the “startling ex- brother in need
pansion” of Catholic schools since and closes his
World War II: heart to him,
1)- Within 11 years, more lay how does the
persons will be teaching in Catho- -5, , hi°
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enrollment rates and the rather, ,.55 AI
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mg orders. the Bishop of
2) Catholic high schools will Austin is
soon be obliged to charge high ESTOTE FACTORES VERBI —
tuition if average costs for each be ye doers of the word!
pupil in public high schools con- Let us ponder the need of a
tinue to rise. Catholic Charities in Austin. The
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“Where will the water fountain be?”
ity” was opposed by the Citizens’ are forced into other fields and
School League and the Stamford often fall victims to proselytism of
Education Association, an organi- error.
zation of teachers. Consider the valiant effort of
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