Texas Gulf Coast Register (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1968 Page: 4 of 8
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TEXAS GULF COAST REGISTER
Friday, August 23, 1965
Neurotic Disorders TV Subject
Corpus Christi — We are
all a bit neurotic, a bit
psychotic. Our originality,
our departure from the
normal, *s a God-given
Sexual
Morality
TV Topic
Corpus Christi — Father
Francis L. Filas, S -7 . of
Loyola university, Chicago,
explains the meaning of
sexual morality. It is a
question of human dignity
and the recognition of the-
entire human body as male
or female. The basic Chris-
tian teaching is that God
made the body good. Sin or
evil grows out of the self-
ishness or ignorance of the
individual male or female.
Sexual morality is the
framework that permits
the family to exist. With-
out it, man and woman
would be sunk in selfish
'self-seeking that would
eventually destroy the
human race.
Father Filas’s talk will
be seen on station KRIS
channel 6 in Corpus Chris-
ti on Aug. 24 at 7 a.m.
For a copy of this talk,
write to the Program at
3900 Westminster Place,
St. Louis, Mo. 63108.
Please request script num-
ber 800.
quality. Each immortal
soul is the direct act of
God’s creative power. It
would be impossible for
God to make two souls
identical because it would
be a contradiction.
Jesuit Father Charles F.
X. Dolan, noted lecturer
and retreat master of New
York, tells us that faith is
not a formula for mental
health, but that confidence
in God will teach us to
live with our weaknesses
and difficulties and not to
be afraid. Don't try to be
somebody different. Be
yourself.
This talk will be seen on
station KRIS channel 6 in
Corpus Christi on Aug. 17
at 7:00 a.m.
To receive a copy of this
talk, write to the Sacred
Heart Program at 3900
Westminster Place, St.
Louis, Mo. 63108. Ask for
script No. 799.
Catholic
TV Programs
Aug. 24, 1968, K-III TV,
2 p.m. ‘The World, The
Campus.’'
Aug. 25, 1968, Channel
6, 9 a.m., "Gulf Coast
Catholic,” Very Rev. Louis
Blume, S.M., president of
St. Mary’s university will
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Problems of Rural Amferica
Serious as in City Ghettoes
Academy
To Admit
First Girls
St. Cloud, Minn.
A callous view of farming merely as
an economic technological endeavor has
played a major role in creating a rural
crisis in which America’s farmers fight
for their very existence — a crisis no less
serious than the urban fight against
crime, congestion, and pollution.
That’s the view of the National Catho-
lic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), ex-
pressed in a policy statement adopted at
its three-day biennial convention here.
Basic to the solution of the real farm
problem, the NCRLC statement said, is a
religious sense of community — between
farmers and city dwellers and among
farmers themselves.
"City people should be concerned over
the plight of the family on the land,” the
NCRLC said. "First of all, because so
great an injustice weighs upon the con-
science of all. Secondly because, if the
•family farm is replaced with corporate
agriculture, the cost of the rity house-
wife’s food will greatly increase.”
FARMERS, THE statement said,
must unite in the campaign for better
prices for their products. Their failure to
do so was described as a major obstacle
"to the growth of .opportunity in rural
America.”
"We urge all farm organizations to set
aside their differences and unite in a
campaign for better prices at the market-
place,” the statement said. "The present
urgency demands a united front on the
price issue ...
"The sort of unity we need in rural
America will not occur unless we turn to
God for enlightenment and strength. The
present quarreling among farmers and
lack of cooperation in rural communities
is out of keeping with Christian ideals of
brotherhood.”
JUST AS NECESSARY, the NCRLC
San Antonio
Today’s youth want to participate in
the Church, the national president of the
teen-age section of the Catholic Youth
Organization, Michael McGowan of Beau-
mont, Tex., said here.
The 18-year-old CYO leader discussed
the feelings of the younger generation
toward the Church during a CYO work-
shop at St. Joseph’s Retreat House. He.
also cited the communications gap — in
the Church and society in general —
between adults and youths.
CONCERNING the issue of young
people identifying with the contemporary
Church and adult society, McGowan said:
T think this identification is possible.
Take the liturgical renewal in the Mass,
for instance. For a long time attendance
at Mass was mechanical for some people.
Now. the liturgy has been changed and it
fits the circumstances.”
The Folk Mass, he added, is an asset.
This certainly helps young people identi-
fy with the Church. The songs we sing in
Folk Masses have so much more religious
significance to us if we sing them our
way instead of the way of the 15th cen-
tury.
said, is a change of attitude on the part
of the agricultural establishment. The
statement rapped the Department of Ag-
riculture and state colleges of agriculture
for promulgating and supporting policies
that threaten to destroy the family farm
unit.
The NCRLC listed two such policies:
That "the harsh forces of uncontrolled
competition should be permitted to push
the less prosperous farmers out of agri-
culture.”
That the "mighty influence of govern-
ment and of educational institutions
should be used to accelerate and intensify
the out-migration of families from the
land.”
The NCRLC said it was "appalled” at
one effect of such policies — "the lack of
support and, in many cases, open opposi-
tion to bargaining by farmers on the part
of many state colleges of agriculture,
agencies of government, and certain spe-
cial interest groups.”
There has beeen an “unspoken as-
sumption” by the government, the state-
ment continued, that economics and tech-
nology are the only vital considerations in
agriculture, which has "paved the way for
an ever-accelerating entry into agricul-
ture by corporations and very large farm
operators.”
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Orville Freeman addressed the conven-
tion, calling for national policies aimed at
solving both rural and urban problems in
a coordinated design.
"... Only by a national policy can we
move fast enough effectively to halt the
disastrous emptying out of people from
rural America,” Freeman said. "Only by
a national policy can we stop the blind-
rush of self-destruction which now threa-
tens metropolitan America ...
"The rural poor of yesterday are large-
ly the urban poor of today. Unless we
vitalize rural America, the rural poor
“YOUNG PEOPLE can now identify
with the basic concept of faith. We recog-
nize and respect the Papacy, the Mass,
the priesthood, and the sacraments. We
are not trying to remove these sacred
items. We simply want to update...
"Today’s young people desire to partici-
pate in the Church,” McGowan continued.
“In the past most people thought if
youngsters were altar boys, they were
participating. Lui this was not enough.
We want to feel that this is our religion.
We want the Church to know that when
we are mature enough to make respon-
sible decisions, we should be allowed to
do so.”
In the past, the CYO leader stated,
the communication gap has been caused
by all the parties involved. He lamented
that youth and laymen had at times been
afraid to speak and that priests had not
always listened when they did.
“THESE SAME problem r hold true in
secular society,” he noted. "Young people
have reacted against adults who are set
in their ways. Adults get married, have
children, hold down a job, and do not
care about neighbors. I do not believe
of today will be the urban poor of tomor-
row.”
At a press conference preceding his
speech, however, the Secretary comment-
ed on family farms in such a way that
implied a different view than was ex-
pressed by the NCRLC and by other
speakers. The family farm, he said, is
stronger today than when he took office
in 1960.
"There are fewer farms, but they are
larger,” he said. "Farmers will simply
have to make an adjustment to technical
progress and recognize that they will
have to have bigger farms, which now
they can handle.”
PRESIDENT Tony D. Dechant of the
National Farmers’ Union told the conven-
tion, however, corporations threaten to
take over U. S. farming.
"Invasion of agriculture by corpora-
tions and corporate farming is real,” he
said. "And it is just beginning. We of
Farmers’ Union say it must be stopped. I
point my finger at corporate non-farm
interests who are buying up farm proper-
ty for diversification and tax purposes.”
Oren Lee Staley, head of the militant
National Farmers’ Organization that has
hit the headlines with its campaigns to
hold farm products off the market, drew
the parallel between farm ard urban
problems.
"Problems of rural America are just as
serious as in the ghettoes,” he said. "The
problems are only going to be met by the
farmers themselves ... Whatever their
differences are, they better solve them,
and solve them now.”
BEFORE ADJOURNING, delegates
to the NCRLC convention elected Bishop
Lambert A. Hoch of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.,
to a two-year term as president, to suc-
ceed Bishop Henry J. Soenneker of Ow-
ensboro, Ky.
Role
young people are saying, ’Stop working
and drop everything,’ but they are de-
crying that we are no longer on a person-
al basis with our fellow man.”
Disassociating himself from “hippies”
and “dropouts” — because, he said the
legitimate message they have is present-
ed in the wrong way — Mr. McGowan
expressed hope adults would understand
that most young people are .not rebelling
but discovering. "The communication gap
can be tightened by open minds between
the two groups,” he concluded.
‘No Hope
Generation
Flayed
Arkadelphia, Ark.
Protesters and members of what he
called the "no hope” generation were tar-
gets of an attack by U.S. Postmaster
General' W. Marvin Watson during an
address to summer graduates at Ouchita
Baptist university here.
Describing the protest movement as an
“in thing” at the moment, Watson said:
"These voices raised in protest pay no
heed to progress. The voices of protest
and pickets of protest seem to be the
voice of the land. Yet, we know this is
not true simply by using the yardstick of
our own circle of associates and friends.”
WATSON stressed that for every voice
of protest "there is another hundred who
quietly go about their work to make this
a better world ... America is not going
to be a shallow chapter in the history of
man that dried up on the vine of no
hope. America is going to move ahead.”
The “no hope” generation, he contin-
ued; sings a "song of sad defeat.” He
added that many of the issues of protest
are not new and that “no hope” people
lose their battles by default.
"TO LOSE by default,” he told the
graduating class “is to have conceded de-
feat without even working up the hard,
difficult sweat of trying. And not to try is
the greatest sin of all. God gave each of
us a potential, and to that potential we
must each measure up, regardless of
whether we contribute in a great way or
in a small way.”
Watson especially defended President
Johnson as a man who “has never forsak-
en his goal of seeking a better world,”
and said that the U.S. society is not sick
nor a "dying dream.”
ANTI-RED NEWSLETTER
New York
Combat, a militant newsletter de-
signed to expose “Communist intrigues”
in American life, will be published semi-
monthly by National Review, a conser-
vative national magazine. William F.
Buckley Jr., editor of National Review,
describes some of its targets as the Old
Left and the New Left, "peaceniks,” "left-
ward-drifting churchmen,” rebellious stu-
dent groups, sections of the communica-
tions media, and "the Respectables” who
give aid and comfort to radical elements.
All the Oecorators Were Enthusiastic
Robert Ragland of Denver, Colo., works intently on his painting, “Black
Is Beautiful,” as some 30 top artists from the Denver metropolitan area
were turned loose on panels surroundin'g the construction site of the new
Denver Art museum to pretty up the rather unartistic fence. — (Denver
Post Photo)
Youth Wants Church
Corpus Christi — Corpus
Christi Academy founu' 5.
in 1928, staffed by the
Benedictine Fathers <tnd a
lay faculty of men and
women, has opened its doors
to girls for the first time
in the history of the
school. The high school is
approved by the Texas
Education Agency and is a
member of the NCEA All
teaching is geared to deve-
lop in the student the tal-
ents, understanding and
attitudes necessary-to lead
a Christ-like life.
Religious instruction —
college preparatory
English — main pre-al-
gebra — algebra I & II —
geometry — trig.-elem.
analysis
Social studies — physical
science — biology — chem-
istry — physics — Spanish
Speech-drama — book-
keeping - typing — me-
chanical drawing — physi-
cal education
Modem gym and science
lab facilities.
Registration:
Seniors, Aug. 29th 8:30
a.m,-11:30 a.m.
Juniors, Aug. 29th 1:00
pjn.-3:00 p.m.
Sophomores Aug. 30th
8:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m.
Freshmen Aug. 30th 1:30
p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Classes begin Sept. 3
with a full day’s schedule.
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