' North Carolina Cätholic
Volume I
Nazareth, N. C., Sunday, October 13,1946
Number 2
Bishop Vincent S. Waters discusses the Family Rosary Hour with Fa
ther Patrick Peyton, who originated the idea and is now preparing
to produce it over a nation-wide network. Father Peyton, who was
one of the speakers at last week’s conferences in Raleigh, has signed
dozens of top Hollywood stars to appear on the program. Among
them are such well known Catholics as Irene Dunn, Bing Crosby,
Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Spencer Tracy and James Cagney
Know Problems of the Farmers
Monsignor Tells Carolina Priests
Participate in any movement
tion, Monsignor Luigi G. Ligutti,
al Catholic Rural Life conference,
conference held last week at Naz
that will better the rural popula
executive secretary of the Nation
told North Carolina priests at the
Monsignor Ligiltti appealed to
all rural priests t§" acquire a
knowledge of the soil and food
production.
Pointing out that the aim of his
organization is to care for the
spiritually and materially under
privileged people living on the
land, Monsignor Ligutti declared:
“Justice and charity must go
hand in hand. If poverty is the
result of economic injustices, it
makes little sense to cover up
these injustices by . elementary
charity or welfare work.”
He challenged the priests to dis
cover the root of the evil and to
apply remedies there, and he also
warned them against the good-in
tentioned practices of many lead
ers who educate away from the
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Pope Likes
I). S. Policy
Rome—James A. Farley, former
Democratic National Chairman
and Postmaster General, said to
day that Pope Pius was “thor
oughly in accord with the firm
American policy” of Secretaijg of
State Byrnes.
Mr. Farley, who had an audi
ence with .the Pontiff at the Pa
pal summer residence said that
he was also supporting “the Ad
ministration’s foreign policy and
the manner in which Byrnes is
carrying it out. Generally speak
ing, I think I express the atti
tude of the great majority of
Americans,” he added. *
He said that American foreign
policy in this time shoud be above
partisan politics. He praised the
attitude of Senator Arthur Van
denburg, Republican, of Michigan,
who, he said, has “cooperated 100
per cent.”
Mission Team
Tours State
The Redemption Fathers have
established a Mission Band at
Charlotte.
The missionaries will devote
themselves exclusively to the
work of parish missions, retreats,
novenas, and Forty Hours’ Devo
tion. They will also conduct Re
treats for Religious. Other Apos
tolic works of a similar nature
will be given. The work of the
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Richard Reid and Chas. Rawlings
Win 1946 Inter-racial Awards
New York, Oct. 5.—Charles L.
Rawlings, president of the Catho
lic Interracial Council of Detroit,
and Richard Reid, editor of The
Catholic News of New York, have
been named to receive the 1946
James J. Hoey Awards for Inter
racial Justice, it has been an
nounced here.
Richard Reid is well-known in
North Carolina. He was editor of
the Georgia Bulletin for several
years.
The awards, established in 1942
by the family of the late James J.
Hoey, one of the organizers and
first president of the Catholic In
terracial Council, consist of two
silver medals conferred each year
on the Feast of Christ the King
upon a white and Negro layman
who in the judgment of the com
mittee have made the most out
standing contributions to the cause
of interracial justice during the
year.
Charles L. Rawlings is a prom
inent Catholic Negro layman of
Detroit. He has been active in
the Cathoic interracial movement
during the last decade or more
and was one of the organizers
and a charter member of the
Catholic Interracial Council of
Detroit, of which he is now pres
ident. The most ambitious proj
ect of the Detroit Council was the
“Tribute to the Colored Missions,”
which was observed September 8,
opening with a Pontifical Mass
celebrated by His Eminence Ed
ward Cardinal Mooney, at which
the sermon was delivered by the
Rev. John LaFarge, S. J., editor of
America and chaplain of the Cath
olic Interracial Council of New
York.
Richard Reid is a leading Cath
olic laymen. He has payed an
active role in the Catholic inter
racial movement both as editor of
The Catholic News and in his par
ticipation as speaker at events
sponsored by the Catholic Interra
cial Council. For many years he
was editor of The Bulletin pub
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Rev. Stephen Lackovic, Youngs
town, Ohio, secretary to Archbish
op Aloysius Stepinac during the
crucial years 1941 to 1945, termed
as “a vicious lie” the charge by
Tito that the Archbishop was guil
ty of “crimes against the people.”
Priest's Seal
NotBroken
Honolulu, Sept. 28. — (Cable,
NC).—Lt. George Ray Tweed,
Navy officer who eluded the Jap
anese on Guam for 31 months, ad
mitted in an interview here that
the section of his book which
charged a Catholic priest had
jeopardized him by violating the
seal of Confession is not true.
Lieutenant Tweed’s book, “Rob
inson Crusoe, USN”, which narrat
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One of the most outstanding conferences in the history of the Raleigh diocese was held last week at
Nazareth. Speakers included Monsignor Luigi G. Ligutti, Father Francis Wendell and many other
nationally known Catholics. Above is shown a group picture of the many priests who attended the
conference as they were photographed in front of the Chapel at Nazareth.
World in Debt
&
To the Church
Budenz Says
New York. — <NC)—All man
kind owes a deep debt of gratitude
to the Papacy for having un
flinchingly opposed all forms of
statism, Louis Francis Budenz,
former editor of the Daily Work
er and former member of the na- •
tional committee of the Commun
ist Party, stated here in an ex
clusive interview with N.C.W.C
News Service.
“In the future records of civili
zation, the mid-March of 1937 will
be a golden week,” Mr. Budenz
declared. “It was then that the
late Pius XI issued his brave en
cyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge,”
which prophesied that the ‘tree of
peace’ would be seared by the ex
esses of nazism. Five days later
there appeared the wisest of all
recent pronouncements on public
affairs, the encyclical on Atheistic
Communism. With equal courage
to his previous declaration, Pius
XI set forth the means by which
Christian civilization could be
saved from ‘this satanic scourge.’ ”
The world would have been
saved much blood and travail if
more men and women had taken
these two Papal pronouncements
to heart, asserted Mr. Budenz,
who looks forward now to the cel
’ ebration of the first anniversary
' of his return to the Church on
• Oct. 11. Each member of his
. family, too, shares his joy at the
; “peace which has come from be
, ing within the fold of the Church.”
[ With the coming of the first an
. niversary ,he will end the “year
of silence” which he imposed on
. himself as a mark of his Catholic
. faith.
“I hope to take advantage of
--the ending of this year of silence
with restraint,” Mr. Budenz com
mented. “But I do want to tell
the story of my return to the
Church, in order that it may give
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Conference Held
In Philadelphia *
Phjladelptya,— (NC)—His Em
inence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia, is pa
tran of the sixth biennial congress
of the National Laywomen’s Re
treat Movement which began its
three-day sessions here today. The
Cardinal will preside at a Solemn
Mass in the Cathedral of SS. Peter
and Paul to be celebrated on Oct
ober 13, closing day of the con
gress.
Among speakers will be Arch
bishop Richard J. Cushing of Bos
ton, Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of
Charleston, the Rev. Walter A.
Farrell, O. P., Of the Dominican
House of Studies^ Washington,
Bishop Vincent S. Waters, Raleigh,
and Mrs. Gertrude Gutting, con
tributor to the North Carolina
Catholic.