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«« ZEsssrth Carolina Cathoiik Volume I. Nazareth, N. C., Sunday, December 8, 1946 Number 10 1 Among the overseas correspondents of World War II to receive Army campaign ribbons and certificates of appreciation at services in Washington was the Assistant Director of the N. C. W. C. News Service, Burke Walsh who accompanied American troops on the if entry into Rome in 1944. He is pictured with Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson (left), who made the presentation. (NC Photos) Twin Priests Return to Nazareth For Thanksgiving Day Mass The twins returned to Nazareth on Thanksgiving Day. It was near Thanksgiving Day in 1924 when Lawrence and Clarence Hill first arrived at Catholic Orphanage at the little Catholic community on the hill outside of Raleigh. Looking so much alike that the Sisters could not tell them apart, they were only six years old then. When they returned on Thanks giving Day, 1946, it was for the J celebration of Father Clarence Hill’s first High Mass. Father , Lawrence Hill, who was ordained a year before his brother, was deacon. The twins were at the orphan age for 13 years. It was while they were at Nazareth that they made their separate decisions to become priests—Father Lawrence Hill de ciding first and Father Clarence Hill making the ^ime decision shortly after. Lawrence enrolled at Belmont Abbey, the Benedictine school in North Carolina, after his gradua tion in 1937. Clarence worked for a year, then followed his brother to Belmont. In 1939, Clarence en ^ rolled at St. Gregory’s Seminary near Cincinnati. He completed his work at Mount St. Mary’s of the West. Lawrence studied at Our (Continued on Page 6) ’ FuU Time Catholics Is Need of Nation y Negro Catholic Says New York, N. Y.—Special—“The integration of the Negro in the life of the Church and the nation * is the test of full-time Catholic ism,” Dr. Francis Monroe Ham mond, brilliant young Negro phi losopher challenged members °f the Catholic Interracial Council at their weekly meeting here. Dean of the philosophy depart ment at Seton Hall College, South Orange, N. j., Dr. Hammond was formerly head of the department of foreign languages at Southern University, Baton Rouge, La. He studied at Xavier University, New Orleans, and at the University of Louvain, Belgium, before entering Laval University, Quebec, where he received the degree of doctor » of philosophy in 1943. Speaking on ‘Knowledge and the Citizen,’ Dr. Hammond pointed out ' that “a useful citizen can have little knowledge of physical sd (Ccntlnued on Page 6) Christian Party Gains Strength in France Paris.—(Cable)—Recent voting for electors of the Second Cham ber, ‘or Council of the Republic, brought a distinct success to the Popular Republican (M. R. P.) and a decline in the over-all strength of the communists social ist bloc. The electors will meet on Dec. 8 to name the Council, which replaces the Senate of the former French constitutional set up. (Continued on Page 12) NCCLA Chooses MacClements To Serve Until First Convention Edward MacClements, Char lotte layman, was elected to serve as president of the North Carolina Catholic Laymen’s Association, Inc., at the first meeting of the board of directors held last week in Charlotte. MacClements and other officers were chosen to hold the positions until all members of the associa tion meet at the organization’s first convention sometime in 1947. Other officers are: Mrs. Janett G?. O’Donoghue, vice president, and Fred C. Ray, secretary-treasurer. Officers will be chosen at the state convention by the State Council of the North Carolina Lay men’s Association, Inc. Every par ish in the diocese will have rep resentation on the State Council. The elected chairman of each par ish group will be a member of the Council and an additional repre sentative will serve on the coun cil for every 25 members in the local organization. However, no parish will have more than 10 elected representatives. The voting set-up gives a vote to even the smallest of the parish groups and at the same time lim its the voting poMt of the larg est groups. | The North Carolina Catholic Laymen’s Association^ Inc., is the publisher of the Nbrth Carolina Catholic. Membert of the board of directors are: Francis J. Hea zel, Asheville; Mrs. Janett G. O’ Donoghue, Charlotte;/Edward Mac Clements, Charlotte; Fred C. Ray, Charlotte, and the ex-officio mem bers, who hold their positions by virtue of their office, Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh; Monsignor Arthur R. Freeman, Vicar General (Continued on Page 6) Miss Wyolene Sprouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Sprouse, Le noir, N. C., enters the novitiate of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis today at Allegany, N. Y. She is a convert, coming into the Church while serving in the Nurses Corps in England. Infidelity Is Obstacle Says Noted Writer Hendersonville— (Spl.) —Infidel ity was denounced as the greatest moral obstacle to world peace by Mrs. Dorothy Fremont Grant, not ed Catholic author and newspa per-woman, in a lecture delivered recestly in the ballroom of the Skyland Hotel in Hendersonville under the auspices of the Altar Guild of Immaculate Conception Church. “If the people of the world (Continued on Page 6) The reception of the three Sisters of Mercy from Belmont, N. C., will be held today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, on the island of Guam in the Mariannas. Above the Sisters are shown as they were received by Admiral Charles Powell, governor of the island. Left to right, James Underwood, father of Sister Inez; Sister Mary Anisette McBennett, Fayetteville, N. C, who un derwent an appendectomy last week; Sister Mary Louise Wiensenforth, Troy, N. Y., Sister Mary Inez Underwood, Guam; Admiral and Mrs. Powell, and Mrs. James Underwood, mother of Sister Inez. A letter from Stater Inez, relating the experiences of the Sisters, is printed on page 8 Pope Pius XII Sends Special Blessing To U. S. Catholics PHILADELPHIA (NC)— Deep ly moved by the “truly devoted labors” and the “munificent spirit of fraternal love and Christian charity” manifested by the Catho lics of the United States, His Holi ness Pope Pius XII has sent a “very special Apostolic Benedic tion” to all the Bishops, priests and faithful in this country. The blessing is conveyed in a cablegram signed personally by the Holy Father and addressed to His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Phila delphia. The message acknowl edges a cablegram of filial hom age sent to the Sovereign Pontiff from the Annual General Meeting of the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States recently held at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., at a session over which Cardinal Dougherty presided. The text of the Holy Father’s message follows: “We have received with par ticular satisfaction and with a profound sense of consolation, the thoughful message of filial devo tion of Our Beloved sons and brethren of the Hierarchy of the United States assembled at Wash ington for their annual meeting. “We desire to send to them, one and all, the renewed assurance of Our heartfelt appreciation of their truly devoted labors and of their munificent spirit of fraternal love and Christian charity which has prompted them to encourage once again the great body of the American Catholics to continue in this critical post-war period their most generous assistance to those of their less fortunate fellowmen, who, in their great suffering and need, call upon Us for that succor (Continued on Page 12) Sickness of the World Needs Democracy Cure Bishop Sheil Says New York.—Special—Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Catholic Auxil iary Bishop of Chicago told the Herald Tribune annual forum on current problems here that “de mocracy and more democracy” is the cure for the sickness of world society. A firm believer in the demo cratic system, the prelate describ ed democracy as a “living thing, not something static or frozen in history.” “To many of us de mocracy is an outward garment which we put on every four years,” he said. “We have forgotten, ap parently, that we the people are democracy every day of our lives.” Bishop Sheil emphasized that local people's organizations are needed if American democracy is to be revivified, “organizations which are really of the people, by the people and for the peo ple; not just fronts for some par * (Continued on Page 12)
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