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, IEUMJ CAWlkUaCatholic - Volume VII. Nazareth, N. C., Fri., September 4, 1953 ------— Number 49. 4-YEAR. COURSE Registration at Abbey College BELMONT—Registration for the first semester at Belmont Abbey Senior College, Belmont, will take blace from Tuesday, September 8 through Thursday, September 10. ----- Freshmen are required to reg ister on Tuesday; orientation of Freshmen and registration of Sophomores will be on Wednes day, September 9, with Junior and Senior registration on Thursday. Classes will begin on Friday, September 11, following a Solemn Academic Mass of Invocation in the Abbey Cathedral. 4 Year Degree Course The college is beginning its 76th year as an institution of higher learning and its 2nd year as a four-year, degree granting insti tution. Bachelor of Arts and Bach elor of Science degrees are con fered with majors in Business Ad ministration, Classics, Biology, English, * Chemistry, History and Philosophy. Three additional mi nors and seven pre-professional curricula are also offered. Prep School Opens The yery Rev. Bernard L. Ross wag, O. S. B., rector, announces the opening of Abbey Preparatory School, Monday, September 7. Reg istration for all four classes will be held on that day with orienta tion and aptitude testing on Tues day, September 8. Classes will re sume on Wednesday. Fully Accredited The preparatory school is a ful ly accredited, four-year high school offering the Classical and Scientific courses for college prep aration in addition to a General Cultural course. Peaceful Co-Existence* With Communist Nations Impossible, Union Says NEW YORK. — There can be no hope for peaceful co-existence between the communist and free nations, a statement by the Chris tian Democratic Union of Central Europe has concluded. Weighing past statements of So i viet leaders, the position of Red enslaved peoples and taking what it called a realistic Christian view, the report stated that any ac ceptance of the present interna tional status quo “would mean no less than to acquiesce to the com plete de-Christianization of at least one-sixth of the Christian world.” Citing speeches by Stalin and present Soviet Premier Malenkov the report concluded “communism has never renounced its purpose of world domination.” The inten tion to establish peaceful co-ex istence is lacking on the commu nist side, the statement said, and only Christian solidarity can bring about true peace. “If Christians living in the temporal order will be courage ous enough not only to preach the order of justice and charity, but to put it into practice too, there is no doubt that charity wDl tri umph over hate and justice over injustice,” was the final conclusion of the Christian Democratic Union of Central Europe. WASHINGTON^ LETTER Says Americans Never Had Red Danger Pointed Out So Clearly J. J. Gilbert Communist subversion in the Federal Government has just been traced in a manner that should shock the American people. Communist infiltration of Fed eral Government departments has been of the “interlocking” variety, a report of a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee shows. With high-sounding degrees and legal training, communists got responsible positions in Washing ton, especially, in the time of great expansion in the 1930’s. They mov ed from one agency to another, hired fellow communists, promot ed one another, covered up for each other. One man identified by witness es as a member of the communist underground was moved into a dozen different jobs in a period of 10 years, never at a loss of pay, but, what is more important, al ways in a position of responsibil ity and control. This same man, appearing later before the House Un-American Activities Commit tee, refused to answer 244 ques tions on the ground that to give true answers might incriminate him/ And the infiltration has followed a definite pattern, the report de clares. When the principle con cern of Government was economic recovery, they were in the Agri cultural Adjustment Administra tion, the Works Progress Adminis- , tration, the National Recovery Ad- I ministration, and in new agencies established in old Government de partments. During World War II, they joined such wartime agencies as the Board of Economic War fare, the Federal Economic Admin istration, the Office of Strategic Services, and the like. Toward the end of the war and after it, they were operating at the foreign poli cy level, they were gravitating to the international agencies. The report says: “They coloniz ed key committees of Congress . . . They helped Write laws, con duct congressional hearings, and write congressional reports. They advised Cabinet members, wrote speeches for them, and represent ed them in intergovernmental conferences . . . They staffed in terdepartmental committees which prepared basic American and world policy . . . They traveled to every continent as emmissaries and representatives of the Ameri can people. They attended virtu ally every international, confer ence where statesmen met to shape the future.” If all of this seems fantastic, one needs but to read the report. There one sees a lot of old famil iar names and the report recalls to mind that they did at one time or another hold the one or more very high Government posts as cribed to them. (See LETTER, Page 6) 'Sign of the Cross' Catholic Center • of Charlotte New Site CHARLOTTE. — The Sign of the Cross, now in a new location, will be blessed by the Most Rever end Vincent S. Waters, Bishop, of Raleigh, Tuesday, September 8, and a combination open house and birthday party will be held in conjunction with the event. The Sign of the Cross has moved to the comer of First and Tryon Streets, across First Street from St. Peter’s Church. Dale Francis, director of the center, announced that September 8 had been chosen as the official opening date of the new center so that it would coin cide with the nativity day of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The new center is a modern, air conditioned building with a large showroom, a roomy library and lounge, a private office 4nd consul tation room, and a large storage area. The Sign of the Cross opened nearly two years ago on North Try on Street. In the last two years more than 4,000 non-Catholics have stopped by to get pamphlets or information concerning the Church, among them more than 250 Protestant ministers. “The major purpose of the cen ter still remains the apostolate to non-Catholics,” Mr. Francis said. “Through our radio program hnd our activities in the city, most of the non-Catholics in the city know of our center. We expect that a large number of non-Catho lics will continue to visit our cen ter. Our first sale in the new lo cation was to a Lutheran minister, who bought the complete Summa Theologica. Foot traffic in our present area is almost equal to that of the other center but the lo cation in relation to automobile traffic is greatly improved. Since the center is on a comer with an unobstructed view, it will be view ed by most of the people coming to the main business section from the populous east and southern parts of Charlotte.” “But the new center also offers a better service for Catholics. Lo cated beside St. Peter’s Church it gives Catholics a chance to visit the church and the center on the same trip. For the convenience of these people The Sign of the Cross will be open Saturday evenings, while confessions are heard at St. Peter’s, and on Monday evenings when the novena services are held. Hours these days will be 8:30 a. m. to 9 p. m., on other days from 9:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.” The new center will feature a stock of some 3,000 Catholic books, religious articles, statues, pictures, prayerbooks, Bibles, rosaries. Mice Mary Ellen Pennell is the business manager for the center. Assistants Named FAYETTEVILLE. — The Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, who administer St. Patrick’s Church here, announce tw6 assistants to the Reverend William T. Darley, O. M. I, pastor. They are the Rev erend James Finigan, O. M. I., formerly of Sumter, S. C., and the Reverend Paul McCartin, O. M. I., formerly of Tewksbury, Mass. The appointments were confirm ed by the Most Reverend Bishop. Father Darley has returned to the rectory here following a few weeks of hospitalization at Con cord. Physicians advise that he re frain from physical exertion due to an illness which suddenly af flicted him while enroute to Hick ory. RECORD ENROLLMENT New Convents, Schools Open But Fall Short of Parochial Educational Needs; in Our State RALEIGH. — Three new convents were opened this week, two of them to house Sisters affiliated with new parochial schools and one to be the center of catechism instruction. Request Spiritual Gift For Bishop Wm. O'Brien, Extension President RALEIGH. — As many parishes in the Diocese of Raleigh have benefited greatly through the gen erous services of the Catholic Ex tension Society of Chicago, the lai ty here in North Carolina are ask ed to cooperate in a spiritual bou quet of good work to- be presented to'Bishop William D. O’Brien, the society’s president, on November 22. On that date the zealous bish op, who has worked for the home missions nearly all of his priestly career, will mark his fiftieth an niversary of ordination. The bishop is currently writ ing an interesting series of his memories in the well-known “Ex tension” magazine. Friends of the bishop feel that the spiritual of fering would be appreciated more than anything of a material nature. The Reverend George E. Lynch, chancellor, has forwarded the re quest for the pledges of good work to pastors and principals of paro chial schools. The listing of prayers and sacrifices, communions and rosary will be made before Sep tember 25. There are about thirty churches in the diocese which re ceived subsidy to begin the initial construction. At Greensboro, the convent of Our Lady of Grace Church, the former rectory at 201 South Chapman Street is the residence of four Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As the new paro chial school is nearing comple tion classes will begin on Tuesday, September' 8. One hundred and twenty-six pupils, omitting kin dergarten registration, will begin sessions. The Reverend Mother Clotilde, formerly of St. Agnes School, Washington, N. C., is the [new principal and superioress. She is assisted by Sister Marysia, Sister Marie and Sister Thomas Aquinas. The auditorium and kitchen equipment is being completed at a later date while school is in ses sion. A lay teacher, Virginia Kil lan, will join the teaching staff. All grammar school grades will be in session. The Right Reverend Arthur R. Freeman, pastor, and his assistant, the Reverend Francis M. Smith, are in rented quarters at 307 South Fremont Street. Wilmington School Four Franciscan Handmaids of Mary will begin classes at the new St. Thomas School at Wilmington on September 8. This community of Negro Sisters already staff Christ the King school at High Point. The Reverend John P. Gee lan, of the Josephite Fathers and (See ENROLLMENT, Page 6) ONE MAN'S OPINION Faith Seen Clear Goal of Center, It's Business Not Just a Store Dale Frances, Charlotte The man stopped, read the clip pings from Catholic newspapers on the window of The Sign of the Cross, then curled his lip and shouted, a hateful epithet. With this maledictiou ringing in our ears, we prepared to move our cen ter to its new location. In a way, it was kind of a sad moving for me. There were so many happy memories in that old store that couldn’t be carted into the van and moved away. The man who shouted the day before we left was the rare exception. Thousands of non-Catholics came in to speak friendly words, many of them started on the way to faith at our old center. It was a good sign, I think, that in our new center our first custo mer was a Lutheran minister who bought St. Thomas’ Summa Theo logica. Pray for him that he might ret the grace to become a Catho lic. * The first inquirer in the old center was an elderly man who came in to ask about' the Catholic concept of life after death. I gave him a pamphlet but he insisted on paying for it. “1 don’t want to be beholden to you,” he said. We had some pretty hard days financially in the old center. It cost us about $30 a day to meet all ex- I I penses, that meant we had to do somewhere close to $70 a day worth of business. Sometimes we had | days when our total business for ; the entire day was less than one dollar and yet even on the days when our business was lowest we never had a day but what we made at least one contact with a non Catholic. I remember the day that we did our smallest amount of business. The whole day we sold only a couple of greeting cards and then just as we were about to close the store a man came in, seeking help. He was greatly troubled, he wanted to know where he could find spirit ual help. We gave him some books about the Church. He isn’t a Cath olic yet, although he is still study ing the faith and some day he may come in, but that day was a successful day for us. I’ve always been blessed with good helpers. Barbara, my wife, has helped plan the work of the cen ter with me. She was the one who worked out the information pro gram for the windows, the dis plays and the clippings. Our first regular worker was Helene Ahrens, who worked part time and made many friends for us. Our first full time worker was (See STORE, Page 6)
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