Volume IX.
Nazareth, N. C., Friday, September 30, 1955
Number 53.
Development Fund
Report Number Six
NAZARETH — Further pledge
payments to the Diocesan Devel
opment Fund have brought six
more parishes or missions over the
assigned quotas for 1955. These
are:
Parish or Mission Quota Contributed
Dunn, Sacred Heart $ 172.00
Highlands, Our Lady
of the Mountains <>5.00
J acksonville.
Infant of Prague 3489.00
Monroe, StV Joseph’s 15.00
Whiteville,
Sacred Heart 146.00
Wilson, St. Alphonsus’ 43.00
$ 179.51
71.00
3523.23
27.60
153.59
46.75
Of the parishes or missions
which were assigned quotas for
the 1955 Diocesan Development
Fund, fifty-five have exceeded
these quotas. Many of the remain
ing 78 parishes and missions have
nearly reached their quota.
School Dedication
At Southern Pines
SOUTHERN PINES —Sunday,
October 2 will be an important day
in Southern Pines.
In the early hours of the after
noon, from two until four o’clock,
the new school which serves this
town and neighboring Pinehurst
will have open house.
At four o’clock His Excellency,,
Bishop Waters will administer the
sacrament of confirmation after he
dedicates the convent and school.
Next week’s issue of the North
Carolina, Catholic will be devoted
to the new St. Anthony of Padua
School here.
The school follows the design of
Assumption in Charlotte and Our
Lady of Lourdes in Raleigh. The
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Fifty-eight years ago today St. Therese of the
Child Jesus was welcomed into heaven by Our Lady
and Our Savior; her feastday is Monday, October 3.
As a fitting shower of roses for the Diocese of
Raleigh on her birthday Bishop Waters announces
that her order of nuns, the Carmelites are making
plans to establish a house in North Carolina. The
cloistered community will need a house with about
two acres of land, a house that will eventually accom
modate 21 CITHfra^^rers. " W
This week Catholics of North Carolina are con
cluding a novena to St. Therese in behalf of the third
annual instruction campaign.
Father Condon
Father Haft
Newly Ordained Priests
Learn N. C. Apostolate
N. WILKESBORO — Father
Joseph L. Hart and Father William
J. Condon, newly ordained priests
of the Society of St. Edmund, have
been assigned by their Superior
General to work in the Diocese of
Raleigh.
Bishop Waters has appointed
both Father Hart and Father Con
don to the Missionary Apostolate
of our diocese. They will work un
der the direction of Father Fran
cis J. Murphy in North Wilkes
boro and Father Thomas F. Kerin
in Newton Grove.
Father Condon is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Condon of the
Bronx, New York. After graduat
ing from the De Witt Clinton High
School in 1943, he joined the Army
Air Force and served as a radio
operator and gunner on a B-24
bomber. He was discharged in 1946
and entered St. Michael’s College.
After completing his junior year,
Father entered St. Joseph’s Novi
tiate and was professed as a mem
ber of the Society of St. Edmund
in 1950. In 1951 Father Condon
graduated Cum laude from St. Mi
chael’s College and began his four
year theology course at St. Ed
mund’s Seminary in Burlington,
Vt. Father celebrated his first
solemn Mass June 12 at his home
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Expansion Plans
For Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE — The Infant
of Prague Expansion Program
committee met at the rectory Sun
day night, it was announced by
Parish Chairman, Lester W. Kuch
ler. Organization was completed
for a renewed Building Fund Drive
to raise funds for a new convent
and to meet principal and interest
payments on the school and
church debt.
A total of $33,766.09 cash was
raised in the drive which began
early last year through August 31,
1955. This amount was used to
purchase additional land on High
way 17 and to defray principal and
interest payments. Since nearly all
previous pledge makers had left
the area it became necessary to re
new the drive as of September 1,
1955.
Every Catholic in the area who
has not yet done so is asked to
pledge a month’s salary in weekly
payments spread out over a perjod
of two years. In case one is trans
ferred, the pledge obligation ceases
The Expansion Program com
mittee meets at the rectory each
Sunday night at 8:00. The commit
tee members assigned to collect
pledges in various sections of the
parish are: Parish Chairman Les
ter W. Kuchler, Parish Co-Chair
men Philip J. Cole, George E. Al
bertini, John J. Blonkowski, Atty.
Walter B. Davis, Dr. Joseph B.
Girard, Mrs. Frank L. Kulka, Paul
L. McSorley, Mrs. Aurelius Nale
wanski, Thomas E. Slattery, John
L. Strain.
Conferences Examining
Nation's School Needs
GOLDSBORO — The White House Conferences on Edu
cation (WHCE) intend to analyze the nation’s educational
needs.
Preliminary to the national-lev
el conference, six regional con
ferences have taken place in North
Carolina within the past ten days;
a state conference is planned for
October 13 in Raleigh.
This study, says Monsignor Ed
ward T. Gilbert, diocesan superin
tendent of school, will have far
reaching consequences; it is the
most thorough and comprehensive
ever made by the American people.
Monsignor Gilbert has urged
participation of Catholics (educa
tors and non-educators) in these
conferences, noting that the Presi
dent’s committee has urged that
as much diversity as possible be
achieved “in terms of racial, relig
ious, political, economic and social
backgrounds.”
Boon For Nation
The greatest, and the unmea
sured contribution of Catholic ed
ucation to American life is the
contribution to the spiritual life
of American citizens. In thus
helping to develop good men and
women who value their citizenship,
our Catholic schools work hand in
hand with public schools, Mon
signor Gilbert observes.
In insisting that moral obliga
tion, based on the philosophy of
Jesus Christ, go hand in hand with
the subjects of the curriculum, our
Catholic schools constitute bul
warks for the protection of our
great democracy and the funda
mental truths upon which democ
racy must rest.
Way of the Cross
Tooled in Copper
SWANNANOA — Stations of
the Cross tooled in copper: that’s
the proud addition to the furnish
ings of St. Margaret-Mary’s
Church here.
Father John Hyland, pastor of
St. Margaret-Mary’s invited Fa
ther Brendon, OFM, of St. An
thony’s in Asheville to erect the
stations. Franciscan priests have
the special faculty, otherwise re
served to bishops, to erect Sta
tions of the Cross, since they have
been custodians of the Holy
Places in Jerusalem for centuries.
Father Ralph Neagle, Catholic
chaplain at the Oteen VA Hospital
assisted.
The artist, Francis M./Schnekser
of California was a patient at
Oteen when he made the copper
plaques as a rehabilitation pro
ject.
Mrs. Oscar Kanner, volunteer
instructor who worked with Sch
nesker on his project, said that
three months of experiment re
sulted in an entirely new approach
to the copper work, and the work
er’s concept of the design follow
ed closely Scriptural and tradi
tional texts, with the figure and
head of Christ presented according
to the imprint of His Body on the
Holy Shroud which has been pre
served at Turin.
Sister Mary Paula Therese
Doctor Starke
Sister Maura Therese
Nurse Roberts
Former Duke Doctor,. Nurse
Professed as Maryknollers
MARYKNOLL, New York — A doctor and a nurse once associated
with Duke University Hospital were professed this month as Mary
knoll Sisters at the Novitiate in Valley Park, Mo.
Dr. Helen Starke (Sister Mary
Paula Therese) is a New Yorker
and a convert to the Faith. Sister
took her pre-medical and medical
and interne training at Duke. From
1944-1953 she was resident in In
ternal Medicine there, during
which time she became a Catholic.
Betty June Roberts, R.N., (Sis
ter Maura Therese) is a Floridian.
Sister Maura practiced her pro
fession at Duke University Hospit
al in 1946-47. She is a graduate of
Mound Park School of Nursing, St.
Petersburg, Fla.
The Maryknoll Sisters were or
ganized in 1912 at the same time
that Father Price joined with Fa
ther (later Bishop) James A.
Walsh to establish the congregation
for men.
More than 1,150 Maryknoll Sis
ters are scattered over the globe,
bringing Christianity to the under
privileged races of the world, or
training in hospitals and schools
for active work. Some are needed
to maintain centers from which
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