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Integration Continued from page 5A lems which can usually be taken care of in private homes for the Negroes or in segregated hotels; bi-rocial meetings in hotels, the first privileges1 that we can attoin—then banquets —and finolly, we hope, housing. We haye not been able to house Negroes in public hotels, as yet. Arrangements can be made for Negro' speakers, choirs, artists or teachers to appear before white groups to advantage and such action helps solve this problem. Colored priests and colored sisters of high educational level are especially help ful. Each program of this nature is a blow which helps to demolish the social pattern. We insist on the bi racial aspect in all Church sponsor ed sports events. Attitudes of sports manship toward all problems orising out of these contests are very help ful in solving the racial problem. We insist on the American way of doing things. America favors the under dog, the downtrodden, the unjustly treated. America believes in fair play and justice. We try to use science to contradict the attitudes on race ineqauality—there is no dif ference below the skin. Science should be searching for truth; sci ence should be interested in pre serving all human life, and the great hospitals with nursing schools and medical staffs are aimed at this sci entific and human ideal. Creating Situations We need’ to create occasions for practicing the correct relationships; otherwise we could wait a thousand years and nothing would happen. These occasions should be thought out in advance and each should be a further step in the right direction. As the Mayor said, we don't show off the worst, but the best of either race. Thursday, at this ordinotion I was privileged to have Monsignor Gladstone Wilson preach. He is a classmate of mine from Rome. He is a doctor in five different fields; he has a doctorate in Theology, two in Philosophy, one in Canon Low, and one in Sociology. He is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Kings ton. in Jamaica, British West Indies. He speaks eight languages perfectly and six imperfectly, ond reads six additional languages. His sermon was more than equal to that of any white priest or monsignor. I'm sure, and helped tremendously on that occa sion. Emotion Race prejudice is -usually a mat ter of emotion, influencing the will rather than the reason. Emotions have to be put in their proper place, under the will. Emotions like fear, anger, hatred, should not be permit ted to influence reason. Emotions are God-given ond can be used for good race relations; sorrow, pity, appre ciation, real love and unity can be used to great advantage to counter act the contrary emotions. Schooling I would like to outline briefly what the Church is trying to do on the question of teaching. In the Diocese of Raleigh the greatest help towards good race relations in our Catholic schools, and certainly an example and ultimate help fat. the public schools, is the fact that we have a curriculum in grammar school bas ed on the Christian social principles, token from the encyclicals of the Holy Fathers. A child learns how to live with his neighbors in the kinder garten, in the first grade, and through every subject, he is taught Christian and Religious Social principles. In recent years that curriculum has been raised to the high 'school level ond now in high schools it is doing the same tremendous iwork. I'm- sure that we need all the help that edu cation can offer. The Catholic schools in our country can do a tremendous work in this regard. The _ 11,000 children in the Catholic school sys tem in North Carolina are, perhaps, a leaven to teach good race rela tions in public schools. North Caro lina has, at least, begun to try to W. J. 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I believe that fundamen tally, though many phases of it are very likely unconstitutional, it will accomplish that effect. But we have to help in that accomplishment. Natural Law We con, as Catholics, really do the best job in preparing our people to appreciate what our country means to us. There are many philosophies and much fuzzy thinking going on in the country with regord to Ameri ca. We need delicately to get bock to fundamentals and to keep abso lutes, and with God's help, I m sure that the Catholic Church can be a means to anchor our teaching of America on the natural law, on the real appreciation of human ond God given rights. As a Catholic, as a Christian, j'm sure you know that we must appreciate the dignity of the human person. If an artist ♦ho handles ond appreciates the inani mate creatures of God—Wood, stone, or metal, glass—handles them like children of God; how much more the human person, composed of an immortal, spiritual'soul and a human body, destined for an eternity with God. Christianity How much appreciation should a Christian have, a member of Christ's Church? A Christian is one who be lieves in the Divinity of Christ; Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, equal to the Father and the Holy Ghost from all eternity, be came Man and lived on earth for 33 years; the God-Man. Although Christ did not have a human per sonality, but a Divine one. He did have a human soul and a human body. This creoted nature was joined in an ineffable way to the Divine Nature which was from all eternity. No greater honor could have come to this masterpiece of Creation — man — than to have God Himself join His own Nature to ours in the Person of Christ. For God to look out of human eyes, to use human hands, to have a, human heart and soul, to hove the eternal Godhead, the Divine Person, the Second Per son of the Blessed Trinity, behind these and united to them in a most intimate way, is the greatest dig AN ANGEL OF MERCY — Miss Rosemary B. Macklem of Cleveland, the Midwest’s angel of mercy to some 25,000 im poverished Indians, passes through Chicago with her trailer loaded with clothes and her heart loaded with love. During the next three months, the Catholic office worker will travel alone more than 5,000 miles visiting 16 Indian reservations to distribute clothes she collected at a rented store since last October. On this, her sixth auto trip to the West, Miss Mack lem expects to spend about $2,000 of her personal funds. nity of mon. This is whot raised oil men of oil roces to the apex, to the pinnacle. This is the Christ, Who is God, Who acted ond spoke on earth as God, and after redeeming, after gaining grace for men, gathered these men into one body to be born, to be fed, to be guided and to be increased until the whole human race would have opportunity to contact the Di vinity of Christ. That is why, in a sense, every Christian is another Christ. Every Christian- is Christ's temporal extension into the world. In Baptism a Christian becomes a tabernacle of'the Blessed Trinity and o member of the Mystical Body. In Baptism every Christian receives the right to be fed on the Body and Blood of the Saviour, and with this Divine pledge of salvation to enter an etern ity with the Blessed Trinity. Understandably, this tremendous privilege was intended by God for HANES-LINEBERRY FUNERAL SERVICE 401 W. Market St. Phone BR 2-5128 Greensboro, N. C. “The Home of Thoughtful Service” For 39 Years Our parking service is for your convenience when attending a service at the Hanes—Lineberry Chapel. 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The apostolate to the French working class includes the move ment of Priest-Workers, whose ac tivities were restricted by the Holy See in 1953. The priest work ers, organized after World War II by the" late Cardinal Suhard of Paris, lived in working class dis tricts, wore workmen’s clothes and held regular jobs in factories and the like. Their aim was to try to convert the de-Christianized mass es of “French workers, many of whom have fallen prey to Com munism. CHOSEN — by discriminating families from all walks of life for consistently fine funeral service. Rich & Thompson FUNERAL SERVICE Burlington Graham Ambulance Service Dial CA 6-1662, Both Locations Robins 6 Weill ® Qt^EALT9RS~:i INSUROE£] General Insurance CASUALTY-MARINE BONDS-FIRE AUTO REAL ESTATE ' Sales—Rentals _ Appraisals—Management Southeastern Building Greensboro, N.C.
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