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Volume XLVm April 10, 1960 Number 50
Washington — (NC) — Forty
years ago — April 11, 1920 — the
N.C.W.C. News Service issued its
first news report.
Today, it is the greatest news
gathering agency of its kind, and
its dateline symbol ‘NC’ is familiar
the world over.
The News Service is issued by
Sie Press Department of the Na
onal Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, and was established by the
■Bishops of the United States to
serve the Catholic Press. The
N.C.W.C. Press Department was
an original department of the
National Catholic Welfare Coun
cil, which was the successor to the
National Catholic War Council of
World War I days, and which has
since become the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference.
AT FIRST, the N.C.W.C. News
Service file of news was sent out
once a week, and consisted of a
printed news sheet" simulating the
- front page of a newspaper, and a
sup plementary mimeographed
service. The first report carried
22 stories totaling 9,700 words.
Today, the N.C.W.C. News Serv
! Ice issues dispatches daily, utiliz
; ing radio, telegraph, telephone,
, teleprinter and mail facilities. One
week’s reports embrace hundreds
i of stories from every section of
: the world, totaling some 60,000
I words. In addition, the N.C.W.C.
i Press Department now issues a
i picture service, a feature service,
: a special overseas service of con
densed domestic news, a special
biographical service, an editorial
information service, a radio and
(TV script service, and materials
for seasonal supplements.
WORTH'S of special note is No
ticias Catolicas, the Spanish and
Portuguese-language editions of
the N.C.W.C. News Service, which
numbers among its clients well
over 100 publication subscribers
and some 30 radio stations in
every country in Latin America.
The first news service reports
went to a total of 68 Catholic pub
lications. The names of 15 of these
no longer appear in the Directory
of the Catholic Press Association
of the United States. In six cases
a Catholic paper with a new name
has supplanted the original news
service subscriber. In five other
instances, two papers serving one
area have combined and adopted a
new name.
TODAY, news service clients in
clude 167 Catholic publications in
the United States and Canada,
and some 400 other publications
in 61 countries, on every conti
nent. To the many millions of
readers of N.C.W.C. News Service
dispatches there must be added
other millions who hear them reg
ularly over the radio.
Today, the news service gathers
its news through 146 foreign cor
respondents, 115 U.S. correspon
dents, and with'the cooperation of
its subscriber publications.
A BONA FIDE news service,
the N.C.W.C. agency is accredited
in the press galleries of Congress,
at the White House, at other U.S.
government establishments, and at
all other important centers of
news in the U.S. and abroad; Its
reporters have been fully accred
ited as war correspondents.
CCD CONGRESS
Rutland, Vt. — (NC) — The
Diocese of Burlington will spon
sor its first Diocesan Congress of
the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine here September 23 to
25, Bishop Robert F. Joyce has an
nounced.
THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM (Edward von Gerhardt) — “And when he had come into
Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, ‘Who is this?’ And the multitude said, ‘This is
Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee”—Matthew XXI.
Catholics Are Bound to
Vote for Best Candidate
Washington — (NC) — Catho
lics are bound in conscience to
vote for the presidential candidate
they consider best qualified for
the presidency, regardless of his
religion, according to a priest
theologian.
“IF A CATHOLIC cast his bal
lot for a candidate because he was
a Catholic and passed Over a non
Catholic candidate who, in his es
timation, would make a better
president, he would be guilty of
sin,” says Father Francis J. Con
nell, C.SS.R.
The Redemptorist priest, a
former dean of the School of
Sacred Theology at the Catholic
University of America here, ex
pressed this opinion in the April
issue of the Amercan Ecclesiasti
cal Review, a monthly published
at the university.
FATHER CONNELL replies to
the following question: “What
should a priest say to his parish
ioners when they question him on
the current problem whether or
not a Catholic may or should be
president of the United States?”
In answering how a priest
should inform his questioner,
Father Connell makes these
points:
Noted Catholic Author
Moderates UNO Study
CHAPEL HILL—Mr. John Cog
ley, nationally respected journalist
and author, moderated the week
long Carolina Symposium • at the
University of North Carolina
which closed April 1. Mr. Cog
ley, graduate of Loyola and Fri
• . . to Burma
N.C. Priest Goes To Burma
itUUJvY MOUNT — Fr. William
D. Lynn, SJ., a native Tar Heel
born here, will leave next week
for the Burma Diocesan Seminary.
There he will serve on the faculty
along with eight other Jesuits who
staff the regional school.
William D. Lynn was born here
in Rocky Mount where he took
some of his grammar schooling.
His parents were the late Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Lynn. His sister is a
member of the Belmont Mercy
Sisters, Sister Annella. Two cous
ins are Sister M. Incarnata, RSM.,
Belmont, and Mrs. Jasper Brake,
Rocky Mount. Mr. E. T. Quigley,
an unele lives at Dunn.
On June 20, 1954 Father Lynn
was ordained at the Jesuit Semi
nary at Woodstock, Maryland. In
1959 he received his doctorate in
Rome.
Father Lynn spent the past ten
days visiting with Sister Annella,
Sister Incarnata, and with rela-_
tlves and friends in North Caro
lina.
Fr. William D. Lynn, S J.
Leaves for Burma
bourg, Switzerland, summed up
his impressions and conclusions on
the five-day academic give and take
on Friday night’s closing session.
Theme of the symposium was: ‘The
Image of Man: The Individual in
an Accelerating Culture’.
Philosophers, economists, anthro
pologists and sociologists, states
men and natural scientists, all
pooled their ideas and thrashed
out the problems facing the stu
dents in the second half of the
Twentieth Century. It was Mr. Cog
Twentieth Century. It was Mr. Gog
ley’s job, and a measure of his
ability, to integrate and direct the
contributions of the host of illus
trious thinkers and lecturers.
At present John Cogley is a
staff member of the Fund for the
Republic’s Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions at Santa
Barbara. He has distinguished
himself as Director of the Fund’s
Study of Civil Liberties and as Ad
ministrator of the Fund’s Study of
Religious Institutions in a Demo
cratic Society. He is also consult
ant to the Jacques Maritain Center
of Notre Dame University. From
1949-1955 Mr. Cogley was execu
tive editor of Commonweal, and
continues a weekly column in that
journal. He has written frequent
ly for America, Look, New York
Times Book Review, and is the
author of Report on Blacklisting;
Catholicism; and Religions in
America.
Mr. John Cogley is married, the
father of six children, and almost
always assists at daily Mass.
1) “There is nothing in the
Catholic religion that should pre
vent a Catholic from being a good
president.” The Church’s teach
ings “regarding the duties of those
in public office, if conscientious
ly followed, would help a person
in public office to fulfill his ob
ligations more effectively.”
2) A CATHOLIC “would be
guilty of sin” if he voted for a
candidate because he was a Catho
lic and passed over a non-Catho
lic candidate who, he thinks, would
make a better president. “In
other words, there should be no
‘Catholic party’ in our land.”
3) “Any Catholic in office must
regulate his conduct by the law of
God as this is proclaimed by the
Catholic Church.”
4) “CATHOLICS should be told
that it would .not benefit the
Catholic Church or Catholics as
such to have a Catholic president
. . . if anything, it might be detri
mental to the Church or to Catho
lics to have a Catholic president,
because almost any national mis
fortune or calamity that would
occur would be ascribed to his
religion by many non-Catholics,
however free from responsibility
he might be.
5) U.S. Catholics “should realize
that if the spirit of anti-Catholic
bigotry pervades the land in the
near future, they must retain the
spirit of charity toward those who
are hostile to the Church. . .”
Dal I a Torre Retires
From Vatican City Daily
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
Count Guiseppe Dalla Torre has
retired as editor of L’Osservatore
Romano, a post he has held for 40
years, and has been named editor
emeritus of the Vatican City daily.
His successor is Raimondo
Manzini, editor of L’Awenire
d’ltalia, Catholic-oriented news
paper in Bologna, Italy.
At the same time, His Holiness
Pope John XXHI appointed two
assistant editors of L’Osservatore
Romano: Cesidio Lolli, who will
be in charge of official Vatican
and religious news, and Federico
Alessandrini, who will be in
charge of general news reporting.
Mr. Manzini, 59, is a native of
Lodi, near Milan, Italy. He was
editor of several magazines before
becoming editor of L’Awenire
d’ltalia in 1935. The Bologna daily
is now an organ of the Christian
Democratic party.
Widely recognized as a compet
ent newspaperman, slow to reach
decisions but determined and en
ergetic in carrying them out, Mr.
Manzini has also nad a career in
politics. He was elected several
times to Italy’s Parliament, served
as a cabinet official in the govern
ment of Premier Mario Scelba in
1954 and has beeii a member of
the National Directive Council of
the Christian Democratic party.
Count Dalla Torre joined the
staff of L’Osservatore Romano at
the invitation of Pope Benedict
XV in 1918. He had earlier been
a leader in the return of Catholics
to Italy’s political life. Catholics
had stayed aloof from Italian
politics following 1870, when the
first government of a unified Italy
took over the Papal States.
After serving on the paper’s ad
ministrative council for only two
years, he became its editor in
1920, succeeding Guiseppe Angel
ini.
Count Dalla Torre’s vigorous
editorial style, for which he later
became famous, was first shown
during the Mexican government’s
persecution of the Church in the
1920s. From that time on, his ca
reer was marked by a series of
public debates. He won special
fame when he opposed the fascist
regime of Benito Mussolini, which
came to power in Italy in 1922.
His retirement came little more
than a week after his 75th birth
day. He had remained active for
many years despite serious ill
ness.
Pope Confirms
Election Of
Belmont Abbot
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
His Holiness Pope John XXIII has
confirmed the election of Abbot
Walter Arthur Coggin, O.S.B., as
Abbot Nullius of Belmont Abbey
in North Carolina.
Pope John thereby gives Abbot
Coggin authority to govern the
Benedictine Abbey of Mary Help
of Christians in Belmont and to
govern- the abbacy nullius depend
ent upon the abbey. This com
prises the whole of Gaston County,
N.C., and Abbot Coggin will have
most of the rights of a bishop in
administering it.
Abbot Coggin was elected abbot
in November after the de^h of
Abbot Vincent G. Taylor, 0*S.B.,
who had governed the abbey and
its dependent territory since 1924.
He had been serving as vicar to
Abbot Taylor and president of
Belmont Abbey College since 1956.
Abbot Coggin was born Febru
ary 10, 1916, in Richmond, Va. He
received his secondary education
at Benedictine High School there
and at Loyola High School in Los
Angeles, Calif. He attended Bel
mont Abbey Junior College (it is
now a four-year institution) and
St. Benedict’s College in Atchison,
Kan. He was ordained in 1943, and
received a doctorate from the
Catholic University of America.
The only jurisdiction of its kind
in the United States, the abbacy
nullius of Belmont Abbey covers
an area of 363 square miles. The
area has 1,300 Catholics in a total
population of 130,000, 3 parishes,
3 missions and 3 chapels, 25 priests
and 2 colleges with a total en
rollment of 776.