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JlortJ) Carolina Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $3.50 Copy 10c Volume L December 3. 1961 Number 31 RALEIGH, N. C. P. O. Box 9503 Canadian Court Considers Education Tax Rights OTTAWA — (NC) — The su preme court of Canada has taken under advisement a case involving the right of Ontario Catholics to ^designate their education tax money for Catholic schools. Under the Ontario separate school act, Catholics and other re ligious groups may establish their Sharry Hall Is Dedicated At St. Genevieve ' ASHEVILLE — Sharry Hall, latest addition to St. Genevieve of the Pines, was dedicated Nov. 26. The ceremony began in the audi torium with the Invocation by Fa ther Henri Blanc, school chaplain. 'The Academy Glee Club sang the processional and Oscar Maier of Asheville, who acted as chairman, introduced the speakers. They included S. M. Patton of Asheville and Frank Mulvaney, the vice mayor of Asheville. Mayor Earl Eller was called out of town and was unable to attend as sched uled. The principal speaker was Fa ther Robert McMahon, pastor of St. Catherine’s Church in Wake Forest and Vice Chancellor of the Raleigh Diocese. Father McMahon is a graduate of St. Genevieve’s Prep School and the, son of the late Dr. Francis McMahon, formerly on the medical staff at the Veteran’s Hospital in Oteen. Bishop Vincent S. Waters gave See Sharry Hall, page 5A own separate schools and have their taxes used for their support. The measure provides, however, that “subject to other provisions” of the act, a Catholic cannot be assessed as a separate school sup porter unless he lives within three miles of the separate school. Other wise his taxes are used to support the local public school. THE PRESENT case, whose outcome could affect many of the Catholic separate school boards in Ontario, arose in the townships of Middleton and North Walsingham. Eor the past 15 years Mr. and Mrs. Andre Vandekerckhove of Middleton Township were assessed as supporters of a Catholic sepa rate school there. That school was operated by a Union separate school board, formed in 1944, which also operated a Catholic school in North Walsingham. In 1959 the Middleton separate school was closed, and a school bus was provided to take children who had attended it to the separate school in North Walsingham. Mr. and Mrs. Vandekerckhove had lived within three miles of the Middletown separate school, but were beyond the three-mile limit for the North Walsingham school. Middleton township ruled that their taxes therefore could not be used to support the North Walsingham school, but had to be used instead for its own public school. THE COUPLE appealed this ruling to the Ontario supreme See Tax Rights, page 3A Indulgences Are Granted By Pontiff VATICAN CITY — (NC) — His Holiness Pope John XXIII has granted indulgences to ev eryone who offers his daily work to God. A decree issued (Nov. 25) by the Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, high Church court that deals with indulgences, states that a plenary indulgence may be gained once a day under the usual conditions by Catholics who offer their day’s work — whether manual or intel lectual — to God in the morning. The “usual conditions,” accord ing to canon law, are confession, Communion, a visit to a church or public oratory and prayers for the intention of the pope. The decree also grants a partial indulgence of 500 days as often as a Catholic offers his work to God and accompanies his offer ing with a prayer, on condition that he has “a contrite heart.” An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to those sins whose guilt has been forgiven either by the Sacra ment of Penance or a perfect Act of Contrition. They are plenary — remitting the whole of the temporal punishment incurred by a sinner — or' partial, remitting part of the punishment. The text of the new Vatican decree is the following: “His Holiness John XXIII, Pope by Divine Providence, desiring that human labor may be more greatly ennobled and elevated by means of being offered to God, in the course of an audience granted on October 7 of this year to the undersigned cardinal, Grand Penitentiary, has deigned to grant the following indulgences: “1) Plenary, under the usual conditions, to be gained by the faithful who in the morning offer to God their labor of the whole day, whether manal or intellec tual, using any formula of prayer. “2) Partial indulgence of 500 days, to gained by faithful with at least a contrite heart as often as they devoutly offer the work at hand, using any formula of prayer. “The present decree is to be of perpecun*- vamJtvjV,^1! to the con trary notwithstanding?* " " The decree was signed by Ar cadio Cardinal Larraona, C.M.F., Grand Penitentiary, who presides over the Sacred Apostolic Peniten tiary. scaling the invisible wall Personal Approach to Prejudice k WARREN, Ohio — (NC) — A dozen Catholics have begun a ser ies of visits to Negro homes here in an effort to scale the invisible wall that divides Negroes and whites. The group, from the Catholic Action and Information Center here, has set about putting racial understanding on a personal basis. The home visiting program isn’t new. It has been introduced with success in such cities as Chicago, New York, Boston, Columbus and •Cleveland. The priest behind the local program is Father Mark Zwick, who believes that you can’t be a good Catholic and racially prejudiced, too. Father Zwiek, Mr. and Mrs. James Brown and Dr. Ronald Dull, a chiropodist, each led groups in making the first visits, first of their kind in the Youngstown di ocese. Their first stop was the home of Dr. John Wright, pastor of Trinity Baptist church. u “My wife and I,” said Dr. Wright, "were very impressed at this re markable gesture. I’ve spoken to my congregation about it the last three Sundays, -and we would like to take part, too, in this fellowship and visit homes of white people. One of our great problems is that we don’t understand each other, and we’re hoping that perhaps this will help toward creating a better understanding among us all.” Dr. Wright and his wife served coffee and doughnuts and talked unabashedly about racial problems. The conversation, recalls Brown, was thought provoking. He ob served: “Dr. Wright, who is widely traveled abroad, made one state ment which keeps going through my mind and is worth thinking about. He said that in every coun try outside the United States, he and his wife, Ruth, are Americans. But in the United States, he said, they’re Negroes.” Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bell de scribed the visit of the group as “a fine thing.” She added: “A lot of colored people don’t understand white people, and a lot of white people don’t really know what colored people are like. For example, many whites have been told that Negroes aren’t clean, and that our houses aren’t clean. By coming to our homes, they find out how wrong they’ve been.” For most of the group, it was their first time inside a Negro home. They heard first-hand reports that substandard conditions exist in a Warren public school in an all-Negro neighborhood; that some large Warren plants won’t employ Negroes; and that decent housing in most instances has a “for whites only” tag. The program, as Father Zwick sees it, will help do away with a good deal of prejudice. He asserts: “These home visitors aren’t prejudiced. We’re hoping that peo ple on the borderline will join them, and by calling on Negroes, they’ll understand what colored people are thinking, and how deep ly hurt they are at discrimination. “The more people who under stand the problem, the faster the problem will be solved. It’s basi cally a Christian problem. If we are Christian, we have no other choice but to act — we can’t sit back and put up with injustice.” ORDAINS ON ANNIVERSARY — On the 35th anniversary of his own ordination, Valerian Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, ordained 20 Indian priests at the Pontifical Athe naeum of Poona, 100 miles south of Bombay. Cardinal Gracias made his own studies for the presthood at the same seminary when it was located at Kandy. Above, he anoints the hands of Father Philip Koran, S.V.D., from Mangalore, one of seven Divine Word missionaries in the class. The seminary is con ducted by the Jesuit Fathers. (NC Photos) BISHOP’S RESIDENCE P. O. Box 1949 Raleigh, North Carolina November 13, 1961 My dear Brethren: Since 1889 the Catholic University of America at Wash ington, D.C. has been serving the Catholic Church in Amer ica and is devoted to God and Truth. The university is ideally located in our national oapital and is fully accredited in every possible way. It has complete schools and depart ments, teaches all the arts and sciences and has a research department for faculty members and graduate students. 'Fk&r jaudly. numbers% over 400 members. There are ap proximately 5,000 students from every state in the Union, including the territories and dependencies Of 'ttlS -United States, and there are students there from 60 foreign coun tries. The university conducts summer sessions and work shops and places an emphasis on graduate work. Unique among all the universities of America, it has a ratio of two thirds graduate and professional degrees to less than one third undergraduate. It has a Library of three quarters of a million volumes and has access to over half a million volumes in other libraries in the vicinity. There are over 700 educational institutions affiliated with the university, including 177 colleges and 396 secon dary schools. Grouped around the university are 87 houses of study of religious institutes of men and women. Through scholarships and student loan funds many needy students are assisted. The university is giving leadership in many departments to the Catholic educational life of the country. The spiritual life of the students is provided for by chap lains. There are four principal chapels on the campus gath ered around the beautiful National Shrine, which is the pride and joy of the Catholic Church in America. This is the university you have built. It is supported by the sacri fices and offerings from every large and small family in the country, and, as a result, it has grown to these proportions on account of the devotedness of the Catholic laity. It has no great endowment except you Catholics of the country who have made it what it is and who are using it for the education of your Catholic children. We do hope and pray that you will continue to be generous to your Catholic university, especially in the col lection which will be taken up on the First Sunday of Advent in all the churches of the diocese. With sincere appreciation to you for all that you are doirtg for the Church of God in America, I remain Sincerely yours in Christ, Bishop of Raleigh
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