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Volume LMarch 11, 1962Number 45
RALEIGH, N. C. P. O. Box 9503
by clubs, fraternities
Catholic Group Assails
Racial, Religious Bias
CHICAGO — (NC) — The Na
tional Catholic Conference for Ra
.cial Justice has issued a statement
condemning racial and religious
discrimination by clubs and fra
ternities.
The statement says that many
country and downtown clubs ful
fill a number of quasipublic func
tions, and “there are no ethical
grounds by which these clubs can
justify the exclusion of citizens
otherwise qualified, because of
race, religion or ethnic origin.”
IN REFERENCE to fraternities,
t the statement says that “recently
a Catholic priest defended what
Pontiff Observes
Peril to Church
In Latin America
VATICAN CITY —(NC)— His
Holiness Pope John XXIII has told
the Bishops of all Latin America
that some nations there, made
great by their Christian past, are
turning on both God and the
Church.
He said in a letter dated Decem
ber 8 but published March 2 that
some Latin American countries
cause him “lively concern.”
Pope John pointed out that some
of these nations “seek to increase
the spread of such evil” as the per
secution of the Church.
The Pope mentioned no coun
tries by name, but the Church is
now being persecuted in Cuba
by the regime of self-confessed
Marxist-Leninist, Premier Fidel
Castro. Within the past year the
Haitian government has ousted
bishops, and the Dominican Re
public—before the overthrow of
the Trujillo dictatorship.
VOCATION
EXAMINATIONS
On Saturday, March 31st,
a placement examination
will be held in 11 centers
throughout the State for all
boys from the 8th Grade
through High School who
wish to study for the Priest
hood for the Diocese of Ral
eigh.
This examination is open
to boys of any parish in the
State, whether they are at
tending Catholic school or
public school in the grade
or high school departments.
All those interested should
contact their pastor and
write to the Vocation Direc
tor immediately for the ap
plication form and assign
ment to closest examination
center. Write to:
Vocation Director
Box 1949
Raleigh, N.C.
he called the right of fraternities
to be free from public pressure
if they decide to exclude some
people because of religion.”
It states that the priest, (not
named in the statement), “defend
ed his position by referring to the
protection fraternities have under
law as private associations, and to
the role of the fraternity in en
couraging and protecting personal
friendships.”
“While we could grant the right
of a club or fraternity not to ad
mit each and every person . . . ,
refusal of admittance or member
ship would surely have to be on
reasonable grounds,” the state
ment continues.
“Race, as such,” it adds, “does
not constitute reasonable grounds,
and therefore we maintain no fra
ternity can morally justify a pol
icy or action which excludes Ne
groes.”
The statement also states that
“it is morally wrong to exclude
classes of people from our friend
ship because of the color of their
skin, religion, or their ethnic
background.”
“Charity and love require us to
meet all men face to face, to judge
them as individuals,” the state
ment concludes. “Automatic ex
clusion from friendship because of
race, religion or national back
ground certainly seriously offends
against our obligation to love our
fellow men.”
The National Catholic Confer
ence for Interracial Justice was
established in Chicago in Decem
ber, 1959. John J. O’Connor, pro
fessor of history at Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., is
chairman of the conference.
POPE VISITS AMERICAN ART COLLECTION — During a recent visit of His Holiness Pope
John XXIII to the Princeton Index of Christian Art at Vatican Library, Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New York, explains the use of a new slide projector which he added
to the Index equipment. Pictured from left to right: Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop Martin J.
O’Connor, rector of the North American College; Father Guy Ferrari, O.S.B., an American
who is curator of the Index; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardi
nals; Pope John; and Cardinal-designate Anselmo Albareda, O.S.B., prefect of the Vatican
Library.
Seniors Named
NMS Finalists
The National Merit Scholarship
Cooperation of Evanston, Illinois,
has informed Mother M. Potts,
principal of St. Genevieve of the
Pines, Asheville, that two of the
1962 senior students have been
named finalists in the nationally
competitive examinations for Merit
scholarships.
THE STUDENTS, who ha-e
both attended St. Genevieve’s
Nona Walker
Frances Babb
since the kindergarten are: Miss
Frances Rae Babb, daughter of
VIr. and Mrs. Ottis F. Babb of 20
Sunset Drive, Asheville.
Miss Babb, whose father is a
neteorological technician with the
Weather Wing, is interested in
nathematics and science. Miss
Mona E. Walker, daughter of Com
nander and Mrs. Calvin A. Walker
)f 10 Arborvale Road, is interest
id in foreign languages.
WASHINGTON — (NC) — The
Kennedy administration’s top edu
cation officials have opened a
drive for Congressional passage of
a $747 million, five-year project to
improve school instruction.
Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
and Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S.
Commissioner of Education, ap
peared before the House select
subcommittee on education headed
by Rep. Frank Thompson of New
Jersey, the bill’s House sponsor.
The measure (H.R. 10145) pro
poses several programs on the ele
mentary and secondary levels,
some of which would permit par
ticipation by teachers in parochial
and other private schools and by
all colleges. One of its main fea
tures is limited to public schools.
Both Ribicoff and McMurrin in
dicated in testimony that parochial
and private school teachers could
take part in the bill’s proposals of
summer college institutes for ad
vanced study and of one-year
scholarship grants for outstanding
teachers to pursue studies in the
subject they teach.
Private, nonprofit colleges would
be able to take part in a proposal
for grants to meet part of the cost
of special projects to strengthen
courses specifically for teachers.
The biggest single part of the
measure is limited to public
schools. It proposes $50 million in
each of five years for grants to
state educational agencies. The
money would be used to assist in
conducting demonstration projects
to improve the quality of instruc
tion in public schools and to help
state agencies promote improved
teaching practices.
Ribicoff told the subcommittee
the bill is not a substitute “for any
other proposal of this administra
tion.”
This apparently was a response
to reports that the measure is in
tended as a replacement for the
administration’s unsuccessful legis
lation for grants to build public
schools and help pay their teach
ers.
Seeks Shared-Time Plan
For Private Education
CHICAGO—(NC)— The head of
the nation’s biggest private school
system said his schools and public
schools should “study in detail”
shared-time education, especially
on the secondary level.
Msgr. William E. McManus, su
perintendent of Chicago Catholic
schools, said there are no definite
plans at present for an experi
ment, but he added in a state
ment:
“It will not do for public and
nonpublic school officials to go
on talking endlessly about cooper
ation. They ought to try some
thing together. And this is what
the ‘shared-time’ plan suggests.”
Pledging continued growth of
Catholic high schools, he noted,
however, that despite the 18,200
seat expansion begun in 1960, they
are still forced to turn down ap
plicants.
“We want to have an open
mind,” he commented, “toward an
idea or plan that would be in the
best interest of the American
community and might also be an
expeditious way to extend the ad
vantages of Catholic schools to a
larger number of students.”
In the meantime, Public School
Superintendent Benjamin C. Wil
lis said he had talked informally
with Msgr. McManus and other ed
ucators about the plan. He said
further discussions will be held.
Guy Cornwell, assistant superin
tendent of public instruction, said
that public schools would be able
to receive state aid for the part
time Catholic students.
OFFICIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT
Effective on Tuesday, March
6th, Father William Lynch,
O.M.I, succeeded Father Mat
thew Noonan as Pastor of St.
Ann’s Church in Fayetteville.
Rt. Rev. George E. Lynch
Chancellor
BISHOP’S RESIDENCE
600 Bilyeu Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
February 23, 1962
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My dear Brethren: (
Through the kindness and generosity of a North Carolina
family interested in the welfare of the Church, and in order
to pay back some of the wonderful gifts received through the
hands of the Church, I am able to offer to two small parishes
for the building of a church in a place where there is no church
at present, matching funds of a minimum of $5,000.00 in 1963,
and under the same conditions for two similar parishes in 1964,
and one similar parish in 1965, on a matching basis of $5,000.00.
This offer by this generous Catholic family envisions help
in small parishes in North Carolina. Applications for this money
should be promptly sent to the Bishop, for 1963, if a parish is
interested.
Hoping that other Catholic families who have been so
blessed by God will be inspired to do likewise for the Missions
in North Carolina, I remain
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Vincent S. Waters
Bishop of Raleigh