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Volume L April 8, 1962Number 49
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Chinese cardinal advises
Get Full Truth; Look
To The Catholic Press
BORDERTOWN, N.J. —(NC)—
China’s only Cardinal imparted a
bit of advice for American Catho
lics—“See to it that you get the
truth about everything. Don’t be
satisfied with mere reports of
events, whether they are in the
United States, Formosa or China.
Many situations are colored. Look
to the Catholic press to give you
the true color of each report.”
Thomas Cardinal Tien, S.V.D.,
rested at St. Joseph’s seminary of
the Society of the Divine Word
here when he was interviewed.
This was his first stop in the
United States following a visit to
Britain and Ireland after the Vati
can consistory at which His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII proclaimed
ten new cardinals.
WHEN THE EXILED Arch
bishop of Peking and now apos
tolic administrator of Taipei was
asked what the people of the
United States could do for com
munist-overrun China, the cardi
nal’s reply was one word—“pray.”
The 71-year-old prelate added:
“It is my fervent wish that peo
ple everywhere pray for the day
when we can return to the main
land of our native China. It is my
fervent prayer that Almighty God
will bless my people in persever
ing in the persecution they are
undergoing; it is my fervent prayer
that they will retain the faith un
til that glorious day when we shall
return to the mainland of China.”
Cardinal Tien appealed also for
prayers for the people of Formosa.
He said: “The church today is
growing in Formosa. There is a
great need of solid spiritual devel
opment. There is a tremendous
need for schools so that Christian
education of those we win to the
faith can be completed.”
MISSIONARIES “baptize thou
sands, but there remains the fol
low-up, the need of continuing the
education of these thousands, re
ception of Holy Communion and
Confirmation, the strengthening of
them in the one true faith so that
they, too, can return to the main
land to bolster the efforts of our
clergy,” the Cardinal said.
Cardinal Tien also gave a warn
ing about the smuggling of nar
cotics into the United States. He
said the center of the drug traf
fic no longer is the China main
land, but that narcotics now are
pushed through Castro’s Cuba in
an effort to corrupt the people of
the United States.
Psychiatrist To Receive
Laetare Medal Award
INUTKE DAMJE, Ind. — (NC) —
Dr. Francis J. Braceland, chief
psychiatrist at the Institute for
Living, Hartford, Conn., will re
ceive the University of Notre
Dame’s Laetare Medal for 1962,
Father Theodore M. Hesburgh,
C.S.C. university president, an
nounced.
Dr. Braceland is a clinical pro
fessor of psychiatry at Yale Uni
versity and a former president of
the American Psychiatric Associa
tion. He is the first psychiatrist
to receive the Laetare Medal, con
ferred annually since 1883 on an
Dr. Braceland
outstanding American Catholic
layman.
President Kennedy was the re
cipient last year.
“As a physician, educator and
naval officer, Dr. Braceland has
served with rare distinction,” Fa
ther Hesburgh said in announcing
the award. “Throughout his pro
fessional life he has exemplified
the competence of modern medical
science and a compassion born of
his ancient Christian faith.
“In these times of prolonged
anxieties and tensions, he sym
bolizes the concern of psychiatry
and the Church for those who are
troubled in mind and spirit. It is
with pride that the University of
Notre Dame awards to Dr. Brace
land the highest honor within its
power to bestow, the Laetare
Medal.”
Dr. Braceland is the eighth phy
sician to receive the Laetare
Medal. He has been associated
with the Institute for Living at
Hartford since 1951. During the
five previous years he was profes
sor of psychiatry at the Univer
sity of Minnesota graduate school
and consulting psychiatrist at the
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Named a rear admiral in the
U.S. Navy Medical Corps (Re
serve) in 1958, Dr. Braceland
served during World War II as
chief of the neuropsychiatry divi
sion of the Navy’s Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery in Washington.
RELIEF CONTINUES IN STRIFE-TORN ALGERIA — This group of Algerian youngsters, at
tending a school run by White Fathers outside the port city of Oran, are a small part of the
28,000 school children fed daily with U.S. government-donated surplus food distributed by
Catholic Relief Services—NCWC. The overseas relief agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops
also reaches about 500,000 members of needy families and 12,500 persons in institutions in
Algeria. More than 95 per cent of the needy are Moslems.
Pope Welcomes
Scottish Leader
Of Presbyterians
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
“With the simplicity of my heart I
thank you for your visit.”
That was how His Holiness Pope
John XXIII greeted the Rt. Rev.
Archibald C. Craig, Moderator of
the Church of Scotland, when the
top Presbyterian leader responded
to a precedent-shattering invitation
to call on the head of the Roman
Church.
Dr. Craig revealed in a Rome
press conference later that his 45
minute meeting with Pope John on
March 28 had been a cordial one.
He said that at one point, the con
versation “touched upon the mat
ter of peace and, in this respect,
Pope John declared that ‘the peace
of the world has two bases: truth
and freedom.’ ”
Dr. Craig had come to Rome to
join in celebrating the 100th anni
versary of St. Andrew’s Presby
terian church on March 25. The
long-planned trip followed a fort
night’s visit to the Holy Land. Last
fall, after Dr. Craig had let it be
known that he hoped to pay a
courtesy call on the Pope, the ques
tion was submitted to a special
body of the Church of Scotland’s
general assembly.
Prize Student
DETROIT—(NC)—Father
Emil Masich, administrator
of St. Stephen’s Byzantine
Slavonic. Parish in suburban
Allen Park, is fond of relat
ing a particular story. It
goes like this:
Some 60 years ago at a vil
lage church in Kalinovka,
Russia, a priest rewarded his
prize scriptural students with
pieces of candy.
To one student, a pugna
cious youngster who recited
his Biblical learning with
proper piety, the priest paid
special attention — persuad
ing the boy’s parents to ex
cuse him from household
chores to attend church
school.
The youngster became so
proficient in his knowledge
of the Gospels he won a spe
cial prize for standing up in
church and reciting all four
Gospels non-stop from mem
ory.
Today, the student, now a
grown man, still likes to
throw in a biblical phrase
here and there but in a con
text that would horrify his
old teacher.
His name? Nikita Khrush
chev!
priest states
Racism, Shoddy Movies
In U.S. Aid Red Cause
CINCINNATI _ (NC) — Racial
Strife and objectionable movies in
the U.S. help communists foster an
image of this country abroad as a
“corrupt, decadent nation,” an au
thority on communism said here.
Communists use these weak
nesses as part of their psychologi
cal warfare techniques, said Fa
ther John F. Cronin, S.S., assistant
director of the Social Action De
partment, N tional Catholic Wel
fare Conference.
“Our racial problem has cost us
the equivalent of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in foreign aid in
the eyes of the nations of color in
Asia, Africa and Latin America,”
he told some 800 high school sen
iors (March 31) at the 16th an
nual World Affairs Institute.
He added that the “many dis
tinguished movies” produced in
the U.S. tend to confuse the people
of some of the emerging nations.
Father Cronin also said “the
idea that communism is a worker
peasant movement is not generally
true.”
“Communists appeal to intellect
uals, and they in turn exploit un
rest among peasants and workers,”
he stated.
Crescent City Schools
To Integrate Come Fall
NEW ORLEANS —(NC)— The
week of April 8 may bring the first
significant test of the New Orleans
archdiocese’s decision to desegre
gate Catholic schools next fall.
During that week, under terms
of the archdiocese’s announcement
disclosing its desegregation plans,
children now enrolled in Catholic
schools are to “indicate . . . their
intent to continue” in such schools
next year.
One state legislator has pre
dicted a “mass boycott” of Catho
lic schools in the wake of the de
segregation decision.
The decision was announced
(March 27) by Father Elmo L.
Romagosa, director of the arch
diocesan information bureau. The
announcement said Archbishop
Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans
had disclosed his intention to de
segregate the schools at a March
27 meeting with priests of the arch
diocese.
The announcement did not re
fer specifically to desegregation. It
said simply that the Archbishop
had decided that “effective at the
time of registration for the 1962-63
school session, all Catholic chil
dren may apply for admission to
the Catholic schools of the arch
diocese, both elementary and sec
ondary, parochial and private, ac
cording to the accepted education
al standards.”
There are 10,851 Negro students
in 30 Catholic schools in the New
Orleans archdiocese. Total Catho
lic school enrollment is 61,025 in
116 elementary schools and 14,682
in 37 high schools.
Protests against the archdio
cese’s decision were not long in
coming. Even before the decision
was made public, a handful of
pickets paraded in front of Arch
bishop Rummers residence. They
carried signs claiming that the
Bible teaches segregation.
State Sen. E. W. Gravolet, chair
man of a joint legislative commit
tee on segregation, predicted a
“mass boycott” of Catholic schools.
Gravolet also said the decision
may bring a “severe reaction from
a segregated-minded Legislature.”
He noted that parochial schools re
ceive some state assistance here in
the form of textbooks, transporta
tion, lunches and other “fringe
benefits.”
“Present at the priests’ meeting
were Coadjutor Archbishop John
P. Cody, Auxiliary Bishop Louis
A. Caillouet, and Msgr. Lucien J.
Caillouet, P.A., Vicar General of
the archdiocese.”
(Meanwhile, in the neighboring
Diocese of Lafayette, La., Bishop
Maurice Schexnayder said Catholic
schools would not be integrated
in 1962-’63, “but it has to come.”
(Bishop Schexnayder said he has
not decided when integration will
take place, but the subject is be
ing discussed with diocesan offi
cials.)
Integration of New Orleans
Catholic schools has been a sub
ject of controversy since at least
1956.
Archbishop Rummel announced
in that year that integration was
under study. He said segregation
is “morally wrong and sinful.” A
group calling itself the Association
of Catholic Laymen was set up to
block integration, and the step was
subsequently postponed.
In July, 1959, the Archbishop an
nounced that Catholic schools
would be integrated no later than
public schools. In November, 1960,
he repeated that Catholic schools
would be integrated “if and when”
See Crescent City, page 8A