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Volume L April 22, 1962 Number 51
RALEIGH, N. C. P. O. Box 9503
Jerusalem, Israel — (NC) —
Catholics in Israel flocked up
Mount Zion in solemn procession
on Holy Thursday to the Cenacle,
the upper room traditionally held
to be the very place of the last
supper.
Officials of the Franciscan Cus
tody of the Holy Land, crossed
over from Jordan for the rite.
Hundreds of Catholics climbed the
spiral road to the top of the holy
hill with them. Among them were
little family groups, school chil
dren, Franciscan friars and Bene
dictine monks, Sisters and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps.
THIS YEAF. the day was an es
pecially solemn one in this Jewish
state. It was also the 15th of the
lunar month Nisan, thus the first
k day of the passover, the great
A House Divided in New Orleans?
BY JAMES McGLINCY
The author of the following
special report is a staff writer for
the Catholic Star Herald, official
paper of the Camden diocese, who
. spent five days making a first
hand study of the delicate situa
tion in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS —(NC)— To
the visiting reporter from the
North, the Archdiocese of New Or
leans gives the picture of a house
in danger of becoming a divided
one.
There is a difference of opinion
in the family. Whether it will erupt
BISHOP’S RESIDENCE
600 Bilyeu Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
April 9, 1962
My dear Brethren:
Last year we erected a little building in Asheville, St.
John Vianney, as a pre-seminary for students for the
Priesthood who came from little towns which do not have
the advantage of a Catholic high school. This building is
large enough to take care of about 40 boys, with 2 to a room.
We now have about 25 students at St. John’s, from 15 little
towns or villages. Father Wellein, our Director, has done a
fine job with our pre-seminary. The building cost approx
imately $115,000.00. For equipment, and paying one-third
of tuition for each boy, we spent this year approximately
$41,500.00. This sum includes a wonderful language labor
* atory which is used primarily for instruction in Latin by
tape. We have made a good start with this little building,
if we ever decide to expand into a minor seminary. I hope
we are many vocations ahead—certainly twenty-five more
than we would have had if we had not established the pre
seminary.
In addition to the pre-seminary, we have had to pay
for the support and tuition of our regular seminarians, who
total 31 students in 14 different minor and major seminaries
of the country. For these we spent $29,518.00 during the
year. Since our diocesan seminary collection last year
brought in only $14,932.37, you can see that if it wasn’t for
the few sponsorships of individuals and societies, and a few
good donations from the Knights of Columbus, Catholic
Daughters, Serra Club, and other groups, our expense would
have been more than double our income. As it is, we are in
the red by $16,118.00.
That is why I come to you now, asking you to be as
1 generous as possible to the Seminary Collection which will
be taken up on Easter Sunday. I am sure you appreciate as
well as I do, how badly we are in need of Priests for the
diocese, though we do have some wonderful hopes for these
young men in the pre-seminary, and in the minor and
major seminaries. We are doing everything we can to train
them properly for the real missionary work in North Caro
lina. God has been good to us to give us zealous, missionary
vocations, but we need your help to carry these young
men through to the Priesthood, and ultimately to provide
our own college and seminary here in the diocese. Several
of our neighboring dioceses have given us the good exam
^Ple, and even some of these are no larger than the Diocese
' of Raleigh.
I hope that you have saved something each week of
See Bishop’s Letter, page 2A
£
into an open quarrel before wis
dom eventually prevails cannot be
predicted. The telling element may
be hope. There is strong hope on
all sides that the desegregation of
Catholic schools can be accomplish
ed peacefully.
So very, very much is at stake
here. The authority of bishops, the
increasing role of the Church as a
leading force in the fight for social
justice, the social and economic
progress of the South, the continu
ed communion with their Church
of some Catholics — these are
among the complex and immense
issues involved.
In ordering the integration of
Catholic schools, Archbishop
Joseph F. Rummel and his young
er, heartier, Coadjutor Archbishop,
John P. Cody, have struck at social
mores as old as the city of New
Orleans itself. There were Negroes
being taught by Ursuline Sisters
in Catholic schools here in 1727.
Coincidental with the archdiocesan
order, the desegregation movement
has been given new impetus by the
order of Federal Judge J. Skelly
Wright that the first six grades of
all public schools must be opened
to Negro children next September.
Where does it all lead? What’s
going to happen? This is a city
of paradoxes and there are no easy
answers to be had, even after
many interviews with priests, pa
rishioners, parochial school chil
dren and politicians.
What does one make of a Cath
olic high school junior who says,
“I don’t mind sitting in classrooms
with Negroes but I don’t want to
sit in the school cafeteria with
them?”
Apart from the people who have
been loudly defiant of the Arch
bishop’s authority — the Mrs. Gail
See A Fouse, page 8A
Fr. Morton's
Mother Dies
WILMINGTON — Mrs. Sallie
Morton, mother of Father Louis
Morton, curate at St. Mary’s
Church, was taken in death on
April 12. Mrs. Morton resided at
Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio,
where she died. Fr. Louis Morton
offered the Requiem Funeral
Mass Wednesday. April 18, at St.
Dominic’s Church, the parish
church of the priests mother. Resi
dence is at 3700 Traver Road,
Shaker Heights. May she rest in
peace!
commemoration of the exodus,
when the first-born of Egypt met
death, but those of the Israelites
were “passed over.” It was the
unleavened bread prepared for the
passover seder that Jesus blessed,
broke and gave to His apostles in
the first Christian Eucharist.
For the last four centuries the
Cenacle was under Moslem con
trol. Christians could visit it, but
could neither kneel nor pray pub
licly. Things have changed under
Israeli administration, and the
climax of the procession is the
public chanting of the gospel of
Holy Thursday in the upper room.
THE EVENING Mass of the
Lord’s Supper was celebrated
solemnly in the Benedictines’
Church of the Dormition, adjacent
to the Cenacle complex, and also
in the chapel of the Franciscan
friary of the Cenacle, which is only
about 20 feet from the upper room
itself.
The rites on Mount Zion includ
ed the traditional washing of the
feet of 12 poor people from various
See Holy Thursday, page 12A
Pope Asks Rome
To Aid Council
VATICAN CITY — (NC)— The
Pope has urged the people of Rome
to cooperate in making the coming
ecumenical council a success.
“The whole world is drawing
near to welcome it with respect,”
said His Holiness Pope John XXIII
in a letter to the Romans.
“Examples of this universal in
terest are surprising. Expressions
of respectful and trusting expecta
tion keep arriving here even from
brothers separated from unity and
Catholicity.”
NCEA Sets
Convention
In Detroit
WASHINGTON — (NC) — The
U.S. Catholic Church’s biggest
single project—education — gets
its annual review next week when
some 10,000 educators gather in
Detroit.
All educational levels from the
Hierarchy to kindergarten teach
ers will assemble under the ban
ner, “Fostering the Ecumenical
) Pontifical Liturgy i
) At Cathedral i
<1 Good Friday — 3:00 p.m. \
ff Easter Vigil — 10:30 p.mX
Spirit,” at the 59th annual conven
tion of the National Catholic Ed
ucational Association.
Although the ecumenical theme
is due for major treatment in the
nearly 200 sessions set between
April 24 and 27, the convention
will get into other matters affect
ing the world’s largest private
school system, such as the in
crease in lay teachers, educational
television and new teaching meth
ods in mathematics.
In other meetings, the NCEA’s
Newman Club Chaplains’ Section
will review its work among the es
timated 540,000 Catholics who now
attend non-Catnolic colleges and
universities, a total which in recent
years has moved ahead of the
Catholic college enrollment now
standing at about 310,000.
Nor will discussions be confin
ed to Latin Rite schools. The By
zantine Rite Teachers’ Institute of
the Archeparchy of Philadelphia
will hold three days of meetings,
considering topics such as “Effec
tive Teaching of the Ukrainian
Language in Elementary Schools.”