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Volume L__April 29, 1962Numer 52
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Polish Atheists Fighting
Religion For Hospitalized
BERLIN —(NC)— Efforts to
“counteract the clerical elements
which force religious practices
upon the sick” were mapped out
at a conference on hospital secu
larization in Poland’s northwestern
Operetta Planned
By St. Monica's
RALEIGH — Children of St.
Monica School will present their
annual operetta for the public on
Friday, May 11.
Under the direction of the Sis
ters of the Immaculate Heart the
children of St. Monica’s will put
.on “The Magic Fiddle,” the life of
Paganini interpreted in song and
dance.
Proceeds from the entertain
ment will be given to the new
Raleigh Catholic High School build
ing fund. Admission donation is
$1. Place: Price Memorial Audi
torium at Nazareth, 8:00 p.m.
Szczecin, it was learned here.
Fakty I Mysli, periodical of Po
land’s organized atheists and
freethinkers, said (April 15) that
the conference brought together
several hospital directors and rep
resentatives of the communist par
ty and of the regional administra
tion of the health service work
ers’ unions.
The atheists’ review said both
a local atheist leader and a
health service director asserted
that there was “increased activity
by clerical circles” in the hos
pitals. These Catholic elements
were accused of putting pressure
on sick nonbelievers through “the
organization of collective holy
communion, visits by a priest, and
other religious services.”
“Clerical elements” were also
charged with trying to infiltrate
medical and nursing schools.
Conference speakers called for
inclusion of atheistic publications
—including both Fakty I Mysli and
Argumenty—in hospital libraries.
Maronite Patriarch
To Visit Raleigh
RALEIGH — Maronite Patri
arch Paul Pierre Meouchi of Leba
non and Antioch will visit Raleigh
on May 9.
To receive and meet the Patri
arch during his visit, Americans
of Lebanese background have
planned a dinner and reception at
Nazareth for that evening.
Dinner for civic and church
leaders will be held at Bishop
Vincent S. Water’s residence, 600
Rjjyeu Street, at 5:30 p.m. From
7:30-9:30 Patriarch Meouchi will
meet with visitors at Price Memo
rial Auditorium. Invitations have
gone out to all families of Leba
nese origin throughout North Car
olina to attend the May 9 recep
tion.
General chairmen in charge of
the celebration are Sister Michel,
R.S.M., of Belmont Mercy Con
vent, and Mr. Neil Joseph of
Goldsboro. Bishop Waters has al
so appointed Raleigh pastors,
along with local members of the
laity, Dr. Henry Zaytoun and Mr.
Ellis Nassif, Raleigh attorney, to
supervise the evening’s program.
Patriarchs compare with West
ern archbishops in ecclesiastical
jurisdiction; the historical title is
given to heads of church provinces
in the mid-eastern Catholic and
Orthodox rites.
Patriarch Meouchi serves in the
Middle East as ordinary of Ma
ronites, Lebanese Catholics in
union with Rome. In the United
States Maronite Catholics are un
der the jurisdiction of local ordi
naries and generally worship in
the Roman Rite. There are, how
ever, some fifty Maronite parishes
in the United States where the
Liturgy (Mass) is celebrated ii
the Syriac language and derives
from the ancient Antiochian
Liturgy. Nearest Maronite church
es to North Carolina are in Rich
mond and Roanoke, Virginia, and
in Birmingham, Alabama.
Other Catholic Rites in the Near
East are the Byzantine, Copts,
Melkite, Chaldean, and Armenian.
Those eastern rites which had
broken with Rome, and later re
turned to union, are known as
Uniates. Dissidents, not in union
with Rome, are called Orthodox.
Unique among the Eastern
Rites, the Maronites returned as
a complete body to union with
Rome in the 12-Century, so that
there is no schismatic counterpart
to the Maronite Catholic Church.
PATRIARCH OF MARONITES
PAUL PIERRE MEOUCHI
Archbishop
Of Atlanta
To Visit Here
RALEIGH — The Diocese of
Raleigh, Bishop Vincent S. Waters
announced this week, will honor
its new Archbishop, Paul J. Halli
nan of Atlanta in special ceremo
nies on Tuesday, May 29.
The former bishop of Charles
ton, S. C. was inaugugated as
archbishop of Atlanta, a newly in
stituted archdiocesan see, on
March 29. The new province in
ARCHBISHOP
PAUL J. HALLINAH
eludes as suffragan sees the dio
ceses of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
On May 29 Archbishop Hallinan
will offer Pontifical High Mass at
Raleigh’s Sacred Heart Cathedral
at 5:00 p.m. At 6:30 that evening
a dinner will be served in the prel
ate’s honor at a Raleigh hotel to
which all priests of the diocese
are invited.
At 8:00 p.m. laity of the diocese
will have an opportunity to meet
their new archbishop at a recep
tion and musical to be held at
Price Auditorium on the grounds
of the new Raleigh Catholic high
school.
Easter Message
By Pontiff Cites
Mission Effort
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
Christ’s Resurrection is the inspir
ation for the Church’s missionary
drive and its “courageous defense
of the principles on which the edi
fice of human dignity and Chris
tian civilization is built,” His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII has declared.
In an Easter eve broadcast to
Catholics of the world, the Holy
Father intertwined two ancient
phrases: “The Lord is truly risen”
and its response “And He appeared
unto Simon.”
The Pope gave voice to the
Resurrection’s message- of hope
and triumph and at the same time
underlined the role of the popes as
vicars qf Christ on earth, vicars
who transmit and re-emphasize
that message throughout the cen
turies.
But in his message he also warm
ly showed his feelings for the non
Catholic world and even the non
Christian world.
Pope John spoke of a moving
Easter rite celebrated by the Orth
odox in Bulgaria, where he was
apostolic delegate in the 1930’s.
Father Smith's
Mother Dies
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, mother
of Father Francis Smith of St.
Anthony’s parish in Southern
Pines was taken in death April
23. Father Smith offered the
Requiem funeral Mass Friday,
April 27 at the Church of the
Ascension in Philadelphia, Pa.
Residence is 624 West Moreland
street in Philadelphia.
May She Rest In Peace!
at new Orleans
Boycott Threat Fails
To Slow Enrollment
NEW ORLEANS — (NC) —
Catholic school enrollment here is
soaring, despite segregationist pre
dictions of a “mass boycott” in
protest against Archbishop Joseph
F. Rummel’s school integration or
der.
The archdiocesan school office
reported that incomplete returns
on advance registration at 152 out
Of 162 Catholic schools showed
73,514 pupils registered for next
September, compared with 74,306
in the same schools last Septem
ber. This is a difference of 792.
“Indications are that the total
enrollment in the archdiocese next
fall may equal or exceed last
September’s,” the school office
said.
No figures were immediately
available on the number of Negro
students enrolling in previously
all-white Catholic schools. A school
office spokesman said there had
been no breakdown of the total
figure into new enrollees (includ
ing Negroes) and children merely
returning to the same schools.
The preliminary report covered
enrollments through mid-day of
April 19. The school office said
parishes which will have addition
al classroom space by the opening
of the new school year will con
tinue registering pupils until Sep
tember, when complete enrollment
figures will be compiled.
Professor Sees
Aid to Pupils
NEW YORK — (NC) — A lead
ing constitutional law professor at
Columbia University here believes
Federal aid could be given paro
chial school pupils.
Harry W. Jones, Cardozo pro
fessor of jurisprudence, said aid
could be extended to pupils — not
institutions. He also favored a pro
vision in the law for court review
of its constitutionality.
Jones’ remarks, made at a post
graduate conference at the univer
sity, were reported in the Columbia
Law School News.
The office said Catholic high
schools in the archdiocese had
registered 15,583 pupils by April
19, an increase of 901 over last
year.
It also pointed out that there
was no uniform pre-registration
in grade schools last year, and said
this rules out “accurate compari
See Boycott Threat, page 8A
Sisters Seeking
Millions to Train
College Teachers
DETROIT — (NC) — U.S. sister
hoods are planning to raise $10
million from corporations, founda
tions and individuals to finance
fellowships for Sisters who will be
college teachers.
Sister? in the program will earn
doctoral degrees and then will be
come teachers of younger Sisters
preparing for careers in Catholic
schools.
The ambitious project was dis
closed here at the 59th annual con
vention of the National Catholic
Educational Association in a talk
by Sister Margaret, president of
Trinity College, Washington, D. C.
Called the Sister Formation
(graduate Study and Research Pro
ject, the effort will provide 2,000
fellowships, valued at $5,000 each.
“This project cannot be under
estimated,” Sister Margaret de
clared.
She said the solicitation of funds
will bring facts on the strength of
Catholic education to many hun
dreds of key Americans and the
Sisters trained under the fellow
ships will contribute greatly to
raising the quality of education in
Catholic schools.
The project is being carried out
by a cooperative effort of Ameri
can religious communities of wom
en banded together in the Sister
Formation Conference which was
set up in 1954. It is a division of
the NCEA’s College and Univer
sity Department.
“Mist’ Leander Say No”
By Etienne Barrois
Catholics, both priests and
laity, on the Lower Louisiana
Coast, are deeply worried over
what will happen at Catho
lic schools next September.
Plaquemines and St. Bernard
parishes that extend from be
low New Orleans some 100
miles down the Mississippi are
the absolute domain of Plaque
mines and Parish Commission
er, Leander H. Perez, Sr. People
fear political and economic re
prisals from the man who early
backed and tutored Huey P.
Long in his hold over the State
of Louisiana.
As Police Jury Judge over sev
eral decades Mr. Perez managed to
fasten a personal and autocratic
hold over the political, social, and
economic life of the Lower Coast.
Men who work for Port Sulphur
Company and for the numerous oil
companies in this area of bayou
and ‘floating prairie’ know that
open opposition to Boss Perez can
mean loss of job and possible hurt
for relatives getting needed social
service. Such opposition could also
mean an end to special concessions
and privileges for shrimp and
oyster fishermen, for orange grow
ers, and for power boat taxis that
ply between the levee and ‘out
back’ where off-shore and swamp
land oil drilling goes on.
Race Melee
The Lower Coast presents a
cu ious community of highly com
petitive nationality groups and
color castes. Oldest among the
various groups are the old French
speaking families and the Negro
villages that predate abolition.
Dalmatians, or Takos, who control
the oyster planting and tonging,
are a later immigrant group.
Mulatto groups, many of which
emigrated from Haiti in the days
of Toussaint L’ouverture hold
proudly aloof from the blacks.
Besides separate white schools,
there are two systems for Colored.
Where blacks predominate, the
public and private schools are used
by them; and mulattoes get private
tutoring from eight-grade or high
school graduates. Where mulatto
families outnumber the Negroes,
the blacks must build their own
separate school, or depend on
white tutoring after school hours.
Most mulattoes are Catholic,
and in the larger churches try to
preempt the center Gospel section
while blacks are forced to occupy
the narrow Gospel side section
along the windows. Whites take
the entire Epistle side in larger
places like Buras.
Twenty years ago a newly built
movie house displayed two signs
at the stairs leading to the peanut
heaven: “For Dark Colored” and
at the other entrance “For Light
Colored.” Mulattoes refused the
dubious distinction and boycotted
the theater.
Color agonizes community life,
particularly where heavy concen
trations of mulattoes live. Much
more miscegenation went on be
tween whites and Mulattoes a few
generations back than many in
secure whites will openly admit.
Whispering campaigns and cau
tiously guarded association pat
terns are ridgidly maintained in
See Mist’ Leander, page 7A