Waters
Chase
Arnold
McHugh
Four To Be Ordained
Ascension Thursday
BURLINGTON—Four young
men will be ordained priests
here at Blessed Sacrament
Church on Ascension Thursday,
May 31, at 10:00 a.m. Bishop
Vincent S. Waters, Bishop of
Raleigh, will confer Holy Or
ders on the four deacons, one
of whom was raised and edu
ated in Burlington. The other
three who volunteered for Ral
eigh Diocese are from Texas,
Connecticut, and Ohio. Three
of the four completed their the
ological studies at St. Meinrad’s
Seminary in Indiana and one
finished at Conception Semi
nary in Missouri. This raised to
six the number of men ordained
in 1962 for Raleigh Diocese.
Fathers Robert Lawson and
Ronald McLaughlin were or
dained in Durham on February
2.
REVEREND MR. EDWARD J.
WATERS of Blessed Sacrament
Parish, Burlington was born De
cember 1, 1935, in Arlington, New
Jersey, the §on of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph A. Waters. The Waters
family moved to North Carolina
in 1946. Young Waters was edu
cated in Blessed Sacrament paro
chial school, and graduated from
Walter Williams High School, Bur
lington in 1954. He attended mi
nor seminary in Buffalo from 1954
through 1956, and completed col
lege and theological work at St.
Meinrads in Indiana from ’56-1962.
Fr. Joseph J. Waters, pastor of
Mooresville-Lincolnton parishes,
will sponsor his younger brother
at Ascension Day Ordination.
Father Edward Waters will offer
his first solemn Mass on Sunday,
June 3 at 11:00 a.m. in Blessed
Sacrament Church, his home par
ish. Assisting him as archpriest
will be Monsignor Francis K.
O’Brien, pastor of Blessed Sacra
ment; Fr. Joseph J. Waters, his
brother, as deacon; Fr. James
McSweeney, vice-chancellor, will
serve as sub-deacon, and the
preacher for the occasion will be
Fr. Water’s former pastor at Bur
lington, Fr. Eugene Livelsberger,
presently pastor of Immaculate
Conception Church in Durham.
REVEREND MR. CHAN H.
CHASE, senior of the ordinands
and a Texan by birth, was bcrn
March 30, 1922, at Wichita Falls.
His family now resides in Water
bury, Connecticut.
Chan Chase served in the Air
Corps during World War II, and
later, while serving in Alaska dur
ing the Korean conflict, joined the
Catholic Church. After military
service he took his college work at
St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s,
Kentucky, and during the past
four years completed his theologi
cal studies at St. Meinrad’s in In
diana.
See Ordained, page 7A
Bishop Notes
Chief Issues
For Press
BOSTON — (NC) — Public aid
to private schools and clergy-laity
relations are the two chief domes
tic issues facing the U.S. Catholic
press, Bishop Leo A. Pursley of
Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., said
here.
Bishop Pursley told the opening
general session of the 52nd annual
Catholic Press Association conven
tion that for the Catholic press
to deal adequately with these is
sues will “tax its resources to the
limit.”
But, Bishop Pursley added, the
Catholic press has a serious obli
gation to inform its readers and
to work for solutions on both of
these issues.
The Bishop, president of Our
Sunday Visitor, national Catholic
newspaper, spoke on “The Catholic
Press in Contemporary Affairs.”
On the issue of public funds for
private schools, he noted that
“sharp differences of opinion” di
vide the nation and “are not likely
to be finally resolved to the com
plete satisfaction of either side.”
People “are looking to the Cath
olic press for information and
guidance that will enable them to
come to settled conclusions and to
take a definite stand,” he said.
“It would be folly to underesti
mate the difficulty of meeting this
need, but it would be cowardice
and dereliction of duty to back
away from it.”
Bishop Pursley said the work of
“clarifying and stabilizing” clergy
laity relations is a “very urgent
task.”
While there is no dispute on
basic doctrine on this issue, he
said, in “the wide open field of
practical collaboration” there does
exist “a degree of discord” which
is “formidable enough to give all
concern.”
Neither negative criticism nor
the suppression of constructive crit
icism will solve the problem, he
declared. He added that the Catho
See Bishop Notes, page 8A
Bishop Praises
'Shared Time'
SAGINAW, Mich. — (NC) —
The Bishop of Saginaw, in whose
diocese three high schools have
been closed and many elementary
grades dropped, has praised “shar
ed time” proposals.
“The best solution I have seen
so far,” said Bishop Stephen S.
Woznicki of Saginaw. “It is ac
ceptable to the Church and it
would save our high schools.”
The prelate explained to the an
nual convention of the Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women that
under “shared time,” pupils would
attend church schools for subjects
deemed of religious import and go
to public schools for secular
studies.
religion,mental health
Priest, Psychiatrist Debate
TORONTO — (NC) — A priest
and a psychiatrist differed sharply
here on the relationship of reli
gion and mental health.
Dr. Walter Stokes, a Washington
psychiatrist, said the “mystical au
thority of most religious philoso
phies ... is the stuff of which
delusional thinking is made.”
Father George Hagmaier, C.S.P.,
said studies indicate that “the
citizen of today who admits to no
religious affiliation is more likely
to suffer from emotional illness
than an adherent of the Judaeo
Christian tradition.”
Father Hagmaier, associate di
rector of the Paulist Institute for
Religious Research, New York,
and a practicing psychotherapist,
debated with Dr. Stokes at the an
hual convention of the American
Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Stokes contended that reli
gion has “turned man against his
own sexual nature', so contributing
heavily to creation of the schizo
phrenic defense mechanisms that
plague our culture.”
He forecast a time of “full
emancipation . . . which will grant
to children and young people a
degree of sex freedom scarcely
dreamed of today.”
However, Father Hagmaier ar
gued that “the roots of most men
tal illnesses are not found in the
traditional philosophical, theologi
cal or ethical system to which a
person is committed, but belong
rather to his emotional inability
to adjust to such a system.”
“An old-time Mormon polygam
ist, an ascetic celibate in a mon
astery, a happy-go-lucky agnostic,
may have quite different views of
love, sex and marriage. But all
may be reasonably adjusted per
sonalities,” he commented.
Outlining the Catholic attitude
on sex, he said the Church has al
ways opposed making sex “sheer
emotional and physical indulgence
which overlooks its rational and
spiritual implications.”
But at the same time, he said,
the Church has even more actively
condemned “an opposite extreme—
namely, the view of those re
pressed souls who in a great vari
ety of historical times and places
have out of their morbid fears of
sexuality fashioned an heretical
theology.”
Father Hagmaier said 'it is un
fortunate that so many of the
Church’s critics choose to confuse
heresies which she condemns with
“the uplifting and consoling view
of sexuality which the Church
strives so hard to preserve.”
THEY’RE HER HOLY ANGELS — Sister Marie Patrice, direc
tor of Holy Angels nursery, Charlotte, N.C., stoops to comfort
a mongoloid baby. The baby is typical of the retarded infants
that are cared for at the unusual little hospital, the only one of
its kind in North Carolina. Sister Patrice, a Sister of Mercy
who six years ago was ordered by her doctor to slow down or
die, works 16 hours a day, nursing the helpless children and
arranging for their welfare. She spends many hours of the
day on the phone (see inset) calling for contributions.
Free Discussion to Mark
Church Council, Says Pope
VATICAN CITY—(NC)—There
will be free discussion during the
coming ecumenical council and the
public will be “suitably informed”
about its work by an enlarged
press office, His Holiness Pope
John XXIII said here.
The Pope stressed these two
points in his address to the clos
ing meeting of the sixth session of
the Central Preparatory Commis
sion for the council.
Pope John told the commission
that while those taking part in the
council will be helped by the three
years of preparatory work preced
ing it, there will be “free discus
sion . . . for the good of the free
assembly.”
He added that “we have attended
to a greater development of the
press office so that public opinion
may be suitably informed.”
The Pontiff’s address came at
the end of nine days of hard work
crowded with a great variety of
proposals for the council agenda.
Topics ranged from a proposed
dogmatic constitution on the
Church to calendar reform, from
a definition of the role of bishops
to a definition of the place of the
lay apostle.
Pope John assured members of
the central commission that al
though he had not been present
at their meetings, he had followed
their work closely and with great
interest day by day.
He took note of the great diffi
culties involved in preparing for
a council and said that it entails
much work and courage. But, he
added, “Our courage is firmly root
ed in faith.”
He also called the commission’s
attention to other difficiulties that
may be anticipated. Taking his cue
from the lessons of the breviary
of the day — the Saturday of the
second week after Easter — he
pointed out that St. Paul reminds
us that “difficulties are almost in
separable from the announcement
of good doctrine.”
Pope John continued: “We can
not believe that the time of per
fect tranquility will come upon the
earth, nor can we believe that
the enemy of truth has only one
face . . . The kingdom of the earth
very often suffocates the noblest
aspirations of man and delays the
progress of his perfection for eter
nal life.”
The Pontiff expressed his appre
ciation of “the interest of public
opinion” in the council. He said,
however, that the facts were not
always properly reported “either
because of inadequate knowledge
or because of lack of accuracy in
the communication of informa
tion.”
He concluded his address with
another citation from the breviary
of the day, which he recommended
to those preparing for the coun
cil for their inspiration and encour
agement. He spoke of St. Paul, who
“welcomed all who came to him,
preaching the Kingdom of God and
teaching about the Lord Jesus
Christ with all boldness and unhin
dered” (Acts, 28-30).
The sixth plenary session of the
C e n t ral Preparatory Commission
had opened on May 3 with 42 Car
dinals, 2 patriarchs, 17 archbishops,
3 bishops and 3 superiors of reli
gious orders in attendance. Among
them were Francis Cardinal Spell
man, Archbishop of New York; Al
bert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop
of Chicago, and Joseph Cardinal
Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis.
The work of the commission
See Discussion, page 7A
Action Is Urged
On Aid Flans
PONCE, P.R. — (NC) — The
chairman of the U.S. House edu
cation Committee said here that
legal uncertainty over Federal
aid for parochial and other private
schools “must no longer be used
as an excuse for inaction.”
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of
New York said he is convinced
there is a “large gray area of con
stitutionality” into which can fall
a number of methods to meet the
educational needs of all schools in
the country.
Speaking at the Catholic Univer
sity here on this island which he
frequently visits, the Congressman
said that the nation today needs
“a many-pronged but coordinated
legislative program” to assist all
levels and types of education.
“I pledge to institute action to
fill this educational leadership vac
uum and to provide for our nation
al needs and purposes,” he said.