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Volume LI March 3, 1963 Number 44
RALEIGH, N.C. P.O. Box 9503
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The newest prelate among the
clergy of the Diocese of Raleigh
is a priest who has left his im
press upon many communities in
. ,• North Carolina. Rt. Rev. Lawrence
C. Newman, whose creation as a
Domestic Prelate was announced
last week, has been instrumental
in the construction of more than a
dozen church buildings since his
ordination 23 years ago.
A native of New Bern, North
Carolina, Monsignor Newman was
educated at Belmont Abbey Col
'S lege, North Carolina. He under
took his philosophical and theo
logical studies at Mt. St. Mary’s
Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland,
and was ordained by Bishop Mc
Guiness at the Sacred Heart Ca
thedral on May 2, 1940.
After serving as assistant pas
tor at St. Therese’s Church, Wil
son, and at both St. Peter’s and
St. Patrick’s, Charlotte, he was ap
pointed administrator of St. Mary’s
Church, Goldsboro, on May 27,
' 1943. Father Newman later spent
two years with the Home Mission
Apostolate, and upon his return to
xTo Save Money
Will Press for
Start of Birth
Control Plan
CHICAGO —(NC)— Arnold H.
‘Maremont, chairman of the Illinois
, Public Aid Commission, said here
he will not stall on implementing
the commission’s controversial
birth control plan.
Maremont also outlined in a
speech before the City Club of
Chicago what he called the moral
and financial reasons behind the
commission’s policy.
The commission has voted to use
state tax funds to provide a com
*• \prehensive birth control program
for public relief recipients who
have a child or a spouse and who
request commission assistance.
Maremont noted that his ap
Ipointment as IP AC chairman has
not been confirmed by the Illinois
Senate Executive Committee. But
he said this will not cause him to
relax his pressure for implementa
tion of the policy decided upon in
December, 1962.
Taking note of charges by Cath
olic spokesmen and others that the
program would promote immoral
ity, Maremont commented:
“The first morality that I con
sidered was that there is no uni
form morality. You and I may hold
opposite views as to the morality
of any set of circumstances with its
legality the only common guide
post.
“The second morality seemed to
be the right of the individual to
♦decide or not to decide for him
self, and the reiteration of the
precept that merely because a per
son is on welfare assistance, he
doesn’t forfeit that right.”
Maremont, who proposed the
Rt. Rev. Lawrence Newman
the Diocese assumed his first pas
torate at St. Mary’s, Shelby. While
at St. Mary’s, he undertook the
first of his many building pro
grams, the construction of the
Church of the Immaculate Concep
tion, in Forest City.
From 1950 to 1957, Father New
man was pastor of St. John’s
Church, Waynesville. During this
period he supervised the erection
of the churches in Canton, Frank
lin City, Murphy, and Sylva, and
also built St. John’s School in
Waynesville.
The new Holy Child Church,
Shrine of the Infant of Prague,
to be dedicated this May, will
bring to completion the parish
plant in Jacksonville. Since Mon
signor Newman assumed his pres
ent pastorate at Infant of Prague
on January 23, 1957, a new school,
a gymnasium, the rectory and the
convent have been built.
Modern Gothic in style, Holy
Child Church combines beauty and
utility. The tent shaped “dome”
which rises above the main altar
is its most distinguishing feature.
The Church is being constructed at
a cost of $200,000.00.
Monsignor Newman has also
overseen the erection of Holy
Spirit School in Frances Park.
The Diploma, raising him to the
rank of a Domestic Prelate, was
signed by Cardinal Cicognani, Vat
ican Secretary of State, and dated
January 12, 1963.
massive birth control project, said
he was aware that segments of the
Illinois population would not want
their taxes used for such a pro
gram. But he insisted the program
has safeguards to avoid such ob
jections.
He said that one-third of the
20,230 babies born in Cook County
(Chicago) Hospital in 1961 needed
public aid support The birth and
first year of life cost $2.5 million,
he said.
He also said that 80 per cent of
the babies born to mothers on pub
lic relief in the hospital from July
to December, 1962, were illegiti
mate.
Missionary Says
Sudan Persecution
Follows Islam Path
CINCINNATI — (NC)—Moslem
persecution of the Church in the
Sudan parallels that of “the Arab
conquerors in the early days of
Islam,” a Catholic missionary lead
er said here.
Father Anthony Todesco, F.S.
C.J., U.S. Provincial of the Verona
Fathers who served 18 years in the
Sudan, said the Sudanese Arabs are
following “the historical path of
Islamisation.” This will include
“the compelled conversion of the
vast majority of the population to
Islam,” he predicts.
Father Todesco spoke at a ban
quet honoring Pauline Jaricot,
founder of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, who died
100 years ago.
Father Todesco warned that “un
less a solution to the Southern
Sudan question is found now,
Christianity cannot survive there.”
He recalled that “in the 13th and
14th centuries, Christianity was fi
nally destroyed in the Sudan by
Arab Moslems.”
“Will Christianity likewise suc
cumb in the South (Sudan) in the
20th Century?” he asked. “The
Christian Church of the Sudan de
mands that the Catholic world not
stand silent witness to this tragic
drama.”
“We hope that hidden political
reasons and interests may not pre
vent the free world from finding
the just way to defend the human
rights of the Southern Sudanese
people. They deserve our help and
our support,” he continued.
He pointed out that Christianity
appears to the Arab Moslems of
Northern Sudan as “the only rival
to Islam in the South.”
“This is the main motive of the
laws issued restricting Church li
berty and missionary activities, and
prohibiting Christian education in
the schools. This is the principal
reason why the missionaries may
not enter the Sudan, why they are
expelled from the country and
persecuted in any way,” he said.
“This is the reason why the mis
sionaries are forbidden to assist
the sick, give food to the hungry,
help the poor, bless the dying, and
bury the dead. These social works
of mercy would go to the advant
age of Christian influence and slow
down their machinery of compul
sory conversion of the population
to Islam,” the missionary leader
declared.
Father Todesco said that two
German tourists visiting Southern
See Sudan Page 4A
FOR BROTHERHOOD — Fa
ther Herman Porter of Sa
cred Heart parish, Sterling,
111., faces the congregation at
Sacred Heart Cathedral,
Davenport, Iowa, as he offers
the second annual Brother
hood Mass of the Davenport
diocese. The dialogue Mass,
attended by area residents of
many races and creeds, in
cluding several ministers and
rabbis, marked the diocese’s
Interracial Justice Sunday
and National Brotherhood
Week.
POPE MAKES LENTEN APPEAL
TO U. S. SCHOOL CHILDREN
NEW YORK —(NC)— Five million students in U. S. Catholic
schools were reminded by His Holiness, Pope John XXIII, that
many children throughout the world “languish in privations and
hunger, ill-clad and exposed to hardships of inclement weather.
The Pope asked the youngsters to make Lenten sacrifices for
the needy in the traditional Ash Wednesday message opening the
school children’s campaign for the Bishops’ Relief Fund Appeal.
The complete text of the address, which was read over the
nation’s major radio networks by Washington’s Archbishop
O’Boyle, will be found on page four of this issue.
Rome Lent Begins With Papal
Broadcast; Weekly Sermons
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC) —
Lent began this year with a live Pa
pal radio address for the first time.
His Holiness Pope John XXIII
spoke on penance and prayer and
their application to the needs of
the church, particularly in respect
to the Ecumenical Council now in
recess. The Bishop of Rome de
livered his Lenten message over
Vatican Radio on Ash Wednesday
(Feb. 27) at eight o’clock.
The Pope’s message came in ad
dition to the beginning of Vatican
Radio’s regular series of weekly
Lenten broadcasts. This year’s
series began on Ash Wednesday
with a talk by Bishop Cesario
D’Amato, O.S.B., Abbot-Ordinary of
St. Paul’s outside the walls, on the
Sacrament of the Anointing of the
Sick.
The other six Sacraments will be
treated by a different bishop each
week. The series is to conclude
with daily sermons by cardinals
during Holy Week. Those sermons,
beginning on Palm Sunday (April
7), will also be broadcast over
Italy’s National Radio Network.
The Holy Week speakers — all
cardinals of the Church’s central
administrative staff—will be Fran
cesco Cardinal Roberti, Ildebrando
Cardinal Antoniuttu, Alfredo Car
dinal Ottaviani, Michael Cardinal
Browne, O.P., Gregorio Pietro Car
dinal Agagianian, Fernando Car
dinal Cento, and Giuseppe Cardinal
Ferretto.
For Private Schools
State Senate Okays Use
Of Tax-paid Textbooks
PROVIDENCE, R. I. —(NC) —
The Rhode Island Senate without
dissent approved a bill which pro
vides tax-paid textbooks and a pro
gram of aptitude and intelligence
tests for private school students
throughout the state.
The voice vote on the measure
BEGIN HOLY SEASON OF LENT — Starting the lenten sea
son off right are 10-year-old identical triplets, Gary, Gene and
Greg Fracier of Holy Family parish, Washington, D.C., as
they are anointed with ashes. The three fifth graders at Holy
t Family school receive their lenten reminders from Father Noel
J. O’Callaghan, Holy Family parish assistant.
came after 26 minutes of discussion
on the Senate floor. The bill now
goes to the House of Representa
tives.
The measure approved is the
Democratic bill. It is substantially
the same as another bill under
Republican auspices which repre
sents Gov. John H. Chafee’s^views
on the school aid issue. ''
Sen. C. George Stefano, Repub
lican minority floor leader, ex
pressed the opinion that the Gov
ernor would sign the Democratic
bill if it reached his desk.
Sen. Irving J. Bilgor, member of
a special committee which studied
the textbook aid issue, said he
could not recall any legislation to
which so much thought, opinion
and preliminary work was devoted.
THE BILL SPECIFIES that
mathematics, science and modern
language textbooks, which are not
sectarian, be provided by the state
and loaned to students of parochial
and private schools, subject to
“rules and regulations as the
school committee may prescribe.”
The measure also makes pro
vision for materials and a uniform
program for aptitude and intelli
gence testing of all elementary and
high school students in public and
private schools.
Several statewide Protestant or
ganizations have campaigned
against the legislation, principally
on the ground that it violates the
traditional separation of Church
and State doctrine.