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A New Home The Superintendent Smiles “It’s been a long time,” said Father Roderick O’Connor, as lie watched the older students at Nazareth help carry equipment from the old buildings to the brand new one across the road. “I know the Sisters and the children are happy. I certainly am. Father O’Connor has been superintendent of Nazareth for only a few years, but he inherited all its history. Physically, the plant had outlived its usefulness. One of the buildings had been condemmed and was no longer occupied. Orphanages have changed, Father O’Connor explained. “We no longer have great numbers here, because we place our children in foster homes whenever this is possible, or they are adopted. But there will always be some whose age, problems, or legal status will not permit this. And then there has to be a place for children who are the victims of sudden tragedy— broken homes, death of parents, fire, that sort of thing. “I am particularly happy,” Father O’Connor went on, “that we will be leaving the old dormitories, and the children will now have bedrooms, private places for study, and a good deal more of a home atmosphere than we were ever able to give them before.” . The Father of the Family smiled at his children as they headed for their new house. There are 35 youngsters here at the moment, Father O’ Connor said. They are all mighty grateful to the Catholics of North Carolina for making this possible. BRAND NEW KITCHEN AT ORPHANAGE Check Protectors — Check Writers J. N. KERNS Phone Edison 4-6704 138 Brevard Court F fir E Checkwriter Co. Charlotte, North Carolina Your Falstaff Distributor Gay Distributing Company Queen at East Front New Bern, North Carolina SEE THE NEW CHEVY 66 AT YOUR DEALERS NOW .... Fayetteville’s Oldest Franchised Dealer IM OWff Cor. Williams and Russell and opposite Eutaw Center Dealers License No. 1237 m NEW CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE AT NAZARETH Jesuit Supports Liberalization Of Divorce Law NEW YORK — (NC) — The chairman of Fordham University’s philosophy department has advo cated the passage of a bill which would liberalize New York state’s 187-year-old divorce law. But Father Joseph D. Hassett, S.J., emphasized that he was not in opposition to the traditional teach ings of the Catholic Church, nor to the position taken by Charles J. Tobin, the secretary of the New York Catholic Welfare Committee and spokesman for the state’s eight Catholic bishops. On Feb. 1, Tobin sent lawmak ers a letter urging deliberate con sideration and careful study of “supporting data and explana tions” concerning the bill. Some persons, notably Sen. Jerome L. Wilson, head of the joint legisla tive committee which drafted the reform bill, interpreted the Tobin letter as a “declaration of war . . . in opposition to . . . reform.” To bin denied that he was attempting to sidetrack the bill and Father Hassett, in a statement issued here, supported Tobin’s denial. The Jesuit professor spoke at the office of John V. Delaney, a Manhattan attorney who is chair man of the ad hoc “Committee of Catholic Citizens to Support Di vorce Reform.” Father Hassett, a member of the committee, said he was speaking only for himself, and not as an official spokesman for the Catho lic Church, Fordham University; or any institution. But he ex pressed the conviction that his stand was solidly rooted in Catho lic doctrine. Father Hassett said that advo cating a liberalization of the di vorce law is not the same thing as advocating divorce. BOARD TO MEET Washington — (NC) — The an nual spring meeting of the admin istrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference will be held here April 19 and 20. U.S. Urged to Stress Reforms in Vietnam MILWAUKEE — (NC) — The United States should de-emphasize military means of fighting the war in Vietnam and put more stress on social reform, a former Vietna mese ambassador to the U.S. said at Mount Mary College here. Tran van Dinh, now Washington bureau chief of the Saigon Post, said much of the hope for solution of the problem must rest with Ca tholicism. “Religion has to do more than just religion,” he said. “It has to be active in social reform, in man’s concern for each other. The idea of religion is the idea of supreme justice for all,” he said. This is the dilemma of Bud dhism, whose theology prevents an active apostolate, he said. “But now that communism has imposed its new social concept of life on the people, religion has to do something,” he added. VAN DINH said he does not think the U.S. must increase the number of its troops in Vietnam. “The size of your forces is suf ficient to show the Viet Cong you are strong. All-out fighting, how ever, will not end the war. This is not a conventional war. It is a people’s war. It has to be fought in a people’s way.” In Vietnam, he said, “the ag gression is an ideological and sub tle kind of aggression. So instead of troops, we must multiply the role of non-government agencies who will work to improve the lot of the'peasant, establish hospitals, train leaders and eventually con vert the people to anti-commu nism.” HE STRONGLY urged the U.S. to realize it would be a long social war. He said Vietnam cannot be come a democracy within five years, and said 10 or 20 years would be a more realistic estimate. He opposed a general election at the present time. “Elections without education are useless. The people are not ready.” Instead he endorsed a represen MERCHANTS and FARMERS BANK Complete Banking Service Deposits Insured by F.D.I.C. 139 S. Central Ave. Dial 859-2425 Landis, North Carolina tational government consisting of professional men and elected vil lage leaders. He said the trend in recent years to appoint village leaders instead of electing them is a mistake. “We used to have de mocracy at the bottom, not at the top.” HE DENIED the United States has any legal right to negotiate in Vietnam. “It is in Vietnam only by invi tation as an adviser to South Viet nam,” he said. To formally legalize the rela tionship between the U.S. an(l South Vietnam, he urged a treaty that would require the U.S. to leave when the emergency is over. Priest Is Told He May Rejoin Vietnam Croup % WESTFIELD, N.J. — (NC) — A Jesuit ordered in December to quit the Committee of Clergy Con cerned About Vietnam has been given permission to rejoin the group. This was revealed by Father Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J., president of St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, and immediate superior of the priest involved, Father Daniel J. Kilfoyle, S.J. Father Yanitelli said permission for Father Kilfoyle to rejoin the group intent on promoting discus sion of moral issues in the Viet nam fighting was given “on my own authority.” Father Kilfoyle, a former teacher at St Peter’s, is in residence at the institution while studying fa*\ a doctorate in theology at New Fork’s Union Theological Sem inary. Father Yanitelli’s disclosureJ iame during a question and answer oeriod after a lecture at Holy Trin ty parish here. T TAKE THE OUT OF MOVING CALL CAROLINA VAN & ST0RA6E CO. Complete Loco) end Long Distance Moving Service PACKING • CRATING - STORAGE N. C's Foremost Exporters For Complete Information and Free Estimate Call GREYHOUND' VAN LINES "Leave The Moving To Us" Gen. Office J. E. TIERNAN, President , Raleigh, _N. C. Dial 834-6249
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