I POPE PAUL VI paid tribute to his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, author of the encyclical on
labor Rerum Novarum, on the 75th anniversary of the issuance of that proclamation of the
rights of labor, when he visited the hilltop village of Carpineto Romano, 50 miles south of
Rome, where Pope Leo was born in 1810. (NC Photo)
Where the Action Is
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girls who got into trouble simply had no place to
go for recreation.
So the Sisters obtained an empty storefront,
named it “The Place,” invited in all the girls of the
neighborhood, and began using it as a combined
clubhouse, study center, living room, fieldhouse,
party place, dance floor, neutral territory for teen
age gangs, art center and gallery for “Peanuts”
posters.
Basically, however, “The Place” is run as a
“home” where girls of the area can come to study,
play or just talk with a nun.
The Sisters who direct “The Place” come from
five orders and six convents: Notre Dame (two con
vents), Benedictines, Maryknoll, Helpers of the Holy
Souls, and the Cenacle. Each convent volunteers
two nuns one night a week for the center’s six
night week.
Right now Sister Benet is making the rounds
of government agencies to find continuing finan
cial support for the program. “Our slogan is ‘Fund
or fold,’ ” said Sister Benet. “We tell them to fund
us or we will go out of business.”
—Chicago Heights: Probing by apostolate nuns
disclosed that although children made up 54 per
cent of the population of East Chicago Heights there
was not one park, playground or library.
To remedy the situation, Sisters Louis Ann and
Maria met with the mayor and obtained use of an
empty storefront which used to be a laundromat.
Where there used to be washers and dryers there
are now shelves of books, and East Chicago Heights
has its first library-culture center.
“We cannot ram our middle-class values down
their throats.” Sister Mary Peter Traxler, S.S.N.D.,
of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial
Justice put it this way:
“Our middle-class curriculum is alien to the
ghetto poor. They can’t see how anything they are
learning relates to them. We must find a curricu
lum that ‘hooks’ them.
Finding that curriculum is part of the job of
Sister Rose Albert, who already has headed a
$60,000 NDEA institute for teachers of under-priv
ileged youths at Dominican college, Racine, Wis.
She said she felt that in the future nuns may
be asked to teach in the public schools of the inner
city because not enough public school teachers want
to teach there.
“I would teach there if it meant taking off my
religious habit and being plain Miss Rose for the
school day and then coming home to change into
my habit again,” she said.
Sister Mary Peter noted that nuns are women
and women are born to serve. She went on:
“They must serve and they must be where the
action is, the Gospel action—and that is in the in
ner city. When Christ asked ‘Who are my mother
and my brethren?’ He did not mean the folks at
home. He meant the people near Him at the time—
and He was in the marketplace.”
Today the Urban Apostolate of the Sisters is
definitely where the action is.
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Race Bias: U.S. vs. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa — (RNS) — Pastor Martin Nie
moeller, famed German Lutheran clergyman, declared here he had
found more racial hatred in the United States than in South Africa.
The racial situation was “far more dangerous” in the U.S., he said.
The World Council of Churches’ co-president and former head of
the Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau was here on a six-weeks visit.
Speaking at a public meeting sponsored by the multiracial Chris
tian Institute, he said that “despite their difficult position, the non
whites in South Africa are not particularly possessed with hatred to
ward whites.”
As regards the attitude of whites toward non-whites, he said that
after having spent four weeks in South Africa, he was under the
impression that “there is something essential missing.”
CARA Official Weighs
Religious Education
PITTSBURGH — (NC) — The
effective religious educator must
be aware of his pupil’s culture
and be able to build upon its con
tents, structure and underlying
philosophy, Father Louis J. Luzbe
tak, S.V.D., said here.
The executive director of the
Center for Applied Research in
the Apostolate (CARA) in Wash
ington, D.C., conceded at the 12th
national and fifth Inter-American
Congress of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine, that this was a
considerable challenge.
“Youth today is honest, genuine
and despises the least trace of
phoneyness,” he said. “Youth to
day wants to know why, and the
religious educator must somehow
provide genuine and honest an
swers to the most difficult of
questions.”
Father Luzbetak said part of
the communication barrier with
youth is “the fact that often the
adult culture appears insincere,
even hypocritical.” He added that
“formality and so-called ecclesi
astical juridicism may be on the
top, or near the top, of the list
of adult behavior that many of
our young people consider to Lack
genuineness.”
“How, then,” he asked, “is the
religious educator going to com
municate to them the usefulness
and necessity of canon law —
whether it pertains to the formal
ities of the liturgy or to marriage
impediments?”
He commented that “a histor
ical explanation may help some
youthful minds to understand, but
more than anything else it is a
structural analysis of our Catholic
ways and values that promises the
most and best genuine and honest
answers.”
Raleigh Knights
A highly successful “Open
House” was held at the Columbus
Club.
Thirty prospective knights at
tended and were greeted and en
tertained by 20 old hands.
The Country Club was the site
of the Fathers-Sons tournament
held on Sept. 23. Eighteen mem
bers and their sons were in com
petition.
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