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Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Volume LV February 5, 1967 No. 40 P.O. Box 9503
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Cardinal Heenan
Religion Has No Sign Of A Future
London — (RNS) — A grim outlook for reli
gion in Britain was painted by John Cardinal
Heenan of Westminster. Roman Catholic Primate
of England and Wales, when he appealed to edi
tors of religious journals to “present the truth,
just the truth.”
“Religion at the moment shows no sign of a
future in this country,” he declared solemnly at
the end of a luncheon address which began with
sparkling wit and ended with grim tones. On
leaving the gathering he entrained for Manchester
where he presided over a Christian unity rally
and became the first cardinal in this country to
preach in a synagogue.
Cardinal Heenan addressed the annual lun
cheon here of the Religious Weekly Press Group,
a body of editors of religious journals and news
papers, Christian and Jewish, which functions un
der the aegis of the Council of Christians and
Jews.
He told the editors that a “very, very small
proportion” of the communi y in Britain are now
believers. The older generation did not believe,
but “goes through the motions” of believing, he
said. Some of the older generation believed in God
only as they believed in ghosts, in the sense that
they had never seen ghosts.
“Their children are beginning to think it
smart to say they are unbelievers. You, then, know,
as I know,” he went on, “that religion is going to
survive only if those who are responsible for
teaching it are careful to present the truth, just
the truth, that we shall not be ready to say or
publish anything which we could not really de
fend.
“Neutrality towards religion is a feature of
the modem age. Tomorrow, neutrality will pass on
to hostility. If the Humanists are worth their salt
at all, they should be able to work on a generation
which is anarchic. . . they should be able to con
vert that generation into an antagonistic, militant
force against religion.
“And then . . . people like me are going to
rely much more on people like you.”
(It was announced recently that membership
of the British Humanist Association has grown
from “nil” to 4,000 since 1963 and that it is step
ping up its activities.)
Cardinal Heenan went on to pay tribute to
Britain’s present-day religious press, saying it was
infinitely better than that of 25 years ago. In those
days, he said, religious newspapers were not only
propaganda sheets but deliberately drew attention
to any misunderstanding which befell any other
denomination.
“News today,” he said, “is very, very rarely
slanted, whereas in many of the secular papers
there is a policy of slanting news ... so that is
the first and greatest improvement in the religious
press today, that it is not slavishly propagandish
and is not abusive to those with whom it disagrees.
R.I.P.
Mr. Bernard F. McGuirk,
the father of Rev. John
McGuirk of Wrightsville
Beach died in Baltimore,
Md., at the age of 85. He
is survived by one daughter
and two sons.
‘Home Mass’ liturgy To Continue
Erie, Pa. — The Vatican warning against un
authorized liturgical experiments published Jan. 4
was not an authoritative statement but simply ex
pressed the opinion of several members of the
commission for implementing the Second Vatican
Council’s Constitution on the Liturgy, according to
the secretary of the Erie diocesan liturgical com
mission.
Father Gerald Sigler told the Lake Shore
Visitor, diocesan newspaper, that the joint state
ment issued by the commission and the Congrega
tion of Rites should not affect any of the liturgical
practices within the diocese.
It was aimed, he maintained, primarily at some
Dutch and French practices although they were
not named.
Vatican Contributes To U.N.
United Nations —(NC)— The Holy See has
renewed its yearly contributions to two United
Nations agencies, the United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF) and the Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees.
The $1,000 contribution to UNICEF was for
warded to its executive director, Henry R. La
bouisse, by the Papal Secretary of State, Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani.
The cardinal’s letter stated that the Holy
Father “appreciates highly the disinterested and
humane motives which inspire you and your col
laborators, and the precious assistance your or
ganization has been able to give the youth of the
world since the inception of UNICEF.”
Birth Control Decision Awaits Pope
Passau, Germany—(NC)—The decision on us
ing artificial birth control methods is not to be
made by the married couple, a Catholic bishop
has warned here.
Bishop Simon Konrad Landersdorfer of Pas
sau said in a pastoral letter, that couples must
wait for the statement that Pope Paul VI is ex
pected to make on the world population crisis.
The bishop recommended that couples who
believe they cannot succeed with abstinence in
sex relations or with the rhythm method of birth
regulation should contact their parish priest and
a doctor.
Teachers Close Catholic Schools
Montreal — (NC)— More than 200,000 Catho
lic school children are enjoying an unexpected
P®st-Christmas vacation here as a result of the
Strike of some 9,000 teachers.
The striking teachers, who belong to one of
the two Catholic teachers’ unions representing the
teachers of the city of Montreal, are protesting the
failure of the Montreal Catholic School Commis
sion to settle a contract dispute which has been
under negotiation since last July.
laity To Control Diocesan Business
Rochester, N.Y. — An administrative council
to direct the business activities and financing of
the Rochester diocese has been established here
by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
The administrative council will be composed
of three laymen — a banker, a lawyer and a certi
fied accountant — with another layman, John Rit
zenthaler, named comptroller to direct the new of
fice in the chancery.
Bishop Sheen said he is establishing the coun
cil “so that the materialities will pass out of the
hands of the- clergy and into the hands of the
laity who have special competency in this matter.”
' “In order that I might be free for pastoral
activities such as teaching, preaching, visiting the
poor and organizing the various organizations of
the diocese into an organism,” he said. “I am
transferring the secular and business side of the
diocesan administration to the laity.”
Protestants Speak At Retreats
San Antonio, Tex. —(NC)— At least one
Protestant minister or layman will appear as a
guest speaker at retreats held in the San Antonio
area during the coming year, an archdiocesan com
mittee on lay ecumenism has decided.
The ecumenical aspects of the retreat program
will carry over into a “1967 Ecumenical Dialogue”
scheduled for June 29 to July 1 at St. Joseph’s
retreat house here. Selected ministers, priests,
Sisters, Brothers and laity will be speakers.
Workers Protest Priest’s Firing
Lille, France —(NC)— Several hundred work
ers of the Fives-Lille-Cail metal foundry here
demonstrated (Jan. 16) to show their support for
a Dominican worker-priest fired without notice the
week before.
The workers, who walked off their jobs for an
hour, claimed that the firing of Father Andre
Mbntjardet, O.P., was an example “of the growing
repression of which workers are the victims.” Fa
ther Montjardet blamed the loss of his job on
what he called his employers’ belief that worker
priests are “subversive.”
According to the factory managers, the Domin
ican priest lost his job because of insufficient
production. The 31-year-old priest had been work
ing at Fives-Lille-Cail for 18 months.
OFFICIAL
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The following appointments are announced by the Most
Reverend Bishop through the Diocesan Chancery.
Effective Wednesday, March 8, 1967:
The Right Reverend Monsignor John F. Roueche
pointed Pastor of Queen of Apostles Parish, Belmont.
The Right Reverend Monsignor George E. Lynch is
pointed Pastor of St. Stephen Parish, Sanford.
The Right Reverend Monsignor John P. Manley is appointed
Vicar Forane of the Asheville Deanery.
The Right Reverend Monsignor James E. McSweeney is
appointed Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Durham.
The Reverend Michael A. Carey is appointed Vicar Forane
of the Raleigh Deanery.
The Reverend Louis E. Morton is appointed Chancellor of
the Diocese of Raleigh.
The Reverend Charles J. O’Connor is appointed Rector of
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Raleigh.
The Reverend Eugene H. Livelsberger is appointed Pastor
of St. Mary’s parish, Wilmington and Vicar Forane of the
Wilmington Deanery.
The Reverend John B. McGuirk is appointed Pastor of St.
Mary Parish, Goldsboro.
The Reverend John S. Regan is appointed Pastor of Im
maculate Heart of Mary Parish, High Point.
The Reverend Frederick A. Koch is appointed Associate
Editor of the North Carolina Catholic and Pastor of St. Michael
the Archangel Parish, Cary, with residence at Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish, Raleigh.
The Reverend Raymond J. Donohue is appointed Pastor of
St. Therese Parish, Wrightsville Beach.
The Reverend John H. Huston is appointed Student Chap
lain, University of North Carolina with residence at St. Thomas
More Parish, Chapel Hill.
The Reverend Robert L. Wilken is appointed Pastor of St.
Lawrence Parish, Asheville.
The Reverend Arthur L. Duncan is appointed Pastor of
Sacred Heart Parish, Dunn and Director of the Home Missions
Apostolate.
The Reverend James F. Keenan is appointed to the Chap
lain’s Corp, United States Army.
The Reverend Henry J. Becker is appointed Pastor of St.
Paul Parish, Henderson.
The Reverend Kenneth I. Parker is appointed Pastor of
Immaculate Conception Parish, Clinton.
The Reverend William C. Frost is appointed Pastor of St.
Joseph Parish, Kannapolis.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, Raeford is attached as a
mission of St. Patrick Parish, Fayetteville.
St. Andrew Church, Red Springs is attached as a mission
of St. Mary Parish, Laurinburg.
James E. McSweeney
Chancellor