Stem Divorces
TRENTON, N.J. — (NC) —
The New Jersey State Assembly
has unanimously approved a
resolution to establish a commis
sion to study the state’s divorce
laws. The measure, already
passed by the Senate, is ex
pected.
Among them are a family
'court which would serve as
counseling agency as well as di
vorce court, lengthening of the
present three-day waiting pe
riod as an obstacle to quick mar
riages, and a warning to young
persons of the seriousness of
marriage.
Switch Grades
CLEVELAND — (NC) — As
sumption parish here will rein
state the first grade and drop
the eighth grade next fall.
The first grade was closed last
year. The pastor said the change
was made because a survey
showed a third of the students
leave parochial schools in the
seventh and eighth grades to
transfer to public junior high
schools.
Mixed Marriages
PEORIA, 111. — (NC) —
Nearly half the marriages in the
Peoria diocese in 1966 were
mixed marriages, a survey
showed. The poll Showed mixed
marriages were 47.2 percent
compared to 36.4 percent ten
years ago. The survey also
showed there were 1,202 con
verts in the diocese in 1966,
lowest number since 1945.
Newspaper Board
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — (NC)
— A seven-member board of
I
laymen and priests has been
named to direct policies of the
Evansville diocese newspaper.
The Bishop said the board will
assist the editor in direction of
the paper.
Baptized by Pope
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
Pope Paul VI personally baptized
two babies as part of the in
auguration of the pastoral visit
to the diocese of Rome and to
mark the restoration of the bap
tistry to St. John Lateran, the
Pope’s cathedral as bishop of
Rome.
The baptistry, parts of which
are 1,500 years old, has been
undergoing extensive restora
tion.
Hole-in-One
BALTIMORE — (NC) — Bob
Hope, comedian, cheer-spreader
and golf buff, now probably will
want back the set of golf clubs.
Hope gave the set to Father Jo
seph A. Sellinger, S.J., president
of Loyola College here. With
Father William F. Troy, S.J., of
Washington, Steve Langhoff of
Milwaukee and Edward J. Don
nelly of this city, Father Sel
linger gave the clubs their bap
tism at Baltimore Country Club.
On. the 152-yard eighth hole,
using a six-iron, Father Sellinger
scored a hole-in-one.
Curtain Opens
VATICAN CITY — (NC) —
Eight hundred Yugoslav priests
and laymen were received in au
dience by Pope Paul VI (April
3), who found their visit “a most
consoling sign of the reawaken
ing which is full of promise.”
The group is the largest Yu
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Vatican in recent years. The pil
grimage was the first major one
after the Holy See and the com
munist government of Yugo
slavia reached an agreement to
improve relations ruptured for
14 years.
Lebanese Cardinal
BEIRUT, Lebanon — (NC) —
The leader of the largest Chris
tian community in this country
has criticized “foreign subver
sive elements” for trying to de
stroy national unity and called
on President Charles Helou to j
rid the country of those who I
“are spreading trouble and sub
version.”
The attack on the “subver
sives,” made by Cardinal Me
ouchi, Maronite-rite patriarch of
Antioch, was interpreted here as
a denunciation of Lebanese sup
porters of President Gamal Ab
del Nasser of the United Arab
Republic and believed to be di
rected by pro-Nasser groups.
Card. Mindszenty, 75
BUDAPEST — (NC) — Jo
zsef Cardinal Mindszenty,
Primate of Hungary, observed
his 75th birthday (Mar. 29) in
the United States legation here,
where he took refuge on Nov. 4,
1956, when the Hungarian up
rising was smashed by the com
munist regime.
An embassy spokesman said
the cardinal spent the day quiet
ly, reading and in prayer.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska —
(NC) — He didn’t understand
the language but the message of
kindness transmitted by the care
he received during his long
weeks of recuperating at Provi
dence Hospital here made a
strong impression on Vyacheslav
Hohrin.
Hohrin, a 20-year-old Russian
fisherman suffered a serious kid
ney injury while on his trawler
off Alaska’s coast.
Not only the language barrier
made the hospital strange to
Hohrin. Operated by the Sis
ters of Charity of Providence,
the hospital has many religious
symbols in evidence and pray
ers are recited morning and eve
ning over a broadcast system.
Shortly after his arrival, Ho
hrin made it clear that the re
ligious symbolism did not im
press him. A Russian-speaking
Pope Appoints Delegates
to Eucharistic Congress
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has named Julius Car
dinal Doepfner of Munich as his
delegate to the fourth National
Eucharistic Congress of Ecuador.
It will be held at Cuenca May
28-June 1.
The Pope also named Arch
bishop Sante Portalupi, apostolic
Nuncio to Honduras and Nicar
agua, to serve as his delegate to
the first National Eucharistic
Congress of Honduras, to be held
April 13-16, at Tegucigalpa.
priest attempted to give him a
blessing but the young fisher
man protested bluntly, “I am a
Russian. I have no God.”
Before leaving the hospital,
Hohrin, the first Soviet citizen
to be treated in a private hos
pital on Alaska’s mainland
since World War II, had made
several friends among the staff
of nuns.
When he left to return to his
ship, he expressed gratitude and
praise for the care he had been
given.
“He didn’t indicate in any way
that he had changed his ideas
about America,” Sister Barbara
Ellen, the hospital administra
tor, explained, “but we feel
quite certain some of his pre
conceived notions have been al
tered if not discarded.”
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