OVER SIX MILLION impoverished children of all races and religions in 70 countries received
school lunches last year from Catholic Relief Services-USCC, overseas aid and development
agency of American Catholics. For many, such as these children in Sierra Leone, school
lunches are the only substantial meals they receive. The global aid programs of Catholic Re
lief Services are made possible through support of the annual Catholic Bishops; Overseas Aid
Fund Appeal, schedules to run this year from March 17 to 24, culminating on the latter date
—the fourth Sunday of Lent—with a special collection in churches throughout the nation.
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Urgent Need Seen
For Urban Solutions
Notre Dame, Ind. — (NC) —
Efforts so far undertaken to meet
the housing, crime and govern
mental crisis of the nation’s
cities have shown little success,
and the need for workable solu
tions is becoming more urgent,
four experts in urban affairs said
at a symposium on “Contempo
rary Urban Problems of Ameri
»ca” sponsored by the College of
Business Administration of Notre
Dame University.
“Urban goals, policies and pro
grams—no matter how desirable
and urgent—will not be realized
unless we can develop better po
litical and administrative capabil
ities,” said Prof. Donald C. Stone
of the University of Pittsburgh.
Stone’s major recommendation
was a metropolitan approach to
such problems as pollution and
transportation. But he noted that
'this will not be possible in most
states until - their constitutions
are changed to permit home-rule
by individual communities.
PHILIP KLUTZNICK, a Chi
cago businessman who has years
of experience in urban housing,
warned that unless a strong na
tional policy is developed and im
' plemented in the field of housing
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America “will be headed for a
type of apartheid.”
The policy, he indicated, should
include open housing laws, bet
ter opportunities by non-whites
to improve their earnings, and
massively funded public housing,
rent supplements and low inter
est rates.
Prof. Lloyd E. Ohlin of the
Harvard Law School looked cau
tiously at the nation’s rapidly
rising crime rates. Many factors,
such as improved reporting pro
cedures, he said serve to limit the
usefulness of these recent statis
tics. “No one can prove on the
basis of available information
that people today have a greater
propensity to commit crime that
they did formerly,” he said.
“FEAR OF crime is so often
associated with fear of Negro yio
lence and competition that it is
impossible to tell where one
leaves off and the other begins,”
he noted.
He added that the urban poor
have always been over-represent
ed in criminal cases, whether
they are German, Irish, Italians
or Negroes.
“In the long run, the only hope
lor curtailing the various forms
of individual and collective vio
lence ... is to develop a system
of open opportunities which will
give each citizen a chance to
stake out a claim to a successful,
satisfying and law-abiding life,”
lie said.
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In Current Thought
Continued from page 3A
from the sacred. It never should
have been that way. We made it
this way. It’s about time we
stopped blaming bad conditions
on the snake rather than on our
own laziness, or apathy and lack
of concern for the ills of the
world. It is to be feared that the
primacy of the spiritual concept
and the so-called devotional
Catholicism in the minds of all
too many of us has been used
and is being used as an escape
mechanism to neglect the secular
city and the agonizing problems
of its inhabitants.
An equally erroneous concept
is the one that gives man no hor
izons beyond the human or the
material, and fails to recognize
man’s deeper needs and insati
able hunger for the spiritual.
Our Challenge
Christ came to unite both
worlds—the sacred and the sec
ular — to make the “City of
Man” the “City of God”, to make
the “City of God” the “City of
Man”. He came to make persons
humanly divine and divinely hu
man. The Incarnation of Christ
was intended to make us real
persons, not statistics to be used
or exploited, but persons with
whom He identified so intimately
that whatever is done to the least
of the brethren is also done for
Him or to Him.
Our challenge then is to join
will all men of good will in their
efforts to transform the “City of
Man” and to make it a place
where persons, not profits, will
be the primary consideration; but
also a place where man will learn
Paris Cardinal Dies
Paris — (NC) — Pierre Cardi
nal Veuillot, 55, of Paris died
(Feb. 14) of cancer of the pan
creas. He had been made a car
dinal last June 26.
He died in his residence
where he had been brought dur
ing the day, after three months
in St. Joseph’s hospital here. His
funeral took place in Notre Dame
cathedral here.
that not by bread alone does
man live. It is later than
we think it is and it is a shame
that there is still so much to be
done after twenty centuries of
Christianity — but it is not too
late to begin to catch up with
the unfinished business which
Christ began when he came to
earth.
Organizations
Are Stressed
By Holy Father
Vatican City— (NC) — Pope
Paul VI, at a general audience,
returned to the importance of the
organized lay apostolate and in
particular of Catholic Action.
Although independent forms of
the lay apostolate are multiply
ing and offer many “very fine
and generous results,” the Pope
said, they nevertheless do not
take the place of those lay organ
izations which have a close rela
tion with the hierarchy of the
Church.
Speaking of the non-related
lay movements, Pope Paul said
that “if the spirit of criticism of
brothers and pastors of the
Church community does not iso
late or deform or render useless
these groups, the too can help
the Catholic caub . With this
trust and with this hope we too
give them our affectionate under
standing and our blessing.”
Nevertheless, .the Pope contin
ued, the degree of authenticity
and efficiency within the lay
apostolate is measured by its re
lation to the hierarchy:
“This hierarchy has the pri
mary and supreme respohsibility
for the apostolate, the primary
and supreme pastoral function,
which constitutes a brother as
the guide, teacher and distribu
tor of divine mysteries to the
other brothers.”
The bishop “is the apostle by
excellence because he is the suc
cessor, heir, representative of the
Apostles,” said the Pope.
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