Belmont Woman
Sr. Patrice Given Award
For Services to Children
Belmont — “I’m worse than
a teen-ager — or a Miss Amer
ica,” giggled the 1967 Belmont
Woman of the Year Monday
night.
- Although neither a teen-ager
nor a Miss America, Sister Marie
Patrice of Holy Angels Nursery
Pope Says
Rota Coirt Shows
Existence of Law,
Divine in Origin
Vatican City — Pope Paul VI
told the judges of the Roman
Rota that their labors demon
strated the “existence of a divine
law which neither passes away
'nor grows old.”
The Pope received the judges,
and officials and lawyers admit
ted to practice before the high
Church court in an annual audi
ence.
The Pope said that the work of
the Rota made “an exceptional .
-contribution to the good of the
Church and human society.” The
Rota, which deals mainly but not
exclusively with marriage cases,
has been criticized by many for
its slow deliberations, backlog of
cases, centralization and for not
being more up-to-date or mod
em.
The Pope also said that he ex
pected the Rota judges to con
tribute greatly to the drafting of
the new code of canon law which
is already under way. He said
that their decisions as hand
ed down in the Rota will have an
effect on the plans for recodifi
cation. “By means of these (de
cisions), there will filter into the
new code the results happily
reached by the most recent stud
ies, of the civil law of nations
as well as data acquired from the
sciences of medicine and psychi
atry.”
Asks Aid for Slums
New York — The Central Con
ference of Ameican Rabbis, the
organization of Reform Judaism,
has said that Americans must be
ready to support the tax increase
urged by President Lyndon B.
.Johnson, provided the funds be
used to eliminate slums and pro
vide jobs and educational oppor
tunities for Negroes and other
minorities.
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is considered a queen among
women.
She giggled last night after
she had received an engraved
silver bowl naming her “Bel
mont Woman of the Year,” and
a bouquet of yellow chrysanthe
mums for little Maria.
The award, the eighth one
given by the Belmont Business
and Professional Women’s Club,
was presented by Sister Patrice’s
good friend, Kays Gary of Char
lotte.
In presenting the award, Gary
said, “All of us have cause to
revere Sister Patrice, whom I
have known 11 years and who
has affected my life personally
in knowing her. The least thing
she needs is honor, but the hon
or which comes to people like
her inspires others to follow in
their footsteps.”
Sister Patrice accepted the
award “in the name of all the
Sacred Heart sisters and the
Holy Angels.”
The 1967 Woman of the Year,
born in Minneapolis, Minn., en
tered the Sisters of Our Lady of
Mercy of North Carolina 25
years ago. Teaching 11 years in
parochial school, she was as
signed to lighter duties at Sa
cred Heart Day Nursery in 1953
when her health failed.
Then one day, a two-week-old
defective child — whom doctors
said could live only a short time
—was brought to Sister Patrice.
Through long weeks of loving
care, the child Maria was nursed
back to health and today is a
happy little girl who can read,
write, and play the piano.
Sister Patrice’s 1956 experience
with Maria, inspired her to take
other mentally retarded and
malformed children into her
care, and the Holy Angels Nurs
ery came into being.
For her work Sister Patrice has
received the Charlotte Sertoma
Club’s 1966 “Service to Man
kind Award”; the Saint Louise
de Marillac Medal from Saint Jo
seph College, Emmitsburg, Md.,
in 1967; and the Gastonia Jun
ior Woman’s Club’s community
service award in 1967.
Speaker at the eighth annual
Woman of the Year banquet at
Belmont Senior High School caf
eteria was Mrs. Isabel Hart, chair
man of the business and eco
nomics department, Belmont
Abbey CoBege.
Wilmington Catholics
Promote Restoration
Of Historic Church
Wilmington — At a meeting
held here recently the Commit
tee for the Restoration of Saint
Thomas’ Church was organized,
with the following serving as of
ficers: Chairman, Miss Mary
Sheehan; Secretary, Miss Eliza
beth Powell; Treasurer, Mr.
Daniel A. Lockfaw. The meeting
was attended by interested
members of Saint Mary’s Parish,
Wilmingtonians interested in
the Historic Area, and members
of the Lower Cape Fear Histori
cal Society, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Co
lonial Dames.
Constructive suggestions were
offered concerning the manner
in which the restoration could
be accomplished, resulting in
the formation of the Committee
to explore these possibilities.
Historic Saint Thomas’ Catho
lic Church, in downtown Wil
mington, was seriously damaged
by fire in late 1966. The cor
nerstone of the Gothic Revival
Church of stucco and stone was
laid in 1846, although records
indicate actual construction be
gan in 1843. It was dedicated in
July 1847.
The world-renowned Cardinal
Gibbons served as Bishop-pastor
of Saint Thomas’ and it was dur
ing this period that his “Faith
of Our Fathers” was written.
Saint Thomas’ is listed in the
Greater Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce Tour of the Historic
Wilmington Area as one of the
outstanding historic locations in
the area. The restoration of the
church has received the endorse
ment of the Lower Cape Fear
Historical Society.
A second meeting of the Com
mittee was held recently and
will be reported on in the next
week’s copy of the North Caro
lina Catholic.
Cardinal Resigns
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has accepted the resig
nation because of age and health
of Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 76,
of Bologna.
He attracted attention in Jan
uary by issuing a statement say
ing that the Church has as an
obligation to ask the United
States to stop bombing North
Vietnam.
Knights of Columbus
Roundup M|*1 ■* Du«,« *• Ru***n
' Slot* Public Relations Chairman
TO ALL GRAND KNIGHTS FROM STATE DEPUTY
GEORGE LUND, JR.
“The year seems to be going by very fast, and there is very
little time left to meet your Councils membership quota. As I ad
vised you at the midyear meeting in Raleigh, we had an increase in
membership, but there is a lot of work to be done for each Council
to meet its membership quota.
Process the applications promptly, and have First and Second
degrees. As I also advised you the Catequiz had to be cancelled and
we hope to come up with a new program next year. The SEMINAR
needs the support of ALL KNIGHTS IN NORTH CAROLINA, and
I would ask that your Council support the SEMINAR 100 percent.
You will receive shortly details on the various programs. Listed be
low are a few dates, and we call them:
DAYS FOR KNIGHTS TO REMEMBER
THURSDAY, FEB. 29—Council Audit Report to your State Deputy.
SUNDAY, MAR. 10—Statewide Bowling Tournament at GOLDSBORO.
SUNDAY, MAR. 24—Third Degree at FAYETTEVILLE.
WEDNESDAY, APR. 10—Scrap Book of Council Activities to your
State Deputy.
SATURDAY, APR. 27—Statewide K.Y.C. Seminar at RALEIGH.
SUNDAY, MAY 5—State Track Meet & Picnic at RALEIGH.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 17, 18, 19—STATE CONVEN
TION AT WILMINGTON.
And Remember Our Motto: SEEK TO SERVE RATHER THAN
BE SERVED.
And Our Aim: MEMBERSHIP IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT
PRODUCT.
Members of FR. WILLIAM O’BYRNE COUNCIL 3574, JACK
SONVILLE, mourn the loss of one of their Brother Knights, WIL
LIAM G. FRASER. A Marine, Brother Fraser received his First
degree April 24, 1967. He was in his 21st year. He had attended three
meetings and then was transferred to Fort Benning, Ga., for special
duty and later to Vietnam, never having received the Second and
Third degrees. In a brief message to the Council Financial Secretary,
the bereaved mother said: “Our son William was killed in action at
Tuang Nang, Providence of Vietnam, by a sniper’s bullet while he was
on patrol duty.” Our Council Chaplain, Fr. William C. Wellein, offered
a Mass for the repose of his soul. Brother Fraser was a native of
Manchester, New Hampshire.
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