Negro Priests Plan
Meeting in Detroit
Detroit — (NC) — A group
of Negro priests will hold a spe
cial pre-conference caucus here
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days later He rose in triumph
from the dead; and His Resur
rection became the symbol and
promise of the hopes of man for
eternal life.
His Resurrection may also be
the symbol of the hopes of man
in his day-to-day life.
ON EASTER Sunday is recit
ed a prayer from the Psalms
which could well be a prayer
for each day of the year: This
is the day that the Lord has
made; let us be glad and rejoice
in it. Give thanks to the Lord
for He is good, for His mercy
endures forever.
May we work with renewed
dedication to the springtime of
justice and rights for all, a
pledge of the Resurrection.
Dear reader, may your heart
rejoice in the Risen Christ Hap
py Easter.
Sands of lime
Twenty years ago this news
paper reported that Mrs. Ella
Hoffman of Raleigh was elected
to the State leadership of the
Catholic Daughters' of America
at their convention at Wilming
ton. . . . That the Asheville
Council of the K. of C. was to
be host to the annual conven
tion of the Knights in May. . . .
That the St. Vincent dePaul So
ciety of St Gabriel’s Church in
New York will sponsor a bene
fit bridge party for the new mo
tor chapel of the Diocese in the
Starlight Room in Hotel Pennsyl
vania in New York.
this year prior to the annual
meeting of the Catholic Clergy
Conference on the Interracial
Apostolate.
The conference is a national
organization of white and Negro
priests who work in urban ghet
tos. This is the first time in its
20-year history that the black
priests have chosen to schedule
a private gathering of their own
in addition to the full confer
ence.
The caucus will meet in the
morning of April 16 in Detroit
and the over-all conference will
begin there that evening.
HOST AND principal speaker
for the conference will be Arch
bishop John F. Dearden of De
troit, president of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Father Herman A. Porter, a
Negro priest who is pastor of
St. Ann’s church, an all-white
parish in Warren, 111., said the
idea for the black caucus origi
nated with a group of white and
Negro priests who met to plan
the annual meeting.
“There was a feeling that Ne
gro priests as a group have been
looked upon by the black com
munity as alienated from the
causes of civil rights and human
dignity,” Father Porter stated. He
said the purpose of the black
caucus is to dispel this illusion.
“AS PRIESTS we are natural
leaders in these causes,” he stat
ed. “We want to make this clear
to our fellow black men and to
the leaders of our Church.”
Father Porter said the Negro
priests will probably make a
statement of their position
when they join the full meeting
after their own caucus.
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be the celebrant at a noon Mass
at the Cathedral, followed by a
1 p.m. luncheon at which J. Wa
ters, director of motor vehicles
safety, will be the speaker. ••
Afternoon activities will in
clude tours of the State Art Mu
seum and the new Legislative
Building.
A business session is sched
uled for 5 p.m. Saturday, to be
followed by a banquet at 7:30
p.m. Raleigh’s Mayor Travis
Tomlinson will give the welcome
and the principal speaker will be
Auxiliary Bishop McLaughlin.
AWARDS WILL be presented
to the Outstanding Catholic
Daughter in North Carolina, to
the Daughter who has brought
in the most members and to the
Court with the winning exhibit.
On Sunday, the final day of
the convention, delegates will
tour the Bishop’s residence at 9
a.m. and attend a coffee hour.
Mass is scheduled at 11 a.m. at
the Cathedral.
At 12:30 p.m., new State offi
cers will be installed. Adjourn
ment will follow a 1 p.m. lunch
eon.
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Non-Violent Movement
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the riot were joined by an esti
mated crowd of 200 others who
began looting stores and battling
police with rocks, sticks and
gasoline bombs. By noon, three
blocks of Beale Street was in
shambles, as was a short stretch
of Main Street and the intersec
tion where Claybom and St.
Patrick’s churches are located.
Gov. Buford Ellington immedi
ately sent 4,000 National Guards
men and 250 riot-trained state
troopers into the city and put
another 8,000 Guardsmen on
alert at their home armories
throughout Tennessee. Mayor
Henry Loeb-ordered a 6 p.m. to
5 a.m. curfew. All city buses
stopped running, although the
' violence remained largely con
fined to the few blocks where it
broke out.
During the night firemen an
swered more than 150 calls, five
of which proved to be major
fires. Scores of suspected looters
were put under arrest, adding to
the 120 persons arrested during
the first hours of the riot. Po
lice reported a number of snip
ing incidents, none of which re
sulted in casualties. Larry Payne,
a 16-year-old Negro youth, was
shot to death when he reportedly
emerged from a looted store car
rying a butcher knife and
charged a policeman. By mom
ing a spokesman for Gov. Elling
ton's office announced that the
riot was under control
Father Greenspun tempered
his pessimistic prediction about
the end of non-violence by not
ing that the number of militant
Negroes in Memphis is still com
paratively small.
“The main problem is teen
agers on the streets, wild kids
with nothing to do,” he stated.
He said he feared the riot might
cause a white backlash, however,
and he expects it to damage his
efforts to raise funds in white
parishes to help the striking
sanitation workers.
“That would be a shame,” he
remarked, “because there had
been a growing trend of white
sentiment against the city’s mil
itant stand.”
Father Greenspun said his
parish will continue to assist the
Negro leadership in providing
food and supplies to the jobless
workers.
ECUMENISM COMMISSION
Kampala, Uganda — (NC) —
Representatives of the Associa
tion of the Members of the Epis
copal Conferences of East Africa
(AMECEA) announced at their
meeting here that they were mov
ing immediately to set up nation
al commissions for ecumenism.
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