Jlortf) Carolina
Catholic
Sunday Visitor
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Vol. LVH
December 8, 1968
No. 38
P.O. Box 9503
KALEIGH, N.C.
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One of the most appealing pic
tures we have seen of North Caro
lina’s Governor-elect Robert W.
Scott, published in this newspaper
some months ago, shows him
sneaking with some of the pupils
of the Cathedral Parochial School
*in Raleigh.
He is presently the Lieutenant
Governor of the State and at the
time of the photo stopped by the
school for an informal visit which
is only a block from his offices at
the State Capitol.
We congratulate him on his
election as chief executive of the
State. As Governor he will find
all people of good will his strong
est asset in fulfilling his highest
ambitions for the coming adminis
tration.
WE ASSURE him that Catholic
adults as well as youth would
wish him to repeat this initial
friendly occasion whenever the
opportunity would be convenient
for him to do so.
Governor-elect Scott is a ruling
elder in the Hawfields Presby
terian Church in Alamance
County where his ancestors have
been members for generations.
He attended Duke University
and later North Carolina State
University at» Raleigh from which
Institution he graduated in 1952,
with a degree in animal industry.
HE IS the son of Mary Eliza
beth (Mrs. W. Kerr) Scott and
the late Governor and Senator W.
Kerr Scott. He is married to the
former Jessie Rae Osborne of
-Swepsonville and they have five
children: Mary Ella and Mar
garet Rose, twins, 11; Susan Rae,
10; W. Kerr, 9, and Janet Louise,
4. '
Mr. Scott is owner and general
manager of Melville Farms, lo
cated near Haw River, N.C.
During the Korean War he was
Special Agent with ,the Counter
Intelligence Corps, U.S. Army,
1963-55.
All of his life he has been a
Democrat, having served as Pre
cinct Chairman; Vice-Chairman of
the Alamance Democratic Execu
tive Committee and State Solici
torial District Executive Com
mittee.
PRESENTLY MR. SCOTT is a
member of the N.C. Board of
Education and has served as
Chairman of the United Forces
for Education in North Carolina.
He has been a member of the
! State Board of Conservation and
Development and also a member
of the Kerr Reservoir Develop
ment Commission and the N.C.
Seashore Commission.
We gratefully acknowledge this
interesting biographical data
which is published in the current
issue of “The Presbyterian News”
of the Synod of North Carolina.
His election to the office of
Governor recalls to mind our
presence among the jubilant sup
porters of his late father on the
night of his election victory meet
in the Carolina Hotel about 20
years ago. At that, time our news
See Editor's Desk, page 8A
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To Communicate
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope
Paul VI told a plenary meeting
of the Pontifical Commission for
Social Communications that al
though the Church has made
strides in inserting itself into the
big picture of radio, movies, news
and television, it still has a long
way to go.
Pope Paul received members
of the commission in audience.
The group was led by John Car
dinal Krol of Philadelphia and
Archbishop Martin J. O’Connor,
president of the commission and
apostolic nuncio to Malta.
The Pope addressed himself to
the problem of how the Church
is making its presence known and
felt within the broad field of
communications today. But he
Shaw University Meeting
Racism Seen in Churches
Raleigh — A nun from Pitts
burgh told a campus meeting on
black militancy here that churches
are impregnated with white
racism and most white clergy
fail to make contact with black
people.
Sister Martin De Porres, R.S.M.,
of Mount Mercy College spoke at
a conference on “Black Militancy
and the University” held at Shaw
University. The meeting was
sponsored by the National New
man Apostolate and was attended
by Catholic and Protestant chap
lains and other Church workers
on campuses.
Sister Martin De Porres told
the meeting: “You don’t under
stand the psychology of white
racism and are afraid of the con
cept of black power without
knowing anything about it.”
THE CONFERENCE opened
Friday, Nov. 29, and continued
through Sunday, Dec. 1. Dr.
James Cheek, president of
Shaw, summarized the meeting
at the closing session.
Sister Martin said that many
whites are all words and no sub
stance with a friendship toward
blacks that can be characterized
as condescending and paternal
istic.
She said that because of racist
repression the black man is
forced either to hate himself or
hate his oppressor, adding that
before a real dialogue between
black and white can take place
the system oppressing blacks must
be destroyed or at least tran
scended.
THE KEYNOTE speaker for
the conference was Dr. Lemvin
P. Sikes of Houston, Tex., a clin
ical psychologist who works with
the community relations service
of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Dr. Sikes had this blunt advice
for whites: “If you really want
to do something worthwhile, if
you really want to help, stay out
of these black neighborhoods
saying, ‘Oh, let me help you feed
your black child,’ and stay in
your own white community and
do something about the racism
there.”
Dr. Sikes attempted to tell
those attending the meeting what
it is. like to be black:
“IT MEANS being the victim
of a racist education system. . . .
We have to be ‘super Negroes.’
You can’t make a mistake. I’m
worrying about splitting a verb
and Lester Maddox is governor
of Georgia. . . . Being black
means to be hurt by being un
wanted and victimized. . . . Being
black means being hurt.” v
Members of the planning com
mittee for the conference were
Rev. John T. McDonough of
Washington, chairman, and Revs.
Rawlin B. Enette, S.S.J., Baton
Rouge, La.; John K. Lewis, S.A.,
Washington; Kevin Roe, O. F. M.,
Grambling, La., and Dayton Salis
bury, S.S.J., Houston, Tex.
also noted that in the past
churchmen and Catholics had
been slow in appreciating the
importance of “these noisy in
struments” such as movies, radio,
newspapers and television.
Citing the Church’s develop
ment of interest in these fields
from the pontificate of Pius XI
to the present time, he said: “It
does not seem out of place to re
joice sincerely with you to con
gratulate you for all the positive
things which have been accom- .*
plished in these last few years...”
Nevertheless, said the Pope, a
realistic view demands that Cath
olics realize that what has been
done so far is “insufficient and
in any case disproportionate to
the vastness of the field to be
sown.”
At the same time he quickly
pointed out that he did not want
to minimize the good work al
ready done in many sectors,
singling out Vatican Radio and
special projects in Colombia and
the Philippine Islands.
VET HE added: “But apart
from these modest beginnings,
however encouraging they may
be, we ask ourself sincerely
where is the echo of the word of
God in the tumult of these hu
man voices? What place does our
Catholic conception of the world
and of man occupy today in the
immense network of social com
munications?” '
Applying these questions to
particular situations, Pope Paul
asked:
“What place, for instance, does
it occupy in films, in film pro
duction, in film criticism?” Then,
passing to the subject of the
press, after paying tribute to
what is being done in the field
by the Catholic press, he asked:
“In the torrent of printed matter
which floods the world daily,
what is the Christian inspired
press but a mere trickle?"
In this regard he said: “What
is needed is not only a Catholic
press but a presence of the
Church in the so-called neutral
and widely circulated press.”
This, Pope Paul said, implies
that Catholics who work in the
non-religious press areas should
have an acute awareness of their
See Pope Notes, page 7A
Black Priest Offers Program
Newark — (NC) — A black
priest offered an interracial meet
ing here a program by which
whites could help alleviate the
problems faced by blacks.
Father Lawrence E. Lucas of
New York, a columnist for the
Catholic press, spoke at a Day of
Commitment sponsored by Opera
tion Understanding, an interracial
effort. Some 500 blacks from the
inner-city and whites from subur
ban areas were in attendance.
“The bishops of this country,”
Father Lucas said, “the Catholics,
white people in general, have
been quite willing to provide “the
Msgr. Ellis said it is too late
for the Catholic Church in the
U.S. to depend on solutions of
the past to solve present prob
lems. American priests, he added,
must consciously break with the
factors that have inhibited the
confidence and courage of the
priesthood in the past
Fear, he asserted, must be re
placed with confidence and self
reliance. Clerics must be ready
for change, recognizing that there
is no possibility of Mocking the
revolution that is taking place in
our time. <
“The Church k living in a pari
od of accelerating change, and
the pace of it does not depend
upon her,” the monsignor ob
served.
He traced what he termed the
lethargy and timidity that in
hibits too many American Catho
lic priests to the animosity and
alienation they encountered in
the early decades of this country’s
history.
It is time now, he told the
priests, for the Church in the U.S.
to put away secrecy and fear, and
be open and communicative in its
approach to both religious and so
cuu prooiems.
basket of groceries’ to “the starv
ing black man.’
“But what I want now is a so
cial change so that I won’t need
the basket anymore — despite the
fact that when they are bearing
it, I appreciate it.”
FATHER LUCAS’ theme was
that the white person’s commit
ment ought to be not to the ghet
to where he performs works that
reward his conscience and may
appear patronizing to the black
community, but to his own com
munity. There he should “work to
change white attitudes and pat
terns of behavior towards blades
which are responsible for the
ghetto.”
He said that the present reality
in the United States is that “we
are already a separate and di
vided society” and that the Negro
people “are more and more de
termined to take control of their
lives in the communities the
whites bequeathed them.”
Father Lucas also said that the
Catholic Church must re-evaluate
its traditional approach to blacks
because “the days of the ‘great
white father* in the ghetto —
clerical or lay — are past.”
FATHER LUCAS was also
critical of those who strike out at
anti-poverty programs because of
alleged waste, urging a rejection
of the myth that “money is being
squandered on the poor.”
“It is being squandered only in
the name of the poor and finding
its way into other pockets,” he
said.
In addition, he said, there is
waste in other programs, such as
the war in Vietnam or the space
race. But this is chalked up as
“the price of success,” he
charged.
“Do not be willing to support
only the. successes of the black
community, but its failures as
well," he asked. “This country
has always been willing to sup
port white failure, but only blade
success.”
HE ASKED for an understand
ing by whites of police-commu
nity relations in the inner-city.
Police, he said, feel “no responsi
bility to the black community,”
and he blamed this on white at
titudes of “let the police do the
dirty work and contain the ani
mals in the area where we want
them contained.”
“A bumper sticker saying “Sup
port Your Local Police’ means
help keep the lid on the garbage
can,” he said.
As . for whites who feel they
must come into the ghetto, to be
of help, Father Lucas offered this
advice: “Do toot come to bring
Christ to the blade people . ■
come to find the Christ who is
already there.... Christ is in the
black community in tetms of sac
rifice, suffering, persecution and
death.”