Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 5-22-1959 The Advocate - May 22, 1959 Catholic Church Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Catholic Church, "The Advocate - May 22, 1959" (1959). The Catholic Advocate. 54. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/54 Mailed Smut Due at a Million Homes WASIHNGTON to million Up one American children which h« program said is designed to: wul receive them over to the local postmaster for unwanted literature the further pornographic through mailt investigation. *uch material threatens the moral strength of America. thia • Draw attention to the Summerfield year, Postmaster public described as a General Arthur E. Summerfield raid problem; pornography $5OO million a year • Legislation designed to clarify the definition of ' obscene” here. Urge parents to business, the volume of which has doubled in cooperate; the last five years and make it easier for the Post Office to at a His received Department prosecute Speaking conference attended official! of • Mobilize department 14,000 complaints last year, he by women's community support behind enforcement of local added! those sending lewd material mails through the was introduced Summerfield state and these led to the arrest organizations, declared that the material is and laws; and conviction of 293 persons aimed in Congress by Rep. Charles E of at "and Those who filth Chamberlain Michigan teenagers even children (of) 8 to 10.” peddle this through the mails, he ages ... • said,' Rally public opinion behind stiffer Mis legislaUon which hia are “past masters at measure would also strengthen the language of the department advocates. crying censorship' and freedom of the 8I UT he said, ” mail statute ban all drugs, ? DISTRIBUTORS, are compiling their mail- press'. to medicines, articles, or things is list* from replies made by to By he cannot "This to youngsters innocent law, declared, postal inspectors open first is utter designed produce or ads for nonsense,” he asserted, 1* it prevent conception, abortion, "restore stamps, model class mail, which the smut distributors asking a airplanes, dolls and use. Thus, he said, sexual It was referred the Post similar items Some dis- the violation of civil liberties to deny the sale of potency." to House Office liquor to a 10- tributors even can take on cull names from high school department action "only the of citizens and Civil Service Committee which is yearbooks he complaints year-old boy?” conducting hearings on who receive this material.” charged. mail legislation Summerfield Post AT A SEPARATE said the Office has meeting here the Military Chaplains the Department “de- HE ASKED that Testifying before committee on behalf ot the National those unsolicited pornography Association dared war" on receiving adopted a resolution that such trash through initiation of charging the courts have of Catholic a four point save all materials sent them, Council Men. of which he is president, was John C. including envelopes, and turn been "unrealistic” in dealing with obscene literature. They dean of law said Hayes, the school at Loyola University, Chicago. Start Plans For Council Pope Deplores VATICAN Plight CITY (RNS) John Pope XXIII has ap- pointed a 12-man preparatory commission for the Ecumen- In China ical Council for Hungary, which he The Advocate originally announced plans last VATICAN CITY John XXIII Pope sharply deplored Venezuelan Ambassador to the January. It will be presided over what he said was Holy See Edgard the steadily worsening situation of the Sanabna, b‘ Cardinal Tardini, Vatican OfficUl Publication of the Archdiocese of Newark. N. and Church in Prince Albert of Belgium (at J„ of the Diocese of Paterson, N. J. two communist countries China and Secretary of State. - Hungary whose marriage the Pope will of- The commission said in both countries determined will contact 21 He that efforts are Vol. 8, No. MAY ficiate in Julyl, regents of the FRIDAY, 22, 1959 TEN Bishops throughout the world for PRICE: CENTS made to create being schisms in the ranks of the Catholic tmy state of San Marino. Bishop advice and suggestions on the faithful Fulton J Sheen seven other vis council. It also will establish liai- The Pope's remarks were of iting American and an situation made difficult by the -Canadian son with organizations and theo- impromptu nature and were made interference of civil authorities prelates, and mission dtrsetor* logians and draw up a tentative during a vesper service in St. from countries the I in ecclesiastical affairs throughout agenda for Votes the council. on S 2 Peter's Basilira on the feast world Assembly of "Some Bishops." he said, have Pentecost. Attending the rites their BESIDES lost freedom, others ran no Cardinal Tardini, WORKKRS FACTORY were The fate of Senate Bill state Were 15 Cardinals and members Tn mb-rs 2, which and their This of the Commission provides many needy students who are longer govern dioceses are: qualified told that to waiting of the Vatican carry out an apostolic scholarships for and diplomatic corps. situation meanwhilr becomes the Archbishop Giuseppe Ferretto, needy qualified students, is now for its of them I passage. Many would either have to program in the very places of in for other assessor. Sacred Consistorial Con- the hands of the New pretext illegal interior Jersey Assembly. After two to POPE JOHN recalled manual labor, borrow fulfill their desire for a edu- that his in places of heavy gregation, money college lenres, including eerie Archbishop Pietro Si- years of of its merits predecessor. appointing exploration the cation Pope Pius XII, had work which perhaps absorbs all by Legislature, or woqld to the wonderful siastirs who have gismondi, secretary, Sacred Con- have forego oppor- not been rhos in both expressed great sorrow the the energirs of man. of great passage houses of our over ” is gregation for the Propagation Legislature, a special tunity which this bill ci by the Apostolic See of provides. situation .of the Church the in China. merit Me warned that the dis- the Faith; hearing by executive of our According to Vatican Archbishop Antonio department state, it Our Senate can of its action This he " reports, of be proud bill a country deeply loved He traction a thousand things of Samore, secretary for extraordi- was returned to the Senate and [picked members of Opus Pans there, by a vote of has been criticized said that "with regret, We must ai.other naturr e\en though discussed, reviewed, and of Peace they applauded (Work l. a government nary ecclesiastical affairs in the 15-0, it overrode state that be the conditional veto which been Its despite Our previous may just and worthwhile, must had final passage is awaited The Secretariate of State; Rev Acs- optimistically parent? sponsored organization osfensihly Interventions, the situation in not be allowed to such placed upon it Its fate is now in the hands suffocate" no Couasa. of our of the and students operated with the blessing of the assessor. Sacred Con- needy " qualified hopefully expect China has further degenerated w ork Assembly. Hungarian hierarchs, gregation for the Oriental Church to thank the which has have hern not only Senate, already The Pope told the tearhers. passed Obviously referring to con (lx’banese); It is our chosen by the Budapest Msgr. Cesare Zerba, hope that will follow regimi f think they the example it and has overridden the veto, but also the serrations When ol doctors, tearh- Assembly, of new bishops by undersecretary, Sacred Congrega of their as aides ' lo the Bishops and associates in the Senate New bv ers and It Jersey, the which will do the Chinese "patriotlr Catholirs" priests. occurs to tion of the Sacraments. they hope same have, in fact, taken o\er most of me that we all passage this will be In defiance of the lloly he belong to the bill, the of the See. 01 their functions Also, Msgr Peitro extending help Let us get on with the of education our Palazzini, job May said constellation In all three are same state to and atlempts being made and grief crnsultor. directly the and Voicing "pain ’ user Sacred Congregation of needy qualified student, and students fulfill the it is indeed needy qualified ti place the Chinese rases a matter of expectations faithful the developments the Council; Rev Arcadio I.ar giving him an American of in China and way being educated, where- of their and the in announcing the truth: the parents legislators being truly col- “under the authority of shop truth reona. Sacred Hungary. Pope John said hr was secretary, Congre- by he may attend a of his own herds who of bodily the truth of college choosing There students who are not health, of lege will become college graduates and approxed by comforted only In the jnv he felt gation Religious (Spaniard); and the is a that this bill would the Holy See." knowledge truth of possibility be for the thus at the of the Msgr Dino Staffa, operative contribute to the of our State thought forthcoming " secretary. development great In rsangrlir life classes of this Hungary, Pope John eontin ecumenical Sacred Congregation coming semester There are of New council The council, of Semi September In his audience with the Indn Jersey. i'- the hierarchy naries 1 experiences a he declared "will he and Msgr. anew Pen Universities; m sian president Ihr Holy Father Enrico Dante. terost [or the edification of Chris Papal Master of the for praised country its re Rev. tian peoples, event destined Ceremonies; Paul Wit an " Philippe, Displays , Affability spert for spiritual salues He OP, To Ordain 42 to move heaven and earth commissioner.