DIOCESE LEADS LABOR DAY OBSERVANCE The War Against Poverty7 THE VOICE P.O. Box 1059 To Be Theme Of Speakers Miami, Fla. 33138 For the fifth consecutive Return Requested year, labor and management will join again on Thursday, Sept. 2, in the observance of ^VOICE Labor Day, sponsored by the Diocese of Miami. Weekly Publication of the Diocese of Miami Covering the 16 Counties of South Florida Members of national, state, county and local governments also will participate. VOL. VII, NO. 23 Price $5 a year ... 15 cents a copy AUGUST 20, 1965 Theme of this year's gather- ing will be "Politics and the Poverty Program." WHEN CLASSES RESUME ON AUGUST 30 Bishop Coleman F. Carroll announced this week that two of the principal speakers dur- ing the day-long observance Diocese Schools Expect 37,800 will be officials closely con- nected with the war against poverty. They are: New High School Buildings Hyman H. Bookbinder, as- sistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, of Ready At Lourdes, Central which Sargent Shriver is the Two new buildings for two Staffing the boys' department director. high schools and additions at will be five Missionary Oblates Richard Weatherley, execu- three others will be ready for of Mary Immaculate with Ob- tive director of the Dade Coun- use when more than 37,800- late Father George CroJt serv- ty Economic Opportunity Pro- elementary and high school stu- ing as principal. gram, Inc. dents return to Catholic schools Mr. Bookbinder also serves Three new faculty residences in the Diocese on Monday, as special assistant to Vice have been built at high schools August 30. President Hubert Humphrey, in the Diocese. The three are who has over-all coordinating Msgr. William F. McKeever, Cardinal Gibbons High in Fort responsibility for the war diocesan superintendent of Lauderdale; Archbishop Curley against poverty. Richard Weatherley schools, said the new total en- and Christopher Columbus. Named as general chairmen rollment figure is expected to Curley High will have an ad- for the Labor Day program Shriver in the Office of Econom- represent an increase of some ditional four classrooms this are Joseph M. Fitzgerald, ic Opportunity, Mr. Bookbinder 1,000 or more students over the year as a result of the new fac- Knight of St. Gregory, president has special responsibility for 1964-65 figure. ulty residence being completed of Serra International and Mi- liaison with private groups. In addition, an enrollment there. Previously the Brothers ami attorney, and Edward T. Prior to passage of the Eco- boost of some 500 to 600 stu- of the Holy Gross who staff the Stephenson, president of the nomic Opportunity Act, he dents is expected in the three school had occupied quarters in Dade County Federation of La- served as executive officer of colleges and two seminaries in the main school building. These LLOYD CAMERON, an Adventist preacher from Costa Rica bor, AFL-CIO. the President's Task Force on the Diocese. quarters are being converted and a graduate of the Inter-American Institute of Social Forma- The fifth annual civic cele- Poverty. In this capacity he Last year 28,157 students were into classrooms. tion at Opa-Iocka airport, talks with Bishop Coleman F. Carroll bration of its kind sponsored helped develop the legislation enrolled in the 63 Catholic ele- A new building dedicated last and Father Mauro Barrenechea, S.J., Institute Director. by the Diocese, the Labor Day and participated in the advance Observance will begin with cel- mentary schools in the Diocese; spring at the Marian Center planning of the Office of Eco- ebration of a Ponitifical Low nomic Opportunity operation. 1,632 in kindergartens and 7,075 for Exceptional Children is en- Mass by Bishop Carroll at St. in the diocese's 22 high schools abling the Marian Center to During 1961 and 1962, Mr. for a total of 36,864 pupils. Joseph Church, Miami Beach, Bookbinder was special assist- double the capacity of its stu- at 8:30 a.m. The two new high sc h o o 1 dents to 80 and also permitting ant to the Secretary of Com- buildings will be at Central the Center to take care of This will be followed by sem- merce, Luther Hodges. He par- inars to be held at the Deau- Catholic High in Fort Pierce boarding students. ticipated in the work of the and Lourdes Academy, which ville Hotel, Miami Beach, from President's Advisory Committee The Marian Center is staffed is located at 5525 SW 84th 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to on Labor-Management Policy, by the Sisters of St. Joseph Street. 4 p.m. The celebration will close the President's Equal Opportu- Benedict Cottolengo of T u r i n, Gibbons High and Pace High with a banquet to be held at nity Committee, the Commis- Italy. have completed new additions the Deauville Hotel at 8 p.m. sion on the Status of Women, which will provide five new A new elementary school Msgr. George G. Higgins, di- the President's Committee on classrooms at Pace and a new building has been completed in rector of the Social Action De- Youth Employment and the Council on Aging. chapel and four classrooms at St. Bartholomew parish, Mira- partment of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Gibbons. mar, and will be ready for From 1953 to 1960 he was leg- Washington, D.C., will be chair- ADDITION school opening. islative representative for the man of the seminars and will At Cardinal Newman High in At Boynton Beach, St. Mark's CIO and the AFL-CIO, handling Elementary School is building deliver the invocation at the congressional liaison for a wide West Palm Beach a new two- banquet. story addition has been com- a four-classroom addition which range of social and economic As the assistant to Sargeant pleted and'will be used as a also will be in use for the first subjects. boys' department of the high time when the school bell rings at the end of this month. Thank God For Religious INTER-AMERICAN SCHOOL PEASANT LEADERS from Latin America greet Bishop Cole- man F. Carroll at the Inter-American Institute of Social Formation at Opa-Iocka Airport. The Institute is sponsored Liberty, U.S. Cardinal Says Spread Church's Teachings, by the Diocese of Miami. The peasant leaders represent the BALTIMORE (NO — Law- dinal, undertook his duties un- fifth group to graduate from the Institute. rence Cardinal Shehan of Balt- der difficult circumstances, but imore has praised the religious there was "one condition which Institute Graduates Urged liberty of Americans in a state- was most heartening, of which ment noting the 175th anniver- he never lost sight. from Panama, Costa Rica, El POPE TANS, GAINS WEIGHT OPA-LOCKA — A total of 47 sary of the consecration of the Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, "This was the principle and agrarian leaders from eight VATICAN CITY (NO — A Vatican spokesman has said f nation's first Catholic bishop. Latin American countries heard Nicaragua, Colombia and Vene- I there is no foundation to reports that Pope Paul VI is not j the right of religious liberty, a plea to "proclaim the teach- zuela to take the six-week I gaining strength during his stay at his summer residence in I Catholics, said Cardinal She- embodied in the First Amend- ings of the Church" in their course in the social teachings of Castel Gandolfo. han, "should thank God for the ment to the Constitution in the communities during graduation the Church. incomparable blessing of reli- very year of Carroll's consecra- The denial was made after press reports asserted that | exercises at the Inter-American - gious liberty which has been tion, to which this country was The students also were taught | the Pope was recovering from overwork more slowly than !; Institute of Social Formation. granted us in this country." irrevocably committed. how to apply these teachings | expected and may have an ulcer. The reports said the Pope j "To this principle he never The plea came from Bishop in their own communities and |j went to Castel Gandolfo under doctors' orders to rest more H^is statement noted failed to pay tribute in speech Coleman F. Carroll who spoke countries in helping solve the 1 and spend more time outdoors. that August 15 marked the 175th and in writing. Without it, the at ceremonies during which the economic, social and cultural anniversary of the consecration The spokesman said that Pope Paul had been gaining f work of Carroll in establishing 47 men received certificates problems there. of the first bishop of Baltimore, I weight since his arrival at his summer home and that he ) the Church in this country certifying they had completed John Carroll, the founder of the In his talk to the students, | has been getting sunshine and fresh air, as his new sun j would have been immeasurably the Institute's course of studies. U. S. hierarchy. Bishop Carroll urged them to I tan shows. more difficult, if not impos- The agrarian leaders came (Continued on Page 2) I . ! Bishop Carroll, said the car- sible," he said. Church Has Preserved Its Youthfulness, Pope Says CASTEL GANDOLFO (NO — Secondly, the Church keeps Pope Paul VI declared the itself young by seeking "within Church has preserved its youth- herself the inexhaustible vitali- fulness by seeking within itself ty of its truth, of its traditional the inexhaustible vitality of its consistency and of its spiritual truth and spiritual riches. riches." Speaking to thousands at a The Pope warned that some- weekly general audience, the times reformers, "certainly Pope chose to dwell on the moved by sincere zeal, con- "antiquity" of the Church.