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THt VOICE «MI Msefey* WvJ., Miami S*. fte. Return Postage Guaranteed VOICE Weekly Publication of the Diocese of Miami Covering the 16 Counties of South Fioridd Vol II, No. 5 Price $5 a year ... 15 cents a copy APRIL 22, 1960 All Catholics To Be Enrolled In Census Of Diocese Sunday Men To Visit Pope's Easter Talk Laments Residences In Racial Strife 16 Counties "Is there any person living in (Complete Text on Page 11.) this household who was baptized VATICAN CITY (NO — Pope a Catholic?" John XXIII spoke with sorrow in His Easter message of those That's the leading question who suffer because of their race . which thousands of laymen will or poverty or because they are • ask at. every doorstep in South denied personal, civil and re- Florida on Sunday as they take ligious freedom. the long-awaited census of the diocese. At the same time the- Pontiff > expressed the joy of good Chris- The question will lead to an tians who at Easter pay "ho- interview inside the home, if mage to the Redeemer, Jesus the-family is Catholic. It will Christ, glorious and immortal lead also to information here- forever, Victor over death and tofore unavailable about the human wickedness." Church in South Florida: how NC Photo The Pope spoke on a rainy many Catholics there are; LEUKEMIA VICTIM, Katherine Hudson, 7-year-old from Okla- where they live; which part of homa City, Okla., who had a private audience with Pope Easter to an estimated 100,- 000 persons in St. Peter's the country they came from, John XXIII, is shown chatting with the Holy Father in his private where their children go to Study at the Vatican,. square standing under vari- colored umbrellas. His mes- school, and the spiritual status sage was carried by Euroyi- of family members. 7-Year-OId American Girl, sion, the TV hookup that co- To make the census a maxi- vers most of western Europe, mum success with a minimum and by Vatican Radio and Ra- . of" difficulty, all Catholic fam- dio Free Europe. Leukemia Victim, Visits Pope ilies have been requested to co- operate in three ways: By MSGR. JAMES I. TUCEK Rome. And the Pontiff had Anticipating that these and Voice Photo the press might carry his'mes- waved aside all ceremony, SIXTEEN COUNTIES which comprise the Diocese of Miami • To remain at home_on Sun- VATICAN CITY (NC) — A lit- ^sage behind the Iron Curtain, rules and protocol to give her are viewed by Father Lamar'J. Genoyar, DCCM moderator and • day afternoon, particularly the tle girl from Oklahoma City where many Catholics "have viho may not see - her eighth privileges not granted to Richard B. Roberts, general chairman of the diocesan census father or whoever serves as birthday walked timidly into the princes. - (Continued on Page 11) ' which will be conducted in every parish in the diocese. head of the house. private study of Pope Johir "How old are you,, my child," XXIII. •To invite the enumerators the Pope asked when he had inside the home and be pre? She wore her first -Commu- brought her to a chair beside pared with information on each nion dress, white like the sou- his own. member of.tfie famliy. (Date of tane of the kindly old man who "Seven, Your Holiness." birth, number of years in received her. school, the sacraments received, "A beautiful age!" the Pope etc.) Katherine Hudson was hav- murmured. Then he told her i»g her wish- — perhaps her that heaven loves to hear the • To inform non - Csithohc last wish. Her widowed juoth- prayers of children. neighbors that census <* takers jer, a convert, had sold her • The child's timidity melted will call at their homes too, but 4ftr and furniture to bring the • \ tfcukemia-stricken child to (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 2) Pope Washes Feet Of 13 Priests Radio Moscow Blasts Easter During Holy Thursday Ceremony VIENNA (NO — Moscow ROME (NO — In imitation of Christ, Pope John XXIII radio has. declared that knelt and washed the feet of 13 priests from all parts of the "Easter sermons about being world, including Africa, Asia and the U.S., during the Holy meek and ~humble do a lot ^Thursday evening Mass at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. • of harm." ^ It was the second time this year that the Pope has Soviet Premier Nikita stressed the universality of the Church and its missionary role. Khrushchev during a recsnt The first was at the March 2$ consistory when he created • i tour of France said he disa- the Church's first Japanese, Filipino and Negro cardinals. greed with Christ's advice to turn the other eheek, declar- The tradition of the washing of the feet is in imitation of Voice Photo | ing that if anybody hits him Christ, who washed the feet of the Apostles at the Last Supper. "I knock his block off/' ."As he did last year, Pope John departed from the restored v Holy Weelc liturgy of 1955 to wash the feet of 13 rather than Census^ Family-Size Assignment The broadcaster also de- r 12 — because of the pious ij-adition that when Pope St. Gre- CATHOLIC FAMILIES in private homes, hotels are Dr. and Mrs. James J. McCormick of St. [rided Easter as one of "the gory the Great* (590^604) performed the ceremony there was and motels of South Florida will cooperate Rose of Lima parish, Miami Shores, and their | wildest and most idiotic prej- a 13th person present who was an angel. with the diocesan census by staying- at home 12 children, nine of whom are shown above i udices." next Sunday. Among those who will be counted with census taker, Melvin Wittekind. Marriage, Family Life Lectures '< To Begin In May In 4 Locations 'i' A series of seven lectures on the spiritual, psychological •'; and physical aspects of marriage and family life will be , conducted in the Diocese of Miami beginning Monday, May 2. According to Msg'r. Robert W. Schieferi, director of I the Family Life Bureau, the program will be conducted bi- weekly in four locations of South Florida. ' » On Monday, May 2, lectures will be given at St. - Anthony Auditorium, Tort Lauderdale, and at Little Flower ? Auditorium, Coral Gables. * Lectures will be conducted on Tuesday, May 3, at St. i Mary Cathedral auditorium, 'Miami, and at St. Juliana audi- v- torium, West Palm Beach. f. A complete schedule of times, dates and subjects will i be announced in next week's issue of The Voice Voice Photo Quit Steady Dating, Teens Voice Photo CENSUS TAKERS will visit yachts and houseboats as well as COLOMBIA PRESIDENT, Alberto Lleras, his wife and their homes in their attempt tb interyiew every Catholic family in the , daughters are shown as they assisted at Solemn Mass of the diocese on Sunday, April 24. In picture above, a team of enumer- Resurrection sung Sunday in St. Patrick Church, Miami Beach. Told By Family Life Expert Immediately after Mass, Dr. Lleras and his, family left Miami ators of St Sebastian Parish, Fort Lauderdale, calls on a couple to return to Colombia. at the Bahia Afar Yacht Basin. TOLEDO (NO — A family riages in turn often lead to * life expert has advised teenag- broken homes," he said. ers who, are dating on a steady According^ to Msgr. De- All Catholics To Be Enrolled basis to quit dating for a month and then date on a once-a-month Blanc, the girl should frankly arrangement, while dating oth- explain to the boy after sev- eral dates that becoming too In Census Of Diocese Sunday ers in between. I •? serious about one another at (Continued From Page 1) months of planning in the dio- This answer was proposed too early an age presents «nly one question will be asked cesan office of the census. by Ms'gr. Irving A. DeBlanc, many problems: moral, emo- them, namely, "Is there .any • Father Lamar J. Genovar, director of the National Cath- tional, intellectual and social. person living in this household moderator of the Diocesan olic Welfare Conference Fam- Disadvantages of dating iar who was baptized a Catholic?" Council of Catholic Men, is also HARLEQUIN moderating the census. Working ily Life Bureau, at a program outweigh any advantages. with him as lay chairman is for parents and teenagers at A sample questionnaire was He strongly condemned the printed in The Voice last week Richard J. Roberts, Jr. Landon St. Francis de Sales High to acquaint families with the G. Haynes, of the First Re- School. practice of elementary school kind «f information which the search Corporation, is serving « dances, pointing out that these enumerators are peeking •• in as technical advisor and has Monsignor DeBlanc warned youngsters are soon thrown into briefed parish leaders on the TOGETIIERS their project, the first major that early intimite and exclus- emotional circumstances which techniques to be used in con- undertaking of the Diocesan ive dating leads to early mar- even adults find hard to cope Council of Catholic Men. ducting the survey. riages. There is a law of pro- pinquity involved. "Early mar- with. FOR THE In all parishes of the diocese, The apostolic nature of the final instructions were given census was explained by Fa- this1 week to the volunteer work- ther Genovar who said the in- ers who will go into action on formation gathered "will en- 2 Priests Die In Red Jails Sunday following the final able Bishop Carroll to know Mass. better his diocese and its problems, and help him make Others Get Life Sentences Identification cards will be.