Moscow Chapel fo Get Flag From U.S. Capitol Religious Basis of U.S. Law Washington.—An American hope for all people who yearn flag that has flown over the for tre^om . It is more than CapiUd Jbuildi^ will adorn a a challenge to those who seek chapel in Moscow. to dominate and control the The reqi^est was made by Fa­ lives and souls of men. “To you, to the personnel of Uader Attack, Expert Warns ther Richard, A.A., at the American Embassy, and a meeting with U.S. Sen. Hu­ to the people of the Soviet .—“A powerful, well-financed bert Humphrey (Minn.), be- Union, I send this flag with group in America” is “seeking by court action to Bishop Shoon Soys fmre leaving for Moscow to as­ the wish that it be seen as a a a /waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaau sume bis duties as chapiain at a symbol of America’s love destroy every moral support whidh the state now the Uil. Embassy. for freedom, America’s quest bestows on religion,” charged Father Robert F. In a letter to the chaplain, for peace, and America’s con­ Senator Humphrey said: cern for the progress of all Drinan, S.J., dean of Boston College Law School. Softening “This flag is a message of peoples.” In a sermon at the 33rd annual Red M*ass sponsored by the New York Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Fa­ Of Morality ther Drinan warned that this N atio n al group is attempting to persuade National the judiciary that America must Seen in d.S. prefer the secular “even if such Section Section preference discrimates against Washington.—“I can’t see the sacred.” any greaj; manifestation of Cardinal Francis Spellman of actual religious revival,” THE New York presided over the , which Is offered each Bishop Fulton J. Sheen told year at the opening of the fall a reporter for the Daily term of the civil courts to invoke News here. “On the surface, divine guidance for the admin­ there seems to be a softening ' istration of Justice. of moral and spiritual fibers in Joseph F. our society.” ' REGISTERa«.u.i.Pat.o(L Flannelly of New York celebrat­ ed the Mass, which was held in The symptoms, he said, are St. Patrick’s Cathedral. many. “One is the decline of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961 patriotism. The Greeks said Aggrasahra Atimtk that piety has three aspects: The effort “to prefer the secu­ lar and to rule out the sacred Love of God, love of home, and in all those ever multiplying love of country. And they were areas of education, social wel­ right. These basic loyalties are fare, and foreign policy in which closely related and when one Invites World: grows weak,^the others are af­ the churches seek to extend their influence,” Father Drinan fected, too” charged, is being advanced in The “softening” comes in, he an “aggressive manner by non- said, in the fact that “we’ve Christian and religiously neu­ grown rich and have fallen in Say Rosary for Peace tral forces.” love with our luxuries. When These groups have not Iwen you put such a tremendous em­ Castelgandolfo. — In an Apostolic Letter addressed to the world. Pope successful, he commented, in phasis on material things, spirit­ imposing their views on federal ual values tend to atrophy.” John XXin called for the recitation of the Rosary for the intention of peace or state executive or legislative Underneath the “sofiness,” at public rallies and in private. He called the Rosary the principal form of branches of government. however, “our potential Is still prayer, second only to me sacraments. Its recitation, he stated, should be for But’ he cited efforts to ad­ great,” Bishop SheenJ aald. vance a secular view of gov­ “We have tremendous'moral ‘the great treasure of peace . . . which touches upon individuals, families, ernment in court cases over and whole nations.” ------John England-Christlike Bishop and spiritual reserves waiting threatening disasters and for in­ of persons, institutions, or needs such issues as bus rides for to be tapped In our young The Rosary prayed properly, pupils, and John England, who became the first Bishop astounding success. In 1822 he established voking the return of prosperity of a personal and social order, people. the Pontiff p elted out, “be­ Bible reading and non^lenom- of Charleston, S. Car., was bom in ‘ Cork, the “ Catholic Miscellany,” the and social ordet.” I which for a truly Catholic per­ comes the universal prayer of Inational prayer in schools. Ireland, in 1186. As a he became known first distinctive Catholic newspaper in the "One of the things modem son come witliin the practice of the individual soul and o l the Warning against reciting the There are three reasons, he for his preaching, and his influence was the U.S. Although he was accept^ on all so­ young people are rebelling charity toward his brothws, a immense community of the re- Rosary like a monotonous suc­ said, why the state shoilld not greatest, next to that of,Daniel O’Connell, cial levels, Bishop England was a special against is the softness of an charity which is diffused in ' deemed, who meet in a single cession of three prayers, the be permitted to prefer the secu­ in the agitation which culminated in Catholic friend of the Negroes, for whom he estab­ older generation which has prayer from every part of the Pontiff listed three'elements hearts as the living expression lar and rule out the sacred: emancipation. To help this cause he founded lished schools and to whom be preached in failed to bequeath them a seri­ of common membership in the world. needed for Its proper recita­ R a lfg fo B 1$ S o v re a “The. Chronicle,” which he edited until he preference to the rich and cultured. His per­ ous purpose in life. American Mystical Body of Christ.” “In personal invocation, it is tion. They are contemplation, “1. By custom, law, and basic left Ireland for Afoerica, having been named sonal poverty was well known, and at times youth are ready to make great for the imploring of graces tor reflection, and Intedlion. Whole World Invited institution of America’s citizens, Bishop of Charleston in 1820. Conditions were he walked the streets of Charleston with the sacrifices if someone will give most unfavorable to the growth of Catholicism bare soles of his feet to the ground. He them a cause to which they can the individual needs of each. In “In, contemplation,’’ he said, Pope John recalled how Leo this country Is a nation whose participation with the inunense “we find ourselv'es |n communi­ institutions depend on religious in his , but he threw himself into the died in April, 1852, after an amazingly fruit­ really dedicate themselves.” Xm , with the coming of each work with indefatigable energy and met with ful apostolate. and unanimous choir of the en­ cation of though! and sentiment October, would invite the Chris­ values; ‘WbHm M m ’a tire Church, it is for the great With the teaching and life of tian world to recite the Rosary “2. Religion is the source and, IX | S O lf?’ interests of the whole of human­ , Son of God and Son of for the benefit of their own souls in some respects, the only Asked whether strong nation­ ity." Mary, which was lived on earth and the welfare of the Universal source of our morality; to redeem, to teach, and to sanc­ “3. Religion is the ultimate alist feelings have become a Historical Facts Church. This pious practice was Polish Red Regime Forcing tify: In the silened of the hidden and only real fountainhead of serious barrier to the spread In the history of nations, he continued by Pope Leo’s suc­ of Christianity in Asia and Af­ life composed of prayer and cessors. those truths by which we can continued, there have boea work, in the sorrows of His - ¥ triumph over the threatening rica, and if Christianity is be­ “We intend to follow,” the many times before “events blessed Passion, and in the tri­ forces behind the Brandenburg ing denounced as a “White Holy Father continued, “these Shackles on Church Work which marked with nights of umph of the Resurrection.” gate.” man’s export,” Bishop Sheen tears and blood the changing most venerable Shepherds of the “It is not urged,” Father Washington.—Communist or the division of the large ones removal from office are dicta- said: “This notion that anti- fates of the most powerful states The Pope defined reflection as flock of Christ, not only in their Drinan said, “that the Ameri­ Poland is ignoring its is often impossible, because the torial and final. Wranglings Western sentiments have of Europe.” the application of the things intense solicitude for justice and can state should be committed Church-State agreement of presidiums refuse permission. threats, and fines are common. ‘doomed’ Christian missions is He underlined the historical seeh in the contemplative part brotherhood in this life but also to religion, but rather that it Dec. 8, 1956. Particular Reasons given for their refusal Becau.se of taxation, chari­ a folk fable. Nationalism is a to one’s own sanctification and for the fervent seeking of the are the excessive burden for the fact that in all such circum­ should be committed to an at­ roadblocks against the table activities like aicUng the political phenomenon and it the condition in which he lives. sanctification of souls. faithful involved in the upkeep poor and providing meals for stances devotion to Our Lady titude of profound and approv­ Church exist in the fields has had far less affect on re­ has always exercised its influ­ The third element, intention, “The Rosary, as a practice of the and . the hungry have been made ing respect for the religious of pastoral appointments, ligious attitudes than we attri­ ence “for preservation against he explained, is “the indication of Christian devotion among commitments of its people.” No Reosoni Given impossible. There is a tax of bute to it in the West.” the faithful of the Rite, changing p a rist bounda­ 65~per cent on funds $pent. Noting the Judaeo-Christian No reasons are given by the Bishop'Sheen said Americans who constitute tho greater ries and education. Constitu­ Such expenditures are often influences upon the sources of presidiums for their refusal to are doing better in respond­ portion of the Catholic family, tional and legal provisions are “estlm at^” by civil authori­ American civil and crimi­ confirm the appointment of a ing to the need of spreading 36 U.S. Request has its place for ecclesiastics nal law. Father Drinan declar­ disregarded. ties. pastor or administrator. This is after the Mass and the Brevi­ When Communist Party A circular of the Ministry of Christianity abruud. “There are ed: “It is the mission of Chris­ contrary to the regulations, ary, and for laymen after par­ leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka Interior of June 25, 1957, re­ about 7,000 American Catholics tian jurists to study the religious which request that such rea­ ticipation in the sacraments.” came into power in 1956, he pro­ quires only an agreement on serving in overseas missions, lay Volunteer Services roots of American law and to sons be stated. Only about five Ther^ is much more to say claimed the regime’s goal was the course and time of proces which is three times as many combat the new notion of Amer­ per cent of the total number of about the Rosary, the Pope the rule of law. The agreement sions. These are as we had a few years ago.” Portland, Ore. — Thirty-six full-time volunteers at work ica as a secular state.” petitions presented by Chan­ said, but he added that he pre­ had as its first point a promise sometimes made impossible by “ But,” he admonished, missionary dioceses in the Unit­ In one diocese this past year, By doing so, he declared, the ceries are accepted. ed States have requested assign­ 16 have returned' Uiis year. ferred to confine his suggestions jurists serve “the law itself, to annul the old Stalinist decree assigning new courses near un “America, which has one of ments of Extension Lay Volun­ Four others married and one to the three elements for its which cannot be understood or demanding prior state approval Demands by government offi' inhabited areas or a' refusal to the largest Catholic popula­ teers, and it is h c ^ that at entered rellgiont life.” proper recitation. sustained unless its religious for all church officials. cials for removai of phstors are agree on the time. ^ tions of any nation in the based on trifling circumstances. world, is still providing only least 10 of the requests win he Extension Lay Volunteers en These, he concluded, can bases are secure.” [NCWC This promise was never ful­ Churehei Removed filled by next year, according to gage in four general types‘of “well apply to the spirit of many Wire] They are not proved or based on three-per cent of the Church’s filled. The appointment of pas­ court decisions. The requests for Churches and chapels used for Father John J. Sullivan, nation­ work, he said; Some teach in peoplq particularly inclined to­ total missionary force. Our tors and administrators is made years as places of worship have al director of the program of parochial schools in mission ward overcoming the monotony Aid Refugees record in financial snpport of difficult and delayed, owing to been taken away in Krosno Nad the Extension areas where'qualified teachers of simple recitation . . . for in­ the missions is somewbat bet­ Geneva. — Germany’s Catho­ objections raised by presidiums Pastoral'Defies Odra, Koscian, Strzezewo, Coun­ Society. would not otherwise be avail­ tense personal edification, for a ter, but stifl not nearly as lics have contributed 350,000 to of Provincial National Councils. ty Chodiez, and Lubosina. Civil able. Some work as nurses. more elevated fervor of prayer, good as that of the Protest­ He said there are 64 Extension Morocco and Tunisia, it was an Vacant parishes cannot get new Polish Reds authorities have prohibited devo­ Some serve as catechists, and and for the salvation and peace ants.” Lay Volunteers now at work full nounced by Felix Schnyder, administrators for as long as 15 tions in Nosalewo, Debica Pod- a fourth group works at state of all peoples.” [NCWC Radio High Commis­ months. Berlin. — Cardinal Stefan time in 22 parishes in Texas and Wyszynski of Poland urged gaje. County Szczecinek, and Oklahoma. ' universities in mission areas. and Wire] sioner for Refugees. The setting up of new parishes Mroczen. County Kepno. Bovoeodt loikhr \ that nation’s Catholics to Expenses for church equip­ Cflot Ixampf# make all Catholic homes Ot U.S. CkariHos “schools where Christ’s truth ment and construction are sub­ He cited the following exam­ Restoration Is Planned it taught,” according to re­ ject to mcome tax and are taxed ple of the effect of lay mission­ ports reaching hero. up to 65 per cent of the total aries’ work in the United States: Cardinal Wyszynski made costs. Aid given poor parishes by “In one parish in the South­ For Oldest Marian Church this statement in a pastoral Chanceries are treated as ex­ west, which included a dozen Ephesus, Turkey. — The Cath­ use as early as 350. letter issued in thr face of an penses subject to income tax. communities in three counties, edral of St. Mary , In 1956, George B. Quatmdh, attack by PoLnd’s Commu­ Past-jral work in hospitals it had been considered fortunate site of the Third Ecumenical 70, a Catholic businessman of nist government on all reli­ faces numerous obstacles. Ac- to have an increase of two or Council of Ephesus where the lim a, 0., founded the American gions instruction. The pastor­ . cording to an instruction of three Catholics in a year’s time. first Marian dogma, the Divine Society of Ephesus to restore al was read in churches, re­ the Ministry of Health, March Now, after two years of work Maternity of Mary, was defined the Christian shrines of Ephe­ ports said, despite Red at­ 31, 1956, “ the hpspital chap­ by Lay Volunteers in a catechet­ by the Church in 431, is soon to sus. First of his 11,500,000 proj­ tempts to keep from lain may freely visit the sick,” ical program, the increase has be restored by an American ect is the rebuilding of the sixth reading i t Many hospital directors do reached 70 converts a year. In businessman. century Basilica at the tomb of In another part of the pas­ not recognize this. the beginning there were only A long narrow structure, near­ St. , actual toral declared: Since last January, many hos­ 210 Catholics in the parish.” ly 600 feet in length, it is not work on which began in 1958. “We emphasize that the new pital leaders allow Mass to be We tiiink it significant,” said only the oldest but also the long­ Upon completion of the Basilica, position of the legislators can­ offered once a month. Chap­ Father Sullivan, “that of 23 est Marian church in existence. plans are to reconstruct the not change citizens’ rights, lains are forbidden to visit pa Little remains standing in place, Cathedral of St. Mary. namely the right to freedom tients on certain days and are however, except a shell ot crum­ In 1931, Pope John XXIII, then of religion, the right of par­ allowed to see only those pa­ Priest Is Shot bling walls. Originally ; pagan Angelo Roncalli, ents to decide whether their tients who request their visit. Greek university building called Apostolic Delegate to Bulgaria, children are to enjoy religions The regime’s goal apparently By Cuba Militia the Musaion or School of the visited the Cathedral on the oc­ education or not and the is to restrict priests to an ever Miami, Fla. - Father An­ Muses, historians say it may casion of the 500th anniversary right of the Church to fulfill more limited scope of activity. tonio Altamira, 38, a native of have been adapted for Christian of the Council of Ephesus. her duties.” [NCWC Wire] Monsignor John J. O’Grady Cnba, reportedly was shot twice in Ae leg by militiamen Champion ot LHtlo Mon Who were rounding up some AAAAAAAAAAA/VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/VA/X/WAAAAAAAA/V 130 priests and brothers after the huge anti-Communist dem­ onstration staged outside Our 'Father of Catholic Charities' in Haven of Rest Lady of Charity Church in Havana on Sept. 10. Washington. — The “Father of out the country. He was a able Monsignor became a the national defense efforts as A former counselor at the Catholic Charities” is taking a pioneer in the founding of the spokesman for the Church on this nation prepared for World Belen School, seized months much-deserved rest. One of the NCCC and served for 40 years Capitol Hill w^ienever legisla­ War U. as its secretary. tion affecting any facet of char­ ago by the Castro government, The Monsignor became expert nation’s best known and loved The 20th century was but a ity, social, or welfare work was Father Altamira has been do­ in all lines of charitable, social, priests. Irish-born Monsignor decade old and the oils of Holy considered by Congress. and welfare work—public and ing catechetical work as well John J. O’Grady has been plag­ Orders were still moist on his Monsignor O’Grady was a private low-cost housing, immi­ as ministering at two chapels ued by illness in recent months. fingers when Father John front-rank champion of legis­ gration, problems of migrants, hi the suburbs of the capital. Swcc0*ser fo Sf. John Monsignor O’Grady, desig­ O'Grady forsook Ireland and lation favoring the little man and juvenile delinquency. When miltiamen arrived at ' Joseph Dcscuffi, C.M., 77-year old Archbishop nated the past week as the came to this city. He had made in the depression era of the Monsignor O’Grady has long the Jesuit bouse. Villa San ot Smyrna (modern Izmir) and Vicar Apostolic of Asia Minor, first secretary emeritus of the his studies at All Hallows’ Col­ 1920s. In testimony before been in the front rank of oppo­ Jose, Father Altamira de­ Is shewn preaching in the ruined apse of (he Cathedral of St. National Conference of Catho­ lege in , where he was or­ Congress committees, in arti­ sition against endowing state or­ clared that Cuba is his coun­ Mary Theotokos at Ephesus, Turkey. Archbishop DescuffI is a lic Charities, was the driving dained, and came here to the cles written (or the NCWC ganizations and agencies with try and refused to be deported direct successor of St. John the Evangelist in the only one of force in organizing Catholic Catholic University of America News Service and magazines more jurisdiction in welfare and to Spain. He Is now at the the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse (Smyrna) that has sur­ Charities in more than 12 arch­ for advanced studies. and in radio talks, he stressed social work to the exclusion of Surgical Center hi Havana. vived as a living archdiocese until the present day. dioceses and dioceses through­ Early in his career, the ami­ the social problems raised by private organizations.

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fcoSMIC WiaiU.B'5 SERIES K H E U.S. Seminarian Joins H m N K s 3 1 0 0 1 1 w K s k a n d L e a r n I 0 0 4 1 0 1 Historic Peru Monastery ^ 1^ P. 0 . Box 1620, Denver, Colorado ” T^OJ-KS^ (T '5 t h e : 7t.^lMN(NG* — Ocopa, Peru. — Richard well known that the Franciscan BVTO hlLY T-h -b : HANA&KKS ,, Catholics tion of the natural law then the a church. We must walk If we cannot get someone (o pick us- Stokes of Boston, a former West missioners have contributed OUT OFTHE-DUG-OUr^/ ' And Civil War more probable 'opinion is that Point cadet, has asked to be ad­ enormously by their scientific the state has the power to en­ up in a car, since no public, transportation is available, mitted to the Franciscan com­ explorations in the jungle to the When the Civil War broke force the law and to render the What are our duties as re­ munity at an historic monas­ geographic knowledge of the out in 1861 was there any of­ marriage void. In practice, the gards Mass attendance? tery here, 11,000 feet high in the tributaries and the adjacent re­ ficial pronouncement from Church judges the validity of a marriage of the nonbaptized Peruvian Andes. gions of the Amazon. The whole ? If so was the South’s No absolute distance can bp when one of the parties wishes Ocopa Monastery was founded history of Eastern Peru is tied action condemned? Did the assigned as excusing one from to enter marriage with a Cath­ in 1725 by Father Francisco de to the labor of these missioners war split Catholics in Amer­ Mass on Sundays. Personal olic. San Jose, O.FJd., in an Andean since the period of Spanish col­ ica, as it did other bodies? health, the place, and the weath­ valley that now lies 25 miles onization.” Pius IX remained neutral In the case in question, the er all must be considered. C«r- from the growing city of Huan- Among the precious relics throughout the conflict, although marriage could be null, not so tainly a foot journey of three cayo in Central Peru. which the two - century - old he privately expressed the view much because of the civil void­ miles, or of one hour, woujd When the Jesuits were sup­ monastery contains is a li­ that the North would win, since ing law, but because of actual normally excuse persons of your pressed In 1773, the monas­ brary of more than 20,000 vol­ its victory would mean the end unsoundness of mind, which age, and even a lesser distanca tery took on special import­ umes, Including many works of slavery. No such .schism re­ made free consent impossible. if it is raining or snowing. Tff ance, because from it Francis­ edited in Latin and Spanish sulted in the Catholic Church The lack of a legal release people with ready means of can mlssloners fanned out to from the 16th, 17th, and 18th as took place in the Methodist would be strong presumptive transportation, a much greater all’parts of South America to centuries. and Baptist denominations. evidence of this fact. distance would'be necessary for try to minister to the millions Fifty-one major seminarians Southern priests and prelates an excusing cause to operate. left spiritually abandoned by are studying at the monastery. often took an active part in Dittanre as Even persons who do have tbe the loss of the Jesuit mlsslon­ These include 38 Spaniards, 12 furthering the Confederate Excuse From Mass excuse of distance should en­ ers. ^ Peruvians, and the one Ameri­ cause, and sometimes got into My husband and I, aged 61 deavor to attend as often as ’ The monastery today largely can. S' trouble with the federal author­ and 55, live three miles from possible. confines its missionary activi­ Besides their jungle missions, ities for that reason. But this ties to vast reaches of the Peru­ the Franciscans here specialize , M resulted in no ecclesiastical vian jungle in the area of the in roaming through the most quarrel, nor any attempt to dis­ upper Amazon, where often the abandoned towns of Peru cipline them by Ckiirch author­ only White man the Indians preaching missions to the peo­ ities. have seen has been the Fran­ ple who have not been able to ciscan missioner. get to Mass and the sacraments Divine Right Attesting to the historic im­ for years. Peru has only one To Marry portance of the friars of Ocopa, priest for every 6,000 Catholics, If a marriage contract later a Peruvian writer wrote; “It is [NCWC Radio and Wire] was found to be void civilly, would the Catholic Church still hold this marriage as valid? I refer particularly to GOD LOVE YOU a case where it was found that one party had no civil right to be married, because he had Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen been committed to a mental institution by court order, and Are you worried about the world because of what had not received a legal re­ you read In the newspapers and hear every hour over lease. The marriage was ac­ cordingly declared void. the radio? Or are you worried because you see that the Devil has been given Even for the nonbaptized, the State has no right to establish a long rope? Frankly, we arbitrary or unreasonable ira are deeply distressed not pediments. The right to marry is a natural and divine right, only because of active

JkQD.loqif^ JthsL he author has just church in Texas, which was they called San Francisco de returned from a visit built in 1681; and the San Eli- Alcantra. Finally Otermin re­ toT one of the most fasci­ zario Mission, which stands on served for his troops the small mind of the architect. Then, after man had been nating spots in the United the site of the bitter Salt War town of San Lorenzo el Viejo created, he began to exist outside the mind of God— (the present San Elizario.) States. It is El Paso, struggle. man, as It were, left his Maker. Religion functions In the year 1680 there was By Dec. 20, 1680, they had fundamedtaMy to re-establish the pristine union be­ Texas, which draws its name established three small towns, from the Spanish El Paso del stiU no mission on the El Paso tween man and his Creator. WiUiout God, there­ side of the river. On the Mexi­ and each one had its own fore, religion is meaningless. No God, no religion. Norte — the Pass to the priest. North. It was through this can side there was one of Our Hence the initial task of religion is to prove the Lady of Guadalupe that had * existence of God. gateway that advanced the Received Aid conquistadores and padres been founded 21 years before From Mexico Two Ways to Know God who planted the cross in by Fray Francisco Garcia de They received so much help Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Zuniga, and the small town of S t Thomas lists five ways of knowing that God from the people of Juarez, on and other states of the west. Antonio de Senecu founded by exists. However, there are only two ways to KNOW the present-day Mexico side In this area the Spanish the Christian Indians. . this existing God. Suppose one wishes to know Wil­ of the Rio Grande, that the founded missions, still exist­ It was something horrible liam Shakespeare. If one were his contemporary, only city was called at the time El ing, which antedate Padre when pagan Indians attacked two avenues would be available. Fot one who en­ Paso. By Aug. 29, 1691, they Serra’s famous foundations in Ysleta and Socorro. They kill­ joyed drama, his plays would be the book wherein had established two missions California by 100 years. It was ed priests, the Spanish, and might be read many matters about the playwright. (Ysleta and Socorro) and Cap­ to this area that the surviving women and children who But such knowledge would necessarily be circum- tain Diego de Vargas y Zapata Spanish colonists and Chris­ would not “wash out their left for New Mexico to con­ WVWWWWWWW^nnfWWWWWWWWVWVWWWWWWS tians retreated following the baptism at the river.” Gover­ quer new territory. Only Pool Dm Im God ' U A ’ disastrous revolt of the pagan nor Otermin informed his su- There is a defmite reason Indians in New Mexico in e periors that the '“brave” In­ why the mission has played so “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’ ” 1680, and it was from here (Psalm 111, 2). dians had killed 400 people, dominant a role in Tigual In­ that Vargas brought his among them missionaries. G^^^^hAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArfUkAAAAAworld. The whole field of nature, to care for the Tigua Indians of interest as being about the miles per hour. Yet so smoothly does it move that it Sur disappeared. They joined pocketwatch. To him the watch a most convinc­ who remained faithful to the spot where Onate, founder of from a spec^: of dust and a blade of grass disturbs not a babe in its cradle. \ ing argument fOTNGod. Spanish during the Indian up­ forces with the Spanish. the first settlements In New The stars move in their appointed orbits with a ' Every day the watches and all the clocks ‘of to the farthest star bears the unmistak­ rising in 1680; the Socorro The Indian Piros of Socorro Mexico, first reached the regularity and a precision which shames the most . America are regulated by the observatory at An­ able imprint of the hand of God upon it. Mission, the oldest parish established a small town that river on his historic journey. accurate chronometer made by human hands. The napolis. The observatory, in turn, computes the “As every shell along the seashore, most accurate watch or clock made by horologists ^• ' hour from the sun. Thus one may condrae as did 5 when placed to the ear, gives an echo of the mighty will falter at least by some infinitesimal bit in the . Balmes, that if the watch postulates both a maker deep from which it came,” writes the Rev. John A. exact measurement of time, and will have to be cor­ and a winder, how much more so does the suni Who yvwvwwwwwwvwvWwwvwvwwwwwvwwwwvw rected by the clock of the stars as caught by the made it? Who winds it? ' 7 United States Naval Observatory at Annapolis. All creation unfoldk the same story; HMnrMU Declare God Here then are an order and plan, purpose and m M U P A G B A J S T T And this our life, exempt from public haunt. “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the design, which cry out not less imperiously than the Finds tongues in trees, books in the running firmament proclaims His handiwork” (Psalm shell found the seashore for an intelligent and By Paul H. Hallett brooks. xviil, 2). adequate cause. Sermons in stones, and good in everything. The conclusion Is Inescapable: As the watch Whoever listens to these will hear what Aug­ O’Brien in “Truths'Men Live By,” “so every particle Implies a watchmaker, so the universe implies ustine heard: “We are not your God; seek higher.” of matter in the universe from a grain of sand and God. As the watch demands adequate cause in the Light on Highest Heroism But the man of faith goes beyond the narrow an eagle flying high in the skies to the throbbing heart form of an Intelligent watchmaker, so the universe, confines of reason. When a man says, "I believe in of man, when hearkened to attentively, gives an echo vastly greater in size, complexity of organization, The Other Face: Catholic Life Under Eliza­ God,” doeit be not imply that God has spoken to of that infinite Power from whose creative womb it and adjustment of parts, demands an adequate beth 1, collected and edited by Rev. Philip him, told him something? has come.” cause in the form of a Being of vastly greater Caraman (New York 3, Sheed & Ward, $4.95). Certitude of Revelation power and intelligence. This Is the Being whom we ‘‘Paid for charges at the execution of the Evidence From Design call God. seminary priest in Gateshead, John Ingram, Creation speaks, but as Francis Thompson • Probably the evidence which has the widest ap­ St. gives the classic statement 2s. 6d. Paid for bringing his quarters off the versed it in his “Hound of Heaven:” “Their sound is peal is drawn from order and law in nature. This is of this argument in the following words: “We ob­ gibbets, 18d., and for a pannier which brought but their stir, they speak by silences.” Thompson commonly called the proof from design, and is the serve that some things which are without under­ his quarters to the town, 4d.—^22d.” then went on to say of the Hound (God): “In sound argument built around the evidence of ends or pur­ standing, such as natural bodies, operate for an end This prison entry of Elizabethsin times of­ I (God) speak”—that is, by word of mouth. “In poses in the organization of nature and in the opera­ (as appears from the fact that always or more fre­ fers a sample of the detail to which Father times past, (God spoke) by the prophets,” said St. tions of its law. quently they operate in the same way to arrive at Caraman has gone in gathering his anthology Paul, “. . , in these days . . . by His Son” (Heb. i, Thus when Robinson Crusoe perceived a foot­ what is best): Whence it is clear that they attain of the Elizabethan persecutions. But most of 1-2). print on the island of Juan Fernandez, he rightly this end not by chance but intention. Now, these the intensely interesting selections to be Christ came and blazed abroad a story no crea- ’ concluded that it had been made by man. And a things which do not possess understanding, operate found herein have a solemn beauty ture could ever tell. H r revealed to man not only person who looks at the mechanism of a watch, for a purpose only in so far as they are directed by a that cheers instead of depresses. that God IS but WHAT God is; He acquainted us with its springs, its cogwheels, its hour hand and its being endowed with inteiligence: Just as an arrow with the three Persons in the Godhead—with the minute hand, with its crystal and its face, with the is directed by the archer. Therefore, there is an Jewels of Eloquence Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. To this, un­ movement of the minute hand so co-ordinated that intelligent Being, by whom all the things of nature The leading martyrs and other (Catholic aided reason could never have arrived. Reason can it travels precisely 12 times faster than the hour are directed to their end. And this Being we call figures who suffered persecution, like Robert do no more than show that belief is not unreason­ hand, knows that this could not have happened by God.” Southwell, are presented to good effect Their able. From there, faith must carry on. Writing of' accident or, by blind chance. Elnglish is readily understandable and has the Most Holy , t S t Thomas expressed it The adaptation of parts and the co-ordination of the vigor of men who have suffered for their this way: “Let faith Implement that which defies movements reflect uninlstakahly the work of a faith. Some of these selections are jewels of the senses.” thinking agent who arranged the whole to achieve eloquence, particularly Southwell’s An Epistle To say “I believe in God” is, therefore, an act a definite, planned end. There is blinding evi­ of Comfort, and the anonymous poem. Com­ of faith in what God has said. But, for salvation, dence here of plan, purpose, order and design, Reverence Deepened plaint of the Persecuted. that is not enough. Faith must be endorsed by which leaves no uncertainty. The samples of the apologetics written by works. “Ho who does the will of My Father in the persecuted Catholics will tell anyone that heaven shall enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. Great World Clock By Vast Universe little basically new in the defense of the vU, 21). The marvelous universe in which 'the earth is as Church has been thought of since the 16th I PHIDIP CARAMit I. ; The atheist is the man who says: “I do not be­ a tiny speck is arranged with wonderful order and T H E STAGGERING IMMENSITY of century. Noteworthy, in contrast to the words lieve there is a God.” But the man who says, “I design. The earth rotates on its axis once in 24 hours, the universe, as disclosed by the find­ and actions of the Protestants put to death “The Other Face: Catholic life Under Eli­ believe in God,” and then does not live up to his bringing night and day. The earth revolves around ings of astronomers in the past few de­ under Mary, is the constant effort to forgive zabeth F’ is a view of Elizabethan Catholic beliefs, is, for all practical purposes, worse than the sun once in the course of a year, bringing with and love the enemy. cades, increases one’s wonder and deep­ life seen entirely through contemporaneons the atheist. unfailing regularity the four seasons of the year. The ‘Other Face’ writings collected and edited by the Rev. ens one’s reverence before the infinite Here we see the Elizabethan Catholic at PhUlp Caraman (New York 3, Sheed Ward, might and power of the Supreme Being who hurled home as well as in prison, in his reading and $4.95). As exciting to read as any novel, it The Catechism Illustrated the millions of worlds out into the midst of space. letter-writing, praying and entertaining. There throws light on the highest heroism as shown Thus the sun is 94 million miles from the earth. is here a picture of a brave c^munity, by the English Catholics who were bnnted The planet Jupiter has a diameter of 88,640 miles, Q. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? cruelly harried, ^creasing in numners, con­ down, imprisoned, and executed for the faith. and could accommodate within itself 1,400 bodies of scious of its strength of spirit, tenacious of A. There are many arguments for the existence of God, but two of the most appealing are the size of the earth. But Jupiter and even the sun drawn from 1. the order and design of the universe, and 2. the testimony of conscience. all that it considered most English and best are but specks in comparison with other celestial in the nation. This is the “other face” of bodies. The nearest star is Proxima Centauri, 25 the reign of Elizabeth I. tian way of life are our heritage and even billion miles away. Indeed, the distances are so * • • more our hope. Our daughters are the mak­ great that they cannot well be understood in terms ers apd keepers of Christian civilization. It of miles. is for this purpose that they must be educat­ Sister Madeleva ed. They must be educated to the fact that Amazing Distances they are secure only when they can stand Accordingly, astronomers use a measure called everything that can happen to them. a light year to make the distance intelligible. Light Education • • • I travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. A On light year is the distance traveled by light during Conversations With Cassandra: Who Be­ that period—6 trillion miles. Light from the moon lieves in Education? by Sister M. Madeleva, reaches the earth in Ij^ minutes and from the sun (N.Y., Macmillan, $3.50) Spirit Is Serene in 8 minutes. But light from the starBetelgeux takes Sister Madeleva, for 27 years president of Spiritual Maxims, by John Nicholas Grou, more than 100 years to reach the earth. It has a St. Mary's College at Notre Dame, is one S.J. (Springfield, 111., Templegate, $3). diameter of 273,000,(XX) miles or three times the dis­ of the most distinguished poetesses in Amer­ Father Grou (1731-1803) has had great pop­ tance of the sun from the earth. ica, and tier lapidary style alone would make ularity among English readers, and a Betelgeux, however, is small in comparison with these thoughts on women's education worth measure of his influence can be found in the some of the giant stars In Nubecula Minor, which reading. Every paragraph contains some fine­ lengthy appraisal given him in the appendix have diameters of more than 1,000,000,000 miles. ly chiseled sentence, some evocative imag­ by Baron Friederich von Huegel, the noted There are many stars such as the Cephids, which ery. But the style serves only to impress Catholic scholar of the age of modernism. are more than 60,000 times as luminous as our the thought, the wisdom of which is eternal. Pere Grou advised the Christian soul with sun. This slender volume is in the form of ad­ the good sense and balance of the 18th cen­ Moreover, the number of stars and solar sys­ dresses to Catholic girl students. Three tones tury. His directions, adnriirably translated* are tems floating about in the regions of interstellar run its gamut: The tone of hope, the tone easy to read, and the points he. makes readily space seems to be almost unlimited. The millions of spirituality, and the tone of sacrifice. translate themselves injo our expe-ience. His No one who has gazed at the heavens of Man need look no further than into the and billions of stars in the Milky Way are but a Despite its title, these conversations with spirit is serene. a starry night could have failed to he struck depths of his own soul to find proof for tiny fragment of the myriad worlds coursing through Cassandra are charged with Christian cheer­ • • * by the wonderful design and order there— the existence of God. There is the voice of space. fulness. The present situation, for Sister Sanctified in Truth, by Rev. Leo J. Trese. only the existence of a Supreme .Architect his conscience, telling him right from wrong, The findings of modern astro-physici.sts concern­ Madeleva, is simply the opportunity of great­ (New York, Sheed & Ward, $3.50). and Mathematician can explain it. The same causing him concern if he has traversed the ing the immensity and the grandeur of the universe est magnitude that Christian civilization can Father Trese is known far and wide for is true of ail the marvelously interlocking natural law. Conscience bespeaks the exist­ serve therefore to emphasize the truth uttered by have for demonstrating its validity. the clarity of his explanations of the spiritual laws of the universe—from those governing ence of a Lawgiver, a guardian of Morality, the writer of the Book of Wisdom: “All men are life, and his deep knowledge of men. Here he the interior of the atom to'the forces in the the Author of a moral order in the universe. vain in whom there is not the knowledge of God, For Personal Freedom returns to a beloved theme, the guidance of greatest galaxies of the universe. To say that There is likewise man's insatiable desire for and who, by these good things that are seen, could Sister Madeleva says that the modern the priest. In this series of essays he writes all this could have come about by chance is perfect happiness, which cannot be found in not understand Him that is, neither by attending woman must battle for personal identity and with humor and knowledgeableness of the foolishness. anything in this life and therefore must be to the works have acknowledged who are the work­ freedom against the gregarious disease of to­ various situations of the priest in relation to sought in union with a Supreme Being. man" (xiii, 1). getherness. A Christian culture and a Chris- God. THE REGISTER

TIm Lett Coin J m p l / u i J U m » '5 i Honey is for I l use. If it is lost, it bectones useless; it no 1 0 n g e r serves t O T €K the only purpose of <'J IN its existence. Like­ wise, human souls are for use to Pontiff God’s great plan V' aiid for His glory; ud if they be lo^ [Synopsis of last week’s in­ His Holiness had supressed the life: “Whatever is worth do­ the p n r p 0 s e for stallment; Don Angelo Roncal- political activities of the or­ ing at ail, is worth doing which they were li, young priest-sergeant of ganization known as the Work well.” “A faithful friend is created is dtfeated. health, ministered to the of Congresses, although per­ a strong defense” . . . In the wounded at the Military Hos­ mitting it to retain those unceasing problems of his pital of Bergamo in World which belonged to the social pastoral life. Bishop Radini War I. The young professor at order. Because of the change, had known that he could lean the Bergamo Seminary was at Catholic Action had to be on his secretary for the faith­ length named chaplain of the whoUy reorganized. ful fulfillment of every task Our souls, like hospital, and took a little Bishop Radini accompUshed entrusted to him, and as that room near the institution, this as far as his diocesan au­ “faithful friend,” whose sup­ the money we which was a hotbed of anti­ thority permitted. Otherwise, port became even more valu­ have, are not our clericalism. It v m then he de­ he watched and awaited de­ able to him as his days neared own to do with and cided to write the biography velopments of similar nature their close. treat as'we please. in order to assure himself that They came from of his late superior and friend. OTHER SOUVENIRS of the God, they belong Bishop Tedeschi-Sadini of Ber­ the wishes of the Pope and Bishop entfered into the script. ‘A- those delegated by him to gamo, whom he had served as In the early years of his to God, they mnst secretary for 10 Ufars. From legislate in such matters were charge he had visited, in turn, be retnrned to carried‘out in Bergamo. God. How thought­ the labor of love ittvolved in famous shrines and there be­ • It' writing this biography the IN THESE CARES and pre­ sought help in all his neces- lessly we handle, future Pontiff was to find in- occupations, ■ as Don Angelo i sities. Also, he had made a “Or what woman, possessing 10 sil­ So, also. Our Lord told them, there these precious spiration which would serve wrote, he was edified to ob­ ^ visitation of his far-flung dio­ ver coins, if she loses one coin wiU not is gladness in the presence Of the gifts! But at the him Well as John XXIII.] ' serve that no trace of weari­ cese, which covered a portion light a lamp and sweep the house, and Angels over one sinner who repents. In end we shall have ness or distaste was at any of four years. Always, his to account for is h o p x a d in t s b io g - search carefnUy until she finds it? And the. parable the “coin" represents a hu­ time apparent in the Bish­ secretary had accompanied when she has found it, she caUs her man soul. The "Lamp” refers to super­ them. KAPHEB noted in his op’s mien or behavior. Seem­ him. recordB that, from the begin­ friends, saying: ‘Congratulate me, for I natural grace, and the “search,” efforts ing never to find any respons­ In 1910 Bishop Radini had have found the coin which I had lost’.” of Our Lord for the salvation of souls. ning of this fortunate associa­ ibility to onerous, he w a s begun to show signs of fail­ tion, be had been an eager tenacious in going forward in ing health. In the hope of a and docile pupil in the school every task he undertook. cure, the visits to the shrines of an eminent magister; that His young biographer de­ were repeated. That cure was he had followed every word scribed this characteristic as not to be. In January, 1913, and act of his Bishop, and as follows: “Bishop Radini was the Bishop became gravely ill. far as possible, modeled his convinced that, in the pres­ His ailment, at first diag­ behavior on them. ent, as in the past, a Bishop nosed as a stomach disorder, He recalled that the prelate can render useful services to eventually was disclosed to be “knew how to apprize good religion by so much the more cancer. conversation and to make he remains solely and frankly During these distressing others taste of if. One noted a Bishop. That is, alien to ev­ days, the victim never spoke in his soul an inexhaustible ery concern or preoccupation, of bis sufferings. His devoted gaiety. He had no passions political or otherwise, which secretary suffered with him, JOhiA D R yoers which could produce sadness does not belong to his charge. as Jar as could be—that is, in 1 6 5 1 - 1 7 0 0 nor was he ever annoyed or At the same time, he remains spirit. The thought that the melancholy. Always prompt firm in the post of authority bond, forged so sweetly and to follow the voice of con­ in which he is placed." strongly, was soon to be sev­ science, he tasted a delicious ered in this world, sorely FREQUENTLY, a personal change in the Church’s atti­ peace to the thought of duty wounded his tender heart. Parothial Schoof The most eminent poet in 17th cen­ fulfilled. It was this sentiment souvenir of Don Angelo’s feel­ tude — something new.” Grif­ Riders No Barrier tury England after Hflton, and the which flowered above all in ing for his late superior was OF THE FINAL HOURS of fin continued: “This is not true his eyes and on his Ups to the written into the script, as his best friend and spiritual THE SENATE PASSED but at all. The Church has bepn uni­ greatest dramatist of the.^toraHon effusions of his perennial pure when he wrote: “I loved my father, Don Angelo recorded the House took no action on a versal to the point of paying period, D ryto left' works that are that, in his extremity. Bishop Joy." i^ishop! I loved him so much!” bill to give a federal subsidy to no attention to race and this is famoos today. Becoming a Catholic,, he He characterized the Bish­ Radini had prayed; “0, my a District of Columbia transpor­ true over the centuries. At least suc^ded to the difficnlt art of makt FOR SOME TIME after op’s sermons as models of Crucified Jesus! I offer, will­ tation company for school chil­ 20 Negro men and women have tog' argumentation into good poetry Bishop Radini had taken pos­ Christlike exposition of the ingly, the sacrifice of my life dren’s fares. been canonized and declared when^he wrote “The Hind and the session of his see, while with­ Gospel precepts. His voice, in expiation of my sins and The measure, passed by the by the Church. Panther” a defense of the Catholic in the episcopal residence aU rich and vibrant, lent em­ those of my people; for the Senate by voice vote after a Chtoch. After the overthrow of James was calm, throughout the dio­ phasis to his words. These Church, for the new Pope You motion to send it back to com­ Protestant Move n he lost the post (d poet laureate cese and aU the country, dis­ qualities his secretary had wijl give her; for my priests, mittee was defeated 35-25, pro­ To Catholic Lftvrgy and other lucrative offlees on aeconnt turbing winds of unrest blew. successfully striven to make my seminary, for all my posed a subsidy to make up of his refusal to abandon his religion. did not encour­ his own. friends, near and afar; for the difference between the 10 Coadjutor Archbishop Justin age certain movements which His late superior l\ad of­ my country. . .” cent student fare and the regu­ D. Simonds of Melbourne, Aus­ some ecclesiastics believed ten repeated mottoes which Afterward, in his left hand lar 20-cent fare. tralia, said he believes there were directed toward good. served as guideposts in his he had taken one of Don An­ One issue raised by the bill is a movement in Protestant gelo’s in his and said to him: was the constitutionality of us­ Churches for a return to the “Courage! Courage, Don An­ ing tax funds to make up the liturgical practices of the Cath­ gelo! You understand that I difference for reduced fares olic Church. know all! All you have done given children attending pri­ The Archbishop noted that at for God, for His Church, for vate schools. A Senate com­ the time of the Reformation, your Bishop. . .” Lastly, he mittee had concluded, however, Protestants generally discarded whispered: “Peace! Peace!” that no barrier lay in the way. almost all the sacramental and sacrificial doctrines of Catholi­ IN THAT SAD MOMENT the Pre/udic* Drops cism, but that today there is a priest who had given the Last “growing movement toward a Sacraments to the dying pre­ Over President return to many of these prac­ late had retired to a comer THREE YEARS AGO one tices.” of the room and burst into person in four was against He also pointed out that Prot­ tears. Such were the love and voting for his party’s nominee estants had retained “many ele­ veneration which the depart­ for President if he was a ments of the ancient tradition ed had inspired. Catholic, but eight months that are of precious value, such Progress Through Direction All during his after life, in after John Kennedy took of­ as their deep veneration of the the succession of distinguished fice only one person in eight Word of God, their sincere love By Rev. JosEito A. H u g h es to the full demands of the the discernment of spirits and offices confided to him. Bishop felt that way, indicated the of Christ, and their honest de­ Christian life. related matters. \ Radini’s “Shadow” would re­ Gallup Poll. sire to observe the Ten Com­ OD INTENDS that each This means, in general, that The responsibility of priests tain the memory and strive The decline in prejudice, mandments.” of us work out his high all Christians who refuse to to give personal spiritual di­ to practice the virtues and said George GaUup, who heads eternal destiny with and seek personal spiritual direc­ rection does not arise essenti­ apostolicity he had imbibed the American Institute of Pub­ Cuba’s Clergy through others. The peculiar tion,. wh6n it is available, will during a blessed decade of his ally from any great personal lic Opinion, “has come large­ genius of Christianity is seen falter and fail in their pursuit young priesthood. Eventually, Loyal to Church natural' wisdom they m a y ly from Protestant voters.” in the fact that all children of of perfection. -It also means the biography, to which he have. Nor does it arise ex­ Efforts by Cuban Premier the Redemption are united to that priests, who have a voca­ gave all of himself, was to clusively or primarily from Comeback launched Fidel Castro to set up a schis­ each other to an inner union tion within a vocation and a lengthen into three volumes. matic nationai Church have the specific and extended the­ of grace with Christ. ’The doc­ highly specialized function in ological training to which they Then, as its author prayed and By Catholic Party faiied because all of the na­ trine of the Mystical Body is ✓ WVWVWWVWWWVWVWVWWWVN must submit '^ e priest’s ol^ hoped, 'it would remain a rich THE CATHOLIC-BACKED tion’s priests remdin loyal to not just, a dramatic way of spirituai treasury for the Christian Action Party, crushed ligation to give spiritual direc­ the Holy See, said exiled Aux­ declaring that all Christians tion rises from bis supernat­ priests and people of Ber­ by Gov. Luis Munoz Marin’s iliary Bishop Eduardo Boza have common objectives and gamo, and for all the coun­ party in the election of Novem­ The ural vocation to the priest­ Hasvldal of Havana on arri­ helps in life. It is an accurate hood, from the nature of the try. ber, 1960, is making a come­ val in Spain. description of the organic back and now has the required Sacrament of Holy Orders, Consignor Rencaffi as Secretary “We would have liked to re­ bonus of life and love through Spiritual from the grace of state inher­ IN HIS FOREWORD to the number of party registrations to main in Cuba to share the fate which all actually share com­ first volume, the author campaign in eight towns for the ent in the priestly calling and To Bishop Radini of our Catholic brothers,” mon inner supernatural riches in the right to grpces and gifts wrote: “These pages were 1964 election. Bishop Boza said. But be add­ and resources flowing from Life •A/WWWV>A/WWWV\n/WVW\AA/WXAr received in the sacramental written while in Europe the Puerto Rico’s Department of ed that be and the priests and the Redeemer. war went on; the horrible war action of ordination. Justice ruled that the bell the Brothers were forced to em­ In this living, supernatural the vast and complex array that caused so much blood­ party uses is not a religious NCWC Plans to Expand bark without passports or organism there are varieties of supernatural processes, will shed and tears. I have writ­ symbol, as some had charged, THE PERSON who receives baggage. of gifts and varieties of func­ not achieve the fullness of the spiritual direction is called ten these lines and worked on and that the law does not for­ perfection to which they are Youth Exchange Program this book not in the sweet tions. All are important. All here the directee or protege. bid political parties in the pro­ are for the good of the whole called unless they furnish the quietude of the life of studies, Disarmament The priest who on one hand Washington. — The Interna­ tending Catholic American high cess of registration from us­ Body. Everyone who fully spiritual direction- that others but amidst the most varied ing smybols that were em­ Agency Set Up gives direction, on the other tional High School Student Pro­ schools. This will be an increase lives up to the function he is need. hand submits himself to the gram, under the sponsorship of of 60 students and four nations occupations; following the ployed by other candidates in PRESIDENT KENNEDY called upon to perform aids SPIRITUAL DIRECTION is direction of another priest. the NCWC Youth Department, represented over the past year. teachings and example of previous campaigns. The bell signed the bill to create a U.S. the whole body and deepens a sustained program through The priest thus is at various is planning an expansion of its The NCWC has been bringing Bishop Radini . . . first, for had been used in past elections Arms Control and Disarma­ in it the fullness of life and which a person who aims high times director and directee. program. teen-age students to this coun several months as a simple as a symbol by Samuel R. Quin­ ment Agency charged with mak­ grace. in the spiritual, life submits Thus 200 young men and try from Europe and Latin soldier; then, as a non-com­ ones, president of the Senate. Spiritual direction achieves missioned officer of the low­ ing recommendations for policy A TRUE CHRISTIAN can­ himself regularly to a quali­ its purposes partly through women from 14 nations will America since 1951. The pur­ The CAP originally used a in these fields. est rank; and, finally, more rosary as its insignia, until Gov­ not be an individualist, rug­ fied priest to be taught, guid­ positive information and guid­ spend the 1962-63 academic year pose is to give these boys and The agency will also prepare in this country living with Cath­ directly as a priest.” ernor Marin signed a bill for­ ged or otherwise. I need ed, motivated and encourag­ ance given by the director. girls the opportunity of living for and co-ordinate U.S. partici­ ed, according to his personal olic American families and at- with Catholic American fami­ The author made no pre­ bidding the use of religious sym­ others; others need me. But fruitfulness attends spir­ pation in international negotia­ gifts and problems, toward itual direction largely lies and of studying in Catholic tense to have presented a de­ bols by political parties. Whether I am giving or re­ tions and in control systems higher levels of holiness. through the process by which American high schools for one finitive biography of a great ceiving, I am working out the which may become part of U.S. a soul, seetog to discover ?2 Girls Give full year. soul, including ali the data No ‘Second Class’ pattern of mutual love and There are various kinds of which the turbulence created Member of Church arms control and disarmament helpfulness designed by the spiritual direction: pastoral and do the will of God fully, In this way, the youngsters by the war adduced. Rather, j activities. Lord. direction given in pulpits and submits himself, his cause, Missions Year are given a good insight into he offered it as the simple, THE SUBSTANTIAL CON­1 Among supporters of the bill Orie of the most rapidly de­ classrooms; group, direction his efforts, his ambitioirs, his Catholic America, life. They heartfelt memoir of one who VERSION of Negroes to the ' in Congress was the ad hoc given to special classes of spiritual anxieties to the Holy Raleigh, N. Car. — Bishop leant the ideals and princi­ veloping features of this life felt that in so doing he was Catholic Faith must be attribu­ committee on morality and of mutual supernatural de­ people such as members of Spirit in tie person of an or­ Vincent S. Waters presided ples of the U.S. while at the ted to the fact that “there are fulfilling a debt ipcurred to warfare of the Catholic Associa­ pendence is that which con­ third orders, sodalists, no­ dained minister of the Most same time Americans gain a no second-class Catholics,” ac­ at a graduation ceremony for the one who well deserved it tion for International Peace. Its cerns spiritual direction. This vices, Cana Club members, High. Submitting the human greater appreciation of their cording to an article in the Oc­ 12 young women who will do from him. chairman, William J. Nagle, tes­ feature is, also, we may say and others; confessional direc­ will to God’s will is of greater countries. tober issue of Sepia, leading apostolic work for one year in TODAY, ' AS SUPREME tified before the Senate Foreign here, one of the most hotly tion given at the time of sac­ value than receiving the fin­ All the foreign exchange stu­ HEAD of the Church, that Negro magazine published in ramental confession; and per­ est and fullest conclusions of the home missons of this state. Relations Committee. controverted of all recent dents are from good Catholic author. His Holiness, Pope Fort Worth, Tex. sonal spiritual direction strict­ some theological manual. The 12 are Mary Missioners, spiritual developments. families and they range in age John XXHI, continues to be The author, John Howard ly speaking, given in personal members of the lay mission Find Goodness The practice of personal, from 16 to 18. All are normal not merely the “Shadow” of a Griffin, who gained wide atten­ conferences, face to face, be­ project sponsored by Bishop ordered, progressive spiritual healthy, talented boys and girls great Bishop, but a personal­ tion last year by disguising him­ In Every Man tween director and directee. From 8 to 150,000 Waters in conjunction with the direction is growing rapidly of good character with superior ity who reflects the light from self as a Negro and traveling Coadjutor Archbishop Philip In this series we have refer­ Leopoldville, ’Hie Congo.—The Confraternity of Christian Doc­ among those who are con­ scholastic records and a good the aureole which encircles through the South, noted that F. Pocock of Toronto told Cath­ ence almost exclusively to the Congolese Diocese of Molegbe trine. vinced that spiritual medioc­ command of the English lan­ the brow of him whom he more than 11,000 Negro converts olic prison chaplains meeting in last two — confessional advice in the Equatoria province of They completed one month guage. were received into the Church rity is not intended by God to northwestern Congo, noting its loved best on earth, after his Columbus, 0., that the rehabili­ be the lot of even the most and personal spiritual direc­ of intensive training in cate- The NCWC is seeking “host last year. He reported there are golden jubilee, has grown from good parents, Giovanni and tation of prisoners is a work of humble layman. tion strictly speaking. chetics, census taking, and the families" for this program. Marianna Roncalli, now long now 615,964 Negro Catholics in mercy and involves the re-cre­ eight to 150,000 Catholics in that missiology of North Carolina Those interested are asked to years with God. the U.S., one of every 24 Ne ating of men. WE ARE ALL CAI.LED to THE MATTER of spiritual time, and there are 12,000 more under the direction of the Sis­ write to JoAnne M. Uzel, Pro­ Those who learn of the life groes. "Those engaged in correc­ be perfect. Unless we struggle direction concerns, in general, under instruction. The diocese, ters, Mission Helpers of the gram Director, International of' Bi.shop Radini will under­ He recalled that when Cardi tion.” he said, “must attempt toward this high goal we are approaches to mental prayer, also called the Mission of Uban- Sacred Ileart. The Bishop pre­ High School Student Program, stand that his words and nal Laurian Rugambwa. Bish to pierce human failings to find not true to ourselves or to the spiritual reading, liturgical gi, has a population of 500,000. sented to each a Mary .Mis- National Catholic Welfare Con­ works are repeated in their op of Bukoba, Tanganyika, be­ the goodness which is in every Christian cause. Without practices, works of the apos- It has its own major and n^or sioner Medal, the only distinc­ ference, 1312 Massachusetts quintessence by him whom all came the Church's only Negro man. They must also have a de­ spiritual direction we cannot tolate, formation of a true seminaries and ttnee colleges, tive identificaton of the mem­ Avenue, N.W., Washington 5, the world honors as "The Cardinal “the action was hailed sire to uplift through a real love do spiritual justice to our­ conscience, programs of self- in addition to many elementary bers. DC. Sweet Christ on Earth.” as though it represented some of the criminal.” selves or respond adequately denial and ascetical practices. schools.