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Louis — Catholic Capital THE By David Millon T THE BISHOPS’ meeting, priority ters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Father John W halen,acting rector of the Register Special was given to drafting a statement on race was cited as an example of a problem and racial problems. The text of the that would be settled locally rather than Catholic University of America, on the ' St. Louis - This city has become the problem of the university, where mem ^ntcr of Catholic "Action” this week as statement. not immediately released referring it to the Holy See. pending certain verbal changes, spells out bers of the faculty and students boycotted church leaders — clerical and lay — are classes for a time last April after a pro gathering U) define and discuss some of programs of action on the national and a u x i l i a r y b i s h o p Gerald V. diocesan level. fessor of moral theology was dismissed. the most pressing problems of the Church McDevitt of Philadelphia then reported In a pre.ss conference. Bishops John J. for a study committee on the general in the United States. THE YOUNG PRIEST. Father Wright of Pittsburgh indicated that the norms of diocesjin senates of priests. At the three-day meeting of the Na Charles Curran, .said his dismissal was statement and programs would constitute Di.scu8.sion centered around the grow tional Conference of Catholic Bishops the result of his liberal writing on Catho tme American Church’s response to the ing national movement toward a federa which opened Tuesday, high on the agen lic moral theology and his liberal attitude Kerner report, the assassination of Dr. tion of priests diocesan senates and da were: Racial problems; Catholic educa toward birth control. Martin Luther King, and other racial voluntary associations of priests. Bishop tion; priests’ senates, permanent dioco- Father Whalen, reporting on the find i.ssues. Wright said he favored "open-ended struc nate; and reorganization and restructur ings of a special survey and objectives tures” to establish communication be ing of the U.S. Bishops administrative At the oi>ening session. Archbishop committee, spoke enthusiastically of the tween Bishops, association.s of priests. ofTice. John h. Dearden of Detroit reported on present strength and future promise of Religious and laity. In addition to the Bishops meeting, the finding of a committee of Bishops the university. other groups convening here this week which studied the question of setting up Bishop Wright stressed that the Con Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Rochester. include the National Committee of Catho the machinery for mediating and arbitrat ference of Bishops should strive to en N.Y.. raised the question of whether it lic Concern, the trustees of the Catholic ing locally or regionally problems that courage the present bond of mutual re might be wise to phase out some depart University of America, the board of the arise within the U.S. Church. Later, in spect between the Conference of Bishops ments and sections of the university that National Newrnan Foundation, and the a press conference, the current Ivos An and other associations, clerical and lay, have no evident and direct bearings on Midwest Coordinators of the National geles controversy over the problem of in the Church. the mission of the church. /Association for Pastoral Renewal. renewal within the community of the Sis- The Bishops also heard a report by (Turn to Page 2) Priests Warn cen tu ry ‘Ction o f ‘Racist’ Church ;enslade. Shoes,” By Joh n R. Sullivan THE PRIESTS were members of the 255-2622 Detroit — The Catholic Church in the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus that met in alpin as United States is "primarily a wh’te, ra Detroit in conjunction with the annual le, Papa cist institution,” and unless it reverses its meeting of the Catholic Clergy Confer present practices and rejects all forms of ence on the Inter-racial Apostolale. racism within American society, it "will The caucus was attended by 58 of the become unacceptable in the black commu 130 Negro priests active in the U.S. nity.” There are 59,803 priests in the U.S. The black caucus — closed to all DENVER t book. Of This was the message delivered by whites — followed on the heels of similar x>oks. A rc nearly half of America’s Negro priests. ARCHDIOCESAN With Me. meetings at recent Protestant church EDITION It was delivered to Detroit's Achbishop conventions. nost pop\i- John F. Dearden. president of the NCCB. The black priests drew- attention to Among those who prepared the indict two trends in the Church. They noted; ment was another prelate. Auxiliary Thu rsd ay, April 25, 1968 • "The Catholic Church apparently is Bishop Harold R. Perry, S.V.D., of New if e r e n c e not cognizant of changing attitudes in the ___________ V O L . X L II N ^ 3 8 ________ Orleans. black community, and is not making the Eleven necessary meaningful and realistic adjust !S, priests. ments. April 28 Is >nded the • "The Catholic Church is rapidly outh Con- dying in the black community . The •vak Cath- T w o N e w black community no longer looks to the f America Vocations Catholic Church with hope.” They said it is imperative that the P a sto rs Church recognize change in the black Prayer D ay community. "White persons .. must be educated to these changing attitudes and must be Archbishop James V. Ca.sey declared A p p o i n t e d prepared to accept and function in con April 28 Vocation Sunday in the Arch junction with the prevailing attitudes of diocese of Denver. The date .coincides The appointment of two new pastors the black community.” they said. with the World Day of Prayer for Voca was announced this week by Archbishop One of the most serious failures to tions proclaimed at the Vatican. James V. Casey. recognize change, they pointed out, is "Once again,” the Archbishop said, "we Succeeding Father Victor M. Leonard, in the area of black militancy. Vio urge young people to think about the O.S.M., pastor of Assumption parish, lence ha.s been condemned and "has Religious life — about its obligations and Welby, is Father George M. Jacob, even been specified as 'Negro vio privileges, its burdens and its rewards. O.S.M., assistant pastor of Assumption lence’ as though there w'ere a sub The time to act is now. for now, more since 1965. stantial or significant difference be than ever before, the 'harvest is great, Father Hugh M. Moffett, former Aus tween violence in the black communi but the laborers are few.’ ” tralian missionary, has been named to ty and that which has occurred con In Vatican City. Pope Paul VI stresksed Man With a Problem succeed Father Robert M. Volk, O.S.M., sistently throughout the history of the the Church’s need for priestly and Reli pastor of Mt. Carmel parish. U.S. and of the world,” they said. gious vocations and the freedom that Governor John Love’s expression conveys the difficulty of deciding The i npointments were made by the The U.S., they said, has used violence should characterize them. whether to call a special session of the Colorado (•cneraJ Assembly to act Provincial of the Servite Order, in Buena to achieve its ends. "Black people are "There cannot be any vocations.” he on civil rights proposals — as a fitting response to the problem of racism Park, C alif, with the approval of the encouraged to fight abroad for white said, "unless they are free; unles.s, in underscored by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Governor Archbishop. America’s freedom and liberty. We are other words, they are offered sponta was listening to militant group demanding that the session be called Father Jacob, originally a member of now asking why it is not moral to fight neously of themselves, consciously, gener immediately. the Eastern Rite, is a native o f Detroit. for his liberty at home.” ously. totally.” He was born Sept. 16, 1935, to Mr. and Mrs. Tony Jacob, who immigrated to this Special Session Real country from Syria. FATHER JACOB was educated in the Latin Rite, and attended St. John Monsignor Charles Hagus, Berchmann’s grade school and St. Jo Puzzler for Governor seph’s high school, both in Detroit. He attended the University of Detroit prior Veteran Pastor, Dies at 85 Governor John A. Love was wrestling Pressure for a special session as the to beginning studies at the Servite semi with a king-size conundrum this week — only adequate Colorado response to the nary in Riverside, Calif., in 1955. After Monsignor Charles H. Hagus, 85, for whether to call a special session of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, completing philosophical and theological mer pastor of Annunciation parish, Den General Assembly in response to great Jr., was substantial, and a good deal ver, died at Mercy hospital April 23. He (Turn to Page 2) prissure, partisan and otherwise. more far reaching than the militant mi had been in retirement at the hospital With him rested the decision whether nority element who pressed the demand and in ill health for several years. a special session, dramatic a civil rights personally and boisterously April 17. The Rosary will be recited at Annun stroke as it might be. could produce re- Inside . ciation church at 7:30 tonight. Archbishop I suits sufficient to justify the expense of THE TWO LEADERS of the Republi Today’s "Register” features an James V.

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