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THE VOICE P.O. Box 1059 Miami, Fla. 33138 ^\TOICE Return Requested Weekly Publication of the Diocese of Miami Covering the 16 Counties of South Florida VOL. VII, NO. 11 Price $5 a year ... 15 cents a copy MAY 28, 1965 REFUGEES AND WOUNDED HUDDLE INSIDE Dominican Church A Fortress SANTO-DOMINGO (NO — The ancient colonial church of Santa Barbara, located in an area of the city which has seen heavy fighting between rebel and junta forces, has become a SOME 1,400 young men and women will be graduated from high shelter for 120 people who have schools in the Diocese of Miami during commencement exercises remained there day and night scheduled to be held in churches, chapels, and auditoriums. to escape bombardments and the firing of sharpshooters. MSGR. FREDERICK HOCHWALT The church also serves as a food distribution center for the rebels, whose commander must Educator To Give Address keep order while food is being issued by using tear gas and shooting into the air. A cannon At Combined Graduations and a machine gun guard "the Msgr. Frederick J. Hochwalt, church door. Their fire has so Director of the Department of far been answered by bazooka Education at the National Cath- projectiles, eight of which have olic Welfare Conference in struck the church wall. Washington, D.C. will be the The priest now in charge of commencement speaker during the parish — his predecessor the second annual combined suffered a nervous breakdown graduation exercises for stu- after the first two weeks of U.S. CHAPLAIN, Father Corbin W. Ketchersid, Mass for Nicaraguan and Honduran troops, dents of Catholic high schools fighting — is a Capuchin Father of the Diocese of Raleigh, shown offering part of OAS forces in Dominican Republic. in Dade County. from Spain, Father Cereceda. Bishop Coleman F. Carroll He uses a machine gun to pro- IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC will preside at graduation cere- tect church property, shooting monies for seniors of Archbish- in the air to frighten attackers op Curley High School, Notre away. He has also had to help Dame Academy and Msgr. the wounded in the church, Catholic Agency Aids Hungry some of whom have been oper- Pace High School at 3 p.m. By Father JAMES A. CLARK ishes and distributed by priests. ceived by the Caritas office. Sunday, May 30 in Dade County ated on with barbers' razors. SANTO DOMINGO (NO — Father Guillermo Rodriguez, di- Rebel forces distributed the 300 Auditorium. The scarcity of surgical and Working at the main checkpoint tons of stored food there. Msgr. Frederick Hochwalt sanitary materials has made rector of Caritas, the Catholic At 8 p.m. His Excellency will between the international safe- the work of Catholic hospitals charities organization, had act- With the warehouse CRS- present diplomas to graduates ty zone and rebel-held territory, difficult. ed on reports of widespread Caritas lost all records and pro- of Immaculata - LaSalle High Monsignor Hochwalt is a native Msgr. Alfred Schneider, direc- School and Christopher Colum- of Dayton, 0. who holds mas- In the Dominican capital hunger in rebel sections and graming schedules. Food dis- tor of Catholic Relief Services- tribution in the country is cur- bus High School in Dade County ter's and doctor's degrees from there are only three hospitals National Catholic Welfare Con- requisitioned trucks to move Auditorium. the Catholic University of giving first aid to civilians. Op- rently under a President's ference for Latin America, ar- the food quickly during the Emergency Food Commission A nationally known educator, (Continued on Page 8) erated by Catholic nuns, they ranged for trucks to haul food truce. in coordination with the Organ- are located in areas of intense in the rebel areas during a 24- military operations. E'etween 20 and 30 CRS-Cari- ization of American States. hour truce. tas trucks had already been di- The most dramatic scenes The voluntary agencies (CRS- Public School Graduates' verted to the interior of the have taken place at the Aybar The truce, arranged to pro- Caritas, CARE, and Church country where there was a crit- hospital, operated by four Car- vide for the recovery of wound- World Service) are supplying ical food shortage. Baccalaureates Scheduled melite Tertiary Sisters. The ed and dead in strife-torn areas, distribution services. CARE has hospital has no ambulance, and permitted the passage of trucks CRS-Caritas operations have assumed responsibility for food Catholic boys and girls who Catholic graduates of public when there were the greatest authorized by Msgr. Schneider. been hampered by loss of the needs of institutions in the will be graduated this year schools and it is expected that numbers of wounded, it lacked Loaded with 28,000 pounds of main Caritas warehouse to the country. CRS-Caritas is dispens- from public high schools in other religious groups will follow electric current, water and tele- rice and 11,000 pounds of veg- rebels. A receipt for the ware- ing food to the general' popu- South Florida will participate in this custom in view of Supreme phone service. etable oils, the trucks carried house and its contents was re- lation. baccalaureate exercises schedul- enough supplies to feed 25,000 Court decisions on prayer and Surgical operations were car- ed *« be held in parish churches people. jhout the Diocese of Mi- Bible reading in public schools." (Continued on Page 2) Jami. Drivers, fearing for their safe- Masses On Memorial Day ty as night fell, were guaran- The traditional baccalaureate ALSO OF BISHOP DALMAU teed safe conduct out of the exercises will be in accordance rebel area. Previously, CRS had At Cemeteries In Diocese with the recommendation of the lost two trucks which had en- Memorial Day Masses will be The general public is invited American Association of School Concelebrated Mass Will tered the rebel neighborhoods offered at 10 a.m. Monday, May to assist at the Masses Administrators whose special but were not permitted to 31 in Our Lady of Mercy Ceme- tery, Miami, and in Our Lady committee, the Commission on leave. Religion in the Public Schools, Mark Jubilees Of 11 Priests Queen of Heaven Cemetery, The food was taken to par- LBJ Asks Prayers has suggested that religious A Mass of Concelebration san clergy who are celebrating Fort Lauderdale. groups represented by students commemorating the golden and their 25th anniversaries are Fa- Msgr. Rowan T. Rastatter, On Memorial Day in the graduating class "con- silver ordination anniversaries ther Casimir J. Stadalnikas, Pastor, St. Brendan parish, will WASHINGTON (NO — duct baccalaureate services in St. Lucie Church of a member of the hierarchy administrator, San Pablo par- celebrate the outdoor Mass at President Johnson has is- their own churches and syna- and 11 priests in the Diocese ish, Marathon; Father Joseph Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery sued a proclamation calling gogues." To Be Dedicated of Miami will be offered at 11 P. Cronin, pastor, St. Clement located four and one-half miles upon all Americans to ob- Baccalaureate exercises for a.m., Wednesday, June 2, at St. parish, Fort Lauderdale, and PORT ST. LUCIE — The west of Miami International Air- serve Memorial Day, May graduates of public schools have John Vianney Minor Seminary. Father Francis J. Dunleavy, new Church of St. Lucie will port at 11411 NW 25th St. 30, as "a day of prayer for pastor, St. Francis de Sales i be dedicated by Bishop Cole- been conducted annually for Bishop Eduardo Dalmau, Father Lawrence Conway, permanent peace." He asked the past six years in the Dio- chaplain at the Pennsylvania parish, Miami Beach. man F. Carroll at noon Sat- his countrymen to pause at ; urday, May 29. pastor, St. George parish, Fort cese of Miami. Retirement Hotel, West Palm Other priests working in the Lauderdale, will offer the Mass 11 a.m. that day and join in In announcing this year's Beach, ordained to the priest- Diocese of Miami who will also More than 200 persons are at Our Lady Queen of Heaven a prayer for "a lasting peace program Msgr. William F. Mc- hood in 1915, is observing the observe golden jubilees are Fa- accommodated in the new Cemetery located four and one- in which all mankind may Keever, Diocesan Superintend- 50th anniversary of his ordina- ther Joseph E. Farrell, S.J., as- church erected on West half miles north of Sunrise Blvd. i reap the fruits of His bless- ent of Schools said, "This has tion. sistant pastor, St. Ann parish, Prima Vista Blvd. at 1500 S. State Rd. No. 7, Fort ing." been an inspiring thing for Three members of the dioce- (Continued on Page 3) Lauderdale. Archbishop Calls For Peace Expert Denies New Text In Racially Tense Bogalusa Approves Nuclear Warfare BOGALUSA, La. (NO — Bo- James E. Farmer, national ROME — The new draft text demning the production and galusa is "not a city which il- director of the Congress of Ra- of the ecumenical council's stockpiling of nuclear weapons lustrated what is wrong with cial Equality, has made several schema 13 in no way approves if a nation judges that under our past, but rather what can appearances at Bogalusa to of nuclear warfare, according given circumstances they serve be right about our future," lead the Negro demands for to an informed council expert as a deterrent to a nuclear Archbishop John P. Cody said equal opportunities. here. war, according to the expert. Commenting on press reports in a sermon at racially-tense Some 3,000 persons took part He said that the schema's that the revised document on Bogalusa. in a later "conservative" rally. new treatment of the problems "The Church in the Modern The Archbishop of New Or- The confirmation at An- _, ,,„ .