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Catholic Objectives in the Care of Children Rt • Vol. XXXII, No.5 May, 1950 ~ JOHN TIMOTHY McNICHOLAS ~ 1877- 1950 Catholic Objectives in the Care of Children Rt. Rev. Monsignor Vincent W. Cooke N.C.C.M. ANNUAL MEETING DIVORCE AND CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS SOCIAL ACTION'S CHALLENGE TO WOMEN Sin and Moral Decadence Demand Penance as Counterbalance A NATIONAL MONTHLY PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE Prlee: 30e TABLE OF CONTENTS NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE "Over a manitoUL activity ot the laity, carried on in various localities according May, 1950 to the needs of the times, is placed the National Catholic Welfare Conference, an organization which supplies a read11 and well-adapted instrument tor 11our episcopal ministT1/.''-Pope Plus XII. The National Catholic Welfare Conference was organized in September, 1919. The N. C. W. C is a common agency acting under the authority of the bishops to PAGE promote the welfare o! the Catholics of the country. Sin and Moral Decadence Demand It has !or its incorporated purposes "unl!ying, coordinating and organizing the Cathollc people o! the United States 1n works o! education, social welfare, lmmlgrant Penance as Counterbalance .. .. .. 3 aid and other activities.'' Text of sermon delivered by Pope The Conference is conducted by an administrative board composed of ten arch­ Pius XII, March 26, 1950 bishops and bishops aided by seven assistant bishops. Each department of the N. C. W. C. is administered by an episcopal chatrma.n. Through the general secretary, chief executive officer o! the Conference, the re­ ports o! the departments and information on the general work o! the headquarters Catholic Objectives in the Care of staff are sent regularly to the members o! the administrative board. Children-How to Interpret Them . 5 The administrative bishops o! the Conference report annually upon their work By Rt. Rev. Msgr. Vhzcent W. to the Holy See. Cooke Annually at the general meeting o! the bishops, detailed reports are submitted by the administrative bishops o! the Conference and authorization secured !or the work o! the coming year. No official action is taken by any N. C. W. C. department without authorization Divorce and Church-State Relation .. .. 7 of its episcopal chairman. By George Reed No omclal action is taken 1n the name of the whole Conference without authoriza- tion and approval of the administrative board. It is not the policy of the N. C. W. C. to create new organizations. It helps, unitl.es, and leaves to their own fields those that already exist. National Council Catholic Men ... .. ... 8 It alms to defend and advance the welfare both o! the Catholic Church and o! our beloved Country. N.C.C.M. Annual Meeting-1950 It seeks to inform the lt!e o! America of right fundamental principles o! reltglon and morality. It is a central clearing house o! information regarding activities o! Catholtc men and women. John Timothy McNicholas: 1877- N. c. w. c. is comprised o! the following departments and bureaus: 1950 ...... ··········· ...... .... .... .. 10 EXECUTIV!i-Bureaus maintained: Immigration, Nattonal center Contraterntt11 of Christian Doctrine, Information, Publications, Business and Auditing, and. CATH­ oLic ACTION, monthl11 publication, N. C. W. C. Archbishop McNicholas Eulogized in YoUTH-Fac111tates exchange o! ln!ormatlon regarding the phUosophy, organization, Catholic Press . .. ... ... .. ... ........ ... 11 and program-content of Catholic youth organizations; promotes the National Catholic Youth Councll, the federating agency for all existing, approved Catholic youth groups, contacts and evaluates national governmental and non-govern­ mental youth organizations and youth servicing organizations. Calendar of Scheduled Catholic Meet- EDUCATION-Divisions: Statistics and In/ormation, Teacher Placement, Research ings and Events . 12 Catholic Education, Libraf1/ Service, and Inter-American Collaboration. PRESs-Serves the Catholic press 1n the United States and abroad with regular news, features, editorial and. pictorial services. National Council Catholic Women . 13 SociAL AcTioN-Covers the fields o! Industrial Relations, International AfJatrs, Civic Social Actiotz's Challenge to Education, Social Welfare, Famil11 Ltte, and Rural Life. Women- Board of Dil-ectors to LEoAir-Serves as a clearing house o! information on federal, state and. local legislation. Meet - N e w s R o u 11 d - u p LAY ORGANIZATIONs-Includes the National Council of Catholic Men and the National -N.C. C. W. Cooperation in Council o! Catholic Women, which maintain at N. C. W. C. headquarters perma­ nent representations in the interests o! the Catholic latty. These councUs !unction Family Life Co11jerence-Two through some 8,000 atnllated societies-national, state, diocesan, district, local and A.C.C.lP'. Conventions Co n - parish; also through units o! the counclls in many of the dioceses. sider W omen1 s Responsibility The N. C. C. M. maintains at its national headquarters a Catholic Evidence Bureau, sponsors three weekly nationwide radio programs-the Catholic Hour over the National Broadcasting Company's Network, and the Hour o! Faith over the American Broadcasting Company's Network, and the Catholic program in Month by Month with the N.C.W.C. .. 19 the "Faith in Our Time" series on the Mutual Broadcasting System-and con­ ducts a Catholic Radio Bureau. The N. C. C. W. through its National Committee System maintains an adult education service, transmitting to its amliates information and suggestions in all fields covered by the N. C. W. c., and conducting Institutes and Regional Con­ ferences for leadership training; it cooperates with War Relle! Services-N. C. W. C. The contents of CATHOLIC ACTION are in a continuing clothing project for children; !rom 1921 to 1947 it sponsored the National Catholic School o! Social Service. indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index. CATHOLIC ACTION STUDY-Devoted to research and reports as to pronouncements, methods, programs and achievements in the work of Catholic Action at home and CATHOLIC AcTION has granted per­ abroad. mission to University Microfilms, 313 All that are helped may play thelr part 1n promoting the good work and in main­ N. First Street, Ann Arbor, Mich., to taining the common agency, the National Catholic Welfare Conference. CATHOLIC ACTION records monthly the work o! the Conference and its affili­ produce volumes of CATHOLIC AcnoN ated organizations. It presents our common needs and opportunities. Its special in microfilm form. articles are helpful to every Cathollc organization and individual. CATHOLIC ACTION published monthly by the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Entered a.s second-class matter at the post omce at Washington, D. c., under the Act o! March 3, 1879. All changes o! address, renewals and subscrip­ tions should be sent direct to CATHOLIC ACTION, 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington 5, D. C. Publication, Editorial and Executive Offices Subscription Rates $3.00 per year; $3.25 outside the United 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N. W. States. Make checks or postal money orders WASHINGTON 5, D. C. payable to CATHOLIC ACTION [2] CATHOLIC ACTION CATHOLIC ACTION Vol. XXXII, No.5 May, 1950 Sin and Moral Decadence Demand Penance as Counterbalance Text of sermon delivered by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, on Passion Sunday, March 26, 1950. THE SPONTANEOUS and ardent rising sea of private and public sins, calamities and most miserable weak­ devotion, beloved sons and daugh­ which tends to submerge souls in mud nesses of humanity. ters, with which you flocked here on and overthrow wholesome, social con­ There is even, now and then, an this day of penance could not better ventions. attempt made to furnish a theoretical interpret Our intentions nor fulfill with As every age bears an imprint char­ justification for the bas st manifesta­ greater satisfaction for Us the desire acteristic of its works, so our own, in tions of this moral decadence by ap­ of Our Heart confided to you on the its culpability, is marked by a grouping pealing to a humanism of dubious vigil of the opening of the Holy Door, of features of which past centuries character or to an indulgence which when We exhorted you to give life perhaps never saw the equal. condones the fault in order to deceive and strength to a fervent spiritual The first and most serious stigma of and corrupt souls more easily. movement of expiation during this our age is its knowledge, which renders This false humanism and anti-Chris­ Jubilee Year. inexcusable its outrage against Divine tian indulgence results in overthrowing On this particular Sunday, the Law. Considering the degree of en­ the hierarchy of moral values and in Church opens the sacred time of the lightenment and intellectual life-dif­ lessening the sense of sin to the point Passion and with the sorrowful note fused as never before among various of making it respectable, presenting it of its rites causes the drama of the social classes-a marvel in which civi­ as the normal development of man's Divine Expiator of human faults, Jesus lization takes pride, considering the faculties and as the enrichment of his Christ Our Lord, to live again before keen and jealous sense of its own per­ personality. the eyes and in the souls of the faithful. sonal dignity and its inner freedom of Guilty of injuring society are those This world-wide day of penance spirit of which today's conscience circles given to considering crime un­ corresponds truly to the most urgent boasts, the possibility or presumption der the pretext of humanitarianism or needs of the society in which we live. of ignorance, concerning norms which civil tolerance, of natural human weak­ The eye illumined by faith-like the govern relations between creatures and ness; when those circles allow, or view of every honest man-which as­ Creator should no longer find a place worse, put in motion, everything scien­ sists natural conscience unclouded by -nor, for that matter, the excuse tifically to rouse passions and to loosen prejudices and defilement, could not founded upon this possibility which every check or restraint arising from fail to behold the wretched spectacle of might lessen the guilt.
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