Notre Dame Press Releases, 1958/02
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information James S, Murphy, Director release in AM's, Friday, February 7th; Notre Dame, Ind», Feb. 6 — The University of Notre Dame will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's apparitions at Lourdes and the opening of the International Lourdes Centennial Tear with a Solemn High Mass and procession in Sacred Heart Church on the campus February 11th (Tuesday) at it:30 p.m. Bishop Leo A. Pursley of Fort Wayne will preside and preach at the ceremonies commemorating the eighteen appearances of Our Lady to St. Bernadette at the Grotto of Lourdes, France, be tween February 11th and July 16th, 1858. A relic of St. Bernadette, who was canonized twenty-five years ago, will be carried in procession by Bishop Pursley and placed on an altar in the campus church dedicated to Our Lady Bev« Bernard I. Mullahy, C.S.C,, assistant provincial of the Holy Cross Fathers' Indiana Province, will be celebrant of the centennial Mass to be attended by Notre Dare students and faculty members as well as priests and religious of Holy Cross in residence on the campus and the public. Assisting Father Mullahy at the altar will be Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C,, Notre Dame vice president for academic affairs, deacon, and Rev, James B. Norton, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs, sub- deacon, Rev. Richard Griran, C.S.C,, and Rev. Philip Schaerf, C.S.C., will serve as chaplains to Bishop Pursley. The Moreau Seminary Choir, directed by Rev. !•.iliiam McAuliffe, C.S.C,,, will provide the music of the Mass including several motets honoring the Blessed Virgin. The choir will lead the congregation in the singing of the traditional Lourdes hymn, "Immaculate Mary," during the procession. more Lourdes centennial*•**2 The first-class relic of St. Bernadette to be placed in Notre Dame's church was recently obtained from Mother General Anne Marie Crebassol of the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction at levers, France. The body of St. Bernadette, still incorrupt though she died in 1879, lies in state there at the Motherhouse of the order which she joined after the Lourdes apparitions. Founded in l8it2 and named, of course, for Our Lady, the University of Notre Dame has honored her particularly under her title of Our Lady of Lourdes. In l8?U, only sixteen years after the Lourdes apparitions, the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady of Lourdes was established on the campus. The Confraternity campus offices, a center for the distribution of Lourdes water in the United States since the l860's, are under the direction of Father Schaerf. The Lourdes altar in Sacred Heart Church was dedicated by Notre Dame's founder. Rev. Edward P. Sorin, C.S.C., about i860. Surmounting the altar is a magnificent painting of Our Lady appearing to St. Bernadette. The painting is the work of Luigi Gregori who executed the Columbian murals and the inside decoration of Notre Dame's famed golden dome. In 1896 the carpus Grotto of Our lady of Lourdes, a replica of the world- famous French shrine, was completed. In the intervening six decades tens-of-thousands of students, alumni, pilgrims and visitors have prayed at the candlelit shrine. Recently the Vatican's Tribunal of the Sacred Penitentiary granted a plenary indulgence to members of any group that visits the Notre Dame grotto during the Lourdes centennial year, particularly on February 11th, the Feast of Our Lady of Leurdes, and other specified dates. Persons who visit the Grotto as individuals will receive a partial indulgence. The special indulgences were granted last fall during Father Schaerf's visit to Lourdes and Rome. The climax of his Vatican visit was a private audience with Pope Pius XII who blessed the work of the Lourdes Confraternity and commended the Notre Dame family for its uninterrupted devotion to Our Lady. end % UMIVBHSITT OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information James E. Murphy, Director \ 58/11*. Zi2£ ^Isase _in PM* s , Thursday. February 6th: Hew York, K. I , , Feb. 6 — The Catholic school system, embracing nearly 5,000,000 students from the kindergarten to the university, "constitutes the greatest religious and moral fact in America," Rev. John A. O'Brien, research pro fessor at the University of Notre Dame, declared here today (Thursday). Addressing the Teachers' Institute of the Archdiocese of New York at Manhattan Center, Father O'Brien maintained that the Catholic school is "a bulwark of America, a mighty fortress against the forces of Communism, fascism and irreligion, and a citadel where the young are taught to love their neighbor, their country and their God." The Teachers' Institute is being held under the patronage of Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of Hew York. Monsignor John Paul Haverty, archdiocesan superintendent of schools* is director of the sessions* "Farthest from the mind of the Church in establishing her schools is the thought of separating her children from the great body of the youth of America,« Father O'Brien told the priests, Brothers, sisters and laymen teaching in the arch diocesan school system. The Church, he in sisted , "wishes her young people not le ss than her older ones to mingle in friendly intimacy with their neighbors and take part in every movement for the c iv ic , social and moral improvement of the community in which they live." The Catnolic Church maintains its extensive school system in the United States, the Notre Dame priest-professor asserted, "because she is under a divinely- appointed obligation to teach her children the truths of Christ. To achieve that end," he said, "no other way has as yet been found. Hence the Catholic school is at present a necessary means to the attainment of an end of supreme importance.» more Father O’Brien # 0 * 0 The truths of religion make up "the very core" of the Catholic school curriculum, Father O'Brien observed. "Just as the heart shoots the life-eivino •W blood through all the parts of the body, so religion invests all the subjects of the curriculum with deep signixicance and shows how they are related to the develop— ment of the spiritual life of man and the achievement of his ultimate destiny," he said . Second only to the mastery of religion, Father O'Brien contended, is the mastery of the art of reading. Author of more than twenty books and numerous pamphlets, Father O'Brien described reading as "the magic key that opens wide the doors to the royal palaces wherein are preserved the accumulated thought, experience and wisdom of the race. Uo man can ever be lonely," he said, "when he has the companions hip of noble souls# 1 0 speak to him through the magic of the printed word." The veteran author and teacher described as "pitifully handicapped" the high school or college student who has never learned to read with rapidity and ease. Emphasizing the parallel moral and intellectual missions of the Catholic educational system, Father O'Brien asserted that the Catholic school exists so that youth "may walk morally as well as intellectually among the stars, that their con sciences may be attuned to the voice of God." Peace, he said, "rests on the moral character of men and nations, and the basis of character and morality is religion. A recognition of God as the basis of the moral law and the wellspring of the rights of man is a necessary prelude to the building of a just and enduring peace among the nations of the world." UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information James E« Murphy, Director 58/16 For release in AM:e, Friday, February.lL: I*,,Mm ■urnn.m.-iM. ■IIW'I-II.H'I.IMI *iii<i*inim0 w . i i n # M r m » x*i»»»m mii"mi n.i— iaw «» m il . Notre Dame, Ind„, Feb, 13 —Joseph F. Finnegan, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, will be the opening speaker at the University of Notre Dane's sixth annual Union-Management Conference February 28th, i t was announced here today by Rev. Mark J. Fitzgerald, C,S,C,, founder and director of the event, A specialist in industrial relations, Finnegan will discuss "When Is Mediation Most Helpful?11 „ More than 500 industrial relations executives and labor officials are expected to attend the sessions in Washington Hall on the campus beginning at 9:30 a*ia. The conference, whose theme is "Pending Impacts on Collective Bargaining,11 is sponsored by the University's department of economics and the Notre Dame law School, Also included in the program will be addresses by representatives of manage ment and labor and panel discussions on "Issues with Long Range Consequences» and "Some Problems Dealing with Income," Serving as panel chairmen w ill be Ronald W. Haughton, director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at Wayne University, Detroit, and Prof, W. Willard Wirtz of the Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Finnegan was appointed director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service by President Eisenhower in January, 1955a Prior to assuming the government pest, he was engaged in the private practice of law for eighteen years in Now York City, specializing in trial work and all phases of labor law. During this period he arbitrated more than 200 labor-managomont disputes. Finnegan was a major in the Air Transport Command during World war II and is a former assistant U, S. attorney fcr the southern district of New York, He is a graduate of Columbia College and The Fordham University Law School, UNIVERSITY OF NOTPJ3 DAMS Department of Public Information James E.