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T 0 c 0 Vol. XXXII, No.4 April, 1950 Charity, Industry and The Welfare State The Most Rev. Bartholomew J. Eustac~ THE WORLD PRESS CONGRESS SOCIAL ACTION-THE LAYMAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TWO DECADES OF THE CATHOLIC HOUR GOQD .. WILL TOUR IN R TROSPECT Encyclical Letter A.nni Sacri In tructions on Interfaith Meetings A NATIONAL MONTHLY PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE Price: 30e TABLE OF CONTENTS MONTH BY MONTH WITH THE N.C.W.C. Monsignor Walter Carroll of APRIL, 1950 Vatican Secretariate of State Dies The Rt. Rev. Msgr. WalterS. Carroll, brother of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Howard ]. Carroll, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Rev. Dr. Coleman Carroll, pastor of St. Maurice's parish, Pittsburgh, died PAGE in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D. C., on February 24. Mon­ Month by Month with the N.C.W.C. 2 signor Walter Carroll, who had served in the Papal Secretariate of State in Vati­ The Third World Congress of the can City since 1940, was home on a visit and had entered the hospital for a Catholic Press . .. 3 physical check-up. He was well known on three continents and in more than Charity, Industry and the Welfaro a score of countries for his work with the Papal Secretariate of State, with the State ... ........................ ........ ......... .. 4 Papal Mission for relief in war-torn countries, particularly among refuge s; as By The Most Rev. Bartholomew Vicar Delegate to the American Armed Forces in World War II, and as f. Eustace founder and director of the American Catholic Club operated by the National Catholic Community Service in the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Social Action-The Layman's Respon­ Monsignor Carroll's burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Pittsburgh, followed sibility (Article VIII of N.C.W.C. a Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by His Excellency Archbishop Amleto Forum Series for 1949-50: The Lay Apostolate Today) ... ... ..... 7 Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, in St. Matthew's By Rev. George G. Higgins Cathedral, Washington, on February 27, and a Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by His Eminence Edward Cardinal Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit, in St. Paul's National Council of Catholic Women 10 Cathedral, Pittsburgh, on March 2. A Good-Will Tour itz Retrospect May his soul rest in peace. -Notes 012 Meetings Attended by Headquarters Staff-Bless­ ing of New N.C.S.S.S. Build­ Jesuit Provincial of New England ings- N.C.C.W. Visitors­ To Be Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica With Our Nationals. The Holy Father named the Very Rev. James J. McEleney, S.J., New Eng­ land Provincial of the Society of Jesus, to be Titular Bishop of Zeugma in National Council of Catholic Men .. .. 14 Two Decades of the CetthoJic Syria and Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica, B.W.I. Hour- N.C.C.M. Ann u a I Bishop-elect McEleney was born in Woburn, Mass., is 55 years old, and Meetit1g-Radio Schedule is the only son in a family of seven. One of his sisters is a religious of 1he Sacred Heart. His Excellency was ordained in 1930 and became the founder Calendar of Scheduled Catholic Meet- and first rector of Fairfield College in Connecticut in 1942. He has been ings and Events .. 16 New England provincial since 1944. Congratulations and best wishes are extended to His Excellency. Anni Sacri .... .. .... .. ...... .. ............ .. .......... 17 Text of Encyclical Letter of Pius National Catholic Conference XII, given at Rome, March On Family Life, March 13-15 11, 1950 The 18th annual meeting of the National Catholic Conference on Family Instructions on Interfaith Meetings . 18 Life was held this year in Detroit, Michigan, from March 13-15, under the Text of the Holy Father's "ln­ sponsorship of the N.C.W.C. Family Life Bureau with the cooperation of the strtJction to Local Ordinaries Lay Organizations and Youth Departments of the National Catholic Welfare about the 'Ecumenical Move­ Conference. Its sessions presented principles of Catholic family living in a ment/" February 28, 1950. series of factual and inspirational talks by specialists in the field of family relationships. Subjects discussed in the 19 convention sessions included pre­ marital preparation, marriage counseling, parent education, devotions in the home, movements for chastity, family health problems, teen-age problems, family The contents of CATHOLIC ACTION are economics, vocations, and the family life apostolate itself. His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Mooney, host to the convention, told the indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index. participants that "today religion alone can build a home strong enough to CATHOLIC ACTION has granted per­ withstand the stress of modern living." He said the Catholic religion seeks to mission to University Microfilms, 313 "build God-given strength into the inner sanctuary of the home-founding it on N. First Street, Ann Arbor, Mich., to the bedrock of Christ's social Sacrament of Matrimony, binding its walls with produce volumes of CATHOLIC ACTION the mortar of unselfish love, buttressing it with sanctity, unity, fidelity and in microfilm form. permanence". (Turn to page 6) CATHOLIC ACTION published monthly by the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Entered as second-class matter at the post omce at Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. All changes of 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.4 April, 1950 The Third World Congress of the Catholic Press T IS NO MEAN FEAT when a large gathering International Union of the Catholic Press, founded I speaking many different languages, in four days in 1935 at Marseilles to coordinate the organizations reconstitutes three international organizations after of journalists and publishers, was once more set up. a dormancy of a decade, and launches a fourth. It was voted to launch an International Federation This is what the Third World Congress of the of Catholic Press Agencies, to take its place as a third Catholic Press did at its Rome sessions February 16-19. component under the International Union. These The Congress also: bodies, the first three of which had virtually been Provided the occasion for a new and extremely valu­ non-existent since the beginning of World War II, able set of counsels by His Holiness Pope Pius XII, were now officered and are immediately setting about together with praise and warm encouragement from the revision of their constitutions and the mobilizing the Vicar of Christ; of membership. Got together, in lively and cordial conference, 400 As Count Dalla Torre observed further, the Con­ Catholic journalists from 32 countries (the largest gress had, in a way, the character of a pilgrimage number ever assembled), giving them opportunity to rather than a proper business meeting. But it did get acquainted and come to know each other's prob­ lay the foundations, and discuss general directives. lems; Its value lies in future developments, and these in Was helpfully and earnestly addressed by the Car­ turn will depend on the officership. The new presi­ dinal Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congrega­ dents of the four bodies represent a forward-looking tion, by the Premier of Italy, and by the Italian For­ and practical group of men: For the publishers, Abbe eign Minister; and Gabel, director of the great Bonne Presse which is­ Expressed itself in no uncertain terms on several sues La Croix in Paris and many other journals; for leading issues of the day. the journalists, Marc Delforge, editor of the vigorous It cannot be thought that this Congress will imme­ Avenir of Namur, Belgium; and for the agencies, diately set in motion a tremendous world-wide re­ Abbe Haeck, director at Rome of the world-wide vitalization of the Catholic Press in all parts of the mission agency Fides. The veteran Count Dalla Torre globe. Many sections of this press were all but wiped again heads the World Union. out by the war and the rigors succeeding it. Count "An outrage against the natural rights of man," Dalla Torre, distinguished editor of the Vatican City was the vigorous characterization Pope Pius XII ap­ daily Osservatore Romano, and the President of the plied when he discussed the suppression of public Congress, warned against such a roseate view. He opinion in totalitarian states, in his message to the said: "The Congress could have been nothing more journalists. His Holiness added: "Wherever public than the first meeting after the trials of war, in which opinion ceases to function freely, there peace is in we had opportunity to get to know each other again, peril." He declared that the task of the Catholic to pick up the threads snapped or destroyed, and to Press is to serve public opinion, rather than make bring up to date our organizations under emergency public opinion or dictate to it. He counseled avoid­ circumstances.'' ance of anything offensive to faith or honesty, and But for the future, with all its potentialities, these renunciation of the quest after vulgar and cheap things were done: The International Bureau of Cath­ popularity. He gave assurance that a Catholic Press olic journalists, founded in Paris in 1926, was re­ which follows this policy ttwill gain in intrinsic worth, established. The Permanent International Commis­ will finally win esteem and trust, and will justify the sion of Publishers and Directors of Catholic Journals, oft-repeated motto 'A Catholic paper in every Cath- begun in Cologne in 1928, was reconstituted.

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