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, AN EDITORIAL THE VOICE Why Is Birth Control 6301 Biseayne Blvd. Miami 38, Fla. Promoted On TV? Return Requested Dedicated to Mary, the symbol of purity, this month of Weekly Publication of the Diocese of Miami Covering the 16 Counties of South Florida May in the Year of Our Lord 1962 has been twice defiled by nationwide programs devoted to the promotion of immoral practices. First was the simpering defense of abortion in "The VOL. IV, NO. 9 Price $5 a year ... 15 cents a copy MAY 18, 1962 Defenders" program, televised by the Columbia Broadcasting System network, which was dealt with in The Voice two weeks ago. SECRETARY RIBICOFF COMMENDS NCWC AGENCY Then, last week, came the "Birth Control and the Caw" production as one of the "CBS Reports" series. ' Purporting to be "a very carefully balanced hour-long 16,561 Refugees Resettled By CRS survey of birth control controversies," the program de- veloped into a slanted, soggy propaganda triumph for the More than 16,500 of Miami's at the Hotel Fontainebleau, the place of resettlement and Emergency Center in Miami Planned Parenthood Association. True, there were two. priests Cuban refugees have already Secretary Ribicoff saluted the will also pay the cost of a trip will be given larger" quarters and two Catholic laymen who made flitting appearances been resettled by Catholic Re- world-wide relief agency for back to Miami if it becomes and staff additions will place before the camera. However, their remarks were so limited lief Services — NCWC which its role in resettling the exiles possible for refugees to return greater emphasis on resettle-' and so clipped from context by the film editors' shears as this week received the com- of communist-controlled Cuba. to Cuba. ment, he said. to make Catholic viewers gasp in unbelieving astonishment. mendation of U. S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, He outlined a 10-point accel- Every effort will be made, The local office of Catholic As a result, Father John C. Knott, director of the National Abraham Ribicoff. erated plan for resettlement Secretary Ribicoff said, to make Relief Services, a world-wide Catholic Welfare Conference Family Life Bureau, has accused which provides that the Federal public housing available as relief agency which has re- Addressing the annual Con- needed for the resettlement of CBS of violating objectivity and impartiality in the program. government will pay the cost of settled more than 250,090 per- ference of Mayors in session refugees. The Cuban Refugee In a letter to CBS President Frank Stanton, Father Knott de- transportation from Miami to sons from various countries clared: since 1947, is located at W- ami's Cuban Refugee Center. "CBS, instead of promoting the public welfare by offer- ing an open forum for discussion of a very important prob- According to Hugh McLoone, lem, gave evidence of having become a public relations director of the CRS office here, medium for a particular philosophy of life with an over- his staff has resettled 16,561 simplified solution to human problems." Cuban refugees during the pe- "riod ending May 11. Other vol- He said the program gave the impression that the Catholic untary- agencies including participants "had no answer to these problems except to be Church World Service, United against contraceptives for the sake of a seemingly esoteric HIAS, and the International moral principle." Rescue Committee have in the same period of time resettled • • * 9,522 exiles. Mr. McLoone is as- sisted by 23 full-time employees There was no effort made to present the views of a single and 10 volunteers. Catholic mother or to picture the happy home life of a clean, well-dressed, intelligent.large Catholic family. More than 100 archdioceses and dioceses throughout the On the other hand, all the "human interest" touches were United States and in Canada, supplied by mob scenes of underprivileged young women, with Latin America, and other their undernourished offspring-,- clamoring in Chicago's Cook countries have cooperated County Hospital because the government would not give them with CRS in assisting the ref- free contraceptive devices to keep them from having more ugees to find employment and babies they did not want. Discipline, self-control, continence and housing through their respec- chastity were virtues never dreamed of, naturally. And, of tive Catholic Charities offices. course, their husbands were conspicuous by their absence. Durjng a two-day meeting in As Father Knott stated in his letter protesting the CBS mid-April at Miami, Auxiliary show: "The human miseries caused by the social problems Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of bad housing, slum conditions, unemployment, inadequate of New York, executive direc- wage scales, poor educational facilities and worse nutrition tor of CRS announced that the Voice photos are not solved by a pack of contraceptives. Yet this was agency expects to resettle 35,- the overriding impression of the show." STATE COURT of the Catholic Daughters of a banquet Tuesday evening at the Hotel Seville. 000 Cuban refugees this year. America concluded convention sessions during Delegates from three dioceses attended. He asked CBS for "equal time" to state what Catholics are "Any Cuban Catholic family for, rather than just what they are against. in Miami who wishes to resettle FOR STATE CONVENTION in another area will be reset- . " * * * tled by Catholic Relief Serv- ices," Bishop Swanstrom said. Birth control is - always mortally sinful because it perverts "There are many communities the generative act and defeats the primary purpose of marriage. CDA Meets At Miami Beach in which jobs can be found Pope John XXIII has warned against "pernicious and fatal without displacing local per- . methods to limit offspring" and stated: By MARJORIE L. FILLYAW during final sessions Tuesday. members from Pensacola to sons." "There are many who, ignoring or forgetting their origin Father Donald F. X. Con- Key West who participated in Spiritual maturity is the reali- Secretary Ribicoff estimated and the eternal end which awaits them, and making a sad nolly, assistant pastor of St. the conclave from Sunday zation that God exists and that that there are now approximate- spectacle of themselves, abandon themselves to deceitful Patrick parish, Miami Beach, through Tuesday. ly 70,000 Cuban refugees regis- pleasures and are bound by the passions of pride and of without personal sanctification our lives will be failures, dele- spoke during the closing ban- tered in the Miami area. He sense." Mrs. Alice Scheidell of St. said-that a transition allowance gates to the 19th annual Florida quet of the three-day meeting of one month's additional pay- State convention of the Catholic held at the Hotel Seville, Petersburg was named State The Bishops of the United States, in a statement issued in ment of up to $100 a family for (Continued on Page 6) Daughters of America were told headquarters for the CDA Regent; Mrs. Elizabeth Sulli- van of Pensacola, vice State Re- those receiving public assist- gent; Mrs. Charlene Cunning- ance in Miami who are willing ham of St. Petersburg, State to go to other cities, had been approved. Secretary; Mrs. Annie Strick- Diocese Will Give To Bishops' Relief Fund Sunday land of Jacksonville, state treas- urer and Mrs. Gay Ranallo of and handicrafts that will enable them to earn a livelihood. To the Priests, Religious and Faithful: Key West, State monitor. It is consoling to realize furthermore that this program of Schools Collecting Every Catholic has reason to be proud of the remarkable charity is brought to the people of many nations regardless of Emphasizing the duties of record of help rendered to the poor and needy in foreign race, creed or color. women in nurturing the spir- Food For Refugees lands in past years as a result of the annual collection taken - Our people in the Diocese of Miami have never been in- itual growth of youth, Father A collection to provide ur- up for the Bishops' Relief Fund. different when the call for charity has been sounded. Not only Connolly pointed out that spir- gently needed canned goods Last year, for instance, the Catholics in the United States have they been deeply concerned about the works of mercy itual maturity is not judged and foodstuffs for Miami's made it possible for our Relief Services to give aid valued in our own midst, but they are sympathetic and alert to the by age. "In teaching children Centro Hispano Catolico is at $125 million dollars. In this vast project of charity, no less pitiful needs of our brothers in Christ in the foreign lands. to become mature, teach them now being conducted in than 64 countries throughout the world were aided, and I am confident that on Sunday, May 20th, when the col- reality," he said, "the most schools throughout the 16 the lives of 28 million people were made more bearable, a lection for the Bishops' Relief Fund is taken up, you will be as predominant of all things in counties of the Diocese of little happier, a little less painful because of the generosity of generous and thoughtful as in the past. reality is that God exists, God Miami. our people. Imparting to you my paternal blessing, I remain loves' us as individuals, and The Catholic Spanish Cen- It is time again to call upon you to extend the same Very sincerely yours in Christ, Christ is our Brother. We can ter distributes food to needy merciful hand to those in other lands less fortunate than our- reach out to God and He will Spanish-speaking families in- selves. The money donated will enable Catholic Relief Services always be there. cluding Cuban refugees in to carry on its far-flung programs of rehabilitation and the Greater Miami area, in technical assistance, not only aiding the needy, the destitute "In order to be mature you addition to providing various and homeless with food, clothing, bedding and medical care, have to accept responsibility," types of other assistance.