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Schools Deny Youth Moral Education ST LOUIS (NC)-Americans, in their determination to completely separate Church and State, have shut off any opportunity for the moral education of their youth, Father Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of St. Louis University said here. Speaking before ~ group of busiriess men at Washington University, Fr. Reinert said the growth in immorrality in America should be ' of serious concern to the ported schools which the major- classrooms. And by so doing wru ity of youth attend, he noted. have precluded the teaching of entire nation. "This is some"In a sincere effort to rigidly moral standards. For without thing quite new," he said. uphold our American freedoms, God, there are no moral stand"In the past there have always been men who for various reasons have denied the existence of God. But the present. atheism is different. Now not only do many act and live as if there were no God to whom they are responsible, but a steadily increasing number proclaim the nonexistence of God to be a scientifically established fact." Some of the men who do so have great influence, he said. It is not surprising that American morals have fallen to such a low ebb, he, added. He noted the U. S. Catholic Bishops, in their statement last November,' had pointed to the "great numbers of young people almost completely devoid of religious belief and moral guidance." One reason for this is that religion is prohibited in tax-sup-

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f@r Dh'orce$ ST. LOUIS (NC)-One of the primary reasons for so many serious marital disagreements is that both hus-

HOLY FATHER. AND CARDINAL MUENCH: Pope John, who bestowed the Cardinalate honor upon the former Ordinary of Fargo, N.D., is seen with the prelate following the 1960 Papal Christmas message.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-A Pontifical Requiem Mass for the late Aloisius Cardinal Muench will be offered tomorrow in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fargo, N.D., by Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis. Most Rev. Karl J. Alter, Archbishop of Cincinnati, will de- at the apostolic nunciature in liver the eulogy. Cardinals, Bonn when Cardinal Muench othe'i' high Church officials, was Apostolic Nuncio to Gerdiplomats and lay dignitaries many. attended the Requiem Mass offered in St. Peter's basilica in Vatican City Monday. The Milwaukee-born Cardinal died three days before his 73rd birthday at .Salvator Mundi Hospital in Rome, where he had lived since his elevation to the College of Cardinals in December, 1959. The Mass was celebrated by Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation. Pope John imparted absolution. Immediately after the Requiem Mass, Cardinal Muench's body was flown to Fargo, the diocese he headed from 1935 to 1959, where he will be buried. While those at the dying Cardinal's bedside were praying a final Rosary, a telephone call was received from the Vatican to say that Pope John was also reciting the Rosary for him. At his bedside were Cardinal Muench's three sisters - Teresa Muench, Mrs. Mary Herrick and Mrs. Dorothy Ott, all of Milwaukee--and his secretary, Father Raymond Lessard of the Fargo diocese, who later accompanied the Cardinal's body back to the U. S. Also present were Father Cormac Coyne, S.D.S., hospital chaplain, and Msgr. Alberto Giovanetti, who was secretary

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band and wife forget that the other is a person of the opposite sex, a priest expert on marriage problems said here. "Men don't make a sufficient effort to understand their wives," said Father John Maguire, a St. Louis archdiocesan priest who has spent years in marriage counseling. "And women, too often, treat the husband as just another one of the children. "We should be acutely aware that so many marriages end up in disaster," he said. "In St. Louis, there is one divorce for every three marriages. We should ask ourselves why. One reason is that men are 'too much men' and women are 'too much women." Both should understand there are basic differences between the sexes, he told 300 couples attending the sixth annual Family Life Day sponsored by the St. LouiD Turn to Page Seventeen

as protected by the Constitution, we have in fact been guilty of misreading the Constitution and weakening our traditions," he sald. "We have thrown out the baby with the bath. "Our American heritage iD based upon a belief in God, yet we have ostracized God from our

ards," Father Reinert said. He quoted at length from thru U. S. Bishops' 1961 statement, which pointed out that youth who failed to receive religiouG education were cutting themselves off completely from moral traditions, from a knowledge of what is right and wrong.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Church has proclai~d 155 saints and 116 blessed since the Sacred Congregation of Rites was established in 1588. The total number of saints and blesseds recognized by the Church through the prose~s­ es of the congregation is cent V. Blessed Innocent :'1C1, contained in a new edition of Blessed Gregory X, and Popeo the "Index and Present Benedict XIII and Pius IX. Stage of the Causes of Be- Thirteen cardinals are also canatifications of Servants of God and of the Canonizations of the Blessed," published in Latin by the congregation this year. The new index, which supersedes the 1953 edition, lists a total of 2,270 causes now before the congregation. This total includes causes which involve more than one person but who are grouped together because their martyrdoms occurred simultaneously, or for other reasons. Among causes before the Congregation are five concerning popes. They are Blessed Inno-

didates for honors of the altar. Among the most recent causea of cardinals to be considered by the congregation are those of: Andrea Carlo Cardinal Ferrari, Archbishop of Milan. Rafael Cardinal Merry del Vat. Secretary of State to Pope St. Pius X, and Clemens Cardinal von Galen, Archbishop of Muenster who died in 1946. The causes of three queeno are also before the congregation: Queen Maria Christian of Savoy, Queen of the Two Sicilies; Queen Maria Clotilde of Sardinia and Queen Hedwig of Poland.

Pope John Again Raises Number of Cardinals VATICAN CITY (NC)-Po~ John has broken records for the fifth time in his reign with the naming of 10 new cardinals from eight countries, bringing membership in the College of Cardinals to an alltime high of 87. The Pope announced that the prelates Archbishop Giovanni Panico, will be formally created at Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal, Ml Italian. . 2 consistory on March 19. Archbishop Ildebrando AnIn order of precedence the new cardinals will be: Archbishop Jose da Costa Nunes, Vice-Camerlengo of the HolY Roman Church, a native of Portugal.

'Hoodlum Priest' Blasts Prison System; Says Americans 'Love to be Stupid' PEORIA (NC)-A crime expert and confidant of criminals-a priest-wiIl'backdrop Hollywood in its production of a new television series. The expert is Father Dismas Clark, S.J., a slight, sandy-haired priest with a nervous laugh who views with tolerant amusement the filmed version of crime. "I never saw a TV show where they knew how to do a stickup. And they still use . , ' Clark said, they could call him. (warden at Menard, Ill., state nitro out there (Hollywood) anything. prison) is a wonderful man. But to blow a aafe," he said in He said sonie 1,700 men liad he's stuck with this stupid SY9~ild disbelief. stayed at Dismas House. Onl7 tem. Right, under his eyes ho five have gone back to prison. sees m'en destroyed." The other side of the picture Father Clark said it cost l11ihe called a national horror. Of . nois $2,000 a year to keep a man ,every ten men re!eased from locked up. By comparison, su-. prison, eight return, geDerally pervision and parole costs per for a bigger crime. man are $135 a year and only The television show, he told a "We have 187 of every 100,000 two' per cent of the paroleell Peoria Te Deum audience will be people in jail," he said. "Eng- return to prison. entitled "Miracle on Cole Street." land, which has' only one crime In St. Louis, he said, the crime It is an NBC production sched- punishable by death-killing III rate dropped, in counterdistinculed to start next Fall. policeman-has 60 of every 100,- tion to every other city. Cole Street is the St. Louill 000 in jail. Their longest jail "The American people love to address of Dismas House, the term is 11 years. Our prison be stupid. In St. Louis they derehabilitation center for ex- population is going up five times feated a school bond issue. But convicts founded by Father faster than the national popula- they're building a new prison,'" Clark. tion." he said. And our prison system begins "People are always trying to Dismall House and Father Clark's work were the subject of to warp a man's mind after about give me statues for DismalJ House. These boys need a bath a movie called "The Hoodlum a year, he continued.. Priest." The title bothered some "There isn't a judge, warden, more than they need a statue." people. But for the money Dis-' CN criminal lawyer who doesn't He conceded that for somGl mas House received" FatheR' agree with me. Ross Randolph Turn to Page Twelve

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MOURNED: Stonehill College mourns the death of Professor Brassil Fitzgerald who taught Englis,.l> at the oollege since 1949.


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