Urges Church Go Into Low-Cost Housing Business WEST DE PERE (NC) - Arthur Klein, former examiner and underwriter with the Federal Housing Administration, has urged the Catholic Church to go into the low-cost housing business, possibly using religious order-owned land as sites. Klein conducted a housing seminar at the meeting here in Wisconsin of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men at St. Norbert ColIege. "The Church IiteralIy has thousands of acres of land not being used," Klein said. "Currently it is of no use to you, to lay people, of no use to anyone." And, Klein pointed out, there are 40 to 50 million Americans living in sub-standard housing. The spiritual is not your only role, Klein told the priests. "You can take your resources, and with your inherent ability for understanding, help to alter the course of mankind." Religious orders, Klei,n said, have the patience and human understanding needeq for dealing with low-income groups, which are often made up of educationally deprived minority groups.
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'Now You Know' Under this program a religious order could form a corporation, made up of its members or members of a lay community. The corporation then would apply for a loan from a private source with the federal government guaranteeing the mortgage without liability to the sponsors if the project should fail. If religious orders would relegate their unused land for housing, developments, the federal government would reimburse , them for the full value of the land, Klein said. "We have not gotten the response from Church orders in relation to needs," Klein said, "and the need has been around for a long time. "Now you don't have ignorance as an excuse any more concerning being sponsors for low-cost housing, because now you know," Klein continued. But he warned the clergy not to get involved , "if you can't take the heat."
New Paper ALBUQUERQUE (NC) - The New Day has come to the Santa Fe archdiocese. It is. an eightpage standard-siz~ newspaper, first the archdiocese has had for' more than two years. It is sponsored by the archdiocesan pastoral council of which Archbishop James Peter Davis of Santa Fe is a member.
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Pope Continues Peace Efforts
LOMBARDI MEMORIAL DRIVE: Presi dent Nixon opened a drive to build Vince Lombardi Memorial Athletic Center at Fordham University in honor of late Washington Redskins coach. Committee members are; from left, Felix Larkin, chairman; Rev. Michael P. Walsh, Fordham president; John J. Breslin, Jr.; Rep. Silvio Conte; Phil David Fine; Fordham Athletic Director Pete Carlesimo, and Mrs. Vince Lombardi. NC Photo.
Mortgage Subsidy To keep a new housing development from becoming a glori" fied swamp, both "hard management" and "soft management" are required, Klein said. "Hard management deals with building maintenance; fixing leaky faucets, changing light bulbs. Soft management deals with setting up programs which, teach lifestyles." "Under Section 236 of the National Housing Act, a non-profit sponsor is eligible for the federal mortgage subsidy program. at one per cent interest on a 40,year loan," Klein explained.
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Black Catholics Criticize Josephites Pri·est Says Cha rges . Unprovable BALTIMORE (NC)-Eight representatives of the National Black Catholic Lay Caucus met here with the vicar general of the Josephite priests to ,discuss «!legations that the order "fails relate to the black community in the spirit of Christ." Prior to the meeting, 16 black laymen staged a 20-hour sit-in in the Josephite motherhouse. The vicar general, Father Matthew T. O'Rourke, who was out of town when the delegation arrived, met with them immedi-' ately after he. returned. They told him that- the Josephit~s, who came to the United States in 1871 as an apostolate to the Negro missions, have been a failure because: They have not made worship and liturgy relevant to blacks. They assign priests to black neighborhoods without consulting with the black community. They allocate and disperse c...htirch funds without consulting with the black community. They have dismissed or transferred priests and Religious who relate meaningfully to the, black community. Their seminary curriculum is unrealistic for alI seminarians
Prods Government On Refugee Relief ADELAIDE (NC)-Archbishop John W. 'Gleeson of Adelaide has urged the Australian government to do much more than it has for relief of East Pakistani refugees in India and to grant tax deductibility for donations made to the worldwide appeal for refugee aid. In a letter to Prime Minister William McMahon, Archbishop Gleeson, chairman of the advisory committee of Australian Catholic Relief, said the response of the Australian government to the needs of East Pakistani refugees has been "most disappointing."
and attempts to divest black seminarians of their Afro-American heritage. Social Issues They have refused to acknowledge the emergence of a new black man and the development of new black leadership. They have failed to take a strong stand on relevant social issues. Father Joseph C. Verrett, a black priest who ~andles public relations for the Josephites, called the NBCLC's charges "unpr?,ved. and unprovable.". We prefer not to diSCUSS them in print," he said, "although they were discussed in a rather satisfactory way (at the meeting with the NCBLC) here." Says Meeting Cordial Father O'Rourke said that while his order welcomes "the input of organizations such as the NBCLC,". the Josephites must "retain in the religious community the determination of their aims and the manner of
Gives Church Land For Farm Project COLOMBO (NC) - Cardinal Thomas Cooray, O.M.!., of Colombo has donated about 150 acres of church land for an agricultural-industrial farm for youths. The farm project will be handled by Ceylon's Socio-Economic Development Center. Father Joseph Fernando, SEDEC director, has already completed 'soil and crop in,:estigations. The priest plans to use half the land as a farm school to train youth in cattle and livestock breeding and crop cultivation. The other half is to form a collective farm and a launching base for young men who complete their course of training. The total income of the project will be used for their welfare.
implementation of their apostolate." He said the meeting with the NBCLC was "mutuaHy beneficial." Father Verrett calIed it "cordial." Robbie Robinson,. spokesman for the black caucus, left the meeting with a different impression. "Even while talking to Father O'Rourke we could see that they (the Josephies) do not want any input from black laity," he said. "We will deal with them very strongly at our national conventwn in Detroit in August" he added. '
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul' VI, surveying the Church and the world in a speech to his cardinals, said that his attempts to bring about reconciliation and peace in Vietnam had so far been fruitless, but he vowed to continue them. He also observed that his efforts to bring help to suffering people in North Vietnam had met with failure.' (About three years ago an interdenominational group, including the German Catholic charities organization, outfitted a hospital in North Vietnam, but there has been no similar relief work there, by a ,Catholic organization working alone.) The Pope said he hopes for' peace also in the Holy Land. But he added that it is "clear to everyone that this peace. cannot be the friut of a military victory. It is clear also that there can be no simple formula for attaining it. "
Reaffirming his "right and duty" to concern himself with the protection of' the Holy Places, Pope Paul said that Jerusalem, "endowed with a singular and mysterious destiny, should be protected by a special statute guaranteed by an international legal safeguard." In this way, he said, Jerusalem "would thereby be in a better position to become no longer an object of implacable controversies and' interminable dispute, but a meeting-place of concord, peace and faith." He is trying to accomplish this "in a spirit of respect and friendship" and by persuasion, he told the cardinals.
Ask Support ST. LOUIS (NC) - Six priests here have asked other priests of the St. Louis archdiocese to support a statement urging that a definite date be set for a total United States withdrawal from Southeast Asia. The six priests proposed the statement to the Archdiocesan Priests' Council, which did not act on it but agreed to circulate it to all archdiocesan priest~.
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