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NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic physicians were lauded for their "zeal and tireless efforts in behalf of Christ's sick" in' a sermon at St. Patrick's Cathedral. More than 1,300 doctors attending the annual memorial Mass of the National Federation of Cath- week-long meeting here of the olic Physicians' Guilds also American Medical Association, heard their moderator, Msgr. mal'ked the formation of the Donald A. McGowan, warn 100th Catholic Physicians' Guild against succumbing to "the great American heresy of motton." By so doing, the Monsignor said, the doctor's "basic family relationship may be strained beyond repair and the goal of pel'sonal sanctity may be threatened, if not lost beyond repair." Msgl'. McGowan, director of the Bureau of Health and Hospitals. National Catholic Welfare Conference, told the doctors that they would have in their profession '''an ever present source of gl'ace" if they remembered to offer each day to the glQry of God and His Blessed Mother. The memorial Mass for the fedemtion's deceased members was offered by Auxiliary Bishop Philip J. Furlong of New York. The cel'emonies, which were held in conjunction with the
Holy See W CI rns Biblical Scholars To Be Prudent ROME (NC) ' - The Holy in warning. Biblical scholars to be prudent i. carl'ying out their activities
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in Rochester, Minn. The Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guild, which was founded in 1932 in Brooklyn, N.Y., has a membership of 6,100 Catholic doctors. Its headquarters is in St. Louis, Mo.
Ed ucator Asserts Billions Wasted Opposing Reds NEW BRUNSWICK (NC) - A university president criticized what he called the waste of biilions of dollars by this country in an effort to turn back communism. Robert Morris, president of the University of Dallas, Texas, said the country should be invoking "its great spiritual heritage" in the struggle for sur· vival with communism. He declared: "Ours is'a world of truth, of ju'stice, of love and of freedom. This is what man aU over the world is thirsting for today. Yet,. instead of castTurn to Page Eighteen
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cated. m Malta and entered the Congreglltion of the Dorotheans in 1927. She made her novitiate in Rome and remained there until her final profession in 1936. In Malta she was Directress of Studies and Mistress General until 1952, when she came as
.Red Demands Threaten • West .Berlzn Catholics
. BERLIN· (NC) - Three years ago Pope Pius XII called Berlin the' "symbol of a nation torn apart." The late convert work, too. . Pontiff's description is still true as this city becomes the The observation was made by focal point of the Cold War, stepped up by renewed Soviet Father John A. O'Brien of the University of Notre Dame in. efforts to make the division reg,ard to Germany make it un:.. . a talk at the third National Con- _ of Germany permanent. Pope ,certain whether West Berlin _ ference on Convert Work held at Pius also described divided· till now an island of :£reedom in St. Joseph's Seminary here. Berlin as a "point of contact a Red-ruled sea - can remain The conference was sponsored by the Paulist' Institute for Religious . Research and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine under the patronage of Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. Some 200 priests from all sections of the country attended the sessions. Theme of the conference was "Mobilizing the Parish for .Convert Work." Father O'Brien spoke at a panel session which cqnsidered a re-evaluation of recruiting methods in convert work. He said that "newspaper ads, parish bulletin notices, posters, radio and television announcements are all helpful, but they are 'also rans' when comp'ared with one person talking directly to another." The convert work expert said the greatest strides in recruiting· new members' to their faiths are being made 'today ,by the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Churches of C:hrist, the Seventh ,D~y AdvenTurn to Page Seventeen
a point of contact between East and West or whether too whole city w-ill be swallowed U\I» by communism. The intensif'ied conflict raisoo religious as well as political anell military issues. Should the S~ viets succeed in swallowing up the former German capitaJ., MANILLA (NC) A West Berlin's flourishing CathQ spokesman for Rufino Card- olic community of 276,000 soum inal Santos,. Archbishop of would seem destined to sharQ the persecution tJhat has beem Manila, whom Gen. Douglas the fate of the Ohurch in comMacArthur's forces liberated munist East Get:many and else-. froin 'prison here in 1945, issued where behind the Iron Curtai'n. a statement warmly welcoming West Berlin will also cease to the general back to the Philipbe a meeting place fur the Catha pines. Auxiliary Bishop Hernando olies of East and West Germanyo Antiporda of Manila made the' This seems certain to dishearten welcoming ·announcement in the the Soviet zone's 1,100,000 Catlb.o Turn to Pag>e Elgh&eea name of Cardinal Santos, who had left for Rome three weeks earlier, in -his own name, and in that of all Filipino Catholics. The Cardinal, then a young T,urn to Page Nineteen between two alienated worlds." The new Soviet demands illl
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..Over·1000 in' Diocese .Share in Wide A.wake De~otwn Qf.·~ight·Adoration in Home
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was seen here as reflecting coneel'll that certain tendencies ill current research might be con~ . . ~ By. Patricia McGowall fusing to the average Catholic. Are you· a morning, sleepynead,. ~ hate- to~get-upper? ·Then here's the story of a The warning was issued by tlMt Sacred Congregaiionof the Holy . devotion guaranteed 'to arbuse your ~dmir~tion. It is Night Adoration in the Home. Night Office. Addressed to' spiritual · Adorers pledge to make aill.onthlyhourof adoration of the Sacr~d Heart between the aeholars throughout the world, hours g·imd':'6..Throui'houtthe wo'rld, over one million are enroIle~ in this. devotion the Latin decree, called a ·"mon" and . t?e~ : are', more th.~~ congregatio~ 'throughout .the but prOspective adorers in this ltUlll," said that care must be 1,000 mdlv~du~ls and faml- world. In ·the United' States, Diocese can:·send their names to . taken that Biblical studies do not result in harm to the beliefs of lies in the Fall River Diocese.'· headquai,'ters. are' in Washington, the area headquarters, St. Boniwho are participating in this ' . . face Rectory, 443 Coggeshall the pcople. Stl'eet, New Bedford. . . The warning specifies that in most unusual of "night clubs", Adorei·s·have no. meetings, but the prniseworthy fervor of Bib- as one lady terms.it. once a year fot: the past 10 years . lical studies in various regions, a Holy Hour has been held 'at Begun in 1927 by Rev. Mateo opinions and judgments ha.ve St. Boniface for members. It is been circulating which "place in Crawley-Boevey of the' Sacred scheduled for the first Friday of dangel' the true, historic and ob- Hearts Fathers, the devotion is propagated by members of the Turn to Page Fourteen Turn to' Page Eighteen
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NEW. YORK (NC) __ Mayor Robert F. Wagner has asked Dr. James· E. ·AIle~ Jr., State Commissioner of
Education" to· Investigate com~ phlints of anti.;.CatholiC bias at. Queens College. '. '.J:he Mayor suggested that ~ . Allen appoint a' committee of educators, includ~ng Father Lal.loo rence J. McGinley, S.J., preSi.. dent of Fordham; University, Da. . Grayson Kirk, president of C~ lliinb'ia University, :alld Dr. Cara roll V. Newsom chancellor of New York' Univ~rsity, -to carry out the investigation. An objective inquiry °by sucla a committee, the Mayor wrote, would "settle the issue for onoo and for all time." Turn to rage Twelve
Father Considine Gives Serrans Aid Pattern. for Latin America
Says Private School Construction Aid 'Probably' Constitutional
MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - To aid the Church in Latin America, U.S. Catholics· must understand the reformoriented political climate, according to a Latin affairs specialist. Father John J. Considine, M.M., director of the L a t i 11 American Bureau, middle-of-the-road objectives," National Catholic Welfare Father Considine told 2,000 Conference, has told mem- members of Se1'ra, an organizabers of Serra International tion of business an,d professional
ANN ARBOR (NC) - Federal aid for parochial school! construction probably would be upheld as constitutional by the ~J.S: Supreme Court, ~au~, G. Kauper of the University of MIchIgan Law School SaId. Congress may, in my opinio~ grant some assistance to . gets mto very important policy t h ese scI100Is as. part 0 f a considerations, not the least G2 program of spendmg for the which is the threat to the ind~ general welfare," he said, pendence of the parochial
4lhat they must work. to "streng- men who work to promote relithen Christian society in the · gious vocations. He quo ted - a Venezuelan Latin American world." But to be effective, the New Christian Democratic political Bedf'Ord Maryknoller added, it leader's declaration that in Latin America "only revolution will is necessary to grasp "the temdo - peaceful revolution if posper of all Latin American politics," in which social reform sible, violent irevolution if necesplays the major role. Latin sary." '!'his attitude is understandAmericans "have no stomach Turn to' Page Twelve flor lUly term that suggests mud.
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Word has just been received at Villa Fatima, Tauntonp of the election of Reverend Mother Marie DePiro as Vicar General of the Sisters of St. Dorothy. Since 1954 she has been Provincial of the North American Province of the congregation and has been Visitatrix, representing tho stationed at the Taunton Mother General of the congreo house. Born in London the gation, to the United States. . ' U p o n her return to Malta, she new 'YIcar General was edu- was named Mother Superior at
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"so long as the funds a,re so limHed and their expenditure so directed as to not be a direct subsidy for' religioUJs teaching." But he emphasized that this question should not be confused with the merits of Federal aid to education as a matter of public policy. "Certainly the issue of governmental aid lio p8Jrochial Bchoolo
schools if they reecive and accept substantial assistance f,rom government and submit to conQ troIs that inevitably accompany g~ants of public funds. "But these are questions ~ policy to be debated and arguecll in the public forum and in thQ! legislative halLs and not to be obscured by invocation of 000fp l'urn to Page Eighteel!