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Protestant Revolution Basis for Hostility This is the first of a series of articles reviewing the position experience of the Dracticinl:' Catholic in the life of the AI\lIheB'ican community from Colonial times. The author holds a doctorate in American Church History: has been a seminary llJi"ofcssor, and is Dresently Historian of the Archdiocese of St.
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FULL SHELVES OF FOOD HAVE VANISHED: Father Plunkett has only rnemoriell of a happy young parishioner fascinated at the .weiging of food that is no more.
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By Rev. Peter J. Rahill, Ph.D. . Why do people hold my Catholicity against me? Thank <God, the question does not arise every day in the life of an American Catholic. But it will be asked by the man who was passed over for promotion when his religion was apparently or openly the de- a quarter ago Bishop John Engeisive factor. A woman will land declared that a deadly hos[';)e dismayed at the tension tiiity existed in many places lJensed in a social gathering against Catholics.
Then an acknowledged spokeSman for the Church in the United States; the Bishop of Charleston warned that "in de:. nouncing Catholicity throughout '.j 0 n a I afthe length and breadth of the fronts are re,land, there is found a common Blinded daily ground upon which the dis(\hat the cordant camps can meet. and ~uestion is bend in amity." being asked. ., Position Improves Both con. Resistance as well as forbear.lJOI~tion and . ance will come from greater fa@trength miliarity with· .what has been tome from successfully surmounted in the flh e knowlpast. Immediately it should be edg~' t hat noted that the p~sition of Cath~~i~ is not an affliction peculiar ,Turn to Page Eighteen 00 .our own day. A century and when she announces her membership in the Church. Even \\hose who (laVe no per-
:Tells Catholic Press Confer 'With Others SANTANDER (NC)-The international Catholic Press Union, opening its first congress on Spanish soil,. was told that. Catholic journalists must be insistent in seeking and promoting freedom of the press. Father Thurston N. Davis, S.J., editor-in-chief of the Earlier in his address, the weekly review America, pUb- American Jesuit told his fellow lished in New York, said: journalists: "We are still not t'Without this essential free- nearly Catholic enough in our dom, thel'c can bE' no authentic public opinion, for wherever the Catholic press or the press in I(eneral is muzzled, public opinion has no means of self-expression." Father Davis spoke today at the first public session of the sixth World Congress of the Catholic Press.
attitude one to the other, nor universal-minded enough in, the spirit with which we go about the high tasks of our calling in the Catholic Press.'" "Too often,". he continued, "we report events, or allow events to be reported, in such a way as to indicate that we do not really care what impact this or Turn to Page Eighteen
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Describes Havoc In Chile
"No one but God knows how many are dead and how many homeless," writes Fath~r Thomas J .. Plunkett, Fall River Maryknoll missioner stationed at St. John of God Parish, Santiago, Chile, describing the earthquakes in that country in a letter to Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, Diocesan Director of the- Propagation of the Faith. Dated June 27, the letter is as follows: ' . "Surely your papers, radio ~nd television have been full of news about the Chilean Dearly Beloved in Christ: \ earthquakes. The land still We have all read with considerable distress of the trembles. In some places people unparalleled destruction caused by the earthquake in Chile. sit and sleep on the floor because the tremors throw them The Archbishops and lay chairman of charitable activity in out of beds and chairs. that unfortunate country tell U8 of the tremendous loss ill "The geography of Southern life and in physical facilities. Chile has changed in four No less than 7 Cathedrals, 185 churches, 3 seminaries. weeks. Mountains moved, flat lands sank" river beds rose, the , 50 parish houses and 86 schools have beEm destroyed. This sea came in, holes like can- is but an index to the loss sustained by millions of our yons opened in the earth. One night 11 volcan,oes blew their Catholic brothers deprived of home, bereft of family and tops and a new one came into forced to work against seemingly impossible odds to renew being. No one but God knows their life's work. how many are dead and how We in America cannot be indifferent, especially in these many homeless. days of ideological warfare, to the plight of our brethren to Turn to Page Twelve the south. Much has already been done by our Bishops' Relief organization. However, in many, if not all, Dioceses of the country the faithful have been urged and encouraged to c,ontribute help and financial aid to those in such dire The'Rev. Joseph A. Lorusso, need. C.S.C., assistant professor of The Diocese of Fall River will join in this expression English and member, of the Stonehill College faculty for six of .sympathy and prayerful support on Sunday, July 10th. years, has been assigned by the Collections are to be taken up at all Masses in the Fall River Very Reverend Christopher J. jurisdiction on that Sunday. We urge you to be generous, O'Toole, C.S.C., Superior Genha~ing. in mind that no more' eloquent testimony of real eral of the Holy Cross Fathers, to teach at Notre Dame College brQtherhood could be given at this time. in Dacca, East Pakistan. Notre Believe me, with devoted good wishes and a hearty Dame College, founded in 1949, blessing, has at the present time over 400 Sincerely yours in Christ. students, most of them Moslems.
Bishop's Appeal for Chile
Assigns Stonehill Priest to Dacca
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DETROIT (NC)-U. S. Catholics will be ,increasingly active in public affairs, according to a sociologist. . This prediction was made by Dr. Francis Cizon, a member of the sociology department at I,oyola University, Chicago, in • talk to the Religious Research Association. The interdenon,inational orRUllization is devoted to the sociological study of questions relating to religion. Dr. Cizon, reporting a study of sociological trends in Catholic parishes, said he foresaw that parishes will tend more and tn0rc to assume the functions of "s('rvice centers" to their members. He said the growing number elf Catholic colleee graduatea
will lead to an increase in Catholic participation and leadership within the general community. At the same time, he said, more education will cause Catholics to have a fuller understanding of the "catholic-universal" aspect of the Church. This in turn should help Catholics to understand other religions better, he said. Dr. Cizon said sociological stUdy indicates a possible need for a "mutual redefinition" of their roles by both laymen and priests. The improved education and social status of laymen will probably cause them to be less dependent on the clergy, except for spiritual needs, he predicted.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima has announced nine speakers will feature its services honoring the Blessed Mother at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washingon, D. C., on Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13. The services will commemorate the apparitions of the Blessed Mother at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. The sponsoring group, the Blue Army, was founded by Msgr. Harold V. Colgan of Plainfield, N. J. Ceremonies at the National Shrine will open with a candlelight procession at 9 P.M. on July 12 and will close at 5 P.M. the following day. Bishop Joao Pereira Venancio of Leiria, Portuga!, whose diocese includes
procession after which Archbishop Thomas A. Boland of Nework will speak on "Our Lady of Fatima." Bishop Pereira Venancio will give the closing sermon the following day. Following the opening rites there will be a Holy Hour of Reparation conducted by Father John J. Ryan, S.J., founder of the Reparation Society. On July 13, Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, will offer a Solemn Pontifical Mass at which Msgr. Colgan will speak. A series of sermons will start at 2 P.M. and culminate in Bishop Pereira Venancio's talk at 5 P.M. Speakers and their topics inelude: Archbishop Edwin V. Fatima, will lead the opening Turn to Page Eighteen