Jobs for Negroes Biggest Problem
WASHINGTON (NC~ <lliJLabor relations in 1967
· m.eans race relations." This
~ening sentence in the 1967
· lLabor Day Statement issued by
f,be Social Action Department
(}!I the United States Catholic
G;onference sets the tone for the
entire' document. Departing from its usual treat ment of labor-social problems or llabor-business relations, it fo cuses entirely on the failure of · albte nation "to presel've racial ]l)eace and to achieve raciaU jus tace," The statement points at nine Major causes of the current ra oial problem, proposes four gen eral remedies, details the need fiol' a priority for corrective pro g('ams and calls on all to "re build America physicallY,eco momicalIy, morally and spiritu allly." ''This challenge must be met, whatever the cost," the state · ment contends. "We have
abundant proof that nothing is
mOl'e costly than inaction ar
ffiadequate action, "If America can rise to this lahallenge, then our nation will ~erge from civil stdfe, hatred, ~d bitterness to a new sense ()If natiol1al unity and dignity, Our Teligious . convictions are being t~sted in our cities today, May God· give us the national will to rise to gr~atness, The ~isis of the Summer calls for · lllobiHty of, SOUl. Let us p,'ove ~ the world that'll God-feariil~
CHURCH LABOR DAY STATEMENT
EMPHASIZES MOST, URGENT NEED
people can live up to 'its reli gious and civic ideals." Cited by the statement as the
"major, causes of our current troubles" are: The "disillusionment and re-
sentment" which arose when it became' clear that the civil rights legislation of recent years
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t_ .~, . ,._:'...- . PLIGHT OF NEGRO Y()UTH.: LaJ}or Day statement of the Soci'al Action Depart-' ment, U.S. Catholic ~)Uferenc~, says: ~'.Particl.!lar attention should be given to the plight of Negro youth; It is faced with an unemployment rate six times the national average. Hundreds of thousands, have gone through the dreary litany of pr.oken homes, school failures, dropping out, 1;>ecoming virtually unemployable in our society, and then venting agonized frltstt'ations, through crime or vio Ie,nce." NC Phow. '
"did not mean any substantimU increase in opportunities." The "widespread bitterness" occasioned by the failure of the war on poverty to "mount the massive assault" needed to real ize the hope it held out and par ticular bitterness because of the association of poverty program curtailments with the war in Vietnam which "arouses little enthusiasm even a{l1ong those most convinced of its necessity." The ordinary increasing dis satisfaction and ,proneness to di rect action of a "downtrodden people" when it "comes within sight of its goal of independenc~ and equality." The increasing stress by im proved communications on the "affluence of our society." The conviction by many Ne groes that they are subjected t<D "unequal standards of justice" by police and the COUt'ts. The rise of black nationalism as "both a cause and an effect oil racial tensions and disol'ders," The "almost total 'alienation oj( an alarming number of Negm youth" because of broken homes. school failur~s and unemploy ment. "None of these facts in any way 'condo~es 'rioting and vio lence," the statement noted, "but they do help to explain it t~ those who. are wJIling to listen and to, think: Surely thinking Am e I' i can s must suspect that only serious 'provocation could have provoked outburstlJ Turn to Page Fourteen
,Bishop Sheen Speaks
The
ANCHOR
Ati AnoAor of ~31oW, Btwt me4 ,.. fl.' 8'1'. ~l\UL
Christian Maturity Needed
Today in CCD ·Programing
~,Sometime in the middle of Friday afternoon the registrars at the 21st New Englan<l1
,Gongress of Religious Education at the U,niversity of New Hampshire just gave up. Dur :' .' ing evel'y preceeding Congress careful count had always been kept of the l1umbel' reg ~ .istering, and how many had registered from each of the participating dioceses. But faced with a sUl'ging mass Congress officials had hope 'of delegates, the registrars dous numbers of people who fully estimated a registration of would flock to the campus im . simply had to abandon their from three to four thousand peo Durham last weekend, not on17 .. ' record' keeping as a hope 'I
1 less !Fall River, Masso" Thursday, A'lIg_ :31, 1967 ,
task.
..Clergy in P..town u _N_o_o_3_5 _'V_o_l_o_1_1_ _ _@_19_6_7_T~he;---A_nc-h_ol1'--_$4-..00-P-~-~E-y~~: Fig ht Add itionaI Drinking Hours Catholic and Protestant ~ommunity Establishment'
Theme of Liturgical Week
clergy in Provincetown have united in an' effort to seek repeal of' a new regulation
KANSAS CITY (NC)-This year's Liturgical Week . which extends .caf~ drinking to days of discuHsion ill auditoriums and hotel rooms all . , 1 Sunday morl1lng In that resort . ." Turn to Page Seventeen @ver downtown KansaR City, took for Its t h eme " expel'l. . ments in community." And it seemed to attract 11,000 JI}eople much more interested Bishop Connony nUl community than in experi ready allowed will occupy them .To Bless Church ments. Perhaps because two for a long time to come. As a result, ·the Liturgical fringe groups - those who Week emphasized education, fOUl"
ahink liturgical refol'm is an catechesis, training fOl' lectors, accomplished fact and those who commentators and, musicians, have despaired of seeking re programs aimed at a good today oorm through official channels in preparation for a better to -have spun off from LiturgiCal morrow. Week activities, the field has From each day's opening lec been filled by priestS, Sisters llnd lay people devoted to bring ,tures on through the, wO,rkshops ing Hturgical' renewal 't<,) , the and clinics and into the evening 'sessions, education was the real !lome front. effort of the conference. These people llre less inter While Father Francis Bonnike ested in new forays into the avant g'arde than they' are illl of Oregon, Ill., opened Tuesday's session with an explanation of IlJIpdating parish liturgy accord ing to official norms. And while the changes already taking place most, people appeared eagerfQr in the liturgy, and Father morc' rcforms, many admitted Charles Riepe of Baltimore !!bat hist introducin~ waat is al Turn to Page Seventeen
ple. They, began to realize that this was a conservative estimate when, several weeks before the opening date, the room and board plan designed to accom modate 4,000 delegates was com pletely sold out. But still they had no inkling of the tremen-
from every diocese in New En gland, but from many outside it. The 6,000'person capacity Field! ' House was completely filled with standing-room-only crowdllJ when Bishop Fulton J. Sheen gave the keynote addl'ess that Tumi to Page Twenty
Sulpician to Preach Annual Diocesan Priests' Retreat Rev. William F. Hill, S.S., M.A., S.T.D., professor of Sacred Scripture at St. Mary's Seminary, Balti
more and at Mt. St. Mary's Sem inary, Emmitsburg, Md., will conduct the annual retreat for Diocesan priests at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, beginning 'L'he new Holy Cross Church next Monday night. A native of of South Easton which will Baltimore, the 47 -ye~lr-old Sul pician Father studied at St. be dedicated at 4 Saturday Charles College, Catonsville, afternoon, Sept. 2 will com Md. and the Catholic University bine traditional features of New at W'ashington, and was ordained England architeCture with func June 11, 1946' in' the· Shrine' of tional changes ,required to ac the Immaculate Conc:eption. . commodate the new role of the He has given retreats, days of ,congr-egation as set forth by the recollection, lectures on Sacred ,'Vatican Council. The church and Scripture, Catechetics and Lit pallish hall located on Purchase urgy to priests, nuns and laymen Street will cost in excess of for several years in Seattle, De troit, Washington, Baltimore, Sa $500,000 according to an an nouncement made by Rev. Jos- . vannah, Mobile and Elrownsville. Father Hill is a member of the eph F. Hanna, C,S.C., pastor. ,Turn to Page Seventeen: ,Tum to Page Silt
In So. Easton
BEV. WILLIAM F. HILL,
is.