The ANCHOR Fall
Vol.
Obscenity Rise Threat
To Nation/s Standards
CINCINNATI (NC)-Municipal Court Judge John W. Keefe said here that obscenity is spreading its corruption more widely than ever. Addressing the Cincinnati Masonic Club, the former Court of Appeals judge said that "the problem seems to be growing m<Yre , serious, and the morals of youth are deeply involved in it." Judge Keefe insisted that "le gality of the published ma books. Newsstand filth; quanti all to view - youth and adult terial is the issue, not censor tatively, is the overwhelming alike. Youths are naturally cu ship. I am violently opposed part of the trouble. Here maga rious about many things, one of zines, paperbacks, photographs, which is sex, and they are drawn to pre-eensorship of maga Turn to Page Twenty and paperbacks and the and pamphlets are displayed for River, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 10, 1964 zines like," he said. "But a publisher or dealer must abide by the PRICE lOc 8, No. 50 © 1964 The Anchor $4.00 per Yea' law." Moreover, "contrary to the im pression held by some that ob scenity is beyond the determina tion and definition of a court, the U. S. Supreme Court has ruled that there is such a thing as obscenity capable of legal definition," the jurist said. And the court also declared that "leg islation prohibiting the circula tion of obscene literature is not in violation of the U. S. Consti Mindful that I prove my Faith by tution." "The heart of the problem," the way I live, I promise to be a loyal, Judge Keefe said, "is newsstand responsible member of' the Church., pornography, not hard - back
Legion of Decency Pledge
I shall try' to keep always in the state of grace. I shall choose to buy and read only good books and literature. I shall patronize only decent places of enter tainment and moving pictures that are unobjectionable. I shall avoid aU T.V. and films harmful to Christian moral standards. I shaD not hesitate to support what ever helps make society truly Christian in ideaJs and action. In all things I shaD act in the Qon viction that for me to be· a good Catholic is to be a good citizen.. Sunday, December 13, 1964
New Fast Decree Demands Person Be Re~ponsibl'e DAVENPORT (NC)-The fact that the new one-hour fast before Communion ap plies to alcoholic beverages underlines "the responsibility of the individual to be well pre pared" for Communion, a spe cialist in Church law said here. Msgr. J. D. Conway said the relaxation of the Communion fast "leaves it up to the individ J,lpal conscience rather than im posing a law" to determine whether a person is properly prepared to receive Communion. It was announced at the close oi the ecumenical council's re cent .third· session that Pope Paul VI had reduced the time of fasting before receiving Com munion from three hours to one Turn to Page Eighteen
Prelate Scores Absurd Multiplicity
In Higher Education Pi~ture
TAUNTONIANS PLAN CHARITY BALL: Leaders in the Taunton area study the program for the Bis'hop's 10th Annual Charity Ball of Jan. 6. Seated, left to right: William J. Fagan, Rt. Rev. Joseph C. Canty, and M·rs. Aris·tides Andrade. Standing, Rev. James F. Lyons. '
Catholic Agenci,es to Help In 'Jobs Corps' Campaign ' WASHINGTON' (NC)--Sargent S'hriver said here that CitJholic agencies and other private groups will join in the recruitment campaign for the government's new "Job Corps" fOt' deprived youngsters. Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportu of the Southern Baptist nity, said recruiting material Board Convention and the Americaa will be distributed through Friends Service Committee. 25,000 local branches of 33 "Opportunity Cards" by which national organizations. a youth indicates his interest in Some 40,000 young men and the Job Corps will be available women between the ages of 16 through the cooperating private and 21 are expected to enroll in organizations and at all U. S. the corps during its first year. post offices. They will be offered basic edu Or, an interested youth can cation and skill training in resi merely send his name and ad dential centers in both urban dress on a postcard to the Job and rural areas. Corps Office of Economic Op Catholic cooperation will be portunity, Washington, D. C., guided through the National 20506, and the government will Catholic Coordinating Commit follow through. tee on Economie Opportunity. There will be three types of The committee's membership camps: rural centers in parks comprises various departments and forests, urban centers in 01' of the National Catholic Welfare near cities and women's training centers in cities. Conference here and other agen Corpsmen in rural centers win cies, such as the National Con ference of Catholic Charities and get training in areas such as National Catholic Rural Life forestry and surveying. Those in city centers will be taught skills Conference. Others cooperating, Shrlve1' such as office machine operation said, include the YMCA, the and appliance repair. The young YWCA, the Girl Scouts, National women will be taught home Council of Churches, United making, family management and Church Women, Home Mission marketable job skills.
PORTLAND (NC)-An appeal fora searching new look aJt problems f.acing Cat-h olic higher education was made here in Oregon by Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, noted Church historian. Msgr. Ellis called for such a study "in the spirit of truth for which Pope John stood." He S'aid that "very real progresa" has been made in the Oatholic education field, but there is also a continuing complacency "indulged in to such excess it has become ludiorous in the eyes of some observers." DETROIT (NC)-A sem- through 12th graders, both boys The historian, now teaching at inar on alcoholism and the and girls, admitted having drunk the University of San Francisco, . . h alcohol at least once. hIgh school student IS sc edThe survey was taken by the asked Catholic educators to have uled early next year at the State Board of Alcoholism and "courage to walk in single file University of Detroit. was financed by a $3,000 appro- through the door Pope John has The Jesuit-operated institu- priation by 16 different school opened." He said many current prob tion has conducted studies on al- districts. Another $700 grant was coholism previously. The sem- given by the state for the study lems facing Catholic education inar will be sponsored by the conducted by teachers of 17 high also face all U. S. colleges and universities. Some of these, Macomb County Alcohol Edu- schools. "We do not consider drinking which he called "grave weakcvtion Committee which has reThe Most Reverend Bishop has approved the nomina leased ~ report of a.survey on any more of a problem among Tura to Page Seven alco!lOltsm amo~g hI~h school children in Macomb County than ~!g~«-ll':P~~ tions made by the Very Rev. Daniel J. McCarthy, SS.CC., Provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, Fair pupils taken earlier thIS year. it is anywhere else," said Thomp 4-ccording to Max' M. Thomp- son. He explained that the sur December 23 or 24 haven, concerning the assignments of three Sacred Hearts son, committee chairman and vey was made to help teachers Fathers to parishes in the ' superintendent of the Van Dyke warn· their students about the Rev. John Sullivan, SS.CC., as The fast and complete ab Diocese, effective yesterday, assistant at St. Anthony's, Mat-
school system, the survey of al- dangers of alcohol. stinence associated with the WedneSday, Dec. 9, 1964. The tapoisett.
most 700 students in Macomb "Under state law, the schools Vigil of Christmas may be ob County high schools shows that are supposed to give instructions assignments aN as follows:
served Oil either Wednesday. 63 per cent consider it COInmOil OIl this subject and we are try Rev. Christopher Christensea, Rev. Alan Nagle, SS.CC., -as Dec. 2S, or Thursda,.. Dee. 24, for m~nors to drink at parties. ing to do a better joD of it.," SS.CC:, as assistant at st. ,'10ft and elWlh Catholic make " assistant at St. Mary's, ~o. Fair Sixty-one per cent 01. tile J.4MIl Tbompsoa· aai4. laavea. • . .... dolee himaell. ..... Fail'haveA,.
Survey of High School Students Reveals Many Drinking Alcohol
Bishop Approves Changes Of Sacred Hearts Fathers
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