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YOUTH
MOVE FROM AREA IS
DISGUISED DOUBLE BLESSING
Amid World's Conflicts
Pope John Points To Church’s
Unity As ‘Untold Consolation’
THE BULLETIN, August 20, 1960—PAGE 5
SAYS CARDINAL MINDSZENTY Parents Prepare
FORESAW FATE OF HUNGARY Children For
Dear Doris:
I’m a girl of 17 and have been
going steady with a non-Cath-
olic for 8 months. I have no
intention of marrying him and
have told him so as well as my
parents. We are moving away
from this district in four months
and I can’t see why I should
break up with him but my par
ents say I have to. Will you
please help? I know it’s wrong
to go with a non-Catholic but in
this small community there isn’t
any nice Catholics I can go with.
Sue
Dear Sue:
I get the impression that
you’re not looking very far to
find companions your parents
approve of. The help you ask
for is right under your nose.
This move to a new district
could be a blessing. Blessings
sometimes come disguised. This
one isn’t too disguised — and
it’s double.
Moving offers a “painless”
way of breaking off with this
boy. It gives you an opportunity
to do what’s right and obey your
parents. I’m sure you know why
your parents don’t approve of
your dating him.
Take advantage of the situa
tion to make some new friends
and acquaintances. Don’t be in
such a hurry. Don’t rush into
friendships with girls or boys.
And it’s certainly not necessary
to find someone “to go with”
immediately. Since you are still
only 17 it would .even be fun to
go on group dates. This gives
you a chance to get acquainted
with different young people.
So Sue, my advice is, give the
new district a chance. It seems
like the answer to a prayer.
FOURTH COMMANDMENT
Dear Doris:
A friend of mine never in
vites a boy to her house because
she feels that her parents will
embarrass her. She doesn’t want
to hurt her parents by telling
them not to stay around when
her company comes. Could you
suggest something for her to do?
Elaine
Dear Elaine:
I’d suggest she change her
attitude.
You can encourage her to
invite friends home. Help her
to appreciate that her home and
family are her greatest assets.
Rich or poor, fashionable or
shabby, educated or uneducated
they are hers. God given. A
“like me, like my parents”
attitude insure-s popularity and
respect. Remind her that the
Fourth Commandment reminds
all of us to respect our parents
as well as obey them.
We are often too critical of
our parents and conscious of
shortcomings that others never
notice.
Parents don’t want to embar-
ras us. Sometimes they do —
unintentionally. Mothers draw
attention to a new dress or
pretty hair-do. This is typical,
Elaine. And if this is what your
friend means she is lucky. Be
cause everyone, even boys, real
ize this is prompted by love.
She may be anticipating
something that won’t happen
and making an issue out of
nothing. Parents are only too
happy to get away from the
noise and chatter of the younger
generation. It’s polite for them
to wait until the group gets to
gether or the party started be
fore going to another room. This
is only good manners and ex
pected in any home. And ex
pected also when just one boy
comes to call.
A GOOD LOSER WINS
Dear Doris:
I’m an average girl in school.
At the beginning of the year I
was very poplar. I thought I
had a good chance to win the
award for the best liked, most
popular girl, etc. How can I
gain my popularity back? You
understand I’m liked a lot but
not enough for the award.
Peg
Dear Peg:
You didn’t lose your popular
ity by not winning the award.
I’m sure you’re just as popular
as before. The fact that you
were nominated proves you
have many fine qualities. So
hang on to them.
It’s natural to be disappointed
when we don’t win. But only
one can win. Try to accept this.
Be a good loser. Don’t let your
disappointment show. A bright
smile and a kind word, no mat
ter how you feel, will make you
even more popular than before.
It will also help you feel better.
Doris Revere Peters answers
letters through her column, not
by mail. Young readers are in
vited to lurite to her in care of
The Bulletin.
Washington
Letter
(Continued from Page 4)
and done another; turned off
the cold war and turned it on
again. Khrushchev has surpass
ed all of these demonstrations in
recent months, so much so that
Prime Minister Macmillan of
England had expressed concern
lest he inadvertendly go too far,
and set off World War III.
The purpose of all this, psy
chologists say, is to confuse the
peoples of the world, as the
dogs were confused; to cause
them to despair; to break them
down. ,In fact, they say, writers
and speakers of the Free World
who report and expound upon
this devious Soviet behavior are
actually helping along the Rus
sian plan, though unwittingly.
But Pavlov found he could
not influence, and therefore
could not breakdown, dogs
which paid no attention to his
lights, sounds and signals.
Therein might lie the salvation
of the Free World.
It would seem to support the
position of those in America —
and they are many — who re
sent our dancing to Kremlin
tunes. It would seem to bolster
a U. S. foreign policy which
says: Let’s do the right thing
as we see it, and not bother
about what the Kremlin says.
(Continued from Page 4)
quite tenable. At least there is
no particularly weighty reason
for urging a postive answer.
IT IS KNOWN, of course, that
the Baptist was freed from the
stain of the sin of our first par
ents before he was born (cf. St.
Luke 1:41), in accordance with
the angel’s prophecy: “(He)
shall be filled with the Holy
Spirit even from his mother’s
womb.” (St. Luke 1:15). But this
fact does not prejudice St. Jos
eph’s position of pre-eminence.
For the privilege accorded the
Baptist comes under the head
ing of those extraordinary grac
es granted by God not for per
sonal advantage, but for the
good of others, (cf. Corinthians
XII: 7). Consequently, this priv
ilege was given St. John in view
of his vocation as Precursor of
the Redeemer. In other words,
John (whose very name signi
fies “Jahveh is gracious”) was
truly a “gift from God” to the
Jewish people. Unlike St. Jos
eph, whose life was to be spent
in hidden silence, St. John was
chosen to be the official public
herald of the Messias’ advent.
NOR ARE the Saviour’s words
in praise of St. John to be in
terpreted in the sense that St.
Joseph is the lesser saint. The
apposite text reads: “Amen I
say to you, among those born
of women there has not risen
a greater than John the Bap
tist.” (St. Matthew XI: 7-11).
Here Christ meant only to sin
gle out the Forerunner as the
greatest of the prophets, be
cause he was most proximate to
Christ, the raison d’etre of all
the prophets.
In the words of Father Ed
ward Leen:
"OUR LORD was not think
ing of the personal holiness of
St. John, still less is he de
liberately setting it over against
that of others. He is but con
trasting the condition in which
John was born with the con
dition of the prophets who pre
ceded him . . . The Lord says
that John, as compared with all
the prophets of the Old Law, is
a greater prophet than any of
them, but that, in spite of this
exalted position, he is not so
privileged as the child who is
destined to be incorporated with
the Incarnate God, in the waters
of Baptism in the new dispen
sation.”
CONSIDERING St. Joseph’s
role as head of the Holy Family,
one can readily see why he must
tower above all other saints ex
cept Mary. For it is a principle
of theology that God always
gives men sufficient graces for
the performance of the roles to
which he calls them.
Thus Pope Leo XIII explain
ed:
"IT IS TRUE that the dignity
of Mother of God is so elevated
that nothing greater can be cre
ated. Nevertheless, since St.
Joseph had been united to the
Blessed Virgin Mary in the
bonds of marriage, it cannot be
doubted, that he has been clos
er than any other to this super-
eminent dignity by which the
Mother of God surpasses so
much all created natures.”
* * *
Q. What about hearing Mass
in a "crying room" that is
soundproof? Usually all that
one can hear is the noise of
infants crying. Is this all right?
A. In order to assist at Mass
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—The Church’s unity is an “un
told consolation” in a disjointed
world, His Holiness Pope John
XXIII told thousands of pil
grims and tourists in a general
audience.
“People are perplexed and
troubled,” the Pope said, “by
what is happening in the world,
which is not always in harmony,
which is not always a world of
uniform spiritual elevation, but
which is sometimes one of con
flict of ideas, words, acts and
gestures.
“Yet to find oneself with the
Vicar of Jesus Christ, in the
cordiality of the same Christian
family and parenthood, all be
longing to the Church, arouses
great comfort and untold con
solation.”
He said the vivid contrast
between the peaceful unity of
papal audiences and the agitat
ed disunity of the world en
ables the Church to be more
clearly seen as a living force
among men.
He declared that the Church
speaks to people of all ages:
“She says to youth: Never
be discouraged, the Lord is on
your path; He will help you to
do the right thing and to do
honor to yourselves.
“To those who have reached
properly, one must follow the
Mass as it progresses in its es
sentials. Surely one present in
a “crying room” fulfills this re
quisite. Hence he need not be
anxious about the validity of
his assistance. How much of the
Mass is actually heard, for ex
ample, by a person in the last
pew of a great cathedral, or in
the last line amid an enormous
crowd assisting at an open-air
service?
Fr. O' Brien
(Continued from Page 4)
Mystical Body, nourished with
His divine life.
“Under the grace of God I
was drawn into the Church be
cause of her marvelous unity,
the mark by which Christ said
His Church was to be known.
Her unity is unimpaired despite
the ravages of human wilfulness
and pride. I have come to see
with St. Augustine that to rend
the Body of Christ is the great
est sin. The chair of Peter is
the outward and visible sign of
that unity.
“Many earnest Christians out
side the one Church are seeking
that unity. What must be said
by Catholics in every possible
way, and what must be under
stood by separated Christians,
is that God has already given
them the unity which they seek
It is not to be found in schemes
for reunion, rewritten creeds,
hierarchical reorganization or
study groups, but in the words
of the Eternal Son of God:
‘Upon this Rock I will build my
Church.’ ”
bather O’Brien will be grate
ful to readers who know of any
one who has icon two or more
converts if they will send the
names and addresses of such per
sons to him at Notre Dame Uni
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
maturity she says: Despite your
greater responsibilities you
must be perturbed at all, be
cause the Lord is with you. His
spirit and His Gospel are with
you, and you carry Him in your
thoughts, in your heart, in your
words and in your works.
“To the aged she offers the
soundest comfort: Advancing
years certainly do not dim the
light of Jesus. The urge to be
lieve in Him and to abandon
oneself trustingly to His infalli
ble promises and certainties is
always alive.”
At the audience were pil
grimages from the Archdiocese
of Cincinnati, and the Diocese
of Paterson, Des Moines, El
Paso, Lafeyette and La Crosse.
Earlier in the day, Pope John
received Archbishop Karl J. Al
ter of Cincinnati and Auxiliary
Bishop Leo R. Smith of Buffalo.
“In private audience.
Becomes a
Leper
The price of giving her life
to the cause of the lepers has
been, for Sister Mary I J aul-
ita (above), becoming one of
them. A Missionary Sister of
the Society of Mary, she left
Steubenville, Ohio nine years
ago for the Fiji Islands. At
her post on tiny Makogai
Island, she cares for 300 na
tive patients. (NC Photos)
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
TACOMA, Wash. — His Emi
nence Jozsef Cardinal Minds-
zenty foresaw what would hap
pen to him and to Hungary if.
the Reds took over, according
to the man who flew him to
Rome when he was named
Cardinal.
“Cardinal Mindszenty had no
illusions about the future of his
country,” declared Walter G.
Rishel. “He recognized with
crystal clarity the menace of
Russia. He felt Hungary’s only
hope was occupation by the al
lied nations.”
Mr. Rishel, new director of
the Office of Civil and Defense
Mobilization warning center at
McChord Air Force base, was
the first postwar air attache in
the U. S. consulate in Budapest.
Today Cardinal Mindszenty is
a virtual prisoner in the U. S.
consulate, where he took refuge
after the collapse of the 1956
Hungarian revolution.
It was Mr. Rishel who in 1946
piloted the U. S. Air Force plane
which flew the newly named
Cardinal to Rome to receive his
red hat as a member of the
Sacred College.
Mr. Rishel first met the Pri
mate of Hungary when he visit
ed the episcopal palace at Esz-
tergom on official business. It
was a year of famine, and the
future Cardinal was quietly
selling the palace treasures in
order to buy food for the poor.
The American consular offi
cial came to know Cardinal
Mindszenty well, and the
churchman was a dinner guest
in his Budapest home several
times.
Mr. Rishel heard the Cardinal
speak often in warning against
the Soviets’ intentions before
the Hungarian parliament and
from the pulpit of his cathedral.
“He seemed to have no illu
sions about his own safety once
Russia took over control of
Hungary,” Mr. Rishel comment
ed. “He was completely fearless
about his own safety and will
ing to face martyrdom should
that be necessary.”
Just after their return from
Rome, Mr. Rishel, a convert to
the Church, was invited to be a
member of the first Confirma
tion class confirmed by the
Hungarian prelate as a cardinal.
He recalled that when the
Cardinal approached him, the
first to be confirmed, he realiz
ed that he had forgotten to
choose a Confirmation name.
“Jozsef,” murmured Cardinal
Mindszenty, giving his Ameri
can friend his own name.
Mr. Rishel was stationed in
Vienna when Cardinal Minds-
zenty’s trial by the communists
began in February, 1949. The
Cardinal was sentenced to life
imprisonment on trumped up
charges. Since his escape to the
U. S. consulate in 1956, Mr.
Rishel has received news of him
only through friends.
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SUNDAY, August 21 — Elev
enth Sunday after Pentecost.
Generally this date is the feast
of St. Jane Frances de Chantal,
Widow. At the age of 16, a mo
therless child, she was placed
under the care of a worldly
minded governess. She offered
herself to the Mother of God.
She was married to the Baron
de Chantal and her home was a
model of domestic happiness.
After the death of her husband,
she entered the religious life
and founded the Visitation Or
der. In this work she was assist
ed by St. Francis de Sales.
MONDAY, August 22 — Feast
of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. Honoring the Immaculate
Heart of Mary as a symbol of
love, this feast was instituted by
Pope Pius VII, assigned a pro
per office and Mass by Pope
Pius XI, and extended to the
Universal Church with a perma
nent date by Pope Pius XII.
TUESDAY, August 23 — St.
Philip Benizi, Confessor. He was
bom in Florence on the Feast
of the Assumption, 1223. He en
tered the Servite Order, which
was founded on the day of his
birth. His virtue won him re
spect and admiration. He died
in 1285.
WEDNESDAY, August 24 —
St. Bartholomew, Apostle. He
carried the Gospel through the
most barbarous countries of the
East, penetrating into the re
moter Indies. He was martyred
in Armenia.
THURSDAY, August 25 — St.
Communion
By Manfred Wenzel
(Radio, N.C.M.C. News Service)
MUNICH, Germany — About
100 children between the ages
of three and eight received their
first Holy Communion from His
Eminence Joseph Cardinal Wen-
del. Archbishop of Munich.
All the children were pre
pared for reception of the Sac
rament by their parents only.
Parents accompanied their chil
dren to the communion rail of
Munich cathedra] and received
the Eucharist with them. The
ceremony was a highlight of the
eight-day (July 31 to Aug. 7)
International Eucharistic Con
gress held here.
Cardinal Wendel told the chil
dren: “This is your big day at
the International Eucharistic
Congress.” He urged them to
remain “pure, brave and pious
children of God.”
The Cardinal declared: “It is
the privilege and honorable
right of parents to prepare their
children for first Holy Com
munion.” He also recommended
early Communion for children.
Louis IX of France, King. He
led two crusades against the
infidels and was noted for his
great zeal for the Faith. He
died in Tunis in 1270 leading his
armv on his second crusade.
FRIDAY, August 26 — St.
Zephyrinus, Pone and Martyr.
He succeeded Pope Victor I in
199 and reigned until 217.
SATURDAY, August 27 — St.
Joseph Calasanctius, Confessor.
He was bom in Aragon in 1556.
He studied for the priesthood in
Rome and was ordained in 1583.
He founded the Order of Clerks
Regular of the Pious Schools,
known as the Piarists, dedicated
to care of children of the poor.
In his old age he was unjustly
accused, brought before the
Holy Office, and removed from
control of the community. Even
tually he was restored and his
patience earned for him the ti
tle of a “second Job.” He was
canonized in 1767.
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