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DORIS REVERE PETERS
iiSwerS
YOUTH
Drinking, Smoking —
Approach Both intelligently
HEADS NEW AFRICAN NATIOM
Dear Doris:
Does drinking and smoking
shorten a boy’s Or man’s life
expectancy?
Ted
Dear Ted:
Many doctors say yes. The
manufacturers of cigarettes
and the distillers of alcohol
would probably quibble. More
important than any difference
of opinion regarding life ex
pectancy is the fact that they
will affect your performance
durinq life.
To keep in tip-top condition
athletes don’t smoke or drink
while in training. Track people
and swimmers never smoke.
Ask anyone who smokes and
he will tell you not to start.
The person who has become a
slave to alcohol needs no ask
ing. The devastation brought
on himself and his family are
evident for all to see.
Our society today makes it
easy and acceptable for young
people to start smoking and
drinking before they have
been able to develon a mature
attitude towards the use of
both. So Ted, I suggest that
you approach both intelligent
ly. Be aware that both are
habiUforming. Like all habits
once acquired they’re hard to
break.
More important than the
possible physical incapacities
of drinking are the moral im
plications and potential dan
gers. The moderate use of
alcohol is not. sinful. The abuse
of it is. In themselves, tobacco
and alcohol are neither good
nor bad. Deliberate excessive
drinking is a sin which offends
God and which attacks your
reason, God’s greatest gift to
you. In. any case, it is a poor
practice to start to drink or
smoke while still in high
school.
Before you make this de
cision be sure to read the
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Dear Doris:
I have been going with a
boy for about three months.
He has a wonderful person
ality, is very good looking and
is the type who sort of grows
on you because he’s friendly
and likes to have fun. Many
of the girls like him but I’m
the only one he’s dated. I
know he likes me but some
times I’m worried. One day
he is very friendly and the
next day I get the cold should
er. Should I talk to him about
this? The only draw back is
that at times he’s very moody,
sensitive and temperamental.
My girl friends tell me I
should drop him but I’d hate
to lose such a prize. They may
be only jealous. What should
I do?
Doannie
Dear Doannie:
What do you enjoy more, the
envy of your girl friends or
the company of a moody and
temperamental boy?
It seems to me you’re wast
ing time. Friendship with boys
have a significant part in your
own personality development.
They shoulld broaden your
knowledge and understanding
of others. By dating you learn
not only social skills but how
to be selective in your choice
of companions. You also learn
the traits you like in others.
Fun loving is just one trait
of a personality. Coupled with
moodiness it doesn’t make for
a “wonderful personality” as
you described your friend.
He sounds rude to me, and
he’s certainly no prize. I’d tell
him about his cold shoulder
tactics. And the next time he
invites you out use this as your
reason for refusing.
SEER NEW INTERESTS
Dear Doris:
I’m 16. How can I convince
my mother to allow me to go
out with a boy who is in the
Marines? She has known him
since he was a child but now
she thinks that since he’s in
the service he has matured too
much for me. I know he is just
more sensible. He will have
one more leave before he’s
transferred.
Mill
Dear Mill:
You don’t say how old your
Marine is. This may have some
bearing on your mother’s at
titude. Since he is being trans
ferred you won’t be able to see
him for awhile, anyway. While
he’s away he will learn new
things and find new interests.
A 16-year-old girl needs in
terests too. So why not start
concentrating on your friends
at home. This will convince
your mother that you are ma
ture and sensible too.
Doris Revere Peters answers
letters through her column, not
by mail. Please do not ask for a
personal reply. Young readers
are invited to write to her in
care of The Bulletin.
Theology
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Tanganyika, latest African state to win self-rule has a
Catholic Chief Minister, Dr. Julius Nyerere. He is shown
outside the Tanga Cathedral, where he attended an English
explanation, of the Mass. He is pictured explaining that
the new Tanganyika flag’s colors of green stripes represents
the land and the black stripes the African people. Left to
right: Father Raymond Lorentz, C.S.P.; Dr. Nyerere; Father
Robert Donoghue, C.S.P. and Mr. Chande Ali, secretary of-
the Tanganyika African National Union. (NC Photos)
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flames which destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrha. So that modern
non-Catholic theologians are
not at all justified in their at
tempts to water down the lit
eral meaning of hell-fire as
found in Sacred Scripture and
the teaching of the Apostles.
"WHATEVER LENGTHS of
aversion to which sentimen
tality has pushed modern dis
cussion,” wrote the late Father
Walter Farrell, “the reality of
this fire of hell is so universal
and so ancient a doctrine of
the theologians that question
of it would be an extreme of
temerariousness. There is in
deed hell-fire, and it is real
fire; by it the devils and
damned souls are punished un
til the resui'rection of the bod
ies of men, when the punish
ment of the fire is extended to
these risen bodies.”
PRECISELY HOW is it that
material fire can affect the in
corporeal soul is an enigma,
though. Obviously, this fire
would have to act supernat-
urally, as an instrument of
God’s justice, with effects in
dependent of the natural con-
equences of fire as known to
us on earth. St. Thomas seem
ed to think that souls are af
fected by hell-fire in that they
are restricted or confined by
it; which, as matter, chains the
activity of the soul.
YET NO MATTER how puz
zling a problem the fact of
hell-fire entails, it cannot be
more enigmatic than, for ex
ample, the fact of the union of
man’s body v/ith the immateri
al soul. St. Augustine used this
comparison when he comment
ed on the mystery of hell-fire:
"WHY MAY WE not say
that, in truth but marvelous
ly, incorporeal spirits can be
affected by the punishment of
bodily fire, if the spirits of
men, although themselves in
corporeal, even now can be
enclosed in corporal members,
and then (after the resurrec
tion of the body), will be
bound inseparfably by the
bonds of their bodies?”
HELL-FIRE, as painful as it
must be, is only a secondary
punishment. The primary pun
ishment of the condemned is
the pain of loss—the eternal
separation of the soul from
God, which is the direct op
posite of the eternal union
with God for which the soul
was made, and in which the
essential happiness of heaven
consists.
THESE TWO punishments
follow from the twofold as
pects of mortal sin: 1) a turn
ing away from God and 2) a
turning toward some created
object in place of God.
Fr. O'Brien
(Continued from Page 4)
and next year Dutch Sisters
will open an interracial Catho
lic school, which our children
'will attend. The natives here
need education. They need
medical care. Most of all they
need God and the ministra
tions of His religion to guide
and develop their spiritual
life.
“I was away from the
Church for 17 years. I’m con
vinced that the stay in Liberia
was God’s method of getting
me back to the sacraments.
Bernice and I gave up our
comfortable home in Mountain
View, and we plan to devote
our lives to spreading the
Faith of Christ among the
African people.”
Father O’Brien will be
grateful to readers who know
of anyone who has won two or
more converts if they will send
the names and addresses of such
persons to him at Notre Dame
University, Notre Dames, In
diana.
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Missionary
Bishop Beaten
By Congolese
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Con
go (NC) — Congolese soldiers
have beaten a Catholic bishop
for the first time.
The incident involved Bel
gian-born Bishop Jean Van
Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M., of Inon-
go. The 46-year-old prelate has
served as a missionary bisb-
nn in Inongo, on the shores of
Lake Leopold II, about 300
miles northeast of Leopold
ville, since 1954.
According to reports reach
ing here, a band of soldiers en
tered the mission compound
at Inongo (Aug. 30) and de
manded that the Bishop give
them his radio sending set.
When he denied having one, he
was struck hard on the head
several times. Each time, how
ever, other soldiers intervened
to stop the beating.
As the priests, Sisters, and
a Congolese Brother attached
to the mission were being tak
en off to the nearby military
compound, Bishop Van Cau
welaert was virtually dragged
into his house. He showed the
soldiers three radio receivers,
and an amplifier. This the sol
diers mistook to be a trans
mitter. They made the bishop
put it on his head and show
it to the villagers, and then
carted him off to jail with the
other missionaries.
One of the nuns jailed was
ill and was taken to a hos
pital. But the others and the
Bishop, five priests, and Broth
er remained until a superior
officer intervened and had
them released later in the day.
The Minister of the Interior
and a contingent of United
Nations troops arrived the
next day and disarmed the
Congolese soldiers. The Min
ister announced that action
would be taken against the
ringleaders.
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Bogus Oath’
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Archbishop Joseph F. Hummel
of New Orleans blessed (Aug.
25) the site for the diocesan
administration building that
will 1 rise on the grounds of
Notre Dame Seminary adja
cent to the present chancery
office. He also blessed the
workmen and prayed for their
protection against construction
hazards.
SACRAMENTS (1)
One coming fresh to
idea might easily feel a cer
tain strangeness in Baptism,
as though we are saying that
God wants us to do something
not only unreasonable but ac
tually mean
ingless. For
water is a
m a t e r i a 1
thing, Grace
is wholly
spiritual, and
how can the
m a t e r i a 1
thing have
this essential
place in man’s reception of
the spiritual? Indeed there are
religious men who reject it as
quite monstrous, not simply a
meaningless union of things
that have no possible connec
tion with each other, but a
profaning of the higher by the
lower. In this they are for
getting Christ who said that
unless we are born again of
water and the Holy Ghost, we
shall not enter into the king
dom of God, and He said it
neither in. a temporary fit of
absence of mind nor from a
permanent failure to under
stand the nature of the spirit
ual!
Also they are forgetting them
selves, I mean that they are
forgetting themselves, forget
ting what kind of person they
are. For every one of us is
the result of a union of mat
ter and spirit, a union in it
self so strange that it must
have made those pure spirits
the devils laugh derisively.
The union of spirit and matter
in man is profoundly mysteri
ous, we are used to it but we
can hardly claim that we have
got very far in understanding
it. The union of spirit and mat
ter in Sacraments is not less
mysterious, but certainly not
more. The same God who
made the one union made the
other.
What God is certainly doing
in both cases is giving to mat
ter not only an importance
which a certain type of spirit
ual man finds startling, but
sacredness from which he ac
tuallv recoils. The one religion
which accepts the body’s sa
credness wholly is the Catholic
Church; all others either admit
it grudgingly, not really put'
ting their heart into it, or
simnly reject it. They see the
body as a problem or a nui
sance or a sheer illusion, some
thing anyhow which has no
proper part in religion.
But man is not an angel;
he has a body, and if the body
is despised or neglected, it
takes its own revenge. Its
needs grow more and more
demanding, they cry out for
satisfaction and never can be
satisfied. All the life of society
comes to be dominated by
them. Unless religion brings
the body fully into its sphere,
welcomes it, helps it, finds a
religious function for it, hon
ors it, then the body can only
be profaned. The Catholic
knows that all health for man
depends on two truths, not
one — not only that spirit is
the more important, but also
that the body too is sacred.
Christ Our Lord, anyhow, is
in no likelihood of treating,
man as an angel; for as God
He made angels and men and
made them different, and He
Himself became man and not
angel. He knew the sweat and
agony of the body, and an
angel comforted Him. God
made us soul and body and the
Sacraments are the remainder
that, having made us both,
He would not treat us as made
of one Only.
We must spend a while with
the Sacraments. Baptism, on
which thus far we have con
centrated, is not the only way
in which Our Lord uses a ma
terial thing to bring Sanctify
ing Grace to those spiritual
souls of ours which, by His
making,, are already united
with material bodies. He es
tablishes six others, all of
them bringing increases of
Grace; but all bringing their
own special aid as well.
Confirmation gives us the
duty and the power to spread
the Kingdom of God, of which
Baptism made us members.
The Blessed Eucharist gives
us, for the nourishment of the
life of Grace in the soul, Christ
Himself, Christ whole and en
tire, body and blood and soul
and divinity.
Penance forgives the sins by
which we have chosen self in
stead of God and so snapped
the life-giving contact between
our souls and Him — forgives
the sins and restores the life.
Two Sacraments are there
for the special consecration of
the way of life that is to be
ours. For those who marry is
Matrimony: for the smaller
number who are, as priests, to
be ministers of the life to the
souls of others, Our Lord es
tablished Holy Orders.
And for the end of our time
i upon earth, that the soul may
PORTLAND, Ore., (NC) —
Action by a Catholic here
halted distribution of a prot-
estan pamphlet containing the
bogus Knight of Columbus
oath’ and brought forth an
apology.
The Rev. Mr. A. Word of
Portland, who published a
Protestant pamphlet called
‘The Church Speaks,” had
included the false K. of C.
oath in the September issue of
the pamphlet. He said the
pamohlet has a circulation of
15,000.
Before a majority of the
copies were distributed, Gor
man Hogan, editor of the
Catholic Sentinel, Portland
Archdiocesan Newspaper, con
tracted the Rev. Mr. Word.
The bogus oath in the undis
tributed copies of the pamph
let was removed and replaced
by an apology.
It stated: “We are wrong
and we must admit it. I had
believed that the K. of C.
oath allegedly representing the
Fourth Degree of that organi
zation was a ture document.
Mr. Hogan, editor of the Cath
olic Sentinel, informed me of
the source which has given me
the truth about the document.
In the Congressional Record
of January 29, 1915, page 2721,
is a statement from four 32nd
Degree Masons of very high
repute in law, , banking and
postal authorities of Califor
nia, and they were given ac
cess to all the oaths and secret
ceremonials of the K. of C.
organization, to clarify this
false oath. They state that it
is fictitious . . .”
The Rev. Mr. Word conclud
ed his apology with a promise
that “we will expose” the bo
gus K. of C. oath “wherever
we fiod it, from now on.
Michael Kehr, a Portland K.
of C. official, commented:
“While this man has apolo
gized for the bogus oath and
removed it. from many copies
if his publication, it was in
cluded in other copies which
were distributed and which
contained no apology.” He said
he would forward a report of
the incident to the national
K. of C. headquarters in New
Haven, Conn., “for a decision
on whether this apology in its
present form and scope is ac
ceptable.”
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Three American Catholic college students, who spent the
summer studying at National University of Ireland are
shown at a special audience with Ireland’s President Eamon
de Valera. The exchange students were sponsored by the
St. Patrick Scholarship Fund, Inc., of Buffalo, N.Y. Left
to right are:' J. Terrence Mitchell, of Canisius College,
Karen J. Brady, Rosary Hill College; Marilyn J. Walsh,
D’Youville College (all of Buffalo), and Mr. de Valera. (NC
Photos!
Solution To Labor
Management Problem
Is In Cooperation
i
‘More Teachers
Than Soldiers’
LOS ANGELES, (NC) —
Most of the world’s nations
are stockpiling weapons, but in
Costa Rica they’re swapping
arms for farm implements, ac
cording to a Costa Rican Cath
olic editor.
That was the report of Mari
ano Quiros, editor of the Cos
ta Rican Catholic weekly Eco
Catholico. Mr. Quiros was here
as part of a .State Department
exchange program.
Mr. Quiros explained Costa
Rica’s relatively arms-free
condition.
“Constitutionally, we have
no army,” he said. “We do
have a Civil Guard of only
2,000 men. The previous gov
ernment left three war planes,
and we traded them to the
U. S. for tractors.”
“The modern army weapons
on hand were traded for farm
ing equipment, and two large
Army barracks were convert
ed into colleges,” He continued.
“It has always been a Costa
Rican concept that there
should be more teachers than
soldiers.”
ST. LOUIS, (NC) — The
public will no longer stand
for irresponsible policies by
management or labor, the
congregation at a special
Labor Day Mass was told
here.
Father Kenneth Paluczak,
economics professor at Card
inal Glennon (Seminary)
College here, said it was
time for both labor and man
agement to recognize their
full responsibilities.
Speaking at a city-wide La
bor Day Mass in All Saints
Church, the priest, who is di
rector of social action depart
ment of the Archdiocese of St.
Louis, predicted public opinion
would cause legislators “to
take serious action” if man
agement and labor did not ac
cept those responsibilities.
“This threat cannot be over-
emnhasized,” he said.
“The class struggle between
capital and labor, so widely
publicized in. the writings of
Karl Marx, and practiced in
the communistic ideology of
today, must be forgotten.
“The times of struggles such
as that exemplified in the long
drawn-out strike against the
Kohler Company in Wisconsin,
must pass,” he said.
“Labor can no longer mere
ly seek its own ends without
any concern for the welfare of
capital. It is no longer a mat
ter of management hungrily
raking in all possible profits
without allowing a decent
livelihood for labor. The time
of the lengthly strike and
lock-out have no place in the
economy today, he argued.
“T h e public’s discontent
with both management and
labor,” he continued, “makes
it necessary that there be mu
tual cooperation and under
standing.”
Father Paluczak noted that
abor Day was originally in
augurated to show the strength
of the labor force in the coup-
try.
“But today the union is a
recognized institution, and La
bor Day itself is not just the
laboring man’s holiday,” Fa
ther Paluczak said. “It is be
ing dedicated to St. Joseph the
Workman, patron of everyone
who works for a living.
“For that reason it is the day
for the financier, the corpora
tion manager, the artist, the
sculptor, the bricklayer, the
hod-carrier, the truck driver,
the shoe shine boy and the
newspaper vendor. “It is a day
for each to unite at the foot of
the Altar of God. Here we can
lay our common problems,
here we can seek their solu
tion,” he said.
“Catholic” Assembly Organized
By Castro Followers Is Hit
As Divisive By Archbishop
COLLEGE GETS
13 GRANTS
SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.,
(NC) — Thirteen grants total
ing $574,744 have been award
ed to Seton University’s Col
lege of Medicine in Jersey
City.
Officials at the university
here announced that the grants
were made by the National
Institutes of Health, U. S. Pub
lic Health Service, Bethesda,
Maryland.
OFFER REQUIEM
NEWARK, N. J., (NC) —
Requiem Mass was offered at
Holy Rosary church for Moth
er Antonia Esposito, Delegate
General or superior, of the
U. S. Franciscan Sisters of St.
Elizabeth from 1922 to 1959.
Mother Antonia, a native of
Italy, died (Aug. 28) at the
Franciscan S i s t e r s’ convent
here. She was 86 and had been
a member for 61 years of the
order, which conducts three
day nurseries and six mission
houses in New Jersey, New
York and Indiana.
go forward in fullness of life
to what awaits it, there is
Extreme Unction.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SANTIAGO, Cuba — The
Archbishop of Santiago de
nounced a so-called “Catholic”
congress organized here as di
visive and foreign to the
Church.
Archbishop Enrique Perez
Serantes issued a statement de
claring that the “Catholic”
meeting scheduled for Sep
tember 7 had on Church ap
proval. He said that those par
ticipating in such a meeting
would not be worthy of the
name Catholic.
The ceremony denounced by
the Archbishop was organized
by government agents against
“scribes and pharisees” among
the clergy in the wake of the
joint pastoral of the Cuban
Hierarchy warning against
communist infiltration. The
Havana daily, Revolucion, and
other papers have printed
statements by self-styled “rev
olutionary Catholics” rejecting
the Bishops’ warning.
The meeting here also was
scheduled to be held a week
after the government of Pre
mier Fidel Castro announced
it was establishing formal dip
lomatic relations with com
munist China, which has been
unrelenting in its fight to set
up a national “Catholic”
church separated from the
Holy See.
There was no immediate in
dication here whether the Sep
tember 7 meeting was called
as a counter move against
Archbishop Perez Serantes’
own earlier announcement
that an archdiocesan assembly
of his lay organizations will
take place in November. That
meeting is to be preceded by a
major mission throughout the
archdiocese, which, with two
million Catholics, is the big
gest See in Cuba.
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