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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN,"-March 18, 1961
Patrick
Can I Be A Priest?
Thousands of young men ask them
selves this question every day in the
belief that they are called by Christ
to the priesthood! They doubt and
hesitate, fearing that they lack the
necessary qualifications or they won
der if they would be able to shoulder
the burdens of this state. Yet the an
swer is not difficult. When God gives
a vocation, He also gives the require
ments to reach the goal and carry out
its duties.
Any young man having the right
intention, good health, sound intellec
tual ability and moral stability can
become a priest. The rest is in the
hands of God.
The right intention consists in a
readiness to please God, to labor for
Him, to save one’s soul and the souls
of others. A young man so "disposed
desires to answer the call: “Come, fol
low Me,” and determines to prepare
himself for a fruitful priestly life and
work. He wastes no time, but willing
ly gives himself entirely to God.
The strain of the years of prepara
tion for the priesthood and the work
that follows ordination in a life of
service for God requires that the can
didate be in good health.
Promising intelligence is required
and a candidate must use all God-
given talents to the best of his ability.
Continued application to and love for
study prepares a man for the things
that are to come and helps him to
pursue successfully the knowledge of
the sacred sciences.
It goes without saying that one
who dedicates his life to God and His
ministry must be of good moral char
acter. His faith must be deep-rooted
and virtue must increase as the days
go on. He must cultivate a love for
prayer and meditation, be dependable,
obedient and self-sacrificing. A priest
is a man of God, dispensing the mys
teries of Christ, bringing God to man
and leading man to God.
God has blessed countless youths
with these requirements. Daily,
through the inspirations of grace, He
extends the invitation: “Come, follow
Me.” Have confidence in the goodness
and mercy of God. Indeed, it is pos
sible for YOU to be a priest.—(The
Catholic Light).
KHRUSHCHEV MAKES HIMSELF CLEAR
5% Attend Mass communist danger, which he
MELO, Uruguay — Bishop had once again denounced
Oreste Nuti, S.D.B., of Melo, barely a month before his ex-
warned here that the people of pulsion, in an energetic pastor-
his diocese are drifting away al letter.”
from God. The prime ene- JFK On School Aid
mies, he said, are indifference WASHINGTON — President
and laziness. John F. Kennedy told his sixth
“The census taken by semi- presidential news conference
naries and members of the he considers “across-the-
Young Christian Student or- board” federal loans to aid
ganization shows a very sad non-public grade and high
schools unconstitutional.
However, he admitted that
“There is obviously room for
debate about loans because it
is being debated. The Presi
dent observed that Congress is
reality,” Bishop Nuti reported. free to consider loans, but said
“Sixty-nine percent of the peo- he hopes this would be done
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in a bill separate from his pro-
FRONT FOR THE FILMS
It has taken Nikita Khrush
chev only a little less than a
month to crush any hopes for
a lessening of world tensions
that may have sprung from
honeyed words about the
Kennedy administration.
Despite the Soviet dictator’s
New Year offer to forget the
tensions at
tributed to
the U-2 spy
plane inci
dent and his
professed de
sire to make
a fresh start
toward im
proved Unit
ed States -
Sdviet relations, the Presi
dent’s foreign advisers remain
ed extremely skeptical.
NOTHING CHANGED
The President himself
thought that the release of the
RB-47 crewmen, announced at
his first news conference, re
moved a serious obstacle to
improvement of Soviet-Ameri
can relations, but that, too, has
proved to have been a false
hope.
In recent days the Soviet
premier again has put us on
notice that nothing has chang
ed. He has made it clear that
when he talks about peaceful
co-existence, he means that,
while he does not want nu
clear war, he intends to con
tinue to extend communism by
all means short of war. He in
tends to support “wars of lib
eration” in the Congo, in Cuba,
in any part of the world where
political unrest exists. He will
foster subversion by backing
pacifist and peace fronts.
Khrushchev’s overall aim, as
JOHN C. O'BRIEN
always, is to isolate and di
vide the west by pulling one
area after another into his
sphere of influence, exploiting
their resources, controlling
their trade and dictating their
political systems.
The Soviet Union’s attempt
to flout the United Nations in
the Congo is a measure of the
lengths Khrushchev is willing
to go to carry out his designs.
He has indicated that he is
willing to wreck the interna
tional organization if he can
not turn it into a plaint tool of
Soviet foreign policy.
The effort to oust the United
Nations Secretary-General and
drive the United Nations out
of the Congo so far has failed,
but Khrushchev has other
cards to play. In his intempe
rate and bellicose letter to In
dian Prime Minister Jawahar-
lal Nehru, the Soviet leader
proposed to achieve his objec
tives by urging an all-African
force to conquer all the Congo
for the Red-oriented Gizenga
regime in the Stanleyville re
gion.
In a barrage of accusations
and threats leveled at Presi
dent Kennedy appeared a
strong intimation of an inten
tion to employ unilateral inter
vention to achieve the com
munication of the African Re
public. Already the Soviet Un
ion has set up a supply line
from Moscow and Soviet ag
ents and technicians, once ex
pelled by General Joseph Mo
butu, are returning in force.
BIG STAKES
Khrushchev is playing for
big stakes in Africa. If he ob
tains a beachhead in the re
source-rich central area, he
plans to go on from there to
extend his influence over the
greater part of the continent.
The communist leader ap
pears to be so deeply commit
ted to this project that he is
willing to disregard President
Kennedy’s warning that the
United States could not sit idly
by if a foreign power interven
ed to thwart the United Na
tion’s effort to find a peaceful
solution to the Congo problem.
Khrushchev likes to pretend
that communism is engaged in
a struggle with a decaying
capitalistic system for econo
mic supremacy. If that were
true the battle could be fought
out on the trade fronts without
intervention, subversion or
propaganda.
But actually, as Averell Har-
riman, the President’s roving
Ambassador, pointed out in a
speech last month, what is go
ing on is an ideological strug
gle.
“Let us not deceive our
selves,” he said, “What Khru
shchev hates is not the capi
talistic system, but freedom.
The conflict is, in fact, not a
conflict between two economic
systems but between two ideo
logies involving national inde
pendence, individual freedom,
our very conception of the in
dividual and his relation with
God.
“The communists recognize
this and are working over
time through highly orgapized
propaganda and education to
promote communism. They are
using revolutionary forces to
bring people back to tyranny
at a time when the world is
seeking independence.”
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JOSEPH BREIG
We can be honest or dis
honest in the use of words.
We can employ them sincere
ly in truth’s cause, or cunning-
sions. Johnston’s front is not at-
THE U. S. SUPREME tacking bad or capricious cen-
COURT, in a test case brought sorship. Johnston seeks de-
ple are baptized, 33 percent
have made their first Com
munion and five percent at
tend Mass.”
The Melo diocese, with 120,-
000 Catholics in a total popu
lation of 172,000 has only 15
priests. posal to grant $2.3 billion to
public grade and high schools.
Spain Drops Press Law
MADRID — The Spanish Cardinal McIntyre
government, following Church' SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—■
refusal to support its proposed James F. Cardinal McIntyre,
new press law which makes no Archbishop of Los Angeles,
provision for greater press speaking at the dedication of
freedom, has indefinitely post- Bishop Garcia Diego High
poned further discussion of the School here said Federal aid
legislation. to education had not been pro-
The Ministry of Information posed or promoted by indivi-
notified members of the Com- dual states or school boards,
mission for Drafting the Basic “The proponents and advo-
Law of the Press shortly be- cates are large aggregations of
fore their scheduled March 6 professional educators who
meeting that the meeting was seek to establish socialized ed-
postponed. No further date ucation in the United States
was announced. under Federal control which
The Spanish press has been will be dominated by their in-
under tight government cen- fluence and direction. Their
sorship ever since the Nation- objectives are compulsory ed-
alist government of Generalis- ucation in public schools, the
simo Francisco Franco came abolition of local school boards
to power after the civil war and the suppression of private
of 1936-39. In addition, the education,” he said. He also
Ministry of Information con- charged that the traditional,
trols allocation of paper and time - honored school board
newsprint to publishers. would be replaced entirely by
national agencies.
Hijacked Liner Crew
FATIMA, Portugal — 40
by a film distributor, recently struction of the principle that crewmen of the Portugese lin-
Noihing Unconstitutional
PORTLAND, Me. — Bishop
ly in falsehood’s. With pen or upheld that basic principle. public authority — that is, er Santa Maria, which was Daniel J. Feeney of Portland
The court ruled, in the words the people — has any right to captured on the high seas by sa id here “There is not now
of Justice Tom C. Clark, that preview films before they are ant igovernment adventurers and never has been any agita-
theaters do not have “absolute shown. have come to this shrine of the tion among bishops for any ac-
freedom to exhibit, at least WHAT IS SOUGHT is total Blessed Virgin with their fam- tion contrary to our Federal
once, any and every kind of license for the dissemination— ilies in thanksgiving for their constitution.”
motion picture.” at least once—of any and ev- safe return. The prelate, announcing his
tongue we can be fair or un
fair to fel-
lowmen. We
can choose
our termi
nology for
enli g h t e n-
ment and
u n derstand-
ing, or for
confusion.
A case in
A frontal assault upon that ery kind of movie, book, or
principle has now been orga- TV or radio program,
nized by Hollywood czar Eric Johnston is depending on a
Johnston. He has lined up the statement by Chief Justice
TV, radio and book industries Earl Warren, who in a dissent-
support of Federal loans to pri
vate and parochial grade and
high schools, said: “We are
Attacks Catholic Degrees
MADRID, Spain — The gov
ernment-sponsored University all citizens and as such still
._ A . Students Federation (SEU) is enjoy free speech and legal
in a common front with the mg opinion said that the court c i rcu ;[ a ti n g petitions asking the means to seek enforcement of
point is “censorship.” Over the movies. came close to holding not only regime to withhold recognition our civil rights.”
Also backing Johnston are that movies may be censored, of degrees granted by the new
years, the term has been per
verted into an epithet. It con- groups of newspaper editors but that a licensing system Catholic~^University ^ in* Pam'
" " j i * - i • and ma g az i ne wr iters and pho- might be applied to periodi- i
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CONGRESS WILL LISTEN TO CATHOLIC PARENTS
jures a mental image of a long-
nosed, holier-than-thou, spoil- tographers
sport, domineering Puritan in
a top hat with black crepe
around it.
Emotionalism thus is substi
tuted for reason. If we will
stop to think, however, we
will realize that censorship is
as censorship does.
What, in fact, is censorship?
IN ESSENCE, it is authority
having something to say about
what shall be disseminated in
public.
In a free country, the final
authority is the people. Cen
sorship, then, is ultimately the
people making judgments
about what should be general
ly circulated.
When censorship serves the
common good, it is good. When
it doesn’t, it isn’t. Admittedly
it can be misused — as can
every instrument of law and
order. It needs to be
trolled. ‘ u
What must never be surren
dered, though, is the principle
Hail Glorious
Saint Patrick!
U. S. Peace Corps
West DePere, Wis. — The
The Pamplona school was es- spiritual impact of the propos-
tablished in 1952, and is the e d Peace Corps could outweigh
only general university in its material and intellectual ef-
Spain which is not under gov- f ec ts, according to a Catholic
ernment control. editor.
The SEU petition against Father Benjamin L. Masse,
government recognition of the s.J., said Peace Corps mem-
Pamplona university degrees bers, by the practice of their
has been in circulation here religion, “may by their ex-
since the end of January, and ample do more good for the
has also been circulated among sou i s 0 f oriental youth than
students in the university cit- they hope to do for their minds
ies of Valencia, Vallodolid and and bodies.”
Saragossa.
Father Masse, an associate
editor of the Jesuit weekly
magazine “America,” spoke at
Barbara C. Jencks
Haiti Charges False
ROME, Italy — Haitian gov- St. Norbert College,
ernment explanations of the
events surrounding its expul
sion of two bishops in recent
the interests of the general
welfare, has the right to some
regulation, in certain circum
stances, of some public expres-
REV. JOHN B. SHEERIN. C.S.P.
President Kennedy’s federal-
aid-to-education bill is a very
matter-of-fact document de
void of rhetoric. It purposes
to aid in developing the minds
of American youth, our pri
mary natu
ral resource.
Yet it waves
no fluttery
banners and
calls for no
crusade.
Ken nedy
has years of
experi e n c e
behind him
in the Senate and he feels that
he knows how much he can
safely ask for in the way of
appropriations. Moreover, he
has not requested punitive-
measures against segregated
schools because he is afraid a
fracas over that emotional
question might bring his whole
aid program crashing down
over his ears. In short, he has
asked Congress only for as
much tax money as he thinks
Congress is ready to give him.
WHAT THE TRAFFIC
WILL BEAR
Certainly there is no evi
dence of any doctrinaire atti
tude in the parts of the bill
that relate to federal aid to
church schools. He says that no
funds should be allocated to
church schools for the pay
ment of teachers’ salaries or
for the construction of new
buildings and that this ban is
“in accordance with the clear
prohibition of the Constitu
tion.” But he does not elabo
rate on this point nor does he
expound any theory about
“separation of church and
state.”
In fact, any notion that “sep
aration of church and state”
forbids aid to church schools is
implicitly rejected by his rec
ommendation that $350 allow
ances be given church colleges
if they happen to be the aca
demic choice of federal scho
larship winners. In short, the
bill is preeminently a political
document. It asks only what
“the traffic will bear,” only
what the Chief Executive be
lieves Congress will give him.
What Congress will give him
. . . As I see it, Congress will
give him what public opinion
allows. Public opinion has a
degree of uneasiness about
aiding Catholic education but
it entertains, no idea that the
First Amendment has abso
lutely forbidden such aid. It is
uneasy simply because it
know£ so little about Catholic
education and imagines that
aid to Catholic schools is aid
to a sectarian organization and
its officers.
The American public has
heard the Catholic clergy es
pecially the hierarchy, speak
up for a fair deal for Catholic
schools in the distribution of
tax funds. They jump to the
conclusion that the clergy are
trying to protect their own
vested interests and so they
tend to pay little attention to
what the Catholic clergy says
on the subject. They would
pay attention to the laity but
the sad fact is that the laity
say prdcious little on the topic.
DIFFERENT REACTION
Now is the time for Catholic
laity to speak out so loud that
the American people and Con
gress will hear their com
plaints. They are the ones who
suffer from discrimination in
distributing tax funds. They
have to shoulder the burden
of “double taxation,” not the
clergy. They will be listened to
in quarters that will not listen
to the clergy.
Some of the laity feel they
don’t know enough about the
problem to discuss their griev
ances with non - Catholic
friends. They don’t need to
know much. All they need to
do is to complain of the un
fairness of paying taxes for
education and then finding
themselves “counted out” in
The top of the morning to you, Patrick, and to think
: 'that today is the fifteenth centennial of your passing from f
i Ireland to heaven — but could that be so far? It seems like I
| only yesterday or fifteen months or fifteen weeks ago that .
con " you walked the green hills of Ireland instead of fifteen
I hundred years! Time has been good to you, dear Patrick.
| The mists from the bogs have not erased your memory. Your ^
voice has never died. Wherever a Cross is raised this side of
that legitimate authority, in parad i se there stands one of your sons or daughters. Pat-| rnnce m Januaiy
rick, I know you better than those people I walk and talk
with everyday. You are a true father to me as godfather of
my spiritual life. Ours is a bond not taken lightly for weg
I talk together often, as you know, and I eagerly anticipate g
lour reunion in the everlasting green hills of eternity. That :
is the Cead Mile Failte worthy of all my trials here.
| There is a favor I would be asking you, Patrick, on this
| particular day. You can’t refuse me. Will you look after |
| tnose friends of mine who are recent arrivals in what they
| might call eternal Ireland! Will you bring the greetings •
| of the day to Mother Bride and Tom Dooley and the others g
• who have joined you this past year and see that they have |
| the best feast day yet, as if there were any doubt. And on I
your rounds, will you tip your mitre or give my greetings
to several others of my close associates in your distinguished I
|| company. Although you are chairman of my board of saint-1
■ ly advisers, I’d like to send greetings of the day (in Gaelic
or English, if you’ll pardon the expression) to the mighty g
; and grand St. Michael, the holy Brigid whom you must see
I often to talk over old times in Kildare, tne little man of |
; Assisi whom I often think must be a great companion of|
1 yours; the fiery Paul who also has your gift of words; the”
| Dig and little Theresa and the apostle, Jonn. Is he a spe-
I ciai friend of yours, too? And St. Joseph, do you two
|share the same festal festivities, I often wondered?
But if you are too busy to do this for me with all the
! petitions you will be receiving, I’ll understand. But please, ji
wuen you seek out Our Lady on this day, tell her that this
i exile loves her very mucn. Does Our Lady wear green for
| the occasion? It would seem so because everything in my
i- vision today takes on a greener hue — carnations, sham
rocks, eyes, everything is greener and brighter. Plead with
j' Our Lady for an of us, the Irish and non-Irish. Certainly
One Track Mind
SEATTLE, Wash. — The
months are false, according to average communist has a one-
an article in Civilita Cattolica. track mind, but it is strong and
The Rome Jesuit review dedicated to the principle of
comments on the expulsion of world revolutions according to
Archbishop Francois Poirier of the party line.
Port-au-Prince in November So says Father Andrei Uro-
and Auxiliary Bishop Remy sov, S.J., director of the Cath-
Augustin, S.M.M., of Port-au- olic Russian Center in San
the distribution of these funds
simply because they have fol
lowed their conscience in send
ing their children to a Catholic
school.
The other day I happened
upon a passage in Laily,
Church and World by Yves
Congar, O.P. He made the
point that teaching of and wit
ness to the Faith is often giv
en more effectively by lay
people than by priests. “To
speak of God is our job as
priests,” says Congar, “and
people know in advance that
when we speak of Him we
shall be on his side.”
But non-believers have a
different reaction when lay
people speak of God and re
ligious things. “When lay peo
ple speak of God, it is taken
for granted that they are doing
it because they believe in Him,
and not because it is their job
to do so.”
The same is true in the case
of Federal aid. Harassed par
ents can present their case to
the public far more successful
ly than the clergy can. For the
American public will believe
them. Americans, as a people,
havg their faults but stinginess
Francisco. An escapee of com-
Father Giovanni Caprile, munist Russia, Father Urosov
S.J., notes that the government is a convert to the Faith and
accused Archbishop Poirer of a priest of the Russian Byzan-
encouraging a student strike tine Rite.
against the government and of A scion of old Russian no
giving $7,000 to a communist bility, the priest told 1,500 per-
youth group. sons in Blanchet High School
“The enormity of such an auditorium here that it is a
insinuation,” he writes, “is critical mistake to believe that
clear when one considers the communists are bent on any-
Archbishop’s frequent efforts thing less than world revolu-
to warn his faithful against the tion.
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I nerseif must wish that ail the world loved her the way Vol. 41 Saturday, March 18, 1961 No. 21
| the Irish do. (But I dare not say that because it might start
more trouble and today I want peace and I want everybody j
| to love everybody else.)
Thank you, Patrick, for the hundreds of great favors GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus : President
land blessings you have bestowed along my pilgrim path MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon Vice-President
land may you have a perfectly heavenly least day. One day, TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President
is not one of them. They aie ^ j keep the faith you implanted in my heart and soul, we NICK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary
on y too ieady to help out s w -jjj k e celebrating my favorite feast day together where it JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer
when they h “ n ® st y bell ®X e | i s eternal joy and peace and love and Ireland! I AbVIN M McAULIFFE Augusta Auditor
someone is not getting a fair 1 J * JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary
deal. CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary
