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told them about our holy Faith
and invited them to Mass. When
their interest increased, we
arranged for their instruction
by Father Victor, O.F.M.
“As the instruction pro
gressed, they were greatly im
pressed by the four marks -
unity, sanctity, Catholicity and
apostolicity - with which Christ
stamped His Church to distin
guish it from all others. Es
pecially impressive is the
Church’s unity: all its mem
bers profess the same Faith,
receive the same sacraments,
unite in the same worship, and
acknowledge the supreme
authority of the Holy See.
'The secret of that marve
lous unity, they perceived, is
the authority bestowed by Christ
upon Peter and his successors
to govern the Church. ‘Thou
art Peter,’ said Jesus, ‘and
upon this rock I will build my
Church, and the gates of hell
shall.not prevail against it. And
I will give thee the keys of
the kingdom of heaven; and
whatever thou shalt bind on
earth shall be bound in hea
ven’ (Matt. 16:18-19).
' 'Another doctrine that made
a powerful appeal to the Fields
is that of the Holy Eucharist.
It seemed almost too good to
be true that Christ would give
us His very flesh and blood
as nourishment for our souls.
But unmistakable are Christ’s
words: ‘For my flesh is food
indeed, and my blood is drink
indeed. He who eats my flesh,
and drinks my blood, abides
in me and I in him’ (John
6:56-57).
“Mr. and Mrs. Field and their
three children were received
into the Church. Later they
were blessed with two more
children. Now they have
at least a dozen grandchildren-
all good Catholics. When John
and I recently celebrated our
Golden Wedding Anniversary,
we thanked God particularly for
the happy privilege of sharing
our holy Faith with this won
derful family.”
(Father O'Brien will be glad
to have converts send their
names gnd addresses to him at
Notre Dame University, Notre
Dame, Indiana, so he may write
up their conversion stories.)
Give Books To ,,
Rome University
ROME, (NC) - Germany has
given about 400 volumes of
scientific material to the Greg
orian University in Rome as
a token of its appreciation for
the Jesuit operated univer
sity's efforts to educate Ger
man seminarians and priests.
The books were presented to
the university rector, Father
Paolo Munoz Vega, S. J., by
the German Ambassador to the
Holy See, Hilgar van Scher-
penberg. The ambassador
stressed the close bonds
between his country and the
university and said it was best
illustratied “by the many Ger
man priests who, during the
past four centuries, have re
ceived their intellectual for
mation in this university.”
Reds Demolish
Cathedral
ROME, (NC) - The Cathe
dral of Lanchow, capital of Kan
su, China, has been demolished,
it was reported here by Fides,
mission news agency.
The agency said it is not
certain if the building was de
stroyed because of the success
ful elimination of the mission
in the See city of the Lanchow
Archdiocese, established in 19-
46, or because it fitted in with
plans for development of the
city.
MARRIAGES
BRITTINGHAM-WHITESIDE
AUGUSTA - Miss Peggy Jean
Whiteside, daughter of Mrs.
Marion Joseph Maher and Her
man Brittingham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Harper Brit
tingham, were married May
19th at St. Mary's on-the-hill.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke
officiating.
Question Box
(Continued from page 4)
exercise their constitutional
right of attending nonprofit pri
vate or parochial schools. Af
ter the President took the ini
tiative in this matter, more
over, he confirmed his position
in a memorandum (issued dur
ing the latter part of March last
year) by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
HENCE THE bishops and
Catholic educators are not try
ing to pick a quarrel. Rather,
they have been compelled, by
the circumstances at hand, to
take a position against a formal
proposal made by the Adminis
tration, a proposal which they
deem manifestly unjust. As
Archbishop Karl J. Alter of
Cincinnati has explained:
“The question of whether or
not there ought to be federal aid
is a judgment to be based on
objective, economic facts . . .
(But) in the event that there
is federal aid to education, we
are deeply convinced that in
justice Catholic school child
ren should be given the right to
participate.”
* * *
Q. Why haven’t the bishops
opposed federal aid to education
in principle -- insofar as paro
chial schools are concerned —
on the grounds that it will in
evitably lead to governmental
control?
A. Categorically to say that
federal aid to education will in
evitably lead to federal control
is an irresponsible charge.
There is no questioning that
federal aid greatly magnifies
the danger of federal control.
That this danger can be re
duced, however, is clear from
the fact that in Canada as well
as in several countries abroad -
Famed Glacier Priest,
FR. Bernard Hubbard.
Dies Of Stroke At 73
SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Fa
ther Bernard Rosecrans Hub
bard, S. J., world famous “gla
cier priest” who lived danger
ously for years, died here
peacefully in his room on the
campus of Santa Clara Uni
versity.
A Solemn Requiem Mass was
offered in the Mission Church
for the Jesuit priest, who sur
vived attacks by wild animals,
the fury of the elements, and
plane crashes in conducting
scientific explorations in the
wilds of Alaska.
Father Hubbard, head of Santa
Clara University’s geology de
partment since 1926, had been
making plans for his 32nd trip
to Alaska, although he was 73
years old. He died (May 28)
when he suffered his fifth
stroke.
including England, Scotland, the
Netherlands and West Ger
many - private school education
is being aided by the national
government without prejudice
to the autonomy of private
school systems themselves.
ANOTHER important point:
A federal assistance program
which discriminates against
private schools would itself
constitute such a threat to pri
vate school education that, in
the words of one observer, “it
would be better to take what
ever risk may be involved in
accepting federal aid than to
see private education put out
of business.”
Jottings . . .
(Continued from Page 4)
technology, of dark primitive forces unleashed from his own
subhuman depths.”
* * *
NOW WE TURN to the novelist and the picture of man which
he holds up. We find this comment from Alfred Kazin in an
essay from his new collection entitled “The Alone Generation.”
Mr. Kazin writes: “American society is remarkable for the
degree of loneliness (not solitude) in which the individual
can find himself. In our mass age, the individual's lack of
privacy, his unlimited demand for self satisfaction, his primary
concern for his own health and well-being have actually thrown
him back on himself more than before . . . The sluttishness
of a society whose ideal seems to be unlimited consumption
of all possible goods and services is the reason for ‘success’
of writers who paint America as an unlimited supply of sex,
travel, liquor--and lonely yearners.” Words by the millions,
pictures by the hundreds and still we fail to communicate with
our fellow man. We feel a dumbness in our agony. Sometimes 1
I foolishly suppose that I am the only person in the world
agonizing in my inability to articulate and reach out of this
prison of flesh and pride and selfishness. The loneliness and
isolation of our times is evident. A leading psychiatrist has
said we no longer have strong friendships between man and
man, woman and woman. We fear them as competitors. Friend
ship is distorted by most of today’s novelists, as is love. I
recoil a hundred times a day from the degrading, human-
humaness of man and his created world. But with every breath
I take I thank God for a faith that tells me who I an and where
I am going. I wish this month’s graduates would know this,
too. Man is not alone. There is hope always because there is
God.
The son of ,an Episcopadian
minister, he was converted to
Catholicism when he was a
boy. He was rated a foremost
authority on Alaska because
of his work in ethnology, an
thropology, paleontology, ich
thyology, oceanography and vol
canology.
Father Hubbard was a native
of San Francisco. His parents
gave him his middle name in
honor of a Civil War leader,
Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. He was
a frail youth when he began
climbing the Santa Cruz moun
tains with his dog, a gun and
camera. He was nicknamed
“Fossil” Hubbard by fellow
students at St. Ignatius Col
lege (now the University of San
Francisco) and Santa Clara U.,
as a result of his explorations.
He joined the Jesuits in 1908
and taught science and litera
ture in several Jesuit colleges
until 1921, when he was sent to
the University of Innsbruck,
Austria, to complete his theo
logical studies. There he found
time for mountain climbing in
the Tyrolean Alps and won for
himself the name of Gletscher
Pfarrer -- the equivalent of
glacier priest.
After his return to the U.S.
and his appointment to the Santa
Clara faculty, Father Hubbard
spent his summer in explora
tions and scientific pursuits in
Alaska. Among his achieve
ments were: penetrating to the
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unexplored head of Taku Gla
cier; leading the first party to
scale Mount Aniakchak, first to
explore the Shishaldin volcano
and the Kamati glacier.
He made valuable con
tributions to science through
his writings and through the
motion pictures he took dur
ing his explorations. During
World War II he served as an
auxiliary chaplain to the U.S.
armed forces in Alaska, and
also as an adviser on terrain,
weather, clothing and food.
One summer, with a party
of eight, Father Hubbard cross
ed the hazardous Bering Strait
in a canoe to prove how an
cient tribes of Asia could have
reached this continent. In 1937
and 1938 he spent 18 months
with Eskimos on King Island
in the Bering Strait, where he
dedicated a bronze statue of
Christ the King. The inhabi
tants of the island are be
lieved to be descendants of
Asians because of their lan
guage and facial character
istics.
Father Hubbard suffered his
first stroke in 1955. At the
time he commented: “Twenty-
five years in Alaska either kills
you or makes you so tough
noghing can hurt you. I figured
some day I’d perhaps break a
leg and be out of commission
for a while, but I never thought
the roof would fall in.”
By strenuous daily exercise
with Henry Schmidt, trainer
at Santa Clara, Father Hubbard
* ‘raised the roof' ’ and overcame
the effects of the stroke suffi
ciently to enable him to con
tinue his trips to the far north.
In recent years he occupied
himself with research, writing
and lecturing. He was a mem
ber of many scientific organi
zations and was held in high
regard by scientists.
Father Hubbard stirred the
scientific world in 1949 with
this blunt statement: “I doubt
whether anyone has reached the
North Pole on foot.” It was
generally accepted that Adm.
Robert E. Peary had accom
plished this feat in 1909. But
Father Hubbard contended the
shifting ice floes made the feat
impossible.
A powerful weatherbeaten
man, Father Hubbard once said
that the qualifications for moun
tain climbing and exploring are
“a strong back, a strong
stomach, a dumb head and a
good guardian angel.”
HEADS SOCIETY
DETROIT, May 12 (NC) - Fa
ther R. W. Mulligan, S.J., vice
president and dean of faculties
at Loyola University, Chicago,
has been elected president of the
Phi Sigma Tau national philoso-
psy honor society. The society
held its 22nd annual national
convention at the University of
Detroit here.
THE BULLETIN, June 9, 1962—PAGE 5
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from famine-ridden China; some swim to Macao, others
come by boat, and a few slip across the border on foot.
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