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Authorities Deny Church
Pressure Put On Priest
To Pull Out Of Election
DIJON, France, (NC) -- Re
ports that Church authorities
put pressure on a priest-can
didate to withdraw from the re
cent elections for the French
National Assembly because of
announced communist support
have been denied.
It was rumored that the Holy
See and the Apostolic Nuncia
ture in Paris had intervened
with Bishop Guillaume Sembel
of Dijon to put pressure on
Father Felix Kir to withdraw
from the election after the com
munists announced that they
were throwing their candidate’s
votes to the cleric.
The 86-year-old priest, who
is also mayor of Dijon, ran as a
candidate of the Independent
party and was elected (Nov.
25) deputy from Dijon in the
run-off elections that gave sup
porters of President Charles de
Gaulle control of the assembly.
In the first round of elec
tions (Nov. 18) Father Kir led
the Gaullist candidate by 13,
229 votes to 12,554.
The communists announced
that they would give Father Kir
the 6,000 votes their candidate
received in the first election.
Father Kir announced that he
would not accept the com
munists’ votes.
Diocesan authorities denied
the rumors that the Holy See or
the nunciature had intervened
and said that the diocese had
scrupulously stayed out of the
electoral contest.
Father Kir, as dean of the as
sembly, will open the first ses
sion of the newly-elected as
sembly December 6.
Father Kir made the head
lines in April, 1960, when he
was forbidden by Bishop Sem
bel to receive Soviet Premier
Nikita Kruschev during the lat
ter’s visit to Dijon. Father Kir
had announced that, as mayor
of Dijon, he would greet Krus
chev in an official ceremony.
After the Bishop’s prohibition,
however, he left Dijon during
Kruschev’s visit to avoid meet
ing him.
New Catholic College For Southeast
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Con
struction of the first phase of
the building program of Mary-
mount College, Boca Raton, is
running ahead of schedule, ac
cording to Rev. Mother M. de
la Croix, coordinator of the
program.
“Work on the initial phase
of the program is nearly 15
per cent completed,’’ Mother
de la Croix said. “If the pre
sent schedule is maintained, as
anticipated, the buildings should
be ready well in advance of
September 1963, when classes
begin,’’ she added.
This is the first Catholic
two-year arts college for
women in Florida and the fifth
Marymount College in the
United States. The school will
be conducted by the Religious
of the Sacred Heart of Mary,
the Order that staffs all Mary
mount Colleges, including those
in Paris, Rome, London and
Barcelona.
The structures being built
for Marymount’s first students
here are a two-story academic
and science building, a three-
story dormitory, a two-story
student center and a utility
building. The value of the
construction exceeds
$2,000,000.
TKe academic and science
building, which will be faced
with brick and stone, will
contain eight classrooms. It
will also house language, bio
logy, chemistry and physics
laboratories, art room, large
lecture room, offices for the
faculty, and a student locker
room.
One hundred and fifteen stu
dents and faculty members are
to be accomodated in the dor
mitory’s 90 rooms, made up of
single and double rooms and
two-room suites. In addition,
there will be a reception room
for guests, an attractive main
lobby, and a student recrea
tion room. The infirmary and
nurses’ room will be located
on the second floor of this
building that also will have
elevator service.
The student center will con
tain a main dining room, that
features an outdoor terrace,
and an auditorium. These
rooms, separated by elec
trically-operated folding doors,
will seat 500 persons and will
be used for chapel services
until the permanent chapel is
constructed. The second floor
of the student center will have
a penthouse lounge and book
store.
Additional structures and
facilities, such as a chapel,
library, more dormitories, ten
nis courts and a swimming pool
will be added in subsequent
phases of construction.
U. S. Does Not Forget God
Or Soldier, President Says
FORT STEWART, Ga., (NC) — President Kennedy
quoted poetry to some 3,000 troops here to drive home
the point that the U.S. remembers God and the soldier
at all times, not only in time of danger.
The President recited a four-line poem after express
ing his thanks to officers and men of the First Armored
Division for their past service and for “present actions
during the difficult period of the last four or five weeks.’’
“Many years ago, according to a story,” the Presi
dent stated, “there was found in a sentry box in Gibral
tar a poem which said:
“God and the soldier, all men adore.
In time of danger and not before.
When the danger is past and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the old soldier slighted.
“This country,” the President concluded, “does not
forget God or the soldier. Upon both we now depend.”
CATHOLIC EDITOR ADIVSES FUTURE JOURNALISTS — Michael Greene, managing
editor of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Reporter, discusses newspaper editorial
problems with high school journalists attending a press workshop at Webster College, St.
Louis, Greene delivered the closing address at the meeting, which attracted some 500
students from the Midwest and the South. The girls, from the left, are Carol Rosberg,
Webster student from Kansas City who was chairman of the workshop; Delores DeSato
of Loretto Academy in Kansas City who placed first in the workshop's news writing
contest; and Mary Ellen Fischer, also of Loretto, who tied for first place in editorial
writing. (NC Photos)
Bishops’ Committee
Asks Legislation For
Movie Classification
WASHINGTON, (NC) - The
U. S. Bishops’ committee for
motion pictures has taken a
dramatic new tack in its effort
to secure classification of films
as a guide for parents of young
children.
The five-member committee
said that industry rejection of
its repeated appeals for volun
tary classification makes it
necessary to turn to legislation.
The Episcopal Committee for
Motion Pictures, Radio and
Television said it will back leg
islation which would authorize
state or municipal education de
partments. or other suitable
agencies, to publish advisory
classifications of films suitable
for children.
The Bishops said they will
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support such legislation where-
ever movie exhibitors fail to
classify films voluntarily.
“We shall urge that the actual
work of classification be en
trusted to departments or agen
cies of proved qualification and
competence, and which enjoy the
respect and confidence of par
ents,” they said.
Archbishop John J. Krol of
Philadelphia is chairman of the
committee whose statement was
released here through the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, the U. S. hierarchy’s se-
retariat.
The Bish°p c ’turn toward leg
islation as a means of securing
classification is made in their
third successive annual state
ment on the matter of films and
youth.
The prelates said they contin
ue to support, as they did in
past statements, voluntary
classification by the movie in
dustry itself.
But they said the opposition
of industry leadership, espec
ially the Motion Picture Asso
ciation of America (MPAA), and
the continuing increase in so-
called “adult films,” many of
them featured in “family-
trade” movie houses, makes
it necessary to seek a new
course.
They charged that “short of
a computer file on all films,
parents are unable to determine
the acceptability of many films
exhibited in neighborhood
theaters which their children
frequent.”
The impact of “adult films”
on youth is a “cause of increa
sing concern” for many people
and agencies, such as parents
and police, who are convinced
that the films “tend to impose
an unhealthful and false outlook
on life,” they said.
The Bishops said that op
ponents of voluntary industry
classification claim it is un
necessary because there are
already numerous rating serv
ices for parents, such as the
National Legion of Decency and
the monthly “Green Sheet” of
the Motion Picture Association
of America.
But, the prelates said, no
rating service--including the
legion—covers all films cur
rently released in the United
States.
The “Green Sheet” of the
MPAA, the Bishops noted, rates
only films bearing the Seal of
Approval from the association’s
own Production Code Authority.
In New York State alone, they
continued, less than 200 of the
798 films licensed for public
exhibition had Code Seals.
“With the rapid increase of
foreign and independent domes
tic films on the American scene,
is difficult for any rating
service to cover even a majority
of films released,” the Bishops
said.
The committee suggested that
lack of guidance on films is a
factor in low film attendance.
“The film industry could pro
fitably investigate contempo
rary movie habits of families j
and youngsters,” they said.
“If box office receipts are
low, even for many films of
merit, it may well be that the
lack of readily available and
reliable guidance on films,
compounded by gross adver
tising practices, will explain,
in part at least, the disin
terest in the seventh art,” they
commented.
Calling advisory film classi
fication an “urgent need,” the
Bishops put their argument this
way:
“Parents have the primary
right and duty to guide children
in their motion picture atten
dance. Because of a lack of
reliable advice on the accepta
bility of the films playing in
local theaters, parents are fre
quently unable to discharge this
duty. f ,
“The problem becomes more
aggravating because of the con
stantly increasing number of
producing and distributing
agencies which supply theaters
with foreign or other films made
outside the long respected in-
flunece of the organized Ameri
can film industry.
“This committee is con
vinced that without a reliable
system of film classification,
parents cannot universally ob
tain the necessary advice and
assistance to meet their re
sponsibility towards their
children.”
In addition to Archbishop
Krol, committee members are
Bishop James V. Casey of
Lincoln, Neb.; Auxiliary Bishop
John A. Donovan of Detroit;
Bishop Walter W. Curtis of
Bridgeport, Conn., and Auxi
liary Bishop Timothy Manning
of Los Angeles.
In Typhoon
THE BULLETIN, December 8, 1962—PAGE 3
Sister Maura Shaun, regional
superior for the Maryknoll
Sisters in the Philippines,
was able to give a first hand
account of the fierce typhoon
that struck the island of
Guam recently. Enroute from
Manila to Koror, she arrived
on Guam just when the storm
broke. The Mercy Sisters’
new convent, where Sister
was staying, suffered the
loss of its novitiate wing and
the roof of the main build
ing. (NC Photosl
Court Trial Ordered On
Charges Off Anti-Catholic
Bias At New York College
NEW YORK (NC) — State
Supreme Court Justice Vincent
A. Lupiano has ordered a court
trial on charges of anti-Catho-
lic bias in the promotion poli
cies of Queens College.
Justice Lupiano held (Nov.
26) that findings of the State
Commission for Human Rights
(formerly the State Commission
against Discrimination) in
dicate that the matter is a
“serious affair” deserving a
court trial.
Charges of anti-Catholic bias
at Queens College, a city in
stitution, were first raised pub
licly in 1958.
A two-year investigation of
the charges was conducted by
the human rights commission.
In 1960 it issued a report stat
ing that Queens College offi
cials were guilty of “resis
tance” to hiring and promoting
Catholics.
However, the city Board of
Higher Education sought to
block the human rights com
mission from taking any ac
tion in regard to complaints
of discrimination at the col
lege, and in 1961 a ruling by
Supreme Court Justice Arthur
Markewitz sided with the board
against the commission.
The request for a court trial
on the merits of the charges
was made before the Supreme
Court by two Catholic assoc
iate professors -- Josef V.
Lombardo of the art depart
ment and Joseph P. Mullalley
of the philosophy department
— who maintained that they
were denied promotions be
cause of anti-Catholic Bias.
Justice Lupiano, in his ruling
ordering a trial on the bias
charges, said such action was
needed to settle the question of
the “asserted pollution of the
academic atmosphere of Queens
College.”
“Careers and reputations are
at stake here,” he said. “If
the infection exists, it will be
appropriately treated. If it does
not exist, the cloud of sus
picion and doubt over the in
tegrity of the college adminis
tration can be dispelled.”
The case will be tried in
the Supreme Court. No date has
yet been set.
Presbyterian
Cited By Club
At Notre Dame
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (NC)
- The Notre Dame University
Club of Alaska has cited a
Presbyterian layman for his
“significant contributions” to
Christian unity.
Cited by the organization was
Jack Simpson, Anchorage in
surance agent and founder of the
United Churchmen Laymen’s
Conference.
Simpson was instrumental in
bringing Father John S.
O’Brien, research professor of
theology at Notre Dame (Ind.)
University, here to address the
second annual session of the
conference.
Some 200 laymen and clergy
of various denominations, in
cluding a number of Catholic
participants, took part in dis
cussion of religious principles
in daily life during the meeting.
In his talk Father O’Brien
stressed the sources of Chris
tian religion as found in the
Bible and in the living faith and
practice of the Christian com
munity. During his stay here
Father O’Brien also spoke to
other groups, including students
of Alaksa Methodist University.
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