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LAY PLANS FOR C.C.D. MEET
Controversy Sweeps England
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
Planning- for the Ninth Northwest Regional Congress of
the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine are Father Paul
Stecher, at left, Diocesan Director, C.C.D., Diocese of Yaki
ma, Washington, and Father Bertrand J. Gulnerich, Ph.D.,
Field Representative, National Center of the C.C.D,, Wash
ington, D. C. To be represented in the meeting scheduled
for September, are nine dioceses in the States of Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Territory of Alaska.
(NC Photos)
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LEGALIZATION WOULD COURT
DISASTER, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
LONDON, — Archbishop Wil
liam Godfrey of Westminster has
warned this nation that to give
the sanction of law to the prac
tice of artificial insemination
would be to court disaster.
The Archbishop, making his
first public statement on the sub
ject since it recently blew up into
a front-page controversy in Brit
ain, did not mention artificial in
semination by name but referred
to it as “new methods of genera
tion.”
“To introduce legislation which
panders to passion rather than
fosters virtue is to build on sand,”
the Archbishop said, commenting
on proposals that the practice—
still officially not recognized in
this country—should be given the
sanction and the protection of
file law.
“To play fast and loose with the
divine plan regarding the func
tions of marriage is to build on
sand. To approve of new methods
of generation which strike at the
intimate relationship of man and
Wife and the right of a child to
come into the world with normal
and natural parentage is not only
immoral but would be to build on
so slippery a foundation as to
court catastrophe.
“To pass any .legislation which
seems to condone even the worst
sins against nature would, in my
judgement, be so demanding to
the morality of a nation as to
militate greviously aghinst that
peace and well-being of a people
that is the object, of all govern
ment.”
Archbishop Godfrey spoke at
the opening of St. Joseph’s
Church at Wembley, on the Lon
don outskirts.
The subject of artificial insem
ination was suddenly made a
national issue when Lord Wheat-
ley, Judge of the Scottish High
Court, declared in a divorce ac
tion that in his view artificial in
semination by donor without the
husband’s consent did not, amount
to adultery.
This was the first time any
such declaration had been made
in a British court. It was de
nounced the following week by
the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Primate of the state Church of
England. The Archbishop, Dr.
Geoffery Fisher, declared that he
considered A.I.D. (artificial in
semination by a donor not a wo
mans’ husband) to be a sin and
a criminal offense as practiced at
present.
The Anglican Primate, saying
he feared that many people would
accept the Scottish judge’s ruling
on A.I.D., pointed out that no
British law had yet been laid
down on the subject. He urged
Parliament to do something about
it.
Dr. Fisher, however, refused to
denounce artificial insemination
altogether and made no reference
to donor husbands. But even his
denunciation, with its suggested
compromises, roused a flood of
angry protests from A.I.D. sup
porters, including part of the
press, leading doctors and a few
well-known clergymen.
In a nationwide radio discus
sion on the subject, the Anglican
Bishop of St. Albans, Dr. Beres-
ford Jones, said that any mother
who accepted A.I.D. “was not a
fit person to. mother a child.”
Dr. Letitia Fairfield, leading
Catholic doctor, wrote in the Tab
let, national Catholic review, that,
artificial insemination by the
husband was in her opinion “ili-
cit. in principle but greatly re
stricted in practice.”
A first move to secure some
legislation on the subject may be
made this month. Lord Blackford,
a non-Catholic, has laid down a
motion for the approval of the
House of Lords, Parliament’s up
per chamber, that artificial in
semination of a married woman
by a donor other than her hus
band “in tantamount to adultery,
that it should be sufficient ground
for divorce and that all children
so conceived are illegitimate.” It
is to be debated on February 26
but no motion proposed by a
member of Parliament is ever
certain of getting a hearing at all.
Marian Theater
Presents Story Of
Ignatius Loyola
Fatima Statue
To Circle Globe
In Prayer Crusade
“THE SEVENTH SON” will be
featured on the MARIAN THE
ATER, broadcast of Sunday, Feb
ruary 23rd. Ricardo Montalban
will appear in the role of St. Ig
natius of Loyola.
Ignatius of Loyola was born in
the Spanish province of Guipo
zcoa one year before Columbus
discovered America. His full
name was Inigoy Lopezy Olla.
and he was born to a wealthy and
influential family. Inigo was a
man of fiery ambition and untir
ing courage.
For a career, he chose to serve
the queen, not at court, but as a
soldier. The historic battle of
Pamplona brought about a change
in his career that has left a last
ing effect upon the world. Dur
ing the battle, Inigo was badly
wounded and captured by the
French.
During his long period of re
cuperation, he passed the time by
reading the only books available,
the Lives of the Saints. As a
result of his reading, he determ
ined to do something much more
important with his life than de
vote it to soldiery. A few years
later Inigo founded the Society of
Jesus.
“THE SEVENTH SON” was
written and directed for Marian
Theater by John T. Kelley.
SERVICES FOR
MRS. ROSS
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SEATTLE, Wash. — A pilgrim
statue of Our Lady of Fatima will
begin an earth circuit from Se
attle on March 1, it was announc
ed by Archbishop Thomas A,
Connally of Seattle.
The statue, being used as a
symbol in spreading Our Lady’s
plea for penance and the daily
recitation of the Rosary, will com
plete its earth orbit for peace
April 26 in Seattle.
Preceding the statue’s pilgrim
age for peace, a triduum of de
votions to Our Lady of Fatima
will be held in St. James Ca
thedral here from February 26 to
28. The triduum will be preached
by Father Patrick J. Moore of the
Scarboro Foreign Mission Society,
who will take the statue on its
long pilgrimage.
He received it in Fatima May
13, 1948, and took it to Rome
where he received the blessing of
His Holiness Pope Pius XII for
.the statue and for his mission,
Since then the statue has travel
ed more than 300,000 miles and
its crusade for the Queen of Peace
has been made to people of many
lands, non-Catholic as well as
Catholics.
Father Moore is taking the
statue on a tour of several Ca
nadian and Alaskan cities this
month. The tour includes Holy
Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver, B.
C., February 14 to 16, Prince Ru
pert, B.C., February 17; Ketchi
kan, Alaska, February 18; Juneau,
February 19; Fairbanks, Febru
ary 21 and 22, and Anchorage,
February 22 to 23.
The around-the-world flight of
the statue will begin at the Se-
attle-Tacoma airport on March 1.
Its first stop will be in Honolulu.
Other stops will include two in
India, others in the Orient, then
Rome and Fatima. Father Moore
said the itinerary has not been
finalized.
On its return the pilgrim statue
will be taken to Seattle, Belling
ham, Tacoma, and Vancouver,
Wash., between April 26 and 30.
THE BULLETIN, Ternary 22, 1958 — PAGE THREE
SURE, IT r LL FLY, MISTER!
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral
services for Mrs. Carmel Heffer-
nan Ross were held February 9th,
Rev. T. James McNamara officia
ting.
There’s no worry about Russian sputniks for five-year-old
Johnny. He’s just built a “Johnny-nik” and what’s more, he’s
pretty certain it will fly—if thrown hard enough. Johnny is one
of 100 youngsters cared for by the Daughters of Charity at
Guardian Angels Settlement in an older section of St. Louis.
—(NC Photos).
“Not much is known of St.
Martina, but this doesn’t matter
much. Nothing bad is known of
her, and that is good. It is better
to die as an unknown than to be
notorious. To die a saint is the
only thing that is important.”
— Christian Life Calendar, 1958.
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