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L 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) SAVANNAH DIOCESAN LOURDES CENTENNIAL PILGRIMAGE Sponsored by Most Rev. Thomas j. McDonough Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah Under the Spiritual Direction of Monsignor McNamara and Father Bourire, members will depart April 22,1958 from New York via Trans World Airlines to visit Lourdes during The Year of Jubilee-proclaimed by the Holy Father to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady’s appearances to St. Bernadette. 17-day itinerary includes: Fatima .; . Rome... Killamey .. if Dublin... London... Paris.. .Madrid ...Lisbon... $1,050.40 More than 60 Pilgrimage departures January through October. You can always TRAVEL NOW—PAY LATER when you go American Expressl For complete information, ask your Travel Agent or American Express Travel Service 121 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, Jackson 3-7821 or at Davison's Travel Bureau PROTECT YOUR TRAVEL FUNDS WITH AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES—SPENDABLE EVERYWHERE 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. ’toe (MantarL^pniv UICKiE & CONE STS. AIR CONDITIONED Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta. 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