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>ULY 31, 1954
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Wonders Why
Catholics Fait
To Make Retreat
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS, La.—A Jewish
judge just can’t understand why
seme Catholic men refuse to make
weekend retreats. He has made
ene for the past 14 years and says
it’s made a better man of him.
Civil District Court Judge Louis
H. Yarrut ef New Orleans said
that by joining Catholics in a
weekend of silence and meditation
he not only gained great respect
for the Catholic Church but be
came more devout in his own faith.
''The first retreat I made in
delibly impressed upon me the
love and devotion my Catholic
friends have for their Church and
religion,” he said. “I was shamed
into the realization that I had ne
glected my own faith and people.
I did something about it.”
When eurious friends ask Judge
Yarrut if his yearly retreats mean
he is going to become a Catholic,
he answers:
“No,I’m not. I am still a Jew,
proud of my origin and religion
and the contribution my people
have made to mankind, spiritually
and scientifically.”
But he adds—“I do attend the
daily (retreat) lectures on Cath
olic doctrine and philosophy which
offer a liberal education and *
pleasing revelation of many things
I did not know or understand.”
Prejudice and bate are born in
ivnerance, Judge Yarrut believes.
One reason he first went on retreat
nas because “I resented the oft-
repoated calumnies against the re
ligious beliefs and practices of
my Catholic friends and wanted
to learn the truth in order to de
fer) dthem properly.”
Now having completed his 14th
year of “retreating,” the Judge
said “I feel a great sense of appre
ciation and gratitude for the privi
lege rev Catholic friends have again
afforded me to meditate and pray
with them in my own way. It has
made a better man and a better
Jew ef me, as it must inevitably
make any Christian a better man
and a better Christian;”
'What the Judge ean’t under
stand is why many Catholic men
still decline or overlook invita
tions to attend retreats, ft is his
belief that if more men attended
more retreats "much ef the confu
sion and turmoil in the world to
day would disappear and commu
nism would have no ignorance or
intolerance to feed upon.”
Judge Yarrut who has made a
yearly retreat sinee 1940 at Man-
resa Retreat Hawse ha Convent,
La., described Ris feelings on re
floats in “The Claverite,” official
?',*** Knights of Peter
Clover.
Priest TeUs ef
Secret Masses in
Slave Labor Camps
NEW YORK. INC)—Predieting
the eventual eon version of Soviet
Russia to Catholicism, Rather
Frederick Wileock, S.J., told 1,190
dock workers here that there are
plenty of religious activities going
on under cover in the slave-labor
camps of Siberia.
Father Wileock, superior of
Fordham University’s Russian Cen
ter, spoke at the fifth annual Com
munion breakfast of the Port of
New York’s longshoremen .and
checkers in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel.
In the, Siberian slave-labor
camps, Father Wileock said he had
been advised that Catholic priests,
with the assistance of nuns, are of
fering Masses and distributing
Holy Communion without detec
tion by Russian guards.
He said that improvised altars
are set up in spaces between roofs
and ceilings of prison huts and
that improvised religious equip
ment is being salvaged from junk
piles for Masses at night. He said
that several priests who have come
out of Russia described to him the
subterfuges used to keep religion
aUve.
Father Wileock said there is a
great need for priests able to offer
the Mass according to the Russian
rite and pointed out that the train
ing of such priests is ene of the
principal tasks of the Eastern-Rite
Jesuits.
The breakfast was held after the
longshoremen and checkers assist
ed at a Mass offered by IBs
Eminence Francis Cardinal Spell
man, Archbishop of New York, in
St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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