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JUNE 25, 1955.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINA
World Underprivileged Look To U. S„
For Something To Feed Their Souls
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By Thomas E. Heffner. Jr.
(Correspondent. N.C.W.C.
News Service)
CHARLOTTE, N. C., — The
world’s underprivileged are look
ing to America “for something
which will feed their souls,
something which will give them
new hope,” not more economic
aid, His Eminence Samuel Car
dinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chi
cago, declared here.
The Cardinal emphasized
that men crave truth in his mes
sage to more than 1,000 mem
bers of the North Carolina Cath
olic Laymen’s Association at its
annual convention here.
Speaking before a packed au
dience in this city’s largest audi
torium—and several hundreds
were turned away—the Cardinal,
in the course of his address, de
clared:
“Tyranny has brought misery
to millions ...”
“An ideology which dares not
face reason, seeks world conqu
est . . .”
“Secularism with its specious
empty promises is endangering
the very foundations of morali
ty.”
“With material plenty there is
confusion.”
Throughout his talk was
woven the theme that what suc
cess commjunism has enjoyed
springs directly from its pro
mises, albeit never fulfilled, to
those millions wfio each day
wonder from where the next
day’s bread will come.
And the Cardinal’s challenge
to the West was plain: Material
aid is not enough. Men, even
those who do not know Him, are
seeking Christ, craving Christ,
hunting for the Sacred Truth.
“There are,” he said, “so many
good things and so many good
people in our world. And theirs
are the gravest of problems
which must be solved if the to
morrow is to be better than the
today.”
A native of Tennessee who
holds the interests of mission-
iand Dixie high in his heart,
Cardinal Stritch dwelt also at
length upon the changing South
land with its industrial growth
of recent years.
While shunning the lavender
and lace portrait of the South as
pictured in “pretty novels
written for Northern readers,”
he pleaded that Dixieland not
lose its culture.
And he said, here “I see some
thing which is the antithesis of
Marxism) . . . Here I see in the
recognition of human dignity the
safeguard of native freedoms.
“And here I see what I think
is a deep craving to hear the
Church tell its fact, the fact of
Christ.
“Christ Jesus is the fact which
can save the world, bring or
der out of confusion, bestow
genuine peace.
The speech of Cardinal
Stritch was preceded by one of
Lawrence W. Pierce, Assistant
District Attorney of Kings Coun
ty, N. Y., who spoke on the
problems of the Negro.
And he was speaking before a
Catholic audience where there
were several hundred Negroes
present.
Mr. Pierce traced the problem
of the Negro and the problem of
the Church in reaching tho
Negro. He said there are 460,000
Negro Catholics in the U.S. to
day -and about 5,640,000 Negro
Protestants.
He had high praise and ex
pressed great hope for the vari
ous Catholic Interracial Coun
cils.
Thanking Bishop Vincent S.
Waters of Raleigh, for his now-
famous pastoral letter of Juno
12, 1953 in which the Bishop
firmly state the Church’s views
on ail men, Mr. Pierce said:
“Negro Catholics have every
reason to expect that if forth
right declarations concerning the
nature of man, the dignity*of the
human person and his conse
quent standing before God and
among men could be expected
from any quarter, it should
emanate from! that Body con
ceived in divinity and founded
by Christ, the Holy Roman Cath
olic Church. Our expectations
could not have been better ful
filled than by His Excellency’s
statement which was undoubted
ly inspired by the Seat of Wis
dom, the Holy Ghost, and by this
great Hierarch’s unbounding and
Christ-like love for his fellow
man.”
Present for the convention
banquet were: Auxiliary Arch
bishop William D. O’Brien of
Chicago; Auxiliary Bishop Jos
eph Durick of Mobile-Birming-
ham, Ala.; Auxiliary Bishop
Francis E. Hyland of Savannah-
Atlanta, Ga.; Auxiliary Bishop
Joseph Hodges of Richmond,
Va.; Auxiliary Bishop James J
Navagh of Raleigh, N. C.; Ab
bot Vincent G. Taylor of Bel
mont Abbey, N. C., and Maj.
Gen. Joseph P. Cleland of Fori.
Bragg.
Mrs. White
Funeral Services
MACON, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. Beatrice White were held
June 11th at St. Joseph’s Church.
Survivors are two brothers,
John and Mark Mullees, Clare-
morris, Ireland; three nieces and
one nephew.
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