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OCTOBER 13, 1956.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE.
Court Orders
Tax Refund
BOSTON, (NC)—The Massa
chusetts Supreme Judicial Court
has ordered the town of Dover,
Mass., to return $14,101.15 in tax
es levied against St. Stephen’s
Priory.
Upholding a ruling given a
year ago by the state’s Appellate
Tax Board, the court ruled that
the property is tax exempt and
that taxes collected during the
past five years must be returned.
The court’s decision ended one
round in a legal battle that began
in 1949 between town officials
and Dominicans who direct the
priory. At the time the town at
tempted to prevent the construc
tion of the priory and seminary
by invoking a zoning law. When
this effort proved unsuccessful,
officials attempted to levy taxes
on the residential parts of the
property (student dormitories)
which, they maintained, were not
entitled to exemption as educa
tional property.
The. State Supreme Court de
cision, written by Justice John V.
Spalding, states that “the purpose
for which the seminary was estab
lished is to train young men for
the Roman Catholic priesthood.
Such purpose is educational.”
At the same time of the Ap
pellate Tax Board decision again
st Dover, in August 1955, Rep.
John T. Driscoll of Dorchester,
Mass., denounced the “narrow
ness and vindictiveness of the few
that control Dover,” and stated
that “tolerant taxpayers of Mass
achusetts ... do not want their
money wasted in such un-Ameri
can litigation.”
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Students at St. Charles Semi
nary, Philadelphia, have recently
inaugurated their third . year of
giving instructions in the Catholic
Faith by mail. Participating in
this program are Seminarians
from Georgia.
Started in the fall of 1953, the
correspondence course has led to
at least thirty known Baptisms,
according to an announcement of
the Seminary’s St. Robert Bel-
larmine Society which sponsors
the project.
Known as the Home Study
Service, the instruction course has
answered over three hundred re
quests for information on the
Catholic Church from people in
England, Canada, Hawaii, Colom
bia, Nigeria, India, Australia, the
Philippine Islands forty states of
the United States, and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Catholics and non-Catholics
have begun and completed courses
in the basic doctrine and practices
of the Catholic Church. Of 200
courses begun, 140 have seen com
pletion, all through the mails. At
present 35 courses are in progress
and requests are still coming in.
The mail instructions, gjven by
the students in their theology
years at the Seminary, under the
guidance of a Faculty Moderator,
are basic and are not intended to
take the place of more complete
courses available at the parish
j level. Many of the requests con
cern additional personal instruc
tions from parish priests.
The course operates on a very
simple plan. Each person who
applies for the course is sent free
a basic, easy-to-read text on the
chief points of Catholic doctrine
and morality. The inquirer is
asked to read a given portion of
the text, which is moderate in
length and content.
After he has read the assign
ed matter, he tries his hand at
answering an examination which
is enclosed with the text. He re
turns the completed examination
form together with any questions
or difficulties to the instructor.
The instructor corrects the ex
amination form, grades it, and re
turns it to the inquirer along with
answers to questions and ex
planations of difficulties.
This procedure is followed,
through a series of six such tests
until the reading of the text is
completed. On the completion of
the tests, each inquirer receives
a diploma.
The instructions are not suf
ficient for admission to the :
Church, should such be desired,
but provide the framework for a
more complete understanding of
the Church and her doctrine.
Applicants for the course are
obtained chiefly by advertising in
Catholic magazines and periodic
als, and in local neighborhood
newspapers.
Anyone interested in the course
may contact: The Home Study
Service, St. Charles Seminary,
Overbrook, Philadelphia 31, Penn.
Services For
George Lenoir
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral,
services for George F. Lenoir Jr.,
were held October 1st at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist.
Extending Best Wishes to the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia, which for more
than a third of a century has been engaged in an effort to bring about a friendlier feeling
among neighbors, irrespective of creed in the State which is home to all of us — a cause
which has rebounded to the general good and a work which has won the approval of Geor
gians for promoting, as it has, respect for the rights of all and the spirit of good will which
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