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WHEREON TO STAND:
WHAT CATHOLICS BELIEVE
AND WHY, by John Brunini, Dell
Publishing Co., Chapel Book,
1961, 351 pp., 50i
Reveiwed by Theodora Koob.
This book was originally
written to explain the teach
ing of the Catholic Church to
such interested persons as knew
little or nothing about it or who
knew things which were mis
conceptions or misrepresenta
tions. It was conceived in the
author’s mind as a ‘map’ con
taining as much detail as pos
sible but in no sense encompas
sing the whole rich country of
the Catholic faith. A masterly
piece of writing, as far as it
goes, covers very adequately,
dynamically and clearly, with
sound scholarship, the whole
picture of Catholic thought from
creation through the organiza
tion of the hierarchy. It deals
with human needs and search
ings, with God’s gifts of grace
and eternal life, with church
organization and growth, with
sacraments and command
ments, with liturgy, saintliness,
and sin.
Whereon To Stand is a good
book for Catholics to have at
hand when questions are asked;
it is also worth reading for what
it can do to clarify the haze
that settles down in middle life
obscuring the sharper concep
tions of the old catechism days.
Certainly this handy little vol
ume should be recommended to
inquiring non-Catholics as a
wholesome, sincere, thor
ough introduction to the Catho
lic faith.
1000 QUESTIONS AND AN
SWERS ON CATHOLICISM, by
Phillip O’ Reilly, Guild Press,
an Angelus Book, 1960, 384
pp„ $1.25.
A very popular book in its
hardcover edition, 1000 Ques
tions in its new revised paper
back should prove to be even
more practical, perhaps. It has
a concise and quite detailed in
dex for ready reference. It is
a good, quick reference book for
Otfia rttcuv
anyone doing extra parish work
among the fallen-away or the
lax, excellent for those working
with youth or leisure-time
groups because of its logical
organization and its answers in
simple question-and-answer
form.
Felicitously, too, it answers
all those to frequently asked
questions about grounds for
annulment and divorce, the
marriage regulations, birth
control, etc. But there is more
than this, too, because 100
Questions gives a sharp yet
comprehensive summation of
what Catholic faith and Catholic
practice is, and why, Could be
recommended to teenagers who
are put to it to defend their faith
in discussion; particularly good
to help young people reconcile
science and religion.
THIS IS THE FAITH, by Fran
cis J. Ripley, Guild Press, an
Angelus Book, 1960, 416 pp.,
95£.
The source of This Is The
Faith was a series of lectures
given in Liverpool to non-Ca-
tholics. It is intended to be a
booster to the Catholic lay mis
sionary or parish worker. The
reviewers wonders just how
Stimulating the lecture audience
may have been since this is a
very thorough and decidedly
scholarly treatise on the Ca
tholic faith.
A detailed Table of Contents
presents the heart of the mat
ter from the existence of God
through faith and its sources
to the commandments, the Holy
Trinity, belief in Christ and re
demption to the organization of
the Church itself and its preist-
hood and sacraments.
Several excellent chapters
are given to Catholic devotions
and prayers, to the Reforma
tion through Catholic eyes, and
to Catholic social principles, so
many of which are so often in
the foreground these days. Ap
pendices deal with church his
tory and the principal heresies.
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Detailed and precise, the book
is not altogether easy reading.
It could be recommended to the
anxious Catholic as well as to
the serious inquiring non- Ca
tholic. It does in some meas
ure satisfy a long-time need
for a more intellectual approach
to the concepts of Catholicism
and will be useful to those who
wish to approach the Catholic
altar with a desire to find out
as much as possible, delving
ply and thoroughly, without
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CHICAGO, (NC)—Time ma
gazine refused a demand from
Msgr. John Egan, director of
the Archdiocesan Conserva
tion Council of Chicago, for a
retraction of a “slanderous”
reference to the Catholic
Church in its March 15 issue.
In its March 22 issue the
magazine prints Msgr. Egan’s
demand in its letters-from-
readers column, but adds the
following editor’s note: “Time,
realizing the heat of the contro
versy, neither intended nor per
petrated calumny or libel. It
respects Msgr. Egan’s position,
regrets his anger, and stands
by its story.”
Msgr. Egan particularly pro
tested this statement in a Time
cover story devoted to Chicago
with emphasis on Mayor
Richard J. Daley:' 'Daley’s pro
grams remove Negroes from
their ghettos, send them into
white neighborhoods, send white
residents fleeing, and leave Ca
tholic parishhouses and church
es bereft of their congrega
tions—and contributions.’’
The article made reference to
the widely publicized battle, led
by Msgr. Egan and the late
Samuel Cardinal Stritch, to
force adequate relocation and
housing provisions into the ur
ban renewal plan for the Hyde
Park-Kenwood neighborhood.
In his protest, Msgr. Egan
said “unresearched, undocu
mented, and unfounded libel
upon the Catholic Church in a
magazine of national circula
tion is a serious breach of
press responsibility and, unless
effectively corrected, strands
as a reflection upon the integri
ty of Time.”
Plans Progressing For Tax-Paid
St. Louis Correctional Services
THE REV. RAYMOND BAIN, S.M.A., pastor of St. Ben
edict’s, Savannah, was celebrant at Mass marking close
of Forty Hours Devotions at St. Anthony’s Church, of Sa
vannah. Pastor of St. Anthony's is the Rev. Dennis Beg
ley, S.M.A.
Legion Of Mary
Savannah Curia
Acies Ceremony
SAVANNAH—The Savannah
Curia of the Legion of Mary will
meet Sunday, March 31st, at
3 p.m. in the Cathedral Day
School.
The annual Acies ceremony,
a renewal of filian love for
Mary, will be held at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist at
3:30 p.m. Sermon will be deliv
ered by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew
J. McDonald, Chancellor of the
Diocese.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J.
Bourke, presently pastor of St.
Mary’s on-the-Hill, Augusta,
organized the Legion of Mary
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist in 1939. Twenty-one
parishes belong to the Savannah
Curia. Rev. Felix Donnelly is
Spiritual Director.
The Acies is the great annual
function of the Legion and all
active and auxiliary members
are encouraged to attend.
In addition to the Curia in
Savannah there are Legion of
Mary Curiae in Augusta and
Columbus.
The Southern Cross, March 30, 1963—PAGE 5
Nonpublic Schools
ST. LOUIS, (NC)—Prelimi
nary tests have been completed
to locate Catholic school child
ren in St. Louis County who will
receive taxpaid speech correct
ional instruction beginning next
fall.
The classes will be provided
in most private and parochial
schools by ijhe tax-supported
Special School District of St.
Louis County.
The Special School District
was directed to provide the
services—previously limited to
public school students—in a
February 18 decision by Mis
souri Atty. Gen. Thomas F.
Eagleton.
Eagleton gave his decision in
response to appeals by parents.
A brief arguing that private
and parochial school children
were eligible for the Special
School District’s services was
submitted to him on behalf of
Joseph A. Blume, president of
the St. Louis federation of chap
ters of Citizens for Educational
Freedom.
Under the program, speech
and hearing correctionists from
the staff of the Special School
District will enter the private
and parochial schools during
regular school hours to admin
ister the therapy classes twice
each week. The setup is believed
to be the first of its kind in
American education.
Previously, the Special
School District had refused to
provide the services for private
and parochial school pupils,
except for those programs for
the more seriously retarded,
in which children are withdrawn
from their regular school and
enrolled fulltime in the Special
School District program.
Dr. Morvin A. Wirtz, su
perintendent of the Special
School District, has been hold
ing meetings with Msgr. James
T. Curtin, St. Louis archdio
cesan school superintendent,
and Harold Leimer, assistent
superintendent of the Lutheran
Schools Western District
office, to map plans for the ex
panded program.
The Catholic school enroll
ment in St. Louis County is
47,200, while there are about
4,000 pupils in Lutheran
schools. The two school sys
tems together account for most
private school pupils.
When the program is imple
mented here, all services of
the Special School District will
be available to all students, re
gardless of the school they at
tend. Nearly 200 Catholic pupils
are now enrolled in the
district’s fulltime program for
the retarded.
According to Msgr. Curtin,
one possible stumbling block
to the expanded program might
be a shortage of personnel on
the part of the Special School
District.
The district is now seeking
passage by the state legisla
ture of a bill which would give
it additional funds by broaden
ing its tax base. If the bill is
not passed, Dr. Wirtz had indi
cated that county voters might
be asked to approve a tax in
crease in the April elections.
No Serra Stamp
Of Peru’s “Red Triangle
Catholic Leaders Claim End
Of Communist Control
(By John O. Leahigh, Jr.)
PUNC), Peru, (NC)—Catholic
labor leaders claim they have
broken communist control over
the impoverished farm workers
here in southern Peru’s strate
gic “Red Triangle’’ commu
nism’ s main stronghold in this
South American nation.
Fulgencio Bareiro Rodas, a
top Catholic union official, told
me the Red bastion was breach
ed after a long-range campaign
climaxed by the successful
convention of farm workers—
campesinos—which ended here
on March 10. On that day some
35,000 farmhands from Puno
Department poured into this
city of 24,000 to stage the lar
gest mass demonstration of
campesinos in Peruvian his
tory.
Bareiro, executive secretary
of the Pacific sector of the Latin
American Confederation of
Christian Trade Unions, is a
Paraguayan assigned to work
with the Christian Labor Move
ment of Peru, which organized
the Puno convention. The con
vention in turn established the
Regional Federation of Southern
Campesinos with 150,000mem
bers.
Bareiro explained to me the
importance of breaking the Red
Triangle.
Its base, he noted, is an
east-west line through the
Andes mountains between the
cities of Arequipa and Puno.
Its apex is the capital of the
ancient Incas, two-mile-high
Cuzco, some 200 miles to the
north.
The Cuzco region, he pointed
out, is the major center of
communism in Peru. Puno, he
added, is the necessary geo
graphical link between Cuzco
and the Red’s other main
BACK FROM RED CUBA—Bishop Coleman F. Carroll
of Miami is passed through the custom aget at Miami’s
International Airport after his return flight from Havana
where he attended the funeral of Manuel Cardinal Arteaga
y Betancourt, Archbishop of Havana. The prelate, who spent
nine and one-half hours in communist-controlled Cuba,
learned that the last four priests imprisoned on the Isle of
Pines in Cuba are scheduled for release soon and will leave
for Spain. Behend Bishop Carroll is Msgr. Brian O. Walsh
who accompanied the Bishop to Havana.—(NC Photos)
Cuban Cardinal
stronghold in Arequipa. It is
impossible to travel between the
two places without passing
through Puno, which is also
strategically important because
of its location on the Bolivian
frontier.
Under their leader Hugo
Blanco, the communists had
such firm control of the cam
pesinos of the Cuzco area that
they could easily take the city
by force, Bareiro stated. The
area, he continued, is called
the Sierra Maetre of Peru after
the mountains of Cuba from
which the forces of Fidel Cas
tro emerged to take over that
country.
In case of civil war in Peru,
Bareiro said, the Reds will now
have to overcome the resis
tance of the Christian-
organized campesinos of the
Puno region before they can
establish supply and communi
cations lines to mount a coordi
nated attack from the Red Tri
angle.
He noted that communist in
tellectuals, who are very strong
in Puno, had been trying to win
over the area’s campesinos
as they did in Cuzco and Are
quipa.
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ical evidence that many early
Christians preferred to put off
their baptism until adulthood or
even old age. Father Joseph
Jungmann mentions the fourth
century custom of the so-called
clinici—“people who waited to
receive the Sacrament on their
kline, their deathbed. This,
many thought, entailed two ad
vantages: Their life could be
spent with less restrictions,
and then before death they could
be baptized and so (this was the
second advantage) they would go
to heaven in their baptismal in
nocence” (The Early Liturgy;
University of Notre Dame
Press, 1959). St. Augustine, we
know, was not baptized until his
middle thirties; Constantine de
cayed hip baptism .until he was
at deaths door.
DELAYING BAPTISM beyond
the first J days of infancy
was nonetheless condemned by
the Church as an intolerable
abuse fraught with fearful con
sequences, as, for example, the
possibility of sudden death with
out baptism.
YESTERDAY, then, as well as
today, the mind of the Church is
that the baptism of infants
should take place as soon as
possible following birth.
Q. I have been trying to
make the “nine First Fridays”
but had to miss receiving Com
munion last first Friday be
cause I was traveling. Is it all
right to take up where I left
off, or must I begin all over
again?
A. The devotion of the nine
first Fridays, which is based on
a private revelation requires
that Communion be received on
nine consecutive Fridays.
Hence it would seem than an in
terruption in the novena would
entail non-compliance with a
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monia about two weeks before
his death.
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll
of Miami was among prelates
attending the Requiem Mass.
The Cardinal was buried (March
21) in the family mausoleum in
Colon cemetery.
At the time of the Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba in April,
1961, the Cardinal took refuge
at the Argentine embassy in
Havana. He remained there un
til Argentina severed diplo
matic relations with Cuba early
in 1962, then was transferred to
the hospital.
Cardinal Arteaga is the third
cardinal ’’‘'-to die in 1963. His
death reduces the College of
Cardinals to 82 members. John
Cardinal D’Alton, Primate of
All Ireland, died on February
1 at age 80, and William Cardi
nal Godfrey, Archbishop of
Westminster, died on January
22 at age 73.
Cardinal Arteaga, who visit
ed the U. S. several times, often
stressed “the urgent necessity
for the union and mutual de
fense” of the Americas. Before
the Castro takeover of Cuba,
the Cardinal had advocated re
forms that would provide for
religion courses in the coun
try’s public schools.
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principal condition of the de
votion. At least all commen
tators who comment on the
query posed are agreed that one
who interrupts the nine first
Fridays, even though no fault
of his own, should begin anew
so that the nine are consecutive.
WASHINGTON — The pro
posal to issue a special U. S.
postage stamp in 1963 to com
memorate the 250th anniver
sary of the birth of Father
Junipero Serra, O. F. M., has
been rejected.
The Post Office department
says its Citizen’s Stamp Ad
visory Committee has voted
against including a Serra stamp
among the 15 commemoratives
it will issue this year. —-
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