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CHARGED WITH CREA TING CONFUSION
U.S. Supreme Court Blamed For Smut Problem
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (NC)—Bishop John
King Mussio of Stuebenville said the great burden
of responsibility for success of pornography in
this nation rests on the U.S. Supreme Court.
He told the Parent Teachers Association of
.suburban Knoxville: “While an entire nation
of decent citizens is well aware of what por
nography is and isn’t , the court has found
great difficulty in determining what it is.”
Bishop Mussio, a frequent critic of the court’s
trend toward excessive freedom of the press,
classified pornography alongside treason and
subversiveness. He suggested it “be treated
as a common enemy oi our American good
order.” He claimed “society depends upon
the elimination of pornography.”
Bishop Mussio said the Supreme Court
once stated firmly, that obscenity “is utterly
without social importance and may be forbidden
by law.” He said that the court once satis
factorily defined obscenity, and then began to
backtrack by adopting “work rules...not in con
formity with right concepts of truth and justice.”
He added that this move by the court is “un
intentional... but true.”
The greatest amount of confusion, said Bi
shop Mussio, came from the court’s 1964 deci
sion in Jacobellis vs. Ohio (1964), wherein it
interpreted its own term, “offensive to con
temporary community standards” in measuring
pornography, to mean a national community
standard. The prelate protested the nation is
“too large, varied, and different in ideas,
customs, and habits to find an agreement on
this point. ’ ’
The bishop said: “It is the people of the
local community who have to live with the stuff.
It is the people of the local community who have
the obligation to protect the family, to keep
from youth corrupting influences, and to do all
VOLUNTEER
Church Groups
No Competition
To Peace Corps
CHICAGO (NC)—The national
director of the Extension Society
Volunteers accused Dr. Joseph
T. English, Peace Corps medi
cal program director, of being
grossly misinformed or un
acquainted in his recent criti
cism of the Extension Society
m GVGincnt duel pre
gram.
In a speech at Marquette Uni
versity, Dr. English said the
Extension Volunteer and the
Papal Volunteers for Latin
America programs are com
peting with the Peace Corps by
New F east
Day Set For
St. Benedict
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has set July 11 as the
official celebration in Europe of
the feast of St. Benedict under
his new title as Patron of Europe.
^^^ie decree (dated March 4)
establishing the July feastday
states that the March celebra
tion will remain a third class
feast “in order not to augment
the festival celebration during
Lent.” Signed by Arcadio Car
dinal Larraona, prefect of the
Congregation of Rites, it was
published in the Vatican City
daily L’Osservatore Romano
(March 6).
DIPLOMATE of the Ameri
can Board of Surgery is Sis
ter M. Mathias Zimmerman,
M.D., who has joined the
staff of the Medical Mission
Sisters' Holy Family Hos
pital in New Delhi, India.
Sister Mathias, a native of
Fort Loramie, Ohio, received
her M.D. from Georgetown
University, Washington, D.
C., and did her four-year
surgical residency at St.
Louis (Mo.) City Hospital.
(NC Photos)
creating Catholic equivalents,
rather than complementing the
Peace Corps.
“Dr. English reveals a lack
of understanding of what he crit
icizes,” Father John J. Sullivan,
director of the Extension pro-
Z'—", raid.
The Extension Society Volun
teer program was organized pre
vious to the Peace Corps under
the direction of the American
hierarchy and sponsored by Al
bert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago
to supply personnel for the Amer
ican home missions.
“The Extension program
doesn’t want to duplicate the
work to be done by the govern
ment volunteer program,”
Father Sullivan said. “We would
be most eager to hear that our
volunteer nurses in mission hos
pitals and in migrant camps, our
social workers in diocesan
agencies, our teachers in strug
gling mission schools, and so
forth, can be succeeded by do
mestic Peace Corpsmen, but this
is surely not likely to happen.”
Even if this were ac
complished, Father Sullivan
asked, how can a government
volunteer program, for instance,
provide corpsmen to promote the
liturgy, to be specialists in re
ligious education, to labor full
time in the Newman apostolate?
“Furthermore, the noble hu-
manitarianism of the government
programs is not out to establish
a personal, Christian commit
ment, which is the only way to
revitalize the spiritual dimen
sion of this massive problem.”
Father Sullivan said.
With regard to recruiting on
the Catholic and state campuses,
Father Sullivan said that “Dr.
English should see that our ef
forts in promotion will contri
bute to the prosperity of all these
programs.” x
Father Sullivan felt that he
should answer Dr. English, he
said, because the major promo
tion on the college level, both
Catholic and state, for Catholic
volunteer programs is carried
on under the auspices of and at
the expense of the Catholic
Church Extension Society.
Dispensation
Next Week
His Excellency The Most Rev
erend Thomas J. McDonough,
has granted a dispensation from
the laws of Fast and abstinence
on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th
and on the Feast of St. Joseph,
March 19th.
possible to uphold law, authority, and good
order.”
Bishop Mussio said this ruling by the court
violates the right of a community to protect
itself and “represents a further centralization
of power in matters which belong to local
communities.
Bishop Mussio said the court has given the
impression that it is not sure what it is doing.
He called it unreasonable in such doubt to allow
obscenity to “flood the land.”
IN CATHOUC HOSPITAL
Bishop Mussio stressed the FBI contention
that pornography is an element in the behavior
of juvenile delinquents. He added that social
workers, judges, and juries consistently con
nect obscenity with crime.
“I think,” said the bishop, “that a great
deal of respect for the court has been lost
simply because people feel that it has not
acted promptly to secure the best interests of
the common good, that society has been made
to suffer because of an idea of freedom which
is not that which protects and safeguards our
liberties as free men.”
POPE PAUL’S PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS—“O Jesus, Divine Shepherd of souls, who
called the Apostles to become fishers of men, now call the ardent and generous hearts
of our youth to make them Your followers and ministers. Let them share Your thirst for
that universal redemption for which You daily renew Your Sacrifice upon the altar. O
Lord Jesus, ‘always living to make intercession for us’, extend our horizons to the entire
world, where so many brethren make silent supplication for the light of truth and the
warmth of love, so that answering Your call, many young men may prolong here Your
mission, edify Your Mystical Body, the Church, and become ‘the salt of the earth and the
light of the world’. Extend, O Lord, Your loving call to many pure and generous-hearted
young women, that they may grow in their desire for evangelical perfection and may
dedicate themselves to the service of the Church and their neighbors who so desperately
need such assistance and charity. Amen.” (NC Photos)
IN BIRTH CONTROL
U.S. Now Step Closer
T o T otal Involvement
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
United States has stepped closer
to total involvement in the birth
control programs of countries
which seek American assistance.
This country will refuse to
supply devices for artifical birth
control or equipment for their
manufacture, but it concedes this
prohibition will not be a stumbling
block to effective birth limitation
programs.
A memo explaining current
U. S. policy has been sent from
State Department headquarters of
the Agency for International
Development to all missions of
this nation’s foreign aid program.
Other than drawing a line at
supplying contraceptives, the
memo indicates the U. S. govern
ment will respond to requests
with a variety of funds, ser
vices and equipment.
Research and educational pro
grams on family planning can
seek U. S. support and some
equipment will be made avail
able. The latter can include jeeps
for persons engaged in “mater
nal and child health and family
planning programs” in backward
areas.
To justify growing U. S. in
volvement, the memo cites in
creasing numbers of requests for
help from other nations and notes
that the world population has
reached the highest growth rate
ever recorded— an annual ex
pansion of 2.1% according to 1964
United Nations figures.
“Already in many countries,”
the memo states, “food pro
duction, employment oppor
tunities, the development of
schools and health services and
other aspects of social and eco
nomic growth are barely keeping
pace with population growth.”
AID saw “potentially serious
consequences” stemming from
the squeeze between population
growth and development of ser
vices needed by the people.
“It is important,” the memo
tells those in the field, “that
AID missions assess carefully
and fully all the implications of
the population growth for econo
mic and social developments as
well as for AID programs.”
The document said that care
fully conducted studies in de
veloping countries show a “wide
spread desire” to limit family
size and get information on how
to do it.
“AID will not consider
requests for contraceptive de
vices or equipment for manufac
ture of contraceptives. Ex
perience has made it clear that
the cost of these latter items is
not a stumbling block in countries
that are developing effective pro
grams.
“Other items could be provided
by AID, such as vehicles and
education equipment for use in
maternal and child health, and
family planning programs,’’the
document said.
‘Father, I Can’t See’ Is
Cry Of Alabama Victims
After Violence In Selma
SELMA, Ala.—“Many of them
kept saying, ‘I’m blind, Father,
I can’t see.’ My curate, the
Sisters and myself helped the
nurses carry in the injured. Some
were very badly hurt.”
This is the memory of Sunday,
March 7, of Father Maurice Ouel-
let, S.S.E., pastor of St. Eliza
beth’s church here and local
superior of the Society of St.
Edmund which operates Good Sa
maritan Hospital.
Father Ouellet was interviewed
(March 8) the day after Alabama
state troopers and mounted de
puties fired tear gas and charged
into a crowd of 600 praying Ne
groes who were beginning a
“Walk for Freedom” from Selma
to Montgomery, a distance of 50
miles.
At Good Samaritan Hospital,
one of two local hospitals to which
relays of screaming ambulances
brought injured marchers, Fa
ther Ouellet said he and his cu
rate, Father Charles McNeice,
S.S.E., all the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Rochester, N.Y., who
staff the hospital and the parish
school, and the medical staff
handled more than 50 injured.
“There was much pain and
suffering. And those persons
gassed were frightened. The gas
burns your nose and throat, you
know, and takes away your sight
temporarily. Many of them kept
saying, ‘I’m blind, Father, I can’t
see.’ Eventually it wore off,”
Father Ouellet related.
“We treated many for shock
and hysteria. And we feel there
are many more who did not get
to the hospital, but simply went
home,” he said.
“Some had skull fractures.
Many had bad lacerations on the
head and face. Those beaten on
the shoulders and arms had no
lacerations, but serious and pain
ful bruises. I think some got
trampled because they had brui
ses all over their body,” he
added.
“I’ve known this was going to
happen; I’ve been saying it for
two yelars, but nobody listens.
This hhs been evident, but you
could hot sense it unless you
were involved with Negroes here.
“The question is; ‘what hap
pens now? To whom do these
people turn?’ The hatred is so
deep. Who will help them? I’m
sure it isn’t going to stop now.
We need Federal protection. We
need troops. The country must
bring its presence to bear.”
Father Ouellet saw no role
for a unified interfaith body in
Selma as a voice of peace.
“About a year ago I tried.
I even tried to hold a meeting
with local church spokesmen.
The outcome was negative,” he
said.
TWO PAIRS OF
At Good Samaritan, John
Wright, assistant director and
public relations officer, said 13
persons were hospitalized. Most
injuries were fractures of arms
and legs and head lacerations,
he said.
Priest Brothers
Killed In Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo
(NC)— Two pairs of Blood
brothers who were priests of
the White Fathers of Africa were
murdered by Simba rebels in
the northeastern part of the Con
go within a week.
It has now been learned here
that Father LeonardusDe Meyer,
W. F., 37-year-old missioner
stationed in Aba, in the Mahagi
diocese near Lake Albert, was
killed by rebel forces near Bunia
along with five other Belgian
White Fathers last Nov. 27.
It was reported in early De
cember that Father De Meyer had
been taken captive by the rebels at
the same time they killed the
five other White Fathers.
rather De Meyer was the
brother of Father Piet De Me
yer, W.F., superior of the White
Fathers’ mission in Fataki, about
30 miles from Bunia, who was
slain by the rebels near Bunia
on Dec. 2.
Murdered with Father Leonar-
dus De Meyer in the Nov. 27
slaughter was Father Charles
Pauwelyn, W.F., 48. Father Pau-
welyn’s brother, Father Eugene
Pauwelyn, W.F., 54, was killed by
the rebels on Dec. 2 along with
Father Piet De Meyer. The Pau
welyn brothers were from Harel-
beke, Belgium.
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
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NATION
Heroes' Father Dies
WATERLOO, Iowa (NC)—Requiem Mass was offered (March 5)
in St. Mary’s church here for Thomas F. Sullivan, 82, father of
the five Sullivan brothers who died during World War II when their
ship, the U.S.S. Juneau, was sunk.
FAR EAST
Birth Control Failure
NEW DELHI, India—India’s health minister has in effect admitted
before parliament the failure of the country’s birth control program.
Dr. Sushila Nayyar told the upper house of parliament that the
birth rate declined by only 0.4 per 1,000 as a result of the 10-year-
old program costing millions of dollars. She said the birth rate
was 41.7 in 1951-56, when the program was launched, and 41.3 in 1961.
VATICAN
Parents Of Retarded
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VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI has assured parents of retarded
children that his prayers are with them in their secret sacrifice.
“Suffering...is a clear sign, so to speak, of the mysterious
heavenly will which wants us to be saved by means of the Cross.
You have been regarded as worthy of this Cross, and the Lord has
given you strength to carry it. ”
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