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MEA T ON FRIDA Y?
Fish Industry
Reports Small
Drop In Sales
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
A spot check across the nation in the wake of
the first meat-on-Friday for Catholics under the
new Church rule disclosed fish dealers didn’t fare
too (badly. <
In advance of the hilg day, Dec. 2, fish and
seafood dealers reportedly were expecting a drop
of 10% or more in sales. But the habits of years
are not easily discarded, the check-up showed, and
generally it was business-as-usual for the fish deal
ers.
In Savannah, long known as
a seafood town, restaurant
owners and seafood whole
salers reported little or no
decline in fish sales. Some
indicated that sales were ac
tually up from last year.
In the great seafood city
of Boston, waterfront deal
ers reported no noticeable
slump in business. One pop
ular seafood restaurant said
Friday sales were up 25%
over those of a year ago.
On the other side of the
country, in another city where
seafood is popular, San Fran
cisco, dealers and restaurant
owners reported no falling off
in business.
But here and there, a drop
off in fish and seafood sales
were reported. In India
napolis, a few restaurant ope
rators reported running out of
steaks during the luncheon
period. In Buffalo, N.Y., fish
sales were reported down 10%.
But brisk business-as-
usual in the Friday fish line
were the reports from places
like Miami, Fla., Washington,
D.C., Chicago and St. Louis.
At La Salle College, con
ducted by the Christian Bro
thers in Philadelphia, where
there have been some pro
tests over food service, the
cafeteria operator averted un
pleasantness by serving meat
as well as fish.
The general report from a
number of other Catholic uni
versities and colleges was
no change — that in addition
to fish, meat was served, as
it was in past years for non-
Catholic students.
Officials of fish and sea
food associations have said
that dealers can look for a
drop in sales during the early
Fridays under the new Church
rule. They point out that in
Canada where the meat-on-
Friday rule went into effect
earlier in the year, sales
dipped 25% but since have
recovered. They said the
same conditions might be ex
pected in the United States.
INSIDE STORY
Savannah Anniversary Pg* 2
Pope On Faith Pg* 3
Palestine Violence PiJ. 3
War Revisited Pg* 4
Vocation Crisis....: Pg* 5
Tune Liturgy Pg* 6
DUBLIN PASTOR
Silver Jubilee
For Fr. T oner
Reverend Raphael Toner,
M.S.SS.T., will mark the sil
ver jubilee of his ordination
to the priesthood at a con-
celebrated Mass at Immacu
late Conception Church, Dub
lin, on December 11th, at 5:30
P.M.
In attendance at the Mass
will be the Most Reverend
Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop
of Savannah.
Shortly after his ordination
in 1941, Father Raphael was
assigned to FortBenning,Ga.,
as Auxiliary Chaplain. In 1944
he was stationed in Philadel
phia, Miss., and in 1953 serv
ed at St. Joseph’s Missionary
Cenacle, Pearlington, Miss.
Another assignment took
him to La Purisima Missio
nary Cenacle, El Modena,
Calif. In 1960 he helped start
the parish of Christ the King
in Silver Spring, Md. From
1962 to the present time he
has been pastor of Immacu
late Conception Church.
Rev. Raphael
Toner, M.S.SS.T.
FRIDAY MEAT FOR HIBERNIANS — For the first time in their history
members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians had a choice of eating meat or
fish at a testimonial luncheon held on Friday. Dec. 2 .was the first Friday
on which U.S. Catholics were not required to abstain from meat. Tradition
proved too strong for about half of the Hibernians at the New York luncheon
who stuck to the fish course. The other half chose to eat roast beef with the
promise to perform some other act of sacrifice. The Hibernians are one of
the oldest Irish-Catholic lay groups in. the country. (RNS Photo)
ST.LOUIS UNIVERSITY
French Marxist Lectures
Despite Storm Of Protest
ST. LOUIS (NC)—After a
compromise agreement was
reached, Roger Garaudy, lead
ing French Marxist theoreti
cian, lectured here at St. Louis
University.
The compromise was reach
ed several days before the
(Dec. 7) lecture between stu
dents, faculty and adminis
trators at the Jesuit-operated
university.
The contention centered a-
round the size and type of audi
ence which would hear the
Marxist philosopher. Garaudy
was permitted to speak, as
originally planned, in the
spacious university gymnas
ium, but his lecture was not
“public” as originally
planned.
The Marxist’s lecture was
scheduled originally as part of
the Great Issues Series ar
ranged by the university stu
dents conclave.
Strong protests against per
mitting the Frenchman to lec
ture were raised by the Amer
ican Legion and the Legion of
St. Michael here. The univer
sity board of trustees refused
to cancel the Garaudy talk,
but in the wake of the protests
decided to move the lecture
site to a smaller auditorium
and restrict the audience to
students and faculty members
engaged in philosophical
studies.
The trustees’ decision in
turn was protested by students,
the university’s branch of the
American Association of Uni
versity professors and other
individuals and groups.
The university board of
trustees, as a result, held
another meeting. The board
decided to move the lecture
site back to the gymnasium and
allow a wider—but still not
public — audience to hear
Garaudy.
The talk was opened to stu
dents and faculty from all the
approximately 14 universities
and colleges in the St. Louis
area. In addition, holders of
season ticket^ to the Great
Issues Series were admitted to
the gymnasium.
The trustees’ decision fol
lowed a meeting of an ad hoc
committee of three students
and Father Paul C. Reinert,
S. J., university president.
Father Reinert and the
students, sources said, agreed
to the compromise position
which was adopted by the board
of trustees.
As part of the compromise,
the students agreed to cancel
a special edition of the Uni
versity News, which would
have been a four-page protest
called the “U. Noose.” The
paper had been prepared but
had not been printed at the
time of the meeting with Fath
er Reinert.
The university chapter of the
AAUP met after the trustee’s
decision and, after drafting a
statement congratulating the
university on allowing Garaudy
to appear, planned ways to im
prove structures so that
faculty could be consulted on
such issues.
The university council, a
faculty - administrator body,
has structures set up for such
conferrals, but it cannot
operate on short notice, AAUP
members said.
Garaudy’s appearance at the
university was one of several
lectures he is scheduled to
give in the United States. He
spoke previously at the John
LaFarge Institute in New York;
Harvard University’s divinity
school; Temple University in
Philadelphia and Union Theo
logical Seminary in NewYork.
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HEADLINE /■*
HOPSCOTCH
NATION
Record Giving
NEW YORK (NC)—Early returns from the 1966 clothing
campaign of the Catholic Relief Services-National Catholic Wel
fare Conference indicate that 1966 totals will break last year’s
record of 19.5 million pounds of clothing collected. It will
mark the seventh consecutive year that the campaign has sur
passed the previous year’s totals. The 1965 record topped the
1964 total of 18.25 million pounds.
VATICAN
Pope On Advent
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope Paul VI, appearing at his window
overlooking St. Peter’s Square (Dec. 4), urged all Christians
to be concerned with a spiritual rather than a worldly pre
paration for Christmas. “We are now in Advent, we must
prepare the wav for the Lord with prayer and penance, with
the expectation and search for Christ. It is necessary to remem
ber that Christmas must be happy for everyone and therefore
that we must do something for those who live in proverty and
suffering. Make your children aware of this.”
S. AMERICA
Drink At Wakes
ICA, Peru (NC)—Bishop Alberto Dettman Y Aragon, O.P , of
lea has instructed all pastors in his jurisdiction to exhort the
faithful to observe sobriety at affairs of a religious nature.
The bishop asked Catholics not to indulge in drinking at religious
feasts, novenas, processions, wakes and other occasions which
demand religious propriety. E mphasizing the importance of his
decree, the bishop underlined the duty of all to promote good
customs, the purity of the faith, and the maintenance of sound
doctrine.
CATHOLIC - PROTESTANT
NCC Recognition
May Spur Closer
Interchurch Ties
MIAMI BEACH (RNS)—Policy-makers of the National Council of
Churches qpened the way for new adv ances in relations with Roman Catho
lics by officially recognizing the Catho lie Church as “being in agreement with
the [preamble of the constitution” of the NCC.
The action by the General
Board of the 30-communion
Protestant, Anglican and Eas
tern Orthodox organization
makes it possible for the Ca
tholic Church to send frater
nal delegates to the NCC Gen
eral Assembly and to have
members on the Council’s
program boards and commit
tees and on the elected staff.
The board met immediately
in advance of the NCC’s seven
th week-long triennial General
Assembly here.
While seen as a major de
velopment in interreligious
r elations, the board action was
not construed as an immediate
move toward Catholic mem
bership in the NCC.
Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, NCC
general secretary, hailed the
development as one which will
make possible closer working
relationships but added:
“It should be understood
that we are not talking here
about Roman Catholic mem
bership in the National Coun-
ciL At this time, no conver
sations about possible mem
bership are being held.”
While various Catholic
parishes and dioceses have
joined Protestant councils of
churches on local and area
levels, the “bigger questions”
involved in membership in the
NCC were cited also by the
Rev. Robert C. Dodds, the
Council’s director of ecu
menical affairs.
“We’re just getting ac
quainted,” he said, “and we
have to live with each other
for awhile before we know
whether that’s a possibility.”
Similar reaction was
voiced, meanwhile, by the
chairman of the U. S. Catho
lic Bishops’ Commission for
Ecumenical andlnterreligious
Affairs, Bishop John J. Car-
berry of Columbus, Ohio.
Advised of the NCC action
as he was traveling in In
diana, Bishop Carberry said
it would be “premature” to
predict what programs the
Catholic Church might join.
He suggested race relations
might be among initial areas
chosen for closer coopera
tion.
“Most of our discussions
so far have been in the theo
logical area,” the bishop said,
“and here we have developed
wonderful rapport.”
As to the acceptance of the
statement in the NCC con
stitution’s preamble, Bishop
Carberry added that it “says
nothing that isn’t in the
Apostle’s Creed, and we of
course accept that.”
The preamble says:
“Under the province of God,
communions which confess
Jesus Christ as Divine Lord
and Savior, in order more
fully to manifest oneness in
Him, do now create an in
clusive cooperative agency of
Christian churches of the
United States of America to
show forth their unity and
mission in specific ways and
to bring the churches into
living contact with one another
for fellowship study and co
operative action.”
First Catholic member
of the NCC staff is Father
David J. Bowman, S.J., who
last September became a con
sultant to the Department of
Faith and Order. In connec
tion with the General Board’s
action, he was placed on the
“elective” staff as assistant
director of the department.
Only one member of the
General Board audibly ob
jected to the action. This was
the Rev. Guy C. Teterich, a
Methodist minister from Tul
sa, Okla., who said that he
favored cooperation with Ca
tholics but preferred a “long
er courtship” and more “sub
rosa goodwill.”
Some 16 Churches now are
in the category of “agree
ment” with the NCC pre
amble and are eligible to par
ticipate in aspects of the Coun
cil’s program. The largest
non-member Protestant
groups are the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod and
the Southern Baptist Conven
tion.
The National Council also
elected Dr. Arthur S. Flem
ing, former U. S. Cabinet
member and a prominent
Methodist layman as the or
ganization’s new president.
Dr. Fleming thus becomes the
second layman to head the
Protestat, Anglican and East
ern Orthodox agency.
In another development in
this resort-city, the first Jew-
ish-Catholic dialogue ever
held here engendered feelings
of hope, caution and criticism.
Co-sponsored by Barry
College (Catholic) and the lo
cal chapter of the Anti-De
famation League of B’nai
B’rith, the dialogue attracted
about 500 persons to a day
of speeches and discussion
workshops on the college cam
pus.
Francis K. Buckley, a Fort
Lauderdale attorney and a Ca
tholic, told the meeting: “I
look forward to the day when
a Jew will be president of the
United States.” This would, he
added, “further convey evi
dence that we have a strong
country—a country of people
who practice what they preach,
a community of people of prin
ciple.”
Dr. Joseph L. Lichten, di
rector of intercultural affairs
for the ADL, urged Jews not
to be too narrow in their ap
proach to dialogue through
which they might become “not
only better human beings, but
also witnesses to their faith.”
He cautioned his co-re-
ligionists not to “remember
only the episodes of persecu
tion and forget the protective
arm which the Church as a
whole and the papacy in par
ticular extended to our medi
eval forefathers.”
Confirmation Dec.13
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough will confer the Sacra
ment of Confirmation at Hunter Air Base on Tuesday
evening, December 13th, at 6 P.M. The Sacrament
will be administered during an Evening Mass.
INVESTITURE — Bishop Thomas J. McDonough
places mitre on head of Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke
at recent investiture- ceremony. Monsignor Bourke
has been named a Prothonotary Apostolic by Pope
Paul VI.