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ISSUE FORMAL STATEMENT
PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, May 2, 1968
Hierarchy Wants
Action At Once
TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY at Savannah’s St. Vincent’s Academy (Apr. 26) ended with
music appreciation. The Benedictine Military High School Band entertained the St. Vincent
students after an assembly honoring the faculty. Father Ralph, O.S.B. trained and conducted the
band. (Photo by Bob Ward)
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ST. LOUIS (NC) - The U.
S. bishops issued a statement
on the national race crisis
saying “we must build bridges
of justice, compassion and
understanding, and we must
do so at once.”
The bishops said special
attention must be paid to
education, job opportunity,
lack of decent housing, and
welfare assistance. They said
certain tasks remain the
“unfinished business of the
Catholic religious
community.”
“First among these is total
eradication of any elements
of discrimination in our
parishes, schools, hospitals,
homes for aged and similar
institutions. Second, there is
the Christian duty to use our
resources responsibly and
generously in view of urgent
needs of the poor,” the bish
ops asserted.
The statement stressed
that other tasks may be
performed better by a united
front of the religious
community and pledged “our
continued cooperation with
the National Council of
Churches, the Synagogue
Council of America and other
religious groups. Effective
action is demanded of us all
in the midst of this crisis in
American life.”
The bishops directed
departments, offices and
bureaus of the U. S. Catholic
Conference, in cooperation
with other interested Catholic
organizations, “to set up an
urban task force to
coordinate all Catholic
activities and to relate to
those of others working for
the common goal of one
society based on trust, justice
and love.
The bishops stressed that
it is essential that similar
programs be established
within the Church on
provincial, diocesan and local
levels.
The message emphasized
that “perhaps the most
important single task
confronting the religious
community is building
bridges of understand-
, ing . . . which will link
Americans of every color,
city dwellers and
suburbanites, factory workers
and farmers, civil servants and
professional people.”
The bishops also
emphasized that there are
areas of concern best handled
by working with civic groups
such as the National Urban
Coalition and its local
counterparts and with
organizations having deep
roots in the Negro
community and said they
“strongly urge Catholics of
every color and ethnic group
to ally themselves with these
religious and civic programs
as the most convincing way
of demonstrating love of
neighbor which is proof of
love of God.”
The statement said there
must be recognition of the
fact that racist attitudes and
consequent discrimination
exist not only in the hearts of
men but in the fabric of their
institutions.
“We must also commit our
full energies to the task of
eradicating the effects of such
racism on American society,”
the bishops said.
The statement quotes the
report of the National
Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders warning
against moving toward two
societies, “one black, one
white: separate and unequal.”
The bishops said: “We must
enter into a full dialogue on
matters of substantial interest
with members of minority
groups who suffer from
discrimination and its
effects.”
The bishops asked that
special attention be given to
the following areas:
Education: This is a basic
need, yet schooling available
to the poor is pitifully
inadequate. “Quality
education for poor tots is a
moral imperative if we are to
give millions the realistic
chance to achieve basic
human dignity.” Catholic
school systems must redouble
efforts to meet the current
social crisis which is “of
magnitude and peril far
transcending any which the
Church in America or the
nation has previously
confronted.”
Job Opportunity: The
bishops urged American
business, the industrial
community, management and
labor to put every possible
initiative, resource and
know-how into the fight
against the problem of
, minority unemployment.
They said if private economy
is unable to provide work for
the unemployed of minority
groups “then it becomes the
duty of government to
intervene.”
The bishops strongly urged
strict implementation,
nationally and locally, of
both the letter and the spirit
of the recently enacted
federal open housing act
saying, “whereever and
however possible the Catholic
Church in America will work
with other churches, with
private groups including
industry and labor, and with
government to help provide
housing for low income
families.”
The bishops stressed “need
for welfare assistance which
respects dignity and privacy
for those who cannot secure
adequate employment. The
so-called man-in-the-house
rule is a national scandal. It is
absolutely intolerable that
families are being broken up
by its application.”
The bishops statement
stressed that “there is no
place for complacency and
inertia. The hour is late and
the need is critical. Let us act
while there is still time for
collaborative peaceful
solutions.”
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CATHEDRAL ATHLETIC AWARDS — Winners of Athletic awards at Cathedral Day School,
Savannah, pose with Very Rev. Lawrence A. Lucree, Rector, and Sister Mary Mercia, R.S.M.,
Principal, at Athletic Banquet held April 25th. Pictured (1. to r.) back row: Very Rev. Lawrence A.
Lucree; Mark Jarrell - Most improved football player; Freddie Lindsay- Most valuable basketball
player; Michael Ferraro - most improved basketball player; Joseph Murphy - Most valuable football
player; Michael Rochefort - James E. Ramsey Memorial Trophy; Sister M. Mercia, R.S.M. Front
Row: Kathy Corley - most improved basketball player; Virginia Small - most valuable basketball
player; Ann Gannam and Debra Sanders - Porter Memorial Sportsmanship Trophy. (Photo by Bob
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He called on the
Republican platform
committee to make the
principle an “integral part” of
its platform in this election
year.
The recommendation was
part of a report on urban
education prepared by the
Republican Coordinating
Committee’s study group on
urban education headed by
Rep. Albert H. Quie of
Minnesota. The committee
members include former
President Dwight Eisenhower,
Richard M. Nixon, Thomas E.
Dewey, Barry Goldwater,
U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen.
The endorsement came
from the CEF executive
committee meeting (April 27)
here.The statement was issued
by the Republican National
Coordinating Committee.
Paul C. Mecklenborg of
Cincinnati, CEF president,
said the “basic principle of
the committee report--that
government aid to education
should be distributed on the
basis of fair and equal
treatment of all school
children, including those in
non public schools-demon-
strated a sincere and total
commitment to solving
today’s educational
problems.”
Mecklenborg added: “CEF
has been working for ten
years to secure freedom,
equality and excellence in
education for all children,
including those attending
Christian and Jewish day
schools. The implementation
of the committee’s
recommendation to seek
equality in aid will help bring
this about.”
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CHICAGO (NC) -Citizens
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(CEF) endorsed a Republican
policy statement calling for
equal treatment of all school
children in distribution of
government aid but
questioned the statement’s
emphasis on state agencies in
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AUGUSTA FIRST COMMUNION - CCD First Communion Class at Augusta’s St. Mary’s
on-the-Hill parish is pictured with Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke, Pastor, and the Rev. Roy Cox,
celebrant of the Mass. Thirty-four children received First Communion op Sunday, April 21st.
Social Action Program—
(continued from page 1)
Force would function.
The report received by the
bishops-and which must be
taken as a kind of charter for
the Task Force’s work-is far
less vague.
“Two needs must be met,”
said the proposal:
-A vehicle for national
coordination and
development of the Church’s
work must be established.
--Some agencies and
organizations now working in
the field should receive
additional support.
The Task Force is not
envisioned as a “super
agency,” according to the
report, but as a means to
“draw together at the proper
time and in the proper place
these various aspects of
Church activity which affect
urban life. ...”
' ‘ The Task Force, under the
report’s conditions, would be
“adequately funded and
staffed with experts in all
fields of Church life which
touch on urban and racial
affairs.”
Its job would be to
“coordinate the activities of
the appropriate Church
agencies and organizations at
the national level, and would
provide research, planning,
communications and field
service support necessary to
carry out an effective
program without wasteful
overlapping and duplication
of efforts.”
In addition to the national
Task Force, the report
recommends the creation of
local task forces, also with
full-time professional staffs.
“Local Task Forces would
provide the necessary
coordination within each
diocese, would serve as a
means of coordinating
programs on an area-wide
basis, and would provide
communications between
local, regional and national
levels.”
The Task Forces are also
directed to work closely with
the Urban Coalition-and to
spark the creation of Urban
Coalitions where they do not
exist-as well as with other
civic and religious agencies.
How necessary are these
Task Forces? The Social
Action Department report
thought they were crucial:
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“The Social Action
Department was told time
and again by those with
whom it consulted in
preparing this report that an
urgent need exists for
coordination, communica
tion, research and planning,
particularly-- but not
exclusively-at the national
level.”
The Social Action
Department * admitted that
immediate action and the
need for adequate funding
and staffing raised short-term
financial problems. But it
suggested the approach
undertaken by the National
Urban Coalition in its efforts
to get off the ground-the use
of professionals on loan from
other interested
organizations, around the
nucleus of the Social Action
Department. *
The report also endorsed a
number of currently
operating programs, such as
Project Equality, and Urban
Training Center for Christian
Mission in Chicago, and
Operation Connection,
through which several
religious organizations will
aid community organization
in five urban ghettoes, and
suggested that the Church
cooperate with others in
funding and staffing these
programs.
It backed the upgrading of
parochial schools in ghettoes,
and the expansion of special
adult education programs in
cooperation with Protestant
and Jewish groups.
Finally the report urged
that Catholic hospitals
increase efforts to give
quality medical care to the
poor.
The report was prepared
on the request of Archbishop
John F. Dearden of Detroit,
president of the U.S. Catholic
Conference, by Msgr. George
G. Higgins, director, and
Father John McCarthy,
assistant director of the
Social Action Department.
The department consulted
extensively with Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish leaders
in racial work, as well as with
people active in ghetto
programs.
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