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AT MEXICAN FORUM
Churches Alienate Youth,
Cardinal Danielou Says
MEXICO CITY (NC) -
The churches are alienating
many youths by not facing
the problems of the world
squarely, Jean Cardinal
Danielou S. J., told the
International Youth Forum
here.
The French theologian
claimed that because of this
alienation the more impatient
youths are taking to violence,
drugs and eroticism.
But a law student at the
forum-sponsored by two
groups of Mexican
businessmen-claimed that the
meeting itself was an example
of the class structure because
only rich youths were
attending. “Young workers
and farmers, as well as the
bulk of the student
population are missing,” said
the youth, Federico Martinez
Romo.
Youth was an object of
study at the forum, he
claimed, “in an evasive move
to deal with the problems
youth has courageously
denounced.”
In a question-artd-answer
period after his talk on “The
Role of Violence in the
Confrontation of Today’s
Youth,” Cardinal Danielou
said that he does not believe
that the young generation is
leaving Christianity to follow
Marxism. This generation “is
searching beyond Marxism,”
he said.
Commenting on the use of
violence, the cardinal
admitted that Christ used the
whip to eject the
money-changers from the
temple. “But in reform,” he
said, “the essential force
comes from our personal
example: in work, in
searching, in courageous
denunciation of evil.”
He said that no one “can
determine the degree of
sincerity in protesting
youths,” but claimed that
“they are indeed more sincere
and less spoiled than the
older generations.”
The cardinal also told the
forum that women can stop
men from committing
violence. “Women can bring
to men the ways of love, and
as men build society’s
structures, women can bring
morality to society,” he said.
The forum was sponsored
by the Management
Confederation of Mexico and
the Mexican Executives’
Association.
The m a n a gement
confederation’s president,
industrialist Robert Guajardo
Suarez, told the meeting that
violence and eroticism “are in
great part the fault of the
adults, who through
marketing and advertising for
profit do not hesitate to
foster all kinds of false
values” among youths.
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director of the health center
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California at Berkeley, said
that the use of contraceptives
and pre-marriage sexual
relations often lead youths to
the psychiatric clinic because
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ILLINOIS HI SHOP SA YS
No Desire To
Censor News
By Bennet Bolton
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Bishop Albert R. Zuroweste
of Belleville, whose Dlinois
diocese has been involved in
the explosive racial tensions
in the city of Cairo, stated
here that he has no desire to
suppress or censor NC News
Service dispatches about
affairs in his area.
A metropolitan daily
newspaper in the Midwest
(The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
reported on Feb. 15 that the
bishop had asked NC News
Service to clear all stories
about his diocese with him
before publication.
The daily had quoted from
a personal letter that Bishop
Zuroweste wrote last Dec. 29
to the chief administrative
executive of the nation’s
Catholic Conference, Bishop
Joseph L. Bernardin, in
Washington. The letter
complained about imbalanced
reporting of some Catholic
activities in the Cairo
disturbances, which Bishop
Zuroweste said did not
include the comments and
views of the diocese itself.
Bishop Zuroweste’s letter,
which was private
correspondence, somehow
fell into the hands of a
militant interfaith group in
East St. Louis, Ill., which
printed it in its newsletter,
edited by a former Belleville
priest.
In Washington this week
for a periodic administrative
meeting with other bishops,
Bishop Zuroweste repeated
his written words of
December-that he had no
interest in interferring with
NC News Service and its news
report.
“I am in no way
attempting to impose any
censorship on NC News,” he
said.
“A problem exists in Cairo.
No one has yet come up with
a solution to it, nor has any
national or regional reportage
of the long series of events
there ever been able to
present a complete picture of
all that is involved.”
Richard M. Guilderson Jr.,
director of NC News Service,
had written Bishop
Zuroweste in January: “I am
committed to a balanced,
objective reporting of the
news and eagerly look for
constructive criticism as a
means of improving our
service to subscribers ... Our
aim is to report the news as
truthfully and as objectively
as possible.”
Guilderson said this week
there was never any situation
in which Bishop Zuroweste
confronted him with a
request to censor NC News
Service copy, although the
daily newspaper report of
Feb. 15 had implied that in
its headline.
SAN FRANCISCO (NC) -
He snuggled comfortably in a
well-worn easy chair, puffed
his cigar, smiled and
commented: “This is my
heaven!”
Father George Trunk,
who’ll be 100 come Sept. 1,
was talking about his second
floor bedroom-study in the
gray frame Nativity parish
rectory, close by San
Francisco’s famed Opera
House.
There are red geraniums in
window boxes. The walls are
decorated with murals-scenes
of snow capped mountains,
lakes rimmed with pines, the
way Father Trunk
remembered his childhood
surrounding in Carinthia, a
province now divided
between Austria and the
Slovenian section of
Yugoslavia.
Father Trunk always had
been handy with a paint
brush.
For 22 years, he was pastor
of St. Joseph’s church in
Leadville, a town high in the
Colorado Rockies. While
there he covered the church
walls and ceiling with
paintings from the New
Testament.
“The inside of the church
needed painting very badly
and contractors wanted
$6,000 so I decided to do it
myself. It cost $78 for
scaffolding plus money for
the paint,” he detailed. The
Leadville church now is
regarded as a national
Slovenian monument because
Father Trunk’s paintings are
considered a fine example of
primitive art.
Father Trunk doesn’t paint
anymore, but his days are
busy and happy. He’s up at 6
a.m. each morning, exercises
for 30 minutes. He does
push-ups and bends
strenuously, seldom misses a
morning. Then he says Mass
in a small chapel in the
Nativity church.
After Mass, he breakfasts
and returns to his “heaven.”
He spends most of the
morning at his desk typing a
weekly political column for a
Slovenian newspaper
published in Cleveland.
“Sometimes I feel tired but
I start writing and I feel
better right away,” he said.
Promptly at 11 a.m. and 4
p.m., he goes for a half-hour
walk.
After lunch, he’s back in
his “heaven” and reads until
2 p.m. when he takes an
afternoon nap. His favorite
books deal with politics and
science.
Father Trunk, a priest for
75 years, attributes his
longevity to self-discipline.
“Sometimes I don’t fed
like exercising in the morning
but I make myself get up and
do it,” he said firmly.
“Twenty years ago, the
doctors told me to stop
smoking and to stop drinking
coffee. But I told them I
didn’t want to live if I
couldn’t have my cigars and
coffee.” He also likes a little
Dr. Carl M. Brennan M. D.,
Savannah pediatrician and
Chairman of St. James Parish
School Board, addressed the
February meeting of the
Home and School Association
last week on the “Evolution
of Behavior Patterns in
Children.”
Tracing the “pre-natal
mark” on children from
pre-natal months to maturity,
Dr. Brennan urged parents to
do more than simply listen to
their children. “They must
hear and seek to understand
them and their needs,” he
said.
He suggested that most
mothers “junk” books on
child behavior and “have
honey and brandy during the
day.
Father Trunk came to this
country in 1921, has never
returned to his homeland. He
was a pastor in North Dakota
until 1921 when he was sent
to Leadville. In 1946 he came
to San Francisco.
•
He was active in politics
before he came to America,
was a delegate from Carinthia
to the Versailles treaty
conference after World War I.
enough confidence” to use
their “good common sense”
in raising their children.
Parents, the Savannah
physician said, “should be
constantly aware of their
children and their needs if
they do not want to “miss
out on the children’s
development and coming of
99
age.
In other business, the
Home and School Association
adopted a motion to donate
$1,000 to the parish building
fund in memory of the late
Monsignor John D. Toomey,
former pastor of St. James,
and furnish a plaque for a
picture of Monsignor Toomey
donated to the school by its
principal, Sister David Marie.
The metropolitan daily, in
quoting from the private
letter, did not include a
paragraph in which Bishop
Zuroweste made it clear that
“while we do not wish to
suppress news, we object to
certain individuals acting as
representatives of the
Belleville diocese.”
Hie daily had telephoned
Guilderson in Washington
before running its story and
asked him whether NC News
Service was subject to any
censorship.
“Hiere is no censorship of
NC News Service,” replied
Guilderson.
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ALMOST CENTENARIAN - Father George M. Truck, who wUI
become 100 years of age on Sept. 1, offers Mass daily, takes a
walk twice a day and enjoys a good cigar. “This is my heaven,”
he says, relaxing in his easy chair. (NC Photo)
St. James HSA
Hears Brennan