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IN MARYLAND
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
IN AN INDIAN village, a Medical Mission Sister-doctor stops to check a sick baby. Combining pro-
fessional skill with Christian kindness, she tries to make tangible the joyous message of the Re
demption.
MEDICAL MISSION SISTERS
Universal Sick Apostolate
Motivated by their love for
God and men and equipped to
bear this love effectively to
the sick of the world, the Medi
cal Mission Sisters of Philadel
phia today carry on their apos
tolate of service to the Univer
sal Church. They aim to bring
the benefits of modern medi
cine to those in greatest need,
as a tangible expression of
Christ's love and concern for
the sick all times.
They are women who care be
cause whole villages in India
are still wiped out by epidemics
of cholera and typhoid fever,
because the average life expec
tancy in Pakistan is abut 37
years as compared to our "over.
YUCATAN, Mexico (NC) —
"It’s too expensive to get mar
ried in the Church, Padre I"
Too often this was the reply
of prospective brides when
Father Thomas O'Rourke, M.M.
of New York asked if they were
having a Church wedding. The
veteran Maryknoller did a little
investigating.
"WHAl THE most expen-
»ive item for a wedding?" he
asked the eligible girls.
Italy Protests
ROME (NC)--Christian Dem
ocrat members of the Italian
Chamber of Deputies have call
ed on the Italian government to
protest to the United Nations
concerning the treatment and
expulsion of missionaries from
the Sudan.
70" mark, because Ghana has
still to compaign against lepro
sy, because in some areas in
Vietnam there is one doctor for
50,000 people; because the Unit
ed States despite its high stan
dards of medical and hospital
care has poorly distributed fa
cilities for the care of its
people.
Founded in 1925 by Mother
Anna Dengel, M D., in Wash
ington, D. C., the Society of
Catholic-Medical Missionaries
now number over 700 Sisters
with houses in 19 countries and
5 continents. The Sisters are
trained as doctors, nurses,
pharmacists, X-ray and labora
tory technicians. Others study
hospital administration, secre-
Service
"The wedding dress 1" was
the unanimous response. "It
costs more than everything else
comhfhed,"
The next stop for Father
O'Rourke was the ladles' dress
shop, where an amazed shop
keeper filled his order for two
of the largest wedding gowns in
the store. Within minutes, the
Priest had established the first
wedding gown rental service
in town.
•THE GOWNS can be cut
down to size," he said, "but
it would be better if all the
brides were tall and hefty."
Father O’Rourke now has a
long waiting list of prospective
brides wanting to get married
in the Church.
tarial work, dietetics, etc. in
order to completely staff their
own hospitals around the world.
The American Province with
headquarters in Fox Chase,
Philadelphia, Is under the care
of Mother M. Benedict Young,
M.D., who is responsible for its
membership and overseas ope
rations in India, East and West
Pakistan, Uganda, Ghana, South
Vietnam and Venezuela, as well
as for its work in the v United
States.
THE IMMEDIATE impetus to
the establishment of the Medical
Mission Sisters was the vast
amount of unrelieved and pre
ventable suffering which came
daily to Mother Dengel during
her years of medical work as a
lay doctor in India. Responding
to the great need which could
only be alleviated by many more
skilled hands and a continuity of
medical care, the Society was
established in the United States.
It was the first Sisterhood to
combine the religious life with
the medical profession.
Today, for the many who come
to their mission hospitals with
burning fevers, severe ane
mias, racking coughs, intesti
nal parasites, there are scien
tific tests to help diagnose and
specific medicines to cure; for
the many who need surgery,
there are trained hands com
petent to cut away diseased
p. rts and repair damage; for
the child-bearing mothers there
are careful examinations, ap
propriate diet, vitamins and
the security of professional as
sistance at the time of delivery;
for the emaciated, hungry
babies, there is milk aplenty,
love and tender care. For all,
no matter of what race, creed,
class or condition, there is
kindness, concern, an effort
made to serve; a Christian
example.
IN FOURTEEN of the Medical
Mission Sisters’ larger hospi
tals, the young people of the host
countries are being trained as
registered nurses, midwives,
X-ray and laboratory techn-
clans. Interns and residency
programs are carried on in
these institutions, offering val
uable experience and guidance
to young national doctors with
in the framework of a Catholic
hospital.
In the United States the Medi
cal Mission Sisters have insti
tutions in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, Washington, D C., St.
Louis, Missouri, Mountain
View, California, Santa Fe, New
. Mexico, and are right now build
ing the Holy Family Hospital in
Atlanta.
The Holy Family Hospital is
scheduled to open Li the Fall of
1964 providing Atlanta with a
second Catholic Hospital. It is
located at Fairbum and Sewell
Roads, S. W. on a 90-acre wood
ed site that will allow for the
expansion which the future
needs of Atlanta will dictate.
Already seventeen Sisters have
been assigned to the staff of
this hospital. Some of them
will come to Atlanta during
this coming summer to assist
with preparations for opening
in the Fall. One of the hopes
of the Medical Mission Sisters
is that this hospital will bring
to the attention of Catholic girls
in the Archdiocese of Atlanta
the tremendous world-wide
Medical Mission Apostolate.
All vocation inquiries should
be directed to the Medical Mis
sion Sisters, 8400 Pine Road,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19111.
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A ccomodations
Law Is Passed
BALTIMORE —• Archbishop
Lawrence J. 'Shehan of Balti
more has hailed enactment of a
statewide public accomoda--
tions law "will remove much of
the cause of the racial distur
bances which have afflicted our
own state in recent years."
The Archbishop and other re
ligious leaders backed the bill
before its passage (March 14)
by the General Assembly in An-,
napolis. Shortly before the
bill’s enactment, joint Catho-
lic-Protestant - Jewish en
dorsement was voiced in a tele
gram to Gov. J. Millard Tawes,
with Archbishop Shehan the
Catholic signer.
THE CATHOLIC Review,
Baltimore archdiocesan news
paper, also supported the leg
islation editorially.
The new measure extends to
all 23 Maryland counties and
the city of Baltimore a 1963
public accommodations act
which had applied to only 11
countries and the city.
It forbids the management of.
hotels, motels and restaurants
to refuse service on the basis
of "race, creed, color or nat
ional origin. Complaints of dis
crimination are to be taken to
the court if it cannot settle
it by mediation. Violations are
punishable by a fine of up to
$300 for each offense.
The measure specifically ex-,
empts bars, taverns and cock
tail lounges from its provis
ions.
PASSAGE of the bill came
against a background of nat
ionally publicized civil rights
protests in Maryland which
have focused particularly on
the Eastern Shore communities
of Cambridge and Princess
Anne and on Annapolis itself.
Last June, National Guards
men were called out to halt
racial violence in Cambridge,
and the Guard remains on duty
there. More recently, use of
police dogs to quell demonstra
tions in Princess Anne pro
voked wide criticism from civil
rights advocates and others.
The public accommodations is-
Bogus ‘Priest’
The Bishop of Owerri, Ni
geria, has written to Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen, National Di
rector of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, in
forming him that a fraudulent
priest, "Father Julius", is so
liciting mission funds here in
the U. S. Letters and parcels
containing dollars, medals,
prayer books, etc. have arrived
in Owerri, apparently as a re
sult of an appeal made by
"Father Julius" in the Catho
lic Home Messenger.
PRIEST STATES
sue was involved in both places.
Maryland is the first state
south of the Mason-Dixon Line
to enact a public accommoda
tions law.
The crucial fight in the Gene
ral Assembly was over an at
tempt to exempt four of Mary
land’s Eastern Shore countles-
Dorchester, Worcester, Kent
and Queen Annes—from the
bill’s provisions. Such as
exemption is common in Mary
land when a county’s assembly
delegation seeks it under a tra
dition of legislative courtesy.
Gov. Tawes and backers of
the bill, however, strongly op
posed the exemptions in this
case. They prevailed first in the
House, which by a vote of 83-
50 rejected the Senate-approv
ed exemptions, and then in the
Senate, which concurred in the
House action by a vote of 22-
7. Final enactment came in the
Senate, 26-3.
FORMS CO-OP
‘Coffee
Boosts
HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala
(NC) — An American missioner
who learned all about coffee
beans on his vacation establish
ed a coffee marketing cooperat
ive here that has doubled the
income of his people.
Father Edward L. Doheny of
Milwaukee, decided to form the
coffee cooperative which he
found out that the people in his
parish were losing money since
they did not know the differences
in coffee quality and ''»lue.
WHEN THE missionary be
came pastor of San Antonio
Huista, a town of some 5,000
people living in the green high
lands of northern Guatemala,
he found out that his parish-
oners grew anywhere from 500
to 20,000 pounds of coffee on
their family-owned plots.
He also learned that these
growers were getting very low
prices from coffee buyers be
cause they did not know how
much the coffee they grew was
worth and had to take the word
of the middlemen to whom they
sold their products.
FATHER DOHENY decided
then to form a coffee market
ing cooperative. When he ar
rived in San Antonio the people
received as little as $12 per
hundred pounds of coffee. Last
year the cooperative averaged
$24 per hundred pounds. This
year, Father Doheny feels, the
200 familiesJhere will receive
even higher prices for their
Pope John Hit
Discrimination
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (NC)—At
least ten citations from Pope
John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem
in Terris can be used to dem
onstrate the document's con
demnation of racial discrimi
nation, a social action leader
has written.
Father John F. Cronin, S.S.,
assistant director of the Social
Action Department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
offers the analysis in an article
on Pope John’s attitude on race
relations in the Our Sunday
Visitor newspaper (March 22).
"THE MIND of Pope John
is clear; men are equal in dig
nity and racial discrimination
violates their natural rights,"
he asserts after quoting pas
sages on human rights, inter
national relations, social pro
tections and legal safeguards to
Father Cronin examines the
question of timing to explain the
approach of the Church to racial
matters recently.
"WHEN COMPLEX social
changes are involved," he
writes, "the question of timing
becomes important. One of the
American Archbishops quietly
and firmly desegregated the
schools of his archdiocese in
1946 and was widely acclaimed
for his heroism. The same
Archbishop, now a Cardinal,
in 1963 took a number of far-
reaching steps in the civil rights
field, yet his actions were hard
ly noticed by the press. What
would have seemed revolution
ary five years ago is common
place today,"
Father Cronin continues; "But
these steps are commonplace
only because quiet pressure and
persistent education made peo
ple ready to accept (leadership.
Because the Church was trying,
in an undramatic way, to aid the
Negro during the last century,
it can now move forward rapid
ly in the struggle for full equa
lity and the complete recogni
tion of his rights.
"OUR BISHOPS first chose to
give the Negro his due within the
Church itself. When the time
was ripe, they faced the broad
er problem of his position with
in civil society. As with Pope
Pius XII and the Jews, they had
to decide when to act quietly
and when to speak in tones of
thunder."
TERRY ETTEL of Troop 148, B.S.A., sponsored by St. John’s
Church, Hapeville, has received the Ad Altare Dei medal. He is
shown with Fr. D.F. Dullea, assistant pastor of St.John’s.
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total production of a halt-mll-
ion pounds.
At first, not knowing much
about coffee, Father Doheny
spent one of his vacation per
iods studying the various
phases of coffee culture. Now
he can tell by looking at a
dried coffee bean at what alti
tude it was grown and what price
it should bring. Through the
pastor’s efforts the San Antonio
cooperative also has its own
nurseries raising new coffee
trees to improve the production
further.
THE PEOPLE in the co
operative have learned to de
mand the proper prices when
they sell locally. If they don’t
get the right price, they trans
port the coffee to the port for
sale themselves.
Coffee growing is vital not
only to San Antonio Huista’s
economy but to the whole of
Guatemala as well. About 60%
of Guatemala’s exports is cof
fee. Fluctuations in the price
of coffee in the last decade
have contributed to increasing
Inflation in Colombia, El
Salvador, Costa Rica, Haiti and
Braxil, countries whose major
export is coffee.
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