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2 Georgia Bulletin, Thursday, May 25, 1967
Negroes Report That Bias
Is Still Alive In The KC
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SAN ANTONIO (NC)—If Ne
groes have lost interest in the
Knights of Columbus it is be-
because discrimination is still
practiced withing the organiza
tion, according to several
Catholic laymen here.
The Negro leaders made the
charge in response to an article
in the Alamo Messenger, dio
cesan newspaper, in which one
K. of C. official contended that
the race question is a “dead
issue” in theTexas Knights and
another reported that efforts to
recruit Negroes had been un
successful.
The Negroes responding to
the article were formerly
members of Our Lady of the
Rosary Council 3345 which was
founded in 1950 with a goal of'
integrated membership. At one
time more than a dozen Negroes
belonged to the council but all
have given up their member
ship. .
Cited by the former members
as a major reason fortheirdis-
enchantment with the Council
was their inability to progress
in it to Fourth Degree member-
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the organization.
According to Francis Cuf-
•fins, one of the former mem
bers, **There was much'in
terest and pride among the
Negro Knights until they realiz
ed that there were limitations
for any progress and advance
ment or to be Fourth, Degree
Knights. They could not achieve
equal opportunities Or partici
pation on a citywide level, and
unable to cope with these chal
lenges, their interest began to
lag.
‘They voluntarily discon
tinued their membership by
non-attendance,*’ he explained.
‘There has not been any effort
from the Council to contact or
reinstate inactive Knights nor
has there been any Knowledge in
this parish (St. Peter daver)
of any literature of membership
cards being distributed for re
cruiting members.’*
His last remark was in ans
wer to a statement made in the
Alamo Messenger article by
John Spitzer, Grand Knight of
the Alamo Heights Council, Who
said that his council had made
a determined effort to recruit
members from St. Peter Claver
and Holy Redeemer parishes
where there arelarge numbers
of Negro Catholics.
Another Negro who former
ly belonged to Our Lady of the
Rosary Council said that he had
given up his membership be
cause he had become “totally
disgusted when we learned we
couldn’t go further than third
degree.”
The former Knight, Millard
McNeal,-said that Council of
ficers always asked those wish
ing to become Fourth Degree
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Knights to contact someone af
ter meetings. Whenever he
sought an application, however,
he was told that someone would
have to invite him to become a
Fourth Degree member, he
added.
McNeal also took issue with
a statement in theAlamo Mes
senger article by State Depuby
Willard Green that there are
“many hundreds of Negro
Knights in the state.”
Said McNeal “I don’t think
, you could come up with 100
Negro KCs in the whole state.**
In claiming ‘‘many hund
reds,” Green had said that
“how many is anybody’s guess
because our application forms
have never required a listing
on race or color.”
Green also said that he had
no knowledge “of a man of any
color being turned down on ap
plication for membership in
this jurisdiction (Texas).”
State K. of C. officials also
point toThomas St. Clair White,
a Negro stationed at Brooks
Air Force base here, who has
b6en a member of the Fourth
Degree Knights for some time.
They say Negroes could
transfer to Council 4315 through
which White reached Fourth
Degree status or to Council
Negro members.
Reform
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
meetings on matters pertaining
to academic development of the
university.
—That the Academic Senate,
composed principally of univer
sity administrators, be expand
ed to include greater faculty
representation.
—That a recently appointed
trustees* committee to study
long-range planning for the uni
versity be enlarged to include
’ specialists in various fields of
higher education selected by the’'
faculty. The committee is
chaired by Dr. Carroll Hoch-
walt of St. Louis.
No action was reported on a
fourth .major request, that uni
versity statutes be amended to
permit a layman to be rector.
The trustees also met with
Father Walter J. Schmitz, S.S.
dean, and other faculty mem
bers of the school of theology.
The meeting, which had been re-
i . quested by the school, was call
ed “beneficial to both sides,”
with agreement reached to hold
future Consultations on acade
mic procedures relating to the
teaching of Catholic doctrine.
: Trustees at the meeting we re
Archbishop John P. Cody of
Chicago, Archbishop Philip M.
-■ Hannan of New Orleans, Bishop
John J. Russell of Richmond,
Bishop Williarii J. McDonald,
university rector, Judge Ste
phen M. Jackson of the U.S.
Defense Department, Lewis Gu-
arnieri, a Warren, Ohio, law
yer, and John W. Clarke of
Chicago. -
The faculty was represented
by Father Frederick R, Mc
Manus, Prof. James Brennan,
Father Robert E. Hunt, Prof.
Edward Jordan, Prof. John J.
Murphy, and Prof. C. Joseph
Nuesse, chairman.
A Change
In Name?
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
tors of the society) must be a
personalization of this enlarg
ed idea. To preach the gospel
is the prime task entrusted to
the bishops, and you are the
first vice presidents in charge
of this burden.
“You have dimensions, then,
that transcend your manhood,
your ordinary priesthood. First
is your own focus, that concern
must go beyond your parishes,
your diocese, your nation. The
world itself, as the Methodists
say, is your parish.”
Secularization Dangers
Noted Within Schools
CONCERN for the spiritual care and education of exceptional
children is discussed by, l.-r.: Father Richard A. Kiernan,
Lawrence Paine, Father Michael A. Morris, and Alex Warzyniak.
Intensified Program
Underway To Aid
Exceptional Child
An intensified program to
meet the educational and spiri
tual needs of exceptional child
ren is planned by Our Lady’s
Association for Exceptional
Children, said Lawrence Paine,
president.
At a recent meeting of the
association, Archbishop Paul
J. Hallinan, guest speaker, out
lined general plans to meet
the future needs of the excep
tional child. “Every child is
not only the being that he is,
but the being that he can be
come. Parents, the Church,
and society have the obliga
tion of developing that child’s
potential,’* he said.
“There will be an intensifi
cation of plans to make sure
that-, All exceptional, ohildren-o
, ,are to be baptized, .Qpirfinjied,,,.
, and nourished by the Holy-Eu
charist. Parents and pastors
have been advised to this effect
in a recent pastoral letter, “the
archbishop said.
Our Lady's Day School for
Exceptional Children located
in the Drexel High School Build
ing, has been maintained for
10 years by the archdiocesan
department of education. Re
ferring to the school in his talk,
the archbishop affirmed that
“every effort has been made
and- will be made to provide
a continued program of the work
begun at the school by Sister
Mary Venardand Miss Lorraine
Zak.*’
At the meeting, Father Ri
chard A. Kieran, chaplain of the
Day School, was appointed by
the archbishop as spiritual di
rector of the association.
“The archbishop’s talk was
most informative and the people
most receptive,” said Paine.
Although the association in-
. eludes parents of children en
rolled in the day school, its
purpose is to assist all parents
of exceptional children in the
archdiocese.
“The association sponsors
two special schools of religion
to provide for the needs of
exceptional children,” Paine
said, “and the programs must
be expanded to aid all excep
tional children.”
The program s^now in effect
. are supervised by Sigter Ellen
johnjj S.N.D f atSt, .Thomas latere '
,',an$P Sister Robert Therese,,
G.N.S.H. at Immaculate Heart
of Mary. Assisting the nuns
are adult and, teenage‘Volun
teers. As a result of their in
volvement and dedication, Sis
ter Ellen John said, "Three
of the high school students
working with the children plan
to go on to college and make
the field of special education
for exceptional children their
career.”
The school of religion com
mittee of the association met
Friday with the nuns, Father
Kieran, Father Michael A. Mor
ris, archdiocesan director of
religious education, and Alex
Warzyniak, newly-appointed
committee chairman. Warzy
niak and Dr. Nicholas Caster-
TOLEDO, Ohio (NC)--Cath
olics and Protestants together
should give strong emphasis to
the teaching of moral and
spiritual values, said a Jesuit
lecturer here, discussing the
Challenge of Christian Unity.
Father John A..Hardon, S.J.,
said no problem is more deeply
critical for American Protes- .
tantism than the gradual
secularization . of public
schools. Paying tribute to the
public school system as the
bulwark of American de
mocracy and principal instru
ment of unity, the priest said
a new element has entered the
scene.
“Certain interests, in
fluential in shaping national
opinion, are now opposed to
any semblance of religious,
values in public education.
“Aroused by such pressure
groups, the Protestant churches
of America have awakened to
the crisis. They declare them-
HC College
Will Honor
Hallinan
WORCESTER, Mass. (NC)~
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan,
will be among five persons
presented with honorary de
grees at the 121st commence
ment of Holy Cross College-
here June 7.
Gov. John A. Volpe of Massa
chusetts will give the com
mencement address.
Father Raymond J. Swords,
S.J., college president, said
degrees also will be conferred
upon John U. Munro, dean of
Harvard College; Aloysius F.
Power, vice president and gen
eral counsel of General Motors
Corp.; Mother Loretto Julia of
Rome, mother general of the
Sisters of Notre Dame, and
Robert S. Fitzgerald, also of
Harvard.
—. j
Degrees will be granted to
'™’4& students:a^ffBJnaa *
selves unequivocally in favor of against any shibboleths about
integrating religion with the mixing church and state,”
regular curriculum and warn Father Hardon said.
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.cone, special educatioii profes
sor at Georgia State, plan to
implement and expand the pre
sent religion programs.
At the meeting, Warzyniak
outlined a future teacher-train
ing program. Father Kiernan
said, “We are planning a spec
ial confirmation class for this
winter. I am interested in
bring the exceptional child more
closely into the life of Christ,’’
To achieve this goal, parents
are asked to contact Father
Kieran at Immaculate Heart of
Mary, or Lawrence Paine. “If
pastors and parents will work
together,” Paine said, "we can
hopefully reach more of the
exceptional children and pro
vide help for them.”
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