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Addressing the first National
Conference on the Spiritual Foun
dations of American Democracy,
the President declared that the
American people must become
“self-disciplined.” Unless they do,
he said, “we cannot meet the chal
lenges of today.”
Mr. Eisenhower spoke at a
luncheon during the three-dey
meeting, which was sponsored by
the Foundation for Religious Ac
tion in the Social and Civil Or
der. The Foundation has a na
tional advisory council composed
•f prominent leaders of the ma
)or faiths. Catholic members in
clude Bishop Michael J. Ready,
Bishop John J. Wright of Wor
cester President George Shuster
•f Hunter College, New York,
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WASHINGTON -—(NC)— A cross section of America s top-flight religious leaders
heard President Eisenhower assert that the basis for democracy is the concept that “man is
worth while because he is born in the image of his God.
and Father Theodore M. Het
burgh, C. H. S., president of the
University of Notre Dame.
In his address, President Eisen
hower lauded the aims of the con
ference to stress the importance
of religious truth in the preserva
tion and development of real de
mocracy, and to unite all believers
in God in the struggle between the
free world and atheistic commun
ism and said he hopes the work
of the conference will spread “to
every town and hamlet in the Unit
ed States.”
In an address at the opening
meeting, Atomic Energy Commis
sioner Thomas E. Murray declared
he had “no doubts” about Ameri
ca's “present and ever growing
strength” in the field of atomic
weapons. But he said that he was
“not at all sure about the adequacy
of our strength on the higher in
planes
sharper
tellectual and spiritual
where the grisis is even
and more urgent.”
energy
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Asserting that atomic
has resulted in "the
change in man's relations with na
ture since the fateful days in the
Garden of Eden,” Mr. Murray said
its release has demonstrated more
strikingly than any previous event
in history the moral solidarity of
mankind.
The Catholic lay leader also as
serted that "an essential part of
that spiritual and moral recov
ery to which this conference
looks must consist in a recovery
of a sense of the absoluteness of
the universal moral law."
And he said that just as nature
did not surrender her atomic
crets to the indolent, “victory
the spiritual and moral crisis
our age will not belong to the
dolent.”
“Those who will not submit
themselves to the lengthy and ex
acting discipline of the truth are
of no help to us today,” he said.
Those who shrink fro n the auster
ity of hard work are not our allies.
Man liberated the energies of the
atom only at the cost of a colossal
cooperative effort. Only by a com
parable effort, put forth in depen
dence on the grace of God, will
man liberate himself and his own
interior spiritual energies from the
tyranny of fear and confusion and
ignorance, from the enslavements
of unreason and error and evil.”
The question, he said, was
whether Americans are enslaved in
the soft and easy aspects of life,
or whether they are willing for
sacrifice.
"The enemy here is plain," he
declared. "It it materialism. Ma
terialism does not knew the
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tian sense: The word and the
thing are alien to It."
In another talk. Father Hesburg
declared:
“We are not merely interested
in defeating communism as an op
posing world view. We are rather
seeking for the dynamic sources
of life in our own democratic
form. If communism were to be
wiped from the face of the earth
today or tomorrow, we would not
ourselves be better than we are
today, only"perhaps less harassed.
“And in the providence of God,
perhaps we are faced with th^
present crisis in order that we
might assess more urgently those
truths by which we profess to
live. This achievement alone, in
truth and in reality, would be the
most effective kind of death blow
to communism and its claims.”
The Notre Dame president also
scored secularism and “the prac
tical disunity created by those
who share the benefits of democra
cy without professing actively or
practicing a religious life that
should follow the religious faith
that is “at the heart of democracy”
Parents Are Urged To Forbid
Steady Dating By Teen-Agers
CINCINNATI —(NC)— A priest, speaking to an audience
of parents and teachers here, criticized “the institution of
steady dating,” and belittled the theory that “wholesome rec
reation” is the solution.
Father Thomas Stanley, S.M., di
rector of the Lourdes Grotto at
Mount St. John in Dayton, O., term
ed steady dating by teenagers a
“serious, urgent problem.” It was
caused largely by parents who
thought it was “cute” when it first
began, he stated.
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To attempt a solution with
“wholesome recreation.” he added,
really amounts to “an adolescent
solution to an adolescent problem.”
The only answer is for parents to
organize against it, as Pope Pius
XI said was the solution to all such
questionable institutions, he said.
But Fathar Stanley adeted that
organization is a price that peo
ple don't like to pay.
The Institution of steady dating
was set up with the permission
and encouragement of parents.
“Otherwise it could not have been
set up at all,” he continued.
Calling recreation a good thing,
but much over-emphasized, he said
that "we must get over the habit
of considering it an educational
factor, except for little children.”
The priest continued that for
children, play is real life, but for
elder persens and adolescents,
play is an escape.
An attempt to substitute recrea
tion for steady dating is no solu
tion to the problem, Father Stan
ley said, but only provides a means
of escape from it.
Modern emphasis on games is a
sign of the current tendency of
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Mews In Brief
CLEVELAND—This year's Cath.
olic Charities campaign in Cleve
land brought 150,922 pled^ps to
talling $915,893 99 per cent of
the goal.
CINCINNATI—A religious re
vival is taking place in America,
hut it is not be to found in
“postage stamps, pledges of al
legiance and prayers before cab
inet meetings,” Father Robert
Havda, pastor of St. John Church,
Berlin, N.D., said last week at
the University of Cincinnati's
Religious Emphasis Week.
Among the examples of relig
ious awakening given by Father
Hovda were greater participa
tion in the liturgical movement,
a host of new magazines and per
iodicals, and a blossoming of
monastic culture.
STEUBENVILLE—Catholic par
ishes of Steubenville and vicinity
will soon have a new hospital.
Bishop John King Mussio has an
nounced that a campaign for funds
to assist the Franciscan Sisters in
erecting a hospital in the west end
of Steubenville will be conducted
in January. The new structure will
be named for the patron of the
Bishop, St. John the Apostle.
YOUNGSTOWN Towering
walls of St. Columbia Cathedral,
a Youngstown landmark for a
half century, began to disappear
last week as workmen began dis
lodging masonry dangerously
weakened by the fire o Sept. 2
which destroyed the edifice.
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The "Friends of St. Rita's" are engaged in a membership drive
during the month of November in an effort to further the aims of
the organization. The group was organized in 1951 for the purpose
of aiding financially the Carmelite Sisters of the Sick and Infirm
in providing a "home" for the aged and infirm of the diocese—St.
Rita's Home. At the present time there are 17 groups active in this
work. The groups are composed of men and women who are inter
ested in making a happier life for the older people. At present,
there is a need for occupational therapy The Sisters are emphasiz
ing and encouraging hobbies and improved facilities are necessary.
The "Friends of St. Rita's" have three types of membership: sus
taining, active and associate. Person* interested in the project may
write or call, Mother Superior, St. Rita's Home for the Aged, 1415 E.
Broad St., Columbus, EV. 2053. Pictured above are members of the
membership drive committee. Seated are Sister Rita Patricia, at
left, and Miss Helen Smith. Standing, left to right, are Mrs. Earl
McAllister, Miss Lilliam F. Lane, Mrs. Mark Hauenstein and Sis
ter Marie Leonard.
adults to go down to the level of
adolescents instead of trying to
pull them up to adulthood, he de
clared.
“Thus we have the theory,” he
added, ‘That mom and pnp must be
‘pals’ with their children. Instead
of encouraging children to read
good books, we read the children's
comic books. Instead nf leading
them to a love of fine music, we
play their music. No wonder they
are confused.”
CHILLICOTHE Flaget Council
1071 of the Knights of Co
lumbus, conferred first degree
membership on 15 candidates last
week at a ceremony in the council
room.
New members are: Edward R.
Bunstine, William G. Byrnes, Har
old E. Cook, Felix K. Crunebach.
Arthur B. Harker. Clifford A.
Johnson. John L. McCardel, Emilio
Martinez, August R. Moix, James
A. McGinley, James Streitenberg
er. Robert D. Summers. Charles D.
Williams. Edward .1. Wochensky
and John F. Wollenburg.
The council announced that the
second and third degrees will be
conferred Sunday, Dec. 26.
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Faith, Sa vs
AMA Head
ST. LOUIS, Mo. —(NC)—Dr.
Elmer Hess, president-elect of
the American Medical Associa
tion said any doctor “who
lacks faith in the Supreme
Being has no right to practice
medicine.” Dr Hess made this
statement, in a prepared digest
of extemporaneous remarks he
planned for the opening of the
48th annual meeting of the
Southern Medical Association
Earlier this year Dr. Edward .1.
McCormack, then president of the
AMA had said at the groups an
nual convention in San Francisco
that "any doctor who did not be
lieve in God should not be prac
ticing medicine Dr. McCormack,
a Catholic, had also stressed the
"priestly vocation” of the physi
cian.
Dr. Hess, an Episcopalian, con
tinued his remarks saying: "A
physician who walks into a sick
room is not alone. He can minister
only to the ailing person with the
material tools of scientific medi
cine his faith in a higher power
does the rest.”
Ha said, "Show mt th* doctor
who denies the existence of the
Supreme Being, and I will say
that he has no right to practice
the healing art"
He asserted later, "Any man who
enters the medical profession with
financial gain as his sole objective
is a discredit to his colleagues.
The market place is where you go
lo make money, not the sick room.
Doctors take care of sick folk—
period.”
The Erie, Pa. urologist noted
that the AMA had launched a long
range program designed to solve
the problems of the indigent and
chronically ill. Stating that no
group of patients arc as dependent
on pleasant environment, good
nourishment, adequate housing,
and professional care as those
emotionally and mentally ill, Dr.
Hess asserted. “The conditions in
some of our so-called mental hos
pitals are a disgrace to the
nation.”
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Friday, November IP. 1954 THE CATHOLIC TIMES—3
Moral Revolution Urge
In Social Justice Fiel
PITTSBURGH, Pa. —INC)— Catholics have been urged to
become “revolutionaries” in the cause of justice and charity
by Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington in a speech
at the 40th meeting of the National Conference of Catholic
Charities held here.
"What is needed today a moral
revolution,” said the Archbishop,
to counteract the fact that men are
not living human life as God in
tended it to be lived.
Speaking on "Living the So-
Pope Outlines
Dutv Of Press
CASTELGANDOLFO (Ra
dio, NC) The press, and es
pecially the Catholic press, has
a duty to “enlighten, nourish
and elevate minds and hearts,”
His Holiness Pope Pius XII told
a group of Italian Catholic pub
lishers who had met in conven
tion in Rome
The Holy Father, who re
ceived the publishers at his
summer palace here, said that
while material considerations ase
important, the reputation of pub
lishing houses depends to a consid
erable extent on how they measure
up to this duty.
It is even more so in the case of
the Catholic publisher, because^he
wants to offer to God “the full
dedication of his talents," Pope
Pius added.
He urged the publisher* to be
careful not to reject material
submitted for publication without
full examination of all the con
siderations involved. Otherwise,
he* said, they might be guilty of
sin* of omission, since some
things can find their way into
public print only through the
publisher, who
against a lack
fervor.
has to guard
of charity or
Congratulating
on their Marian devotion, the Pon
tiff recalled that pictures nt the
Annunciation in Christian art
often show Mary reading a book,
namely, the Scriptures, ‘‘the Book
par excellence.”
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bishop O'Boyle said that today
♦here is a “desperate need” for
a vital Catholic leadership Cer
ainly, he said, there s no Catho
lie in the field of social action
“who can afford to take refuge in
mediocrity
Remarking that those helped by
charity organizations need more
than an interview or a voluminous
record, the Archbishop said that
"certainly we can’t be slipshod in
service to our fellow men.”
He stated there is “an ever pres-
ent threat” that because of the
present-day organization of charity
groups the personal element of
the service will be lost.
“Organizations must never de
personalize service to our broth
ers in Christ.” he declared.
To overcome this depersonaliza
tion he said, “we must give of our
selves in personal service. It must
cost us something in terms of ef
fort and sacrifice Each one must
actually and personally perform
the spiritual and corporal works of
mercy.”
Turning to "statism", the Arch
bishop remarked that a vigilance
must be mair.-tained test the stata
exceed it* proper sphere of au
thority and intrude upon the do
main of voluntary and religious
efforts in the field of welfare.
“There should be in our Amer
ican democracy a partnership of
effort between public and volun
tary agencies. The one should sup
plement the other. Never should
the state subordinate the role .if
the voluntary and religious agen
cies,” he declared.
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