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A Good Catholic
a Weil-
Informed Catholic
Vol. V, No. 43
Canon Law
Expert Suggests
Traffic Solution
Offenders
Curbed By
Church Law
VATICAN CITY (NC)
A canon law professor here
has suggested that the
Church could curb the alarm
ing rise in traffic accidents
either by exerting her great
moral influence or by es
tablishing moral sanctions
which would punish culpable
parties.
Pio Ciprotti, a profocaor of
canon law at tb« Latoran Uni
versity in Romo, expressed this
opinion in an Interview in
L'Ossorvatore della Domenico,
weekly magazine publ i s e
here.
In its previous issue the maga
tine had published an article call
ing for ecclesiastical sanctions.
The moral implications of care
less driving, the article said,
would thereby be called to the
minds of motorists who violate
the Fifth Commandment through
reckless driving.
Asked how the Church could
intervene in the matter of undis
ciplined motorists, Professor Ci
protti replied:
“It is obvious that the Church
eould intervene in the problem
of undiscipline on the highways
in two ways: either by making
her very great moral influence
felt through exhortations and rec
ommendations in a more or less
solemn form, or by issuing imper
ative measures, w'hich is always
possible when there is a matter
of preventing or punishing viola
tions of the moral law,” he con
tinued.
Bishops' Responsibility
For the time being, however,
the professor said, sueh mea
sures would be more opportune
W they originated with bishops
or local diocesan councils
rather than the Holy See. The
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Requiem Sung
For Dominican,
50-Years A Nun
Requiem Mass was sung last
Wednesday for Sister M. Mech
tilde McNamara, O.P., 86. who
was in her fifty-first year of re
ligious life.
Sister Mechtilde, a native of
New Haven, Conn., had taught at
Sacred Heart. Coshocton: St.
Mary, Lancaster St. Francis,
Newark, and St. Thomas, Zanes
ville, as well as other schools in
New York and Connecticut.
She is survived by a sister.
Miss Catherine McNamara of
New Haven, Conn.
Priest Continues Work
Of Recovery, Inc. Begun
By Jewish Doctor
Father Higgins told the nuns
that neuroses on a nation-wide
basis are largely a 20th century
phenomenon because the fast
Vatican Raps
Red Pamphlet
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Vat
ican Radio, commenting on a
Soviet pamphlet being circulated
in Rome, says it is a clear indica
tion that nothing has changed in
Russia between communism and
religion.
The pamphlet, distributed by
the Pan-Soviet Society for the
Diffusion of Political and Scien
tific Culture, teaches youth that
humility and dependence upon
God are devices by which relig
ion trap, the weakminded.
The pamphlet shows clearly,
said Vatican Radio, that all the
concessions which have been or
will be granted by Soviet authori
ties in matters of religion have
nothing more than a tactical
meaning and cannot be perma
nent
The
Automation
Called Part
Of Divine Plan
VATICAN CITY—Automation,
like all developments of science,
is part of the divine plan to en
able man to use the riches of
nature.
But the Church calls upon sci
ence, especially in mass produc
tion industries, to take into ac
count man’s spiritual and social
needs.
This was the basic theme of a
letter addressed to the president
and participants of the 43rd
French Social Week in Marseilles.
It was sent on behalf of His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII by Msgr. An
gelo Deli’Acqua, Vatican Substi
tute Secretary of State for Ordin
ary Affairs. The letter expressed
the Pope’s thoughts on the prob
lems of automation.
As far back as Pope Leo XIII,
Msgr. Deli’Acqua said, the atten
tion of the world was called to
the necessity of considering hu
man requirements as a part of
technical progress, so that this
progress would not become “an
instrument of corruption.”
Only recently, the prelate re
called. Pope Pius XII said in an
address to the International Con
ference on Human Relations in In
dustry that progress in improving
working conditions is too slow in
many countries and on entire con
tinents.
Jesuit Priest
To Tour Russia
This Summer
NEW YORK (NC) An
American Jesuit is scheduled to
arrive in I^eningrad on Sunday,
July 29. becoming what is believ
ed to be the first American priest
to enter the Soviet Union as a
tourist.
Father Walter C. Jaskievicz, S.
J., director of Fordham Univer
sity’s Institute of Contemporary
Russian Studies, has received a
tourist visa from the USSR for a
30-day tour of eight Russian cit
ies.
Upon receiving the visa, Father
Jaskievicz, who speaks and reads
Russian fluently, expressed the
hope “to get a better personal ac
quaintance with the Soviet Union
and its peoples, as far as pos
sible.”
“It is always profitable to test
the value of theoretical knowl
edge against reality and this vis
it to the Soviet Union will be
in the nature of a practical check
within the limits of feasibility,”
he said.
MONROE, Mich. (NC) Scores of Catholics with
psychological blocks against going to Confession have been
nelped back to the sacraments through a comparatively
new organization called Recovery, Inc., Father John J. Hig
gins, S.J., told Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary here.
The aim of the movement is to
help persons with nervous dis
orders and Father Higgins, a one
time victim of a nervous break
down, is a top leader. He is ad
visor of hundreds of former psy
cho-neurotics in the St. Louis
area who are members of Recov
ery, Inc. He also is philosophy
professor at St. Louis University’s
Park College of Aeronautical
Technology.
20th Century Problem
pace and new strains of modern
living have given many persons
today psycho-neurotic problems
of which their ancestors had nev
er dreamed.
“Actually Recovery, Inc., has
nothing to do with religion,” Fa
ther Higgins explained. “It is a
simple, common-sense medical
technique to get people to
strengthen their own will.”
Use of will power can become
immensely difficult for a mentally
ill person, Father Higgins told the
nuns. He said that is why Recov
ery members are induced at the
start to practice use of will pow
er in small things tie added that
gradually the will is strengthened
until it is capable of taking com
mand over big things. The tech
nique is similar to that stressed
by St. Ignatius in his “Spiritual
Exercises,” Father Higgins said.
“St. Ignatius said ‘agere con
tra,’ (go against your own inor
dinate desires,” Father Higgins
explained. “The Recovery, Inc.,
principle is much the same: ‘Do
what you hate to do.’ Although
Recovery is in no sense a relig
ion, it does develop in its partici
pants the discipline of Christian
asceticism, and other virtues as
well—humility, obedience, re
spect for the doctor’s authority.”
While some theologians once
scoffed at the Recovery, Inc.,
techniques, the results of the
movement have silenced most ob
jections. Father Higgins said.
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A MINK
Bishop Ready lays the cornerstone for
the first permanent U.S. seminary of the
Missionaries of Saints Peter and Paul. The
Bishop told the crowd of more than 100,
that a seminary is "no ordinary school,"
but a proving ground for future sowers
of the seeds of the Faith. Assisting the
Bishop were, from left to right, Fr. Char
les Sala, procurator for the new seminary
and vice-superior of the PIME, (Pontifi
cium Institutum Missionum Exterarum,
Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions),
Divorce Not Justified
In Bible, Jesuit Says
ROME (NC) The conten
tion that two passages in the Gos
pel according to St. Matthew con
tain a justification for divorce on
the grounds of immorality is re
futed anew by Father A. Vaccari,
S.J., in La Civilta Cattolica, the
Italian Jesuit magazine.
The false contention is based
on a mistranslation of a word,
Father Vaccari says.
The Jesuit scholar notes that
this contention is a difficulty of
long standing, but points out that
the Church has always condemn
ed divorce. What he has attempt
ed to do, he asserts, is to put
down in one place, and in an or
derly fashion, the fruits of the
most advanced scholarship down
through the ages bearing on this
point.
Father Vaccari says that, in
speaking to the multitude
from the mount, Christ quoted
the old law of Moses and then
added his perfection of it:
“It was said, moreover, ‘Who
ever puts away his wife, let him
give her a written notice of dis
missal.’ But I say to you that ev
eryone who puts away his wife,
save on account of immorality,
causes her to commit adultery
and he who marries a woman
who has been put away commits
adultery.” (Matt. 5, 31-32.)
Later in the same Gospel,
Christ, speaking to the Phari
sees, repeats the same words
(Matt. 19, 8-9.)
a Vaccari says tha
phrase “save on account of im
morality" has been token by
some to mean that unfaithful
ness on the part of the spouse
is justifieble grounds for di-
Discuss Journal
On Catholic Hour
WASHINGTON (NC) The
function of a Catholic journal of
opinion, as explained by staff
members of America magazine, a
weekly review edited by a group
of Jesuit Fathers, will be the Au
gust feature of “The Catholic
Hour” radio program.
This was announced here by
the National Couqpil of Catholic
Men, which produces the program
over the NBC network every Sun
day afternoon from 2:30 to 3 p.m.
(heard locally over WLW).
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, July 27,1956
No Ordinary Place
vorce and that Christ permits
this one exception.
However, after examining
these phrases from the stand
point of linguistics. Father Vac
cari points out that the original
Greek in which the text comes
down to us does not distinguish
between a married woman or
wife and an unmarried woman.
Neither did the Aramaic lan
guage spoken by Christ and His
disciples. Therefore, the Jesuit
states, the passage should be
more accurately translated as
“whoever puts away his woman,”
not “wife ’.
Moreover, »he article asserts,
the translation of the word “im
morality” is not precise.
Tracing the text back through
the Greek to the Aramaic lan
guage of the days of Christ and
the Hebrew of the old law, Fa
ther Vaccari shows that the He
brew word “zenut,” which cor
responds to the Greek word trans
lated as “immorality,” is a tech
nical legal term which means, not
“immorality” or “fornication,”
but “concubinage” or “invalid un
ion.”
In other words, Father Vaccari
says, Christ is saying that “com
mon law marriage” or concubin
age, unions free of legal and re
ligious sanction, are invalid and
not binding in the eyes of God.
The passages, therefore, do not
provide an exception of any kind
sanctioning divorce where there
is valid marriage, the priest
scholar continues.
SSinolle Times
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U.S. province Fr. John B. Boracco, rec
tor of the new seminary and Fr. Nicholas
Maestrini, superior of the U.S. province.
Fr. Maestrini had earlier thanked the
Bishop and the Diocese for the gift of land
which enabled the mission group to es
tablish their seminary. Below is an ar
tist's conception of the structure, which is
expected to be finished around December.
It is situated on a 500 acre tract, located
near Hebron. The land was willed to the
Diocese by the late Augustine Wehrle.
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Pope Pictures
Ideal Catholic
School Pupil
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy
His Holiness Pope Pius XII took
the occasion of an address to a
general chapter of the Congrega
tion of Holy Cross to describe the
kind of youths the Church ex
pects Catholic schools to produce.
He pictures youths who have
come to develop "a calm and
well balanced judgment, cap
able of discerning between
truth and error, good and evil,
justice and its failure."
“Firmly grounded in convic
tions planted by faith and rea
son,” the Pope said, the product
of a Catholic school “must be
strong enough not to be carried
away by false illusions, violent
passion or a fickle public opin
ion which measures everything by
the rule of immediate, apparent
success.”
In Catholic students who have
been consistently motivated in
their thoughts and conduct by
Christ’s teaching and example,
“you may confidently look for
ward to their being a joy to His
spouse, the Church, and an asset
to society,” he said.
“Knowledge and man’s crav
ing for knowledge have always
been a weapon cleverly wielded
by the enemies of God’s Church
the Pontiff declared. “It i so
today. Catholic Scholars must bp
prepared to meet the enemy on
his own grounds.”
Cardinal Thinks
Federal Control of Education
Greatest Danger After Reds
DALLAS. Tex.—(NC)—“O tside of communism itself, there is
no greater danger to our country than the growth and promotion
of Federal control of education,” declared His Eminence James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles, here.
"If our youth are trained without tha fundamentals that
were handed down to us, we are going to have a definitely
socialistic country," he affirmed.
The Cardinal was defending tax exemption for religious
sponsored schools. He said education is “primarily a parent func
tion,” and the state “can assist but should not control.”
Ways might be devised for Federal assistance without control,
he said, but “the policy of the National Education Association
would lead to Federal control.” He was also critical of the White
House Conference on Education last year, seeing in it an attempt
toward controlled education.
Official
Clergy
Appointments
Effective July 2*
Tha Rev. Antonine Vukman
ovich, O.F.M. Cap., assistant
pastor of St. Joseph perish,
Dover.
The Rev. Gerald Koehler, O.
F. M. Cap., assistant pastor of
St. Joseph parish, Dover, and
charge of St. Elizabeth parish,
I Roswell.
Education Has
Bright Future
For Catholics
DENVER—(NC)—A bright fu
ture lies ahead for Catholic schol
arship and education at th? grad
uate level in the United States, a
noted Jesuit educator said here.
Noting the lag in Catholic in
tellectual activity in the past. Fa
ther Edward J. O’Donnell, S.J.,
President of Marquette Univer
sity, Milwaukee, said the reason
was that Catholics have had to
concentrate their attention upon
elementary and high school edu
cation.
Catholic schools on the under
graduate level “have made sig
nificant progress,” Father O’Don
ell noted. “But you don’t expect
the undergraduate to be a schol
ar.” he said.
The Jesuit educator explained
that Catholic institutions of high
er learning are faced with “tre
mendous” financial problems. Ca
tholic colleges aspiring for excel
lence in scholarship are constant
ly troubled by inadequate funds,
he added.
“We haven’t gnt the answers”
to the problem of lagging scholar
ship at the top levels of Catholic
life, Father O'Donnell admitted.
“But the answers will be forth
coming if we give our attention
to finding them.” hp said.
Sister Anna Marie (left) and Sister M.
Michaeletta, of the Sisters of the Poor of
St. Francis, have joined the staff of the
Diocesan Welfare Bureau. They will work
Springs Gets
First Check
From Ford
The College of St. Mary of the
Springs recently received a check
for $55,000 from the Ford Foun
dation. The amount is the first
installment of an endowment
grant program that will event
ually cost the foundation $210
million in an effort to help pri
vate. regionally-accredited de
gree-granting colleges and uni
versities
Under tha tarma of tha pro
gram tha money it invested for
a ton-yeor period and the in
come applied in full to increase
of faculty salaries. In the case
of teaching nuns it may be used
for professional advancement
through workshops, refresher
courses, et cetera.
In a letter to Sister Angelita.
president of St. Mary. Henry Ford
II said. “I sincerely hope that
this grant will stimulate many
others to come your way
We feel that grants such as these
are in the American tradition of
solving our problems through vol
untary efforts and we will con
tinue to work toward that end."
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Jesuits’ Founder
To be Honored
By TV-Program
WASHINGTON—(NO—A spe
cial broadcast over the CBS tele
vision network will commemor
ate the 400th anniversary of the
death of Sc Ignatius Loyola,
founder of the Society of Jesus.
According to an announcement
made here by the National Coun
cil of Catholic Men. producers of
the program, it will be seen on
CBS TV Sunday. July 29. 10-11
a m. EDT. (WBNS-TV is the local
CBS outlet)
For Needy of Columbus
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Two Francisan Sisters Join
Diocesan Welfare Bureau Staff
Two nuns of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis have
been added to the staff of the Diocesan Welfare Bureau, it
was announced this week by Msgr. William E. Kappes,
director.
The sisters. Sister Anna Marie and Sister M. Michaelet
ta joined the Bureau after they were invited by Bishop
Ready. The same order operates St. Anthony Hospital here.
In accepting the invitation to
work with the Bureau, Sister M.
Innocenta, Provincial Superior of
the order, said: “I trust the addi
tion of our Sisters to your staff
will greatly enhance the good
work already being accomplished,
and that it will also benefit the
future work of Holy Mother
Church and the poor who depend
upon her charities.”
Msgr. Kappes said the Sisters
combine the charitable traditions
and religious motivation of the
order with the professional abil
ity of the trained social worker.
He added, “The Sisters will help
Next Friday
Is First
Friday of
August
Pries Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Report Shows
School Growth
Since 1920
Over 100
Enrollment
Increase
WASHINGTON (NC)
Another yardstick measuring
the enormous growth in the
number of Catholic schools,
teachers and students has
been made available here.
This latest sizing-up, an ac
tual count as opposed to earli
er estimates, covers the school
year 1953-54 and shows that,
since 1920 the number of Cath
olic schools of all types has in
creased by 39 per cent teach
ers by 142 per cent, and stu
dents by 110 per cent.
The study is the biennial sum
mary nf Catholic education car
ried out by the Department of
Education of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference. Such
summaries were begun in 1920.
In the 1953-54 school year, tha
survey shows, there were 4.176,
673 pupils enrolled in 12.118
schools staffed by 131,713 teach
ers.
Since 1953-54
These figures provide the lat
est accurate reflection of the sta
tus of Catholic education. But it
is possible to get some indica
tion of the growth which has tak
en place even since the job of
tallying the 1953-54 -urvey was
begun. Previous estimates releas
ed by the NC WC department give
the information.
In an estimate made in April,
it was said that in the 1955-56
scheel year, there were 4,423z
200 students attending 12,241
schools stated by 136,850
teachers.
Issued with the summary here
was a new edition of “The Direc
tory nf Catholic Colleges and
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The nuns will work in social
care work and in providing coun
selling to families and the care
of children. Sister Anna Marie
joined the Welfare Bureau staff
upon completion of work for her
Master's degree in Psychiatric So
cial work at the Catholic Univer
sity of America in Washington,
D.C. She received her Bache
lor's degree from the college of
Mt. St. Joseph on the Ohio. Cin
cinnati, and has worked in social
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in social case work along with providing
counselling to families and the care of
children.
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work in Hamilton, O., and Flint,
Mich. Here she will work in Fam
ily Social Case Work.
Sister M. Michaeletta comes
here from Flint where she ha*
spent the past two years work
ing for the Catholic Social Serv
ice Bureau in that city. Prior to
that Sister attended Our Lady of
Cincinnati college where she re
ceived a degree in Sociology.
While in school she received in
service training with the Cincin
nati Catholic Welfare Bureau.
Sister Michaeletta will work in
Foster Home Study here.
The nuns, whose Motherhouse
is in Hartwell (Cincinnati), will
live at the St. Francis Nursing
Home.
Msgr. Kappes said this is the
first time sisters have been con
nected with the Bureau since it
was founded in 1945.