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ndustay Br. NCWC DEPT. STAimEHT MADE FOR LABOR DAY St cgssiod pi To Joint Re Washington, D. C. The American way to cure the current economic recession, declares the 1958 Labor Day Statement issued here by the NCWC Social Action Department, "is to harness (Name Registered in the U.

S. Patent Office) MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS This Paper Ji Connected with NCWC Washington New! Headquarters hy Its Own Leased Wire, Has Its Own Special Service, Religious News Service, Inter-Catholic Press Agency. Fides Service, Mission Services, Religious News Photos and NCWC Picture Service the combined intelligence and good will of labor SECTION TWO 29, 1958 and management and the other segments of the economy in a joint effort to discover and correct its underlying causes." Plan Center Of Christian, Jew Study Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The decision to establish a permanent international center for the study of Christian-Jewish relations was made here. It is the outcome of a conference on ways to develop a better understanding among Catholics of the importance of Judaism and to improve the attitude of Catholics toward Jews.

Participants came from three continents and included Father John M. Oesterreicher, director of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Newark, N. a part of Seton Hall University; Abbot Leo Rudloff, O.S.B., of Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, and Monsignor J. G. M.

Willebrants, recently named by the Dutch Hierarchy as Episcopal delegate for ecumenical action. Conference chairman was Monsignor A. C. Ramselaar, chairman "of the Council of Israel, an organization providing advice for Jews interested in Catholicism. fj 1' iw The statement that suggests! the series of summit confer ences was released by Monsignor George G.

Higgins, director of the department. It stresses a spirit of optimism but warns that "the current economic recession is not to be taken lightly." Management, Labor to Meet "We recommend, therefore," the statement continues, "that representative national leaders of labor and management come together as soon as possible in a series of exploratory meetings. These meetings should forthrightly discuss, among other things, the hotly debated question as to whether or not wages are currently exceeding productivity and are thus, as is sometimes alleged, contributing to inflation. They should also discuss prices and profit levels and industry ability to pay. The kind of co-operation and joint consultation recom mended, the statement asserts, "will never come to pass unless labor and management forget their petty differences and sincerely accept each other as equal partners in the service of the community.

"And this, in turn, will never happen," it is warned, "unless workers and employers prayer fully cultivate the virtue of so cial charity." "It is our opinion," declares the statement, "that the majority of influential American employers and trade unionists are basically men of good will and that, over a period of time and given the proper leadership, they will respond reasonably well, as they have so often done in the past, to the FRIDAY, AUGUST 'Unless You Become Klouf Iko Iftr WndlPrC In Madrid, Spain, a member of IMeW USe lUr tuners the Missionaries of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, using a washing machine as a king-size mixer, prepares powdered milk for distribution to the needy. More than 100 machines were purchased and donated by the NCWC Catholic Relief Services as part of its extensive relief program for Spain's needy. The surplus milk, supplied through the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was formerly mixed by hand, a laborious and time-consuming process.

The milk project is only one part of the extensive CRS aid to the needy of Spain. It has been estimated that between October, 1954, and June of this year U.S. surplus foods valued at more than $150,000,000 were distributed in Spain through this relief agency of the U.S. Bishops. Two Jewish communities and three Evangelical Churches also share in the food distributed by CRS.

U. S. Official Cites Papal Aid Units Rome. Don Paarlberg, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, praised the work being done at summer camps and children's homes operated by the Pontifical Relief Organization after he and his wife visited the Another distinguished visitor to Rome, Mrs.

Elena Faggianato de Frondizi, wife of the Presi dent of Argentina, toured the Boys Town Republic at Civita vecchia. 300 AT NATIONAL MEETING IN CHICAGO 1ST CATHOLIC RACIAL RALLY "sublime doctrine of the unity Malta Order Lends Plane For Greenland Mission Chicago. With a "positive and constructive approach," 300 delegates are convening here in the first National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice held in the U. S. The meeting was to open with a Pontifical Mass offered by Arch bishop Owen McCann of Capetown, South Africa.

Sponsored jointly by the Catholic Interracial Councils of New York and Chicago, the conference brings together rep of heaven. Whoever, therefore, as this little child, he is the kingdom of heaven" (xviii, 3-4). rllUBtl into the kingdom humbles himself us that He greatest in the Am I sMIak rhilrlran'Jes In other words, the disciples of Christ must tall sislMSWII might bless them. be distinguished by their practice of the virtues that are seen as the natural characteristics of all good children, such as humility, simplicity, i Copenhagen, Denmii k. American and Danish priests founding a mission in Green land will use a plane lent to them by the Scandinavian Order of Malta.

The mission will be the Church's first in Greenland since the Middle Ages. The mis-sioners are the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Bishop Johannes Suhr, O.S.B., dedicated a chapel for the Knights of Malta in Scandi navia. The Knights' decision to aociuty, ana purity. The disciples, however, perhaps in an attempt to shield Christ from weariness, rebuked them.

But Jesus said "Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for of such is the kingdom of God" (Luke xviii, 16). Jesus then reiterates the advice He gave on another occasion: Amen I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter U.S. Dominican May Live To See Mother Beatified From the words of Jesus, may also be argued the licitness of infant Baptism, for unless a child is baptized it cannot come to Christ. (Picture by Leo $900,000,000 Measure Sent to President Includes Both Public and Private Aid Rush of Converts Seen OKAYS SCHOOL BILL demands of social justice and social charity. It is also recommended that "Congress seriously consider the advisability of terminating its investigation of the labor movement within the reasonably near future." To allow the investigation "to drag on interminably," the statement says, "would serve no useful legislative purpose and might conceivably do serious harm to the labor movement and to the cause of collective bargaining and labor-management relations." Correction Oi Abuses It is noted that "there are still some serious abuses in a minority of unions," but "that the labor movement, however belatedly, is now doing a great deal on its own initiative to correct these abuses and to forestall their repetition." Encouraging the labor movement to look for "positive ways of strengthening internal union democracy," the statement deplores the "serious problem of apathy" that exists "in virtually every national and every local union." To help correct this situation, it is urged that the labor movement should "give considerable thought to revitalizing relationships between national and local unions." In voicing its opposition to right-to-work laws, the statement declares: "It is our firm conviction that the enactment of so-called right-to-work legislation would be a great disservice not only to the labor movement as such, but to the nation as a whole." NCWC Wire aid the missioners was made following the dedication.

The U. S. priests who will arrive here soon to embark on the northern mission venture are Father John E. Taylor, superior of the Oblate scholasticate in Pine Hills, Pass Christian, leading the group, and Fathers Urban Figge and Michael Wolfe. Two Danish novices, Brothers lb Hjorth and Finn Lynge, will accompany the Americans.

NCWC Radio and Wire tisms took place simultaneously," the priest continued. "This required 60 priests for the ceremony. Whole villages as well as whole regions are asking for the sacrament of Baptism." Father Roy added that his Archbishop told him that, with 40 more priests, "he could convert some 1,000,000 pagans in the next 10 years." that God has placed in the heart and nature of every human being." The knights asked all "who recognize and uphold moral principles" to stay away from entertainment that "offends both morality and intelligence." This resolution objected to the "dangerously growing disregard of moral standards in motion pictures, stage productions, and television programs in material, manner of presentation, and advertisement." It also criticized the glorification of entertainment personalities guilty of scandalous conduct and deplored the bad effect on youths. Other actions urged President Eisenhower to refuse ex tradition to Yugoslavia of An-drija Artukovic, political foe of Dictator Tito; commended the U.S. government for demanding proof of sincerity be fore agreeing to a Summit Meeting, and supported the bill stiffening Post Office rules against the mailing of obscene material.

St. Louis was chosen as the sjit ftvr fhp ronvpnfioTi. the ice is well protected from the sun. The underground icebergs were originally trapped pockets of water that froze with the coming of the Ice Age. While touring the far north missions of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Father John T.

O'Toole of Crookston, heard why the huskies howl when the missionaries ring the mission bells for Mass or devo tions. An old Loucheux Indian told him: "Father, the bell calls ui to church to save our souls, but the dogs have no souls. That's why they howl. resentatives of 35 CIC units in the U. S.

and leaders of other Catholic groups to deliberate on racial problems. The meeting site includes the campuses of Loyola University and Mun-delein College. The parley is closing Aug. 31. Issues Not Dodged Father John LaFarge, S.J., chaplain of the New York CIC, explained that CIC does not believe in -'avoiding is sues." He stressed the Church's the U.

S. two years giving mis sions for the Spanish speaking along the California coast. Six years after her marriage to Gabriel Fernandez, Senora Fernandez was widowed when her husband, a day laborer, died under the wheels of a train in 1919. She was left with four sons, the youngest an infant. The saintly widow went to her parents' home in Suero and for the next 14 years gave her own domestic service for her family's keep.

The town was Communist-ridden, and the Senora's two-mile walk to daily Mass often attracted the jeers and threats of Two hours a day Senora Fernandez meditated. Three days a week she fasted rigorously. She disciplined herself physi cally with a strap. The holy woman visited the sick in their homes, cleaned house and cooked for those unable to do so, and washed the sores of the sick without regard for the danger of con tagion. She often gave her own dinner to the hungry.

One of Senora Fernandez' sons, Arturo, died in a train accident in 1931. Another son, Celestino, died in Franco's 1 a a 1 service, and in J.ao rraxeaes died at Oviedo as Red artillery hurled shells into the city. Ottawa, Ont. "An extraor dinary movement of conversions is taking place in Vietnam," Father Louis Roy, C.SS.R., a missionary there, declared in a letter to W. J.

Browne, Minister Without Port folio in the Canadian govern ment, who visited Vietnam last year. "During Easter Week in one particular region 1,600 Bap- Students from all schools will be eligible to participate in a $59,400,000 fellowship program providing funds for graduate study to prospective college teachers. Grants for the dependents of fellowship holders will also be offered. Apfifude Tests Planned A provision of the bill calls for the administering of aptitude tests to high school students. Results of these tests could be used for determining CONGRESS Washington.

A bill that pro vides about in federal aid to both public and private schools over the next four years Has Been passed Dy Congress and sent to the Presi-dent. Private schools will share in money allocated to the two largest areas of the program student loans and funds for equipment. The measure pro-vides that non-profit elemen-tary and high schools may re- ceive low interest loans to buy equipment. It allocates about $9,000,000 for such loans. Although a Senate-House conference eliminated student scholarships from the program, the bill provides $295,000,000 for loans to college students, The government will put up 90 per cent of this money and the colleges the remaining 10 per of all peoples and races in the Mystical Body of Christ." The conference program, which includes Gov.

Orville Freeman of Minnesota and Auxiliary BishoD Raymond P. Hill- inger of Chicago, features discussion of race relations, problems in schools, employment, narochial and institutional life, and housing. Indian, Jewish, and Negro intergroup agencies are represented. Kierdorf Case Query Answered Detroit. In a statement re garding "why" Frank Kierdorf, the Teamster Union official who died as a result of severe burns on Aug.

7, was received into the Catholic Church and eiven the last sacraments. Fa ther Edwin A. Schroeder, chaplain of St. Joseph's Hospital in Pontiac, said: "Why did Christ forcive Dismas dying on his cross alongside that of Our Sa vior?" Ceremony lo Mark Cenlenary of Saint Treviso, Italy. A "Day of FTnnnr of the Priesthood" will mark the centenary of the ordi nation of St.

Pius a. Cardinal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, will offer a Solemn Pontifical Mass. Bishon Giovanni Farina or dained Giuseppe Sarto in the Cathedral of Castellranco Veneto Sept. 18, 1858. The young priest was to ascena from country curate to pastor, seminary professor, Bishop, Cardinal, and the Papacy.

After his death Pius was raised to the honors of the altar as a canonized saint. That success story of a poor Italian country boy will be celebrated here in his home diocese. to liquidate the private school system. Referring to charges that private and religious schools are "un-American" and "divisive," Bishop Krol reminded delegates: "It is a matter of historical fact that, prior to and for some time after the Declaration of Independence, the only school systems existing in our country were the Catholic and oilier piivui-e schools." Knights Demand Russian Diplomatic Bonds Cease Claims Worship, Social Activity Must Be United -cent. Loans Up to 51,000 a Year Lanavan, art editor) recipients of student aid.

The bill provides that in places where state law does not auth orize the state to administer such tests to students of a par ticular school or schools, the U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion may make arrangements for administering the tests. Teachers in private schools will be allowed to take part in special institutes for training in sciences and foreign lan guages, although they will not be given stipends, as their public school counterparts will. nation" in social principles; Catholics must be "concerned with what goes on in the City of Man;" and laymen have an obligation to promote active communal participation in the divine worship in their parishes.

Father Sigur advised also participation in organizations equipped to make an impact in such social fields as race relations, foreign aid, labor-management relations, family life, and co-operatives. On these and other social questions, he said, not all Catholics have developed a "Catholic mind." Members of a parish priest study group agreed that most persons are "waiting" for an opportunity to take a more active part in liturgical worship. Parish priests, they said, must prepare the people with necessary instructions. NCWC Wirel the Bible shows us that the just Nation's Anti-Religious Is Scored by K. of C.

By Jim Kelly San Francisco. Father En nque Fernandez, U.P., may live to see his mother beatified. The priest mother. Praxe- des Fernandez, was the wife of a humble workmgman in As- turias Province, Northern Spain. She died less than 22 years ago, and the canonical process for her beatification began the past November in the Oviedo Archdiocese in Spain Father Fernandez has been in Pope Rebukes Show Business Milan, Italy.

A Vatican let ter said that the entertainment world is in great part responsible for "the unbridled search for fleeting success and happiness, gained at the cost of any compromise; the shameless assault on the sanctity of the institution of marriage and the appeal to the less noble instincts of man." The letter was written in the name of Pius XII by Monsignor Dell Acqua, Vatican Substitute Secretary of State, to Father Agostino Gemelli, O.D.M., rector of the Catholic University of Milan. It was composed for the opening of the university summer course on cultural orientation. Actress Irene Dunne's Grandson Is Baptized Los Angeles. The Rev. Maurice G.

Chase, C.S.P., baptized the first grandson of actress Irene Dunne in St. Paul the Apostle's Church. The child, Mark Francis Shin-nick, is the son of Mary Frances Shin-nick, daughter of the a c-tress. Miss Dunne (wife of Dr. Francis Grif- fin) became' Fsther chs acquainted with Father Chase when he was pastor of St.

Paul's. He is now stationed in Toronto, Ont. Father Chase says that Miss Dunne attends Mass and re ceives Communion daily. "When I was stationed in Los An geles," he declares, "she missed only two days out of an entire year." Grandfather-Priest Paris. Father Andre Lepou- tre, 69-year-old priest who was ordained only four months ago, officiated at the wedding of his granddaughter in the Church of St.

Jean de Luz. Father Le-pcutre, a widower of 15 years, is the father of five children Cincinnati. A wholesome liturgical piety alone does not guarantee worthwhile social action, or even an enlightened interest in it. Reforming the social order, therefore, must go hand in hand with divine worship. This was one of the conclu sions reached by a large group ot priests, religious, and laity who took part in a series of.

study sessions led by Father Alexander O. Sieur. editor of the Southwest Louisiana Register, at the 19th annual North American Liturgical Week. lo brine about this marriaee of the liturgy and social action, the participants agreed on the following points: Daily Mass and Communion must be the "heart and soul of any active Christian life;" Catholics must be given "clearer and more extensive indoctri Individual students will be eligible for loans up to $1,000 per year, with the total available to any one student limited to $5,000. The loans are to be repaid at three per cent inter est beginning one year after the student leaves school.

The bill provides that a student may pay off up to 50 per cent of the loan by teaching in a public school. The bill states that recipients of loans are to be students of superior academic background who express a desire to teach In public or private, elementary or secondary, schools. The students must also demonstrate ability in science, mathematics, engineering, or a modern foreign language. Cleveland. In a tribute to the "suffering and heroic people of Hungary," the Knights of Columbus at their 76th national convention urged the U.S.

to sever diplomatic relations with Russia. The resolution also asked that Russia be expelled from the UN and declared that "Com munist despotism can never eradicate the love of liberty Minority Speaker The convention also heard Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio, who charged that the apathy of many Americans had played into the hands of the Communist Party. "If intelligent Christians do not accept the job of dispelling the ignorance and indifference on which Communism thrives," he said, "Christian civilization in the world today will surely crumble." dried, salted, and smoked meats and fish.

At times, however, the missionaries have been fortunate enough to strike permanent ice beneath the earth's surface. At Paulatuk, on the Arctic Circle, the icebox is simply a small shed set over a man-made cave of ice 20 feet below the surface. When Bishop Joseph Trocellier, O.M.I., Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie, was pastor of the now abandoned Paulatuk mission, he and two others chopped the cave out of a pocket of subterranean ice. With two wooden floors, one at the 10-foot level and the other at the top 'of the shaft, LISTENING IN How Church's Saints Are Chosen ARCTIC MISSIONARY FINDS ESKIMOS DO NEED ICEBOXES We know from Scripture that religious worship was paid to the angels, for example by Abraham (Genesis 2) and by Josue (Jos. Cleveland.

O. An articulate minority of atheists, secularists, and professional bigots is carrying on a warfare aimed at the "practical exclusion of God and religion from the life of our nation." This warning was voiced here by Auxiliary Bishop John J. Krol of Cleveland in an ad dress at the 76th national convention of the Knights of Columbus. The enemies of religion, Bishop Krol declared at the convention banquet, have already managed to distort the interpretation of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." MEANING DISTORTED TO HURT RELIGION In our own day, he said, the simple and clear language of this amendment without justification in constitutional history or in legal theory has been distorted into a constitutional provision erecting a metaphorical wall of absolute separation between Church and State.

The slogan, "wall ot separation," is-, being raised again, Bishop Krol said, in an effort to bar all religious in fluence in public education and As a Catholic editor for many years, I have always been deeply interested in the processes of canonizing saints. Once for several weeks I acted as secretary at a preliminary investigation of a 13). Likewise priest shot while giving Communion, whose case might perhaps end up in canonization, un anotner occasion, i briefly met St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. on eartn can pray for living persons.

Since these are facts, there is nothing logical in a denial that the saints in heaven can pray for us. We have an example in II Machabees of visions granted to Judas Machabeus in which he saw Onias, a saintly dead high priest, praying for the Jews, and of similar prayers offered by Jeremias, the prophet, who was also long dead. while she was still livine. Manv times I have prayed to saints, usually success. with no little Fort Smith, Northwest Terri tory.

"A refrigerator is one of the very useful items in the Arctic," explained Father Wil liam Leising, O.M.I., formerly of Buffalo, N. who is the official pilot for the Arctic missions of the Mackenzie Vi cariate. The flying: missionary ex plained that one of the popular misconceptions of the Arctic is that it is snowbound the year around. Actually, he said, the almost endless sunlight of the Arctic summers plays havoc with fresh meat and fish. Sometimes the missionaries must resort to The worship given to saints, that of dulia and to be confused with the latrta or adoration of Early Christians Honored Martyrs The early Christians gave the worship of dulia to the martyrs of the first three centuries whose martyrdom had been passed oi by the (Turn to Page 3 Column 3) vvioa, is pious anu neiptul.

The Uouncil ol Trent taught this as de fide, when it declared: "It is good and profitable humbly to invoke the saints who reign with Christ, that they may offer their prayers for men; and to have' recourse to their prayers, aid, and protection for the purpose of obtaining benefits from God through His Son, who is Jesus Christ Our Lord." and has 22 grandchildren. 1.