Evening star., 1942-08-25
Rockefeller Is Host
To Inier-American
Seminar Delegates
CuthoIic Leaders Discuss
Problems Of Hemisphere
And 'Christion Peuce'

The Inter -Amera4.... seminar Of
Social Studies being attended by the
Catholic clergy and lay leaders in
this country and Latin America
went into It's second day 1t the
Hamilton Hotel following yester-
days opening session, which VA
keynoted by appeals for "just and
Christian peace" following the war.
One Of the highlghts Of today's
session was to be = luncheon in the
Mayfiower Hotel given by Nelson
Rockefeller, Co-ordinator Of Inter
American Affairs.
Prominent Catholic leaders from
both continents were to discuss to-
day ''Ihe Social-Economic Prob
lens OF the Americas" and THE
Catholic Social Program" A dinner,
arranged by the Calvert Club Of
Washington, will be held tonight in
the Carlton Hotel.
The appeal for q "just and Chris
tian peace" came yesterday at the
morning session held In the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference
headquarters, 1912 Massachusetts
avenue NV, from the Most Rev.
Edward A. Mooney. archbishop Of
Detroit and chairman Of the con-
ference's Administrative Committee.
Hard Road to Peace.
eft we win this war-and It Is
impossible for us to conceive defeat
In such q cause-we shall still have
to struggle for truly Christian
peace" Archbishop Mooney de-
clared. "A hard road, perhaps 1
long road, must be travelled before
we shall see again the blessed vision
Of peace. But through labor and
sacrifice, through fire and blood,
through suffering and death. our
just cause shall prevail"
The Detroit cleric warned, how
ever, that "it Is clear that no amount
of material planning for the peace.
howsoever expertly devised, can long
succeed unless 1t is accompanied
and penetrated by spiritual and
supernatural planning, and that no
political, economic or social structure
can endure unless they are builded
for the spiritual and supernatural
being that man is"
DR.. Jacques Maritain Of Columbia
University pointed out that the
present crisis in the world was the
accumulation of some 500 years
and has had as its roots the fact
people have placed man rather than
God as the center of the universe.
He called it the greatest crisis In
history.
Several Bishops Heard.
The Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. j.,
professor of politics at Catholic
University, termed the enemies Of
democracy as the enemies Of Chris
Unity and declared that the civil
war" now raging would spell the end
Of "atheistic naturalism" and "eco-
nomic liberalism"
Leaders heard yesterday included
DR. Martin P. Mcclure, dean of the
Catholic University graduate school:
Dr. Heraclito S. Pinto, professor Of
the Catholic School of Law in Rio
de Janeiro; DIR. George Donovan,
president of Webster College in
Missouri; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Oscar
Larson of the Catholic University
Of Santiago, Chile; the Most Rev.
Miguel Dario Miranda, bishop of
Tulancingo, Mexico; the Most Rev.
Miguel de Andrea, titular bishop OF
Temnos in Buenos Aires, and the
Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, arch
bishop OF San Antonio.
A message of welcome and blessing
to the delegates from the Most Rev.
Michael j. Curley, archbishop of
the Baltimore Washington archdi-
ocese, was read by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Michael j. Ready, general secretary
OF the welfare conference.
Theme Of the sessions, which viii
close Saturday, is The America and
the Crisis Of Civilization"