Arizona sun., 1962-03-29
Four Senninarians
To Be Ordained


narians of the Society of the Di
vine Word will be ordained here
on March II, bringing to 124 the
number of Negro priests in the
United States.
| Coadjutor Archbishop John Pat
rick Cody of New Orleans will Of
ficiate at the ordinations at the
society's seminary here. Two OF
the seminarians are converts:
George H. Arts, S. V. D., of Will
mington. N. c., and Charles Dix
on Burns, S. V. D., of Greenville,
Miss. Also to be ordained are
Anthony Dugay, S. V. D., of Port
Arthur, Tex, and fairfield My
vett, S. V. D., of Belize, British
Honduras.
Chicago-The National Catholic
Conference for Racial Justice has
condemned racial and religious dis
elimination by clubs and frater-
mites.
The Conference stated that many
country and downtown clubs full
fill a number of quasipublic func-
tions. and there are no ethical
grounds on which these clubs can
justify the exclusion of citizens
otherwise qualified, because of
.ace, religion or ethnic origin. y
In regard to fraternites, the
statement notes that recently
Catholic priest defended what he
calls the right of fraternities to be
sree from public pressures if they
decide to exclude some people be-
cause of religion. F"
1t adds that the unnamed priest
defended his position by refer
ring to the protection fraternities
have under law as private associ-
ations, and to the role of the fra
ternity in encouraging and protect
ing personal friendships.
while we could grant the right
Of club or fraternity not to adj
NIT each and every person, re-
fusal of adrnittance or member
ship would surely have to be on
reasonable grounds. Race as such
does not constitute reasonable
grounds and therefore we main
tain no fraternity can morally
justify a policy of action which
excludes Negroes.
Chairman of the Conference, es-
tablished in Chicago in December,
1859, is John J. O'Connor, pro-
lessor of history at Georgetown
Washington, D. C.
Birmingham, Ala.-Catholics of
the Birmingham area have been
urged by a bishop to oppose the
closing of parks in a segregation
dispute.
Urging them to carry out park
desegregation in a spirit of har-
mony and good will, Auxiliary
Bishop Joseph A. Durick of Mo-
oile Birmingham told Catholics
that everything must be done 10
avert the closing of these facili-li
ties."
The appeal was approved by
Archbishop Thomas j. Toolen of
he Mobile-Birmingham archdio-
,ese. The Birmingham Ministerial
Association has urged its more
han 200 members to preach
against the sinful situation in
which the closing of the parks is
threatened.
Philadelphia - An interracial
told an audience at La
:alle College here that Americans
are years behind in race relations.
whole nations have burst into
reedom," said Dennis j. Clark,
ormer housing supervisor of Phi
adelphia's Commission on Human
Relations and new secretary of
he Catholic Interracial Council
If New York City; while we
have played patient
chess with the lives of our Negro
school children.
I'VE have built cities for $4,000
people and then said that we are
unable to build houses for sale
to persons of color. In nation
ouilt by people who dragged cone
stoga wagons across 5000 miles
of wilderness we are still haggling
over whether a Negro can ride a
bus. To good-humored men in0
other lands we must look absurd.
Christian unity efforts make
every day more intolerable the
cleavages within the Christian
family caused by race"