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PAGE 4. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1964
For Us Sheep
ast week Christ called home another
priest of the Seattle Archdiocese.
Since February of this year, Father
Edmund Barry, Monsignor Edward Mc-
Fadden and Father Laurence O'Larey
have gone home to God and but three
have been ordained to take their place.
The flock continues to grow, the gates
of the sheepfold are bursting wide, but
the number of shepherds remains the
same.
Our loss looms even greater when
we realize that these three priests were
not retired, bedridden or incapacitated
by reason of old age, but were fully en-
gaged in the active ministry, daily bring-
ing Christ to hundreds of souls.
The death of Monsignor Edward
]. McFadden last May 15 ,t the age
o/63 marked the passing of a giant.
A thriving school system and a vig-
orous parish life are the hallmarks of
the contemporary generation of Catholi-
cism. But between this present and the
pioneering efforts of a century ago
straddle a group of churchmen as hearty
as the past they inherited and as far-
sighted as the future they gave us. Mon-
signor McFadden stood tall among them.
The nostalgic mention of names like
Bishop O'Dea and Monsignor Gallagher
and of incidents stretching from Cleve-
land to Menlo Park to St. James Cathe-
dral that he often recalled link the past
and the present of rather young Arch-
diocese of Seattle.
As superintendent of schools from
1936 to 1947, Father McFadden took
:Sisters' schools attached to local parishes
• and built these into an educational system
ever-increasing in size and standards.
Many of our Sisters remember well his
classroom-by-classrom visitation and his
insistence of excellence and achievement.
Later, in Tacoma he was responsible for
,th construction and maintenance of
" Aquinas Academy -- the most recent of
the parish high schools for girls. Signifi-
cantly, he died on the Feast of St. John
Baptist de La Salle, the patron of Chris-
tian schools.
In his two pastorates of St. Teresa
in Seattle for nine years and then St.
Patrick in Tacoma for 11 years, he was
at the helm of that surging rally of Cath-
olic life so marked in our own day.
He renovated the venerable building of
St. Patrick's. He was Dean of the West-
ern Deanery. In 1963 he was appointed
Domestic Prelate. He was Chaplain of
the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus
in Tacoma. Social, civic and educational
affairs were a constant interest.
he very week he died, he was serving
on a committee for racial equality
in Tacoma. Preliminary plans of the new
parish convent for the Sisters were taking
up much of his time, and of course, there
was his traditional Irish loyalty to the
sick.
Father Laurence O'Larey, 45, was
taken in the prime of life. Plagued
with ill health most of his priesthood,
he nevertheless worked tirelessly to
carve a thriving St. Pins X Parish out
of the newly-established community
of Mountlake Terrace.
Few realize the long hours Father
O'Larey spent, both in the parlor and
on the telephone, counseling couples with
marital problems. Assistants who worked
with him tell us that he worked out a
one, two and three-month follow-up pro-
gram with difficult cases which proved
most successful. In an age of zooming
divorce rates, a priest of Father O'Larey's
insight and understanding will indeed
be missed.
Father Barry, who died an assist-
ant at St. Ann's, Tacoma, at age 68
had also carried the cross of ill health
throughout most of his long ministry.
He pioneered many of the old parishes
of this Archdiocese. The baptismal,
marriage and sick call registers of Sa-
cred Heart, LaConner; St. Thomas
Aquinas, Camas; and St. John, Mid-
land, all bear his signature.
His heart was bad physically, but
big spiritually. He never stopped working
and even at his age performed the full
round of duties at St. Ann's. He took
great care in the instruction of new con-
verts and was sought out as confessor
and spiritual advisor by hundreds.
The loss of good priests is reckoned,
not in dollars and cents, but in souls.
The passing of these three of God's
anointed Points up most forcefully our
desperate need of vocations here in the
Northwest. It reminds us of our oblige-
tion to pray daily for vocations to the
priesthood.
And don't forget to include in your
prayers the souls of Monsignor McFad-
den and Fathers Barry and O'Larey, who
have laid down their lives for us sheep.
The World is a Piper
By MARY ANN PUTMAN
As doves that fly before the crows
Children run--dispersed from rows
And gravitate toward Satan's shows
Where blood of innocentia flows...
Past fields where winds of knowledge blow
To buried seas where gladness goes
And finds no laughter in repose.
They find the roots of hurting grows
Before the gates of time must close.
'Don't Bother Me, I'm Leaving'
Paternal Blessing Revived
Editor, The Progress:
One of my sons was married to a very lovely Cath-
olic girl this past week.
Taking a page from the Old Testament, I gave them
my paternal blessing before they left to start a new
life. As the bishop and priest are in charge of the
spiritual welfare of their die-
cese and parish, the father is
in charge of the spiritual and
material welfare of the family
unit.
All too often he'is allotted
the two duties of provider and
Favorite Saints
HE saints were real
people. They stood so
many feet high, weighed
Anonymous
Government
By REV. G. JOSEPH GUSTAFSON, S.S.
HE F.P.C. says "Go ahead."
The Justice Department, how-
ever, institutes a suit against you under
the terms of the Clayton Anti-Trust
Act. The fact that the Clayton Act is
practically unintelligible even 'to the govern-
ment is only of minor concern--to the govern-
ment.
It is certainly a curious and hazardous sit-
uation in which any businessman may find him-
self today. Two vast governmental agencies
decide to vie with each other for power. Quite
left out of consideration is the corporation which
is supposed to be the object of all this benefi-
cient legislation for the "common good."
MORE ACCURATELY yet, the whole corn-
plexus reminds us of the old cartoon which de-
picts the wide-eyed terrified patient listening to
a cluster of doctors discussing his case. "Shall
we operate?" asks one. "Why not," chorus the
others, "what do we have to lose?"
Who actually makes such life and death de-,
eisions? Perhaps five anonymous bureaucrats
vote against another four, or three against two.
Or, if the case is taken all the way to the Su.
preme Court, perhaps a certain justice disquali-
fies himself for proper reasons, then we are
presented with an infallible decision of five to
three.
Untold millions may ride upon this slim
decision and the welfare of many thousands
of employees.
HERE IS a case in point. A public utility
presented its argument to a state commission
for a $34 million increase in rates; the commis-
sion ordered a $40 million decrease. Then, on
the grounds that the rate structure had been
under study since July 1962, the commission
ordered a retroactive deduction to that time
and a refund of $80 million!
So, "what do we have to lose?" Only our
shirts.
Gospel in Real
Slow Motion
By REV. JOHN B. SHEERIN, C.S.P.
S lateness the fifth mark of the Church?
Why have we A m e r i c a n Catholics
been so everlastingly late in getting on
the bandwagon of social reforms? The
Rev. Philip S. Hurley, S.J., chaplain of
the Catholic Interracial Council of New York,
recently spoke about the Catholic role in the
campaign for racial justice:
"The fact remains that up to now, the see-
ular and not the religious institutions have been
in the vanguard of the struggle to vindicate in
the practical order the rights of the Negro."
He acknowledged the many official Catho-
lic pronouncements on racial justice as well
as the direct involvement of priests in the
movement but the Catholic rank-and.file have
dragged their feet on the segregation question.
Is there something in the Catholic blood-
stream that makes us dawdle on social reforms?
Except in the case of the labor movement, Cath-
olics seems to have missed the bus in social
action. The Church has laid down very clear
principles for social reform but the trouble has
been in their application.
WE HAVE parroted the principles and left
the secular humanists to apply them in practice.
Meanwhile we looked down our noses at them as
they went about their work in the slums, in
combating discrimination in employment and
housing and in fighting for better community
relations.
Almost every day now we read of some Cath-
olic organization or leader coming out in support
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WHY WAS he one of the 10ne voices at that
time? Why did Catholics talk about gradual in-
tegration, why did they temporize and hang back
and piddle around with words when unbelievers
were hustling and rousing the American people
to put essential Christianity into action? • :3
This policy of non-interferenee with social
evils is not restricted to American Catholicism.
Catholics below the Rio Grands took a sen.
turies' long siesta while God's children all
around them were being maltreated.
At the Notre Dame University commence-
ment some weeks ago, Archbishop Miranda of
Mexico City deplored the unfair distribution of
wealth that obtains in Latin America. He said: A
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"WE ARE living at the very moment in
which, while we must preserve all the eternal
and immutable things established by God Him-
self, we are destined to despoil ourselves of those
forms and structures that correspond to the past,
and adopt the ones that correspond to the new
age."
It is inspiring to read about the latin
American hief'areh today. They are the spear.
head 0f the gigantm movement for social re- O) I ,
form in Latin Amerlea. But why so late? Why
did the Church in Latin America wait till the
continent is tottering on the edge of Corn-
munism?
Perhaps it is pointless to speculate about the
past. If someone is to blamel let God be the
judge. The important thing now is to urge all
t last the American people, spear-
, headed by able Senatorial leader-
ship, have come of age. The tull and
;:Complete implications of democracy.
:'which many Americans have feared for
i 340 years will now begin to rise and dis-
pel the clammy and foggy misconcep-
tions, prejudices, hatreds and ignorances
that have created the greatest social prob-
lena in American history. Like the golden
sun rising above the Cascades sweeping
:ii away the clouds and smog, after seven
days of dreary, damp weather, the day
looks bright.
Last week's passage of the Civil
,/Rights bill by the U.S. Senate is one
,'of the landmarks in the history of
American democracy. Outshining even
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation,
the new bill will prohibit discrimina.
tion in employment, public accommo-
dations, education and other areas of
A -- New Dawn disciplinarian, and either so many pounds. They of theCivilRightsbill. Why are they Johnnies- Catholics to gtt into the ,pirit of the Second
shirks any other, or the wife had good teeth or broken come-lately? Vatican Council, a' council not of speculative
' tom of paternal blessing re- blond, some had curly hair and racial justice in the early 1930's. Southern radio Paul said in his opening address last fall:
U.S. social life. Never before have the
American people under the guidance
of their President and Congressmen
passed a law with such far-reaching
possibilities for the development and
growth of American life. Equality, like
freedom, is now the law of the land.
While the passage of a law does
not solve all our difficulties, it will give
us the real experience to learn that such
just laws do not infringe on individual
rights and freedoms, but rather guaran-
tee them. How can all Americans be
free when the freedom of 20 million
Americans is limited by the whims and
prejudices of a majority? Strengthened
by our prayers, impelled by our consci-
ences, and guided now not only by the
law of God, we Americans must eradi-
cate the evils of segregation which have
stifled our life at home and blighted our
reputation abroad.
Water on Both Shoulders
the American Jewish Congress, was revealed
as legal advisor to the group.
When the Horace Mann League announced
this action at a press conference held in the
NEA headquarters building here, William" G.
Carr, NEA executive secretary, hastened to
assert that this fact did not connect his organ-
ization with the action. He said the room n
which the press conference was held had been
reserved by the National Council of Chief State
School Officials, and that the Council, like other
NEA building tenants, had access to its public
facilities. The NEA, he stressed, "has no con-
nection whatever" with the case.
"I JUST express the hope," said Cart, "that
it is not going to kick out the props from under
what I've been hoping was an increasingly
friendly and cooperative relationship between
the public and private schools and I don't see
any reason why it should."
But some people continued to have doubts
when the Horace Mann League used for a re-
turn address the NEA headquarters building.
Carrying water on both shoulders is risky.
ASHINGTONA hope for better
relations between public and pri-
Vate schools that flickered encouraging-
ly for six months has been doused by
the National Education Association.
Only last September, a top NEA official pro-
fessed to see improving relations between public
and private schools, and expressed concern lest
an attack on private colleges launched by a pub-
lie school group would affect this trend adverse-
ly. Now, it has been established, the NEA has
voted financial aid to the group that made the
attack.
THE HORACE Mann League, a by-invitation-
only group of public school administrators, filed
suit in Annapolis last year against Maryland
laws granting state help to finance non-religious
facilities--such as science buildings--at four pri-
vate Maryland colleges, three of them church-
related.
The League said it would go all the way to
the Supreme Court, if it had to, to put an end
to such aid. Leo effer, general counsel of
rived, and comments and guide
lines expressed by one of your
priest writers.
Your coverage of current
events, and articles on faith to
help the reader better under-
stand and live his faith, are
read with interest in this
family.
P. $.M.
Olympia
News to Vietnam
Editor, The Progress:
Trying to keep up with the
developments in the Church
while living in Vietnam and
reading local papers is almost
impossible, and certainly the
priests here cannot keep us
abreast of the news.
Therefore, before I become
completely ignorant of the prog-
ress in the Church (and in the
Archdiocese of Seattle), would
you please enter a subscription
for me to The Progress.
MRS. CHARLES NEUHAUS
Hq. MACV (SOG)
A.P.O. 143
San Francisco
Marital Bliss
Maintains Balance
Marriage is not automatically
a well-balanced partnership. It
requires continuous effort by
both husband and wife.
Husbands are apt to let pre-
occupation with work or other
outside interests take prece-
dence over their rightful family
responsibilities. Women, on the
other hand, often tend to put
love of children ahead of love
of husband. This makes him
feel inadequate and unneeded.
The wife and mother who
keeps first things first and
helps her husband do the same
makes a wise investment both
for time and eternity.
Least of Brethern
To "feed the hungry" is to
render a personal service to
Christ Himself. "As long as
you did it for one of these the
least of My brethren, you did
it for Me." (Matt. 25:40)
some were bald. Some of them
died as young children, and
some lived to be very old.
They come of every class of
society and reflect various de-
grees Of intelligence. They
spring from every nation under
heaven and appear even in the
most unlikely times and places.
SOME WERE refined and
had exquisite manners as, for
example, St. Francis de Sales.
St. Benedict Joseph Labre was
a beggar, never took a bath,
and had lice. St. Louis was a
king and St. Elizabeth of Hun-
gary was a queen. St. Augus-
tine was once a playboy. St.
CamiIlus de Lellis had been a
drunkard and a gambler.
Some saints were great
missionaries. S t. P a t r i c k
brought the faith to a whole
nation during his llfe time.
St. Theresa, patroness of mis-
sions, never got far from
home.
Some lived long lives of
sanctity and some won it only
at the end, as, for example
the good thief.
THE GREATEST s a i n t s
come not from the French, nor
Italians, not from the Irish,
but from the Jews. Our Lady,
queen of all saints, was a Jew,
so was St. Joseph, and so was
St. Joseph's mother.in.law, the
good Saint Anne.
All saints had one thing in
common: sanctity and sanctify-
ing grace.
We, too, are called to be
saints. That indeed is the pup
pose of the world, to add mem-
bers to the Mystical Body of
Christ--to produce saints.
--Walter J. Sullivan, C.S.P.
Responsibility to
Poverty-Stricken
Half the world is hungry; the
other half is confronted with
one of the most ennobling op-
portunities ever offered to man
by the Lord.
Living Up to the weighty but
challenging responsibility that
is yours is neither simple nor
easy. But God will provide a
way if you seek it.
stations lost no time in stopping the program as
soon as they heard his views but there were
many Catholics in the North as well who thought
he had gone temporarily berserk when he actual-
ly urged Catholics to practice what they preached
and "to put up or shut up."
"THE CHURCH looks at the world with pro-
found understanding, with sincere admiration
and with the intention not of conquering it but of
serving it, net of despising it butof appreciating
it, not of condemning it but of strengthening it
and a,.rving it." ,
God's World: Eleven
Other Promises
ByREV. LEO J. TRESE
OST of us learned, in childhood,
about devotion to the Sacred Heart
of Jesus. In the intervening years we
may have forgotten much of what we
learned. We do know that Jesus made
twelve promises through St. Margaret Mary to
all who would have a true devotion to His Sacred
Heart. Probably the promise which we remem-
ber best is the twelfth one: "I "will grant the
grace of final penitence to those who communi-,
cats on the first Friday of nine consecutive
months."
This is a magnificent promise. Obviously it
presupposes good will on the part of one who
seeks to qualify for it, It would be folly for a
person to receive Holy Communion on nine First
Fridays simply as a form of "fire insurance,"
and then feel free to embark on a life of sin.
Such a person would be guilty of presumption
and would vitiate Christ's promise.
BECAUSE OF its implications for eternity,
this promise of final penitence is one we remem-
ber best and prize most highly. Many of us have
forgotten, perhaps, the other eleven promises
which Jesus made. They are wonderful promises,
breathtaking promises. Considering the riches
they offer, it is surprising that all of us are not
going about with a badge of the Sacred Heart
pinned to our underwear and with the litany of
the Sacred Heart as a "must" feature of our
daily prayers.
The question is, can we afford not to hav. @)]
a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
The scopu of the promises seems almost in-
credible. However, before we say, "It's too
much! It can't be true!" let us first put Jesus
to the test. We easily can do so by giving His
Sacred Heart high priority in our prayers and
devotions.
In doing so, however, we must make sum
that Jesus takes precedence over self. This is not :l
a matter of bargaining with our Lord. We must
not say, "I want peace in my home," or, "I
want help with all my undertaking," and, "there-
fore I shall begin to have a devotion to the
Sacred Heart."
First must come the offer of our love to
Jesus. First must come the selfless censeera-
tion of ourselves to His Sacred Heart. Pri-
marily because He asks it of us, shall we
hang His picture on the wall and make our
tion.H°ly Communions and Holy Hours of repara- ,
IT IS WHEN we offer Jesus our love (such
as we can muster) without any demand for
recompense, that the largesse of His promises
will be unloosed upon us. Being human, we
probably cannot exclude all selfishness from our
motives--but Jesus is satisfied with our best.
