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...Roman Catholics using contraceptives as much as their non-Catholic neighbors? There is some evidence that the answer is yes. So reported Msgr. Irving A. De Blanc, director of the National Catholic Family Life Bureau, citing still inconclusive studies* resulting in "an alarming, arresting and provocative finding." Furthermore, Msgr. De Blanc is sure that contraception is harmful, not only morally, but "psychologically, socially and emotionally." Far more research is needed, he said, but there are even some "weak indications that birth control affects the body physiologically...
...article published for last week's National Catholic Family Life convention in San Antonio, De Blanc expounded his view that women have a built-in need to procreate, that frustrating this natural consequence of sexual intercourse results in guilt, and guilt leads to psychological damage. Non-Catholic doctors and churchmen were quick to disagree. ¶ William H. Genne, a Congregationalist clergyman and De Blanc's Protestant opposite number as director of the Department of Family Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home...
Such views distress Msgr. De Blanc, and he fears that they may be catching. He sees signs that many Catholics may gradually abandon the teachings of their church and accept the customs of the secular society in which they live. His solution: an "open ghetto," in which Catholics should avoid intimate contact as far as possible with non-Catholic culture. Mixed marriages are out of the question. "I don't think a Protestant should seriously date a Catholic, and vice versa. Of course we want to get to know and do business with persons of other faiths...
...glass-walled modern city. The 14th century duomo, its pinnacles and spires topped by saints and angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime...
Identifying themselves only to the parish priest at Courmayeur, Italy, the four men in mountaineers' rigs hired a guide, conquered the Alps' highest peak, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc. The explorers: four German priests, among them Julius Cardinal Döpfner, Bishop of Berlin, at 46 the youngest cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, in Chicago, another Catholic prelate stood at a peak: for his longstanding friendship with the city's Jewish community, Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Shell was named Man of the Year by the Greater Chicago Committee for State of Israel Bonds. Said Committee...