Word: blancs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Msgr. De Blanc has certainly embarrassed the members of the Catholic Church with his statement ". . . but I wonder if a devout person should bring someone of another faith into his home, into his family surroundings." How can we hope to spread our faith (a command of Jesus Christ) if we cannot show our non-Catholic friends how we live and how we behave in our homes...
MONSIGNOR IRVING A. DE BLANC...
Msgr. Irving A. De Blanc's ghetto proposal, deplorable as it is, should shock few. There is hardly a Christian sect that doesn't practice it, consciously or unconsciously. What is sickening about religious segregation is the effect of such pre-Reformation mouthings as De Blanc's on the immature and uneducated. It would be well to reflect on the historical fact that the Catholic Church, as well as all the other Christian churches, is but a segment of the Jewish faith...
...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...