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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Stress Catholic Family Life During Conference Catholic America last week provided heartening opposition to the current press campaign blaming American womanhood and momism for the world's spiritual and political ailments. At the National Catholic Conference on Family Life, the Catholic Mother of the Year, Mrs. Math Lies of Andale, Kansas, and other prominent Catholic laywomen were honored for their lives of faith and achievement. In the spirit of the momentous Confer ence was the choice of Mrs. Lies, the widowed mother of 14 children, one a priest, one a nun, and a third who is a novice. Such awards highlighted the Catholic Family's awareness of social responsibility. Many of the women so honored are Catho lic Actionists as well as Catholic Mothers. The economic problems of the family, Christian morality in the single and mar ried life, and related questions were dis cussed at the conference. All of the discussions revealed the vast responsibility entrusted to the Catholic woman, as the moral mainstay of her Family, to preserve the integrity of the American home. As a climax to the convention 1000 Chi cago couples, who have been married for 25 years or more, renewed their marriage vows in a ceremony following the holy hour at Holy Name Cathedral. Almost alone in the world today, the Catholic Church defends the sacred integrity of marriage and the family. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago. 40, Illinois Under the Direction ft* the Sisters of Ciiakitv, U.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, jl I he Post Office of Chicago. Illinois, under the Act of March 3, li 97, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XVII March 17, 1947 No. 10 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 Co-Editors-in-Chief Florence Jankowski, Colleen Rettig Associates Regina Bess, Lucille Cook, Mary Em Harrigan, Dolores Toniatti. Feature Editors Katherine Burwitz, Frances Wager Associates Cynthia Knight, Jerianne Mangold, Mary Leona Merrick, Jeanne Ondesco. Copy Editors Ellenmae Quan, Marilyn Tamburrino Associates Rita Buckley, Patricia Dannehy News Editors Barbara Fallon, Jeanne Maiie Horan, Patricia Runkle Associates .Dorothy Daniels, Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, Jeanne Jahrke, Patricia Nealin, Peggy Roach. Sports Editor Beatrice Goldrick Associates.- Claire Johnson, Joyce Saxon Art Editor Margaret Mary Campbell Reporters: Rosemary Bcnigni, Isabelle Cox, Joan Cribari, Mary Lou Farrow, Janet Mc Ginn, Mary Catherine O'Dwycr, Rita Szacik, Lois Willard, June Kopal, Bernadette Krnak, Katherine Malatesta, Patricia Trudeau, Noreen Roche, Jane O'Neill, Lorraine Stajdohar, Jo Ann Figtieira, Margaret Mary La Vaquc, Patricia Shanahan, Patricia Frey, Joan Merrick, Mary Lee Kasten, Mary No lan, Blanche Schwepper, and Veronica Walsh. Faster Is Symbol of Spiritual Rejuvenation Now that we have geared our Lenten pace to follow the sandalled footsteps of St. Paul and the early Christians, we can see the dim outline of the sepulchre in the distance. As in the adolescent days of the Church, we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ as the apex of the Liturgical year. It is the day Christ dealt the death blow to Satan and to sin. The phoenix is a symbol of the Resuriection. Its history is related in mytholo gy. After a lengthy life span, the bird dies and then regenerates itself from its own ashes. The unusual bird is not reserved for Church art exclusively. Seniors carry it daily to class on their rings and pins. It fittingly forms the basis of the Mundelein crest. The phoenix is a symbol of hope. Nineteen hundred years ago a pagan world was dying and Christ revivified it with the adrenalin of love. He molded a new set of standards whose end was not ephemeral, sensual pleasure, but eternal, spiritual happiness- Today we need another Easter. Essential morality is being supplanted by a code of Freudianism and materialism. The world has let its conscience fall asleep. Somehow many thousands have failed to catch the heavenly star-dust of Christ's rising. Now it is the job of Catholic women to awaken man's sense of moral responsi bility. The ideals we instill into the family and into social life will reflect the star-glow. The phoenix symbolizes triumph, reminding us that, in spite of the tediousness we should stick to our conscience-pricking jobs. The world is ethically weary. But eventually it will be aroused, if we persevere in the work of arousing. Your day is here, Catholic women and girls, Pope Pius XII emphasized, your destiny is at stake. See Birth of New Peace in People's Section of UN Over one hundred and fifty years ago, a fiery red-headed orator stood before the Virginia House of Burgesses and said, Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. He was not exaggerating. A grave crisis had arisen between the col onies and their mother country. Something had to be done and done immediately. Today, in an even graver crisis, gentle men cry peace and there is no peace. Why? One reason is obvious Something has to be done and done immediately and we are not doing it. We are allowing peace to be the concern of the diplomats who sit at the conference tables. It is hard to believe that after two devastating world wars we still haven't learned that peace is EVERYONE'S business. Or is it just that we have forgot so soon? From the New York headquarters of the American Association for the United Na tions, comes word of a new organization. A People's Section for the UN is forming. It aims to develop individual responsi bility and individual loyalty to the UN while working to improve it ; to arrive at understanding . . . then, action based on knowledge. Ultimately, it hopes to have a People's Assembly composed of delegates elected by the peoples of the world established as part of the UN. Further information may be obtained by writing the American As sociation for the United Nations, 45 East 65th street, New York 21, New York. Here is an opportunity to prove we have not forgot. This fledgling organization needs only a practical working support to set its wheels into motion. We can give it that support by joining it, by interest ing our friends in it, by sending sug gestions and encouraging letters to it: We can help it grow. Card Party Qo-ers Exhibit School Spirit So you want to go to the Card Party Freshmen go because they are curious. They have heard so much about it that they have to find out for themselves. Sophomores go because they had such a good time the previous year. Juniors and seniors go because they want to see each other model smart fashions and because they MUST see the bride. The Grand Ballroom will be filled if each student brings her family and friends. But cooperation from every student is needed to make this the biggest and best Mundelein Card Party. This is our chance to show our appre ciation for all the things that make Mun delein for us. Let's contact the SAC rep resentatives and give our much needed as sistance to a worthy benefit the only Col lege benefit party of the year. Way Back When .'. . the mighty Roman Empire was crushed by the Franks, Huns, Ostrogoths, Van dals, and Anglo-Saxons who implanted their heathen culture in the many regions of Europe, the Catholic Church withstood the pagan force and continued to spread the Word of God. Her ministers struggled against pagan ism in many countries; St. Boniface in Germany, St. Benedict in England, and St. Patrick in Ireland. The benefits of their work are felt every day by every Catholic throughout the world. Today, especially, do we celebrate the work of St. Patrick. In a pagan atmosphere, on Easter Sun day in the year 433, he attempted to ex plain the Mystery of Three Divine Persons in One God to an assembly of rulers, judges, and priests. He chose the sham rock as a means to explain this doctrine of faith. It is a single stem with three leaves. Results of his work are shown by the fact that Ireland today is still known as the Isle of Saints. March 17, in Ireland, is a national holiday and a holy day of ob ligation. Tribes may not be wandering across our continent today, but we still can be active members of the Church by combating the underlying philosophies that are infiltrat ing their way into our daily life. Comradeship Builds Enduring College Spirit Service is the key to the door on reads, THE COMRADESHIP OF LEGE. What have you to give of self to your fellow students and ultinjf to your college? When you register for a class, you a duty to the members of that clas one student comes to class unprepare the lesson of the day, her whole class something her contribution to that that which she has to give. We ini our store of knowledge through the tributions of others. Should we not d same for them? The comradeship of college is mai of many things the whole-hearted behind a class project, the volunteer this committee or that. Responsibility operation, FRIENDLINESS all the a part of college, one of the best learning to live with people. Remember the student who explained section of the chapter you didn't u* stand? And you know the girl who r to help, whether it means putting f on lockers, or taking charge of the for the next class meeting. The givin self to others that is the comradeship college. n Until you feel that others need yoi l haven't really lived. It is one-of thej, est discoveries you can make. It a* you feel big and important. la And you ARE important, as an inikj, ual and as a member of the Mun(p, family. The individuals of a family0i, of themselves for the welfare of the fy,), as a unit. The same is true of thejjjj delein family. The family that worl gt;ac get her , prays together, and plays togttjc stays together. ,n .1 ok* a m-uU an ba s .' Concealed in its present condition. v this spread of melting snow seen thrik library window . . . capable of appeibj in shamrock green . . . hides ba j neutral shades of winter . . . blends j the lake . . . stretching beyond rr. reach. Acclimated to the seasons . . of wet thrashings . . . root-hold fori fingers from whose tips the icicles harbor of summer breezes . . . apron for b: ate it is roofed by a i. wee green sprouts tinted leaves . changing sky Untiring model for pictures . . I populartiy increases with the temper . . . habitat for home-birds . . . stof for wandering gulls . . . it is frame* a break-wall and a fringe of bushes h01 decorated with iron-spoked wheel for 1 1 tical beauty. i. Haven of bliss . . . shangri-la ofPn . . . rest-spot for over a thousand del this library campus is Mundelein. gt; cl m J
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1947-03-17 (2)
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