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Show KILLAKD COUNTY CHRONICLE Gl ZING OUR Vv ORLD THE Once "And by no means will it be lawful for them to leave this r Religion according to the command com-mand of the Lord Pope because according to the holy Gospel; "No man putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God". from the Rule of St. Francis. A Priest Who Chose Freedom Emmett McLoughlin, who had been Christened John Patrick in 1907, and was re-christened Emmett Emm-ett when he entered the novitiate noviti-ate of the Franciscan Order after five years in St. Anthony's Seml- THE SMART IVIONEZV'O ON OLDS I t n ' "W . f 't - , ' I ! Sia''v "-"" -2. y f - -';---' - 'mmm,tm- - - JiJ ,f 1 1 1 Uii TOP-DOLLAR VALUE TODAY I HIGH RESALE TOMORROW! Oldsmobile for '57 gives you a big difference in value at such a small difference in price with low-level low-level styling, safer, smoother ride and more powerful performance. Be our guest for a Rocket Test I COME IN! YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME AT - SUNSET CHEVROLET COMPANY DELTA, UTAH ;y.:.;:-::..:-:: ;:: .:-- - -, - . . Standard tries a flood of fire to make worn out oil fields produce again wwis?; si-si fSa YiNt-wv- t ' - - t g$SL ggjs ' ' ' WS 8 . M 5& am icsgra prg fev fikm Fire flooding produces heat and pressure to boil out previously utt-recoverable utt-recoverable oil, driving it underground to nearby producing mils. MANY INACTIVE WELLS STILL HAVE LOTS OF OIL left underground in spite of the industry's great advances in oil recovery. Our country must have this oil to meet the growing power requirements of industry, the Armed Forces and motorists. That's why Standard is trying a new conservation experiment called "fire flooding." We ignite some of the oil in a pool . . . control burning by regulating the air supply. Heat and pressure drive the oil to surrounding wells for pumping. It will take more than a year's time and a million dollars to see if fire flooding works. We think it's worth the effort because it could add more to U.S. underground oil reserves than the discovery of an entire new oil field. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OP plant ahtaJ to Mtrv you btlr Delta. Utah. Thurs. Feb. 28. 1957. Over By Dick Morrison nary at Santa Bafbara, is an apostate Catholic priest who broke with his church because, as he expresses it in his own words, "I tried to follow ideals of service to humanity, especially the poor and the socially disenfranchised. To those ideals nnd the time they required I had sacrificed many of the formalisms of the Order and of the Roman Catholic Church. The recorded miracles of Christ were all for the physical betterment better-ment of his fellow man. I felt that feeding a starving family was more pleasing to him than eating 2 n . 1956 8,827,000 borrb pr day nt n set time in a monastery; providing a shack with heat more sacred than wearing bare sandals; putting clothes on the backs of the naked more vital than wearing wear-ing a Roman collar; and heeding the prayer of an unattended woman In labor more reverent than gathering at dawn to nod sleepily through silent meditation". meditat-ion". The story of his work for the betterment of the lot of the dwellers dwel-lers in the slums of Phoenix, Arizona Ari-zona south side and of the indecision, mental conflict, bitterness bitter-ness and recrimination which marked his break with his church, is told in his autobiographical book, "People's Padre". An interesting inter-esting human interest story it is, well worth your time. It is a story which reveals to outsiders a little- known aspect of life in a Catholic Seminary; of the education and training of those studying for that priesthood; of the stern discipline and hard privation imposed upon them; of the unyielding demands for conformity of thought. And it brings to light an equally revealing reveal-ing story of life in what U. S. officials characterized as the worst slum area in the United States, the South Side of Phoenix, Arizona, where, "dwellings for the most part were' shacks, many without electricity, most without plumbing and heat. They were built of tin cans, cardboard boxes, and wooden wood-en crates picked up by the railroad rail-road tracks The people were the rejects of a lusty, sprawling, boasting cow - and - cotton town that was trying to become a city. Phoenix did not know or pretended pre-tended not to know that it had slums. But in them lived the Negroes, the Mexicans, the white trash. There, in 1935, were prostitutes prosti-tutes and outlaws, the glassy-eyed victims of denatured alcohol. The area was often called the Bucket Of Blood because of its stabbings and shootings". South-side South-side Phoenix wan the parish to which Emmett McLoughlin was assigned when he received his priesthood after his twelve years of study at Santa Barbara. Then, seven years later, after many differences diff-erences with other membes of the Catholic hierarchy growing out of his independence of mind and his devotion to humanity rather than to the formalities of his church, he left his church. But he saw his fondest dreams come true: slum clearance and better housing for the "rejects", and a new, modern inter-racial hospital for them. In leaving the Catholic church, he did not abandon Christian religion, re-ligion, though he had not. at the i Helping find new sources to supply the oil U.S. will need in 1966 lion 1 966 13,000,000 barrab pr day iils Standard's troleum engineers engi-neers say, "Back in 1925 the industry could predict only about 20 recovery from a new field. Modern secondary recovery methods, of which fire flooding Is one of the latest, could more than double recovery." CALIFORNIA time of writing his hook, jo rr any other , church. He - expresses considerable liking for Protestant-Ism Protestant-Ism in a general way, seeing in It devotion to the advancement of young people, and a tone of "enthusiasm" "en-thusiasm" he found lacking in Catholicism. Finally, he got married, and in so doing brought the wrath of his former Catholic associates down upon himself again with renewed fury. The holy vengeance they had displayed when he quit the church had almost died down, but announcement an-nouncement that he was about to commit this most unpriestly sin fanned the flames of "bitterness to a new pitch. Yet he and his devoted devot-ed wife managed to live that down, too, and in the end he declares de-clares that now, after five years, he emphatically reaffirms the difficult dif-ficult decision he made to quit the priesthood. That is the outline of his story, and we might drop it there "but for the fact that some of the things he tells of his life in the seminary, and in the slums, are so revealing and intriguing as to merit repeating. To take up a few of them, as they come to mind; On the subject of why a young boy enters the Catholic seminaries, to study for the priesthood, he says there are three chief reasons. In the eyes of Catholics, he gains power to perform the vital functions func-tions of the church, and also elevates ele-vates his family tb a place of privilege. The parents substitute their reflected prestige of the priesthood for economic and social aristocracy. Another reason is that a friend, already in, may urge him with glowing accounts of the sports, the hikes, and the' fellowship fellow-ship -with a hundred other boys and no meddlesome girls. Or perhaps per-haps he admires a parish priest who leads his Boy Scout troop and who gently and affably encourages. encour-ages. . ." It was a combination of all three forces, he explains which Induced him to enter. He was fifteen years old, and had little idea of what was in store for him. His ancestors, In Ireland, had been Catholics for more than a thousand thous-and years. He found life in the seminary hard, discipline strict, punishment for "transgression" severe, and indoctrination in-doctrination intensive. Of this last, which an outsider could only recognize re-cognize as brain washing, he said, "Such intensive indoctrination was unknown in the Western world outside the Roman . Catholic Church until it was copied by Fascism, Naztism, and Communism. Commun-ism. Subconseiously we were living not in the age of presidents and politicians, of labor unions and capitalists, but in the age of masters and slaves, of kings and serfs, of Popes, representing God, and .the faithful, who merely acquiesced The chains with which the Roman Catholic Church binds its priestly aspirants are the three vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity". The students were effectively insulated from the real world except In special circumstances. Of loya'tv to America, he writes, "During this year of seclusion from American life I came to believe that the American government was to be tolerated though wrong tolerated because it gives unlimited un-limited freedom to the Roman Catholic Churchwrong because it gives freedom to other churches". Then, "During this year (it was 19?8 I voted for the first time. I felt thnt it was a worldly act. But Alfred E. Smith was running ior President of the United States questioning usually elicits the in-and in-and we were toid that we must formation that the child has per-vote per-vote nnd for whom". Obedience formed the act of voiding or defe-was defe-was expected in all matters. cation behind a fence or in i If 1 The vow of poverty means the abiiertUua of all woi'lu! guvus. If the Order Itself uses property, automobiles, furniture, or money, it must not own them, and must relinquish them at the will of the Pope. The vow of chastity "binds the priestly enthusiast to a life of celibacy". He must learn to crush the desires of the flesh by fasting, self-denial, and even physical pain. "We were made to read treatises of medieval recluses who advocated bathing in one's underwear under-wear to reduce temptation". They were warned, also of the danger of "particular friendship", and learned that a student would be warned or punished even if found in the room of another. "Gradually, imperceptibly, the student's idealism of a God of Love become blended with fear fear of authority, fear of sin, fear of the everthreatening fires of hell". After this kind of "education" had gone so far, however, the students were given a course in "philosophy". In this, they were told that they must now think for themselves. The existence of God, the immortality of the soul, the need for religion, must be proven from reason alone. This, they were told after six years of intensive Roman Catholic mental discipline. "We did not suspect that we had already been conditioned against non-conformism", he wrote. "We were like puppies running around in a wire enclosure, thinking they had escaped the leash". The author's typical Irish independence inde-pendence of mind showed itself long 'before he quit the priesthood -while he was still a student. In one early exchange, McLaughlin, showed, unconsciously, some of this quality. The Superior said to him, "You must always remember that all women are vicious and malicious". "He rtopped with a start", Mc Laugh I'm noted, "when I Innocently Innocent-ly askt 1 Was your mother?' ". He ::ioved Intransigence another an-other time. Relatives of the students stu-dents sometimes sent money to buy Ice c earn for them, but the money culd only be spent by special permission of the Superior. When on Superior refused to buy ice cream with the gift money on the ground that "The Franciscan order forbids innovations", McLaughlin McLau-ghlin wrote, "My Irish background overcame my humility. I asked, 'If that's the way you feel, why don't you throw out the electric bulb and get yourself a candle?' " But they didn't get the Ice cream. He writes, "Since leaving the priesthood, 1 have been questioned more about confession than any other teaching What do people confess? Do they really tell the details? Are they sincere? More jokes, of both the parlor and the back-room complexion, are circulated circul-ated among both Catholics and Protestants about confession than about any other practice of Roman Catholicism. "Surprising as it may seem, the hearing of confession i the most boring chore a priest performs. The monotony is anything but exciting". excit-ing". Of school children confessing, he says the priest may spend a whole day listening to such things as, "I fought with my brother". "I stole cookies". "I cheated in school". "I teased sister". Occasionally, some half-listening priest comes up with a start when nn eight or nine year old confesses to adultery. But further V 'J Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon country, comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. We challenge you to find a better bourbon. Kentucky Ken-tucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof . Ancient Age Distilling Company, Frankfort, Kentucky I rp'- -i Most uciult coiuessioiis are uo colorless, though some have unending un-ending difficulty with "drunkenness, "drunken-ness, or sins of the flesh". And they will confess the same sins repeated week after week. "Others brazenly confess extreme sexual misbehaviour as thoug"; t':c;,c en-Joy en-Joy the re-telling. . ." One elderly lady told him, "I had illicit relations with a man". "How recently did this happen?" asked the priest. "Oh, fifty years ago, but I just love to talk about it", she confessed. con-fessed. In addition to the fact that he found the hierarchy more concerned concern-ed with formality than humanity, In the slums, McLaughlin found much fault with its attitude, and also with its pre-occupation with, matters of sex, which he considered consider-ed " intricate, contradictory, and amusing". He quotes a compendium compend-ium on Roman Catholic moral theology with this gem: "Taxi NEW SPORT SHIRTS FOR MEN and BOYS 6 . fit Sfl&'ZA-f VI 'rXAs' 5 ix j ) SPORT SHIRTS wv Time to buy up while we have a complete Campus selection! Never before such fabrics, such colors and styles ivy league stripes, cotton and silk plaids, novelty rayon linens. All priced right, of course! S-M-L-XL. $1.98 ( D E LTP'S VDEPflRTmEnT STORE J) 'Y: fo drivers may give their services to those who ask to be conveyed to houses of ill-repute because on the one hand, they cannot hinder sin anyway, and, on the other, their refusal would mean considerable consider-able loss for themselves". Because the priests are celib-batej, celib-batej, McLaughlin contends they are not qualified to teach people uoout marriage, though that is one of t.ieir duties. "The priest, In his thinking, contrasts celibacy with Ceiibaoy means simply the inhibition of sex. Marriage, to him, means the satisfaction of its urge, liiUle more. ."Many things happen in marriage marri-age besides the r.ct that leads to pro-creation, but the Roman Cath-jlic Cath-jlic priest's ignorance makes him une ;ui "'pod to advice others about the. !. Ho has no concept of the sof'.e.', enduring, snt.sfyiiijr, non-em" non-em" 1 or.inlp'e'it b-t. two .erple, the emotional balance be-wen be-wen a ran rnrl a voman". 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