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Using a workshop with teachers in North Carolina, Dale Francis explains that educated listeners may still hold inaccurate ideas, including misconceptions about papal authority, stigmata, nuns, and confession. Francis contrasts the intent of Catholic terms with the meanings listeners assign, arguing that clearer definitions prevent harm and improve relationships between Catholics and non-Catholics.","THE CATHOLIC CHURCH  \nIN A MERICAN LIFE  \n# Drmation\n\nMARYGROVE COLLEGE LIBRARYDETROIT,MICHIGANJUNE,1948PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE20F EAT U R E SRELIGIOUS PLAIN TALKdale francis  \nMIRACLE BROADCASThenry f.ungerJUNIOR GET YOUR GUN  \nA MONTHLY MAGAZINE  \n\n| Contents  \u003Cbr>advisory editor  \u003Cbr>RICHARD J.CUSHING  \u003Cbr>archbishop of boston   | RELIGIOUS PLAIN TALK .............   | 241   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | JUNIOR GET YOUR GUN.............   | 247  \u003Cbr>252   |\n|  | MIRACLE BROADCAST ...............   |  |\n|  | WHO WILL TEACH THE EDITORS?....  \u003Cbr>MR.PRIESTLEY ON CATHOLICISM....   | 258  \u003Cbr>262   |\n|  | HOLLYWOOD SHORTCHANGE.......   | 265   |\n|  | HOW TO BUILD VOCATIONS...   | 268   |\n|  | MARRIAGE AND THE HOME......   | 272   |\n|  | HOW TO RANSOM PARISH CAPTIVES..   | 276   |\n|  | WHO BEGAN TO ADVERTISE THE FAITH?   | 278   |\n|  | AN AMERICAN ISOLDE...............   | 286   |\n|  | special features   |  |\n|  | ROAD TO DAMASCUS ...............   | 251   |\n|  | RCHBEARERS       .................  \u003Cbr>THE READER TALKS BACK ............   | .275  \u003Cbr>288   |\n| editor  \u003Cbr>ALBERT A.MURRAY  \u003Cbr>assistant editors  \u003Cbr>JOHN B.SHEERIN   | INFORMATION ]  \u003Cbr>Published monthly by The Missionar  \u003Cbr>ciety of St.Paul the Apostle in the State of New  \u003Cbr>at 411 West 59th Street,New York 19,N.Y.Telep   | y So-  \u003Cbr> York  \u003Cbr>hone:   |\n|  |  |  |\n|  | PLaza 7-4578.  Rates:1 year,$2.00;2 years,  \u003Cbr>3 years,$5.00;20c a copy.Re-entered as Second   | $3.50;  \u003Cbr>-Class   |\n|  |  |  |\n|  | Matter,November 5,1946,at the Post Office,New York,   |  |\n| BEN HUNT   | N.Y.,under the Act of March 3,1879.Acceptance for  \u003Cbr>mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec-   |  |\n| general manager  \u003Cbr>JAMES F.KANE   | tion 1108,Act of October 3,1917,authorized July 11,  \u003Cbr>1918.Copyright,1948,by The Missionary Society of St.  \u003Cbr>Paul the Apostle in the State of New York.   |  |\n\nNon-Catholics don't know whatCatholics believe.  Here's why.  \n## Religious Plain Talk\n\nDale Francis  \nYOU would think someone was mak-tell non-Catholics about our Cath-ing a poor joke if he told you a papal olic religion.encyclical was the Pope's official cab-Last Summer at the University ofinet.You would call him abysmallyNorth Carolina,a group of sincere-ignorant if he thought “stigmata”ly interested teachers met for themeant a whip used by Catholics infirst Southern Inter-Cultural Work-the days of the Inquisition.  Andshop to discuss ways to eliminateyou would think him outright big-friction between religious and racialoted if he said nuns were imprisonedgroups.The Workshop was spon-in convents or Catholics had to paysored jointly by the National Con-to have their sins forgiven in con-ference of Christians and Jews andfession.the University of North Carolina.  \nAs one of the participants in thatUnlearned Students.   I heard all ofworkshop I made a study of non-these notions last Summer when ICatholic knowledge of Catholic be-was down in Carolina.No,theyliefs.I did it not to demonstrateweren't the bigoted attacks of anti-the failure of non-Catholics to learnCatholics.They weren’t the miscon-something about their neighbors butceptions of unlettered backwoods-to discover how effective Catholicsmen..These were the honest convic-have been in disseminating knowl-tions of friendly non-Catholic highedge of Catholic beliefs.schooland college teachers.  Ithought it proved that somethinghas been wrong with our attempts to not educationally typical.   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