MORAL DANGER TO YOUNG

Vicar Capitular warns against scandal reports
Catholic Herald Reporter
IN a statement read at all the Masses in West
minster Cathedral on Sunday, Bishop Craven, Vicar Capitular, warned people to be on their guard against " sensational reporting " of recent events which, he said, might prove to be " a source of scandal and even moral temptation to impressionable young people and children."
The Bishop's statement was quoted on radio and TV and in national daily newspapers.
In it the Bishop said: " We are all aware of recent events to which great publicity has been given and which are further evidence of the moral dangers which are prevalent today. The course of justice has inevitably led to extensive reporting of these events.
"We feel, however, that it is our duty to warn our people to be on their guard lest any sensational reporting of these matters, whether by Press, radio or television, should in itself prove a source of scandal and even moral temptation to impressionable young people and children.
"Remember that it is not a question of blinding oneself to the truth. Rather is it a recognition of the insidious dangers which may contaminate the purity of home life."
Bishop Craven quoted the words of Our Lord, Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
"1 hese words," he said, ''must have a compelling force in these times when we may all recognise a widespread decline in moral standards.
-Those who have responsibility for young people must do everything in their power to defend children from contamination by that which is impure. Great care should be exercised in the preservation of Christian home-life, free from sources of temptation; and parents of young men and women who, through force of circumstances, may have to live away from home, should never forget their responsibilities in this matter." Bishop Father of Northampton was a guest of honour at Dunstable's pageant last week. He is pictured above with the Mayor of Dunstable, Coun. M. L. Kilby, and Fr. Maurice O'Neil, CM., parish priest. The pageant, with a cast of 1,000. told the story of Dunstable from the days of St. Augustine. It marked the 750th anniversary of Dunstable's Priory Church, founded by
Augustinian Fathers but now Anglican.