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-9- oe on its 40th Anniversary, of which | have the honor of being a life member. 1 said then, and now | repeat: "The Catholic Church repudiates as abhorrent to her very nature the pernicious doctrine that men are born with the stamp upon them of essential racial superiority or inferiority. She — recognizes no master race, but proclaims the God-given equality before God of a!l souls, for whose salvation our Blessed Redeemer suffered and sacrificed.” Our own Catholic Interracial Council has done much to tum the attention of people to the problems of racial injustice. Many of our parishes heve conducted workshops and study programs in an effort to further integrated living and equal educational opportunity for all and to end discrimination in employment and in union membership. But much = ever so much - remains to be done. The great Christian and American principle of equality must be reduced to action in local circumstances and in specific ways. We need civil rights measures enacted into low; but we also need the attitudes of justice and charity to be applied by every person in our society to the concrete lol