MOSCOW — About 100 chaplains and students from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana were told here Friday night “there is no reason why we have to fear the age in which we live.”
Prof. Michael J. O’Reilly of the University of Idaho law faculty told delegates at a banquet winding up a three-day Catholic Newman Club Northwest province meeting on the University of Idaho campus that an abiding faith in the lessons of Christ can enable them “to meet any apparent threat with a conviction that purity of heart reflected in a democracy must not and cannot be defeated.”
At a Thursday evening banquet, Prof. Thomas R. Walenta of the university told the group that Catholics everywhere should take an active part in promoting Newman centers for students at colleges and universities, such as the center at the University of Idaho.
A high Mass and a 9 a.m. breakfast will officially end the function Saturday.
New province officers were installed at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Friday afternoon. They include James Prestell, Idaho, first vice chairman.
This story was published in the Nov. 29, 1958, edition of the Lewiston Tribune.
