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Leftist Moves In Education And
Labor Fields Seen As Threat Of
New Dictatorship In Venezuela
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CARACAS, Venezuela,—Left
ist moves to create a govern
ment monopoly of education
and established political control
. over the labor unions may lead
to a new dictatorship in this
country, according to observers
here.
Their fears are being express
ed only a few months after the
January ousting of the rightist
dictatorship of President Mar
cos Perez Jiminez, whose re
gime was marked by the forced
suspension of labor union activ
ity and a long period of Church-
state conflict.
Behind recent leftist moves is
the Marxist-oriented Democrat
ic Action party (Adeco.) To
gether with the two other major
Venezuelan parties — the Re
publican Democratic Union and
the Christian Democrats (Copei)
-—Adeco has entered into a po
litical truce under the govern-
m e n t of Provisional President
Wolfgang Larrazabal.
But one of its leaders, Luis
Beltran Prieto, minister of ed
ucation in the Adeco govern
ment in power from 1945 to
1948. has declared that govern
ment control of education is
absolutely necessary.
Other leftist leaders in Ca
racas and other major cities
have told workers that only
politically-sponsored labor or
ganizations can organize un
ions. They have made this state
ment despite the fact that pres
ent laws provide that workers
can organize without any po
litical sponsorship or direction.
Marxist-inspired speakers
have also attacked the Church’s
activity in the social action field
and have protested against
priests’ working in the labor
union movement.
Leaflets attacking the Adeco
position, signed by well known
and respected Venezuelan lead
ers, have been flooding this city.
Dr. Aristides Calvani, a trade
union expert opposing Dr. Bel
tran’s stand, asked:
“On what basis is the political
unity, about which there has
been so much talk (since the
overthrow of the Perez Jiminez
regime), being built? . . . Relia
ble sources insist that the Marx
ists are launching an all-out
campaign to get important posts
in the ministry of education.”
The magazine SIC, published
by the Jesuit Fathers, stated:
“It is a mistake to organize in
each trade union a board of di
rectors composed of represent
atives of political parties. It is
in precisely this manner that
party politics have become en
trenched in the labor move
ment.”
Referring to the political
truce, SIC continued:
“There is one very good argu
ment in favor of trusting the
political truce — fear of a new
dictatorship. Dictatorship will
return if the Venezuelan people
show a lack of preparation for
the proper use of liberty.
“If liberty degenerates into
license, we shall unfortunately
prove right t h, e people who
claim that the country is not
ready for a genuine democratic
government.”
One of the questions puzzling
observers here is the exact atti
tude of the government toward
the Communist party.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — The prac
tice of artificial birth control is
“against both the natural and
the divine law, is opposed to
healthy family life and well
being of the nation,” Father
John E. Kelly, director , of the
Bureau of Information, National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
emphasized here.
At the same time, Redemp-
torist Father Henry V. Sattler,
assistant director of the NCWC
Family Life Bureau, stressed
that contraception violates “a
law of nature binding on all
mankind.” “If a couple makes
sex an end in itself, without
meaning and objectives outside
the mutual satisfaction of the
partners,” he said, “then all
traditional morality falls.”
The statements of the two
NCWC officials were a rejoin
der to an assertion made by Dr.
Richard M. Fagley at a World
Council of Churches meeting in
Buck Hill Falls, Pa., that Cath
olic teachings on artificial birth
control are “theologically wrong
and ethically weak.”
Father Kelly contended it is
just the opposite — that Dr. Fag-
ley’s position is “theologically
wrong and ethically weak.”
The NCWC official said: “He
must be aware of what the Bible
says in Genesis 1, 28, King
James version, ‘And God bless
ed them (Adam and Eve), and
God said unto them, Be fruitful
and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it.’ Dr. Fag
ley would divide and subtract,
not multiply. His statement in
dicates that he favors that the
earth subdue man, not man the
earth.”
In the same book of the Bible,
in chapter 38, Father Kelly said,
can be found the story of Gnan,
who practiced artificial birth
control. He reminded that the
Bible relates “the thing which
he did displeased the Lord:
wherefore He slew him also.”
Father Kelly disagreed with a
statement of Dr. Fagley who
claimed “millions of Catholic
laymen disagree with their
church in this matter” of arti
ficial birth control. The NCWC
official said that the charge is
“unsubstantiated” and that the
Protestant leader either should
In a speech shortly after as
suming government power, Pro
visional President Larrazabal
said that the “Communist party
in Venezuela .will receive sim
ilar treatment to that given it
in the United States.
Despite this statement, there
is a great deal of obviously com
munist-inspired activity, par
ticularly among the workers, in
Venezuela.
submit factual evidence or re
tract his assertion.”
Father Kelly said that Dr.
Fagley’s position is “exactly
contrary to the teachings of
Christian theologians from the
days of St. Augustine.” He said
it “is regrettable that a Protes
tant leader saw fit to use the
forum of a World Council of
Churches meeting to criticize
Catholic teachings and prac
tice.”
Father Sattler stressed that a
statement of Pope Pius XI con
demning contraception, with
which Dr. Fagley found fault,
“is not merely a statement of
Catholic opinion or theological
discussion,” nor a law passed by
the Church binding only Cath
olics, but “it is a law of nature
binding all mankind.”
The Redemptorist said that
Dr. Fagley’s contention that
birth control is needed in the
face of an expanding population
is the “neo-Malthusian argu
ment” which has “been dis
credited many times.” He said
there are many problems in
feeding a vastly larger popula
tion, but the solution “lies in the
fields of economics, technologi
cal advances and redistribution
of the food supply.”
“Many eminent scientists like
wise reject artificial birth con
trol as a solution.” said Father
Sattler. “Dr. Karl Brandt, asso
ciate director of Stanford Uni
versity’s food research institute,
stated last year that population
absolutely cannot outstrip food
production. That is not the ques
tion, he said, but whether ca
pacity to produce will overshoot
the capacity of the market to
absorb and ruin farmers by
low prices.”
Father Sattler said that at the
1956 meeting of the British As
sociation for the Advancement
of Science, Dr. C. B. Goodhart
of Cambridge “offered biologi
cal reasons why the 18th cen
tury economist Malthus was
wrong in holding that popula
tion will outstrip food supply.”
And at the same meeting, said
Father Sattler, Dr. G. V. Jacks,
another eminent scientist,
claimed that 100 years from now
the world would be able to feed
its probable population of six
billion people.
“We ask Dr. Fagley to keep
in mind that artificial birth con
trol is repugnant to the . moral
sense and the family tradition
of not only Catholics, but to
men of good will of all nations
where birth control advocates
wish to introduce their contra
ceptives and chemicals,” Father
Sattler said. “And we ask, when
the position of the Catholic
Church in any matter is criti
cized on Biblical, theological
and sociological grounds at
World Council meetings, that the
speakers be more competent in
their fields than Dr. Fagley has
been at Buck Hill Falls.”
Dr. Fagley is executive secre
tary of the commission of the
churches of international af
fairs, a joint agency of the
World Council of Churches and
the International Missionary
Council. He spoke at the annual
meeting of the United States
Conference for the World Coun
cil of Churches in Buck Hill
Falls.
He took issue with the “rigid”
position of Pope Pius XI in a
1930 encyclical, which, he said,
held that the conjugal act “is
destined primarily for the be
getting of children” and that
those who deliberately frustrate
its natural power, commit a sin
against nature and a deed in
trinsically vicious and shameful.
Dr. Fagley claimed that there
are “millions of Catholic lay
men who disagree with their
church in this matter.” He call
ed for a speedy development
and extension of “effective and
inexpensive” methods of birth
control to stifle the “popula
tion explosion” in under-devel
oped areas of the world.
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time they leave the home, it is
bound to happen that a woman
will find herself about to make
a visit to church (on the way
home from the store, for in
stance) and suddenly discover
she is without a hat. A similar
predicament may even arise on
the occasion of a scheduled
church service, though rarely.
But all that is required by
Church law is a head covering
of some kind. Even a shawl or
a handkerchief or any like arti
cle will meet this requirement.
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT
than having one’s head covered
in church, of course, is being
dressed modestly and with de
corum. Many styles perfectly ac
ceptable for work or recreation
would be completely out of
place in so sacred a place as
church.
* * *
habits are set against it. It is as
if a scientist were to produce
arguments in favor of walking
on all fours: we should find the
idea repulsive, all our bodily
habits would be set against us.
That indeed is no bad compari
son. The man who knows of the
universe of spirit walks upright,
the materialist hugs the earth.
Next week we come at last to
God.
The only driving force found
in some men is the force of habit.
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Q. Whaf about Catholic teen
agers joining Protestant youth
clubs? It seems to be a fad in
some parts of our city.
A. Membership in and attend
ance at non-Catholic church
youth clubs is generally forbid
den to Catholic boys and girls.
Even when such clubs do not
offer an obviously sectarian pro
gram (usually characterized by
hymn-singing, sermons and
Bible interpretation), they tend
to impress youngsters wiih the
erroneous notion that all re
ligions are equally acceptable,
thus influencing them to relig
ious indifferenlism.
RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENT-
ISM is not only the most serious
danger with regard to such
clubs. It is also the most insid
ious. For whereas most normal
Catholic teenagers possessed of
a basic knowledge of the Faith
are not likely to be drawn di
rectly into adopting the doctrin
al or moral errors maintained
by Protestant and other non-
Catholic sects, they are still
quite impressionable enough to
assume the attitude that one re
ligion is as good as another.
PARENTS, of course, have the
primary obligation in con
science of seeing to it that their
sons and daughters do not join
or attend Protestant and other
non-Catholic church youth or
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the way to work, in periods of
insomnia. He should keep on
looking at the relation between
having parts and occupying
space till he sees, really sees,
that a partless being cannot be
in space. He should keep on
looking at the relation between
having parts and ceasing to ex
ist, till he sees as clearly that a
partless being cannot ever be
anything but itself.
But the battle is never won.
Space will come creeping back.
We find ourselves, for example,
thinking of sin as a stain on the
soul. This is a common figure of
speech, and does no harm to
the instructed mind. But we are
not ready for figures of speech
yet, we should stick to plain
prose. A stain is a discoloration,
a color that happens to be the
wrong color in that particular
place. But you cannot have col
or without space: the soul does
not occupy space, and is no
suitable ground, therefore, for
discoloration.
We should try to bring to
gether, to see together, all these
separate truths about spirit. One
way is to concentrate upon our
own soul, the spirit we know
best — wholly itself, for ever
itself, doing each thing that it
does with its whole self. We
may think of the soul as a ma
chine, but a machine with no
parts, possessing its existence,
generating its ideas, in the one
simple, spaceless reality which
it is. The ideas it generates are
not in space, but they have
brought the conquest of space
within our reach — if they do
not blow our world into outer
space first. And with all that
power, the human soul is the
lowest of spirits. The least of
the angels is unimaginably su
perior in power (those baby an
gels, all cute and cuddly, which
disfigure our children’s books,
have nothing to do with angels.)
It is not enough to have learn
ed what spirit is. We must build
the knowledge into the very
structure of our minds. Seeing
spiritual reality must become
one of the mind’s habits. When
it does, we have reached the
first stage of maturity. Materi
alism, however persuasively ar
gued, can no longer take hold on
us. We may not always be able
to answer the arguments, but it
makes no difference. Material
ism is repulsive, all our mental
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