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WELCOMES GIVEN RED LEADERS BY WEST
HIT AS HONORING 'CAIN BY CARDINAL;
PIUS XU’S AVOIDANCE OF HITLER CITED
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME — The leaders of the
free world who welcome com
munist rulers into their midst
fail to see at their sides “the
hand that has struck the face
of Christ,” His Eminence Alfre
do Cardinal Ottaviani has as
serted.
The Cardinal-Secretary of
the Sacred Congregation of the
Holy Office preached a sermon
in which he contrasted the
welcome given to modern-day
“Cains” to the disdain shown
by Pope Pius XI for Adolf Hit
ler. when the nazi dictator vis
ited Rome in 1938. Pius XI left
the Vatican for his summer res
idence at Castelgandolfo the
day before Hitler’s arrival, and
the Vatican museums and the
bronze gate of the Vatican Pal
ace were slammed shut on the
day of Hitler’s arrival.
Without mentioning Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev by
name, Cardinal Ottaviani spoke
out against his persecution. He
preached at a Mass for the
Church of Silence in the Basil
ica of St. Mary Major.
His remarks were addressed
to a group of priests, Religious
and laymen, exiles from the
communist-dorniinated coun
tries. He -said that the refugees,
praying variously to Mary,
Queen of Hungary? to Our
Lady of Czestochowa — the
title of the Blessed Virgin as
patroness of Poland — and to
Our Lady of Czechoslovakia,
ask only for peace. He added
that those who have no peace
know better than others, what a
desire for peace means. They
know too, he s.aid, that peace
will not be forthcoming so long
as the elements of a true peace,
repeated so often by the popes,
fall on deaf ears.
Said the Cardinal:
"So long as Cain can slaugh
ter Abel without others being
disturbed, so long as one can
witness the shower of death
sentences of so many Hungari
an students and workers for
the sole reason that they loved
liberty, so long as men can
stand by without resentment
while liberty is snuffed out by
the tanks of foreigners, one
cannot speak of true peace but
only of acquiescence and co
habitation with the murderer,
“The episode of Cain and
Abel is perpetuated in this cen
tury and the killer does not re
ceive the just blame for his
victims: How otherwise does
one explain the feast given in
Cain’s honor? ... Is this the
triumph of man, the glory of
the new civilization?”
The Cardinal ironically de
scribed attempts to crush the
idea of God in the hearts of
men as one of “the sweet dem
onstrations of modern con
quests.” Then he said that mil
lions of people have brought
only ignominy upon themselves
by “applauding the crime.”
While “the earth groans in
chains and tears,” today’s con-
querer thinks his boldness in
outer , space a challenge to hea
ven, he asserted.
Cardinal Otiaviani said a per
son has only io scan the pages
of the Annuario Pontificio —
the yearly directory of the Holy
See, which lists all the bishops
of the world — to see how
many bishops are still impris
oned, or hindered in carrying
out their duties, or deported.
Then he said:
“Yet people no longer react
to the wpunds inflicted by an
ti-Christianity on the Mystical
Body of Christ.”
The 69-year-old churchman
went on:
“While it would seem that
men ought to join in strong
protest like the sea raging in a
storm, nothing like this occurs.
Instead, certain sectors of the
press concern themselves whol
ly with the lives of actors and
actresses, sports, scandals, and
crime news, without taking no
tice of the fact that so many
men are suffering.”
Even in this period of easing
of tensions between the free
world and the communist pow
ers, Cardinal Ottaviani said,
Christians cannot bring them
selves to “smile and resort to
flattery in the face of the mas
sacre of Christians, in the face
of one who, not content with
denying God, insults and
scourges Him by defiance of
His servants and His children.”
"Can a Christian choose to
enter alliances with the helpers
and allies of those who propose
and prepare the coming of an
anti-Christian reign of terror
in nations still free?" the Card
inal asked. "Can he consider
any kind of let-up in tension
satisfactory when there is fore
most no such easing of tensions
in human values, in the most
elementary sense of respect for
consciences, in the Faith, and
in families, and in our case,
toward Christ, who is still spit
upon, crowned with thorns and
slapped? Can he hold out his
hand to one who does this?"
Cardinal Ottaviani told the
refugees that when it seems
that people cannot have faith
in men but only in heaven, all
they can do is pray. He added:
“In fact, there are even men
who call themselves Christians
who take their place at the side
of the persecutors and intro
duce them into the free world,
and they do not see the hand
that has struck the face of
Christ. A great Frenchman
once wrote: ‘Christ is still in
agony and you are bargaining
with His persecutors.’ ”
Catholic Schools Barred
From State High School
Indoor Track Competition
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. .12 (NC)
—Catholic high schools in New
Jersey have not been invited to
take part in the state high
school track championships at
the Jersey City Armory on Jan
uary 30, although they are bona
fide members of the state athle
tic association.
The decision ip bar the Cath
olic schools was revealed by
James Growney, president of
the New Jersey State Inter-
scholastic Athletic Association,
in a letter to Brother Leo Fran
cis, of Marist High School,
Bayonne.
Brother Leo is president of
the New Jersey Catholic Track
Conference. In that capacity,
he wrote to Mr. Growney, offer
ing the services of the confer
ence’s officiating crew.
The Catholic conference is
the only school organization
which has. conducted or organ-
• ized indoor track program. In
addition, its officials handle the
only two meets with statewide
implications, the northern New
Jersey championships and the
state indoor relay champion
ships, both sponsored by Cath
olic groups.
Mrs. Growney said the reason
the meet is limited to public
schools this year is because it
will be the state association’s
first attempt to run an indoor
meet. He said Catholic schools
probably would be included
next year.
Catholic school officials are
critical of the decision because
indoor track in New Jersey
would not have become popular
except for the meets conducted
by Catholic groups. They also
pointed out that of the four
major meets held in New York
armories, to which all New Jer
sey schools are invited, three
are sponsored by Catholic high
schools.
Catholic schools never before
PARISHIONERS
URGED TO DEFEAT
SCHOOL BUS RIDES
PORTLAND, Maine, (NC)
—Parishioners of a local protes-
tant church have been urged to
write area legislators and urge
defeat of a proposal to authorize
tax-paid transportation of non
public as well as public school
pupils.
Identifiction of area legisla
tors and detailed instructions
on how they should be address
ed was given in the January
issue of High Ways, monthly
publication of the Clark Memo
rial church.
have been barred from any
championship event run by the
state association. These events
include cross-country, tennis,
golf, swimming, basketball and
outdoor track. The schools com
pete annually in the state in
door relay championships in
the meet sponsored by the Es
sex County Catholic Youth Or
ganization.
Anti-iewish
Wave Condemned
By Cardinal
NEW YORK, (NC)—His Emi
nence Francis Cardinal Spell
man called the present wave of
anti-Semitism “deplorable” and
said that “it should be con-
demnd by every decent citizen
and right thinking individual.”
The New York Archbishop’s
remarks followed his arrival at
Idlewild Airport here (Jan. 6)
after a month-long tour of
American service bases on three
continents.
Cardinal Spellman, who is
also Military Vicar for Catholic
in the U. S. armed forces, had
delayed his return by one day
in order to report to His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII and to
attend a meeting commemorat
ing the mission encyclical of
Pope Benedict XV, “Maximum
Illud.”
East Germany's
Reds Attack
Christian Leaders
BERLIN (NC) — East Ber
lin’s communist press marked
the visit of German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer to free West
Berlin by new attacks on tlje
city’s Catholic and Protestant
bishops.
Neues Deutschland, main Red
paper in the Soviet sector, cri
ticized His Eminence Julius
Cardinal Doepfner and Luth
eran Bishop Otto Dibelius. It
accused them of being “bishops
plotting with Adenauer on how
to heat up the cold war” and
of “selling Church institutions”
to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
In the course of his two-day
visit, the Chancellor addressed
a special session of the West
Berlin Parliament. He assured
Berliners that, the Western
powers would not give in to
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev’s demands for Berlin,
and said that any change in the
western sector’s legal status
would be “surrender of free
dom for bondange.”
Speaking on Radio Free Ber
lin the same day, Mr. Adenauer
condemned the new wave of
anti-Semitic activity in Ger
many. The public must fight
the repition of the incidents, he
sad. He added that Germany’s
enemies are capitalizing on the
events by saying that “the Ger
mans are just the same as they
always were.”
Forced To Work
On Road Gang
VIENNA (NC)—A Czechos
lovak Bishop serving a 25-year
prison term has recently been
forced to work on a road-build
ing gang, according to reports
received here.
Says Religion
Barred Him From ,
Board Presidency
(By Jim Shea)
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CINCINNATI—The only Ca
tholic member of this city’s
Board of Education resigned
from the post he held for 26
years, charging that he had been
denied the board presidency be
cause of his religion.
Edwin G. Becker, for the past
12 years vice president of the
school board, resigned January
4. He issued a public statement
charging his fellow board mem
bers with anti-Catholic bias af
ter they elected Stanley McKie,
a board member for 10 years, as
president. Mr. McKie succeeds
Dr. Fred Heinold, who died Oc
tober 29, 1959.
In his statement, Mr. Becker,
Cincinnati attorney and build
ing and loan company official,
said he had been told last Octo
ber by Samuel Todd, another
board member, that members of
the school board felt “there was
nothing in my record indicating
any bias, prejudice, or partiali
ty for or against any group;
that I was able, qualified in all
respects as to experience, abili
ty and integrity, but neverthe
less they could not among
themselves come to the conclu
sion that I should succeed Dr.
Heinold as president.”
Mr. Becker said when he
asked what the reason was,
"Mr. Todd very frankly stated:
'Because of your religion.'"
Mr. Becker also declared that
Mr. Todd told him the board
had agreed to elect Mr. Becker
president for the remainder of
Dr. Heinold’s unexpired term if
he would promise not to stand
for re-election “because of busi
ness pressure.”
Mr. Becker said he was "deep
ly shocked to think that mem
bers of a board of education be
lieving that an individual is
able and qualified in every de
gree, should let religious belief
interfere with his selection."
He also said he was "astound
ed to think that my associates
put such a low value on my in
tegrity to think for one moment
I would make a public state
ment . . . which would be an
absolute falsehood, fraud, and
lie."
To agree to stand for re-elec
tion and give “business pres
sure” as the reason, Mr. Becker
said, would disqualify him from
serving as a member of the
Board of Education, whose
members “by word and exam
ple should teach truth at all
times.”
He stated that Mr. McKie
"and others" told him that, "be
cause of the bigotry existing in
the community, to have a Cath
olic as president of the Board of
Education would handicap the
public schools."
“I informed Mr. McKie that
his reasoning was aiding and
abetting bigotry in all of its
aspects,” Mr. Becker added.
He accused the members of
the board of violating the guar
antees of the Ohio and U. S.
Constitutions that religion
should not be made a test of a
candidate’s qualifications for
public office.
Mr. Todd said that although
Mr. Becker’s religion was “a
consideration,” it was riot the
only consideration. Mr. McKie
denied discussing the issue with
Mr. Becker at all.
Another board member,
Charles Westheimer, said some
account was taken of Mr. Beck
er’s religion, but added: “I don’t
think it was the most important
consideration.” He urged Mr.
Becker to withdraw his state
ment and his resignation, but
Mr. Becker refused, saying he
had given much thought to his
decision.
Mrs. Alice Bruckmann, only
woman board member, said:
“Mr. Becker has made a great
contribution to the schools. I
am against his resignation.”
Meanwhile, the chairman of
the local Citizens’ School Com
mittee, E. W. Simpkinson, told
reporters that Mr. Becker was
“dead wrong” in blaming anti-
Catholic feeling for his failure
to be named president. Never
theless, Mr. Simpkinson said of
the religious question that “no
doubt it had a part” in the
board’s decision.
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NEW AUXILIARIES APPOINTED — His Holiness Pope
John XXIII has appointed two new members to the hierarchy
of the United States. Father James W. Malone, (left) Diocesan
Superintendent of Schools in Youngstown, Ohio, has been named
Titular Bishop of Alabama and Auxiliary Bishop to Bishop
Emmet M. Walsh of Youngstown. Msgr. Thomas F. Maloney,
(right) of Providence, R. I., rector of the American College at
Louvain, Belgium, has been named Titular Bishop of Andro-
polis to serve as Auxiliary Bishop to Bishop Russell J. McVinney
of Providence.—(NC Photos)
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MARIOLOGICAL AWARD — At the 11th annual conven
tion of the Mariological Society of America, held in Detroit, the
annual Mariological Award was presented to Father JEamon
Carroll, O.Carm., (right) of Washington, by the newly-elected
president Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., (left) of Woodstock,
Md. — (NC Photos)
PRIEST PUT
ON TRIAL BY
YUGOSLAVIA
TRIESTE, (NC) — A Catho
lic priest accused of heading a
unit of Croatian fascists during
World War II has been placed
on trial before a Yugoslav
communist court, it has been
reported here.
According to the Yugoslav
news agency, Tanjug, Francis
can Father Rudi Jerak was be
ing tried before a Zagreb court
with other alleged members of
the group of Ustachi. The Usta-
chi were followers of the late
Ante Pavelic, whom the nazis
put at the head of the govern
ment of “independent” Croatia,
a part of Yugoslavia, after they
overran that country during the
war. After the war many Usta
chi members were convicted of
war crimes.
The trial of Father Jerak fol
lows a number of arrests of
priests and seminarians in Yu
goslavia in recent months, re
port^ reaching here state. The
arrests reportedly took place
from October to December in
the Croatian, Serbian and Bos
nian areas of Yugoslavia. Some
of those arrested have been
sentenced to terms of up to 15
years in jail, reports say.
In addition to the arrests, ar
chives of a church in Skoplje,
capitol of the Macedonian pro
vince, were searched and some
documents confiscated, it has
been reported.
North Vietnamese
Reds Expel Bishop
SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC)—
Bishop Jean-Marie Maze, Apos
tolic Vicar of Hung Hoa in com
munist-ruled northern Vietnam,
has been expelled from his See
by the Reds, it was learned
here.
A native of the Diocese of
Quimper in France and a mem
ber of the Parish Foreign Mis
sion Society, Bishop Maze was
nominated to his post by Pope
Pius XII in January, 1945 and
was consecrated the following
year. He is 62 years old.
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Seeks Stricter
Statue For
Church Desecration
TRENTON, N. J., (NC) — A
bill classifying the desecration
or malicious damaging of church
property as a high misdemeanor
was introduced here at the or
ganization meeting of the 1960
General Assembly. Its sponsor
was Assemblyman William F.
Hyland.
Under existing law, such of
fenders can be charged as dis
orderly persons, a non-indictable
offense if the damage is less
than $200, or indicted for a mis
demeanor.
Mr. Hyland’s bill would make
violators liable to three years
in prison and a fine of $1,000.
Anti-Semitic
Acts Condemned
By Vatican Radio
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—Recent outbreaks of anti-
Semitism have been described
in a Vatican Radio broadcast
as “one of the most despicable
forms of mass hatred.” *
Christians, the broadcast
said, are the first to deplore
the outbreaks, which began
Christmas Eve in Cologne,- Ger
many, when nazi signs and slo
gans were smeared on a new
synagogue. Anti-Semitic inci
dents have spread from Germa
ny to numerous other coun
tries. In Germany itself Catho
lic churches have also been de
faced with swastikas.
The Vatican Radio speaker
recalled the words of Pope Pius
XII when he received a group
of Jewish refugees in audience
in 1945. Pius XII at that time
decried “the depth of discord,
hatred and folly of persecution
which, because of the influ
ence of intolerant and erron
eous doctrines, contrary to ev
ery noble human and truly
Christian spirit, have been cre
ated between nations and rac
es and which have consumed
countless innocent victims.”
The broadcaster said that it
is a shame to have to recall
this statement only 15 years
later. “In the name of Christian
conscience” he warned against
the disastrous effects of racial
hatred which have been too
soon forgotten.
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THE BULLETIN, January 23, 1960—PAGE 3
Polish High Court Strikes
At Church Property Rights " f «
WARSAW, (NC) — Poland’s
Supreme Court has upheld last
year’s government ruling that
severely curtailed the Church’s
property rights in the former
German territories now under
Polish administration.
The government declared in
1959 that properties once owned
by the Church in that area now
belong to the state and that par
ishes deriving benefits from the
use of such properties must pay
rent to the state.
The high court’s decision was
one of a series of recent official
actions seriously affecting the
economic and financial situa
tion of the Church in Poland.
All seminaries have received
notification from the govern
ment that in regard to taxes
they have now been placed on
the same level as luxury hotels.
This means that in the future
65 per cent of the money paid
by seminarians for room, board
and tuition will have to be paid
by the seminaries to the state.
At the same time all priests
have received tax declaration
forms for the years 1950 to 1954,
with an official explanation that
the tax assessments made in
those years were too low.
former German territories was
made when it turned down an
appeal made by St .James par
ish of Olsztyn from a govern
ment order to pay rent on a
building which the parish
claimed belonged to it.
Says Cardinal
Is Not III
VATICAN CITY, Jan 7 (Ra
dio, NC)—The personal physi
cian of His Eminence Alojzije
Cardinal Stepinac has denied
reports stating that the health
of the Yugoslav churchman has
worsened, according to Vatican
Radio.
Cardinal Stepinac, Archbish
op of Zagreb, has been restrict
ed by the communist regime to
his native village of Krasic and
barred from his episcopal du
ties ever since his release from
prison in 1951,
The 61-year-old Cardinal is
known to have a rare blood dis
ease, and was said by one news
agency to have “entered another
health crisis” the week after
Christmas.
In December the government
blocked the bank account of the
Catholic University of Lubin,
claiming that Poland’s only Ca
tholic institution of higher
learning owed money for back
income taxes for the years 1950
to 1954.
Without advising the univer
sity, the goverment took some
of the money from the account
as part payment of the $146,000
it says is owed for taxes during
that period.
Earlier the Polish Finance
Ministry had issued a ruling
which brought back into force
all taxes on Church income.
Most of these taxes had been
put on the books in the Stalinist
era but were later wholly or
partially suspended. Lublin Uni
versity derives all its income
from contributions from this
nation’s Catholics.
The Supreme Court decision
on Church property rights in
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firmed here that Father Du
Brouna, a French missionary,
was murdered by pro-Red Lao
tian rebels a month ago.
The report said the priest was
shot by the rebels while he was
conducting a catechism class in
his 10-year-old mission near
Paksong, 25 miles nertheast of
Pakse.
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