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TAfTE G—THE BULLETIN, June 25, I960
AS 'INTERNATIONAL PROVOCATEUR'
ominican Offici
xpulsion Of Pa;
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domin
ican Republic—A Cabinet min
ister has called for the expul
sion of the Apostolic Nuncio to
the Dominican Republic, charg
ing that he is responsible for
“obviously seditious” pastoral
letters issued by the bishops of
this country.
The accusation, made by Ma
rio Abreu Penzo, Minister of
Justice and Worship, has wid
ened the gap existing between
the country's six Catholic bish
ops and the regime of General
issimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
The regime's radio quoted Mr.
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Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop
Lino Zanini, is "an internation
al provocateur."
The renewed attack was ap
parently a further reaction to
the joint pastoral letter issued
by the nation’s six bishops last
January in the wake of a wave
of arrests. In the pastoral, the
Hierarchy cited “the grievous
blow” befalling so many Do
minican homes. Any violation
of human rights, the Bishop
said, “continues a grave offense
against God, against the dignity
of man . . . and brings about
many and irreparable evils in
society.”
The Bishops said that the
Church’s “sons have shed their
blood” for these rights in the
past and that the Church is
ready to suffer again in defense
of human rights. In a second
pastoral, read in the churches
on the first Sunday of March,
the Bishops repeated their plea
for pardons.
The Abreu Penzo charges
were made in the form of a let
ter to President Hector B. Tru
jillo. The text of the letter was
broadcast (May 25) over the
government radio, La Voz Do-
minicana.
The letter also charged the
Vatican with a "new material
istic orientation . . . which tends
to permit the clergy to devote
itself to political activities."
This reference appeared to be
the Dominican regime's inter
pretation of the May 19 editori
al in L'Osservatore Romano,
Vatican City daily newspaper,
which spoke of the "absurd dis
tinction" between a Catholic's
conscience as a believer and as
a citizen. The same week that
the letter of the Minister of
Justice was broadcast, Fides,
weekly paper of the Archdio
cese of Sanfo Domingo (Ciudad
Trujillo), termed if "a mockery"
to say the Church has a "ma
terialistic orientation."
Referring to press reaction to
L’Osservatore’s editorial, Fides
said that the Dominican Hier
archy followed the teachings of
the popes in ordering the cler
gy to “abstain from any inter
vention of a political nature.”
It added:
“We cannot, thus, speak in
good faith of a new course in
the Vatican, nor of the clergy’s
being authorized to intervene in
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SINEWS OF LOVE, edited by
Thomas J. M. Burke, S.J., New
American Library, $1.95.
This is a skillfully designed
collection of photographs taken
by Jesuit missioners showing
their Work throughout the
world. Interwoven with the pic
tures are quotations from perti
nent papal encyclicals and ex
planations of the Papal doctrine
on missionary work. The book
is an 8V2 x 11-inch paperback
and the publishers state that
there will be no hardcover edi
tion. This is regrettable, for
such a beautiful book should be
available in a format suitable
for library use.
The. photographs, taken by
missionaries all over the world,
show men, women and children,
the young and the aged, at
work, at prayer, studying their
lessons, enjoying music, sculp
ture and the woodwork they are
creating, praying alone or in
groups. Many of the pictures
are strikingly beautiful, some
are sad; many, especially those
of the children, are charming.
They illustrate the almost infi
nite variety of work done by
Catholic missionaries who enter
in every conceivable way into
the lives of their people of ev
ery nation and race on God’s
earth, bringing with them all
the natural and supernatural
blessings of the Church.
party politics. Even more than
an error, it would be a mockery
to say that the Vicar of Christ
had given a materialistic orien
tation to the Church.
“From all that has been said
it is clearly deduced that the
Church, her hierarchy and her
clergy must not take part in
political activities. They are to
guide, however, the conscience
of Catholics when parties arise
which are led by communism or
liberalism and which try to de
stroy the rights of God and His
holy Church.”
Archbishop Zanini, 51, has
been Apostolic Nuncio and thus
dean of the diplomatic corps
here since June of last year. In
the letter asking that the Arch
bishop be declared “persona
non grata” — and thus be ex
pelled from the country — the
Minister of Justice and Worship
said the hierarchy’s pastorals
were issued “with the intention
of creating for the government
a dangerous and chaotic situa
tion.” The authors, the letter
said, “were trying to create an
atmosphere of mistaken pity on
behalf of the terrorists so as to
confuse the judges.”
The letter revealed that Gen
eralissimo Rafael Trujillo, long
time ruler of the country and
brother of the President, did not
permit the Minister of Justice
“to try” those who signed the
pastorals. It also said that the
clergy demonstrated “unprece
dented ingratitude” by the pas-
. tprals, whose “only aim” was
“to .raise the revolutionary ban
ner” against public peace and
the security of the nation.
The Minister of Justice then
referred to the May 17 pastoral
of Archbishop Enrique Perez of
Santiago, Cuba, in which that
prelate warned that commun
ism is “already within (Cuba),
speaking loudly as though set
tled in its own domain.” The
Justice Minister’s letter said
that while the Cuban pastoral
was limited to “defending God
from the common enemy, com
munism,” the Dominican Hier
archy’s pastorals “were aimed
exclusively against the govern
ment, which is the most anti-
communist institution in
America.” The result, the letter
said, “was to foment commu
nism and anarchy in the coun
try.”
The cabinet minister’s letter
concluded:
"I have been able to prove
that the pastorals of our pre
lates were the work of Msgr.
Lino Zanini, the Nuncio of the
Holy See in our country. Since
those writings created and fa
cilitated the anarchist move
ment in our republic, acts that
will now be punished by the
death penalty in our constitu
tion, I consider that the su
preme interest of protecting
families, peace, and the securi
ty of the state requires that the
said Nuncio, Msgr. Zanini, be
declared persona non grata by
the proper authority because he
has become, not an ambassador
of brotherhood, but rather an
international provocateur."
LUCINIE, by M.-L. Pascal-
Dasque, Kenedy, $3.75.
Only a reader well versed in
mysticism could adequately
judge the merits and demerits
of this novel. It is “subtly-
wrought,” as the book jacket
states, but often is subtlety
seems to become obscurity. It
has a strange beauty at times;
yet its tedious analyzing of the
protagonist’s thought processes
frequently becomes tiresome.
There is little of the dramatic,
or even of ordinary action, in
the story. None of the charac
ters is completely real.
One reviewer has seen a re
semblance between Sister Lu-
cinie, the young nun whose in
ner experiences this novel de
scribes, and Bernanos’ fictional
saints, adding that Lucinie
“lacks the dimension and depth
of a Bernanos character.” She
does indeed; and the whole be
wildering story lacks any trace
of the vigor and violence with
which Bernanos’ novels abound.
Neither could this reviewer
find any similitude between
this nun and St. Therese of
Lisieux, as yet another com
mentator claimed to do. Sister
Lucinie’s brand of sanctity
leaves the impression of cold
ness, aloofness and an almost
pantheistic mysticism, which is
far from true of the little Car
melite of Lisieux, of St. Marga
ret Mary or any of the other
well known mystics. There is
little here of the fire and flame
of St. John of the Cross; little
of the “perfect joy” of St. Fran
cis of Assisi; little of the good
earthly wisdom of St. Teresa of
Avila.
It is all very strange and puz
zling.
THE FATHERS AND DOC
TORS OF THE CHURCH, by
Rev. Ernest Simmons, Bruce,
$4.00.
When St. Lawrence of Brin
disi was declared a Doctor of
the Church in 1959, he was the
thirtieth man, in the twenty
centuries of the Church’s his
tory, to be accorded this honor.
Seventeen of the thirty belong
to the patristic period which
ended in the eighth century and
so, they are called also, Fathers
of the Church. Few of us could
name off hand more than half
a dozen of these emminent men.
Jerome and Augustine might
come immediately to mind; Leo
and Gregory; Bernard, Anthony
of Padua, Francis de Sales.
Father Simmons, editor of a
New Zealand newspaper, first
became interested in the Fathers
and Doctors of the Church
when he was a graduate student
in Rome. Growing better ac
quainted over the years with
their varied and fascinating per
sonalities, he has finally pre
sented brief sketches of them all
as introductions to the general
reader, hoping, he says, “to per
suade people to keep an eye out
for more ambitious and learned
books and articles about them.”
Among the interesting con
clusions that he draws from his
study is “that these, the
Church’s intellectual leaders,
were intensely interested in the
contemporary Scene: Not one of
them can be pictured as a dwel
ler in an ivory tower . . . This
has a point for all of us, for we
are all inclined to think that
we are too busy to be able to
give of our best for the spread
ing of the Kingdom of God. The
Doctors were too busy, but they
did it.”
Fontbonne
Affiliates With
St. Joseph’s
ST. LOUIS, MO.,—Fontbonne
College here has announced its
affiliation with St. Joseph’s In
stitute for the Deaf in an under
graduate program offering a
major in teaching the deaf, be
ginning September, 1960.
Founded in 1837, St. Joseph’s
Institute draws students and
professional observers from all
parts of the world. It uses a
completely oral method (that is:
teaches the deaf to speak).
Six members of the Institute
faculty, all of them holding at
least masters degrees in their
specialities, will become lectur
ers at Fontbonne and student
teachers will receive 400 clock
hours of practice teaching in In
stitute classrooms.
The four-year curriculum will
consist of basic liberal arts sub
jects plus specialized training to
meet requirements set up by the
Conference of Executives of the
Artificial Birth Control
Scored By Scottish Bishops
“gravely troubled” by the in
creasing weight of propaganda
advocating what is now called
“family planning” by practices
contrary to the natural law.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (NC)
—The Catholic Bishops of Scot
land have reiterated the
Church’s uncompromising con
demnation of artificial birth
control.
The spoke out in a hard
hitting joint pastoral letter in
the face of increased press, ra
dio and television pressure. The
letter released prior to possible
approval of birth control prac
tices by the (Presbyterian)
Church of Scotland holding its
general assembly in Edinburgh.
The State Church — called sim
ply “the Kirk” in Scotland —
had a motion on its agenda
seeking official approval of
birth control as “ethically ac
ceptable” and not un-Christian.
The (Anglican) Church of Eng
land has already accepted such
practices.
The two Catholic archbishops
and six bishops in their letter
read in all their churches at
Sunday Masses (May 22) declar
ed: “Without qualification the
Church teaches that artificial
birth prevention attempted by
the deliberate interruption of
the marriage act, by the use of
contraceptive appliances or by
the use of contraceptive pills or
medicine, is a grave violation
of the law of God.”
Referring to the charge that
the Church lacks sympathy for
couples whose economic, social
or medical circumstances make
the begetting and raising of
children difficult they declared:
“The Church is not lacking in
sympathy. She cannot however
interfere with the laws of God
even to alleviate hardship and
distress. God’s laws are unalter
able and the Church has no
power or authority to change
them.
“We must record our sincere
regret that so many people have
compromised with God’s law in
this matter. To sanction a prac
tice which is morally evil and
against nature in order to
achieve a good end, namely do
mestic happiness, will in the
long run defeat that end by de
bauching and undermining the
divine institution of marriage.”
The Bishops summed up the
teaching of the Church:
1. The Church is not opposed
to “family planning” in itself
provided the means used are
morally lawful.
2. The Church condemns
“family planning” by unlawful
American Schools for the Deaf.
Fontbonne is a' fully accredit
ed, four-year, liberal arts col
lege for women conducted, as
is the Institute, by the Sisters
of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
methods.
3. The “safe period” may be
used provided there is good rea
son.
4. Where grave danger to
health is involved temporary or
permanent abstinence must be
accepted.
The Bishops said they are
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