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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, August 6, 1960
WHITES FLED CONGO FROM
NECESSITY, NOT PANIC,
MISSIONARY PRIEST SAYS
ST. JOSEPH'S GRADUATION—Graduation ceremonies of St. Joseph’s Hospital were con
ducted at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Sunday, July 31st. Presiding was His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Savannah. Twenty-four new
student nurses will begin their studies shortly at the Savannah hospital.—(Staff photo).
Cuban Catholic Laymen Start
Campaign Against Communism
Catholic Journalists At World
Conference Demand Freedom Of
Information As A Human Right
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
ARLINGTON, Va.,—A Cath
olic missionary priest stationed
in the Congo has declared that
whites who fled the nation in
the wake of violence did so out
of necessity, not panic.
“Those who say that this
flight was simply due to panic
are entirely wrong in their
judgment,” Father Charles De
Wilde, C.I.C.M., provincial of
Scheut Fathers in Kasai prov
ince, said.
Father De Wilde, who is sta
tioned at Luluabourg in the
southern part of the strife-torn
country, made the comment in
a report received at the Scheut
Fathers’ headquarters here.
Another priest, Father Paul
Van Malderen, C.I.C.M., Bel
gian-born U.S. missioner who
was in the Congo on an inspec
tion tour at the time violence
erupted, reported that some
Catholic nuns have been mis
treated and raped.”
Father Van Malderen, promo
tion director of the community’s
U. S. branch, was evacuated
from the Congo to Salisbury,
Southern Rhodesia.
Reporting from Salisbury, Fa
ther Van Malderen said he was
in Kakwanga, a diamond mining
center in Kasai province, when
mutinuous Congolese troops
went on a rampage.
He said that on the night of
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
SUNDAY, August 7 — Ninth
Sunday after Pentecost. Gen
erally this date is the feast of
St. Cajetan, Confessor. He was
born in 1480 at Vincenza, Lom
bardy, of pious and noble par
ents, who dedicated him to the
Blessed Mother. He renounced
riches to devote his life to the
sick and poor. With Peter
Caraffa, who later became Pope
Paul VI, he founded the com
munity of Clerks Regular,
known as the Theatines, Naples
in 1547 and was canonized in
1671.
MONDAY, August 8 — SS.
Cyriacup, Largue, Smaragdus
and Companions, Martyrs. They
were 23 martyrs who were put
to death in Rome in 304 under
the persecution of Diocletian.
St. Cyriacus, a deacon, was their
leader.
TUESDAY, August 9 — St.
John Mary Vianney, Confessor.
Popularly known as the Cure of
Ars, St. John Vianney was born
at Dardilly, near Lyons, France,
in 1789 and was a 19-year-old
farmhand when he began stud
ies for the priesthood. He com
pleted his studies with much
difficulty and was assigned to
Ars as a parish priest. There he
worked the rest of his life. His
confessional was thronged with
all classes of persons, who came
from far and wide. During the
last 10 years of his life he spent
16 to - 18 hours a day hearing
confessions. He died in 1859,
was canonized in 1925; and was
declared patron of parish priests
in 1929.
WEDNESDAY, August 10 —-
St. Laurence of Rome, martyr.
He was born at Huesca Aragon,
Spain, and with his family came
to Rome, where he joined the
clergy and became one of the
seven deacons of the city under
Pope St. Sixtus II. in 258, three
days after the martyrdom of
Pope St. Sixtus, he was put to
death by being roasted alive on*
a gridiron.
THURSDAY, August 11 —
SS. Tiburtius and Susanna,
Martyrs. St. Tiburtius was the
son of a high official of the
Rome Imperial Court and was
beheaded for the Faith in 288.
St. Susanna, said to have been
a niece of Pope St. Caius, was
martyred during the reign of
Emperor Diocletian in 295 for
refusing to marry the emperor’s
son, a pagan.
FRIDAY, August 12 — St.
Clare,' Virgin! She was born at
Assisi in 1193. At the age of 18,
drawn by the preachings of St.
Francis of Assisi, she ran away
from home and took the veil
of sisterhood from St. Francis.
She founded the Poor Clares,
governed the community for 40
years, and was consulted by
popes, cardinals and bishops.
She died in 1253 and was canon
ized two years later.
SATURDAY. August 13—SS.
Ilippolytus and Companions,
Martyr.',. St. Hippolytus was put
to death for the Faith by being
torn to pieces by wild horses
in the third century. After his
death, his nurse Concordia, and
19 other Christians were be
headed.
July 10 he and other whiles in
Bakwanga look refuge in a
clubhouse which they converted
into a temporary fortress.
He said the Congolese "de
manded immediate surrender of
weapons, two-way radios and
women." Priests tried without
success to intervene, he added.
The whites in Bakwanga were
rescued by Belgian paratroopers
from a military base at Kamina
after a 28-hour siege. Father
Van Malderen and other whites
were flown to Kamina, and
from there were taken by U.S.
transport planes to Southern
Rhodesia, a self-governing Brit
ish territory.
He said that most of the nuns
from the area where he was
when the violence began have
fled, but most of the priests
remained at their stations.
Father De Wilde reported
from Luluabourg that the mu
tiny among native troops there
began on July 9. One white
Catholic laymen was shot by
Congolese that day, and another
the next day.
When news of the mutiny
reached the whites, he said,
they barricaded themselves in
two large buildings in Lulua
bourg. He estimated that 1,300
people were gathered in the
buildings at the height of the
disturbances. Native troops also
fired on a hospital for whites,
he said.
Father De Wilde reported that
Belgian paratroopers from Ka
mina arrived in the city on July
10, just as the Congolese were
positioning an artillery piece to
fire on the whites’ stronghold.
“Panic gripped the trium
phant mob of Negroes,” he said.
“The noise was gone at once,
and in a few seconds the peo
ple took cover in their homes . ..
The arrival of the paratroopers
stopped everything at once.
Some shots were fired after
that, but without any serious
consequences.”
Planes began evacuating
whites from Luluabourg on July
11. He estimated that by July
15 fewer than 100 white civilians
remained.
Father De Wilde reported
some harrassment of Catholic
missionaries in the area by
Congolese, but said that none
were physically injured. At
some mission stations Catholics
took the missionaries into their
homes and protected them from
harm.
Freedom Of Worship
At Summer Olympics
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME — Athletes in the
Olympic ganrips here will be
able to attend relicpous services
of their choice through the ef
forts of a priest who has long
been active in Italian sports.
Msgr. Nicola Pavoni has been
named Olympic delegate for re
ligious assistance for all ath
letes in Rome for the 1960
games.
Since Italy, the host country
of the 1960 games, is predomi
nantly Catholic, the Olympic
committee asked the Vatican to
select a person to be in charge
of religious arrangements dur
ing the games.
In his new role, Msgr. Pavoni
will have offices near the Olym
pic Village and will be in con
tact with all the Protestant, Or
thodox and Jewish leaders in
Rome.
Among those with whom
Msgr. Pavoni will work are two
Jewish groups, leaders of the
Russian and Greek Orthodox
churches, and Rome Churches
of the following Protestant de
nominations:
Assemblies of God, Lutheran,
Churches of Christ, Methodist,
Watdensian, Quakers, Adventist,
Episcopal, Anglican, Presbyteri
an and Baptist.
In regard to Catholic provis
ions during the Olympics, Msgr.
Pavoni said that there will be
two papal audiences granted,
and that a Mass will be cele
brated in Villa Borghese park
on September 4 by His Emi
nence Luigi Cardinal Traglia,
Pro-Vicar for the City of Rome.
His Holiness Pope John XXIII
will receive Olympic contest
ants on August 24 and members
of the Olympic Committee on
August 29. Msgr. Pavoni also
said it is hoped that Pope John
will stop at the Olympic plant
to bless the installations on his
way to Castelgandolfo in the
latter part of Jul-y.
HAVANA (NC) — Spokes
men for Catholic lay groups
here have said that a campaign
of passive resistance is being
launched against the increasing
ly procommunist drift of the
Cuban government.
There has been no statement
on the matter by Church au-
CHRISTIANITY
(Continued from Page 1)
. members of the tribe must have
the same political opinions . . .
Thus, election campaigns take
the form of a war among dif
ferent tribes. The fear of being
dominated by a rival tribe is at
the origin of all the deadly dis
turbances which have occurred
throughout the country.”
The Belgian missionary de
clared that Christianity and ed
ucation — but "principally
Christianity" — are the main
constructive influences promot
ing maturity among the Congo
lese. There are six million
Christians among the 14 million
Congolese, he said. There are
four native Catholic bishops, 389
native priests and about 1,000
native nuns.
Father d'Estmael said the
Congo has a well developed
system of elementary schools, 90
per cent of them run by mis
sionaries, with an enrollment of
more than 1.5 million children.
Bui educational opportunities
for Congolese beyond grade
school are inadequate, he stated.
"Each year thousands of chil
dren cannot continue their stu
dies for want of schools," he
said.
“This is certainly the most
pressing problem, since the ef
ficiency of future Congolese ad
ministrators depends on it,” Fa
ther d’Estmael said. “The fi
nances of the Congo are not suf
ficient to support education.
The most valuable help the Free
World could give the Congo to
day would be to help the
schools which already exist and
to provide for the building of
new ones.”
The missionary priest warned
that the number of competent
leaders among the Congolese
is today “far from sufficient.”
He continued: "Most of the
present leaders are not highly
educated — they need compe
tent counselors. And the Rus
sians know if. For example, the
Czechoslovakian consulate em
ploys 90 clerks. And certain
leaders get important subsidies
from the Reds and precise in
structions to fight the Church,
to spread slander, to provoke
class hatred — between black
and white and among the tribes
— and to incite to civil dis
obedience and violence,
“We need to counter this. The
peoples of Africa must be per
suaded that the Christian peo
ples of the Western world are
not only willing to help them
materially, but above all that
these Christian peoples feel a
genuine, sympathy for them.
People only trust those who
love them. World peace cannot
be realized by force or hatred,
but only by friendship and mu
tual help.
“The challenge of the anti
democratic and anti-Christian
forces in the Congo is consider
able. I hope that the traditional
ly generous Western world will
not sidestep that challenge.”
thorities.
Announcement of the cam
paign was made following two
anticommunist demonstrations
by Catholics who had attended
special Masses for Victims of
Red persecution.
A number of those taking
part in the demonstrations were
arrested. The fact that 19 per
sons who were detained after
the first demonstration did not
immediately put up bail was in
terpreted by some observers
here as a first step in the cam
paign.
An official at the cathedral
here denied this, however, say
ing that some of those jailed
did not put up bail because
they did not have enough cash
with them. Later a court official
said the 19 had been released
under bond.
A dozen young men arrested
after the second demonstration
are still being held in La Ca
bana military prison, usually a
place of detention for persons
charged with serious crimes
against the state.
BISHOP WALSH
(Continued from Page 1)
1958, the communists told the
U.S. State Department the Bish
op had been arrested and was
“thought to be” in a Shanghai
prison.
In March, 1960, the Bishop
was sentenced to a 20-year
prison sentence on trumped-up
charges of espionage. The act
brought expressions of con
demnation from around the
world.
U.S. Secrefary of State Chris
tian A. Herter instructed the
State Department to lodge the
strongest possible protest to the
Red Chinese Ambassador to
Poland, Wang Ping-nan, who
had been meeting with the U.S.
Ambassador to Poland, Jacob D.
Beam, to discuss release of the
Bishop and other U.S. prisoners.
The Bishop’s brother, a for
mer judge of the Maryknoll
Court of Appeals and one time
Attorney General of Maryland,
left Baltimore on Sunday, July
27, three weeks after the com
munists said in a cable that he
could enter their country.
Accompanied by Mrs. Walsh,
the Bishop’s brother arrived
here about 30 hours later to get
his visa, good for a two-week
stay inside Red China. Mrs.
Walsh will remain in Hong
Kong.
In the meantime, the U. S.
consulate announced that the
mother of one of the four other
Americans known to be in Red
Chinese prisons will visit her
son, probably in late August.
She is Mrs. Mary V. Downey
of New Briiain, Conn., whose
son James T. Downey, a U. S.
Army civilian employee, was
sentenced in November, 1954,
to life imprisonment. Mrs.
Downey visited her son in
January, 1S56, for two weeks.
The other Americans known
to be in communist prisons in
side China are: Richard C.
Fecteau, Lynn, Mass., serving
20 years on an espionage charge;
and Robert E. McCann, Alta-
dena, Calif., and Hugh F. Red
mond, Jr., Yonkers, N.Y., Amer
ican businessmen serving terms
of 15 years and life, respective
ly, on similiar charges.
The two demonstrations took
place July 17 and 18 after Mass
es at the cathedral and another
church. Catholics shouted anti
communist slogans as they left
the churches.
The demonstrations led to the
first open attack on priests by
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
Premier Castro called the Span
ish priests in this country “fas
cists” and denounced “false
Christians who go to church to
conspire instead of to pray.”
Catholic spokesmen have said
that it is planned to continue to
offer Masses for a month for
communist victims.
Meanwhile, Labor Minister
Augusto Martinez decreed
that Sunday, July 24, be
a working day so that the July
26 anniversary of the Castro
revolution could be celebrated
as a three-day holiday. It was
proposed that Catholics attend
church on that day in mourning
attire and not attend celebra
tions marking the anniversary.
Irish Catholics
Pray For Cause
Of Blessed Oliver
DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) —
Irish Catholics, led by their
bishops, have joined again in a
prayer campaign for the success
of the canonization cause of
Blessed Oliver Plunket, martyr
ed Primate of Armagh.
Masses were celebrated
throughout the country (July
17) as part of the campaign. A
large pilgrimage, sponsored by
the Holy Ghost Missionary
League, was held at' Drogheda,
where Blessed Oliver Plunket’s
head is enshrined.
Blessed Oliver was killed by
the English in 1681. He was the
last of the heroes of the Church
to be martyred at Tyburn.
Blessed Oliver had refused to
obey an edict by King Charles
II that all bishops and priests
leave Ireland. He was arrested
and convicted on perjured tes
timony of having engaged in
traitorous action and of plotting
with the French and Spanish
against the English.
TV SERIES
TO FEATURE
F. J. SHEEP
NEW YORK—(NC)—Frank J.
Sheed, Catholic publisher and
author, will be featured on the
Catholic Hour in a television
series entitled "Theology and
Sanity."
The series, produced by NBC-
TV in cooperation with the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men,
will be shown on the four Sun
days of August at 1:30 p.m. EDT.
In the role of lay theologian,
Mr. Sheed, who is president of
Sheed and Ward Publishing
Company here, will talk to a
group of Catholic college siu
dents on basic questions of
theology.
In the first program, August
7, Mr. Sheed will discuss the
importance of the Blessed Trin
ity in Catholic theology.
In succeeding telecasts, Mr.
Sheed will deal with the follow
ing topics: August 14, "What Is
God?"; August 21, "Who Is
Christ?"; August 28, "What Is
the Church?". Studio audiences
will be comprised of students
from Fordham Universiiy, St.
John's University, Marymount
College, Manhattan College and
New Rochelle College, all in
the New York area.
Priests Train
At Center For
Mental Health
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa, (NC)
—Five Catholic priests and two
seminarians have completed the
first residence program in pas
toral training for priests at the
Mental Health Institute here.
The Mental Health Institute
is the fourth hospital in the
United Slates to establish a
residence program for priests
being trained in work wiih the
mentally ill.
The five priests and two
seminarians participated in a
six-week chaplain internship
program. During the training
period they lived at the Mental
Health Institute and attended
lectures, staff meetings and
seminars conducted by staff
members.
The program is intended both
to give priests practical experi
ence in counseling and to en
able them to recognize mental
illness and refer individuals to
agencies or doctors who can
help them.
The five priests taking part
in the pilot program are Domin
icans of the order’s St. Albert
province, with headquarters in
Chicago. The seminarians were
from the Diocese of Des Moines,
Berlin Cardinal
Rebuffs Red
Statements
BERLIN, (Radio, NC) — The
Cardinal-Bishop of Berlin has
vigorously denied repeated as
sertions in communist East Ger
many’s press that the Munich
International Eucharistic Con
gress was politically inspired.
His Eminence Julius Cardinal
Doepfner declared in a pastoral
letter that was read in all East
German churches of his diocese
that the congress is a purely
religious gathering.
He said that all objective ob
servers know the attacks on
the congress by East Germany’s
communist masters are untrue.
The Cardinal asked East Ger
man Catholics, who are pre
vented by a hostile government
from attending the congress, to
unite prayers in their own
churches with those at the con
gress.
“Let us confront hatred with
our love, and division with our
unity,” he said.
The International Eucharistic
Congress began July 31, ends
August 7.
Ambassador
Defends Church’s
Role In Spain
By Francisco De Luis
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
SANTANDER, Spain — The
Holy See’s envoy to Spain has
defended the Church’s role in
the period following Spain’s
bloody civil war.
At a reception for delegates
at the international congress of
the Catholic press. Archbishop
Ildebrando Antoniulti, Apostol
ic Nuncio to Spain, said:
"l seek only to lead to an un
derstanding of the Church of
Spain, which is the field of my
mission, because I know that
you Catholic journalists wish to
receive some indication of the
present realities of the Church."
He recalled the defense of
Spain’s “Christian civilization”
in the tragic war which between
1936 and 1939 brought death to
a million persons including 12
bishops and 7,000 Religious.
Archbishop Antoniutti said:
"With their heroic resistance,
sufferings and martyrs, the
Spanish Catholics saved their
country and preserved their
priceless religious and cultural
heritage."
He reminded the newsmen of
the Church’s warnings against
direct or indirect collaboration
with communism. Then he de
clared:
“Today in the western world
the victims of atheistic commu
nism belonging to the Church
beyond the Iron Cutrain receive
at least some consideration and
sympathy, but it seems to me
that the martyrs of he Spanish
Church have been forgotten.”
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By Msgr. James I. Tucek
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
SANTANDER, Spain — Cath
olic journalists from throughout
the world closed their sixth in
ternational conference with a
demand for freedom of infor
mation as “the natural right of
man.”
The Sixth Congress of the In
ternational Union of the Cath
olic Press also applauded an in
vitation to hold its next meet
ing in Ottawa, the Canadian
capital, in 1963.
The five-day congress
elected a new president of
the union for the first time in
its 30 years of existence, and
planted the seeds of an interna
tional federation of Catholic
schools of journalism.
For the Catholic press in the
United States the congress was
especially noteworthy in that
two Americans, Frank A. Hall,
director of the N.C.W.C. News
Service, and Floyd Anderson,
managing editor of The Advo
cate of Newark, N. J., were re
elected to directive positions on
two of the union’s three consti
tuent bodies.
Mr. Hall was elected vice
president of the Federation of
Catholic Press Agencies, and
Mr. Anderson was elected a
member of the board of the
Federation of Editors of Catho
lic Publications.
The resolution on freedom
of the press was introduced by
the Latin American Union of
the Catholic Press. It echoed the
theme of the congress’s opening
address by Father Thurston Da
vis, S.J., editor of America, New
York weekly review.
This theme was set against a
background of a current debate
on freedom of information in
the host country, Spain, The
resolution was submitted to the
closing general assembly of the
conference in the broader
framework of worldwide de
mands for freedom of informa
tion.
Cesar Luis Aguiar, general
secretary of the Latin Ameri
can Union of the Catholic Press,
introduced the resolution by
quoting from an address to del
egates by the Apostolic Nuncio
to Spain, Archbishop Ildebran
do, in which he said:
“On more than one occasion
recently I have received foreign
periodicals in which various af
fairs relative to the Church in
Spain was presented in exactly
and ... in a slanted way, with
news taken from doubtful
sources of information.”
Mr. Aguiar made the point
that journalists often “have dif-
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.,—Arch
bishop Robert E. Lucey of San
Antonio has defended the right
of public school teachers to join
unions.
In a statement issued to the
press, the Archbishop declared
that teachers have a “constitu
tional right” to belong to unions.
“If a group of willful men
delay their contracts for that
reason, they are guilty of tyran
ny,” he said.
Archbishop Lucey did not sin
gle out any instance in which
public school teachers have been
subject to penalties for union
activity.
But he noted that it is rumor
ed to be risky for a San Antonio
public school teacher to be ac
tive in the American Federation
of Teachers, AFL1CIO, and that
there have been charges that
schools boards have refused
contracts to teachers who be
long to the union.
“It would seem that our pub
lic school teachers can be sub
jected to injustice at the hands
of school boards, without too
much difficulty,” he said.
The Archbishop also called
on public school authorities to
take steps to guarantee job
tenure to teachers.
He said: “A teacher’s tenure
of office, confirmed by a written
contract, is reasonably secure
for one year, This is a fragile
species of security.
“What protection does a pub
lic school teacher enjoy against
the whims of a capricious school
board.
ficulty in finding free and direct
access to the original sources of
information.” He therefore sub
mitted a resolution that the
Lima declaration on freedom of
information, issued last year by
the Latin American Congress of
the Catholic Press in Peru —.
“be also adopted by this con
gress.”
The congress thereupon re
solved:
“The International Union of
the Catholic Press, recalling the
words of Pope Pius XII that
‘to stifle the voice of citizens . . .
is a violation of the orders of
the world willed by God,’ sol
emnly confirms its adherence to
the firm declarations made in
the name of the International
Union of the Catholic Press by
its permanent delegate to the
United Nations on freedom of
information, the natural right of
man.”
Raimondo Manzini, editor of
the Vatican City daily newspa
per, L’Osservatore Romano, was
elected president of the union.
The retiring president is Count
Giuseppe Dalla Torre, editor
emeritus of L’Osservatore Ro
mano. He had presided over the
union since its foundation.
The invitation to the union
to hold its 1963 congress in Ot
tawa was presented by Aurele
Gratton, publisher of Le Droit
of Ottawa and president of the
association of editors of the Ca
nadian Catholic press. He not
ed that all previous congresses
of the union had been held in
Europe, and declared that the
seventh congress should be tak
en to America.
Mr. Gratton expressed confi
dence that the Catholic press of
the United States would cor
dially cooperate in the realiza
tion of the congress.
The congress took action in
a new direction by naming a
committee for the formation of
a federation of Catholic schools
of journalism. The committee is
to decide upon the aims, prin
ciples and operation of such a
federation.
The committee is to have two
centers of operation: the Uni
versity of Lille, in France, and
Fordham University in New
York.
Among t’;j 1 committee’s nine
members art Edward A. Walsh, i
professor of journalism at Ford
ham, and Father Raymond Du-
rocher, O.M.I., of Winnipeg, who
represented the Canadian Sun
day Visitor at the congress. Oth
er members represented Peru,
Brazil, France, Belgium, Spain,
Italy and Germany.
“Discrimination, persecution
and harassment should have no
place in government.”
“In our public school system,”
Archbishop Lucey continued,
“there is no room for tyranny.
Human nature being what it is,
our teachers should have job
security to protect them from
harassment.”
He emphasized thai leaching
"is a dedicate science—noble,
constructive, honorable. We look
upon our public school teachers
with reverence and gratitude."
"To make them subject to dis
missal every summer is a poor
way to show the high esteem in
which we hold them," he said.
"Let's give our teachers security.
They deserve it.”
Plan To
Organize
At Macon
MACON—Plans to organize a
St. Mary’s Guild at St. Joseph’s
parish in Macon were formulat
ed recently at a meeting of the
officers and committee chair
men of the local NCCW.
Msgr. Thomas Sheehan, St.
Joseph’s pastor said that each
member present agreed to re
cruit twelve members in the
parish. He added that this plan
should stimulate much interest
and help meet the finanical
needs of St. Mary’s.
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