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- JULY 9, 1955. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA SEVENTEEN II. ■■■■ M I WSSHES FROM Company ★ SANITARY MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES , AND EQUIPMENT ★ £27 PINE — BOX 45 — PHONE HE 5-E3S4 THE SOUTHEASTERN BROAD CASTING SYSTEM 1050 m YOUR DIM Reaction Quick., Widespread As Peron Steps Up His Attack On The Church In Argentina (N.C.W.C. News Service) President Peron’s sudden and sharp accentuation of his months old persecution of the Catholic Church in Argentina brought quick, wide-spread and unfavor able reaction. The Vatican moved at once to announce that all of those in Argentina who had trampled upon the rights of the Church and had used violence against ecclesiastical persons had incur red automatically excommunica tion reserved in a special way to the Holy See. Within hours — obviously too soon to be the result of the Vat ican statement—elements of Ar gentina’s armed forced revolted in a long-pent protest against the dictatorial acts of the Peron regime. News slipped through the tighter-than-ever censorship im posed said Catholic churches were being burned in Buenos Aires “in retaliation”. Peron him self confirmed these outrages when he came on the air to say he had put down the revolt. He blamed the church-burning on communists. In Washington, on the floor of Congress, lawmakers demanded some formal expression that the U.S. Government will not look favorably upon the persecution of religion. The State Depart ment announced that it will maintain a "hands-off” policy unless American citizens or prq- perty are threatened. Also in Washington, Dr. Don Cesar A. Bunge, economic coun selor to the Argentine Embassy in the U.S., resigned his post in protest against the policies and aets of the Peron regime. It was believed that he would go to Peru, where he has relatives. In New York, refugees from Argentina who had been in Bu enos Aires as events mounted to a climax told the N.C.W.C. News Service that “It’s just like Russia” in Argentina under the Peron regime, and predicted that the abortive rovelt will be em ployed as an excuse to take even harsher measures against Cath olicism. Rome, Bishop Tato said there was “no logical reason for the present anti-Catholic campaign in Argentina.” He said the Ar gentine ecclesiastical authorities have demanded proof, of the charges Peron has hurled against the Church, but that no proof has been forthcoming. Meanwhile, Osservatore Roma no, Vatican City newspaper, 1 , thoroughly refuted the assertion in some secular papers that the struggle in Argentina was a poli tical one between a Catholic Ac tion “party,” supported fey rural people, and the Peron regime, supported by city workers. Os servatore said that what goes on in Argentina is “an attack which, for a still mysterious rea son, the regime . . . believed it necessary to unleash against the Church and her teachings.” Secular newspapers in the United States vigorously con demned editorially the Peron regime’s persecution of the Church. In many quarters it was noted that the trail being fol lowed by Peron today is one 1 which Hitler trod before him. Albert J. Sattler of New York, president of the National Coun cil of Catholic Men, revealed that he had sent to President Peron a letter appealing in the name of 7,000,000 Catholic men in the United States for an immediate cessation of the Argentine regi me’s persecution of the Church. Martin H. Work, Executive Di rector of NCCM, noted that, since Mr. Sattler’s letter was written, “Peron has taken the next .step that all dictators take in the persecution of religion; namely, resorting to violence, in timidation and lying propagan da.” Mr. Work also added r i "Where ate the voices of the great American liberals who so 1 loudly and bitterly attacked Pe ron’s restrictions on the free dom. of the press a few years ’ ago? Their silence today in the face of the persecution of tho | Church and the violations of : freedom of religion leaves their j liberalism suspect in the minds : of honest men.” Because the Constitiution of 1 Argentina requires that the | President and Vice President of the country be Catholics, the question was asked whether Peron is still a Catholic in view of the statement made at the Vatican regarding possible ex- ^pmmunication. Canon Law au thorities said Peron would still be a Catholic, even if he has been automatically excommuni cated. He cannot exercise his rights as a Catholic, they said, but he still has his duties, and the first of these is to do what ever is necessary to have tho ban of excommunication remov ed. Peron himself said he is a Catholic and intends to remain one. In Vatican City, a day of pray er was proclaimed for the Church in Argentina. Exiled Bishop Tato officiated at a Mass in the Ar gentine National Church. In Buenos Aires, the Peron regime continued to arrest and interrogate priests. As for chicle, the Spaniards found the Aztecs chewing it. An exiled Mexican general is credit ed with introducing it into the United States, but it Was ;a drug gist who thought of flavoring it GREETINGS F : rr© mi CALVES! MH HOIKS. mm watts J AZ Neighboring Brazil accelerated preparations for the Internation al Eucharistic Congress to be held in Rio de Janeiro, July 17 to 24. It wants to make the great demonstration of faith as im pressive as possible, to counter the persecution in Argentina. The Brazilian Chamber of Depu ties adopted unanimously a reso lution expressing “sympathy by the democratic conscience of the Americas for the Catholic Church in Argentina. 1195 VICTORY DRIVE. S. W. ATLANTA. GA. BA 5121 Affiliated with: WMJM. Cordele. Ga.: WTJH, East Point, Ga. WACL. Waycross. Ga. Within 48 hours after they had been forcibly expelled by air plane from their homeland, Aux iliary Bishop Manuel Tato of Buenos Aires and his Pro Vicar General, Msgr. Ramon Novoa, were received in a private audi ence by His Holiness Pope Pius XII at the Vatican. The Holy Father made it known in ad vance that he wanted particular ly to see and greet the exiled prelates at the very earliest op portunity. Phone HEmiiock 2-7447 Albany, Go. I j The Bishop and monsignor from Buenos Aires were given a rousing reception upon their ar rival in Rome, despite the fact that it was past midnight when airplane touched ground. Interviewed by the NC..W.C. News Service during a brief stop in Lisbon, Portugal, enroute to ALBANY, GEORGIA