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AUGUST 17, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
ATLANTA COUNCIL 660 OFFICERS
Officers for 1957-58 are, front row, left to right: John McCarty, Recorder; Top O’Connor, Inner
Guard; William. Ellis, Warden; William King, Chancellor; Jack Langley, Trustee; Jack Maertz,
Trustee. Second row, left to right: William Sherwood, General Program Chairman Mike Sertich,
Trustee; Henry Taylor, Financial Secretary; Rev. Father John Mulroy, Chaplain; William Jordan,
Jr., Grand Knight; Francis Wilkerson, Deputy Grand Knight; William van Goidstoven, Treasurer;
James Cronin, Lecturer. (James Wofford, Advocate; Buddy Baker and Louis Young, Outer
Guards, were absent when the picture was taken).
CHINA VISITORS WILL SEE
ONLY WHAT REDS WANT THEM
TO SEE, SAYS MISSIONARY
{By Father Rogers J. Pelow, SFM)
(Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
TOKYO, — “Those who visit
Red China at the invitation of the
Peking government see only a
small part of the picture they
need to make a true judgement
c«f the situation there.’’
This was the. warning given
here by Father Charles McCarthy,
S. J., who was freed in June after
spending four years in a Chinese
communist prison as an “ideolog
ical saboteur.”
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Father McCarthy spoke at
Jesuit-operated Sophia Univer-
sity here before departing for the
United States.
“The Chinese communists,” he
said, “are masters of camouflage
and this is particularly true of
their misleading propaganda
claims that the masses of the peo
ple in all classes of society are
‘voluntarily’ accepting the party’s j
leadership in its ruthless meas- j
ures ‘to build up a communist |
order’ and to suppress all non
communist elements.”
Father McCarthy and Father
John Houle, S. J., were arrested !
and jailed by the Chinese com
munists on June 15, 1953.
The California Jesuit, stili
showing signs of strain brought
on by the four-year ordeal, said
that he was brought to “trial”
865 days after his arrest.
For months the priest did not
see sunlight. In hi$ cell he was
not permitted to make the slight
est movement without his guard’s
permission. He was isolated from
all outside communication.
During one six-week period in
1955, Father McCarthy was con
fined with five other prisoners
in a cell eight feet long and five
feet wide.
“I could not average more than
one hour’s sleep a night,” he said,
“We prisoners were packed so
close together that we could not
stretch our length on the floor.
If one prisoner made a restless
gesture, he would disturb and
awaken all the rest.”
Commenting on the religious
situation in Shanghai, Father Mc
Carthy said that there nad been
three waves of violent religious
persecution in that port city.
He mentioned the arrest of
many priests in 1951 bnd the ex
pulsion of all foreign priests who
were not in jail.
"At present,” he added, “there
are about 40 priests and laymen
in Shanghai jails and they still
have not been sentenced; during
this time their relatives suffer
greatly.
“Prisoners are held in tanta
lizing suspense because the
authorities make it seem that
they will be released if they have
a change of political heart.”
The Jesuit missionary said that
at the time of the outbreak of the
Hungarian revolt last October,
his Chinese jailers stopped giving
newspapers to the group of prison
ers with whom he was confined.
For some months prior to that
they had been allowed to read the
Shanghai communist paper, The
Liberation Daily, and the Ameri
can prisoners were encouraged to
read the Daily Worker, publish
ed in New York.
After a two-month break the
Chinese newspaper was again giv
en to the prisoners, but the Daily
Worker apparently remained in
disfavor and was no longer given
them to read.
With the release of Fathers Mc
Carthy and Houle in June, there
now remain about 18 Catholic
missionaries in Red China Of
these, three are Americans who
are in Shanghai.
Franciscan Father Cyril Wag
ner of Pittsburgh and Maryknoll
Father Joseph McCormick of Os
sining, N. W., are being detained
by thfe communists. The third
American is Bishop James E.
Walsh, M, M., of Cumberland, Mr.
who is the former head of the
now suppressed Catholic Central
Bureau in Shanghai. Bishop Walsh
is not actually under arrest, but
insists on remaining unless he is
expelled .
Shortly after his talk at Sophia
U n i v ersitv, Father McCarthy
boarded the American President
Line’s SS President Hoover at
Yokohama for his trip home.
The Jesuit missionary was
scheduled to land in San Francisco
on August 5 and spend a period
of rest and recuperation in Cali
fornia.
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Conversion Of [slant May Be
Effected Through Love Of
Our Lady, Bishop Sheen Says
FATIMA, Portugal—(NC)—The
conversion of Islam may well be
effected by bringing Moslems to
a reverence and love for the
Blessed Mother, Auxiliary Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen of New York
said here.
Bishop Sheen addressed the
first International Congress .of
Christ the King (August 9 to 13)
to be held since World War II.
The previous congress was held
in Poznan, Poland, in 1937.
Referring to difficulties regard
ing the conversion of Islam, the
Bishop listed five major ones:
1. The severe social ostracism
awaiting converts from Islam.
2. The fact that Moslems deny
Christ’s divinity means that for
Moslems, a convert from Islam
would be regressing from belief
in divinity to belief in and wor
ship of a human.
3. Moslem denial of any real
kinship between God and man
has raised God to a point where
contact with Him is impossible
for man.
4. Historical reasons for bad
feeling between Christians and
Moslems, resulting from centuries
of mutual persecution.
5. Over-emphasis on Moham
med in Islam makes difficult a
deep understanding of the cre
ating, redeeming and sanctifying
powers of God.
But, because it is difficult to
preach Christ to Moslems does
not mean that we must give up
hope, said Bishop Sheen, for “we
can begin by preaching Mary
through what might be called the
apologetics of the Visitation.”
The Bishop compared the bring
ing of grace to St. John the Bap
tist in the womb of St. Elizabeth
by the unborn Christ to the bring
ing of salvation to the Moslems
through the Blessed Mother.
“As Mary radiated Christ still
unborn, so too, in bringing Mary
to the Moslems, we will be bring
ing them the Christ that she car
ries.”
The Moslems have a very high
regard for Our Lady, Bishop
Sheen explained, and the Koran,
their religious book, states that
she was born without original sin.
When death took Fatima, his
daughter, Mohammed said that,
next to the Blessed Mother, she
is most blessed of all women in
heaven, the Bishop pointed out.
Thus, through bringing a deep
er understanding of the Blessed
Mother to Islam, which is al
ready familiar with her and hon
ors her, we will be able to bring
Christ to the Moslem world,
Bishop Sheen said.
The Bishop said that a mistaken
idea has grown up in some circles
that the message of Our Lady of
Fatima was identified only with
the conversion of Russia.
“This indeed was one of the
facets of the revelation of Fa
tima,” he said, "but concentration
upon that one political aspect can
make us forget the other spiritual
lessons such as penance, devotion
to the Holy Family and the Ro
sary.”
The Bishop expressed the hope
that the revelations at Fatima
may teach all “the first lesson
preached by Christ, the first les
son px-eached by Peter, the first
lesson preached by Paul, to do
penance for the sake of the King
dom of God.”
The theme of the Congress was
“The Kingdom of Christ in the
World of Today.”
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