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MISSIONARIES CALLED "ABOMINATION"
MID-WINTER LUNCHEON
Augusta Deanery Council
Hears Retreat Director
AUGUSTA - The Rev. John
L. Hein, S.J., director of Ig
natius Retreat House in Atlan
ta, was principal speaker at
the mid-winter luncheon meet
ing of the Augusta Deanery
Council of Catholic Women at
the Garden Center. He spoke
on "Christian Unity" and was
introduced by the Rev. A. B.
Kearns, S.J. pastor of the Sa
cred Heart Church.
Mrs. James J. Bresnahan,
spiritual development com
mittee chairman, gave plans for
a day of recollection to be con
ducted by the Rev. Francis Xav
ier Roque. The place and date
GRANT FOR
ST. LOUIS U.
ST. LOUIS, (NC) - St. Louis
University has announced re
ceipt of a grant of $41,926
from the U. S. Public Health
Service for research labora
tories and equipment for its
new chemistry building.
REGIONAL MEETING
IRVING, Tex., (NC) - More
than 120 nuns attended the sev
enth southern regional meeting
of the Sister Formation Con
ference, held here at the Uni
versity of Dallas.
THE [NEW] MARCH OF DIMES
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION
will be announced later.
Miss Pauline Peuffier, pres
ident, presided and named the
nomination committee who will
present a slate of officers at
the spring meeting in Dublin,
Ga., April 7. The committee
consists of Mrs. L. J. Ward,
Mrs. James Hegarty, Mrs. C.C.
Whilden and Mrs. Charles Par
sons.
Mrs. Albert Rice, chairman
of the Mardi Gras barbeque,
announced that the event will
be February 29.
Mrs. R.Z. Craig announced
that the winning essays have
been forwarded to the diocesan
chairman to be judged on the
diocesan level.
Out-of-town guest included
a group from Savannah, Mrs.
J.E. Mulligan, immediate past-
president of the diocesan
council; Mrs. John Buckley,
president of the Catholic Wo
man’s Club; Mrs. C.R. Fitz
patrick, president of the Sa
vannah Deanery Council and
Mrs. Anthony Purdy, woman’s
editor of the Southern Cross,
the official diocesan newspaper.
Mrs. John Poe, Mrs. Roy
Smith and Mrs. John Gal-
livan had charge of decorations.
Urge Tax Supported Birth Control
Presbyterians Against
Prayer In
CINCINNATI, (NC) - Local
Presbyterian leaders have vot
ed by a margin of better than
two to one against public pray
er, Bible reading, and religious
observances in public schools.
The vote by the Presbytery
of Cincinnati was 84 to 34 on
a recommendation of the Gen
eral Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church in the Uni
ted States.
The General Assembly rec
ommendation declared that
"Bible reading and public pray
ers tend toward indoctrina
tion or meaningless ritual and
should be omitted ..."
The Presbytery also voted
125 to 6 in favor of a proposal
that birth control information be
made available to persons
desiring it from tax-supported
health and welfare agencies.
The Presbytery also: called
for, by vote of 108 to 15, a thor
ough study of "special tax pri
vileges” awarded to churches.
Kelly Green - Of Course I
Three Benedictine Military School cadets and a friend try out a new Kelly green
piano given to the school last week by a shipping company executive. Standing from
left to right are Paul Thompson, Barbara Little and Tim McBride. Jim McNamara
at the keyboard. - (Photo Robert McDonald - Courtesy Savannah Morning News)
rand Knights
To Meet At
Warner Robins
WARNER ROBINS - The win
ter meeting of the Georgia State
Council, Knights of Columbus,
will be held here Sunday (Jan-
uray 27) with Grand Knights
of all thirteen Councils attend
ing, according to Jos. J. Zwick-
nagel, State Deputy.
One of the important business
items* on the agenda will be the
State Council’s program for the
annual convention which will be
held in Macon, May 4 and 5,
with Council 925 as host.
State officers expected at
Sunday’s meeting include Rev
Thomas H. Payne, State Chap
lain, Hugh H. Grady, Past State
Deputy; Henry F. Gallman, State
Secretary; William O. Mangan
Jr., State Treasurer; Bernard
S. Dunstan, State Advocate, and
Peter M. O’Malley, State
Warden.
State Committee Chairmen
who will participate in the pro
gram include William T. Jor
dan, General Program; Stephen
F. Koncz, Council Activities;
Thomas J. O’Hayer, Franter-
nal Activities; Robert J. Hiller,
Membership and Insurance; J.
Gregg Puster, Public Relations;
William C. Hartigan, Columbian
Squires, and Henry J. Halter,
Youth Activities.
District Deputies are Daniel
J. Kean, Frank Hornyak, Wil
liam M. Sherwood, Myles S.
Boothe and Gerald B. Gardner,
Jr.
is
The Southern Cross, January 26, 1963—PAGE 3
Israeli Official Condemns
Violence Against Christians,
But Scores Mission Activity
JERSUALEM, Israel, (NC) —
Israel's Minister for Religious
Affairs has denounced the use
of violence by ultra-Orthodox
Jewish youths against Christ
ians early in January, but
made it clear that he is against
mission activity. V
Zerah Warhftig, a member
of the National Religious party,
said here that he does "not
consider violence the proper
way to combat missionary
activities." He added:
"Even though it is well
known that the Israeli public
does not look favorably on
missionary activity of the sort
that takes advantage of poverty
and backwardness in slum
areas, the struggle against
such activity need not and cannot
take the form of violence. The
establishment of youth centers,
such as is being done by the
Kenen Yelanenu, an anti-Christ
ian organization engaged in
youth work, is a more construc
tive and effective way."
Meanwhile a report on mis
sionary work in Israel prepared
by the Ministry for Religious
Affairs and calling for restrict
ive legislation has been leaked
to the press. The proposed law
states that all activities of
Christian institutions and.
clergymen must be restricted
solely to Christians.
Under the proposed law—
called the "Freedom of Wor
ship Act" — any Christian
clergyman or layman who gave
a Bible to a Jew could be
convicted of proslytism and
jailed for up to two years.
Observers here think it is im
possible to get such a law
passed by the Knesset (Par
liament), however, since it is
being strongly opposed by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for
fear of adverse foreign
reaction.
Warhaftig’s comments were
made following the January c
incident in which some 50 Or
thodox Jewish youths smashed
the windows of a Finnish Pro
testant school and nearby
Zion Christian Mission, and
insulted and spat at Catholic
Sisters.
The Israeli government has
expressed its regret for the
incident, apologized to the Fin
nish government and arrested
nine of the youth involved. Po
lice have been put on guard
duty outside all Christian in
stitutions in Iaraeli Jerusalem.
The incident has become
topic of widespread comment in
the Israeli press, with most
papers voicing sharp criticism
of Christian missionary efforts
Hatzofe, organ of the National
Religious party, wrote:
"The religious youth move
ments that demonstrated
against the missionaries
intended to rouse public
AUGUSTA PARENTS URGED
Adopt Harvard
Educator’s Programs
For Better Schools
AUGUSTA - “The American
High School Today", by Dr.
James B. Conant has been re
commended to parents of St.
Mary’s on-the-Hill parish by
Brig. Gen. Edward F. Penaat.
The Deputy Commander at
Ft. Gordon, speaker at the Jan
uary meeting of the Home and
School Association told his au
dience that Dr. Conant, a for
mer president of Harvard Uni
versity, favors a program for
academically talented students
who number only 15 to 20 per
cent on the Ninth Grade level.
He stressed that we must pro
vide for the talented, the aver
age, and the not-so-talented on
their own levels.
He also recommends that the
School Boards be ready to of
fer a third and fourth year of
foreign languages regardless
of the number of pupils enrol
led. In former years it has been
felt there would not be enough
interested students to justify
the third and fourth years.
General Penaat’s subject was
"Improving Today’s Schools to
Meet Tomorrow’s Needs". He
told the members that education
must begin in the home.
BELGIAN DIPLOMAT
GETS CHURCH HONOR
JERUSALEM, (NC) - Belgian
Ambassador to Israel Jean Le
roy was made a commander in
the Order of the Holy Sepul
cher in a ceremony here by
Bishop Pier G. Chiappero, Vi
car General of the Latin Rite
Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
"Children are not delivered
as raw material at the doors
of the school,” he said. Their
education began 6 years ago in
the home; therefore if par
ents did their jobs we would
have better schools.
General Penaat referred to
Admiral Rickover’s reply to a
question as to whether Educa
tion or Military Defense was
more important. "Admiral
Rickover said that without edu
cation we could not solve our
military problems," declared
General Penaat.
opinion against the abomination
in the heartt of Jerusalem... The
supporters of indescriminate
freedom of religion* ’ pro
pose that the missions be com
batted by large scale ed-
cational and social action in
the depressed neighborhoods...
But it is very difficult to com
pete with millions possessed by
the missions.
' ‘Moreover, this competition
must be limited to prevent un
reasonable blackmail. The mis
sions will only be restrained by
law forbidding such immoral
acts as offering material bene
fits to those willing toaxchange
the religion of their forefathers
for another religion... The great
majority of the population
which feels revulsion at the con
verts and considers the mis
sions a fifth column . . . will
support a law outlawing the
paper which has the largest
means now used by them".
Hatzofe spoke in reply to an
editorial in Haaretz, a nonparty
papd- r which has the largest
circulation in Israel. Haaretz
stated:
"We do not believe that mis
sionary activities are desir
able...but the principle free
dom of religion, as it is set
doWrfc in the Proclamation of
Independence, also applies to
the missionary activities
of the Christian churches.
"Dialectic attempts to prove
that there is freedom of religion
in Israel, but that this does
not mean that people will be
allowed to try to convert Jews,
ai^ef''bound to fail... If the mis
sionaries take advantage of
the situation in depressed
areas, it can be said, that it
is an ugly thing for them to
do; but it can also be asked
whether it is not ugly that Jewish
public and governmental in
stitutions in th6 State of Israel
do not hasten to relieve the dis
tress in these areas as they
should have done.
"It is particularly incumbent
upon those who feel that the
Christian missionaries gain
most of their success by ex
ploiting this distress to demand
that everything be done to end
it."
Davar, progovernment organ
of the General Labor Fed
eration, said more or less the
same things and added that:
"The government must aid
all those elements trying to
reduce the scope of missionary
activities, not by violence or
legal measured, but by" social
activities. Social neglect and
economic privation rather than
religious and ideological con
fusion set the stage for the
attempts to convert young
Jews.”
A1 Hamishmar, paper of the
leftist United Workers' party
and a critic of the influence of
Jewish religious leaders,
wrote:
"We cannot be indifferent to
foreign reactions to things hap
pening in Israel because both
our country and our people,
most of whom are still scat
tered among non-Jews, depend-
on the good will of many peo
pies. But the internal aspect of
the use of violence in spiri
tual or ideological struggles
is no less important.
"The fact of the matter is
that various religious circles
tend to take the law in their
own hands from time to time
in an attempt to impose their
desires. The activities of
the missions and the ways in
which they should be handled are
a matter that must be consi
dered. But one thing is clear...
violent acts will only raise the
prestige of the missions in
foreign eyes and present us as
an intolerant people which
demands from others what it
is unwilling to do itself."
The rightwing and nationalist
Herut said:
"The path chosen by a group
of religious youth in Jeru
salem...to fight missionary ac
tivities is unacceptable to all
circles in Israel... But even
if these nervous and angry
youngsters did something that
they had no right to do... this
does not change the fact that
these activities should cause us
considerable concern...
"When we were still living in
the Diaspora and were at the
mercy of others, we could not
do anything against the efforts
to convert Jews by use of var
ious temptations. Even when
we had already returned to the
homeland, but were under
foreign rule, which was also
Christian, there was very little
we could do about the
missionary offensive. But
now that we are masters of our
own fate ... we can no longer
look on unconcernedly at the
efforts of the missionaries to
remove Jewish children from
the arms of their parents by
exploiting difficult economic
conditions."
CHRISTIAN TROUBLESPOT - A minority in the land
where their religion originated, Christians in Jewish
Israel make up less than two per cent of the population.
Melkite Rite Catholics, ipost of whom are Arabs, make
up the^Margest Catholic community in Israel, numbering
20,000. Bishop Georges Hakim of Acre, shown
above inspecting a model of St. Joseph's Seminary in
Nazareth (now completed), heads both the Melkite and
Maronite Rite Catholics in Israel. Although CatholidiL
and other Christians enjoy religious freedom, they face
Jewish hostility. - (NC Photos)
Mexican School Fight
MEXICO CITY, (NC) - A
placard carried by a group of
boys, which stung the Presi
dent of Mexico into a direct
attack on Catholic parents who
are opposing the regime’s
school policy, has illuminated
the bitter nature of this con
tinuing controversy.
The textbook dispute began
when the government, in pre
paring such books to be dis
tributed free to needy students,
decided to impose a single se
ries of books on all Mexican
schools, public and private. Ca
tholic spokesmen have noted
anti-Church sections in the
books, and an emphasis on ma
terial values they consider ob
jectionable.
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