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t i 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. 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