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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, January 26, 1963
Seven Important Points
We wish our new Governor
and the lawmakers of our
State well in their attempts
to meet and solve the many
problems with which they will
be confronted in the coming
weeks and months.
Undoubtedly the most ser
ious, and potentially the most
dangerous,problem will be that
of racial discrimination in
various forms.
Its solution requires wis
dom, understanding, a sense
of justice, moral courage, and
the guiding Grace of God,
and the prayers of every Geor
gian should ascend daily to
heaven in behalf of those whom
we have chosen to represent
and safeguard the rights and
privileges of all the people,
regardless of race, creed, or
social status.
We believe that our elected
officials will face this prob
lem, as well as many other
weighty ones, with courage,
fortitude, and the will to do
what is right, not merely in
the sight of men, but more
importantly, in the sight of
God.
But if the problem is to be
effectively solved, and if we
are to be spared the ugly inci
dents experienced by some of
our sister-states, courage,
fortitude, and good-will is re
quired of every Georgian.
Recently, eleven Alabama
clergymen proposed seven
principles to the citizens of
their state, as they, too, face
this difficult, deep seated and
long standing problem. We re
commend them to Georgians
as well - Governor, lawmak
ers and citizens.
1. Hatred and violence have
no sanction in our religious
and political traditions.
2. There may be disagree
ment concerning laws and so
cial change without advocating
defiance, anarchy, and sub
version.
3. Laws may be tested in
courts or changed by legisla
tures, but not ignored by
whims of individuals.
4. Constitutions may be
amended or judges impeached
by proper action, but our
American way of life depends
upon obedience to the de
cisions of courts of compe
tent jurisdiction in the mean
time.
5. No person’s freedom is
safe unless every person’s
freedom is equally protected.
6. Freedom of speech must
at all costs be preserved and
exercised, without fear of
recrimination or harassment.
7. Every human being is
created in the image of God
and is entitled to respect as
a fellow human being with all
basic rights, privileges and
responsibilities which belong
to humanity.
Red Squabble Only
Over Means, Not Ends
(By J. J. Gilbert)
WASHINGTON -- Com-
.munism’s goal is domination of.
the world, including the United
States.
That is a plain fact, experts
assert, which the Free World,
and particularly Americans,
should keep constantly in mind.
It is felt that there is a special
need to restate this fact, in view
of the Communist party con-,
gress just held in East Germany
and the to-do made over the dif
ferences reported to exist be
tween Communist Russia and
Communist China.
"I foresee no spectacular re
versal of communist methods or
goals," President Kennedy ad
vised Congress and the Ameri
can people on the very eve of
the East Germany Red gather
ing.
"A dispute over how best to
bury the Free World is no
grounds for Western rejoic
ing," the President also warn
ed, referring to the reports
of the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Experts agree, as the Presi
dent said, that communists all
have the same ultimate goal
and if they are disagreeing it
is only as to how to achieve
that end. The reason for So-
viet-Chinese differences most
frequently cited is that the Chi
nese Reds want to spread com
munism right now by promot
ing and practicing revolution in
other countries, while the So
viet Reds feel they can get what
they want by what they call co
existence, but which is really
deceit and subversion.
Although he mentioned
neither country by name, Fidel
Castro, the Cuban Red, is wide
ly regarded as having favored
Peking over Moscow when, si
multaneously with the East Ger
many Red meeting, he called
for revolutionaries in the West
ern Hemisphere to rise up vol-
lently and seize power.
There are very able author
ities on communism who say
Red. China is not bickering with
Red Russian over whether or
not there should be a‘‘big war."
They note that some in the Unit
ed States have quoted the Pek
ing People’s Daily to show that
Red China wants ‘‘a big war"
and that Red Russia wants
peace.
These authorities quote the
same Peking People’s Daily as
saying the people of China‘‘love
Sudan Paratroopers Help
Help For Hospitals
WASHINGTON, (NC) - Rep.
Hale Boggs of Louisiana has
introduced a bill to extend to
nonprofit hospitals , excise tax
exemptions now enjoyed by non
profit education institutions.
The bill (H.R. 857) would
exempt nonprofit hospitals from
paying manufacturers' and re
tailers' exise taxes, exise
taxes on communications and
excise taxes on air transporta-
ion. The same exemptions were
Colleges And
The Constitution
granted to nonprofit educational
institutions in 1958.
The bill was referred to the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Camping
Standards Urged
PITTSBURGH, - The seventh
National Catholic Camping As-
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (NC)
- A commission of the Asso
ciation of American Colleges
held that nothing in the U.S.
Constitution prohibits Feder
al aid for education in pri
vate colleges.
The claim was made in a re
port from the association's
Commission on Legislation.
Calvert N. Ellis, president of
Juniata College, Huntingdon,
Pa., and commission chairman,
submitted the report to the 49th
annual meeting of the associa
tion, composed predominantly
of private liberal arts colleges.
“There is nothing in the Con
stitution of the United States,”
the report said, “to debar the
Federal government from as
sisting colleges and universi
ties, whatever their affilia
tion, in the performance of their
proper educational functions."
NATIONAL
CONFERENCE
ON
REL/GtON
AND RACE
BEHIND THE CUBA DEAL
It Seems to Me
sociation convention here was
told it needed “standards of
conduct.”
Father William L. Schroed-
er, general director of Fort
Schoo Camps, Cincinnati, re
minded some 250 delegates the
association is about 12 years
old, “and like all teenagers, we
need standards of conduct.”
Father Schroeder made it
plain he was not calling for
standardization or conformity.
“In adopting standards we are
simply setting up goals and
ideals," he declared, “and sug
gesting that you attempt to reach
them, each in his own way.”
Six Month
Old ’Apostle’
SYDNEY, Australia, (NC) -
The lay apostolate started ear
ly for six month old Joseph
Van Haren who received a medal
as his parents and 11 other lay
missionaries received mission
crosses at the close of a week’s
training here. Auxiliary Bish
op James Carroll of Sydney
presented the medal to the baby
and the crosses to the 13 who
have volunteered to serve in
South Pacific missions.
JOSEPH BREIG
Ask Columbus
Day Holiday
Bible Pictures
Called "Smut”
peace” and that “China was an
initiator of the Five Prinicples
of Coexistence." What the two
communist - dominated coun
tries are debating, these ex
perts contend, is how to infil
trate Free World countries and
how ripe these countries are for
picking.
In any event, even assuming
that Moscow favors a less vio
lent line than Peking, there is
no doubt that Nikita Kruschev,
Soviet Russian Premier, feels
that “coexistence” is serving
communism well. He said so in
East Germany.
He said it had already en
abled Soviet Russia to catch
up with the United States in the
nuclear field. Asserting that nu
clear war would obliterate
whole nations, and that the com
munists could not win such a
war, Khruschev indicated that
the Reds can go on as they are
and take over the world.
It has been suggested that a
stake in the Peking-Moscow
tussle is the allegiance of the
rest of the 90 communist par
ties Moscow says exist round
the world. However, this is only
a by-product of contention over
the best method of bringing the
Free World to communist slav
ery.
It is, as the President has
said, a disagreement over
means, not ends.
Christopher Columbus must
surely have beamed as he
watched from the other shore,
the ransoming of the 1,113
Cuban invasion prisoners.
After all, the discoverer of
the New
World has a
right to feel
that he had a
hand in the
liberation of
the men cap
tured in the
Bay of Pigs
battle.
On one of
his voyages to America, Col
umbus brought with him three
Mercedarians who founded
branches of their religious or
der all through Latin America
—in Mexico, Brazil, Peru,
Chile, Eucadoor. . .and Cuba.
And who were (and are) the
Mercedarians?
THEY WERE missionaries
who, among many other things,
made it part of the Latin Ameri
can tradition that a prisoner
must always be able to hope
for freedom—by ransom if nec
essary.
That tradition has deeply in
fluenced the Cubans. It influ
enced, almost certainly, Pre
mier Fidel Castro, because it is
part of the very air of Latin
America.
For the beginning oftheMer-
cedarian story, we must go back
to the 12th century, when the
Moors were waging war on
Europe, trying to destroy
Christianity with fire and
sword, as they had destroyed
it in northern Africa.
Thousands of Christian
defenders were taken captive,
cruelly mistreated, and enslav
ed.
IN 1192, a group of noblemen
in Barcelona, Spain formed what
is called a “confraternity” to
ranpom the prisoners.
Spain, which later was to send
Columbus on his epic voyages,
was bearing the brunt of the
Moorish attacks.
About this time, the King of
Aragon died, and his young son
succeedeu to the throne.
As tutor for him, his counsel
lors selected a learned soldier
in France, who was later to
be canonized as St. Peter No-
lasco.
Nolasco joined the young king
in his capital, Barcelona. The
Virgin Mary , appearing in a
vision, charged Nolasco with
the task of founding a religious
order dedicated to ransoming
prisoners.
THE RANSOMING of captives
then, and for long after, was<
listed as one of the seven cor-;
poral works of mercy. “Visiting^
the sick” was substituted when
(so it was thought) ransoming
would never again be necessary.
St. Peter Nolasco consulted
his confessor St. Raymond of
Pennafort, canon of Barcelona,
who encouraged and helped him
in the work given to him by the
Virgin.
Naturally enough, St. Peter
based his order on the confra
ternity founded by the noblemen
who became the order's first
monks. It was called the Order
of Our Lady of Mercy—Merce
darians for short.
THE MERCEDARIANS col
lected funds and negotiated with
the Moors for the release of
Americans, seven centuries la
ter, were to solicit goods and
money and negotiate with Fidel
In Anti-Christian Drive
Castro.
Some of the Mercedarians
rose to such heights of heroism
that when everything else failed,
they handed themselves over to
the Moors in exchange for pri
soners so that the captives
could return to their families.
Among these heroes was St.
Raymond Nonnatus, a cardinal,
who got his name (non natus,
Latin for not born) from the
(fact that he had been taken from
his mother’s womb after she
died.
Nonnatus was a nobleman
who became a Mercedarian and
rose to the exalted office of
Ransomer.
AFTER RANSOMING hun
dreds of captives, he faced a
demand from the Moors that he
give himself as ransom. He did
so, and because he would not
stop talking to them about
Christ, they pierced his lips
with redhot irons and padlocked
them. He is so pictured in
representations of him.
Among Mercedarian saints,
in addition to Nolasco and Non
natus, were St. Peter Paschal,
a bishop who was martyred,
and Blessed Bernard of Cor-
bario.
The Mercedarians also pro
duced many archbishops, bish
ops, writers and educators—
plus the three who came to the
New World with Columbus and
spread the Order of Our Lady
of Mercy through Latin Ameri
ca.
Nor was North America
skipped. The Mercedarians are
not as well known as, say, the
Jesuits, Franciscans, Domi
nicans and Benedictines, but
they are with us, as they were
with Columbus when he found
the lands we live in.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Two
senators have introduced a bill
to make October 12, Columbus
Day, a legal holiday. The meas
ure (S. 108) was sponsored by
Sens. John J. Williams and
J. Caleb Boggs, both of Dela
ware, and was referred to the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
College
Interracial Unit
BERLIN, (NC) - A tribunal
in Kosice in Slovakia has sen
tenced a resident of that city
to three years in jail for pro
ducing and selling pictures
showing Biblical scenes, ac
cording to reports reaching
here. The convicted person,
Josef Brann, allegedly supplied
the pictures, which a Slovak
communist newspaper called
“smut,” to Catholic priests.
ST. BONA VENTURE, N.Y.,
(NC) - Students of St. Bona-
venture University who are
members of the Third Order of
St. Francis have organized the
first college unit of Action for
Interracial Understanding, a
Catholic movement designed to
solve racial problems at the
grassroots level.
Ralph Fenton, AIU executive
director, said the students here
decided to pioneer the college
unit after analyzing the suc
cessful methods of the
movement on the parish level.
Eastern Rite Choirs
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
- His Holiness Pope John XXIII
attended a concert by the choirs
of the Armenian, Maronite,
Russian and Ukrainian colleges
in Rome which he said meant
a great deal to him.
Following the concert the
Pope said “I bless God because
this concert is a most pre
cious surprise for my spirit.”
Priest Asks Asylum
Governor Honors Nun
CULLMAN, Ala., (NC) - A
nun who has taught school con
tinuously for the past 68 years
was honored here with a cer
tificate of appreciation on be
half of outgoing Gov. John Pat
terson of Alabama.
Mother Annunciata Janeway,
83, first president and still a
Latin teacher at Sacred Col
lege here, was cited “for her
steadfast devotion to the teach
ing profession , for her interest
and concern for our youth and
for her consistent efforts to
make ours a better state in
which to live and work.”
SANTO DOMINGO, Domini
can Republic, (NC) - Father
Jean Baptists Georges, who
served as Haitian Minister of
Education from 1.957 to 1959,
has requested political asylum
at the Dominican Republic’s
embassy in Haiti, according to
reports received here.
Father Georges' request for
asylum is the latest incident
in the Duvalier government's
campaign against the Church in
Haiti. Within the past
two months a French-born
bishop and 11 French priests
have been expelled from the
Caribbean island country. Since
1959, the Duvalier regime has
ousted three bishops and 17
priests.
STANLEYVILLE, The Congo,
- The Sudanese government has
created a paratroop corps to
deal with any emergency that
might arise in the southern part
of the country, where it is sys
tematically expelling Christian
missionaries.
At the same time, it has more
than quadrupled the strength of
its garrisons in the south in an
effort to prevent the Sudanese
people themselves from flee
ing the country.
It was learned here that the
Sudan’s Moslem - controlled
government had expelled 120
missionaries — 83 Catholics
and 37 Protestants -- between
mid-November and mid-Janu
ary. The repressive methods
employed by the Moslem
Arabs who rule over the Negro
and Nilotic peoples of the south
have spurred thousands of
southerners to flee. Estimates
of Sudanese refugees who have
escaped run as high as 10,000
here in the Congo and 15,000
in neighboring Uganda. The re-
jgees include hundreds of for
mer southern servicemen, po-
schoolmasters and stu-
Khartoum government
has kept insisting that “every
part of the country is calm.”
But by its troop movements it
has tipped its hand: In the
past six months the troop
strength in the south has been
increased from 3,000 to
13,000 men. Southern soldiers
are transferred to northern
garrisons, while a new troop-
train of northern soldiers goes
south weekly.
Sudanese troops patrol the
borders of the Congo and Ugan
da night and day in an effort
to prevent both any further ex
odus of refugees and to be on
the lookout for any possible at
tempt of refugee forces to free
the south from its Arab mast
ers.
There are periodic clashes
between refugees and Sudanese
frontier patrols. In one, in early
December, Sudanese troops en
tered the Congo and set fires in
villages where refugees were
supposed to be living. The Su
danese press did not mention
this or other incidents. But the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs at
Khartoum issued a communique
stating that some shots has been
exchanged during“anormalpa-
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QUESTION BOX
Ask Study Change
Nobody
Wants
Q. What is a miracle? What
I mean is, what is the exact
definition of a miracle?
Me!
//
Chu Maria was aban
doned in the streets
of Hong Kong. A Cath
olic institution gave
gave her shelter. Now
authorities seek an
adopted home for her
in America. Must she
be abandoned again?
You can help. Call
your Director of Cath
olic Charities, or write
today to:
A. A miracle (the word comes
from the Latin miror, (i.e.,
“I wonder at or I marvel at")
is, in St. Thomas’ classic de
finition, “that which is done
by God outside the order fo all
created nature.” St. Augustine
described a miracle as “some
thing difficult, which seldom
occurs, surpassing the faculty
of nature, and going so far be
yond our hopes as to compel
our astonishment.”
Old Testaments, are obviously
of faith. Those which have oc
curred since Apostolic times—
those accepted by the Church in
formal canonizations of saints
for example, or the authentic
cures of Lourdes—are demand
ing of at least the serious
credence due to any truth for
which indisputable evidence is
available.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(NC) - Two Catholic organiza
tions have suggested changes
in a questionnaire to be used
for a proposed United Nations
study of discrimination against
persons born out of wedlock.
The changes are designed to
protect the rights of persons
born out of wedlock and also
to protect the stability of the
family.
The Southern Cross
CATHOLIC COMMITTEE
FOR REFUGEES, NCWC
265 W. 14th Street,
New York 11, N. Y.
A MIRACLE can only be
wrought by God, then though
he may choose to employ any
creature as the instrumental
cause. Moreover, a miracle is
not, as one theologian remarks,
“a violation of the laws of
nature, but an exceptional hap
pening brought about by a spe
cial, divine power that inter
venes in created things, pro
ducing an effect superior to
their natural power.”
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MIRACLES MENTIONED in
the Bible, in both the New and
Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., President
Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Editor
John Markwalter, Managing Editor
Rev. Lawrence Lucree, Rev. John Fitzpatrick,
Associate Editors