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UN Urged
To Speed
Study
UNITED NATIONS, (NC)—
The United Nations Commission
on Human Rights has been urged
to speed up its study of a set
of draft principles on religious
liberties in time for this year's
General Assembly session.
The upping came from the
subcommission on the Preven
tion of Discrimination and Pro
tection of Minorities in a (Jan.
29) resolution. The resolution
states that the draft principles
which the subcommission
submitted to the Human Rights
Commission in 1960 “contain
the basic elements which should
be included in a draft declara
tion on the elimination of all
forms of religious intolerance.
Later (Jan. 30) the subcom
mission unanimously adopted a
draft declaration on the elimi
nation of all forms of racial
discrimination.
The subcommission resolu
tion came in response to a
General Assembly resolution
(Dec. 7, 1962) which requested
the Economic and Social Coun
cil to ask the Human Rights
Commission to prepare such a
declaration for the assembly’s
18th session next fall.
The assembly resolution ask
ed the subcommission, whose
1963 session ran from January
14 to February 1, to express
its views before the Human
Rights Commission starts its
work. The commission opens its
1963 session March 11 in Gene
va.
The 1960 draft was taken up
by the Human Rights Com
mission during its 1962 session
along with comments on the
draft by 53 governments and 3
non-governmental organiza
tions and a working paper pre
pared by Sec. Gen. U Thant
which compiled proposed
amendments and new texts.
In the Human Rights Com
mission’a 1962 session, only
the preamble to the proposed
declaration was discussed.
Debate on the wording of the
preamble was concerned main
ly with the meaning of the
words “religion" and “belief"
as they are used in the text.
Communist members of the
commission--the Soviet Union,
the Ukraine and Poland-
insisted on equating “religion"
with a “belief" in atheism or
rationalism.
Other members, led by Ar
gentina and Afghanistan and
strongly supported by Italy and
the Netherlands, insisted on a
difference between “religion
and “belief." They maintained
that the document under review
is concerned essentially with
the right to practice religion in
freedom.
The majority of members
interpreted “belief" to be re
lated to convictions of an ethi
cal nature.
On Argentina’s initiative, a
new paragraph was added to the
preamble of the text. It states
“Whereas religion for anyone
who professes it is a fundamen
tal element in his conception of
life, and therefore freedom to
practice religion as well as to
manifest a belief should be fully
respected and guaranteed."
Australia
And Council
SYDNEY--The Vatican Coun
cil “ventilated the whole ques
tion of Christians acting toge
ther," a Protestant leader de
clared here, predicting that it
would lead to important Aus
tralian discussions between the
major faiths.
At Most Pure Heart Of Mary
The Southern Cross, February 16, 1963—PAGE 3
ADDRESSES PARISH—Bishop McDonough is pictured
as he addressed the parishioners of the Most Pure Heart
of Mary parish, Savannah. The Bishop offered the 10:00
a. m. Mass February 3, after which he blessed the re
modeled school. His Excellency confirmed at the parish
that evening. (Will Bond Photo)
SAVANNAH—Last December
as men’s minds and hearts fo
cused across the invisible bar
riers separating the waning of
the old year from the approach
of the new, the Pastor, Sisters
and Parishoners of Most Pure
Heart of Mary Parish, Sa
vannah, looked forward to the
First Sunday of February as
a Day of Special Promise on
the horizon of the New Year.
This was the day scheduled
by His Excellency, Most Rev
erend Thomas J. McDonough to
visit St. Mary’s for the two
fold purpose of administering
the Sacrament of Confirmation
and blessing the modernized
entrances and facilities of the
Parochial School.
His Excellency offered the
10:00 A. M. Parish Mass of
February 3rd. The Little
Church was filled to overflow
ing and the congregation pri
vileged in offering a dialogue
Mass with the True Shephard of
their souls was blessed, indeed,
even as were the early Christ
ians grouped about the First
Christian Bishops.
Despite the wind and the rain,
an enthusiastic procession ac
companied His Excellency to St.
Mary’s School where the Epis
copal Blessing was given to
the renewed facilities. Here
as a token of appreciation to
His Excellency for his solici
tude and concern for the wel
fare of the school children in
his providing improvements to
the building so greatly needed,
Little Miss Agnes Young of the
Fifth Grade presented him
a Spiritual Bouquet from all her
schoolmates.
Sunday evening, Bishop Mc
Donough in the solemn
ceremony of administering
Confirmation to fifty-five child
ren and adults, paid inspiring
tribute to His Holiness Pope
John XXIII, particularly for his
courageous undertaking of the
Second Vatican Council not yet
completed.
Judge Makes TV Plea
Divorce, Desertion, Lack
Of Discipline Seen As
Cause Of Narcotics Use
EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif.,
(NC)—Five heroin addicts re
sponded to a judge’s television
plea to narcotics users to turn
themselves in voluntarily for
rehabilitation.
Municipal Judge Leopoldo
Sanchez made the plea on “La
Hora Catholica" (“The Ca
tholic Hour") presented every
Sunday evening here on KMEX,
Spanish language television sta
tion. “La Hora Catolica" is
sponsored by the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles.
In his chambers at East Los
Angeles Municipal Court, Judge
Sanchez explained his “Catho
lic Hour” offered to help nar
cotics addicts.
Some don’t know about the op
portunity for rehabilitation. And
some don’t care. But there are
mothers and fathers and wives
who do care and who should
know that there is a change for
a user to be rehabilitated,"
the judge said.
‘ 'Some believe that you have
to be arrested in order to be
eligible. All a man needs to do
is to sing a petition asking for
rehabilitation. It won’t cost any
thing and does not involve ar
rest," he said.
Judge Sanchez said he assists
a man through the routine of
making formal application for
treatment. When this is com
pleted by a deputy district at
torney at the Federal Build
ing, the volunteer goes to the
County Hospital jail ward and
is helped through withdrawal.
Results of physical and phy-
sent to Department 95 ofTfie
Superior Court which then com
mits the individual to the De
partment of Correction at Chi
no.
“A man may spend from
six months to five years there,
Judge Sanchez said. “The vast
majority get out in about 10
months. It is not like a
hospital, but more like a farm
where it is recognized that
work is good therapy.
“Here the man has the help
pf a psychiatrist, individual, and
group therapy, and then is sent
home on three to five years
to
parole," he explained.
“During this time he has
report once a week for a naline
exam to determine whether
or not he has resumed using
dope. If he has, he goes back to
JUDGE LEOPOLDO SANCHEZ
Chino. If not, his parole con
tinues," the jurist said.
Judge Sanchez said his per
sonal effort on behalf of nar
cotics addicts is promoted by
the fact that most of them are
under 25 years old. He said
more emphasis should be plac
ed on prevention of narcotics
use.
“I have been a judge for two
years. For the first year I was
assigned to do all the sentenc
ing in this area," he said. “In
studying records I noticed a
pattern. Boys didn’t come in
to narcotics as their first ven
ture into crime.
“They usually had a history:
hub caps, burglary, curfew vio
lation, drinking, maybe mari
juana or pills," he continued.
“There is a tip-off here, a
warning bell. If they take pills
or marijuana, sooner or later
they are going to try a cap of
herion," he said.
Judge Sanchez advocates a
prevention program be estab
lished that would attempt to
halt a boy’s progressive
environment in narcotics use.
Reach for
SAVANNAH’S
FIRST CHOICE!
He envisions an effort sim
ilar to the Army’s character
guidance program in which
chaplains, doctors and officers
speak to troops and develop
motiviations for right conduct.
Judge Sanchez would make it
a requirement that each indi
vidual passing through the
court’s jurisdiction and having
pills or marijuana in his re
cord be ordered to see and learn
the ravages of narcotics.
He admits that some offi
cials object to such a program
on the grounds that it would
only stimulate further curios
ity by youths. Judge Sanchez
counters that a man with evi
dence of pills and marijuana
in his record needs to be
steeled agqinst thg pressure and
blandishments of the “push
er" and bad company. * '
“Sure," he said, “the push
er will say to the boy. 'Come
on, try it. Don’t pay attention
to what they tell you. It won’t
hurt you. Look at me, there’s
nothing wrong with me.
Come on, I’ll race you to the
corner and back.’ "
Judge Sanchez said “it is
always a group situation that
induce addiction.”
Addicts all say that curios
ity started them as users,
friends were using it, they want
ed to experiment, they weren’t
going to get hooked, the judge
related.
The judge knows the men
tality and environment well.
He grew up in a tough neigh
borhood.
Why do boys take up dope?
“Nine times out of 10 there’s
not a good home situation: di
vorce, death or desertion of a
parent, a working mother, the
low income of the father," he
speculated.
“The boys have too much time
on their hands. They’re on the
street at 2:30 after school. They
meet other boys % they’re idle.
When I was a boy if I was 10
minutes late from school, I
heard about it from my father,'
he said.
Among the five who volun
teered for rehabilitation after
the recent “Catholic Hour" tel
evision plea are a son disown
ed by his father and a man who
is the father of five children
and was supporting a three-
cap, $15 -a-day heroin habit.
“Most addicts will not live
past 40. I tell them they run
the risk of disease, hepatitis,
death from an overdose. Most
heroin is greatly cut with sug
ar, but sometimes a new push
er sells a stronger dose and it
can kill a man," the judge said.
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ROME, (NC) --A dozen years
ago Willem Gran crossed the
mile of open water between the
southern coast of Wales and
the tiny monastic island ofCal-
dey. He was 30 years old, a
Norwegian and a convert.
Behind him lay a cosmopo
litan career: in Rome, where
he studied opera production and
found the Catholic Faith; in Eng
land and Norway as an intelli
gence officer in the Norwegian
army; in France and Norway
as an assistant director in the
movie industry.
Before him lay a life of con
templation and hard physical
work in Caldey’s Monastery of
the Cistercian Reform. What
ever he hoped to accomplish
for the conversion of his native
land would have to be done
through prayer.
Now his Holiness Pope John
XXIII has plucked Father John
as he is known in religion,
from the Cistercian life of si
lence and seclusion. The Pope
is sending him back to Norway
as Coadjutor Bishop of Oslo
with the right of succession.
He is the first Cistercian of
the Reform to be named
bishop in more than half a
century.
How does a Cistercian monk
feel when he is taken from his
monastery and brought into the
administration of a large (big
ger than Georgia) and busy
diocese?
“Sad," Bishop-elect Gran
replied without hesitation.
“I feel sad to leave the re
ligious life. But personal
feelings don’t really matter
The important thing is to
follow the plan of Providence
SPIRITUAL BOUQUET--Little Agnes Young, fifth grader, presents spiritual bouquet
to Bishop McDonough on behalf of all school children at Most Pure Heart of Mary
School. Also pictured are (left) Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Chancellor of the Diocese,
and (right) Rev. Denis Begley, S.M.A., pastor of St. Anthony’s, Savannah.-(Will Bond
Photo)
Clergy Concensus
Reported On Ending
Sterilization Causes
NEW YORK, (NC)—A study
of recent controversy over
sterilization has reported a
consensus among most clergy
men that ' ‘the best long-range
way to deal with the problem
of sterilization is to eliminate
its ‘justifications’ — poverty,
illness and ignorance."
This is a finding of “The
Fauquier Hospital Sterilization
Story," a “background report"
published here by the Religious
Freedom and Public Affairs
project of the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews.
The report was written by
Gerald Grant, a reporter for the
Washington Post.
The controversy over the
sterilization program of the
Fauquier County Hospital in
Warrenton, Va., was touched off
last September 9 in a sermon by
Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle
of Washington.
Archbishop O’Boyle stressed
the traditional teaching that
sterilization, even on a volun
tary basis, is “grosslyimmor
al” when it is carried out as a
means of preventing conception.
Grant says that in the first
33 months of the program, 63
mothers were voluntarily ster
ilized at the Fauquier Hospital.
After reviewing the nationwide
controversy over sterilization
which followed, Archbishop O’-
Boyle’s denunciation, he says:
“Clergymen generally agree
Urban Renewal
“Unity Test
55
HARTFORD, Con., (NC) —
Urban renewal is a “great test
of our unity as a people," a
Catholic authority in the field
declared here.
Dennis Clark, executive sec
retary of the Catholic Inter
racial Council of New York
and author of two books on ur
ban problems, told the Social
Workers' Association ofGreat-
er Hartford it is essential to
“use this effort of city recon
struction to serve those in
need,” rather than let its ma
chinery “be captured by
propertied interests who want
a neat, clean, profit-making
downtown to the exclusion of
the complex problems of fami
lies and the poor."
Clark said “urban renewal
will not work properly without
desegregation of local life and
housing." He said experience
has proved that progress in
desegregation is made only
when communities are under
pressure and not from any com
munity feeling of benevolence.
At present there is not real
assurance that urban renewal
programs will stabilize cities,
but there is a reasonable hope
for success in communities
where urban renewal projects
are geared to the needs of the
people, he stated.
Clark warned that urban re
newal must be thought of as
a continuing process. As a city
continually grows, he pointed
out, it also continually decays
and therefore expedient, short
term plans will not solve the
city’s real problems.
that the national discussion of
the sterilization issue was a
healthy one. It accomplished the
good of refining a moral ques
tion, and motivating the man in
the street to come to grips with
a moral and social problem."
The NCCJ’s “Religious
Freedom and Public Affairs"
project, which sponsored pub
lication of the report on the
sterilization controversy, des
cribes itself as aiming “to
raise the general level of pub
lic understanding and dis
cussion on issues of public con
cern about which religious
groups differ."
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