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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, March 30, 1963
POAU-Wrong Again!
A ranking Baptist official says an exhaus
tive study of a Washington building project
fails to substantiate charges that it is Vatican-
controlled and getting special treatment.
C. Emanuel Carlson, executive director
of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public
Affairs, Washington, makes the statement
in a "fact sheet" being distributed by his
agency.
Protestants and other Americans United
for Separation of Church and State is waging
a campaign against the building project, a
$66 million venture to be called Watergate
Towne.
POAU, in its regular publications and a
special pamphlet, charges that the project
is financed by "a subsidiary of the Vatican,"
would tower over national shrines, is enjoying
favoritism from government officials and
might eventually become the headquarters of
the Apostolic Delegate, who resides in Wash
ington, or even be "a temporary home away
from Rome" for the pope.
POAU’s charges have produced an
estimated 10,000 letters of protest over the
project to government officials.
In his fact sheet, Carlson denies Vatican
control, notes that many Washington build
ings, including churches, are taller than the
project will be, reports that the local govern
ment has encouraged "high rise" apartments
in the area of the project and says that four
Federal and District agencies approved the
project.
The project site, formerly used by the local
gas company for storage tanks, was purchased
by Island Vista, Inc., a subsidary of the Rome
firm of Societa General Immobiliare, one of
the oldest real estate operations in Italy.
The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Company will finance $44 million worth of the
project’s costs.
Carlson says that the Vatican is the largest
of Immobiliare’s stock holders, holding an
estimated 20 per cent. "This is scarcely
‘Vatican-controlled,’ " he comments.
Complaints about the project raise the
question of whether churches are to be denied
real estate investments. Carlson argues
that churches have this right.
‘ ‘The wisdom of churches becoming strong
commercial or economic agencies is
basically a question for church leaders,”
he says.
The fact sheet, being distributed to all
persons who inquire of the Baptist Committee
on Public Affairs about the charges, notes
that one "high rise" apartment is already
being built near the site of Watergate Towne,
and that Several others are planned.
' ‘The city planners and the zoning officials
are encouraging this development of high
cost land both as a beautification program
and as a source of tax revenue," declares
Dr. Carlson.
Chalk up one more false alarmtoP.O.A.U.
Requires Alert Defense
“FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”
(By J. J. Gilbert)
WASHINGTON, The crisis
caused by communist-manned
missiles in Cuba "had it’s
value," if we will learn the les
sons it has to teach.
This is the advice of a com
mittee chairman in Congress
who says the Cuban crisis
"placed in sharp focus
Moscow’s true intentions as
far as our country is
concerned" and "revealed the
insincerity of Khrushchev'stalk
of ‘peace.’ "
Here, he says, are some of
the lessons to be learned from
that crisis:
—National boundaries lose
their meaning once communism
takes over any nation. "We
should stop thinking in the out
moded, conventional terms of
a communist ‘Cuba,’ a com
munist ‘Poland,’ or communist
‘Bulgaria.’ These one-time
nations are no longer separate
countries but rather parts of
the international communist
state. Cuba is no longer Cuba;
it is an advance outpost of the
Soviet Union in the Americas."
—"A relative small number
of communists can—in a very
short time and against the will
of the great majority of the
people—convert a once inde
pendent, anti-communist nation
into one enslaved by com
munism."
—“Countries in the Western
Hemisphere are not invulne
rable to the communist seizure
of power."
—"In the U. S. Communist
party, with its upwards of
10,000 hard-core members and
many additional thousands of
communists and sympathizers,
the Soviet Union has a larger,
better organized, and more ex
perienced fifth column in this
country than it had in Cuba
shortly before Castro’s seizure
of power."
—“Cuba should teach us that
freedom is not free. All who
enjoy its bounties must be con
stantly alert to those forces
which threaten it and, more im
portant, ready to act swiftly and
decisively against them. What
has happened in Cuba happened
some years earlier in Guate
mala. It has now happened in
almost a score of countries. It
More Than Vietnam At Stake
Vietnam Rebels After
Laos Type Settlement
By Father Patrick O’ Connor
Society of St. Columban
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
SAIGON, Vietnam—The Viet
Cong (communist) guerrillas
cannot conquer south Vietnam,
But it could fall into their hands
as a result of their guerrilla
warfare.
They attack outposts and vil
lages. They ambush vehicles or
blow them up with roadmines.
They assassinate village offic
ials and occasionally throw
a handgrenade in Saigon. They
fight back when the army
launches a "search and clear"
operation in an area where
they have a base.
But all this, even if their
casualties were far less than
they are, would be a long way
from victory. It does not am
ount to overcoming an army
or capturing a capital city.
Their strategy is not direc
ted towards that sort of con
quest. They are trying to win
by wearing down the patience
and resolution of those oppos
ed to them. Their chief target
now is no army position or
city in Vietnam. It is Washing
ton, D. C.
If they gain their point there,
they count on having south Viet
nam handed to them on a plat
ter—a platter with a neutral
tint—at an international con
ference in Geneva.
It was in Geneva that north
Vietnam was signed over to
them in July, 1954. .
At Dien Bien Phu, in May,
1954, they did not overwhelm
the main body of the French
Expeditionary Corps. But they
did overwhelm French public
opinion, long weary of the war.
The communists hope now to
wear down the patience of the
United States, those support
is vital for South Vietnam. The
wearing down of patience is a
psychological effect, not a phys
ical conquest.
The communists know that
local military actions of little
strategic value in themselves
can have a cumulative impact
on American public opinion.
Similarly, governmental de
fects that are regarded as just
occupational diseases in other
Asian governments can turn
foreign opinion against giving
aid and in favor of accepting a
compromise, when a conflict
has dragged on expensively for
years.
It is by compromise that the
communists hope to acquire the
south, rather than by an out
right cession such as the Gen
eva agreement that gave them
the north. The compromise they
look for now is one similar
to the "settlement" for Laos
made in Geneva last July.
That is pretty clear from
their propaganda. It is evident in
their action in setting up the so-
called “National Liberation
Front for South Vietnam." The
key word in that title is
"Front.”
A Laos-type agreement for-
south Vietnam, binding Western
governments and creating a
temporary illusion of peace
would insure the swallowing of
the south by the Hanoi govern
ment within three years.
All the neutralist govern
ments that took part in the Gen
eva conference of last July
would probably join the commu
nist powers now in favoring
a "neutralized" south Vietnam
under "coalition" rule. The
United States, Britain and
maybe France would be op
posed, though sections of the
public in each country—prob
ably an important section in
France—would side with the
neutralists.
The government most inti
mately concerned, that of south
Vietnam, would be absolutely
opposed, as long as President
Ngo dinh Diem is at its head.
He would never consent to de
liver the independence of his
country to the undertaking par
lors of a Geneva conference.
Hence the communists seek to
undermine him and his admin
istration. (All who are opposed
to him are not communists,
however.) The Reds know that if
America gets tired of aiding
him, they and their allies can
start packing their bags for
Geneva. They would come home
with south Vietnam in the bag.
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"IF IT'S NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION...WHERE IS IT ?
Put Dad’s Foot Down?
could happen here."
The Congressman speaking
is Francis E. Walters of Penn
sylvania, chairman of the House
of Representatives Committee
on Un-American Activities. The
quotations are from his intro
duction to the 1962 annual re
port of that committee. He con
tends that the "real shocker"
of the Cuban crisis is not that
the missiles were set up "just
90 miles from our shores," but
“the Kremlin had boldly and
successfully demonstrated its
total takeover power on our
very doorstep."
Just a month ago, opponents
of the House. Un-American
Activities Committee made
another of their periodic
attempts to put it out of busi
ness. It came while the House
was considering whether the
committee should have funds to
continue its work. The House
beat down this attack on the
committee one day, and the next
day, by a vote of 385 to 20,
voted the committee $10,000
more in funds than it had the
year before.
It Seems to Me
A wry smile has often been
my reaction to arguments about
corporal punishment of children
and to the clamor of speakers
on public platforms demanding
that Dad put his foot down and
assert him
self as Head
of the House,
in capital let
ters.
The trou
ble is that if
it is neces
sary for Fa
ther to assert
himself like
that, he is not really head of
the house at all. And if parents
must resort to clobbering
youngsters, that is a confession
that for much too long they have
left undone many wise and gen
tle things that should have been
done.
I WISH THAT the lecturers
and writers on family life would
remember that a man’s right
and duty to be head of the house
rest ultimately upon what St.
Paul said: that a husband ought
to love his wife (and of course
his family) as Christ loved the
Church, delivering Himself up
for it.
The man who measures up
even moderately well, to Paul's
ideal need never worry about
being head of the house; he will
find himself unanimously elect
ed to that position by his wife
and youngsters. The post and
the responsibility are not some
thing he attains by stomping his
feet; they are something he must
earn and deserve through the
years.
I NOTE, UNHAPPILY that
there is an alarming increase
in brutal beatings of children.
JOSEPH BREIG
The information comes from a
conference of judges, lawyers,
and social workers who have
met under auspices of the Chil
dren’s Bureau of the U. S.
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
Comparatively fewparents.of
course, descend to such cruelty.
All the same I think it is wiser,
in advice to fathers and mothers
to avoid emphasis on assertion
and punishment, and to stress
the patient day-to-day work of
kindly, considerate and reason
ably firm rearing of little ones.
The lecturers and the writers
should stop talking about spank
ing and foot-putting-down, and
get to fundamentals. They
snouid remind parents that suc
cessful family life is some
thing to begin creating the mo
ment the man and woman say,
“I do" to each other.
HAPPINESS IN THE FAM
ILY depends on happiness in
marriage. And happiness in
’marriage is the result of the
love and courtesy between hus
band and wife that should start
at the altar, and be nourished
by prayerful cooperation with
the graces of marriage as a sac
rament.
Indeed, the roots of success
ful marriage and family life
go back to dating and court
ship, and beyond that to the
parents and even the bride- •
groom.
Fortunately we need not imi
tate the errors of ancestors.
If Gramps was a heavy-handed
tyrant, all the more reason for
his grandson to resolve to be
different. If Gram was a nag
and a whiner, granddaughter
should decline to be like her.
THERE IS A SIMPLE basic
principle for the right rearing
Fifth Sorrowful Mystery
THE CRUCIFIXION
Our t Father
And when they came to the place called
the Skull,/
they crucified him.
Luke 23:33
Hail t Mary
And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them,/
for they do not know what they are
doing.’
Luke 23:34
Hail f Mary
And one of the robbers crucified with
him said, 'Lord, remember me/
when thou comest into thy kingdom.’
Matt. 27:44; Luke 23:39, 42
Hail "f Mary
And Jesus said to him, 'Amen I say to
thee,/
this day thou shalt be with me in
paradise.’
Luke 23:43
Hail 1" Mary
And Jesus saw his mother/
and the disciple standing by, whom
he loved.
John 19:26
Hail t Mary
Scriptural Rosary
Part 10
And he said to his mother, 'Woman, be
hold, thy son.’/
Then he said to his disciple, 'Behold,
thy mother.’
John 19:26, 27
Hail T Mary
And from that hour/
the disciple took her into his home.
John 19:27
Hail "f Mary
And the sun was darkened, and the
earth quaked,/
and the curtain of the temple was
torn in two.
Luke 23:45; Matt. 27:51
Hail t Mary
And Jesus cried out with a loud voice
and said,/
'Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit.’
Luke 23:46
Hail t Mary
And bowing his head,/
he expired.
John 19:30; Luke 23:46
Hail t Mary
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit./ As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Editor’s Note: This is one of the 15 decades
of the Scriptural Rosary, a modern \ersion
of the way the Rosary was once prayed in
the Middle Ages. We are presenting the
complete Scriptural Rosary in 15 install
ments as a service to our readers. You are
invited to save these meditations for future
use. Or you may obtain the complete set in
illustrated prayer-book form by sending $1
to the nonprofit Scriptural Rosary Center,
6 A r . Michigan Avenue, Chicago 2, Illinois.
Eastern Mass
NEW YORK — The 25th Con
ference on the Eastern Rites,
sponsored by Fordham Univer
sity, will be highlighted March
30 by concelebration of the Di
vine Liturgy (Mass) of St. John
Youth Corps
WASHINGTON — Rep. John
Brademas of Indiana placed in
the Congressional Record
(March 21) an editorial from
Ave Maria, national Catholic
Weekly magazine, endorsing the
administration’s proposal for
a Youth Conservation Corps.
Chrysostom at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral here.
Archpriest Andrew Rogosh,
pastor of St. Michael’s Russian
Catholic chapel, will con-
celebrate with Father Paul
Mailleux, S. J. , superior of
the Russian Center at Fordham,
and Father John H. Ryder, S. J.
Of the same center.
The preacher will be Father
Robert I. Gannon, S. J., former
president of Fordham.
Anti-Semitism
Charge
BERLIN, (NC)—The Polish
Catholic Weekly, Tygodnik
Powszechny, had denied a
charge that the Polish people
must share blame with the nazis
for the persecution of Poland’s
of youngsters. It is contained
in the catechism definition that
human beings are made in the
image and likeness of God.
Maybe at a certain hour each
day, church bells should ring,
and whistles blow, to call Dad
and Mom to meditation upon the
fact that their lovable but ex
asperating youngsters are
God’s image.
This means that they are be
ings with minds and will s of
their own, and that they are
capable of reason, of love and
of holiness.
IT IS THE BUSINESS of the
parent to help the cKild to re
alize, more and more, that he
is the rightful king of the king
dom of himself. He is a myste
rious being who must be pre
pared to take charge; under God,
of his own destiny.
I would suggest an insertion
in the catechism. Children are
taught that they whould rever
ence their parents. Parents
should be told to reverence their
children. What but reverence is
right for an image of God? And
I hold that the parent who rev
erences the likeness of God in
his child will almost inevitable
receive reverence in return.
When the matter is viewed
in this light, isn’t it foolish to
talk as if the chief problem in
rearing children is punishment
—that is, repression—rather
than guidance into the greatness
and goodness for which God des
tines them?
And isn’t it nonsense to sug
gest that the way for Dad to be
head of the house is to put his
foot down, while neglecting to
mention his prime duty, which
is to seek holiness and wisdom
so that he can help his family
to wisdom and holiness?
Tokyo Trip
WASHINGTON — A graduate
fellowship for summer study
in Tokyo will be awarded in
early June to an American Sis
ter who places first in a nation
wide essay competition.
Donor of the award is Sophia
University, Tokyo, celebrating
its 50th anniversary this year.
The institution is conducted by
the Jesuit Fathers and staffed
by an international faculty.
The competition is being
channeled through the board of
directors of the Sister Forma
tion Graduate Study and Re
search Foundation, Inc., which
announced the contest here.
Sisters wishing to compete
for the fellowship are being
asked to submit an essay of
1500 words. The topic is: "The
East Asian Impact on the Ecu
menical Movement: A Challenge
to Sisters." Deadline for
entries is May 10, 1963.
Entries are to be mailed
to the foundation at 1785 Mas
sachusetts Ave., N. W., Wash
ington 6, D. C. This is the of
fice of the Sister Formation
Conference, a section of the
College and University Depart
ment of the National Catholic
Educational Association.
Cutback Feared
WASHINGTON — Rep. Hugh
L. Carey of New York has warn
ed Congress that a Federal aid
to education program which for
ced a cutback in parochial
schools would be bad public
policy.
Carey said it is "neither
practical nor economical to
price out, phase out, in effect
drop out, an entire school sy
stem."
Stressing the need for "every
conceivable economy in educa
tion," Carey said this "cer
tainly should mean the maxi
mum utilization of every
existing school and classroom
which meets state and local
standards, public or private."
Jews during World War II.
The weekly, published in Cra
cow, stated in an issue received
here that * ‘Hitler propaganda"
originated the charge.
Anglican Angelus
BLUFF POINT, Australia,
(NC)—Each day during Lent
when the bell of St. George’s
Anglican Church rings for the
noon litany, members of five
faiths join as "prayer-part
ners" in the cause of Christian
reunion, reciting a prayer for
unity within their own homes.
Bishop Francis X. Thomas of
the Catholic diocese of Gerald-
ton has given his blessing to the
project, so that two Catholics
are taking part, along with An
glicans, Methodists, Presby
terians and Greek Orthodox.
Crusading Spirit
ROME, (Radio, NC)—The
"spirit of crusade" has be
come a bone of contention be
tween Catholics and com
munists in the final weeks of
Italy's election campaign.
Palmiro Togliatti, head of the
Italian Communist party, decla
red in a speech at Bergamo
that the Church’s stand against
communism is "the last of the
crusades." He said it has failed
and is being carried on by only
a few diehards such as Elfredo
Cardinal Ottaviani, Secretary
of. the Sacred Congregation _of
the Holy Office, and the extreme
fringe of the Christain Demo
cratic party.
L’Osservatore Romano, Vati
can City daily, answered (March
21) that "the spirit of crusade
is only the spirit of the defense
of religious adherence and
social coexistence on the basis
of law and peace."
Pope Greets
Anglican Prelate
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—Anglican Bishop George Lux-
ton of Huron, Ont., was receiv
ed (March 23) by His Holiness
Pope John XXIII in a private
audience in the Pope's library.
Q. In the early Church wasn’t
it customary to delay baptism
until adulthood—as some Pro
testant denominations do today?
A. Although it is sometimes
alleged that infant baptism was
an innovation dating from the
fifth century or thereabouts, the
fact is that infant baptism is of
apostolic origin. By infant is
meant the newborn, as is evi
dent, for instance, from a Syno
dal injunction in250A.D. which,
in response to a question as
to whether children should be
baptized only from the eighth
day after birth, determined
that the sacrament should be
administered immediately, i.e.,
without any delay if at all pos
sible.
POLYCARP (d. 155), who was
baptized in apostolic times, said
at death that he was a ser
vant of Christ for 86 years,
which would, of course, place
his baptism back in his infan
cy or early childhood. St. Jus
tin (d. 165) also refers to adults
of his time who were baptized
in infancy, which would also
put their baptisms back in ap
ostolic times—when the Apos
tles could have forbidden the
practice. And in one of the an
cient liturgical compilations,
the Traditio apostolica of Hip-
polytus (c. 250), there is a note
directing godparents to answer
the responses for children who
are brought to the font. And
there are many other witnesses,
as for example, the words of
Origen (d. 254): "The Church
received from the Apostles the
tradition of giving baptism unto
infants."
THERE IS of course histor-
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