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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, April 6, 1963
Reminder To Refugees
The restrictions recently placed on the
movement of certain highly placed Cuban
refugees in the Dade County, Florida area,
and tightened security regulations sur
rounding United States territorial waters
which could be used as bases for Cuban
Commando raids against Castro and against
Soviet-Cuba shipping, is undoubtedly a bitter
blow to the hopes of Cuban patriots who
wish to fight for the early liberation of their
homeland.
Indeed, it is only their intense love of
country which mitigates, to some degree, the
otherwise ungrateful and irresponsible
denunciations of the United States Govern
ment, uttered by some of their leaders.
But they must realize that the security of
this country rests, not with them, but with
the United States Government.
No one but Latin American communist
leaders know whether armed attacks against
Cuba at this time, would enable them to
more easily lead the people of their respec
tive countries into revolt.
And no one except Nikita Khrushchev
knows whether American aid to Cuban patriots
attacking Castro’s stronghold would mean
armed conflict between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
But the United States has apparently decid
ed that such risks are present.
We do not know whether or not this coun
try’s assessment of the dangers involved in
continued commando attacks or possible
invation is a correct one. We submit that
neither do the Cuban refugees.
Meantime, free Cubans should recall a few
facts to mind. This country threw open its
doors, freely, to the thousands of refugees
forced to leave their homeland when Soviet
tanks treacherously ground out the spark of
freedom struck by the Hungarian freedom-
fighters.
And when Fidel Castro began to reveal
himself as the arch-traitor of the Cuban
revolution, the United States once again threw
open its doors and its heart to sorrowing men,
women, and children, stripped of everything
but their burning desire for freedom.
Whatever the real cause for the failure
of the Bay of Pigs invasion, it was the people
and the government of the United States,
not the Cubans who had found refuge here,
who undertook to bring about the return of
its survivors.
That same government, and the people of
southern Florida and dozens of cities across
the land are still undertaking, in behalf of
thousands upon thousands of Cubans, burdens
which attest—far more eloquently than mere
oratory—to the American dedication to the
invitation, “Give me yourTirea, your poor...
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, temptest-tost to
me.
The willingness of Cuban refugees to lay
down their lives in order to bring about a
return of freedom to their native land, does
honor to the great virtue of Patriotism.
But outbursts of abuse directed against the
nation which has kept them alive and free
dishonors their Holy Faith, which enjoins
upon all the practice of charity, the Queen
of all Virtues.
God’s World
(Leo J. Trese)
Are you an oversensitive per
son? I hope not. An oversensi
tive person creates a vast
amount of unnecessary unhappi
ness for himself (or herself)
and is a great trial to family
and friends.
Mary
Brown, for
example, is
a bn o r m ally
sens itive.
She passes
her friend,
Helen Jones,
on the street.
Helen does
not speak to her. Mary gpes
home in a miserable state of
mind, asking herself, “What
ever did I do to make Helen mad
at me?” The truth is that Helen
was deeply preoccupied as to
whether or not she should buy
the $19.95 dress she had been
looking at. She had not even seen
Mary Brown.
John Smith is another exam
ple. Sitting at his office desk,
he watches two of his fellow
workers at the water cooler,
talking and laughing. John is
sure that they are talking about
him. Actually they are discuss
ing a freak victory of their
bowling team the previous night;
John is far from their thoughts.
A third instance is Jane Dowd.
The president of the Altar Soc
iety said, “I do wish you mem
bers would do your visiting after
the meeting and pay attention to
business now.” Jane felt per
sonally insulted and quit the
Altar Society.
The person who feels that he
“always” is being slighted, in
sulted, deliberately ignored or
“talked about,” definitely is an
oversensitive person. All of us
do occasionally meet up with
offensive people, but these oc
casions are rare. People who
are purposely offensive are a
minor element in our popula
tion. It just is not possible to
encounter them every day.
Another test of our sensitive
ness is the degree to which we
worry about what other people
think of us. It is quite normal
to wish to be well thought of by
others. Psychologists tell us
that “acceptance by our peers”
(that is, being well thought of by
our associates) is a pretty basic
human need. The person who
says, “I don’t care what other
people think,” is likely to be a
more abnormal—and certainly
a more selfish—person than the
oversensitive soul.
We have a need to be accept
ed, but the oversensitive
individual feels this need with a
painful urgency. Most of us take
it for granted that we are rea
sonably well liked and respect
ed. It takes a very unmistakable
affront or discourtesy to upset
us. The reason why we are not
easily disturbed is because we
have a satisfying feeling of self-
worth. As we look at ourselves
in the mirror of our mind, we
like what we see there. We take
it for granted that other people
also like us. This does not mean
that we are conceited. It means
In Social Justice Sphere
Cardinal Bea Urges
Interfaith Action
simply that we are content with
ourselves as God has made us.
We feel that He has been good to
us in making us as we are, and
we would not want to be anyone
else. This is not pride. It is a
perfectly normal and desirable
emotional state.
It is not pride, either, which
causes the oversensitive person
to be so easily offended. On the
contrary, he suffers from sub
conscious feelings of inferior
ity. These feelings may be due
to some unfortunate circum
stances of his childhood; per
haps inability to measure up to
his parents’ exaggerated expec
tations. Whatever the reason,
the oversensitive person is not
satisfied with his own image of
himself. He has an unrecogni
zed fear that he may not be
deserving of respect and ac
ceptance by others. Uncon
sciously he expects to be be
littled. Consequently he sees
offense where there is none.
In its extreme form, over
sensitiveness may need the help
of a psychiatrist for its cure.
In the milder form in which
it most often appears, however,
it can be controlled with prayer
and effort. The underlying inse
curity may not be eliminated,
but the outward manifestations
can be checked. When we recall
that our oversensitiveness cau
ses much uncalled-for annoy
ance and even unhappiness to
others, charity will dictate that
we labor at the task.
(Father Trese welcomes let
ters from his readers. The in
creasing volume of letters pro
hibits personal answers but
problems and ideas contained in
such correspondence can be the
basis of future columns.
Address all letters to Father
Leo J. Trese, care of this
newspaper.)
HEAOBONE'S STILL CONNECTED TO THE FO0TBONE
Abe Lincoln Of Where? bo
It Seems to Me
JOSEPH BREIG
The State of Illinois now has
distinction of being the first
in the Union to use the people’s
money to prevent babies.
Relief officials have begun
distributing contraceptives to
women on re
lief roles.
The officials
figure they
might save
money be
cause there
will be fewer
babies t o
support.
I 1 1 ino i s,
therefore, is now doing what
it can to stop future citizens
from being born. Not all citi
zens, of course—only those
whose parents are poor; as
poor as the father and mother
to whom a baby named Abra
ham Lincoln was born.
Let me see now; where was
it that Abraham Lincoln came
into the world?
I MEAN THE Lincoln who
preserved the Union in which
Illinois is the first state to use
tax funds to keep the poor off
the face of the earth.
I mean the Lincoln who ob
served that God must love the
common people because He
made so many of them.
You know—the Abe Lincoln
who was born in a log cabin
back in the woods, a shack of a
place.
The Lincoln who studied his
books by the light of a log fire
because his Dad had no money
for lamps and kerosene.
I FORGOT for the moment
which of the states in the Un
ion Abraham Lincoln was a
native of.
One thing certain—Abe Lin
coln’s state couldn’t have been
Illinois.
Not Illinois which takes mon
ey from the people in taxes and
spends ^ it -to 1 prevent people.
That is, common people.
No; emphatically not Illinois.
IF ABE HAD “been born iff
Illinois, he’d be coming back
from his grave now to disown
Illinois.
Oh, well, I guess the birth
place doesn’t matter, not really.
What matters is that no gov
ernment prevented him.
What matters is that he was
one of the common people
whom God makes a lot of be
cause He loves them.
In Abe Lincoln’s time, the
government of whatever state
he was born in was like God
in that respect—it loved the
common people.
EVERYBODY - including
public officials — welcomed
common babies.
Everybody welcomed even the
common babies who would grow
up to be uncommon people, in
the sense of great people.
The government of whatever
state Lincoln came into was like
God in loving common people,
but it didn’t try to put itself
in God’s place.
It didn’t try to say who should
have babies, and who shouldn’t.
It didn’t decide which people
should come into the world,
and which shouldn’t.
Whichever state it was, it was
lucky, and so were all of us,
because its government let Abe
Lincoln be born.
THE GOVERNMENT didn’t
pretend to know the future, It
left the creating of people to
God and parents, and tended to
its own affairs. "'"'■“‘A “ Y 1 **:
The government (of whatever
state it was) didn’t know that
the ‘Baby born in the log cabin
would grow up to be one of
the great and good men of all
time. The government didn’t
know that the baby wouldn’t
grow up like that either.
The government wasn’t God,
and knew it wasn’t; and so
Abraham Lincoln managed to
get born.
IT’S A GOOD THING for that
government that it didn’t make
itself God; because in those days
Americans would have kicked a
government like that right out
of office in short order.
Americans in those days
wouldn’t stand for bureaucrats
going around telling poor fa
thers and mothers that they
should choose immorality
rather than parenthood because
they were poor.
Americans in those days--
Abraham Lincoln foremost
among them—knew that the poor
have rights, and were ready to
defend those rights.
Maybe Americans are still
that way. Let us see what hap
pens in Illinois, the state that
Abe Lincoln wouldn’t touch with
a barge pole right now.
BOSTON, (NC) — Augustin
Cardinal Bea, S.J., urged Bos
ton College students at a spe
cial convocation to explore the
posibility of working with non-
Catholic Christians in putting
Christian principles into action
to aid the hungry and homeless.
The president of the Vatican’s
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity , who received
an honorary doctorate of civ
il and canon law from the uni
versity, asked the students to
look into “the possibility of
common collaboration with non-
Catholic Christians in areas
that are not directly doctrinal.”
“I mean,” he explained,
“working together in instilling
the principles from that com
mon heritage of natural and es
pecially Christian truths into
education, into the family, civ
ic and political life. I mean a
more widespread and serious
collaboration in realistic action
against the plight of the suffer
ing, homeless and hungry.”
Such collaboration, the 81
year - old Cardinal continued,
demands, “wisdom and pru
dence,” as well as the “pro
per guidance of ecclesiastical
authority.” He quoted as a
“suitable norm” the advice of
His Holiness Pope John XXIII:
“Emphasize what tends to unite
men, and accompany every man
along his way as is possible
without betraying the demands
of justice and truth.”
The honorary degree was
presented (March 26) to the
Cardinal by Father Michael P.
Walsh, S. J., president of Bos
ton College. The convocation
was the first of several events
scheduled during the next few
months to celebrate the colleges
100th anniversary of founding.
In introductory remarks, Ric
hard Cardinal Cushing lauded
the “extraordinary competence
of Cardinal Bea.”
The Archbishop of Boston
said that the Cardinal “ishelp
ing us to present the change
less truths of the deposit of our
Faith in a manner suitable for
the comprehension of the mod
ern world and thereby over
come one of the greatest bar
riers in the path of Christian
unity.”
Cardinal Bea said the degree
he was accepting “somehow
represents the many others that
have or would have been offered
to me by the other Catholic uni
versities but which—with much
regret—I could not accept be
cause of the necessary short
ness of my visit to the United
States.”
On the subject of Christian
unity, Cardinal Bea said there
has been a good beginning in
a difficult task “that will de
mand much patient love and
persevering work.”
First Glorious Mystery
THE RESURRECTION
Our & Father
'Amen, amen, I say to you, that you
shall be sorrowful,/
but your sorrow shall be turned into
joy.’
John 16:20
Hail S) Mary
'For I will see you again, and your heart
shall rejoice,/
and your joy no one shall take from
you.’
John 16:22
Hail £) Mary
At early dawn, they came to the tomb,/
taking the spices that they had pre
pared.
_ Luke 24:1
Hail ^ Mary
And behold, an angel of the Lord came
down from heaven,/
and drawing near rolled back the
stone.
Mall. 28:2
Hail ft) Mary
'Do not be afraid;/
for I know that you seek Jesus, who
was crucified.’
Malt. 2S:5
Hail Mary
Scriptural 3\osary
Part 11
And they departed quickly
tomb/
in fear and great joy.
Hail £) Mary
from the
Mall. 28:8
'He is not here, but has risen./
Behold the place where they laid
him.’
Luke 24:6; Mark 16:6
Hail© Mary
'And behold, he goes before you into
Galilee;/
there you shall see him.’
Matt. 28:7
Hail ft) Mary
'I am the resurrection and the life;/
he who believes in me, even if he
die, shall live.’
John 11:25
Hail j Mary
'And whoever lives and believes in me,/
shall never die.’
John 11:26
Hail ft) 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 T>e,
world without
end. Amen.
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of the way the Rosary was once prayed in
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invited to save these meditations for future
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to the nonprojit Scriptural Rosary Center,
6 N. Michigan A venue, Chicago 2T1llinois.
Parents Make
Vocations
SAN FERNANDO, Calif., (NC)
—Encouragement of vocations
by parents is more important
than the effort made by priests
and Sisters, a long-experienced
family retreat master told the
local Serra Club.
Father Edward Collins,
O.M.I., now pastor of St. Fer
dinand’s church here, said the
task of parents is being made
increasingly difficult by the in
fluence of a materialist culture.
Husbands and wives, he said,
should not permit social obli
gations or even charitable acti
vities to interfere unduly with
their duties to their children.
Ecumenical Spirit
JUNCTION CITY, Ore., (NC)
—A Catholic church here is be
ing used by an Episcopal con
gregation for Sunday services
until repairs are completed on
its own church, damaged in a
windstorm October 12.
Father Ervin S. Vandehey,
pastor of St. John's mission
church, recieved permission
from Archbishop Edward D.
Howard of Portland, then in
vited the Rev. L. Wayne Bond,
pastor of St. Christopher Epis
copal parish, to use the Catho
lic building. A Mass for Catho
lics is offered in the church at
9:30 a.m. on Sundays and the
Episcopal service is held at
11 a.m.
Death Penalty
SALEM, Ore., (NC)—Abo
lition of the death penalty in
Oregon criminal court trials
was advocated before the Ore
gon Senate Judiciary Committee
here by Father David Fossel-
man, C.S.C., of the University
of Portland.
He told senators that the pur
pose of laws are to reform and
correct society. He said pres
ent day philosophy holds that
persons should be rehabilitat
ed.
Appointed Editor
PITTSBURGH, (NC)—Msgr.
John S. Kocisko has been nam
ed editor of the Byzantine Ca
tholic World, newspaper of the
Pittsburgh Byzantine Rite dio
cese. He succeeds Msgr. John
Kallok, who has been editor
since the paper was founded,
eight years ago. Msgr. Kallok,
who has been named pastor of
Holy Trinity Church, New Bri
tain, Conn., asked to be re
lieved of the editorship for
health reasons. Msgr. Kocisko
is the former spiritual direc
tor of the Byzantine Catholic
Seminary here.
U. N. Official
ST. PAUL, Minn.,(NC)—Mu
hammad Zafrulla Khan, Paki
stan’s Ambassador to the United
Nations and president of the
U.N. General Assembly, paid
a courtesy call on Archbishop
Leo Binz of St. Paul during a
visit here (March 26).
Need For Reform
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (NC)—
Catholics who see no problems
in the Church and no need for
reform or renewal are closing
their eyes to reality, a semin
ary rector said here.
Problems exist today as they
did in the early Church and must
be faced honestly, said Father
Roger Mercurio, C.P., rector
of the Passionist Fathers' Mo
ther of Good Counsel Seminary,
Warrenton, Mo.
Father Mercurio addressed
800 Sisters attending the fifth
annual Biblical Institute for Re
ligious sponsored by the Pas
sionist Fathers of Louisville.
To understand what “the
Spirit is accomplishing in
Christ’s Church today through
the (ecumenical) council, we
must reread St. Paul’s First
Epistle to the Corinthians,”
he said. “There we find the
Church dynamic in crises, in
renewal and reform.”
Today’s Catholics, he con
tinued, should take a lesson
from St. Paul in facing prob
lems, admitting the need for
reform, and finding solutions.
Peace Corps Death
DAVAO, Philippines, (NC)—
A young Peace Corps volunteer
who lost her life in a plane
crash here has been eulogized
by a Maryknoll missioner in
the town in which she served.
Speaking of Miss Nancy Ann
Boyd of Martinez, Calif., Fa
ther John F. Coholan, M. M.,
said “I admired her tremen
dously and her dedication would
make every American proud of
her.”
Father Cohalan reported that
Miss Boyd, a non-Catholic, of
ten attended Mass with a Catho
lic coworker. He said that in
her work as a teacher in the
elementary school in the village
of Mabini she served the people
there "unreservedly.” He re
ported that the villagers plan to
name a street in her honor.»
Chaldean Bishop « *
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—His Holiness Pope John XXIII
has confirmed the election of
Father Emmanuel Delly as
Auxiliary to Archbishop Paul
II Cheikho, Chaldean Rite pat
riarch of Babylon in Baghdad,
Iraq.
The Chaldean Rite Bishops
elected Bishop-elect Delly, a
priest of the Chaldean Rite dio
cese of Mossul, Iraq, at a synod
in Rome December 7, 1962.
Anglican Hopes
Discussed
ALLAHABAD, India, (NC)—
Anglican Bishop Amrit Anand
of Lucknow led discussions on
“What Anglicans Hope for from
the (ecumenical) Council” dur-,
ing the sixth Interdiocesan Con
ference of Priests here. Bishop
Leonard J. Raymond of Allaha
bad opened (March 25) the
three-day conference.
QUESTION BOX
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. If professional boxing i s
so immoral because of the
deaths and permanent injuries
it causes—as is now being char
ged in the wake of Davey
Moore’s death—how is it that
physicians aren't able to come
up with convincing statistical
evidence to prove the charge?
And instead of banning the sport,
why not insist on the use of
safety equipment like headgear
and heavier gloves?
A. For an interesting para
dox, the introduction of boxing
gloves (usually attributed to the
efforts of John L. Sullivan) ac
tually accentuated rather than
diminished the worst dangers of
ring prizefighting. For a gloved
fist only permits a boxer to
inflict more serious punishment
on his opponent without damag
ing his own hands. As Dr. Eu
gene G. Laforet noted in the
May, 1958, Linacre Quarterly:
“It would certainly appear true
that bare-knuckle boxing, with
the fragility of the unprotected
fist as an in-built safety factor,
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