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Warner Robins Officers
SACRED HEART LADIES GUILD — Newly elected offi
cers of the Warner Robins Guild are pictured at their
installation dinner. Seated left to right: Mrs. Christine
Marks, President and Mrs. Jean Cole, Vice-President.
Holding painting (1. to r.) Mrs. Rita Dodson, secretary
and Mrs. Pace, Treasurer. The painting, “The Image”
of our Lady of Good Counsel, Patroness of the Ladies
Guild, was painted by Mrs. Jessie Luckenhoff of Sacred
Heart Parish. The original picture is at Genazzano, Italy.
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imply that these should be re
garded as encounters of wit or
debates to tear down opposing
arguments.
“Rather, they should be ap
proached as opportunities for
increasing mutual understand
ing and for joining together in
seeking more comprehension of
the obedience to God’s truth
and its meaning for His Church
and His world.”
In the meantime, the full text
of the assembly’s statement on
Church - State matters shows
that the body did not oppose tax
exemptions for religious insti
tutions, as earlier reported.
'The assembly did urge that
local churches take the initia
tive in making contributions to
local communities in lieu of
taxes, in recognition of police,
fire and other services pro
vided by local governments.
Other areas covered in the
lengthy statement of the assem
bly’s attitude on Church-State
issues included tax-supported
birth control assistance, which
was supported, and celebra
tion of religious holidays in
public schools, which was op
posed.
Presbyterians were also urg
ed to refrain from using public
property for religious displays
and pageants. The assembly's
judgement was that “such dis
plays are not usually an effec
tive witness to the lordship of
Christ.’’
The United Presbyterian
Church in the United States of
America was formed by a 1958
merger of the Presbyterian
Church of North America.
Marriage Law
NEW DELHI, India, (NC)~
A Parliament committee will
tour India to hear the views of
Christian groups and others who
have expressed opposition to a
proposed Christian marriage
law. Leaders of the various
Christian groups appear to be
united in trying to keep marri
ages among Indian Christians
out of the field of state regula
tion.
NEW AFRICAN CATHEDRAL IS DEDICATED
In the midst of anti-Christian rumblings in c entral Sudan, the newly-completed cathedral
of El Obeio was consecrated by an Italian-bom missionary bishop and dedicated to Our
Lady Queen of Africa. Bishop Eduardo Mason, F.S.C.J., who consecrated the church, be
came apostolic vicar of El Obeid in 1960 after serving as apostolic vicar of Wau in
Southern Sudan. The cathedral features a painting (below) of a Sudanese nun, Sister
Josephine Bakhita, who has been recommended for beatification, kneeling at the side of
the Madonna. The painting was done by Sis. ter Marusa, a Russian-born Verona mission
ary sister. (NC Photos)
Says Court Victories On Race Transfer
Issue To ‘Tribunal’ Of Conscience
NEW YORK, (NC)—Father
'J<5hn Courtney Murray, S. ‘jt,
said here that legal victories in
the cause of racial justice re-'
move the issue from the courts
to the “tribunal’’ of conscience.
“When the limits of law have
been reached, as they have,”
said Father Murray, “the whole
issue in all its subtlety of reach
is inescapably presented to the
higher tribunal of conscience.”
The Jesuit, a professor of
theology at Woodstock (Md.)
College, said it is up to indi
viduals to make tomorrow’s
news on the race issue, and
make it good news.
We are not Marxists. We
reject the notion of historical
determinism,’’ he said. “But
we shall do well to take one
leaf from the Marxist book, that
reminds us of our Christian duty
to give history a helping hand
toward the fulfillment of a de
sign.
“The design is not inscribed,
as the Marxist would have us be
lieve, in the course of secular
history; but it does exist, as we
Christians believe, in the mind
of the "Master of history, the
Lord God of hosts. It is the
design of love, whose intention
is human unity.”
Father Murray spoke (May
20) at a New York Catholic
Interracial Council dinner hon
oring Major Robert F. Wag
ner for his efforts on behalf
of racial justice.
A citation saluting Wagner
for efforts to combat discrim
ination. in employment and hous
ing was presented to him by Fa
ther John LaFarge, S. J., an
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magazine and chaplain emeritus
of the interracial council.
Father Murray said the fore-'
es opposed to race justice are
doomed to defeat “and I think
they know it.”
“I think this is why they fight
their hopeless battle with such
desperate passion,” he com
mented.
He said recent events in the
interracial field have been fully
reported in the press, but they
are not news.
“In a true sense they belong
to the past,’’ he said, “and in
the light of the past they might-
have been predicted. They re
present, tragically, the work
ings out of a past tradition of
injustice, ignorance, apathy,
distrust, even hatred.”
Mayor Wagner, in accepting
his citation, said that the chal
lenge to civil rights had to be
met not only in Birmingham,
“but everywhere in the South.”
The Mayor cited the Catholic
Interracial Councils throughout
the country and said “this or
ganization can be proud of the
role it has played” and will
continue to play “as the strug
gle races on and approaches its
climax.”
The New York Catholic In
terracial Council was organiz
ed in 1934. There are now 45
additional councils operating
in different parts of the country.
Field Day At Seminary
SAVANNAH — On a bright
Wednesday afternoon St. John
Vianney Minor Seminary cli
maxed its vigorous athletic sea
son with its first annual field
day.
Each seminarian was permit
ted to sign up for any 2 of the
10 scheduled events. Forty
colored ribbons, imprinted ap
propriately and with a gold
frame enclosing the name of
each event, were awarded to
those in the 1st four positions
of each competition.
Father William Coleman,
Rector, Father Herbert Well-
meier, Director of Physical
Education, Father Joseph
Stranc and Father Robert Teoli
were the judges in charge of
the contests.
After a week of intensive
physical training on the part-
of certain individuals seeking
to insure keen competition, the
group was well prepared for the
program. The results follow:
Sit Ups: 1st, Dick Boyle;
2nd, Mark Regan, 3rd, Lee
Pourciau; 4th Larry Brant-
let. Winning number: 162.
Softball Throw: 1st, Harold
Wallace; 2nd, Carroll Fer
guson; 3rd, Andy Klimack; 4th,
Gene Mahon. Winning distance:
233 feet.
Running Broad Jump: 1st,
Mike Wassil; 2nd, Nick
Minden; 3rd, Jim Overstreet;
4th, Randy Abrain. Winning dis
tance: 20 ft. 1 in.
80 Yard Dash: 1st, Ronnie
Pachence; 2nd, Nick Minden;
3rd, Bill Cramer; 4th, Bob
Lagen. Winning time: 9.2 se
conds.
Clocking the running events
with stop watches were Father
John Cuddy, Dean of Studies,
Father Kevin Boland and Father
Perot Fiero.
Push Ups: 1st, Paul Tilton;
2nd, Tom Cassidy; 3rd, Henry
Morgan; 4th, Denny Everton.
Winning number: 62.
Half Mile Run: 1st, Mike
Wassil; 2nd, Pat Brady, 3rd,
Joe Rau; 4th, Mark Regan. Win
ning time: 2 min. 10.2 seconds.
Standing Broad Jump: 1st,
Ronnie Pachence; 2nd, Harold
Wallace; 3rd, Jim Overstreet;
4th, Randy Abrain. Winning dis
tance: 8 ft. 2 in.
Softball Hitting: 1st, Cliff
The Southern Cross, June 1, 1963—PAGE 3
In United Nations
Seeks Independence
For Southern Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(NC)—William Deng, former
Sudanese government official,
declared that the Muslim gov
ernment in Khartoum has turn
ed the Southern Sudan into “a
human zoo.”
Deng, 34, a Catholic who is an
alumnus of Verona Fathers’
schools and the University of
Khartoum, has been buttonhol
ing delegates to the United Na
tions seeking to win them to his
cause—independence for the
Southern Sudan.
He told the N.C.W.C. News
Service that the Catholic press
in the United States and abroad
has done a decent job in report
ing the methodical work of the
military regime headed by Gen.
Ibrahim Abboud in trying to
eradicate Christianity in the
south. But he said the world
until now has seemed almost
totally unaware that the people
of the southern Sudan are united
in wanting to throw off the yoke
of their Muslim rulers from the
North.
Deng is secretary general
of the Sudan African Closed
District s National Union
(SCADNU). The movement’s
leadership consists of Sudanese
refugees in Uganda, the Congo
and other neighboring states.
An assistant district commis
sioner in the Southern Sudan
until two years ago, he was
tipped off that he was to be
arrested, and had just enough
time to flee the country.
His point here is that while
the ouster of the Catholic and
Protestant missionaries and the
gradual suppression of virtually
all Christian activity in the
south have made headlines
abroad, they are only part of a
greater pattern. The pattern
consists of violations of virtual
ly all of the human and civil
rights of the southerners by the
northern regime.
Deng maintains that north and
south in the Sudan are totally
different:
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The north, whos e eight mil
lion people are generally of
Arab stock, is overwhelmingly
Muslim. It is an arid land which
looks toward Egypt for its inspi
ration.
The rainy and fertile south,
with a population of about four
million, is peopled by Negroes
and Nilotic tribesmen. They
are still mostly pagans. But for
Meinhardt; 2nd, Gene Mahon,
3rd, Dennis Palardy; 4th, Mike
Cielinski. Winning distance: !*!
feet.
Tire Race: 1st, Chris Hoey;
2nd, Jim Portune; 3rd, John
Hohnerlein; 4th, Steve Havron.
Winning time: 32.4 seconds.
Basketball Foul Shooting: 1st,j
John Scherer; 2nd, Hank Chan-!
dler; 3rd, Norbert Lain; 4th,j.
John Geoffroy. Winning number
in 30 seconds: 13.
Says Statement On Liberty
Would Dispel Misunderstanding
STANFORD, Calif., (NC)--
Nothing would do more to re
lieve immediate tensions be
tween Catholics and non-
Catholics than an “explicit,
conciliar statement on relig
ious liberty” by the Second
Vatican Council, Robert Mc
Afee Brown of Stanford Uni
versity said here.
And there are several indi
cations that such a statement
may be forthcoming, the Pro
testant professor of Religion
told the 1963 Stanford Campus
Conference (Mwy 25).
These include material in
Pope Piu«? XXII’s encyclical
Mystici Corporis and in His
Holiness Pope John XXIII’s en
cyclical Pacem in Terris, which
contains an unequivocal accept
ance of the principle of relig
ious liberty, he said.
“All this suggests that the
time is now ripe for a conciliar
statement,” he stated. “This
would have the most significant
immediate results of anything
the second session of the council
could do.”
Brown, co-author with Father
Gustave Weigel, S. J., theolo
gian at Woodstock (Md.) Col
lege, of the book “An Ameri
can Dialogue,” said that in
the past “Catholicism has of
ten given the impression that
it favors religious liberty when
it is in the minority, and that
it opposes religious liberty
when it is in the majority.”
“Contemporary Catholic
thinkers have been most forth
right in disavowing this posi
tion,” he said, “and stating that
Catholicism must affirm re
ligious liberty as a matter of
principle rather than exped
iency.
“Whenever such statements
are offered as evidence of how
the Church feels, however, the
response can always be made
that they commit only the in
dividuals and do not necessar
ily reflect the position of the
Church.
“Almost all of this misun
derstanding could be dispelled
by an authoritative conciliar
statement, affirming that re
ligious liberty must be grant
ed to all, regardless of the ra
tio of Catholics to non-Catho-
lics.”
He said the Pope’s action in
calling the council and inviting
non-Catholic observers to at
tend demonstrates that any self-
imposed isolation of the Catho
lic Church from the rest of
Christendom "is clearly over.”
“No longer can anyone, in
side the Catholic Church or not,
claim that ecumenism is only
a fringe concern of fringe Ca
tholics. It is a central concern
of the whole Church,”
their leadership, they look to
the Christians, who now total
close to half a million south
erners. Despite five years of
intensive efforts on the part of
the Khartoun regime, accord
ing to Deng, there are still only
about 10,000 Muslims in the
whole south.
Deng holds that in addition
to the religious, racial and cul
tural differences, north and
south are also at complete var
iance by geography, history and
economy.
For these reasons alone, he
asserts, northern control over
the southern Sudan is the
rankest kind of imperialism.
At the same time, the govern
ment policy is one of racial
discrimination and suppression
of individual freedom. Ten thou
sand southerners are in jail for
political reasons; 40,000 are
refugees, he asserted.
Deng said that among the sup
porters of the Sudan African
Closed Districts National Union
are eight former members of
the Sudanese parliament who
are in exile. One of them, he
said, is Father Saturnino
Lohure, a Sudanese Catholic
priest who was a leader of the
opposition Liberal party until it
was suppressed and he was ar
rested.
New Officers
For St. James
SAVANNAH—Officers for the
school year 1963-64 were in
stalled at the May meeting of
the St. James Home and School
Association. Installation cere
monies were conducted by the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Toomey,
pastor.
The new president is Mrs.
William J. Bremer. Associa
tion members presented out
going president, Mrs. John B.
Tison with a gift.
A resolution was proposed
and passed to ,form .a cqm-*r
mittee to cooperate in the snow
balling drive on printed
obsenity, iniated in the Savannah
area by the Home and School
Association of Sacred Heart
Parish.
Fathers were reminded of
the forthcoming meeting of the
Bishop’s Council of Men to take
place in Savannah at 4:00 p.m.
on Sunday, June 2nd at the Ca
thedral Day School Auditorium.
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