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Brittingham & Company AIR CONDITIONING & SPRINKLERS PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTOR 919 TWELFTH STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Presbyterian— (Continued from Page 1) 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 yo(/e imeez numbej? pa2-83si 625 132 4 STREET AUGUSTA. QA. FOR ALL PURPOSES MULHERIN LUMBER COMPANY 625 Thirteenth Street Augusta, Ga. associate editor of American 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: * yy uUiij -j» A.t>* kit t^itJ jo 1 o ca 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. 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