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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 18, 1963
Protestant, Catholic Churchmen Say
SOUTH AFRICA FACES
“VIOLENT DISASTER”
BIRMINGHAM, England, (NC)
—The senior British Catholic
prelate has joined with Angli
can and other Protestant lead
ers in warning the South Afri
can government that it faces
the possibility of ‘ ‘violent dis
aster” in its new repressive
race legislation.
The Bantu Laws amendments
in South Africa place severe
restrictions on movements of
non-white workers in the coun
try’s urban areas, and impose
other controls to enforce a rigid
separation of races.
Archbishop Francis J.Grim-
shaw of Birmingham, as senior
member of the Catholic Hier
archy of England and Wales,
signed the statement of protest
declaring that the South African
government has ‘ ‘gone even far
ther than in previous legislation
towards removing one of the
main foundations on which civil
ization is built, namely the
liberty of the individual.”
The statement continued:
'‘Unless there is a reversal of
this trend, based as it is upon
the fear which the minority feel
for the majority of the country’s
inhabitants, we can see nothing
in the end but violent diaster.
“We beg the present rulers
to take heed before it is too
late and we express the most
urgent hope that patience will
yet prevail among the non-Eu
ropean population.”
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by Corporation Counsel Leo A.
Larkin and the district attor
neys of New York’s five coun
ties. Larkin said he and the
attorneys had examined the
book.
“We all found it obscene,”
he said.
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POPE PRAISES UN PEACE EFFORTS—Pope Paul VI
greets U.N. General Secretary, U Thant, during an audience
on July 11. Speaking in English, His Holiness praised the
United Nations for its efforts for world peace. Assisting
is Msgr. Mario Nasalli Rocca, the Pope’s Maestro di Cam
era. The Pope presented Mr. U. Thant with a commemor
ative medal.--(NC Photos)
U. N. Result Of Civilization For
Which Church Gave Basic
Tenets, Pope Tells U Thant
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Pope
Paul VI said in receiving the
secretary-general of the United
Nations that the Holy See re
gards the U. N. as the fruit of
a civilization for which the
Church provided the basic prin
ciples.
The Pope received U Thant
in private audience (July 11) for
a half hour and praised the U. N.
for its efforts for world peace.
He spoke in English.
He said that the U. N. “is a
historical reality of too great
importance to leave Us indif
ferent to this meeting with you.”
“The Holy See, which you are
visiting today in Our humble
person,” Pope Paul continued,
“holds a very high conception
of that international organiza
tion. It considers it to be the
fruit of a civilization to which
the Catholic religion, with its
driving center in the Holy See,
gave the vital principles.
‘ ‘It considers it an instrument
of brotherhood between nations,
which the Holy See has always
desired and promoted, and
hence a brotherhood intended
to favor progress and peace
among men. It considers the
United Nations as the steadily
developing and improving form
of the balanced and unified life
of all humanity in its historical
and earthly order.”
Calling attention to the mul
tiple and diverse ideologies of
those belonging to the U. N.,
the Pope said the “Catholic
Church regards them with due
attention.”
He then said that the pre
sence of so many races and
states in a single organization
“is a fact which the Holy See
considers as corresponding to
its concept of humanity, and
included within the area of its
spiritual mission in the world.”
SAVANNAH TEACHER
AT LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
Geraldine Inez Spaulding,
1136 West 49th St., Savannah, a
teacher of Spanish in the Frank
W. Spencer school, is among 60
teachers of Spanish and German
from 19 states who are attend
ing a National Defense Foreign
Language institute at the Uni
versity of Minnesota this sum
mer.
The eight-week seminar for
elementary school teachers of
German and Spanish which
opened June 17 will run
through August 10. It is sup
ported by the National Defense
Education Act and the United
States Office of Education’s
langauge development program.
Anti-Discrimination
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklaho
ma, (NC)—Catholic, Orthodox,
Protestant and Jewish clergy
men issued a joint statement
here condemning racial discri
mination.
Bishop Victor J. Reed of Ok
lahoma City and Tulsa signed
the joint resolution which also
calls for recognition of “the
validity and essential rightness
of the massive acts of protest
which have developed in re
sponse to continued injustice
and practices of racial discri
mination in American life.”
Designed to increase the par
ticipants’ familiarity with the
langauge they teach, and to ac
quaint them with new teaching
methods and materials, the in
stitute is taught by University
of Minnesota staff members and
visiting experts.
Lecture courses of language
and culture are integrated with
conversational practice under
the direction of native speakers.
General and applied linguistics
also are in the curriculum.
Twin City elementary school
students, interested in learning
Spanish or German, will be
pupils of the language teachers
during the last five weeks of
the institute when the teachers
will do practice teaching with
the youngsters based on the new
techniques observed in demon
stration classes.
The University of Minne
sota’s language laboratory is
being used to help the teachers
themselves to become more
proficient in German and Span
ish and to familiarize them
selves with methods of using
the laboratory in teaching.
Director of the Institute is
Gerhard H. Weiss, University
assistant pofessor of German.
Assistant director is Robert
Estelle, teaching assistant in
the Romance language depart
ment.
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New Lease
On Life
By A1 Antczak
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
LOS ANGELES—Maria An-
tonietta Moretti is a pretty girl
with dark eyes, black hair,
a mind that has often medi
tated on heaven and eternity
—and, now, a new lease on life.
At 24 each heartbeat remind
ed that she had but a year or
two to live. Her heart had an
aortic valve that did not close
properly and permit the blood
to flow back into the heart after
each heartbeat.
Her new lease on life was
negotiated here through St.
Vincent’s Hospital and heart
surgeons of the University of
Southern California School of
medicine.
On May 17 Miss Moretti un
derwent a four-hour open heart
operation in which a plastic ball
valve was inserted in her heart
to replace the defective aortic
valve with which she was bom.
Now she is scheduled for one
more medical examination by
Dr. Jerome Harold Kay, chief
of cardiac surgery at USC and
St. Vincent’s, who performed
the operation. The examination
will determine when she can go
home to Rimini, Italy, and her
job as a high school teacher
there.
How Miss Moretti was able
to come from Italy to Los An
geles for surgery is a story that
manifests the workings of
Divine Providence.
One of Dr. Kay’s heart sur
gery students at USC is Dr.
Giuseppe Maselli - Campagna.
He became engaged here to an
American girl and last Christ
mas took her home to Italy to
meet his family.
Friends told Miss Moretti
about Dr. Maselli and she went
to see him at Bari, where he
teaches in the university's sur
gical pathology department.
Dr. Maselli told her there
was hope—if she could get to
Los Angeles.
The Provincial Superior of
the Daughters of Charity of
Siena wrote about Miss Moret
ti’ s case to Sister Marguerite,
admistrator of St. Vincent’s
Hospital here. The Sisters ar
ranged free hospitalization for
her and the surgeons donated
the operation.
“It took courage for Maria
to flyto Los Angeles alone,” Dr.
Maselli szid here, “but she
had only one or two years to
live without this operation.
When she left Italy only a few
people there thought we could
help her. But all you have to do
is look at her now to see she
is doing fine.”
HEADS SERRA GROUP—
Some 2,000 persons, including
37 members of the hierarchy
attended the 21st Serra In
ternational convention in San
Francisco (July 7-10). Mat
thew H. McCloskey, III,
(above) of Philadelphia is the
new president of the organi
zation founded in 1938 to fos
ter and assist in the educa
tion of young men for the
priesthood.—(NC Photos)
CLOSING-
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ment,” he continued, “is for
every parish to do whatever it
can with the physical means
available.” As a result, he
said, “we have big festivals,
raffles, tithing, parish drives,
and all the other things pastors
would rather not have to do—
just to keep operating.”
But for the future, he said,
“we frankly foresee a new prin-
c i p 1 e—an across-the-board
cutback, determined on a dio
cesan or at least an area wide
scale in relation to the religious
teachers available.”
Dropping the first four
grades, he added, would make
from 400 to 500 more Sisters
available for teaching in the
upper grades. He explained that
the lower grades were indicated
for the possible cutback because
“it is easier to get young child
ren t o come to religious vaca
tion schools and an effective
program can be presented for
them there.”
NUN WITH A GUN—One of the main attractions at the an
nual Duchesne College and Academy Festival in Omaha, Ne
braska, was the sharpshooter at the cigarette shoot booth.
The idea of the game was to shoot down packs of cigarettes
with a cork gun. Who should turn up with the best aim and
infantryman’s form? The high school show off, or the dad
who thinks he’s another Sergeant York? Neither had a
chance in the cork gun action against Mother Bernice Spores,
a teacher at the school. The “nun with a gun” knocked down
pack after pack of the “unholy smokes.” —(NC Photos)
Father Weigel Says
“Little Man With Vision”
Solved Unity Stalemate
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
ST. CLOUD, Minn.—A
priest-theologian related that
a “little man” with a vision
resolved the impasse into which
the Christian ecumenical move
ment had fallen.
Father Gustave A. Weigel,
S.J., told (July 9) an audience
that included a Catholic bishop,
many Protestant clergymen,
Catholic priests, Sisters and
lay persons the same “little
man,” the late Pope John XXIII,
‘ 'destroyed any remaining sus
picion of ecumenism” within
the Catholic Church.
Father Weigel, professor at
Woodstock, (Md.) College, ap
peared in a lecture at St. Cloud
State College here sponsored
by the St. Cloud Visitor, dioce
san weekly newspaper. He said
that before Pope John the ecu
menical movement, which ori
ginated with Protestant groups,
had reached the point where
representative groups of sep
arate Christian bodies were
meeting and speaking with one
another in a friendly manner,
“but it was always our bunch—
and your bunch.”
Their inability to overcome
the “our bunch-your bunch”
outlook, Father Weigel said,
had led them into a blind alley.
“Then comes the little man
who feels that Christianity is in
crisis because Christian wit
ness is getting weaker,” he
said. Pope John insisted that all
Christians must give witness
to all men, Father Weigel, said,
thus breaking down the barriers
of separateness.
Father Weigel said the ecu
menical movement is still in
flux, but has “tremendous pos
sibilities for good.”
He distinguished between
what he called “the scope and
the hope” of the ecumenical
movement. “We cannot, our
selves, make the single united
church,” he said.
He defined the scope of the
ecumenical movement as “the
churches coming together,
through their representatives,
to speak as brother to brother
in true conversation.”
* ‘They must both be eager to
learn as much as to teach,”
Father Weigel said, “to give
witness and to hear witness.”
The “act of hope and trust in
the good God’ ’ follows on the
conversation, he said.
In answer to a question, Fa
ther Weigel said he saw no
danger of a rift within the Ca
tholic Church resulting from
conservative and progressive
tendencies.
If a too ‘ ‘ stubborn adherence
to past formulas” develops, he
said, the pope can head it off
with an admonition.
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NOTICE
The Southern Cross will be
on vacation next week. The
next edition will be issued on
August 1st.
Obituaries
Mrs. L. C. Mathews
SAVANNAH—Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. ElizabethHelm-
ly Mathews was held July 10th
at St. James Catholic Church.
Surviving, besides her husband,
are two sons, Christopeher B.
Mathews and Louis C. Mathews
III; a daughter, Jude Elizabeth
Mathews; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul K. Helmly Sr.; a
brother, Paul K. Helmly Jr.;
and several aunts and uncles.
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