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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, September 19, 1963
Prelate Declares
Red Infiltration
Responsible For
Vietnam Disorders
FREIBURG, Germany, (NC)
—Communists who infiltrated
Buddhist ranks are responsible
for the recent disorders in Viet
nam, a Vietnamese Bishop said
in a letter to a German prelate
here.
Bishop Michel Nguyen Khac
Ngu of Long Xuyen declared in
his letter to Archbishop Her
mann Schaeufele of Freiburg
that religious freedom ‘ ‘has
always been respected in South
Vietnam,” but that its govern
ment had to act against the
Buddhists because through them
the communists were hiding
‘ ‘their political struggle behind
the mask of religion.”
Bishop Ngu also stated in his
letter, dated from Long Xuyen
on August 26, that the Buddhists
and the ''real bonzes (monks)”
are beginning to realize they
were duped and have decided to
seek a compromise with the
government of President Ngo
dinh Diem.
Bishop Ngu wrote:
‘ ‘In recent days we have been
hearing or reading frightful
things about South Vietnam.
In foreign countries even Ca
tholic publications for lack of
knowledge of the very compli
cated situation have not been
able to give correct information
about our country; people do not
understand the cunning of the
communists whose subversion
knows no bounds. It is easy
for them to deceive our best
friends at a distance. There
fore, I want to sketch the Budd
hist situation in a few para
graphs.
“For some years, Buddhism,
particularly in the form of the
Little Vehicle (Hinayana) has
developed considerably: pago
das were built; of the 4,766
in existence, 1,275 are new
buildings and 1,275 have been
restored in the last eight years.
Seminaries and novitiates grew
up, as well as schools and wel
fare institutions. Study meet
ings, holidays and large pro
cessions were organized.
‘ 'But Communist infiltration
was soon observed among the
Buddhists. Some false monks
i -were“even 'caught. . .However,
since there are large numbers
of Buddhists in the country, the
authorities had to be very dis
creet, but very watchful too, in
view of the fact that our Budd
hists do not represent a suffi
ciently closed and supervised
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ble infiltrations impossible.
‘ ‘Our communist enemies
know how to exploit well the
situation that they created
themselves; they cultivate jea
lousy, dissatisfaction, tension,
hate among the population.
From there it is not a far cry
to shouts of oppression, perse
cution, defamation of religion
and favoritism.
“Since passions had been
awakened, it was easy to com
mit atrocities, such as the fight
ing at Hue on May 8, Buddha’s
birthday, where 8 dead and 16
injured were reported. Then
came the burning alive of a 73-
year-old man on the open street
in Saigon in front of the Cam
bodian legation at the time of a
return from a burial that had
been celebrated as a mass de
monstration. Elsewhere there
were similar massacres of bon
zes.
“You have also heard of five
Buddhist demands relative to
freedom of religion. But this
liberty has always been re
spected in South Vietnam. They
only wanted to make communist
propaganda under the protection
of ‘freedom of religion' and get
their communist proteges and
thugs who had been caught com
mitting illegal acts off without
penalty.
“Nevertheless, the govern
ment proposed to them the es
tablishment of a commission
composed of government and
Buddhist representatives to in
vestigate each individual case.
But the latter declined this pro
posal. On one side, the govern
ment wanted to bring the affair
to' order with prudence and pa
tience; the other side became
constantly bolder in its im
possible demands.
* ‘Up to August 20, they or
ganized many secret and illegal
meetings and mutinies. In so
doing, they turned pagodas into
political liaison centers and
openly decried the government.
Unfortunately, they knew very
well how to camouflage their
political struggle behind the
mask of religion and to hinder
government activity, deceiving
public opinion abroad, their best
support, especially in commun
ist countries. Thus, they were
not working towards a peaceful
solution.
* ‘Rather, their aim was op
position to and the fall of the
government. In view of this lack
of honest objective, we could
not allow this double game to go
on any further to the advantage
of the communists, our only
enemies at the time. On August
20 the President declared a
state of emergency and ordered
the army to take all measures
necessary to guarantee peace
in the whole country. Towards
midnight, soldiers broke into
suspected pagodas and found
weapons and plastic bombs
there. In places they also ran
up against violent resistance.
Doubtless, many persons were
stopped to be identified.
‘ 'Now the Buddhists and real
bonzes are starting to realize”
that they were deluded and were
driven too far by false ‘bro
thers’ and tempters. They have
decided to seek compromise.
But once disorder arises, or
der cannot be restored in a day;
our soldiers must be constantly
on guard and we are living under
military law.”
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PARENTS OF QUINTUPLETS—Andrew Fischer visits his
wife in St. Luke’s Hospital, Aberdeen, S. Dak., after
quintuplets had been born to the couple. It was said to be
only the fourth recorded instance of the birth of quin
tuplets in the U. S. Bishop Lambert A. Hoch of Sioux
Falls flew to Aberdeen within 12 hours of the birth and,
donning a surgical mask and gown, baptized and confirmed
the four girls and a boy in the hospital nursery. (NC Photos)
Bishop Baptizes
ABERDEEN, S. Dak., (NC) -
The Bishop of Sioux Falls flew
here by private airplane to bap
tize and confirm quintuplets
born in St. Luke’s Hospital
to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fisch
er.
Arriving here less than 12
hours after the four girls and a
boy were born to the couple
(Sept. 14), Bishop Lambert A.
Hoch of Sioux Falls donned a
surgical mask and gown to ad
minister the sacraments in the
hospital’s nursery.
Sister Mary Stephen, super
intendent of the 225-bed hospi
tal operated by the Sisters of
the Presentation of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, said both sacra
ments were administered be
cause of the delicacy of the
health of the five infants.
The parents of the quintup-
Quintuplets
lets are members of Sacred
Heart parish in this city of
about 23,000 persons. The 38-
year-old father is a farmer
who also works as a wholesale
grocery clerk. The Fischers
have five other children, the
oldest eight years of age.
The birth was only the fourth
recorded birth of quintuplets
in the United States.
One of the first congratula
tory telegrams to arrive for
the Fischers came from Presi
dent and Mrs. Kennedy. It said:
‘‘Please accept our best
wishes and hearty congratula
tions on the occasion of the
birth of your quintuplets. It is
an event of great national pride.
We wish Mrs. Fischer a speedy
convalescence and we wish for
the continued satisfactory
progress of the infants.”
Archbishop Slipyi
“No Place For
Independent Eastern,
Western Churches”
ROME, (Radio, NC)-Ukrain
ian Rite Archbishop Josyf Slipyi
of Lvov said there is no place
for either an independent east
ern or western church within
the universal Church.
Archbishop Slipyi, released
in February after 18 years of
REGULATIONS-
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ty throughout the world.”
The Pope confirmed reports
that the projects now to be con
sidered by the council number
17, which “for the greater part
have been sent to the bishops.”
Commenting on the projects,
the Pope noted that they have
been “reedited and newly de
veloped in a briefer form, with
this criterion that the general
principles above all be consid
ered, leaving aside non-perti
nent questions: in fact bringing
before the ecumenical council
that which deals with the Uni
versal Church.
“In the reworking of the pro
jects the preeminence of the
pastoral nature of this council
was kept in mind. In fact it
is necessary that the sure and
unchangeable doctrine of the
Faith declared and defined by
the supreme magisterium of the
Church and by preceding ecu
menical councils, above all that
of the Trent and of the First
Vatican Council which must be
faithfully respected, be ex
pounded in a manner that is
consistent with our times, so
that men of our time may find
it more easy to embrace truth
and to receive the salvation that
Jesus Christ gave to them.”
In the letter Pope Paul re
ported that among other deci
sions taken to make the council
more effective was the appoint
ment of American-born Arch
bishop Martin J. O’Connor, rec
tor of the North American Col
lege in Rome, as president of
the council press committee.
The Pope's letter disclosed
that the Council Fathers would
have a five day week with Sat
urday and Sunday off. However,
he noted that at the same time
there would be a number of
beatifications and other solemn
ceremonies throughout the
council period.
detention in the Soviet Union,
spoke during an Italian tele
vision program on the problems
facing the ecumenical council.
The Archbishop’s remarks
had been prepared several days
in advance of the September 13
telecast and were not intended
as an answer to the attack on
the Church made the same day
by Archbishop Chrysostomas,
Primate of the OrthodoxChurch
of Greece.
The Orthodox Primate said
in Athens that unity between the
Orthodox and Catholic Churches
is unattainable. He added that
Orthodox believers will never
accept the doctrine of papal
infallibility and charged the
Church with being ‘‘centralist
and absolutist” in contrast to
Orthodox ‘‘democratic prin
ciples.”
Discussing relations between
the Catholic and Orthodox
Churches, Archbishop Slipyi
declared:
‘‘As an Oriental (Eastern Rite
Catholic), I see many obstacles
to the development, progress
and reunion of the Eastern
(Orthodox) Church. But I also
see no fewer possibilities of
success, removing step by step
the various obstacles and
causes of discontent.”
The Archbishop continued:
“Since Jesus Christ founded
a single universal Church under
a single universal pastor, there
is no room for an autonomous
eastern one (church) just as
there is no room for an auto
nomous western one.
“No one can stop Catholics
and particularly Eastern (Rite)
Catholics from regretting
events which abused power in
the religious, liturgical and dis
ciplinary fields. . .For above
all a spirit of unity and of
submission to the supreme pas
tor must reign, especially dur
ing the ecumenical council.
“Every bishop is a bishop
with full rights as long as he
remains in union with Peter.
The ordinary jurisdiction of the
Church is not collegiate, that
is composed collegiately of all
the bishops. The jurisdiction of
the pope is supreme and to it
is subordinated that of the bi
shops.”
Door Seen Opened
To ‘Trash’ Novels
By Court Decision
QUEENS, N. Y., (NC)—A
sweeping new definition of what
constitutes pornography may
result from a decision handed
down here by a justice of the
State Supreme Court.
His ruling that badly written,
trashy novels are entitled to
the same constitutional protec
tion as works by critically ac
claimed authors threatens to
create new battlefields in the
struggle over censorship.
In dismissing indictments
(Sept. 9) against three Queens
distributing concerns and seven
executives accused of selling
obscene literature, Justice J.
Erwin Shapiro found that 25
books named in the indictments
were ' 'poor writings bad in
taste, profane, offensive, dis
gusting and plain unvarnished
trash.”
But he also found that such
novels “have a place in our
society” and that the books did
not exceed the ‘ ‘present criti
cal point in the compromise
between candor and shame at
which the community has arri
ved,” the obscenity test set
down a half century ago by the
late Judge Learned Hand.
Since 1957, when U. S. Su
preme Court Justice William J.
Brennen defined obscenity as
‘ ‘utterly without redeeming so
cial values,” courts have tend
ed to rule that any books of
literary value cannot be ob
scene, regardless of its con
tents.
In defending his position that
there was a place in society
for such writings, Justice
Shapiro wrote:
“There are those who, be
cause of lack of education, the
meanness of their social exis
tence or mental insufficiency,
cannot cope with anything bet
ter. Slick paper confessions,
pulp adventure and‘comic book’
type of magazine provide them
with an escape from reality.”
In finding that the books did
not go beyond the mores of the
times, the Justice wrote: “In
an era of bikinis which reveal
more than they conceal; of ci
nemas, which show females
swimming in the nude—one
must conclude that these books
do not constitute hard-core po
rnography. Coarse they are,
but so is much in our civiliza
tion.”
Attorneys who were ap
prised of the ruling said they
expected it would be used in
the future to try and extend the
U. S. Supreme Court’s “social
value” test to include works
that lack critical acclaim but
that provide diversion for many
people.
Frank D. O’Connor, Queens’
District Attorney, called the
works “cesspool” literature
and maintained that Justice Sha
piro had misread the communi
ty’s position on what is accep
table and that he should not have
taken it on himself to deter
mine the obscenity of the books
in the first place.
“That’s a community ques
tion,” O’Connor stated, “and
the community should have an
opportunity to express its will
through a jury.” He said the
case would be appealed.
Seafood Supper Sept. 20th
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Home School Meets
At Thunderbolt
THUNDERBOLT- Nativity of
our Lord’s new pastor, the Rev.
Robert Teoli, was guest speaker
at the September meeting of the
Home and School Association.
Father Teoli complimented
the members for their fine at
tendance and interest in Home
and School activities saying
“the forthcoming year looks
very promising.”
Newly installed president,
Mrs. Clayton Moore, introduced
the following officers who will
serve with her:
Mrs. J.L. Byerly, vice-pres-
sident; Mrs. George Ling-
enfelser, treasurer and Mrs.
Francis Fischer, secretary.
Sister Mary Christine R.S.M.
principal, introduced the fac
ulty to the parents and class-
mothers were introduced.
Final plans for the annual
seafood supper and bazaar to
be held Friday, September 20th
were discussed at this meeting.
It was also announced that
home and school dues for the
year are now due and the
class to first report 100%
collection will be awarded a
prize.
Fall mums on driftwood with
pencils, rulers and a globe
made by Mrs. Fischer pro
vided the theme decor for the
back to school meeting.
Mrs. Bart Shea, hospitality
chairman, was in charge of
refreshments. The door prize
was won by Mrs. J.F. Tilton.
U. S. Bishops’
Committee Asks Aid
In Fight Against
Bracero Program
CHICAGO, (NC)—The U. S.
Bishops’ Committee for Mi
grant Workers has issued an
“S.O.S. on Public Law 78,” the
legislation under which Mexican
workers called “braceros” are
imported to work on farms in
this country.
The Bishops’ Committee ur
ged citizens to write their con
gressmen opposing any exten
sion of the law, which it called
“a thoroughly bad piece of leg
islation.”
Under action taken by the
House of Representatives in
May, P. L. 78 was slated to die
at the end of this year.
In mid-August, however, the
Senate approved a one-year ex
tension of the program. The
Senate bill (S. 1703) carried
amendments to give American
farm workers the same working
conditions and protection gua
ranteed to foreign workers.
But on August 21 the House
Agricultural Manpower Com
mittee passed over the Senate
bill and voted for its own mea
sure (H. R. 8195)--a straight
one-year extension without any
amendments.
In its appeal for opposition
to extension of the law, the
Bishops’ Committee said the
program “takes advantage of
the poverty and ignorance of a
depressed people.”
Critics of the bracero pro
gram charge that it puts do
mestic farm workers at a dis
advantage by placing them in
competition with foreign work
ers who are able to accept
lower wages.
In discussing congressional
maneuvering on the issue, the
Bishops’ Committee statement
says organized farm interests
“with their enormous financial
resources have made their
weight felt.”
It says the issue is a
struggle of power and wealth
against principle and faith in
the rights of God’s little people
here in America.”
Members of the committee
include Albert Cardinal Meyer,
Archbishop of Chicago; Arch
bishop Robert E. Lucey of San
Antonio, Tex.; Archbishop Ur
ban J. Vehr of Denver, Colo;
Bishop Stephen S. Woznicki of
Saginaw, Mich.; and Bishop
Francis J. Schenk of Duluth,
Minn.
St. Patrick’s
PCCW Names
Chairmen
AUGUSTA—The first fall
meeting of St. Patrick’s Council
of Catholic Women was held at
the Rectory Monday evening,
September 9th, with Mrs. H. B.
Roberts, president, presiding.
Mrs. Roberts appointed the
following committee chairmen
for the coming year:
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine, Miss Margaret
Strauch; Public Relations, Mrs.
H. S. Buckley; St. Mary’s Guild,
Mrs. Harry B. Arthur; Family
and Parent Education, Mrs.
D. F. Whaley; Organization and
Development, Miss Mary Sulli
van; Telephone, Mrs. Annie
Humphrey; Foreign Relief,
Mrs. W. D. Moore; Catholic
Charities, Mrs. Pauline Ma-
thewson; Spiritual Develop
ment, Miss Mary Lou Shurley;
Libraries & Literature, Mrs.
Alfred Zeller.
L. TO R., Mike Regnier, Mark Ross, Benny Swiderek,
Susan Reardon, Carol Chandler, Judy Thomas, Carolyn
Dixon, Lotty O’Brien and Dorothy Gott.
L. TO R. RONNIE Wilkerson, Susan Reardon, Carol Chand
ler, Judy Thomas, Carolyn Dixon, Lotty O’Brien.
Day Starts With Bible Reading
COLUMBUS — Each day at
Our Lady of Lourdes School
begins with a reading from the
Bible. It has a position of honor
at the head of the class. The
Bible stand is always beauti
fully decorated. This is done by
a different student each week.
The reading from the Bible is
preceeded by a prayer to the
Holy Spirit i to help us under
stand the full meaning of what
is read. Then one of the stu
dents reads a passage from the
Bible.
Afterwards there is discus
sion to suggest the ways
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