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i > “Catholic President” Fears Said Ended PHILADELPHIA (NC) — One of the country’s top Protestant leaders said here the late President Kennedy showed that those who feared election of a Catholic as President “misun derstood both the man and his Church.” The Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk (chief ex ecutive officer ) of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., said President Kennedy had laid to rest fears about a Catholic chief executive. “John Kennedy by his actions as President demonstrated that he was indeed a good Cath olic, but more—that his kind of Christianity was a strength ra ther than a handicap to his ser ving the whole people of the whole nation under the consti tution and under God,” he said. Dr. Blake spoke (Dec. 3) at a memorial service for the late President held during the sixth triennial general assembly of the National Council of churches The sessions, held in Philadel phia’s Convention Hall, was originally to have been address es by Mr. Kennedy. The National Council of Churches meeting brought together some 5,000delegates representing 31 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox denom inations in the U. S. In addition, official Catholic and Jewish observers attended the convention. The Catholic observers, pre sent with the approval of Arch bishop John J. Krol of Phila delphia, were Father Dennis J. Comey, S. J., director, St. Joseph’s College Institute of Industrial Relations here; Msgr. John P. Connery, for mer chancellor of the Phila delphia archdiocese and now Walker Motor Co. Service-Parts . . . Broad at 14th St. Sales . . . FORD . . . Service Body Repairs . . . Reynolds at 14th St. TELEPHONE PA. 2-5371 AUGUSTA* GA. SILVEHSTEIN’S Cleaners & Launclerers 2568 CENTRAL AVENUE - AUGUSTA. GA. PHONE: RE 3-3685 SAMUEL SILVERSTEIN PRESIDENT BERNARD SILVERSTEIN SECRETARY a TREASURER rector of St. Charles Seminary here; Msgr. Daniel Cantwell of Chicago, chaplain of the Catho lic Interracial Council there; Msgr. Joseph N. Moody, chair man, social science depart ment, Ladycliff College, High land Falls, N. Y.; and Father Benjamin Masse, S. J., an as sociate editor of American ma gazine. Official Jewish observers were a half dozen rabbis named by the Synagogue Council of Am erica. Before Dr. Blake’s address to the memorial service, the gen eral assembly adopted resolu tions expressing sorrow at the death of President Kennedy, of fering condolences to Mrs. Ken nedy and commending her “dig nity and poise,” and pledging support and prayers for Presi dent Johnson. The resolution on Mr. Ken nedy’ s death voiced 4 'contribu tion on behalf of all our people that hatred, prejudice and bit terness have been allowed to ac celerate within the country . . . As a nation we cannot allow such a scourge to continue un checked.” Dr. Blake linked Mr. Ken nedy’s presidency, in terms of its contribution to better in terreligious relations, to the Second Vatican Council, say ing: “Furthermore, by the lead ership of Pope John XXIII, in a period of less than three years, the Roman Catholic Church in Vatican Council II has begun an internal revival and a reassessment of its re lationship with other Christians so profound, so surprising, and so welcome to all other Chris tians of good will that the ecu menical movement has come to have a new shape and a new pro mise since we met in San Fran cisco three years ago.” He said President Kennedy’s scheduled visit to the Nation al Council of Churches meeting “would have clearly symboliz ed the beginning of a new era of hope for Christian coopera tion in the United States, of America.” Dr. Bl$ke recalled President Kennedy's commitment to the civil rights cause. He said the late President "was one who first saw that the slow advance toward justice, the excuses we had given for delay, and the shape of the new world in which we found our selves in 1963, demanded an effort to change our racial at titudes and to amend our racial practices hardly short of a vol untary revolution.” The racial crisis and the role May peace be your gift during this Holy Season. MULHERIN LUMBER COMPANY 625 Thirteenth Street Augusta, Ga. DEANERY CCW (District or County) AUGUSTA MEETING—Organization Institute material is reviewed by Mrs. Jack Johan- nsen, Sister Mary Dorothea, R. S. M., Miss Pauline Peuffier. — (Breault Newsphoto Courtesy Augusta Chronicle—Herald) Organization Institute Told “Womans Role In World Significant On Every Level 99 AUGUSTA—“Woman cannot be ignored,” said Sister Mary Dorothea, R. S. M., at the Organization Institute sponsor ed by the Augusta Deanery Council at St. Mary’s parish hall. * 'Woman’s role in the world today is significant on every level — international, national, political, social and intellec tual she said. “To permeate every segment of life with the Christian spirit, woman must be enraptured with the Christian message,” she added. In emphasizing the role of the laity today, Sister Mary Dorothea said it should “bring about a personal encounter with the Lord through a Biblical and a Sacramental experience.” * ‘The world needs its Chris tian women to proclaim once again the beauty of the Christian message through the Scrip tures,” she concluded. Mrs. Norman I. Boatwright Sr., national director from the Province of Atlanta, gave a to be played by the churches in working for racial justice was the theme of many others at the convention. After the memorial service, Gov. William Scranton of Pen nsylvania told the delegates that “while politicians and lawyers discuss the legalistic fine points of civil rights legislation, the tyranny of prejudice is doomed because the American people in their deep common sense realize it is wrong.” The Rev. W. A. Visser ’t Hooft of Geneva, Switzerland, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, said the response of American churches to the race question influences Christianity all over the world. Referring to the “courageous Christians” who oppose the pol icy of apartheid—strict racial segregation—in South Africa, he said: “You in American churches can help them more- effectively by solving your own race problem than in any other way.” The Rev. R. H. Edwin Espy, newly elected general secretary of the National Council, said the effort to obtain racial jus tice calls for “the united attack of Protestant, Orthodox, Jew and Catholic.” J. Irwin Miller, a layman retiring as president of the Na tional Council, said: ' 'If the churches today don’t make a convincing and effective stand on race . . . nothing else will count very much.” To all good friends whose friendship means so much, we send you season’s greet ings. May your Christmas be a happy one. NORTH AUGUSTA BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. brief outline of the functions of the organization on the national level and told the importance of committees on the local level to communicate their needs and sentiments to the national offi cers. Mrs. Jack Johannsen, past deanery president, told of the need for effective organization, calling it the objective of the in stitute. She said women must be well informed and trained in the work they are to do. Mrs. L. J. Ward, past dean ery president, explained how a woman’s interests and talents can best be utilized in the spiri tual and corporal works of mer cy in her own home and com munity. The workshop began with Mass with Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke as celebrant. The Very Rev. Felix Donnely, pas tor of Sacred Heart Church, gave the opening address on the Mystical Body of the Church. Miss Pauline Peuffier was chairman of the workshop, and Mrs. Joseph J. O’Connell is president of the Augusta Dean ery Council of Catholic Women. Christians Charge The Sudan. . “Police State” NAIROBI, Kenya (NC)—A vi gorous protest against seeking a religious solution for apoliti cal problem has been made by the Southern Sudan Christian Association. “The Sudan is a full scale police state,” the SSCA says in a letter sent to all heads of Chris tian churches, to all heads of African states and to United Nations Secretary General U Thant, to denounce the religious persecution which the Sudan government is carrying on in Southern Sudan. "We know that missionaries are only the scapegoats of an ill-conceived policy aiming at giving a religious solution (im posing Islam) to a political and cultural problem (the differen ces between South and North),” the letter says. “If Christianity and the Christian churches are involved in the Southern Sudan problem it is because the Arabs seek a religious solution to the Afro-Arab conflict. This means to bring religion into politics.” The letter states that the conflict between North and South Sudan is fundamentally politi cal. The southerners (four mil lion in number) are Africans, with African culture, speak Af rican languages and worship ac- Jottings . .. (Continued from Page 4) turned to this poem by the lat Father O’Donnell, president of Notre Dame, entitled “Ques tionnaire” ... to the Blessed Mother. This portion is espec ially appropriate. “Oh, and when at the last He was slain by the crowd? Never of my dear Son Was I so fond, so proud Then when His cheek to yours Lay lifeless and cold? I thought how never now Would my son grow old.” There are so many quota tions from Joyce Kilmer, Tom Dooley, Padraic Pearse, Ru pert Brooke, heroes all—and poets, too, which begin to hold some of the sentiments of this time. Space permits but one more quotation and this is from the eulogy of Cardinal Cushing, the source is St. Paul. ' ‘As for me, my blood already flows in sacrifice. . . I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have redeemed the pledge: I look forward to the prize that awaits me, the prize I have earned. The Lord, that judge, whose award never goes amiss, will grant it to me when the day comes; to me, yes, and all those who have leaned to wel come His coming.” May his noble soul rest in peace: cording to pagan or Christian beliefs. The northerners (eight million) are of Arab origin, speak the Arabic language, have an Arabic culture and customs, and are Moslems. The government is in the hands of the Northern Arabs, who have refused any form of autonomy to the South. In an effort to cement the two sections of the country, the Arabs decid ed to eliminate all differences between the two parts, and re sorted to the Islamization of the South as a cure for the division. As a result, Christian missions and missionaries and anything that is related to Christianity is supposed to stand as an ob stacle to Islamization, and the abolition of differences. The Sudan government has accused the Christian missions of disrupting national unity and of "interfering in politics,” but this is seen only as a pretext for expelling missionaries from the South. The government has taken all mission schools in the South and to date has ex pelled 163 missionaries, in cluding 113 Catholics. It has also passed aMissionary Socie ties Act which, while claiming to recognize religious freedom, is preventing virtually all mis sion activity. The SSCA letter complains of “racial and religious dis crimination and persecution, political slavery and economic exploitation,” It also says that “in spite of rigorous press and correspondence censorship, af- their determination to fight for justice, their culture, dignity and freedom is beginning to be heard and known in the world press.” God’s World— (Continued from Page 4) you up?” may mean another soul for Jesus. Finally, Christmas is a time for checking on the Christlike- ness of the image which we present to our associates. By our charity, our unselfishness, our personal integrity, are we edging others gently towards Bethlehem — towards Christ? There is no excuse for any of us to come empty-handed to the Holy Infant on His birthday. The Southern Cross, December 12, 1963—PAGE 5 Senate Praises Fr. LaFarge DESBOUILLONS Savannah’s \ Leading Bridal Store SINCE 1870 AD 2-1145 126 E. Broughton St. Savannah, Georgia WASHINGTON (NC) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Min nesota praised the late Father John LaFarge, S. J., in a Sen ate talk as one who “symbo lized the highest traditions of his faith, his country and of the creed of humanity.” Humphrey said (Dec. 3) the nation is “indebted” to Father LaFarge, longtime advocate of interracial justice and better intergroup relations, who died Nov. 24 at the age of 83. Father LaFarge, a founder of the Catholic interracial movement and of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, had been on the editorial staff of America magazine since 1926. He was its editor in chief from 1944 to 1948 and an asso ciate editor at the time of his death. Humphrey, noting that Father LaFarge’s death occurred on the same weekend as President Kennedy’s, said it was “ano ther great loss” for the na tion. He said of Father LaFarge: * ‘Gentle but courageous, pro foundly American in his roots yet amazingly fluent in many foreign tongues and familiar with many foreign ways, a man of culture and a man of ac tion, an eloquent voice for both priesthood and laymen, he lea ves behind an unforgettable le gacy. “Bravely he led causes of brotherhood long before it be came ‘fashionable’ to do so. Profoundly he symbolized the tradition of service which I brought a Father Marquette to explore the American wilder ness. “This nation is indebted to John LaFarge, S. J. — ex plorer of new and noble paths for his country—who has gone to his eternal repose. God rest his magnificent soul.” Glory to the Holy night when the angels sang; glory to this Holy day. TOWN TAVERN Seventh and Broad Streets Augusta, Georgia THE HEFFERNANS (jflitis1ma$ tfotj Monte Sano Pharmacy Your \J{exal!\ Drug Store Prescriptions delivered by Radio dispatched trucks 1424 Monte Sano Ave. Augusta, Ga. \ cMERRY Christmas Thomas H. 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