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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, January 23, 1964
MRS. NORMAN I. BOATWRIGHT, of Augusta, (far right) member of the N.C.C.W.
Board of Directors from the Province of Atlanta, discussed the theme for the 1964
convention of the National Council of Catholic Women with other members of the theme
committee. The Board met here last week (Jan. 14-16)., Board members on the com
mittee pictured are (left to right): Mrs. Raymond C. Hottinger of Janesville, Minn.
Mrs. Thomas J. Conlin of Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Scott D. Hurlbert of Lalamazoo, Mich
igan, NCCW third vice president and committee chairman; and Mrs. Boatwright. Theme
for the 64 convention, to be held in Washington, November 11-14, was announced this
week as "Vatican Council II — And You." —(Reni Newsphoto Service)
Latin America Work
Of Church Praised
By U.S. President
CHICAGO (NC) — President
Johnson has praised the con
tribution being made by Church
leaders in Latin America to the
work of the Alliance for Pro
gress.
"The bold and imaginative
actions taken by Church lead
ers in many Latin American
countries in recent years," Mr.
Johnson said, "have helped to
; give momentum to the twin
goals of economic development
and social justice to which our
‘ countries are pledged under
the Alliance for Progress."
The President’s statement
was part of a message to the
first annual conference of the
Catholic Inter-American Co
if operation Program (CICOP),
S which brought together U. S
and Latin Church leaders for
£ discussions of Latin America’s
: needs.
* Another message to the meet-
s ing here from Carlo Cardinal
} Confalonieri, president of the
! Pontifical Commission for La-
; tin America, stressed the duty
* of “every Catholic" to assume
! a "personal commitment to
g some form of cooperation with
* the Church in Latin America."
President Johnson’s message
a commended the participants in
$ the CICOP conference for their
S ' ‘deep and urgent concern with
I the acute social and economic
f problems of our Latin American
i neighbors.” He told them they
jj are "proceeding along the path
charted by Pope John XXIII—
I a path which the Church con-
g tinues to follow under Pope Paul
* VI."
Mr. Johnson said the poli-
s cies underlying the Alliance for
i Progress "have their root and
? inspiration in the great tradition
of Judaeo-Christian ethics.”
I "In steadfast adherence to
* these policies lies the best hope
jj for the preservation of the spi
ritual values that give meaning
H to our lives," he said.
I Cardinal Confalonieri’s mes
sage was addressed to Richard
iCardinal Cushing of Boston,
chairman of the U.S. Bishops’
Committee for Latin Ameri
ca, whom he thanked for his
efforts to "promote new ini
tiatives” to aid the Church in
Latin America.
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In it he lauded the ‘ ‘praise
worthy efforts" of the U. S.
Bishops "to create among Ca
tholics a favorable atmosphere
for a more fervid apostolic
collaboration" with the Church
in Latin America.
"Every Catholic," the Car
dinal said, "should feel his
responsibility. . . towards his
brothers in the Faith in Latin
America, and thus assume a
personal commitment to some
form of cooperation with
the Church in Latin America."
Zanzibar Regime
Infiltrated
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been trained in Cuba along with
many other Zanzibaris.
Americans who were in Zan
zibar at the time of the revolt
said on reaching here that they
had seen Spanish-speaking sol
diers wearing Cuban-type uni
forms fighting alongside the
rebels.
Another leader of the coup
with strong communist ties is
Vice President Abdullah Kas-
sim Hanga, who has a Russian
wife and won notoriety for his
procommunist speeches in the
National Assembly. Prior to
independence, British author
ities took away his passport
following an unauthorized vis
it to the Soviet Union. Hanga
has said that the new govern
ment has "no policy of friends
or enemies. Our policy is to
have relations with all coun
tires."
The Church in the nation
threatened by communism com
prises only two parishes, but it
has a history going back more
than 450 years. It began in 1499
when Augustinian priests who
went there with the Portuguese
explorer Vasco de Gama set up
a monastery. The priests, how
ever, were not missionaries,
but either military chaplains or
pastors for the Portuguese,
whose country had assumed so-
verignth over the island. In
1698 the Augustinians were ex
pelled from the country by the
Arabs who took control of Zan
zibar from the Portuguese. The
country then remained without
priests for more than a century
and a half.
The first Catholic missionary
effort of modem times came
from the French-ruled island of
Reunion, 1,000 miles to the east
in the Indian Ocean.
Bishop Armand Maupoint of
Saint Denis, Reunion, sent Fa
ther Armand Fava, his vicar
general on a preliminary ex
ploration. The Sultan put a house
at the disposal of Father Fava,
who went there with two priests,
six Sisters and a doctor. The
60 Catholics then in Zanzibar
city assisted at the first Mass
there in at least 150 years
on Christmas, 1860.
By the end of 1862, Father
Fava had founded three schools,
a technical training center and a
hospital.
Two years later, the Holy
See erected the Prefecture Ap
ostolic of Zanguebar—an old
name for Zanzibar—which ran
from Cape Guardafui near Ar
abia to Cape Delgado, nearly
2,000 miles along the coast and
without limits towards the in
terior. The prefecture was en-
Patriarch
Speaks Of
“Joint Front”
ISTANBUL (NC)--Orthodox
Patriarch Athenagoras of Con
stantinople, pleased at the rap
port established between him
self and Pope Paul VI, spoke
here of a "joint front" for dis
cussion of problems obstructing
religious unity.
The Patriarch, who met twice
with Pope Paul in the Holy Land
in January, said "the way lead
ing to dogmatic unity is long."
"But meanwhile we shall de
velop this meeting further un
der the theme of unity," he sta
ted. "We can form a joint front
to discuss the same problems.
As Christ’s Church, we have
the same responsibility."
Referring specifically to his
encounters with the Pope, he
said: "This generous man made
an unusually favorable impres
sion on me through his wisdom
dignity, culture, simplicity and
endless goodness, He charmed
me, as he hascharmed the
whole world? ’
"We both wished for a new
meeting," the Patriarch also
said, "when at the same mo
ment, as though from a single
mouth, we said good-by. What
a distinguished man, and how
likely we are to understand one
another!"
Jewish, Catholic Groups
Decry Discrimination
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC)—The World Jewish Congress
has urged the U.N. Subcommission on the Prevention of Dis
crimination to make a special effort to complete the draft
declaration on the elimination of religious intolerance, which
was requested in 1962 by the General Assembly.
Because of lack of time, nei
ther the subcommission nor its
parent body, the Human Rights
Commission, worked on this
declaration during their 1963
sessions. Work on a declara
tion on racial discrimination
absorbed the greater part of
their three-week meetings. The
U.N. General Assembly unan
imously adopted the declaration
last Nov. 20 and the assembly’s
Social Committee went on re
cord asking the Human rights
Commission to give "absolute
priority" to preparing a le
gally binding treaty for the
elimination of race discrimina
tion.
But in the meantime, three
members of the antidiscrim
ination subcommission have,
submitted drafts for a declara
tion on the elimination of all
religious intolerance. The three
proposed texts were drawn up
by Morris B. Abram, New York
lawyer who is the U.S. expert
on the commission; Peter Cal-
vocoressi of Great Britain; and
Arcot Krishnaswami of India.
They submitted the texts as in
dividual members of the sub
commission, rather than as re
presentatives of their respec
tive governments.
The World Jewish Congress
made what it called a "most
earnest appeal to the subcom
mission" to complete a pre
liminary text of a declaration
on religious intolerance. Its
statement, which stressed the
community nature of both the
Jewish and Christian religions,
said that “the adherents of va
rious religions continue to be
subject to discrimination and
systematic intolerance in a
number of countries throughout
the world.
CYO Party
SAVANNAH BEACH — On
Sunday, January 19, many of
the Savannah members of the
CYO headed to Tybee for an
afternoon of basketball, beach
combing, and fire-side supper
of hot dogs and toasted marsh-;
mallows.
An eagle scout was put to
shame after a long struggle to
kindle the wood by anon-scout’s
quickly-ignited blaze.
An evening of dancing and
chatter on the drive-in’s new
veranda closed the social acti
vity Host CYO was St. Mi
chael’s.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CYO was host recently to CYO
groups from St. Anne’s Parish and Holy Family Parish at
a Folk Dance Party in Columbus.
trusted to the Holy Ghost Fa
thers who came to the mission
in 1863.
Christianity did not make
much headway in Zanzibar, but
the islands played an important
part in the expansion of the
Church in East Africa. The Holy
Ghost Fathers started a mission
on the mainland across from
Zanzibar at Bagamayo in 1868.
This mission was the starting
point for work further inland by
the Holy Ghost Fathers and for
the first three caravans of
White Fathers which set out in
1878 for the interior.
The original Zanguebar pre
fecture was divided as the
Church grew in East Africa. In
1906, its name was changed to
Zanzibar. In 1953 the vicari
ate became the Archbiocese of
Nairobi. Two years later, part
of the archdiocese was made the
Diocese of Mombasa-Zanzibar,
which includes Kenya's Coast
Province and the Islands of
Zanzibar and Pemba.
The two parishes in Zanzibar
today are in Zanzibar city,
which has .about 2,000 mem
bers, and in Wete, Pemba
Island, which has 500 Cathol
ics. The Sisters of the Pre
cious Blood direct an elemen
tary school with 820 pupils and
also direct a state asylum which
cares for 170 aged persons and
55 patients suffering from lep
rosy and tuberculosis.
Missioner Says
Christianity Is
Sweeping Korea
MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (NC) —
A vacationing missioner repor
ted South Korea’s parish chur
ches are overflowing, vocations
are plentiful, church societies
are strong, and the average
Christian is conscious of the
urgency of bringing his faith
personally to his neighbor.
Father Henry F. Beninati, M.
M., 35, of Bristol, Conn., home
on furlough after six years of
mission work, said "in other
more economically advanced
countries in the Far East, it
is an exception to find any
churches, let alone ones which
can accommodate 600 to 700
worshipers. The cities in South
Korea not only have many such
churches even in sight of each
other, but habitually fill them
on Sundays and often on week
days."
The Christian missionary
in the Far East has to cope
with the strange Oriental re
ligious beliefs such as rein
carnation, polytheism and ma
gic, he said.
Father Beninati said "it
would not seem at all unlikely
for Korea to become dominan
tly Christian within the next
few years."
Its written statement to the
subcommission emphasizes two
problems which "call for spe
cial consideration" in formu
lating any text of a declara
tion designed to combat all
forms of religious intolerance.
The first of these concerns
the right of members of a re
ligion to acquire or produce
"all materials and objects ne
cessary for the performance or
observance of prescribed ri
tuals or practices, including
dietary practices," andrespect
for this right where "the gov
ernment controls the means of
production and distribution."
A denial of this right, the state
ment declares, amounts to a
"form of active religious intol
erance of a kind which must have
the effect of gravely jeopardiz
ing the survival of the religions
concerned.”
(The Jewish organization did
not mention any country by
name. But observers saw in
its statement a reference to So-*
viet interference with the pro
duction of the specially prepar
ed unleavened bread used for
Passover.)
The second problem of ser
ious concern stressed by the
World Jewish Congress is "the
failure of states to permit the
enjoyment of facilities which
will enable them to maintain
their international structure
and character."
In a number of the "great
historic religions," the state
ment continues, the unity of all
believers in the discharge of
their spiritual mission is part
of the substance of their faith.
If their freedom of movement
and right of association are
nullified by legal and adminis
trative restrictions, and if
“they are broken up into frag
mented groups whose frontiers
are defined by state action and
not by doctrine," they are “rob- 1
bed of an indispensable element
of their religious freedom."
The statement cites both the
Christian and Jewish religions
as examples of this essential
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC)
—Statements by two interna
tional Catholic organizations
appear in a United Nations re
port on measures taken by gov
ernments and non-governmen
tal organizations to combat ra
cial prejudice and religious tol
erance.
The organizations are the In
ternational Union of the Catho
lic Press and the World Union
of Catholic Women’s Organiza
tions.
The U.N. report is the result
of a resolution adopted by the
General Assembly in 1962,
which invited the governments
of all states, specialized U.N.
agencies and nongovernmental
organizations "to make sus
tained efforts to educate public
opinion with a view to the era
dication of racial prejudice and
national and religious intoler
ance and the elimination of all
undesirable influences promo
ting these." Governments were
also asked to repeal any dis
criminatory laws and to adopt
appropriate legislation to pro
hibit all forms of discrimi
nation. All groups were asked to
report to the U.N. secretary
general.
The report consists of the
replies received from 51 gov
ernments and 11 nongovern
mental organizations. It was
prepared for the last session
(1963) of the general Assem
bly, which did not review it
for lack of time. It is cur
rently before the U.N. Sub-
commission on the Preven
tion of Discrimination, which
has been given a twofold task
by the General Assembly—to
draft a treaty on eliminating
racial discrimination and both
a declaration and a convention
on elimination of religious in
tolerance.
The International Union of
the Catholic Press stated
that its primary concern is
"to defend, everywhere and for
everyone, the basic rights and
freedoms relating to informa-
It said it also considers it
a basic duty "to defend all
the rights of all men, and in
particular to protest against
the prejudices and intolerance
which are the source of racial,
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VISIT COLUMBUS—A CYO group from St. Clare’s, Al
bany, are pictured on a recent visit to Columbus, where
they were entertained by St. Benedict’s CYO.
Panama Bishop Urges
Friendship For Americas
CHICAGO (NC) — A bishop
from Panama said here that
friendship must replace ex
pediency in relations between
the peoples of North and South
America, including Catholics.
Auxiliary Bishop Mark G.
McGrath, C. S. C., of Panama,
warned that "so-called friend
ship that is the fruit of reli
gious or political expedience
. . . does not outlive the ex
pediency."
Bishop McGrath spoke (Jan.
20) at the first annual con
ference of the Catholic Inter-
American Cooperation Pro
gram (CICOP). Several hun
dred U. S. and Latin Church
leaders attended the meeting
and spent two days discussing
the needs of Latin America.
The Bishop said the peoples
of North and South America
are today "on the front edge
of a great wave of inter-Am
erican cooperative action, both
civic and religious, in which
the Catholic Church of North
and Latin America must per
force exercise a determining
role."
He pointed out, however, that
historically speaking "the Uni
ted States and Latin America,
in their civilization and cul
tures, have been foreign to one
another since they began" and
it is only in recent years that
they have begun to think of
themselves as neighbors and
friends.
Stressing the need for a
relationship of true friend
ship, he cautioned North Am
erican Catholics against try
ing to impose their own ideas
and customs on the Church in
Latin America without being
aware of the realities of its
situation.
"A case in point," he said,
"would be the appropriate de
termination of a United States
Catholic that Latin American
bishops should build up a pa
rochial school system similar
to that which the Church erect
ed in this country."
This approach, he said,
would ignore the absence of
money and personnel in Latin
America for such a school sy
stem, as well as the fact that
in many Latin countries the law
provides for religion to be
taught in the school.
Bishop McGrath said the
Church in Latin America must
be ready to adapt itself to the
new social conditions there and
must drop “any encumbrance
which would prevent her adapt
ation to the requirements of a
new world."
"There are many who pre
dict that this new Latin Ameri
ca will abandon her Christian
past entirely in favor of a com
munist structure," he said.
"Others foretell rather a gentle
sliding into nearly universal
agnosticism and the rejection
of any moral code.
"What happens depends on the
Church—on us, on you, through
whom our Lord has chosen to
work."
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f A series of six lectures and discussions portraying the spirit of the Catholic Church
in the modern world.”
Catholics and all interested in these timely religious questions are invited
January 23rd
The Second Vatican Council—Reform and Reunion
The Most Reverend Thomas J. McDonough, D.D., J.C.D.
BISHOP OF SAVANNAH
January 30th
The Catholic Layman Today
Mr. Joseph Hutton
February 6th
TodayvS Catholic Press
The Reverend Francis J. Donohue
EDITOR, THE SOUTHERN CROSS
February 13th
The Prospect of Reunion
The Reverend John J. Cuddy
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
February 20th
The Liturgical Revival
The Right Reverend John D. Toomey, S.T.L.
PASTOR, SAINT JAMES CHURCH
February 27th
The Church and Matrimony
The Right Reverend Andrew J. McDonald, J.C.D., S.T.L.
CHANCELLOR, DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Cathedral School
Auditorium
Thursday Evenings
8:00 P.M.—Talk 8:30 P.M.—Refreshments 9:00 P.M.—Discussion