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* 1 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. \ TELEVISION CENTER SERVICE COMPANY NO WHERE tv is a business NOT A SIDELINE AD 3-4145 AD 3-6352 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Brunswick TV SERVICE Glynn Electronics 2423 NORWICH AM 5-7669 Columbus & Wright Body Works, Inc. Tune-Ups - Brake And Clutch Work 1346 10th Ave. Columbus, Ga, Fa 2-5403 A \ NEW & USED mcmillan motor co. 934 Fourth Ave. FA 2-5400 Columbus 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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, (Continued on Page 5) 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." PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH 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