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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 2, 1964
Says Foreign Aid
Program Preserves
U.S. Way Of Life
CLEVELAND (NC)--Abishop
who carries on a worldwide
mission of mercy for U. S.
Catholics said this nation’s for
eign aid program is imperative
to preserve the American way
of life.
' ‘We do not seem to realize
that our foreign aid investment
is not only one of the most
Christian acts that this great,
powerful and rich country can
do, but it is an act of necessity
if we are to preserve our image
in the world, and our lead
ership in the world, and most of
all our society,” Bishop Edward
E. Swanstrom asserted here.
"We must help developing
countries because our own wel
fare demands it,” the executive
director of Catholic Relief Ser
vices—National Catholic Wel
fare Conference told the 22nd
annual Serra International con
vention here.
' 'It takes no great gift of fore
sight to realize that unless there
is progress and unless there is
growing satisfaction of just de
sires, there will be discontent
and there will be restlessness.
The developing world would
soon be a cauldron of violence,
hatred and revolution without
some assistance.”
The prelate, who is Auxiliary
Bishop of New York, said that in
"the 112 or more nations in our
world, only six of them have an
average income of as much as
$80 a month—Sweden and Swit
zerland, Australia and New
Zealand, Canada and the United
States.” He added that two-
thirds of the world’s people have
an income of less than $8 a
month.
' ‘Under such conditions,
communism with its false and
easy promises of a magic for
mula might well be able to
transform popular desires into
an instrument of revolution,”
Bishop Swanstrom said. “That
is why every American who is
concerned about the future of
his country must also be con
cerned about the future of Afri
ca, Asia and our old friends in
Latin America.”
Bishop Swanstrom told the
convention the gross national
product in the U.S. is running at
the rate of $608 billion annually.
He said President Johnson this
year is seeking a foreign
aid program of $3.4 billion,
much of it in military assis
tance.
‘ 'I wonder if anyone ever
stopped to figure out how much
good for the people of the world
we might accomplish if we could 1
put the $50 billion we spend each
year on armaments into work
for man’s improvement rather
than destruction,” Bishop
Swanstrom declared.
The relief agency director
lauded the generosity of U. S.
Catholics who annually "give
us about $5 million a year for
the basic support” of the Bish
ops’ Relief Fund program and
“about 18 million pounds of
clothing” in the annual Thanks
giving Clothing Campaign.
* ‘With all the help that we get
from you, through the taxes
that you pay to our government
and from foundations and other
fund raising groups, we main
tained a program last year
which had a value of over $176
million—$176,525,972.91 to be
exact,” Bishop Swanstrom said.
"The most important thing
about that statistic—and no
body likes statistics—is the
fact that the program had some
impact in one way or another
on the lives of some 40 million
people in 79 countries in the
world,” the bishop stressed.
To the Serrans who are ded
icated to encouraging vocations
to the priesthood and religious
life, Bishop Swanstrom said if
“there is one thing that this
sad old world of our needs
more than anything else, it is
priests.” He said he has seen
evidence of the growth of serra
work in Europe and Latin Am
erica, but yet to be reckoned
with are vast areas of the Far
East and the emerging countries
of Africa.
"If there ever were a day
when the Church needed
men like yourselves, men of un-
shakeable Christian Faith, this
is it. For those without faith the
problems of our modern world
are overwhelming, but for those
powered by faith, hope and char
ity, each one of them can be a
challenging opportunity to apply
the love and truth of Christ to
a world that will perish without
them,” Bishop Swanstrom said.
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GENERAL CORLEY LEAVES FT. BENNING — Brig.
General John T. Corley and his family are pictured at
a review for the General prior to his departure from Colum
bus. General Corley was assistant division commander
of the 2nd Infantry Division and has been transferred to
Governor’s Island, New York, to become chief of staff of
the First United States Army. While in Columbus the Cor
leys have been active in parish and school activities.
Pictured with the General (right) and Division Commander
Maj. Gen. Charles Billingslea (left) are, from left, James
Corley, 17; John, 18; Mrs. Corley; Michael, 10; Ellen, 14;
Twins Mary and Bob, 15. Not shown, Carol, 8. — (Ledger-
Enquirer Photo)
SISTER MAUREEN FAITH,
who was Julie Miller of St.
James parish, Savannah, pro
nounced her First Vows as a
Mary knoll Sister during the
Profession ceremony held at the
Novitiate, Topsfield, Mass., on
June 24th. She is a graduate of
St. Vincent’s Academy and she
attended Armstrong College,
both in Savannah. Sister’s pa
rents are Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
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Saigon
Paper
Suspended
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columan
SAIGON (NC) — The Saigon
Catholic weekly, Thang Tien
(“Onward”) has been suspend
ed by government order for two
weeks because it called the
government of the late Presi
dent Ngo dinh Diem “the legal
government, which would not
yield to foreigners.”
The official statement of the
ministry of information said
that the paper was suspended
because of an article “justify
ing the dictatorial regime of
Ngo dinh Diem and thus creat
ing confusion in publfc opinion.”
Many Vietnamese would re
gard the Ngo dinh Diem regime
as legal, though it was authori
tarian, as have been the regimes
that have followed it.
The offending phrase oc
curred in an article which re
presentative Vietnamese Ca
tholics have found objectionable
on another score. It criticized
the renaming of Hoa Binh
(“Peace”) Square in front of
Saigon cathedral as “John F.
Kennedy Square.” The unidenti
fied writer quoted criticisms
attributed to Vietnamese, one
of whom allegedly asked ironi
cally whether the square was
renamed because the late
President Kennedy “presided
over the operation that led to the
overthrow of the legal govern
ment of Ngo dinh Diem.”
The paper is edited by an as
sistant priest of the cathedral
parish.
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Promises Pronouncement
On Birth Regulation
By Patrick Riley
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul
revealed that the Church is in
the process of a major reeval
uation of the question of birth
control and said that for the pre
sent, at least, the pronounce
ments on the question by Pope
Pius XII must be considered
valid and binding for all Catho
lics.
Pope Paul spoke out (June
23) with the apparent intention
of ending the current contro
versy over the possible legiti
macy for using certain recently
discovered hormone pills which
can prevent conception. He
did not refer explicitly to the
"pill.” But he said that the
Church is being aided by "many
eminent scholars” in an inten
sive study of the question, and
that its findings will be reveal
ed as soon as possible. Pending
a further pronouncement, he
said, nobody is to * ‘take it upon
himself to speak in terms dif
ferent from the norms” laid
down by Pius XII.
Pope Pius XII’s detailed pro
nouncements on birth control
reaffirmed the Church’s con
demnation of active interfer
ence with the procreative pur
pose of the marital act. He also
reiterated the illegality of dir
ect sterilization — any delib
erate attempt, either as an end
or a means, to make procre
ation impossible.
Pius XII did not, however,
condemn every act that would
bring about sterilization as an
undesired effect, such as the
surgical removal of diseased
ovaries.
Shortly before he died in
1958, Pope Pius dealt with mor
al problems connected with pills
that prevent ovulation. He des
cribed this effect as ‘ ‘tem
porary sterility.” This is a
judgement which medical and
moral specialists have been
closely examining and dis
puting.
Pius stated that the woman
who takes such a pill as a
necessary remedy for an un
healthy uterus or organism, ra
ther than to prevent conception,
' ‘provokes indirect steriliza
tion, which is permitted accord
ing to the general principles
governing acts with a double ef
fect.” This traditional dis
tinction of the "double effect”
refers to acts using legitimate
means and having a licit goal,
but which could have a sec
ondary result which would in
itself be illicit.
Speaking to participants in
the seventh International Hema
tological Congress in Rome
whom he granted an audience at
Castelgandolof on Sept. 12,1958
Pope Pius stated that it would
be immoral to take such a pill
if the goal were simply to pre
vent conception. ‘ ‘But a direct,
and therefore illicit, steriliza
tion is provoked when ovulation
is stopped so as to prevent
the uterus and the organism
from the consequences ofpreg-
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nancy, which is not able to
sustain,” he said. "Some
moralists maintain that it is
permissible to take medicines
for this reason, but they are
wrong.”
Pius XII had said in 1951
(addressing Italian midwives)
that the so-called rhythm me
thod of birth control—the use
of the natural infecund period
—is allowed * ‘for a long time,
perhaps even for the whole dur
ation of the marriage,” provid
ed there are legitimate medi-
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Our Lady Lourdes, Columbus
Parish Vacation
School Of Religion
Thirty high school students of
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish,
Columbus finished classes in
the parish’s vacation school of
religion last week.
Mother Joseph, O.S.U., di
rector of the school termed it
"very successful.”
Classes, conducted Monday
through Friday from June 8 to
June 22, were planned to give
students a general idea of the
role of Catholic youth today,
and how they should prepare
themselves for their future role
as Catholic adults.
Some of the topics treated
and the speakers were: Family
Problems — Capt. and Mrs.
N. Doiron and Capt. and Mrs.
J. Robinson; Communism —
Father R. B. Fullam, S.J.jThe
Lay Apostolate — Capt. B. Ran-
ieri; Teenage Problems — Mrs.
Ferne Jackson (girls ) and Mr.
J. P. Meyer (boys).
Classes in Charm were con
ducted for girl students by Mrs.
A. J. Allen, while Col. D.
Oswald conducted a class in
Leadership for boys.
Missions
Await Word
From Congo
WASHINGTON (NC) -- The
only word from Catholic mis
sionaries in the rebel-held city
of Albertville, North Katanga,
Congo, has been a short letter
received at the White Fathers’
provincial headquarters here.
Dated June 11 and mailed
from Albertville, the letter
gives only brief details of the
arrest of eight White Fathers
and two Congolese priests by
rebel troops and their impri
sonment in a hotel of the city
on May 29. Four White Fathers
were beaten by their captors.
Two other Congolese priests
were beaten and imprisoned in
the village of Nyunzu, 60 miles
west of Albertville.
According to the writer,
whose name was withheld, the
official death toll in the ravag
ed city was 46 but he estimated
the real losses to be higher.
* ‘A general climate of hate and
vengeance prevails, which
makes any apostolate extreme
ly hard,” he wrote. There had
been no casualties among
priests, Brothers and Sisters
of the three parishes in Albert
ville and the immediate vicinity.
It is not known whether the
arrested priests have been sub
sequently released.
The White Fathers in the
strife-torn areas of Kivu, Man-
iema and North Katanga Pro
vinces of the Congo intend to
stay at their posts as long as
possible, it was noted here.
Students made visits to St.
Francis School of Nursing and
the Trappist Monastery of Our
Lady of the Holy Ghost,
Conyers, Georgia, and were
conducted on a tour of the Co
lumbus School of Art by Mr.
Toni Mani.
The Vacation School of Reli
gion was conducted under the
auspices of the Rev. William
P. Dowling* Pastor of Our Lady
of Lourdes.
Primacy Of
Conscience
Stressed
BUSSUM, The Netherlands
(NC) — Stressing the “primacy
of personal conscience,” Bi
shop Willem Bekkers declared
in a television broadcast here
that “the reality of life on
earth is as large and deep as
the sea and cannot be enclosed
with dikes of impersonal formu
las and laws.”
The Bishop of 's Hertogen-
bosch also declared:
“In our life we are confront
ed daily with situations that
compel us to personal engage
ment, to a personal decision of
conscience. The most ready ex
ample is marriage—and family
life. In general, one marriage
is similar to any other. But
personalities, health, housing,
conditions, income, relations
between husband and wife and
between parents and children
— this whole synthesis of values
marks a particular marriage
and makes it different.”
Bishop Bekkers went on to
say:
“Out of this totality can grow
the decision in conscience to
follow a different course — a
right decision because it is
made in a spirit of charity and
love and responsibility for the
interests that must be respect
ed in the concrete situation. . .
“Christ made it clear that
laws and rules are necessary,
but He compared perfect ex
ternal compliance with the law
with a whitewashed tomb. He did
not like that example of perfect
compliance with the law — the
Pharisee.
“Christ said He had come to
perfect the law, and I think that
what He meant was not that the
fulfilment of the law is the norm
of charity, but rather that chari
ty is the norm for fulfilment of
the law.
“In a climate of true love,
the personal conscience can flo
wer. Inspired by God’s love, the
individual conscience can and
must enter a dialogue with law
and norm.”
“Forced” Housing
Practices Deplored
DAYTON, Ohio (NC) -- A
priest - theologian asserted a
pattern of racially segregated,
* ‘forced” housing is an abridg
ment of the property rights of
many citizens.
Father John J. Kelley, S.M.,
of the University of Dayton,
speaking in support of a pro
posed * ‘fair housing” ordinance
for Dayton, said open occupan
cy, or “fair housing, ” is
never * ‘forced housing.”
Father Kelley said "no one
can force me to buy or sell to
anyone else,” and no one is en
titled to destroy property
rights, although the government
may properly intervene to see
that in the exercise of property
rights another person’s rights
are not infringed.
* ‘The right to property and to
the possession of goods,
whether in money or in kind, is
recognized by civilized society
everywhere, in fact, by all so-
cieites of man with the excep
tion of the theoreticians of dia
lectical materialism,” the
Marianist priest said.
“There is a basic presump
tion that man can acquire pro
perty by a variety of means
and that no government may de
stroy property rights or
property value. However, every
government in fact limits the
extent and use of the property
right . . . We recognize, of
course, that property rights,
like all human rights, are not
absolute. Man's rights, es
pecially in their exercise, are
always limited by society, for
rights always have a social as
pect to them,” he declared.
"Some of my friends find
they cannot exercise their pro
perty rights due to unfair prac
tices which already exist and
might conceivably be allowed
to prevail in our community,”
Father Kelley said. "Some of
my friends find that in prac
tice their right to sell or pur
chase or own is not respected
in our city. And they feel that
their legitimate complaint can
be rectified by the government
which professes to work for the
attainment of the common good,
the public interest of all citi
zens.
"They feel that their dollar
at present simply does not buy
for them what another man's
dollar buys. And I feel with
them that this is unjust and
must be remedied,” Father
Kelley said.
Aches, Pains
Offered
As Prayers
CINCINNATI (NC)—Aches
and anxieties, pain and appre
hensions were offered here as
prayers by the sick and infirm j
for an increase in religious vo
cations.
The Cincinnati archdiocese
conducted its Day of Prayer
(July 1). This is an annual af
fair of the archdiocese on the
feast of the Precious Blood,
sponsored by the Archdiocesan
Vocation Endeavor (AVE), a
committee representing the 33
religious communities of
women working in the archdio
cese.
Groups of Sisters visited pa
tients in hospitals and residents
of rest homes on that day and
gave out printed copies of a i
prayer for religious vocations.
Religious Vision Seen
Need Of America
ST. LOUIS (NC) — The Am
erican Institute of Architects
was told here to remember
Christ’s weeping over Jeru
salem, and reflect that the same
tears could be spent on Ameri
ca because it has forgotten its
religious heritage.
Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Luth
eran scholar who is director of
graduate studies at Yale Uni
versity’s department of reli
gious studies, called for a re
turn to basic religious truths
if the vision of the American
city is to survive.
Claiming that the source for
the American vision of the city
had been the distinctive reli
gious vision of the City of God,
Dr. Pelikan said the religious
beliefs underlying the vision
have been eroded away.
"When the religious vision
shrivels, it may take with it
the ultimate sanction for the
spirit of the city,” Dr. Pelikan
said. * ‘The change comes grad
ually, but there is reason to be
lieve that the leaching out of this
piety and religious sub
stance has not produced a sit
uation in which many people no
longer have an antenna for the
signals of traditional religion.”
He acknowledged that Ca
tholics, Protestants, Jews and
Orthodox have all entered a pe
riod of self-examination, and
that this is encouraging.
The fate of the American vi
sion of the city will depend upon
whether or not Biblical morality
and Biblical doctrine are once
more joined, instead of being
separated as they have been in
the American dream, he said.
Catholics face a paradox in
America, he added.
“The accusations of divided
loyalty directed against Roman
Catholics in America in 1960
baseless though they were, did
point to the special form of the
problem of the City of God and
the city of man in the life and
thought of the Roman Catholic
communion in the United
States,” he said.
He predicted that the vision
of the City of God inherited
from medieval culture, as well
as the tradition of the Church’s
"authoritarian society” will
continue to undergo modifica
tion as Catholicism in Ameri
ca “comes of age.”
"In both the liturgy of the
Church and in its schools, a
prime need is a drastic rein- .
terpretation of the role of the
laity as the citizens of the City
of God,” he added. “Thus the
Church will become more fully
‘Catholic’ and more fully Am
erican as it puts more empha
sis on lay participation.”
Dr. Pelikan said he feels
conflicts will continue between
the Catholic view of the City
of God, and more democratic
ideologies that see the United
States as the * ‘earthly form of
the heavenly city.”
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