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Vol. 45, No. 2 10c Per Copy — $5 A Year Every Citizen Is Hindu Nepal Government Forbids Christian ST. JOAN OF ARC PRAYED HERE — This early 15th century French chapel, which now stands on an estate in Long Island, N. Y., will be disassembled for shipment to> Marquette University, Milwaukee, where it will be recon structed stone by stone on the campus. Believed to be the chapel where Joan of Arc prayed before leading her countrymen into battle against the English in 1429, it was brought to America in 1927 by Gertrude Hill Gavin for her estate at Jericho, N. Y. The present owners of the estate, Mr. and Mrs. Marc B. Rojtman have given it to Marquette University. — (NC Photos) Missionary Work KATHMANDU, Nepal — Prime Minister Tulsi Giri has reaffirmed this nation’s resolve to remain Hindu in its orienta tion and education, thus dooming any hopes that Christian mis sionary work might be permit ted in the future. In a public statement one year after Nepal’s social code out lawed conversions to Chris tianity and Islam, Giri declared his country would officially sup port the Hindu religion as set down in the constitution. ' 'We will have to rebuild this country on great Hindu ideals,” said Giri, adding that the San skrit language, the “storehouse of Hindu wisdom and thought,” was bound to play an increasing ly important part in the nation’s development. Nepal’s social code, called the “Muiki Ain,” last year abolished such social evils as the untouchable class, polygamy and child marriage, but it rein forced the nation’s determina tion to protect the Hindu reli gion. The code, in effect, does not recognize conversions to other religions by declaring that even after a citizen completes the rite of conversion he re mains officially a Hindu. Those who attempt conver sion to another faith can be Pope Confirms Sept. 14th As Council Convening Date VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Paul VI has established Sept. 14 as the opening date for the third session of the ecumenical council. The announcement by Papal Secretary of State Amleto Card inal Cicognani said: “The Su preme Pontiff Paul VI, in an audience granted to the under signed today, deigned to es tablish that the third session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council will begin next Sep tember Fourteenth, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.” The announcement was dated July 3 and. published July 4. At the next to last meeting of the council’s second session, on Nov. 29, 1963, the council’s secretary general announced Succession Rumor Denied ROME (NC) — Father Vince Tomek, S. P. superior general of the Piarist Fathers, labeled “completely without founda tion” rumors that he is to be appointed successor to Joz- sef Cardinal Mindszenty as Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Father Tomek told the N.C.W.C. News Service that he has been hearing the rum ors about two years. He said they stem solely from the fact that no other Hungarian priest in Rome holds such a high post. Cardinal Mindszenty, now 72, has been living in sanctuary in the U. S. legation in Budapest since November, 1956, when he fled before the Soviet forces sent in to suppress the short lived fight for freedom. Con demned to a life prison term by the Reds in 1949, the Car dinal had been released from jail by freedom fighters only four days earlier. Rumors reaching here from Germany and central Europe have held that plans for a mo dus vivendi between the Hun garian communist-government and the Holy See envision the Cardinal’s resignation from his See and his departure for Rome. PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED PRIESTS REV. JAMES H. GRADY (U.S.A.) July 12, 1953 VERY REV. JAMES F. O’NEILL July 12, 1870 REV. GODFREY X. SCHADEWELL July 16, 1922 MOST REV. GERALD P. O’HARA, D.D. J.U.D. > NINTH BISHOP OF SAVANNAH July 16, 1963 Oh God, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacerdotal office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, we implore, that they may also be one of their company for ever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. that the council would probably begin its third session on Sept. 14, 1964. But the sec retary, Archbishop Pericle Felici, told the council Fathers (Continued on Page 6) Russian New Ecumenical Era Seen For Orthodox By Antoine Negroponte ISTANBUL, Trukey (NC) — The Orthodox Church of Rus sia, which for two generations was almost completely isolated from the rest of the Christian world, appears now to be in tent on a new ecumenical era. Just one aspect of this new “presence” was the recent an nouncement in Athens of the forthcoming revitalization of the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mt. Athos — the monastic "republic” which occupies a mountainous penin sula on the southeastern coast of Greece. Before World War I there were over 2,000 Russian Ortho dox monks at St. Panteleimon. Normal recruitment of voca tions to the monastery came to an end with the Russian Rev olution. Until World War II the Greek government was unsym pathetic on grounds that St. Panteleimon was a potentially dangerous Russian enclave on Greek territory. As a result, the Russian mon astic community dwiddled to two score monks — the youngest about 70, and the oldest in his 90’s. Archimandrite Juvenaly, a spokesman for the patriarchate of Moscow, announced in Athens that 18 novices would be coming to Greece shortly to join the community at St. Panteleimon. The Russian priest, who had been a member of the delegation of Russian churchmen who visi ted the United States in the spring of 1963, made the an nouncement in the course of a pilgrimage to Christian centers in the Near East, the Holy Land in particular. The announcement came less than two months after the So viet ambassador to Greece, ac companied by his cultrual at tache and several other mem bers of the embassy staff, went to St. Panteleimon (May 10) for a five-day visit. Before leaving the “holy mountain” the am bassador promised to work for the renewal of the community. Archimandrite Juvenaly be fore making the announcement in Athens told a press con ference here in Istanbul that “the Patriarch of Moscow has requested authorization from the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople to establish a Russian Episcopal See on Mt. Athos, headed by a prelate with the rank of metropolitan (arch bishop).” This promised renewal of Russian Orthodoxy on Mt. Athos — for 1,001 years a lead ing font of Orthodox spirituality — has not come alone. The Mos cow patriarchate’s new out ward-looking policy has become increasingly apparent at inter national Christian meetings in the past few years. This started at the time of the meeting of the First Pan- Orthodox Conference at Rhodes in September and October, 1961. Since then, the Moscow patri archate was represented at the second conference at Rhodes, last year at the celebration of the millennium of Mt. Athos on June 18, 1963; at the first and second sessions of the Va tican council at Rome, and at the World Council of Churches congress in New Delhi in 1961. In answer to a question asked at the press conference here about persecution of the Church in Russia, Professor Siskin, who teaches theology at Lenin grad, said: “For Russian theo logians, the phrase’church per secution' is incomprehensible. The weakening of the faith is a physiological phenomenon which has occurred since Orth odoxy in Russia lost the pri vileges given it by the Tsars. “This can be explained in the following manner: In Russia, Orthodoxy no longer has the at traction that it had in olden times. Formerly, one had only to show a certificate of mem bership in the Orthodox Church and all doors opened. Today, re ligion does not offer advantage (Continued on Page 3) punished by three years’ im prisonment, and foreigners who attempt to convert Nepalese citizens can be imprisoned for year and expelled from the country. Nepal’s constitution states that ‘ ‘every citizen, subject to the current traditions, shall practice and profess his reli gion as handed down from an cient times.” As a result of the constitu tion and the social code, the Catholic population here is limited to about 200 foreigners — mostly Indians, Americans and Europeans. Since Nepal was not open to foreigners prior to 1950, there is no chance that Christianity could be ‘ ‘handed down from ancient times.” The two Catholic schools al lowed to operate here have been left in an ambiguous position by the government policy. The first of these was founded in 1951 by Father Marshall M. Moran, S. J., an American- continued on Page 6) MARRIED, ORDAINED TO PRIESTHOOD—At a seminary chapel in Mainz, Germany, an American, married man, Ernest Adam Beck was ordained a Catholic priest on June 26. Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz conferred the sacrament. A former Lutheran minister from Detroit, he is the first American in the history of the Latin Rite Church granted the privilege of the priesthood and yet remain in the married state. Father Beck will bring his wife and young son and daughter to the Mainz diocese, where he will be assigned. — (NC Photos) At College Catholic Publishing Center Established ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC)—The recent gift of the Catholic Di gest magazine to the College of St. Thomas here has led to es tablishment of a Catholic Pub lishing Center at the St. Paul Archdiocesan liberal arts col lege. The center includes the Cath olic Digest, the nation’s largest paid-circulation Catholic publi cation with 650,000 United Stat es subscribers and a circula tion of 150,000 in four foreign editions, and the following auxi liary enterprises: —The Catholic Digest Book Club, in its seventh year, which has distributed more than two million books and has a mem bership of between 60,000 and 100,000. —The Decency in Reading Program, associated with 70 other Catholic magazines and 98 magazines of general inter est. In its 19th year, it has placed over 100 million cop ies of Catholic publications in homes. —The Junior Catholic Book Shelf, in its second year, which has a membership of about 10,- 000. —Catholic Living, in its first year as a monthly supplement for 813,000 diocesan newspap ers of the Register chain. —The Catholic Market, a bi monthly management journal for 30,000 Catholic administra tors, which recently purchased Catholic Property Administra tion, a similar business publi cation of Ojibway Press, Inc., Duluth. A combined publication will be off the presses this month. The new center is believed to be the largest Catholic publish ing center in the world, accord ing to Father Paul Bussard, publisher of the Catholic Di gest and director of the center The Catholic Digest and its auxiliary enterprises were giv en to St. Thomas last month by Father Bussard and Father Louis A. Gales, president of the Cathechtical Guild, who owned it as a private corporation A VISIT WITH POLISH CARDINAL—U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and three of their children are shown with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Prim ate of Poland. The children, (from left) Kathleen, Bobby and Joseph are shown with their parents and the cardinal in the Jasna Gora Monastery library. The famed “Black Madon na” painting is in the background.—(NC Photo) SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964 Dictatorship Again Facing Dominicans SANTO DOMINGO, Domini can Republic (NC) — Forces of the extreme right and the ex treme left are now contending to put this country once more under dictatorship, a priest de clared here in denouncing mili tary torture of 31 young farm ers. At a memorial Mass for those who died in the June, 1949, up rising against dictator Rafael Trujillo, Father Jesus Checo Pena condemned what he said were violent repressive mea sures taken by the army in San tiago Rodriguez, a town near the Haitian border. Ever since a military muni tions dump near here exploded on June 11 the Dominican Re public has been gripped by a political crisis. The incident mentioned by Father Checo Pena occurred in his home town. “I saw with my own eyes the savage outrage perpetrated against these youths,” he said in his sermon. “It was pitiful to see the bruises that covered the body of one of them, the one that suffered the least.” The priest continued: “Two dictatorships, both bad, are struggling to take power. On the one hand, the rightists, domi nated by political theories of the 19th century, are unceasing in their efforts to make our coun try a patrimony for the privi leged caste that owns money, land and arms. On the other hand, men of communist ideo logy do not cease to undermine the foundations of peace, sowing hatred among our people.” What is needed, Father Che co Pena declared, is a change of political structure that will allow progress based on man’s destiny as a spiritual being with unlimited dignity. The explosion that triggered the latest Dominican crisis oc curred at a fortress on the banks of the Ozama River. Thir teen persons died and many more were injured. Military (Continued on Page 5) NEW PAVLA HEAD — Fa ther Raymond Kevane, (above) of Sioux City, la., has been named national director of the Papal Volunteers for Latin America (PAVLA). He will direct the Papal Volunteer program from its headquar ters in Chicago. He succeeds Father Victor Fernandez, S. J., who becomes Caribbean Area representative. — (NC Photos) Vietnam Buddhists Preempt Ambassador’s Leave Taking (By Father Patrick O’Connor) Society of St. Columban SAIGON (NC) — Buddhists with Vietnamese government approval, took over much of the send-off program for outgoing U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge at Tan Son Nhut airport here (June 28) One result, especially from a speech made, will probably be rekindling of criticism of Am bassador Lodge and the U. S. among Vietnamese Catholics. Most of the crowd lined up before the speakers’ stand near the airport were organized Buddhist students, marshalled by members of Buddhist Youth, a Boy Scout-type body. A troop of the regular Vietnamese Boy Scouts was shunted to one side, away from and behind the speakers’ stand. In the center of the main throng a banner bearing in large letters the name of a “Bo-De,” or Bud dhist school, was uplifted, fac ing the speakers’ platform. Later, while the majority of well-wishers, including diplo mats, stood just outside the VIP reception hall, four Buddhist bonzes (monks) were among the few allowed to walk out to the plane for a final farewell. All this was recorded, of course, on Vietnamese news reels and by foreign TV cam eramen. A Cao Daist lay delegation was also present, with the sects flag, and a group of Cao Daist clerics. They were almost lost among the Buddhists. The Buddhist organizers made use of the occasion to represent Ambassador Lodge as their champion and to remind his successor that they hoped he would “also understand” Buddhist aspirations. Their meaning was made clear in a speech delivered by a Buddhist student, described as “the people's representative.” The English text was read by a Vietnamese officer. It was, in fact, official and was made available to this correspondent next day by the ministry of ed ucation. This government-sponsored speech rehashed the themes of last year’s Buddhist agitation which brought about the over throw of the late President Ngo dinh Diem’s regime. “You first set foot on our territory admist a most tra gic situation, wherein the en tire Vietnamese people in gen eral and Vietnamese Buddhists in particular were being abus ed, oppressed and repressed by the Ngo dinh Diem regime,” the speaker told Lodge, who arrived here last Aug. 22. “Your timely arrival . . . brought us the immense confi dence that was needed for the struggle against the Ngo tyran ny . . . Our appreciation and our gratitude towards you were warmly demonstrated during your visit to the Xa Loi pagoda, right after the Nov. 1 revolu tion of last year.” Xa Loi pagoda, in a residen tial part of Saigon, was head quarters of the militant Budd hist leaders who directed the campaign against the Ngo dinh Diem government. “We hope that your succes sor .. . like you, will clearly understand the deepest aspir ations of the majority of the Vietnamese people,” the speak er said. Among those listening was newly arrived U. S. Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. The new ambassador, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, was ex pected a week or so later. The Buddhists claim that they make up 80% of Vietnam’s pop ulation. (Well-informed Viet namese dispute this figure, put ting the practising Buddhists at about 25%.) Ambitious bonzes are busily building up a nation al organization, with political potentialities of still doubtful direction. Two leading Buddhist bonz es, of whom one was Thich Tri Quang who enjoyed asylum in the American embassy here last year were also among the guests. Widow Has Reunion With Some Of Her 184 ‘Adopted Sons’ YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (NC) -- A Texas widow, who solved the problem of loneliness after her husband’s death by “adopting” 184 servicemen, held a reunion here with part of her king- sized family. Mrs. Maude Cozart, a mem ber of Holy Name of Jesus parish, Ft. Worth, came here on her vacation and visited 15 World War II and Korean War veterans whom she befriended when she was hostess at the USO-National Catholic Com munity Service club in San An tonio, Tex. Mrs. Cozart was no ordinary hostess. She owned a chicken hatchery, and often invited groups of soldiers to her home for a chicken dinner. She took them on picnics, showed them the sights of San Antonio, baked them birthday cakes and held a continual open house. * ‘I never looked on it as charity,” she explained, “be cause I got so much enjoyment from their friendship. I did it because people look down on servicemen, and they were just kids — 19 and 20 years old — far away from their own homes.” When her “sons,” one by one, left San Antonio for overseas, she gave each a steel-jacketed Bible to carry in a breast poc ket. While here, Mrs. Cozart was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank DePerro and their family, of St. Charles parish. DePerro returned some of the hospitality Mrs. Cozart extend ed to him when he was station ed at Kelly Field in 1942. He arranged a reunion for her with former servicemen from New Jersey, Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. Wives and children of the 15 ex-GIs brought the party up to 50. They assisted at Mass to gether in St. Charles church. Mrs. Cozart, a clerical worker at Fort Worth Army Depot, brought each of the youngsters a gift. The reunion included a tour of a steel mill, a swimming party, banquet, cookout and plenty of scuttlebut about life in Texas, Army style. Mrs. Cozart said her “boys” haven’t changed much, except for the addition of “several pounds and a few gray hairs.” She keeps in touch with her adopted family through Christ mas cards and a newsletter she sends to each one every January. She signs the letters with a “God Bless You” from “Mom.” The newsletters contain the names and addresses of the ex- servicemen, and chit-chat about their families and jobs. She had a reunion seven years ago with 10 “sons” from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and plans another reunion in Chicago in 1970. Mrs. Cozart never will have difficulty locating two of her “adopted sons” -- Clifford Meldrum of St. Louis and George Rutkowski of Detroit. They married her two daugh ters. The Meldrum s have given her nine grandchildren, the Rut- kowskis, six.