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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, February 4, 1965
“CHURCH MORE RADIANT”
Present Era ‘Dynamic’
Bishop McDonough Says
“We are living in a wonder
ful, dynamic era,” Bishop Tho
mas J. McDonough told Augus
ta area women.
The Bishop was the speaker
at the recent mid-winter lunch
eon meeting of the Augusta
Deanery Council of Catholic
Women, and said, “We are not
changing our Faith nor the Soul
of our church — the Church is
only becoming more radiant in
appearance.’’
“The bishops at the Vatican
Council discuss ways and means
of making this a better world
in which to live,” he remarked.
“If we bishops are cautious, it
is because we are dealing with
souls. We are living in a plural
istic society, but the Church has
grown strong in the United
States. Forty-four million Cath
olics worship God in the ancient
Faith of Catholicism,”
Mrs. Albert Rice, spiritual de
velopment chairman, announced
that the council’s annual day
of recollection will be held on
March 24, at Saint Mary’s
Church. Rev. Joseph Murphey,
Chaplain at Ft. Gordon will con
duct this one-day retreat.
Mrs. Clifford Herzberg, legis
lation chairman, invited the la
dies to spend the day at the
Georgia Legislature on Februa
ry 18th, and Mrs. John Radeck,
foreign relief chairman, stated
that the council had received a
letter from its adopted thirteen-
year old Korean.
SARGENT SHRIVER
Peace Corps Should
Be Two-Way Street
CHICAGO (NO—Peace Corps
director Sargent Shriver sug
gested a “peace corps in re
verse” as he addressed a pack
ed plenary session of the sec
ond annual conference of the
Catholic Inter-American Cooper
ation Program.
“If the peace corps volunteers
learn as they teach, if our com
mon problems have common
solutions, why must all the traf-
fice be one way?” he asked
(Jan. 28). “Why shouldn’t papal
volunteers, for instance, come
north as well as south? Why not
a corps of papal volunteers—or
peace corps volunteers — from
Latin America to work in the
U.S.?”
Shriver said these volunteers
“working under the same con
ditions as our peace corps, could
work in our urban slums and
through our Southwest, for in
stance, teaching Spanish and
teaching literacy.”* * *..
“Some Latin American coun
tries have more advanced pro
grams in literacy training than
any in the world,” he said. “In
the field of co-ops and credit
unions, there is valuable work
to be done here, and we have
much to learn.”
Addressing himself particular
ly to the large Latin American
contingent at the meeting, the
peace corps director said:
“As we and you face our
common problems, we should
share the human resources a-
vailable to solve them. Here is
a personal ‘alliance for prog
ress’ which would reach the
people. The people from your
pueblos and great cities could
be directly involved.”
Shriver related that there are
now 5,000 peace corps workers
in Latin America. He said that
fears and dire predictions that
the Catholic priests in Latin A-
merica would advise their peo
ple to shun.•.Protestant “grin
gos” in the peace corps have
come to naught.
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Mrs. Vance Logan announced
that the-program of the control
of cancer committee for this
year will emphasize “Tell your
neighbor of the dangers of can
cer”, and in this way extend
the preventive measures to a
greater number of persons.
The St. Mary’s Guild Com
mittee,- headed by Mrs. Harry
B. Arthur, stated that there
were now 167 members in the
Augusta Deanery.
Mrs. R. Floyd Gambill, chair
man of family and parent edu
cation, announced that the Rt.
Rev. John C. Knott, Director of
the Family Life Bureau of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference will lecture here during
March. This lecture will be spon
sored by the Augusta Deanery
Council of Catholic Women, and
further details will be announc
ed later.
Miss Pauline Peuffier, presi
dent of the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, gave
the highlights of the recent na
tional convention and stated
that the National Council of
Women now has a membership
of ten million women. She in
vited all of the ladies to attend
the diocesan convention to be
held on April 24th and 25th at
the Ambassador Hotel in Macon.
Members of the clergy attend
ing the luncheon, other than the
speaker, were Rt. Rev. Daniel
J. Bourke, Very Rev. Felix Don
nelly, Rev. Francis Ellis, Rev.
Ralph E. Seikel, Rev. John
Sheehan, Rev. Charles Fehly,
Rev. John Calnan, and Rev.
John Cotter.
The orchids and camellias
used in the table decorations
were from the gardens of Mr=.
Alex Barrett and Mrs. Alfred
Battey. Mrs. James Chafee was
chairman of the decorations
committee.
The nominating comm i 11 e e
was appointed as follows: Chair
man, Mrs. Eugene Long, co-
chairmen, Mrs. Jack Hagler and
Mrs. A. T. Cole. Officers will
be elected at the spring meet
ing to be held on April 4th.
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Sacred Heart Parish Council
members have been invited to
visit the Georgia General As
sembly in Atlanta on February
18 as part of a delegation from
the Savannah Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women.
Outstanding among the com
mittee reports at the January
meeting was that of Catholic
Charities given by its chairman,
Mrs. Helen Conners covering
collection of paperback books
for the USO, hospital visits, and
the making of cancer pads
weekly. Mrs. Conners stated
that there is a continuing need
for discarded linen for use in
the latter project.
Mrs. H. A. Stamey, president,
announced that the Council
would be hostess on Thursday,
February 25 for the last in the
lecture series on Catholic Edu
cation which will be held at the
Cathedral Day School. Mrs.
James S. Flynn and Mrs. Wil
liam C. Broderick were appoint
ed co-chairmen of refreshments.
Rev. Terence Kernan, O.S.B.,
pastor, urged attendance at the
parish mission to be conducted
by the Vincentian Fathers Feb
ruary 14-20 and asked members
to furnish transportation for
those who need it.
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OPEN OPPONENTS OF U.S.
Vietnam Buddhists Out To
Break More Than Windows
by Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columban
SAIGON — Political Buddhist
bonzes (monks) may now be
classed with the armed Viet
Cong communists as open oppo
nents of the United States in
Vietnam.
They claim that they are op
posed only to Ambassador Max
well D. Taylor, not to the U.S.
They claim also that they wish
“to save the country from the
communists.”
The sincerity of all statements
made by the political bonzes
must be doubted now, even by
American officials who former
ly appeared credulous.
In a press conference on Jan.
20, Thich (Venerable) Tam Chau,
a leading bonze, announced that
there would be no violence and
no demonstrations by Buddhists.
Yet on Jan. 22, bonzes from his
“institute” headed a large, il
legal demonstration outside the
U.S. embassy. Some of them
then led the crowd that smash
ed windows in the U.S. Informa
tion Service library. On Jan. 23,
part of a crowd of demonstra
tors, apparently instigated by
bonzes, sacked the U.S. Infor
mation Service library in Hue.
On Jan. 25, in the same city,
bonzes were seen in a demon
stration with youths who car
ried anti-government, anti-Tay
lor banners.
Earlier, on Jan. 15, the offi
cial 'Buddhist representative on
an interreligious committee
balked at signing a joint com
munique abjuring illegal dem
onstrations. He agreed, howev
er, after much delay, to sign a
pledge to support legal forms
of struggle. The other members,
including two Catholic priests,
thought that this implied a re
jection of illegal means. The
Buddhist quibble was made evi
dent a week later, when hun
dreds of bonzes defied police
outside the U.S. embassy.
By the afternoon of Jan. 25
the police in Saigon had arrest
ed 26 bonzes and 8 bonzesses
involved in disturbances. Of the
26 men, according to an official
source, 22 are not bonzes at all
though they wore monks’ robes.
They were unable to recite a
standard Buddhist prayer and
could produce no identity cards.
One has been identified as a
Viet Cong communist, according
to the police.
Among those arrested are two
Buddhist military chaplains.
The Buddhist crowd, includ
ing fake bonzes, that had to be
dispersed by tear gas outside
the U.S. embassy was led by
the official spokesman of the
Buddhist Institute and “Unified
Buddhist Church”, Thich Nhat
Thien. It was he who presented
the letter calling on the U.S.
government to “stop support
ing” Prime Minister Tran van
Huong, who was deposed (Jan.
26) by Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh.
Former Prime Minister Huong
is not a Christian. His govern
ment, which was only provision
al, did nothing against the Bud
dhists or anybody else, except
the communists, during its less
than three months of existence.
The political bonzes attacked it
as soon as it was formed. They
were particularly indignant be
cause he announced, at the
start, that politics and religion
must be kept separate.
In 1963 the same faction of
Buddhists led the agitation end
ing in the American-promoted
coup that overthrow the late
President Diem, a Catholic. Now
they bracket together Prime
Minister Huong and Diem, with
whom he disagreed, denouncing
them equally as “reactionary
and dictatorial governments,
whose policies are to extermi-
U.S. MEDAL OF FREEDOM, posthumously awarded to the
late Pope John XXIII, is among exhibits in the Vatican Li
brary, under the care of Father Guy Ferrari, O.S.B., a monk
of the St. Meinrad Archabbey in the Indianapolis Archdiocese.
(NC Photos)
Hunger Of World
Can Be Banished
nate Buddhism . . .”
No case, example or argu
ment of any kind has been pro
duced to prove that anybody is
trying to “exterminate” Bud
dhism.
The U.S. embassy here has
had bonzes as visitors before,
but in different circumstances.
Thich Tri Quang, one of the
most militant, bitterly anti-Cath-
olic, and two of his colleagues
(including Thich Nhat Thien)
enjoyed’ asylum in the embassy
for two months in 1963.
Last Sept. 13, when there was
an attempted coup in Saigon,
Thich Tri Quang again took re
fuge in the embassy. This time
he came disguised as a Catholic
priest, wearing a black cassock.
With him was Thich Tam Chau,
another political bonze, wearing
a baseball-type cap, sweater and
slacks. They left the embassy
that afternoon and went to a
private house in the city, still
under the wing of U.S. officials.
(An embassy spokesman has
denied that the two bonzes went
to the embassy that day. The
story, first reported by N.C.W.C.
News Service, is true.)
On Jan. 16 Thich Tri Quang
and two other bonzes were re
ceived by Ambassador Taylor
and Deputy Ambassador U. Al
exis Johnson. Tri Quang repeat
ed his determination to bring
down Prime Minister Huong and
his cabinet.
On Jan. 19 the political coun
sellor of the embassy and a
Vietnamese - speaking assistant
drove to the Buddhist headquar
ters in an official embassy car,
having the U.S. seal on the
door, to talk to Tri Quang. He
informed them of the “hunger
strike” that he and four others
intended to start on the morrow.
Members of the political sec
tion of the embassy have been
seeing these antigovernment
bonzes frequently.
All these parleys have appar
ently done no good for either
the U.S. or the hard-pressed
Vietnamese government, though
they have doubtless given “face”
to the seditious bonzes.
The aim of the agitation by
the political bonzes seemed to
be:
• to scare the U.S. govern
ment into putting pressure on
the then Prime Minister Huong
to resign and make way for a
government acceptable to the
bonzes.
• or to cause enough disor
der to provoke a military coup
favorable to them.
The military coup ' came on
Jan. 26.
Their next objective would
probably be a neutralist “set
tlement” on the lines proposed
by the communist - dominated
“National Liberation Front”.
These bonzes are out to break
more than American windows.
CINCINNATI (NC) - Msgr.
Luigi G. Ligutti, veteran hun
ger fighter, is convinced “pov
erty can be eradicated from the
world.”
Representative of the Holy
Father to the United Nations’
Food and Agriculture Organiza
tion (FAO), Msgr. Ligutti told
a press conference here.
“The main limiting factor is
man. If we can discover ways
to get to the moon, I can’t see
why we cannot find better ways
to produce and distribute food
... If India were to apply the
Japanese method of raising rice,
it could have a food surplus in
12 months.”
Msgr. Ligutti, former execu
tive director of the National
Catholic Rural Life Conference,
said the Church must be “pres
ent in the world — unselfishly,
humbly, and humanly — if it is
to fulfill its mission to man
kind.”
“Leaders of all religious
groups must be involved in
meeting the needs of men,” he
said. “The world is hungry for
leadership of a spiritual type.”
He said churches must be
“unselfish” in their approach to
human problems. He added: “If
they go to secure their own in
terests when they deal with the
world at large, they are missing
the point.”
The question that needs to
be asked, he said, is not so
much whether something is good
for the church as whether it’s
good for man and for society.
Msgr. Ligutti warned against
“stuffed-shirt attitudes,” recall
ing that “it was the humility
and sense of humor of Pope
John” that turned favorable
world attention to the Church.
Church leaders must cultivate
a “human feeling” in their deal
ings with people, he suggested.
“They must understand humani
ty as it is, and not as an ab
stract entity,” he said.
Discussing the FAO, the mon
signor said “international groups
for cooperation are here to sU^
and if they are to grow ei^B
tively, they need the guidanre
and the fundamental principles
that churches can give them.”
Msgr. Ligutti, one of the plan
ners of the symposium to be
held in New York on Pope
John’s encyclical, Pacem in Ter
ris, said he expected the meet
ing to be “an important ef
fort” in the development of co
operation among the nations.
The chief purpose of the sym
posium already has been a-
chieved, he said, by the fact
that leaders of all national and
religious groups have shown
their willingness to sit together
and use die Pope’s encyclical
as a framework in seeking
peace.
Stuhldreher Of
‘F our Horsemen’
Fame Buried
PITTSBURGH (NC)—And now
there are three.
But football’s immortal Four
Horsemen came together for the
last time when Solemn Requiem
Mass for Harry Stuhldreher^
was offered in St. Paul’s c£
dral here (Jan. 30). Burial
lowed in Calvary Cemetery.
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At 154 pound Stuhldreher was
the smallest of the Four Horse
men who rode to football fame
as the b a c k f i e 1 d of Knute
Rockne’s unforgettable teams
in the 1920s. As quarterback, he
called the plays for “Sleepy
Jim” Crowley, Elmer Layden
and Don Miller — and they
were here for the final tribute
to the “little general”.
After his Notre Dame days,
Stuhldreher coached 11 years at
Villanova (Pa.) University, then
13 years at the University of
Wisconsin. He left football in
1950 and became an executive
With United States Steel here.
Stuhldreher died (Jan. 26) in a
hospital here following surgery.
He is survived by his wife and
four sons.
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