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Vol. 45, No. 39
NEWSPAPER DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1965
EL COBRE, CHILE — Boy Scouts mush through the mud (March 29) carrying a
victim of the earthquake that took more than 400 lives in central Chile. Catholic
Relief Services-NCWC and its Chilean counterpart, Caritas, immediately began to
supply tents, food and medicines to the disaster areas.
Photo by Father Joseph Hahn, M.M. (NC Photos)
EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
U.S., German Catholics
Assist Victims In Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile (NC)—Help
to keep the homeless alive and
to begin rebuilding their shatter
ed towns is arriving in the earth
quake area of central Chile from
Catholics around the world.
The United States relief
agency, Catholic Relief Ser
vices—National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, has sent in
$10,000 worth of blankets and
$4,000 in roofing materials in
addition to emergency lifeline
supplies.
German Catholics have ad
vanced $60,000 from their Miser-
eor relief agency, $40,000 from
the Society for the Propagation
of the Faith in Aachen and $75,-
000 from the special German aid
fund for Latin America called
Adveniat. In appealing to their
people for further contributions,
German Catholic leaders have
pointed to longtime friendship
by Germans for the people of
Chile.
Chile’s President Eduardo
Frei has estimated that at least
15,000 homes were destroyed by
the quake and 30,000 were dam
aged. About 400 persons were
BUT NECESSITY
Church Schools
Are Not Luxury
OMAHA, Neb. (NC)—Francis
Cardinal Spellman said “it would
be a tragic mistake for the Church
to abdicate her place of pride in
education, and please God she
never will.”
The New York prelate
addressed a rally here inaugu
rating a $7.5 million campaign to
expand archdiocesan educational
facilities and acknowledged that a
Catholic element in this country
questions “the wisdom of having
Catholic schools and pouring into
them vast resources of money
and manpower.”
The cardinal told the audience
which packed the Omaha Civic
Auditorium (April 1) that “edu
cation and religion go together
* just as surely as faith and free
dom do.” He said religion “is
not just another subject taught/
i^Cathol?’ schools” but is the
|^M:egrating thread in all edu-
raition.”
“The religion-centered school
is not just a sort of luxury which
people who are well off can af
ford, but a necessity for which
people of modest means rightly
spend their hard-earned money,
because it embodies our very
philosophy of education,” he de
clared.
“We want God honored and
cherished in our schools not
^ simply as an act of piety, but
as the very flowering of the
teaching process. We believe that
schooling which ignores religion
is not only earthbound; it is es
sentially incomplete,” the car
dinal continued.
He emphasized that “religion
does not belong to learning—
learning belongs to religion.”
The cardinal said Catholics in
America have established a vast
network of democratic free
schools; have educated millions
of citizens, and have contributed
greatly to the learning of the
masses in all fields, “at great
expense, constant sacrifice,
staggering generosity.”
“We shall not falter now. We
must never abandon this great
field of endeavor. We must not
forsake what our fathers
fashioned for us and for future
generations. We must go forward
not only for our own sake but
for the sake of all America, be
cause every gift we make to our
schools is not only a contribution
to the strength of religion, it is
also an investment in the growth
and greatness of this nation,”
Cardinal Spellman said.
The Cardinal was joined at
the rally by Omaha’s Archbi
shop Gerald T Bergan, making
his first public appearance since
he was hospitalized last fall with
a broken hip and arm sustained
in a fall.
killed and many more injured. Al
though he stated that Chile would
try to assume the job of re
building with a minimum of out
side aid, President Frei acknow
ledged the shortage of food, med
icine and shelter far exceeded
the country’s present resources.
The short but severe earth
quake on Sunday, March 28, des
troyed towns north of here.
At the mining village of Cobre
it ruptured a dam and caused
a sea of mud 20 feet deep to
bury alive many residents and
inundate their homes.
Among the first to arrive in
the disaster area were James
Balcom of Los Angeles, Califor
nia, of the CRS-NCWC staff in
Chile, and Ramon Bascur, ofLos
Angeles, Chile, disaster inspec
tor for Caritas, Catholic relief
organization of Chile.
In one town, nearly totally
destroyed, they found the people
spending the night in the open
with little protection from the
cold. No help had yet arrived.
In the second town, Hijuelas,
they found that the only aid had
come from the pastor of a near
by parish, who had brought a
truckload of Caritas supplies.
ALASKA SOLON’S BILL
Senate To Consider
Federal Population
Control Legislation
WASHINGTON — Legislation
authorizing major new Federal
efforts in the population field
has been introduced in both
houses of Congress.
The Senate and House bills
call for a White House Conference
on Population in January, 1967,
and creation of special offices
for population problems in the
State Department and the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare. Each would be headed
by a new assistant secretary with
specific responsibility in the
population area.
The Senate bill (S. 1676) was
introduced (April 2) by Sen. Er
nest Gruening of Alaska and co
sponsored by Sens. Joseph Ty-
dings of Maryland, Rosa Bass
of Tennessee, Paul Douglas of
Illinois, Frank Moss of Utah,
E. L Bartlett of Alaska, and Ralph
Yarborough of Texas. It was re
ferred to the Senate Government
Operations Committee.
In the House, bills were in
troduced by Reps. Paul Todd of
Michigan and Morris Udall of
Arizona. Their proposals (H.R.
7072 and 7073) were referred to
the House Government Opera
tions Committee.
On the world scene, Gruening
said, demographers “project” a
global population of 150 billion
by the year 2150. “If man mul
tiplies to that extent, the chances
are that life on earth as we know
it today will have disappeared.”
(A recent article in the Re
porter magazine, co-authored by
former Bureau of the Census
director Richard M. Scammon,
pointed out that the U S. fer
tility rate has been dropping in
recent years and that the 1964
total of 4,054,000 births was the
smallest in a decade.
(The article noted that even
with a population of 1 billion,
the United States would still have
a population density of fewer than
300 persons per square mile—
less than the current population
density of West Germany—607,
Japan—678, the United King
dom—604, and Italy—436.)
The Alaska senator said the
Federal government already is
involved to some extent in the
population area. As examples
he noted that:
—Funds available for commu
nity action programs under Title
II of the Economic Opportunity
Act—the anti-poverty program—
can be used for dealing with lo
cal population problems.
—The Children’s Bureau of the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare has “for sometime”
been permitting state health or
ganizations to include family
planning services in maternity
and child welfare programs.
He said that in New York City
the Office of Economic Oppor
tunity has made available al
most $1.5 million for birth con
trol clinics. In the District of
Columbia, he said, six city clinics
give free birth control services
to both married and unmarried
women on request.
Nevertheless, he declared,
BY STATE
“what we have done is distres
singly inadequate.”
Under the bill the proposed
population offices in the State
Department and the Department
of Health, Education and Wel
fare would have primarily liai
son, advisory and informational
functions.
On the international level,
Gruening continued, “a number”
of government agencies, particu
larly the State Department and
the Agency for International De
velopment, have been providing
assistance on population and
demographic problems to coun
tries which ask for it.
The White House Conference on
Population would be planned by
the Secretary of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare. Its purpose,
according to Gruening, would be
to “develop recommendations for
further research and action.”
The senator expressed opti
mism about the attitude of the
Catholic Church on the popu
lation question and said there
has been a “gratifying change”
in its position.
On the House side, Todd said
“the population explosion and the
problems it entails —both at home
and abroad—are among the gra
vest issues of our times.”
Udall said the legislation’s ob
jective is to improve coordina
tion of “presently authorized”
population programs in the State
Department and HEW.
Religion Is Not Subject
To 4 Superior Judgement
CHILE’S CARDINAL, Raul
Cardinal Silva Henriquez, Arch
bishop of Santiago, who heads
the Chilean Catholic relief a-
gency, Caritas, said in Wash
ington (March 30) that housing
for the victims of the recent
earthquake is essential. The Car
dinal had come to the United
States after serving as papal
legate to the 11th International
Marian Congress, held in Santo
Domingo, the Dominican Repub
lic. (NC Photos)
GENEVA, Switzerland (NC)—
A Catholic spokesman told the
United Nations Human Rights
Commission that the proposal it
is discussing to outlaw religious
intolerance is a sound basis for
an international convention.
At the same time, the U.S.
delegate to the commission’s
meeting here said his country
cannot accept a Soviet claim that
religious belief should be under
state control.
Morris B. Abram told the
meeting that the U.S. will not
sign a treaty containing a clause
like the one proposed by the
U.S.S.R. He said religion and
belief cannot be placed under
the “superior judgment” of the
state.
Speaking for Pax Romana, in
ternational Catholic organization
for students and intellectuals,
Thadeusz Szmitkowski told the
commission that if the nations
signing a treaty “adapt their
national legislation to the speci
fications of the convention, a
great step forward will have
been taken toward the protec
tion of one of the most fund-
mental rights of the individual.”
But he warned that the pro
posal “contains a strict mini
mum of measures, toward' the
more or less rapid elimina
tion of religious intolerance,”
and that any watering down of
the draft submitted by the Sub
commission on the Prevention
of Discrimination and Pro
tection of Minorities would les
sen the treaty’s value. He stres
sed the need to approve the
list of basic religious rights
included in the draft which, he
noted, specifically recognizes
“the supranational character of
certain religions.” But he said
this provision should be streng
thened. He stated;
“The present draft can cer
tainly be improved in so far as
it only refers to the possibility
for a believer to adhere to in
ternational associations connec
ted with his religion or con
viction. The Human Rights Com
mission should make it a point
to improve on this, for the sake
of equity, because certain reli
gions are essentially internation
al in doctrine and in structure. If
their international character
were not expressly recognized,
the convention would in fact hurt
the convictions it is called upon
to protect. “Catholics, for in
stance, belong to a universal
Church and for them the possi
bility of remaining in close con
tact with the hierarchy and with
all the members of this Church
is absolutely capital. We should
certainly find it very strange
if this possibility were refused
on the basis of a convention
elaborated by the U.N., an in
ternational communtiy which
aims at making all men con
scious of the bonds that unite
them notwithstanding frontiers
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PALM SUNDAY — Blessing palms at the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington,
D.C., is Father James J. Kortendick, S.S. The congre
gation, carrying palms in their hands, march in proces
sion with ministers of the Mass. (NC Photos)
TRANSLATION ATTACKED
Expert Defends
New Bible Text
and national peculiarities.
“Religious communities have
greatly contributed towards this
consciousness by proclaiming the
nature of these bonds and es
tablishing concrete supranational
relationships between men.
These communities have confi
dence that the international con
vention you presently are put
ting into shape will take due
account of their profound and
legitimate aspirations.”
BALTIMORE (NC)—A charge
that the translation of the New
Testament being used at U.S.
Masses plays down Christ’s di
vinity was rejected as absurd
by a biblical scholar here.
Father Raymond E. Brown,
S. S., explained the use of “get
better” instead of “be healed”
in reference to cures effected
by Christ and of “has been
raised” instead of “has risen”
in reference to the Resurrection.
His statement came after a
nationally televised interview
(April 2) with Father Gommar
A. Pauw, professor of moral
theology and canon law at Mount
St. Mary’s Seminary in E.mmis-
burg, Md.
Father De Pauw, who an
nounced formation of a “Catho
lic Traditionalist Movement” to
oppose many reforms in the
Church,*said the new translation
casts doubt on Christ’s miracles
and resurrection.
Father De Pauw said the use
of “get better” in accounts of
cures effected by Christ and of
“has been raised” in the Easter
Sunday Gospel played down the
Lord’s divinity.
The difference in verbs, Father
Brown said, stems from use of
the original Greek and the trans
lators’ faithfulness to it.
He added that both “to be
raised” and “to rise” appear
in the new translation.
“If on Easter Sunday from
Mark 16:6 we hear, ‘He has
been rasied,’ on Easter Tues
day from Luke 24:46 we hear,
‘The Messiah will suffer and
will rise from the dead,’”
he said.
“That in some passages the
New Testament says that Jesus
rose from the dead, and in others
that God the Father raised Him
from the dead makes no
difference at all.
“It is an axiom in theology,
known even to beginners, that
the efficient external actions of
the Trinity are hot distinquish-
able as to the Person who is
acting. In other words, when
God performs an external action,
like raising from the dead, all
three Persons are the source
of this action.”
A HEADLINE
*“ J ‘ HOPSCOTCH
VATICAN
No Marriage Changes
VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Vatican officials have denied a report
that Pope Paul VI soon will issue a decree altering the present
canon law on mixed marriages. The matter has been under study
by canonists and theologians since it was brought up during the
Second Vatican Council. But the council Fathers voted that the
whole schema on matrimony should be turned over to the Pope
for his decision.
EUROPE
Lenten Penance
BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN, di
rector of the Society for the Pro
pagation of the Faith with head
quarters in New York, is pic
tured as he recently flew to
Rome, where he will attend meet
ings of the national directors
of the Propagation as well as
the Council’s commission on the
Missions. (NC Photos)
BERLIN (NC) -- More than 2,000 men took part in a night-time
lenten penitence procession through the streets of West Berlin,
carrying a 21-foot cross. At the same time prayers of penitence
took place in several churches of the communist-ruled East Ber
lin.
S. AMERICA
'Deputy" Banned
BRASILIA (NC) -- Brazilian government censors have banned
presentation of the controversial play “The Deputy” in this coun
try. Written by German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, “The Deputy” is
critical of Pope Pius XII’s attitude toward Nazi persecution of Jews
during world War II. A Brazilian government spokesman said the
play “turns Jews against Catholic, provoking old hatreds now for
gotten. ’ ’