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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 22, 1965
“CHRISTIAN LIVING’’
Aquinas Sodalists
Attend SSCA Camp
Seventeen Sodalists from A-
quinas High School, Augusta,
spent the first week of their sum
mer vacation at Our Lady of the
Hills Camp in Hendersonville,
North Carolina.
The purpose of the Camp,
properly called the Summer
School of the Christian Apos-
tolate, was to “provide one week
of opportunity for self-improve
ment in the art of Christian
living,” according to Miss Rita
Marie Coleman, Aquinas teacher
who travelled with the girls as
adult advisor. “Some of the
topics discussed,” she said,
“were : the place which Mary
occupies in the Church; a review
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of what happened in the third
session of the Council; a study
of sanctifying grace; and the
present racial problems.”
A total of sixteen classes were
offered, which were staggered
throughout the day and early
evening.
“In the late evening,” Miss
Coleman continued, “some form
of entertainment was offered.
It might be the games and relay
races between the boys and girls,
an exhibition of square dancing,
a bonfire, or the Talent Show.
This year our girls from Aquinas
won Honorable Mention for an
original song poking good-
natured fun at some aspects of
the Camp.”
The camp, under the direction
of the Rev. John J. Campbell,
S.J., travels each summer all
over the United States. It is
described as an “excellent ex
perience for those who realize
that things can be better only
when each individual begins with
himself.”
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SSCA CAMP Students from Aquinas High School
attending Camp — Pictured left to right: (seated)
Frances Spinks, Kathy DeMarco, Nancy Le Blanc,
Pat Kearns, Nancy Durant, Kathy Farr, Madeline
Tantillo, Keith Berini, and Virginia King. (Stand
ing) Jo Ann Hong, Mary Kron, Kathy Riggin, Kathy
Blain, Maureen Welsh, Rita Coleman, adult advisor,
Patti Evans, Florence Schmaltz, and Karen Lewis.
ARCHBISHOP CLARIZIO
Vatican Diplomat Describes Role
He Played In Dominican Crisis
By Father James A. Clark
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
Archbishop Emanuele Cla-
rizio, the Vatican diplomat who
played a crucial role in the early
days of the Dominican revolt,
was in Puerto Rico attending a
bishops’ conference when rebel
lion erupted April 25.
The first days were filled with
tension and uncertainty, the arch
bishop recalled in an interview.
No one knew exactly what was
happening on the island 75 miles
away. All normal transportation
had been stopped. For four days
he searched for a way to get to
the country he served as apos
tolic nuncio, until, finally, he
set off in a single-engine plane
loaded with medicine and plasma.
“As soon as I arrived,” he
said, “the president of the mili
tary government told me he had
been trying to reach me since
Sunday to use the good offices
of the nunciature to seek an end
to the fighting.
“My arrival coincided with a
meeting of the military junta.
I was anxious to return at once
to the nunciature, with which I
had had only telephone contact,
but they insisted I should speak
to the Dominican people.”
In that first brief radio talk,
Archbishop Clarizio revealed he
had been asked by “various
groups” to work for an end to
the fighting that was then
spreading death through the
streets of Santo Domingo. He
let it be known he was avail
able to “everybody for any ser
vice.’
After reading his radio mes
sage, the nuncio flew by heli
copter from San Isidro, a mili-
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tary-held sector, to the center
of the city.
“The pilot landed in an open
field, fearing to land in a de
veloped area where there might
b e an uproar,” he recalled.
“Many people were there and
many of them had machine guns.
Upon recognizing the papal nun
cio arriving with medicines, they
greeted me cordially and begged
me to do something for the people.
“A priest from the nearby
Claretian seminary offered me
a car to get to the nunciature.
The people told us that priests
were being attacked by snipers
and warned us to be careful.
They suggested that I take off
my cassock. I did not follow
the suggestion, but I did drive
the car myself to protect the
priests.’
It was evening when Archbish
op Clarizio arrived at his resi
dence. Almost immediately he
was visited by a representative
from the rebel-held area of Ciu
dad Nueva. The visitor wanted to
know why the nuncio had spoken
over the military radio station.
“I gave him a copy of my
speech and noted that Radio San
Isidro was the only station opera
ting,” said the archbishop. “I
told him I was ready to speak
over any station that invited me.
He was satisfied.
“I told him something should
be done to stop the fighting as
soon as possible, even that same
night. He told me his powers in
this matter were very limited,
especially at night.
“He showed such good inten
tions that I placed him in contact
by telephone with Gen. Despra-
del, the chief of police. We knew
that about 20 policemen were in
immediate danger of being kill
ed by the insurgents. They spoke
of this matter and both agreed
to do everything possible to make
sure that people under their con
trol did not shoot that night.”
A meeting between rebel and
military leaders scheduled at the
nunciature that night failed to
materialize, but on the next day
the archbishop resumed his task
of mediation. Once more he spoke
over the San Isidro radio sta
tion, letting all know he was will
ing to confer with all factions.
On the same day, Archbishop
Clarizio received a telegram
from Jose Mora, secretary gene
ral of the Organization of Ameri
can States, asking him to act
on behalf of the OAS to achieve
a ceasefire in Santo Domingo.
It proved impossible to ar
range a meeting with the rebels
that day. But on the following
day, April 30, the archbishop
set off for the rebel zone along
a predetermined route in a car
flying the papal flags. Upon ar
riving, he was welcomed enthu
siastically by rebel supporters
and talked with their leaders on
a balcony of a house until sniper
fire drove them inside.
A few minutes later, Col. Fran
cisco Caamano arrived to act as
the chief rebel spokesman, and
ceasefire negotiations began in
earnest. A two-point formula
guaranteeing the safety of all
persons and requesting OAS me
diation was worked out. Rebel
leaders approved of the formula
after conferringby telephone with
Juan Bosch, former Dominican
president, in Puerto Rico.
“Immediately,’ said Arch
bishop Clarizio, “I went to the
American embassy and request
ed a helicopter to fly to San
Isidro with a copy of the text of
the ceasefire for the military
junta.”
The helicopter flight, he said,
was authorized by U.S. Secretary
of State Dean Rusk in a phone
call to the American ambassa
dor, William T. Bennett. In the
meantime, however, Bennett had
sent the text to the military
forces by radio. The junta
answered by referring the nun
cio to the Red Cross.
Said the archbishop: “I went
to the local Red Cross which had
already unsuccessfully requested
a six-hour truce for that day
to collect the dead and wounded.
But hope of a possible solution
was shattered for a moment when
we received an urgent communi
cation from San Isidro. They
(the military leaders) informed
us that if a tank under command
of the insurgents continued to
harass Fortaleza Ozama, they
would attack by air, with a re
sultant high number of deaths
among the population and great
destruction of buildings in
cluding the cathedral,, which is
near Fortaleza Ozama.
“They allowed us 12 minutes
to effect a quick negotiation.
Thank God, we were able to
do so.”
At last, after a three-way con
versation by telephone, the
cease-fire was agreed upon. It
was to go into effect immedia
tely, at 11:45 a.m. on April 30.
However, the problems of the
negotiators were not over. They
were advised that American tanks
were entering the city.
“It was urgent that we com
municate with the U.S. embassy
and inform them that the cease
fire had already been estab
lished,” said the archbishop.
“Therefore, I went to the em
bassy in an ambulance ac
companied by representatives of
the military junta and of the in
surgents.
“On our way we found some of
the U.S. tanks and I gave the
officer in charge a copy of the
text of the ceasefire.
“Suddenly we were attacked
by snipers, and we threw our
selves to the ground until we could
seek shelter in a nearby house
while the U.S. Marines answered
the attack.”
When we arrived at the em
bassy, Archbishop Clarizio in
formed the OAS of the cease
fire, then left by helicopter for
a meeting with the military lead
ers. After a long discussion the
text was signedbythe junta mem-
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bers and by Ambassador Ben
nett. The nuncio broadcasted the
ceasefire text and an appeal for
peace over the radio. On the
next day the text was signed by
the rebel leaders.
Present negotiations in the Do
minican Republic are being car
ried on by OAS officials, and the
apostolic nunciature has devoted
most of its time to humanitarian
aid. Already, 3,000 tons of food
supplies have been distributed by
Catholic Relief Services--Na-
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
Archbishop Clarizio has vis
ited hospitals and jails, has crea
ted an Office of Assistance and
Information to unite families that
were dispersed by the fighting,
and has begun a daily radio
program to promote the work
of the office.
For the work he has already
done, the archbishop has been
thanked officially by the govern
ments of the United States and
Brazil, both of which maintain
peacekeeping forces in the Do
minican Republic under OAS au
thority. The gratitude of the OAS
was expressed in a telegram sent
by Mora to Pope Paul VI.
“I found from the very begin
ning,” said Mora, “a full and
generous loyalty by Archbishop
Clarizio to obtain a ceasefire.
His words, his actions and his
magnificent cooperation were in
every moment motivated by
Christian piety in the face of the
grave difficulties that we are try
ing to resolve in order to assure
peace and concord to the Domini
can Republic.”
NEW YORK (NC)—“Official”
Jewish opposition to bus rides
and other benefits for pupils at
tending church-related schools is
in fact “a secularist opposition
to religion,” according to a Jew
ish scholar.
Rabbi Jakob J. Petuchowski,
professor of rabbinics at Hebrew
Union College, Cincinnati, ex
presses this opinion in an ar
ticle, “Jewish Secularism on the
March,” in the current issue of
the quarterly magazine, Conser
vative Judaism.
Speaking of “official Jewish”
opposition to released time pro
grams and to President Johnson’s
program for aid to education,
Rabbi Petuchowski writes char
ges that “some Jewish organi
zations are no longer capable of
seeing an American child as a
human being with needs and with
rights which the state is trying
to meet and to uphold.”
“They can only see Catholic,
or Protestant, or Jewish chil
dren,” he says, “And if such a
child suffers from economic de
privation, then nothing would
please our Jewish organizations
more than to have this child
forced by economic circum
stances to go to public school.
“Somewhere along the line we
seem to have lost our sense of
compassion, our belief in the
right to differ, and our belief
in the dignity of man.”
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Rabbi Petuchowski emphasizes
that his chief concern is “with
the fears of our Jewish organi
zations that any aid rendered a
child who is enrolled in J|^>f
those (religiously affi^^I)
schools could—indirectly—ac
crue to the advantage of the school
itself. And Jewish organizations
do not want to see those schools
enjoying any such advantages.”'
“Jewish organizations,” he
continues, “seem to feel that
which the religiously affiliated
schools offer over and above
the regular public school cur
riculum somehow interferes with
the American educational ideal.
“This can only mean...that the
Jewish organizations are bother
ed by the religious orientation
to life which is being instilled
by such schools in general, and
by such Jewish schools in par
ticular.”
What this amounts to, he says,
is that the “official Jewish”,
opposition is directed as much
against Judaism’s own basic in
terests as it is against any other
religious interests in the country.
“We have, in other words, a‘Jew
ish’ opposition to Judaism,” he
says.
“But that is a contradiction
in terms,” he adds. “We^Ast
call that opposition by its^Re
name. It is, in fact, nothing more
and nothing less, than a secu
larist opposition to religion.”
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