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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 53 No. 13
Thursday, March 30, 1972
Single Copy Price — 12 Cents
ARTIST’S CONCEPTION of crucifixion of Jesus Bar-Joseph early today in Jerusalem. Bar-Joseph is on cross at right in drawing.
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WOMEN’S GROUP SAYS:
Commission 4 Loaded’
Study On Population
American taxpayers will foot the bill
for a so-called “study” on POPULATION
GROWTH AND THE AMERICAN
FUTURE costing hundreds of thousands
of dollars when they could have had
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access to the same “studies” and
recommendations of the Rockefeller
Commission seven years ago by reading
LOOK magazine for half a buck.
The LOOK article, “The Hidden
Crisis”, written by John Rockefeller III in
February of 1965 is quoted at length in a
60 page minority report on
POPULATION GROWTH AND THE
AMERICAN FUTURE released today by
Women Concerned for the Unborn Child,
Pennsylvanians for Human Life and
right-to-life groups across the nation. The
controversial Rockefeller article calls for
an explicit government policy of
population stabilization to handle the
U.S. population “crisis” that “only the
government can attack on the scale
required.”
The minority report charges that as
early as 1957 the Rockefeller Fund in
conjunction with the Conservation Fund
and Planned Parenthood published a
scheme for controlling population called
POPULATION - AN INTERNATIONAL
DILEMMA. The pro-life minority report
states that as chairman of the
Commission on Population Growth and
the American Future, John Rockefeller
III assisted by the Commission’s
Executive Director, Doctor Charles
Westoff of Planned Parenthood, has
effectively controlled the logistics and
direction of the Commission including
the selection of researchers and their
assigned projects.
Instead of stressing the means by
which America can accommodate
population growth, the Commission’s
efforts have been directed at the rationale
and means of limiting and finally halting
population growth, the report states.
The report charges that while every
major group which has a vested interest in
populatin control is represented on either
the Commission itself or the research
staff or both, no right to life group is so
represented.
The minority report was prepared by
Randy Engel, demographic advisor for
Women Concerned for the Unborn Child
and a regular columnist for
Pennsylvanians for Human Life, in
cooperation with concerned right to life
groups across the nation.
CONVICTED OF SEDITION
F amed Miracle Worker
Executed In Jerusalem
Time Capsule Special to THE SOUTHERN CROSS
Jerusalem - In a dramatic and swift turn of events a 33-year-old Rabbi, acclaimed with cries of “Hosannah to
the Son of David” during a hugh public demonstration in this city last Sunday, was executed as a seditionist at 3
p.m. today (1 a.m. EST).
The Rabbi, Jesus Bar-Joseph, a native of Nazareth and a resident of Caphamaum for the past three years, had
become famous throughout both Galilee and Judea as a ‘miracle-worker’ who reportedly not only cured the
blind, deaf, mute and lame, but even brought a dead girl and a man back to life.
However, while popular with the
masses, the young religious leader had
often run afoul of opposition by church
authorities who claimed that he used
trickery to rouse popular support for
doctrines they said run counter to official
church teaching. Nevertheless, a church
investigation of one such reported cure --
restoration of sight to a man born blind --
failed to uncover evidence of wrongdoing
on the Rabbi’s part. The man’s parents
and other witnesses who have known him
for many years all testified that he had, in
fact, been blind from birth but recovered
his vision when the young Galilean Rabbi
applied a mixture of mud and spittle to
his eyelids.
Early last night, however, acting on a
warrant sworn out by high church
officials, a detachment from the Roman
garrison stationed here arrested
Bar-Joseph in a wooded area just outside
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the city where, according to a few com
panions, he had gone to pray. According
to the arresting Tribune, one of the
Rabbi’s followers attempted to interfere
with the arrest and inflicted a sword
wound on a servant of Annas, the High
Priest. The Rabbi remonstrated with the
man and apparently cured the wound,
the Tribune said.
Late last night Bar-Joseph was
arraigned at the home of the High Priest
where the church court had been hastily
called into session. (Under Roman law,
church courts have the power to try
persons accused of religious offenses and
to pass sentences short of the death
penalty upon conviction.) He was charged
with blasphemy in that according to the
court, “he claimed to be the Son of
God.”
Aquinas Nun Jubilarian
Sister Ruth Marie Hensler, native of
Detroit, Michigan, is celebrating the Silver
Jubilee of her Religious Profession in the
Order of Missionary Franciscan Sisters of
the Immaculate Conception. Her first
vows were pronounced in Newton,
Massachusetts in 1947.
Within the interim of these twenty-five
years, the apostolate of teaching and
catechising has taken her to several states.
For the past five years she has been a
member of the faculty of Aquinas High
School, Augusta.
Her first teaching assignment was at
Mount Alvernia Academy in Boston,
Massachusetts. Through her dedication in
the following years, her pedagogically
religious service was generously given at
Our Lady of Peace School in Brooklyn,
New York and at Our Lady of Lourdes
School in Syracuse, New York.
Another place that temporarily
claimed her talent was at Sts. Simon and
Jude School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The two years prior to her coming to
Augusta, Georgia, were spent among the
people of God at Our Lady of Loretto
Parish in Brooklyn, New Y ork.
SR. RUTH MARIE
Sister will celebrate her twenty-fifth
anniversary with the chanting of Lauds,
the official prayer of the Church,
followed by a concelebrated Eucharist,
on Monday, April 3,1972, at 10:30 A.M.
The Reverend Vincent J. Kilpatrick from
Syracuse, New York, will be the principal
celebrant. Her sister, Mrs. Edith Dinko,
will happily be with Sister Ruth Marie for
the felicitous celebration of the occasion.
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"Sea Sunday” Set
BATON ROUGE, La. (NC) — Bishop Robert Tracy of Baton Rouge, La., has
written to all U.S. Catholic bishops, urging that May 7 be observed as Apostleship of
the Sea Sunday in their dioceses. Bishop Tracy, director of the National Catholic
Apostleship of the Sea Conference, asked that Catholics offer prayers that Sunday for
all seamen. The first Sunday in May has been traditionally set aside for the observance,
which began in the United States in 1953.
A parade of prosecution witnesses
supported the charge. One declared that
the Rabbi had said publicly, “I will
destroy the Temple made by human
hands, and in three days, build another
not made by human hands.” No one
appeared as a witness for the defense.
One onlooker at the arraignment, Peter
Bar-Jona, was identified by two women
as a follower of the accused. Bar-Jona
denied it and refused to testify.
It is doubtful, however, that any
number of defense witnesses could have
effected the outcome of the proceedings.
When the High Priest asked, “Are you the
Son of the Blessed One,” Bar-Joseph
answered, “I am, and you will see the Son
of Man seated at the right hand of the
Power and coming with the clouds of
heaven.”
The verdict of guilty on the charge of
blasphemy was unanimous.
Jews Appeal To Russians
RICHMOND, Va. (NC) — A Jewish organization wants Russian athletes visiting here
to tell their government that Americans are deeply concerned over Soviet treatment of
religious minorities in general and Jews in particular. The Richmond Jewish
Community Council took a three-column advertisement in the Richmond
Times-Dispatch to get its message to the Soviet track team, which was scheduled to
participate in a meet with the American team in Richmond’s Coliseum March 17. “As
Americans, and as Jews,” the ad said, “we urge the Russian guests to convey to their
government and to their leaders our deep concern over the lack of religious freedom
afforded to Roman Catholic and Protestant citizens of the Soviet Union, but
particularly the religious freedom of the Jewish citizens of Russian,” the advertisement
said.
Baptist-Catholic Pamphlet
WASHINGTON — “Growing in Understanding,” a progress report on meetings
between American Baptists and Roman Catholics is available in pamphlet form from
the Publications Office of the United States Catholic Conference. The Bishops’
Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Publications Office of
the USCC are located at 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
Conviction, under church law, carries
the penalty of death, but Roman
authorities have reserved all death
sentences in this middle-east province to
the civil courts.
Bar-Joseph was then bound over to the
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Priest State Dept Advisor
WASHINGTON (NC) — Msgr. Marvin Bordelon, director of the International Afftirs
Department of the U. S. Catholic Conference, has been named to the State
Department’s new Inter-American Advisory Council. The state department is now
organizing the council which will have some 25 private citizens as members. It will
meet twice a year with its first meeting planned for late April.