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Vol. 53 No. 14
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Thursday, April 6, 1972
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ULSTER PROTESTANTS RALLY - William Craig, leader of the Ulster Vanguard, a militant Protestant group, speaks to a huge
crowd attending a rally at Belfast’s city hall in protest of the suspension of local rule in Northern Ireland. Behind him is a banner of
King William III, the Prince of Orange, who defeated the Catholic forces of the deposed King James II in the Battle of Boyne in
1690. (Religious News Service Photo)
SOUL SINGER
James Brown ‘Raps’ On Drugs
BY JAMES BREIG
ALBANY, N.Y. (CPF) — “We are in a
most critical time. We’re tied up with a
„ tnonster. We’re hung out behind
something that controls our emotions and
intellect. It’s ruthless and heartless.”
The monster the man is talking about
is drugs. And the man might be more
identifiable if his words were set to a beat
with a rock accompaniment, for the man
is top soul singer James Brown.
A singer who appears before millions
of people annually and sells even more
records, Brown has devoted part of his
talent and earnings to combating the drug
problem. A percentage of each of his
concerts goes to fight addiction. In
.^'-•‘addition, he has recorded a recitation
titled, King Heroin, which tells of the
misery that results from that drug.
The rock performer also has plans to
build a drug rehabilitation center in the
South to give addicts “the things I had
that got me together.”
Brown’s getting together followed his
arrest and imprisonment for car theft and
breaking and entering when he was 16.
Three years later he was paroled and
^began his climb to pre-eminence in the
music world.
“When I was in prison, I was closer to
God than ever before because He was the
only one I could talk over my problems
with. Everyone else turned his back on
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me.
The popular performer, who left
school in the seventh grade, said he used
to “walk the streets looking for money to
get clothes so I could go to school.”
Within a few years of his release from
prison, Brown sold a million records of
Please, Please, Please. In 1968 he was the
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Editorials
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'Know Your Faith’
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’Rapping’
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first Black named best male vocalist in
the pop singles records category by
Cashbox magazine, a music trade journal.
Not content to live a sheltered life, he
has invested his money in Black
businesses. In addition, he has written
two “message” songs: King Heroin and
Don’t Be a Dropout. His Black Power
chant, Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m
Proud, resounded in 1968 from Harlem
to Watts.
When the chant appeared, he
explained, it was to “build Black people
up, make them want to be something.
They never had an identity and I and
others gave it to them.” Just as easily, he
continued, the chant could be “I’m
Jewish or Spanish and I’m proud.”
“This is not your America or my
America,” he noted, “but our America *’
That was the message of his hit, “America
is my Home.”
Asked whether he thought religion
could prevent drug usage, Brown said that
“a man who is religiously devoted can’t
get into drugs. If one has a real respect
for the Supreme Being, he won’t touch it
and will spend all his time preventing
others from using it.
“The commandment says, ‘You shall
have no other gods before me’ and drugs
are another god.”
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JUDAIZA TION CHARGED
Alaska Bishop Asks
U.S. Hierarchy To
Fight Israeli Plan
Archbishop Ryan’s Paper
Will Be Carried By This
Paper In Two Installments
Beginning This Week On
Page 7, And Concluding
Next Week.)
He took sharp issue with a paper
prepared for the bishops last October by
Father Edward Flannery, Executive
Secretary of the Secretariat for
Catholic-Jewish Relations of the U.S.
Catholic Bishops’ Ecumenical Committee.
That paper, entitled “The Controversy
Over Jerusalem: Elements of a Solution,”
grossly distorts the situation of non-Jews
in Jerusalem, Archbishop Ryan declared,
adding that ‘‘to me, it
1s. . .overwhelmingly clear that despite
assertions to the contrary in the paper
written by Father Flannery . . .on this
subject, the Catholic Hierarchy of the
Middle East needs our active, public
support if this campaign is to be
prevented before Christianity as a living
presence is driven out.”
The problem of Jerusalem, he said, is
“One - Israel is quietly but inexorably
exerting pressure on Arabs to quit
Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
Two - Among those Arabs are some
180,000 Catholic and Protestant
Christians. Three - If those Christians,
Arab Christians, go, the Christian
presence goes with them, leaving the
Bishops and Priests of the Catholic and
Orthodox Churches to preside over
historic - but empty - museums.”
The Anchorage prelate declared that
Israeli government p'ans for housing
construction on the hills of Jerusalem is a
violation of the Geneva Convention of
1949 which, he said, prohibits occupying
powers from transferring parts of its
population into occupied territories.
(Israel extended its authority to the
entire city of Jerusalem after occupying
the Jordanian half of the city during the
1967 Arab-Israeli war.)
The Geneva Convention ban “applies
to the apartment houses going up on
French Hill and two other major housing
developments included in Israel’s ‘Master
Plan’ for ‘Greater Jerusalem,’ Archbishop
Ryan’s paper alleged.
He quoted Shimon Peres, Israeli
Minister of Immigration, as saying, “The
essential thing about this (housing) plan is
that it be a plan for the population of a
united city with a numerous, stable and
permanent Jewish majority.”
Israeli authorities deny that Arabs are
being “evicted” from Jerusalem, the
Archbishop said, but charged that
“Whether it is eviction or evacuation,
Arabs, in increasing numbers are being
moved out of Jerusalem (and) whether it
is ‘urban renewal’ or ‘Judaization,’ Jews,
in increasing numbers, are being moved
into Jerusalem.”
“Whether we like it or not,” he
continued, “the combination of those
two facts can end, forever, the Christian
presence in the Holy Land.”
Archbishop Ryan’s paper ended with
an exhortation to the U.S. bishops to:
“Speak up and speak up now. Make
the world know that Christianity
and Islam are in Jerusalem by right, not
by sufferance. Make the world know that
Christianity does not - cannot - accept
the ethnic domination of, or the political
sovereignty of, one religion over others.
Make the world know, in the words of
Father Robert Graham, that Jerusalem is
a ‘Holy City’ not only by the promise
made to Abraham but by the life and
death of Jesus Christ.”
EASTER BLESSING - Pope Paul VI delivers his Easter blessing to a large crowd
gathered in St. Peter’s Square. In his traditional Easter message “Urbi et Orbi” - to the
City of Rome and to the World - the pontiff directed an appeal to the members and
friends of the Church as well as its enemies and to those who practice violence and live
by the laws of hatred and discrimination. He assured the religiously oppressed in
Communist and other lands that neither he nor his Church has forgotten them or their
plight. (Religious News Service Photo)
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HOPSCOTCH
Jewish Award To Bishop
CLEVELAND (NC) — Auxiliary Bishop William M. Cosgrove is one of four religious
leaders here who have been chosen by the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
to receive the 1971 Henry A. Rocker Memorial Award. The award includes a trip to
Israel.
Council On Alcoholism
PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) — The National Clergy Council on Alcoholism will hold its
annual meeting here April 17-19. Speakers will discuss the scope of the alcohol
problem, methods priests may use in helping parishioners who are alcoholics and the
resources available to help alcoholics. Priests, Religious and lay persons will describe
their own alcohol problems, and a psychologist will discuss the “Denial of
Alcoholism.”
Kidnaped Fiat Head
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) — Church authorities appealed to the kidnapers
of industrialist Oberdan Sallustro to release him, and to government leaders to end
social injustice that begets terrorism. Coadjutor Archbishop Juan Carlos Aramburu of
Buenos Aires said “a new wave of kidnapings, killings and other crimes is a deplorable
violation of human rights . . .and a barrier to present efforts at social peace.” He called
upon “the conscience of those blinded by passion while allegedly trying to correct
injustice, to give up their anti-Gospel violence.”
In a ‘white paper’ entitled “Some Thoughts on Jerusalem,” Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan of Anchorage, Alaska
has charged that continued “indifference” to the “tragedies in Palestine” on the part of Christians could lead to
“the possible extinction of an effective Christian presence in the Holy Land.”
The document has been distributed to all American bishops and could become a topic for discussion at the
upcoming meeting of the U.S. bishops in Atlanta, April 11-13.
Archbishop Ryan, former Field Director and President of the Pontifical Mission in Palestine between the
years 1958 and 1966, charges that “It is clear that a campaign to ‘Judaize’ Jerusalem is openly, undeniably,
underway, that such a campaign is illegal and that direct, unambiguous opposition to it from both the United
States and the United Nations has had no effect whatever.”
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