The Georgia bulletin (Atlanta) 1963-current, January 04, 1963, Image 6
GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY 4, 1963
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POPE JOHN XXIII tries to cheer up a young patient during his Christmas Day visit to Bambino
Gesu Hospital just outside Vatican City. It was the 81-year-old pontiff’s first trip outside the
Vatican since an illness confined him to his bed four weeks ago.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (NC)
Francis Cardinal Spellman
thanked U.S. servicemen here
for their sacrifices for the free
world’s defense during a stop
over on his 12th Christmastime
tour of U.S. overseas military
bases.
The Cardinal-Archbishop of
New York, who is Vicar of U.S.
military forces, arrived in Ka
rachi (Dec. 29) and came here
later the same day.
CARDINAL Spellman praised
the work of the U. S. Medical
Mission Sisters at Holy Family
Hospital here, where he offer
ed Mass (Dec. 30) after spend
ing the night at the hospital.
After Mass, the Cardinal left
Rawalpindi to visit U. S. ser
vicemen at the Peshawar Air
Station on the other side of
Pakistan’s northern tip.
On hand to greet the Cardinal
when he arrived in Karachi
were: George Maj. Gen. Ruh-
len, commanding officer of the
Military Assistance Advisory
Group (MAAG) in West Pakis
tan; Archbishop Saverio Zupi,
Apostolic Internuncio to Pakis
tan; Archbishop Joseph M.Cor-
deiro of Karachi; and Father
(Maj.) Joseph J. Pollack of
Steubenville, Ohio.
THE Cardinal thanked the
MAAG commander in Rawal
pindi, his men and their fami
lies for their cordial welcon\e,
for their selfless contribution
to the free world’s defense
against communism, and for
accepting the hardships of mili
tary service in this part of the
world.
The Cardinal told them that
their fellow countrymen appre
ciate their faithful service to God
and country,
MUNICIPAL
STANLEYVILLE, The Congo,
(NC) Five Catholic teaching Sis
ters in the Sudan were held
five days in jail and then re
leased on bail pending trial
for allowing some of their pu -
pils to go hear Mass at a mis
sion chapel.
The priest who offered the
Mass was also arrested, but
was freed on bail the same day.
NEWS OF the incident reach
ing here from the Sudan indi
cated that it was simply a con
tinuation of the Moslem-led
tinuation of the Moslem-led
Sudanese government’s drive to
exterminate Christianity in the
southern part of the country. By
Christmas Eve, 43 Catholic
missionaries and 10 Protestant
missionaries — including five
Americans with families—had
been expelled from the Sudan
as ’’unnecessary.”
The action against the five
Sisters and the priest began at
Tombora, Southern Sudan, with
their jailing by the Acting Dis
trict Commissioner (Dec. 9).
The nuns involve*d are two Ita
lian members of the Verona
Missionary Sisters and three
Sudanese Sisters. All were ser
ving on the staff of a girls’
school at Mupol, a former Ca
tholic mission school which had
been nationalized by the Suda
nese government.
THEY WERE accused of al
lowing some of their pupils to
accompany a missionary priest
on his trip to say Mass at an
outpost chapel in the area on a
school holiday.
The priest, Father F. De
Angelis, a 50-year-old Italian
missioner, was also jailed. The
acting district commissioner,
sitting as judge, told him in a
preliminary hearing: "You, as
the superior of the missionary
station of Mupoi, where the
girls’ school is, are responsi
ble for the conduct of the Sis
ters.” Before nightfall, how
ever, Father De Angelis was
released with the equivalent of
released with the equivalent of
$3,000 bail.
The two Italian Sisters were
given a preliminary trial after
Father De Angelis. The head
mistress, Sister Beatrice, ad
mitted in court that she had al
lowed the children to accom
pany the priest to Mass. When
the acting district commission
er threatened her with prison,
she asked whether any law was
violated. She added: "Is there
any Justice here? If I have
committed any offense against
the school regulations I should
be reprimanded by the educa
tion authorities.”
BECAUSE of this statement,
the Judge sent Sister Beatrice
to prison for ’’offending the Su
danese State.”
The “trial” of Sister Fran
cesca followed, and the judge
shouted loudly at the 30-year-
old Religious. His invective was
VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope
John XXIII relaxed during the
w aning hours of 1962 by attend
ing a concert given by the cele
brated choir of the Sistine Cha
pel. ; .* •*
The concert took place In the
Vatican’s Clementine Hall on
the aiternoon of New Year’s
eve. The Pope, the cardinals
of Rome and many other top
Vatican clerical and lay dig
nitaries were present.
THAT NIGHT, Pope John went
to the window of his apartment
to acknowledge the cheers of
participants in the annual torch
light procession of Roman mu
nicipal employees.
The procession of street
cleaners, trollevcar workers
and other city servants had
formed at the Gesu church in
downtown Rome and paraded to
St. Peter’s square. The Pope
came to his window and greet
ed the workers at about 10
p.m.
EARLIER in the evening, the
Pope’s Secretary of State, Am-
leto Cardinal Clcognani, had of
fered Pontifical Mass at the
Gesu Church in the presence of
Rome’s mayor and members of
the city council.
Father Jean Baptiste Jans
sens, S. J., Superior General
of the Society of Jesus, which
conducts the Gesu church, was
presented a silver chalice and
two votive candles by the mayor.
The gifts were the city's annual
present to the main Jesuit
church.
The Pope had spent the last
Sunday of the year quietly. About
25,000 people braved the rain to
gather in St. Peter's square at
noon and he came to his apart
ment window to lead them In
reciting the Angelus and to
bless them.
such that the translator would
not translate.
All five Sisters were kept in
the Tombora jail that night. Po
lice tried to remove their veils,
but the nuns resisted success
fully. But everything they had
except their clothes was taken
from them. Even the pins of
their dresses were confiscated.
THE NEXT day (Dec. 10),
the five were taken in a police
truck across the 60-mile road to
Yamblo, the civil district head
quarters, which is near the Con
golese border. There they were
locked In a police storeroom,
where they had to spend the night
in the presence of some police
men. Some Catholic and Pro
testant members of the force
were able, however, to bring
their own mattresses for the
Sisters to sleep on.
The following day (Dec. 11)
the Catholic pastor at the Yam-
Canadians
In Mission
OTTAWA, Dec. 29 (NC) There
are 1,264 Canadian missionar
ies, including 417 priests, now
working in Latin America, ac
cording to a report here by the
committee of the Canadian Hie
rarchy.
The group also includes 212
Brothers, 40 members of secu
lar institutes and 86 laymen,
the Canadian Bishops'Commit
tee for Latin America said.
Of the 417 priests, 350 are
from religious congregations
and 67 are diocesan priests.
The committee also noted that
the major seminary at Tegu
cigalpa, Honduras, is under the
direction of Canadian priests,
and new buildings are being
erected there with funds do
nated by Canadian Catholics.
bio mission tried in vain to
have the Sisters released. Stat
ing that they are “personscon
secrated to God,” he told the
district commissioner that
“they deserve special respect
owing to their social status.’’
AFTER TWO nights in the
police storeroom, the Sisters
were moved to the district jail,
where they were allow ed to have
bedding brought from the Catho
lic mission (Dec. 12).
A Greek merchant signed a
$3,000 -bail bond for the Sis
ters, and the five were released
two day» later, December 14, to
await trial.
The proceedings against the
Mupoi missionaries followed
two months of intensification in
the Sudanese government’s
campaign to make the Southern
part of the country Moslem
like the north. The national go
vernment is dominated by Mos
lems primarily representing
the Arabic north, which makes
up about tw o-thirds of the coun
try’s total population of 12 mil
lion. The South, made up of
Negro and Nolotic tribes, has
a population of close to four
million pagans and 600,000
Christiams. More than half
Christiams. More than half of
the Christians are Catholics.
The government has increas
ed its budget to Islamize the
South tenfold. Even though the
number of native Moslems in
the South totals barely a few
thousand, every village has to
build a mosque. The Education
Ministry has built 150 Moslem
schools in the past two years.
All 350 church schools in the
South were nationalized in 1957,
the year after the Sudan became
independent. No new missionar
ies are permitted to enter the
country, and recently it was de
creed that no one under 18 years
of age can be baptized.
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