The Georgia bulletin (Atlanta) 1963-current, January 04, 1963, Image 6

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GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY 4, 1963 PAGE 5 NO MASS ALLOWED 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. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN $5.00 PER YEAR Mail to: P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Name Address City State. Bank Of i - i SMYRNA Join Our Christmas Club Now Smyrna, Ga. MEMBER FDIC Save Where Thousands Save Millions 5 Convenient Locations Downtown Duckhead East Point Highland-Virginia Cascade Heights CURRENT RATE 4'/j% PER ANNUM Sudanese Jail Nuns For Practicing Religion Cardinal LaudsUS Soldiers 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. 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