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GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY 11, 1963
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RELIGION INVOLVED
Congress To Face
Major Issue Of
Education Aid
POPE JOHN XXIII, whose portrait graces the cover of the latest issue of Time, the weekly news
magazine, has been chosen "Man of the Year" by the editors of that publication. He is the first
man of religion to be so designated since the tradition was established in 1927. In selecting Pope
John for the 36th year, Time credited the pontiff with "creating history in a way that few men
v.ere able to do in 1962”.
THOUGH CRITICAL
Bishop Reprieves Dutch
Chaplain Under ‘Monitum’
INTERFAITH
Catholic-Protestant Groups
Discuss Council of Trent
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
88th Congress faces at least
three major proposals and one
of them—aid to education—will
deeply involve religious group!'.
Along with a recommendation
for a system of Social Security-
financed hospital care and a
proposal for the closing of tax
loopholes plus a broad tax cut,
the Kennedy administration w ill
renew its push for Federal aid
to educaton.
UNDOUBTEDLY, the admin
istration will propose that
Federal aid go only to public
grade and high schools, but what
form its bill w ill take, especial
ly in view of last year’s rejec
tion of across-the-board finan
cing, was not detailed as Con
gress gathered.
Nor was it known what stance
the administration will take on
Federal aid to colleges, judged
in the past to be the least con
troversial of the education bills,
but one which nevertheless was
defeated in the House in 1962.
THE COLLEGE bill failed,
according to its sponsors, lar
gely because of the last-minute
intervention o f the National
Education Association which
has a major voice in educa
tional matters here.
The NEA—which drew re
bukes from administration of
ficials for its action—charged
in a telegram of protest, sent
to all legislators, that the bill’s
equal treatment of public and
private colleges imperiled
separation of Church and State.
The association based this
claim on the fact that most
private institutions of higher
education are church-related.
DESPITE heated replies from
the bill’s sponsors who said that
the NEA raised a false issue
which flew in the face of years
of equal treatment of colleges
by Congress, the NEA’s action
is largely credited with killing
the measure.
One unspoken fear of the NEA
was that equal treatment on the
college level would be a prece
dent for the same treatment of
schools on the elementary and
secondary levels, a possibility
the association has battled for
several years.
IT IS reported that because
of the NEA’s deliberate intensi
fication of the Church-State
controversy, the administration
will abandon an equal treat
ment college bill.
According to these reports,
the administration would insist
that public colleges get outright
grants for academic construc
tion, while private colleges be
eligible only for repayable
loans.
This tack supposedly would
curb constitutional objections,
but it probably would not satis
fy the American Council on Edu
cation, principal spokesman for
US. higher education, which has
consistently supported equal
treatment of all colleges.
1 HE ACE’S president, Logan
Wilson, has angrily criticized
the NEA for its intervention in
the college bill debate. “The
NEA,” he said, “does not rep
resent higher education. It was
well aware that the college aid
bill had been strongly endorsed
by all organizations which are
entitled to speak for higher
education.”
Administration officials,
seeking to soften the Church-
State controversy on the pre
college level, also are said to
have presented President Ken
nedy with a scaled-down plan
for ai d to public grade and
high schools. This supposedly,
would evoke less objection from
private school spokesmen.
IF THE President accepts it,
the plan would offer a selective
program of aid, instead of
sweeping assistance to public
schools.
Federal money would be used
to construct publk schools onh
in areas of acute need. Money
would be put into salaries, but
only of teachers whose sub
jects are deemed especially
essential to national security.
On the matter of aid to pri
vate education, the administra
tion is totally committed to the
view that across-the-board aid
to church-relatedschoolsonthe
pre-college level is unconstitu
tional. But, it has conceded that
loans for special purposes may
be constitutional.
IN THE 87th Congress, a bill
was introduced to lend Federal
money for the construction of
private school classrooms
which would be used only for
specific subjects, such as
science and mathematics.
However, the bill died in July,
1961, when the House Rules
Committee voted 8 to 7 to kill
all major Federal aid bills, for
both public and private edu
cation.
If the measure is revived,
it probably will be incorporat
ed into the 1958 National De
fense Education Act, which is
up for renewal this year.
The NDEA, most of whose
benefits go to both public and
private schools, has a provision
for short-term loans to private
schools to help them finance the
purchase of certain teaching
equipment. This program might
be expanded to include broader
Federal assistance.
THERE WILL be other pro
posals to assist private educa
tion, judging by bills introduced
in the past. These will include
proposals for a flat grant to
parents who can spend the
money at the school of their
choice and for income tax de
ductions for educational expen
ses.
However, the outlook even for
hearings on these proposals is
dim. The program of parental
grants, supported chiefly by
the Citizens for Educational
Freedom, with national head
quarters in St. Louis, presents
a radical departure in school
financing to a tradition-minded
Congress.
INCOME TAX deductions face
the stiff opposition of the chair
men of the House Ways and
Means Committee and the Se
nate Finance Committee. These
chairmen do not want Federal
revenue cut, at least without a
corresponding cut in Federal
spending—which is unlikely.
BISHOP ASSERTS
BERLIN (NC)—The bishop
who serves as secretary to the
Polish Hierarchy declared in a
sermon in Warsaw that Poland’s
communist regime "harassed
and oppressed” the Church even
as the Polish Bishops were pro
moting the nation’s good at the
ecumenical council.
Auxiliary Bishop Zygmunt
Choromanski of Warsaw told a
congregation of 3,000 at a New
Year’s Eve vigil service that
1962 "was a sad year for the
Church” in Poland.
STEFAN Cardinal
Wyszynski, Primate of Poland,
presided at another service in
suburban Warsaw the same day
and told his people that His
Holiness Pope John XXIII has
a deep “understanding of the
situation of the Polish nation and
of the Catholics of Poland.”
In imparting a special papal
blessing, he said that Pope John
is "deeply impressed by the
devotion of Polish Catholics to
College Grant
DAYTON, Ohio (NC) — The
University of Dayton has been
awarded a $40,700 grant by the
National Science Foundation for
a summer institute for high
school teachers of mathema
tics^ This will be the third
consecutive math summer in
stitute at the Marianists’ in
stitution, Father Raymond A.
Roesch, S.M., said.
Haarlem, the Nether
lands^)- A Dutch Catholic
chaplain to university students
will be kept at his post by
his bishop despite a warning
against him Issued by the Sa
cred Congregation of the Holy
Office.
He is Father J. C. Van Kil-
sdonk, S.J., chaplain at the Mu
nicipal University of Am
sterdam, who was the subject
of a Holy Office “monitum”
or warning because he gave a
speech criticizing the Roman
Curia, the Church’s central ad-
the Faith.” He asked the people
to pray for the Pope.
Bishop Choromanski in his
talk said that the communist
regime had closed eight Ca
tholic educational institutions in
the past year. “You can count
on your fingers the poor rem
nants of Catholic schools,” he
said. “Hundreds of Catholic
Kindergartens have been
closed. Sisters are being re
moved from hospitals.”
In an apparent reference to
the visit to Rome last fall by
Zeon Kliszko, a member of the
Communist party politburo.
Bishop Choromanski said that
“a high government official
talked about a concordat in
Rome” But he said that “as
long as there is no freedom
of religion there can be no talk
about a concordat” between Po
land and the Holy See.
THE BISHOP said that the
communist regime has been
trying to convince people that
"the Pope is for peace but the
Bishops of Poland are not.”
He said that "this is just rid
iculous.”
Bishop Choromanski traced
the progressive restrictions
imposed on the Church since
1956, the year Cardinal
Wyszynski was released from
confinement and there was a new
Church-State agreement.
ministrative staff at the Vati
can.
THE WARNING was sent to
his Ordinary, Bishop Jan van
Dodewaard of Haarlem. It said
that a person who makes cen
surable Critical remarks about
the curia could not be the right
person to give spiritual advice
to students and called for Father
van Kilsdonk’s dismissal.
When the sending of the war
ning became public knowledge,
a number of Dutch Catholic
groups expressed their disap
pointment, saying criticism of
the Church's organization
should be allowed and urging
the retention of Father van
Kllsdonk in his post.
DISCUSSIONS were then held
with the Holy Office by Bishop
van Dodewaard and Bernard
Cardinal Alfrink, Archbishop of
Utrecht. Following the talks
with the Dutch prelates, Alfredo
Cardinal Ottaviani, Secretary of
the Holy Office, left the solution
of the case up to Bishop van
Dodewaard, who has decided not
to remove Father van Kilsdonk
from his post.
The Haarlem diocese has is
sued the following statement:
”The Bishop of Haarlem has
negotiated with Cardinal Otta
viani, Secretary of the Holy
Office, about the difficulties
which arose after the address
of Father J. van Kilsdonk to
the St. Adalbert Society on Sun
day, September 30, 1962.
"THE HOLY Office maintains
its objections against the way
in which Father van Kilsdonk
took a position in regard to
'the Roman curia. But taking
into account the steps taken by
the Dutch Church address, the
Holy Office also leaves eventual
measures to the authorities in
regard to reaction to the local
Ordinary.
not dismiss Father van Kilsdonk
from his post as chaplain to
students.”
Dutch Catholic dailies pr
aised the stand taken by the Holy
Office, calling it an example
of prudence and statemanship.
IN HIS speech to the St. Ad
albert Society, national or
ganization of Dutch Catholic in
tellectuals, Father van Kilsdonk
said that the nature of the curia
is such that some Catholics see
it as hampering the freedom of
the pope, dominating the bishops
and making it difficult for
bishops to have contact with the
pope.
He declared that criticizing
the Church is "a holy duty like
practicing charity” and added
that the curia is “aged, con
servative and incomprehensible
to young people.”
On October 6, Cardinal
Alfrink gave an address which
was regarded as an answer
to Father van Kilsodonk’s talk.
Without mentioning the priest
by name, the Cardinal asserted
that pessimistic public criti
cism of Church authorities
tends to create unrest without
bringing improvement. He also
urged Dutch Catholics to have
"an open and honest attitude
toward the central authority of
the Church.”
“Errors are of course some
times committed by Church aut
horities,” he stated. "But it
is not honest to say that the
Roman curia as such is in error
and that the attitude of the curia
is one of the principal causes
of the fact that so many young
intellectuals are leaving the
Church.”
IN DECEMBER, Bishop van
Dodewaard received the
warning from the Holy Office.
When they learned of the
warning, Dutch Catholic news-
CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Ca
tholic and Protestant scholars
will trade ideas on the Council
of Trent at a Church-sponsored
congress next September in the
northern Italian city where the
major Catholic response to the
Protestant Reformation was in
itiated.
The five-day congress is
being organized by the Ponti
fical Commission of Historical
Sciences. It opens in Trent Sept
ember 2 and closes just before
the reconvening of the Second
Vatican Council here on
September 8.
THE YEAR 1963 is the
400th anniversary of the con
clusion of the Council of Trent,
which mapped the Church's
reply to the half-century-old
Protestant revolt and launched
needed reforms within the
Church itself. That council, the
FATHER PEYTON
RIO DE JANEIRO (NC)—An
army of 20,000 volunteers is
campaigning to reach a goal
of a million Family Rosary
pledges here.
The campaign climaxes an in
tensive four-week crusade of
preaching and teaching on the
Family Rosary which featured
a rally (Dec. 16) of a million
and a half people.
RIO’S WEEKLY magazine,
Manchete, called the rally, held
in front of this city’s Candel
aria church, "one of the most
impressive demonstrations of
collective faith ever seen in
Brazil.”
Father Patrick J. Peyton,
C.S.C., Irish-born founder and
director, o£ the Family Rosary
Crusade, says that, to guarantee
success, he “pledged to God
15,000 Masses... to throw the
entire responsibility for the Rio
crusade on Our Lord Himself.
“He adds that so far he has
reached a third of that goal with
the help of friends in the United
States, Canada and Brazil.
FATHER Peyton says that 15
to 20 tons of equipment, in
cluding 80 sets of films on the
Rosary and 60 projectors, were
used to help in the crusade’s
preparatory work which started
August 15.
Father Peyton and two other
Holy Cross Priests, Fathers
Philip Higgins, C.S.C., of Phila
delphia, and Joseph Quinn,
C.S.C., of Pittsfield, Mass.,
worked with parish priests to
bring to every corner of this
city the Family Rosary Cru
sade’s message, “The family
that prays together stays to
gether.”
A campaign in the city’s
schools "harnessed the leader
ship of the teachers in the state
and private schools to reach
homes through the children,”
Father Peyton notes. He adds
that a “publicity campaign took
over the entire city through the
press, television, radio and out
door signs.”
The climax of the cursade
New Missal
Given Pope
VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope
John XXIII has received a copy
of a new standard edition of the
Roman missal containing the
name of St. Joseph in the Com-
municantes prayer in the Canon
of the Mass. The Pope had or
dered the inclusion of St. Jo
seph’s name in the prayer dur
ing the first session of the ecu
menical council, to become ef
fective last December 8.
longest ecumenical council in
Church history, opened in 1545
and concluded on December 4,
1563.
Twenty lectures are sche
duled for the Trent meeting.
Among the Catholic speakers
will be Father JamesA. O’Don-
hoe of the Boston archdiocesan
seminaries, and Stephan G.
Kuttner, professor of canon law
history at the Catholic Univer
sity of America, Washington,
D.C., who is to talk on the
Tridentine changes in the light
of the canon law of the pre
ceding centuries.
PROTESTANT speakers will
include Peter Meinhold, of the
Evangelical theology school at
Kiel, German, who will discuss
the work of Protestants who
were present at the Council
of Trent; the Rev. Thomas M.
Parker, longtime chaplin of
came with the setting up of an
office to direct the efforts of
the 20 to 30 thousand volunteers,
recruited and trained by parish
priests, who are canvassing the
city for a million Family Rosary
pledges.
University College, Oxford,
comparing the Catholic reform
begun at Trent with the Angli
can reform, and Henry H.
Evennett of Cambridge Uni
versity, on English contri
butions to historical studies
of Trent.
The idea of holding the con
ference on Trent was approved
by Pope Pius XII in a letter
dated October 4, 1958—five
days before his death. Two of
the men who had been expected
to plan major roles in it died
this past December 14—Bishop
Pio Paschini, president of the
Pontifical Commission of
Historical Sciences, and Arch
bishop Carlo de Ferrari of
Trent.
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