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GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY 11, 1963 PAGE 3 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. 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