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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, L963 PAGE 3
PRIEST OBSERVED
Afro-Asian Conference
i
No Communist Gain
By Father Frans van Dam, W.F.
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
MOSHI, Tanganyika, Feb. 18
—The Afro-Asian Solidarity
Conference here was not as
procommunist a meeting as had
been predicted and there was
relatively little antagonism
shown toward the Church.
But communist influence was
strong. The Soviet Union and
Red China were represented by
about 25 delegates each and
many of the speeches were
strongly anti-Western.
IT WOULD be a mistake,
however, to consider all par
ticipants in the meeting (Feb.
4 - 11) as communists. It is
probably that a great number
of the Africans who joined the
Afro-Asian Solidarity Organi
zation and attended the meet
ing did so because they con
sidered it a means of obtain
ing their rights, especially in
dependence for their countries.
Nationalism, not communism,
drew them to Moshi.
Neither their speeches in
which they blamed and insulted
the West, nor their applause
and friendship for the commu
nists can be regarded as proof
that communism has won the
hearts of African politicians.
Their words and behavior at
Moshi may show their antipathy
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ceptance of communism.
TANGANYIKA’S government
was aware of the discontent
and suspicion caused in cer
tain quarters by its decision
to act as host to the confer
ence. Much of this was re
moved when Tznganyika’s Ca
tholic President Jilius Nyerere
spoke at the meeting’s open
ing. He made it clear that this
nation will continue to follow a
policy of nonalignment and re
main on its guard against any
power threatening its indepen
dence. He told the meeting:
"The question is still being
asked: Who is going to control
Africa? Those who are asking
it do not expect the answer to
be ‘the Africans. 1 The events
in the Congo have demonstrat
ed that it is possible for a co
lonial power to leave by the
front door, and the same or
different external forces to
come in by the back.
“FOR LET us make no mis
take: as we are emerging suc
cessfully from the first ‘scram
ble for Africa,* so we are en
tering a new phase—the phase
of the second scramble for
Africa and, I believe, for Asia.
As I have said elsewhere, the
second scramble will be con
ducted in a different manner
from the first, but its purpose
will be the same—to get con
trol of our continents. M
Only one delegate openly at
tacked the Church, so far as is
known. He is Dom Mintoff, head
of the Labor party of Malta,
who has been placed under in
terdict by the Maltese Bishops
for publishing an attack on them
in his party’s name. Mintoff
charged that "the religious sen
timents of the people of Malta
were exploited without scruple
(by the Church) to prevent the
suppression of imperailism in
Malta."
INDIRECT criticism of mis
sionary activities was voiced in
the recommendations of the
conference’s cultural commit
tee. These called on independent
countries of Africa and Asia
"to exercise a strict vigilance
and discernment in according
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It is difficult to say if the
anti-Western accusations at the
meeting and the personal con
tacts with communists have
tempted Tanganyikans and other
Africans to veer toward the left.
.After listening to some 20
speakers shower an attentive
audience with anti-Western
propaganda, a white new spaper
man lamented: "They are
brainwashing these people in
the hall. At the end it will be
hard for them not to believe
that the West is totally cor
rupt."
I
BUT AN African newsman
replied:
"I guess it is all right that
these delegates get the oppor
tunity- to air their views and
that all of us are Informed
about what is happening in the
various countries of Asia and
.Africa. It may be that some of
the accusations are false or ex
aggerated. Don’t be afraid. If
that is the case, we shall find
out sooner or later. We are not
children."
Tanganyikan Minister for
Home Affairs Oscar Kambona,
w ho was chairman of the meet
ing, stressed: "I think it is high
time now that those overseas
should take cognizance of the
fact that Africans also have a
brain." He added that Africans
"cannot be played with as though
they were little boys to be won
over by whoever is clever."
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CONFIDENCE NEEDED
Clergymen And Doctors
To Cooperate
WILMINGTON, Del. -(NC)—
Greater cooperation between
doctors and clergymen was
urged at a meeting of spokes
men for the two groups here.
Emphasis in the conference,
sponsored by the Delaware di-*
vision of the American Cancer
Society, was on the need for
clergymen and physicians to
take each other into confidence.
FATHER Eugene F. Clara-
han, chaplain at state institut
ions in the Wilmington diocese,
suggested during a summary
of the conference’s deliberat
ions that a plan should be drawn
up by medical societies per
mitting doctors to reveal med
ical matters to a clergyman and
allowing clergymen to read a
patient’s medlcai chart.
Father Clarahan said cler
gymen are taken into a doct
or’s confidence in mental hos
pitals, but the lack of time on
both sides stifles this practice
in general hospitals.
Summarizing the question of
whether, when and how to tell
a patient he is dying, Father
Clarahan said neither a physi
cian nor a clergyman may tell
a deliberate lie to a patient.
There must be respect for life
and truth.
Vacations Should Be Time
For Spiritual Rettewel
VATICAN CITY -(NC)— Va
cations must be occasions for
spiritual as well as physical
and mental renewal. His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII said here.
The Pope was speaking at an
audience for participants in the
first Italian national convention
for pastors of health and tourist
resorts.
"MAKE IT understood," he
said, "that during these periods
of vacation, of honest and law
ful relaxation, men must be
come part of nature to regain
peace, calm and interior quiet.
They must also resume a spir
itual conversation which opens
the horizons of supernatural
life and grace."
Present at the audience in the
Vatican’s Clementine Hall were
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Presi
dent of the Italian Episcopal
Commission: Luigi Cardinal Si-
Commission; Luigi Cardinal
Traglia, Pro-Vicar General of
Rome; and Archbishop Alberto
Castelli, Secretary of the Ital
ian Episcopal Commission.
THE CONVENTION was cal
led to deal with new pastoral
problems raised by the nearly
influx of about 20 million for
eign tourists into Italy and the
yearly vacations in the country
of about 20 million Italians.
The Pope spoke about
methods of the apostolate in
holiday resorts. He suggested
that priests should go to see
vacationers "almost every
where." They should remind
the vacationers "in a kindly
maruvr," he continued, of the
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tions official for the Atlanta
(Crackers) Baseball Club, will
be the guest speaker at the
First Friday Club luncheon at
the Elks’ Club on Peachtree
Friday, March 1.
sick and those who suffer and
also that part of the purpose
of a vacation Is to renew one’s
health. He said;
"One cannot speak of Christ
ianity—speak of it, that is, to
those who have been blessed
with gifts of the earth—with
out referring explicitly to
sacrifice and mortification, to
the willing and therefore
courageous sharing of every
man here on earth in the anx
ieties and sufferings of his
brothers of every condition.
At the opening of the con
vention (Feb. 18), Cardinal Si
ri told the 30 bishops and 500
priests present that the juri
dical structure of the parish
is inadequate and should be
complemented by a system tak
ing into account the constant
movement of peoples. He cited
a parish in the heart of his
archdiocese, Genoa, which had
8,000 Catholics a few years
ago and now has only about400.
"In the past," he said, "We
had to sanctify a world that
was fairly sedentary. Today
we have sanctify a world
which moves in a constant
hurry."
SINCE 1958 German Catholics have contributed over $42 million through the Lenten Misereor campaigns to aid the needy of
the world. Unlike the Adveniat campaign held during Advent for the Latin American missions, the Misereor campaign has no
religious qualifications; it aims solely at aiding the helpless of the world. At left, the various sides of the collection cartons
portray the needs of the down-trodden. In photo at right, Mr. D. R. Alexander, director of social welfare in the British colony
of Hong Kong, Inspects a school supported by Misereor donations.
Franciscan Saint
Held As Model
VATICAN CITY -(NC)— His
Holiness Pope John XXIII has
urged Franciscans to imitate
the apostolic zeal of one of
"your excellent brothers,” St.
Anthony of Padua.
The Pope’s exhortation was
contained in a letter to Father
Basil Heiser, O.F.M. Conv.,
Minister General of the Con
ventual Franciscans, on the
eight centenary of the trans
fer of St. Anthony’s body from
the Church of Santa Maria Mat
er Domini to the basilica which
was built in Padua in his honor.
The centenary falls on April 8.
"THE solemn centennial
commemoration which is being
prepared for celebrating the
memorable event offers Us a
propitious occasion to exhort
you paternally to devote your
efforts to molding yourselves
on the example of your ex
cellent Brother...
"St. Anthony induced many
others through ardent words
and shining example to 'bless
the Lord’. May the sons of the
Franciscan Order follow there
fore in his footsteps. Their
vocation requires that they per
meate themselves fervently
with the true doctrine of Jesus
Christ and also induce mien
through the manifold activities
of the sacred ministry to ob
serve it."
THE POPE concluded:
"We believe it is a design
of Divine Providence that these
holy Antonian celebrations
coincide with the holding of the
Second Vatican Ecumenical
Council which, trustful in divine
help, We convoked and lovingly
continue. This glorious saint
lived in fact in the age that
immediately followed the Four
th Lateran Council, and his in
tensive pastoral action was in
perfect harmony with the sal
utary decrees of that council,
and that was also why his min
istry was immensely beneficial
to souls."
TWO DOCTORS stated that
each patient is an individual
with differences and that even
doctors cannot predict death
with finality.
A third doctor advocated that
the physician and clergyman
get together to discuss the
question of "when to tell."
The doctor said ministers
or members of the family some
times ask him, "Why do you
keep the patient alive with all
those tubes and things?" The
physician said his reply is,
"You pull out the tube, don’t
ask me to kill him.”
DR. LEMUEL C. McGee,
medical director of Hercules
Powder Company, gave several
reasons for prolonging life to
the utmost, some spiritual and
some practical.
He cited the example of the
interne who had the seemingly
hopeless task of giving blood
transfusions to four elderly men
dying of pernicious anemia. A
month after leaving this ser
vice, he stopped by and noticed
the four men were gone. Sup
posing them to be dead, he
inquired and was told they were
well and had gone home.
Jewish Leader
Lauds Council
CLEVELAND (NC)—Dr. John
Slawson of New York, executive
vice president of the American
Jewish Committee, has hailed
the Second Vatican Council for
"advancing friendship among
all religious groups."
Dr. Slawson said he was pro
foundly gratified "for the lead
ership of Pope John in taking
measures which would help to
move the world toward a new
order of human relations for
all groups."
HE SAID he was particular
ly moved by the Pope’s decla
ration that "all men are bro
thers irrespective of the race
or nation to which they belong,"
and added:
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