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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 $8. “I’m Going to America!" Niary I i in one of the lucky lew. She w.is adopted into a Catholic family in the USA. Hut for every Mary I i there arc hundreds of I long Kong and Korean or phans who face a hopeless future. Will you give a home to one of these children? Only you can make one realiy belong. Consult your Catholic Charities Director, or write: Catholic Committee for Refugees 265 W. 14th Street. N.Y. 11. N.Y. for the West, but not their ac 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 Alterations iuxedos Rented "Clothes Tailored For You'* a if S TAILORS - CLEANERS Men's Wear 106 W. Court Sq DR 3-2366 Pecamr. Ca. LEWIS PHARMACY 2802 Piedmont Road N. E. PHONE: CE 3-5353 For Prompt Delivery Service FLOOR PRODUCTS CORP HARDWOOD AND RESILIENT FLOORING AND CARPET SLE - ROBERT C. HACKMAN, JR. 3224 PEACHTREE RD.. N.E. 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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." POPE JOHN FOR ORDER THE CATHOLIC Book Week Display at the Library of St. Pius X High School included this ex hibit emphasizing the global impact of Catholic literature. 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 JIMMY Murray, public rela 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: "The Vatican Council, in con fronting seriously the problem of anti-Semitism. ** OLD SARGE SURPLUS ARMY AND CIVILIAN SURPLUS Hunting, Fishing, Camping Equipment (Buy, Trade, Sell Most Anything) Hwy. 23 - Next door to Pine Tree Plaza Doraville, Ga. 451-3377 4.80 PER ANNUM Paid Quarterly . con mean HIGHER RETIREMENT INCOME! 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