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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL 18, 1963 The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary looks down on the entrance to St. Augustine's parish convent, Washington, D. C., near & sign designating the convent as a fallout shel ter in the event of a nuclear attack. The statue and the sign indicate the two extremes of the age- destruction or peace. Mien PRAISE Jewish Groups Laud Encyclical CONT. FROM PAGE 1 In another statement, play wright Dor# Schary, national chairman of the Anti-Defama tion League, observed that "there is much encourag- ment and hope" to be deriv ed from the papal document. "The fact that is is addres sed not only to Roman Catho lics but to men of goodwill may presage a new era of intensified cooperation among peoples of all faiths," Mr. Schary said. The League leader also point- YOUR ADVERTISERS SUPPORT YOUR PAPER SUPPORT YOUR ADVERTISERS ed out that the encyclical speci fically condemns racial dis crimination. "COMING from one of the world's foremost religious leaders," Mr. Schary said, "the statement completely answers those persons who seek to find sanction for racial bigotry or discrimination in the pages of either the Old or New Testa ment." He went on to comment that certain portions of the ency clical have great bearing on Jewish - Catholic relations throughout the world. Specifi cally, he quoted the Pope's call for Catholics to meet and understand people of other fai ths. "Pope John’s encyclical is a stirring message to humanity generally,” Mr. Schary said. "It also brings us renewed awareness that all men are brothers, responsible for each other and to each other, as well as to the God they worship." IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule fo next six weeks April 18-21 May 2-5 Women May 9-12 May 16-19 Women Phone 255-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N. W. Atlanta 5, Ga. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 85.00 PER YEAR Mail to: P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia t Name Address CHy — PERFIDIOUS TEWS’ Vatican Paper Denies Report VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Osservatore Romano, Vatican City newspaper, denied reports in "a number of newspapers" that the term "perfidious" was used at Goood Friday services in St. Peter’s Basilica in a reference to Jews. The adjective had been used in a collect (prayer) for the conversion of Jews at Good Friday ceremonies until 1959, when Pope John XXIII ordered it eliminated. The collect is one of several offered for the conversion of heretics, infid els and lapsed Catholics, as well as for the Church and the rulers of nations. OPPOSES PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS the prayer in the corrected form." Writing in II Tempo, one correspondent called the in cident "significant," saying it indicated the Pope’s profound and careful intention of ex pressing his love for all man kind." The service in St. Peter’s was attended by about 8,000 persons, including many of the cardinals resident in Rome and large numbers of priests and religious. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New' York, chats with Morocco’s King HasSan II, during an unannounced call at the King’s suite in a New York hotel. King Hassan, on a state visit to the U. S., had earlier paid a call on President Kennedy at the White House in Washington. Protestants Issue Federal School Aid Position ITALIAN and foreign news men present at the rites attend ed by the pontiff in St. Peter's, reported that Fernando Cardi nal Cento inadvertently insert ed the word "perfidious", and then, after realizing his mis take, repeated the prayer in the corrected form. Osservatore’s denial was contained in a 64-word state ment which said: "A number of newspapers, in reporting on the liturgical aervice in St. Peter’s on Good Friday, have said that the Holy Father had the prayer for the Jews repeated because the cele brant, in the course of it, made a lapse. This information is not true. Cardinal Cento showed no hesitation and correctly gave the prayer as prescribed in the new change." A VERSION of the incident— with which many of Italy's maj or correspondents at the Vati can were said have agreed — appeared in La Stamps of TUr- rln. "Because of an error of memory," the report said, "the canon officiating at the service pronounced the traditional phrase (’for the perfidious Jews’). "A surprised Pope, a frown on his brow, looked at Msgr. Enrico Dante (chief of cere monial). The canon, after a moment of uncertainty, real ized his mistake and repeated Requiem For Thresher Crew NEW YORK -NC — Francis Cardinal Spellman offered a Pontifical Requiem Mass here for the 129 men who went down with the nuclear submarine Thresher. Some 1,000 person, including several hundred Navy men, Ma rines and Waves, attended the Mass in St. Patrick’s cathedral The Cardinal Archbishop of New York, who is Military Vicar for Catholics in the U.S. Armed Forces, blessed a flag-draped catafalque that was symbolic of a coffin while a guard of honor stood at attention. The service ended with the playing of "taps" and the Star Spangled Banner on the cathe dral organ. DETROIT -NC — A veteran missionary has charged that present treatment of the miss ions makes them the "Cinder ella of the Church." Father Nicholas Maestrini, provincial superior of the P.L M.E. Missionaries in the U.S., says there is a "fantastic dis proportion" between resources allocated to the missions and those assigned to other Church programs. "IN THE midst of our current ’population explosion,’ we may well speak of the scandal of the loss of world masses to the Church because of our inacti vity and Indifference to miss ionary problems of the Church," Father Maestrini says in an article in his com munity’s monthly magazine Ca tholic Life. Popes and other Church lead ers have repeatedly placed the Church's missionary effort foremost among its activities, he says. But, he adds, "this doctrine is paid lip service In its laity." CONT. FROM PAGE 1 "The nature of this kind of religious establishment is not merely historical but eminently practical. What is the practi cal effect when the largest Ch urch in America uses its pol itical strength to demand public funds (it would receive 90 per cent of those millions of dol lars) for a purpose which the Church has always held to be the very essence of its relig ious mission? "Isn’t this de facto establish ment not only of religion but of a single Church? Isn’t this practical result exactly what the First Amendment was designed to avoid?" The study warns that the Church-State separation prin ciple must not be "destroyed piecemeal by accommodating the partisans of religious sch ools with expedient legislative compromises that become irr eversible precedents." It stresses that the "issue should be faced squarely, for the ramifications of our decision are of massive proportions. It will not be easy to preserve separation of Church and State in the next decade. But if we as a people continue to believe in the individual’s freedom of religion and in independence and integrity for our churches and our government, no effort to de fend this belief will be too great." The study deals with a series of questions concerning the ad visability of providing state aid for church-related schools. These include: "What was the intention of the First Amend ment? How have state and fed eral courts defined ’separation’ in relation to parochial schools? Do parochial schools serve a public function? If parochial sc hools received public funds, what would be the effect on pub lic schools in this country? Are there constitutional and per missible ways in which the economic plight or parochial schools might be eased?" PROVINCIAL CHARGES Father Maestrini, a former director of the Catholic Truth Society in Hong Kong, states that of 400,000 priests in the Church, only 25,000 are en gaged in missionary work, and of a million nuns, only 50,000 are in the missions. HE SAYS the average mission diocese receives $12,000 HNS At Shrine Hears Missioner From Africa Father Thadd.ru Kidd, OF* a native of Scotland, addressed members of the Holy Name Soc iety at the Shrine of the Imma culate Conception at the Com munity Breakfast on Easter Sunday, Father Kidd has been station ed for the past six years in South Africa doing missionary work among the Zulu tribes. "The aid went directly to the child or to the parent...no reli gious organization or school ac quired new property because of state action; none of the books or the process of transportat ion could be adapted or used for the teaching of religion, and the state kept complete control of the administration of all state funds." Therefore, the study con cludes, although there have been precedents for providing bene- COLUMBIA , S.C. Bishop Fran cis F. Reh of Charleston, S.C., scored both racial and religious discrimination in opposing a bill to give state tuition grants to students attending private sc hools. Bishop Reh said the measure is "discriminatory" in its treatment of church-related schools and parents who wish to send their children to them because it would bar financial aid to pupils in such schools. THE BISHOP also said that if the purpose of the legislation is to circumvent public school integration, "the Catholic Ch urch does not associate itself with such motives." "The Church...is against dis crimination in any form— whether it be economic, re ligious or racial," the prelate said in a statement submitted to a hearing of the Education and Public Workers Committee of the South Carolina House. The statement was presented Tues day by Father J. Fleming Mc Manus, diocesan school super* intendent. annually from Rome and on this is supposed to pay for food and lodging for its personnel, edu cation, hospitals, charities and other activities. The missions, he says, get "the crumbs from wealthier parishes, the pennies of school children, used stamps, discard ed clothes, a general collection once a year." "The fact remains that the missions, the most important work of the Church, have al ways had to depend upon begg ing for survival," he declares. Father Maestrini says "splendid opportunities" in the new nations of the world have been lost to the Church "be cause of inadequate efforts made to bring the message of the Gospel to them." ’Innumerable lives and sacri fices of heroic missionaries have been almost wasted be cause they have been deprived of the necessary tools to do their jobs," he declared. fits to parochial school child ren, previous decisions have been too narrow to provide ad equate foundations for direct aid to parochial schools. "TAXATION for religious activities is not just the first step toward establishment of religion," the study declares. "It is in fact already religious establishment — the same form of multiple religious establish ment that the fathers of re ligious freedom opposed in the 18th century... Bishop Reh called attention to language in the legislation de claring it to be "highly desi rable that thefreedom to choose among available educational in stitutions be extended and en larged" by a program of scholarship grants to students who wish to attend private sc hools. HE SAID that "in asserting that parents and their children are free to choose between publ ic and private education, the bill is recognizing and seeking to implement a fundamental right which is given to parents by God and is guaranteed and pro tected by the Constitution of the United States." He noted, however, that the bill specifically excludes grants for education in a church- related school. As a result, he said, "the very freedom which the bill proposed to ensure and implement is, in undemocratic fashion, denied to some citizens." As for the argument that the Constitution bars state aid to religious groups, he commented that "here we are not discuss ing assistance to institutions but assistance to individual citi zens, and there are no const itutional grounds whatever for discriminating among such in dividuals." "FOR this reason we feel that it is our duty to oppose the bill as long as this unfair restriction is retained," he said. In an obvious reference to the integration issue, Bishop Reh said he is "not unaware that in some quarters the pending legislation is interpreted as a means of circumventing the changes which may soon be re quired of our {Kibiic school system." "The Church, as is well known to all, is against dis crimination in any form— whether it be economic, reli gious or racial. The Church always strives gently and pru dently to put the principles of Justice into practice in every aspect of human relations." Gets Degree ATCHISON, Kan. (NC) — Father Albert J. Nevins, M.M., editor of Maryknoll magazine and past president of the Catho lic Press Association, will re ceive an honorary degree from St. Benedict’s College. Missions ‘Cinderella’ Of Church CHARLESTON■ SC Bishop Condemns All Discrimination PRIEST EXPERT Schools Should Drop All Socials MINNEAPOLIS (NC) — A priest experienced in youth work said here that Catholic high schools should drop all school-sponsored social affairs requiring dates. "Do not most Catholic boys and girls have their first date at a school-sponsored event?" asked Father Francis Kenney, assistant pastor at Ascension parish. ian ideals practically im possible to attain." Recommending that sports programs for teenagers be run on a parish and community bas is, he said varsity sports in school "kill the initiative of the mediocre athlete." The result, he said, is that most young people "don’t get involved in athletics at all." "Does not that date lead to others, which lead to steady dating, which leads to early marriage?" Protestants Use Clergy Retreat "IT SEEMS to me,” he said in an interview, “that all soc ial affairs and maybe even var sity’ sports should be taken out of the schools and handled by the community. And there should be practically no dating among Catholic teenagers.” He maintained that while some teenagers can date "sen sibly," "the majority can’t." "Some of our high schools have date dances for sopho mores," he noted. In effect, he said, the school was mak ing the decision on when teen agers should start dating. "We should let the parents make the decision," he said. "Only the parent knows when a boy or girl is mature eno ugh to go on a first date." THE PRIEST said many Ca tholic teenagers are "antl-cle- rlcal" in that they Ignore what they are taught in Catholic schools about marriage and sex. "The teenager respects the priest and Sister, but not their teaching," he said. One reason for this is that the sbhools themselves encourage "social customs which make the Christ LAKE TOMAHAWK, Wis. (NC)—A three^lay closed re treat for non-Catholic clergy men will be held May 20 to 22 at Our Lady of the Lake Retreat House here. Father Godfrey L. Diekmann, O.S.B., professor of liturgical theology at St. John's Univer sity, Collegeville, Minn., and editor of Worship magazine, will conduct the retreat. Bishop George A. Hammes of Superior, Wis,, has extend ed a personal invitation to non- Catholic clergymen to partici pate in the retreat, which will be held under the auspices of the National Catholic Laymen’s Retreat Conference. #©t lh« b*»t-i(lMr Control* Service INDIA: A BORROWED ALTAR 422^6 THE EMMAUS- WALK was a medieval custom. On Easter Monday families and croups of friends would fo on outlngfe or lone walks into the fields, forests and mountains ... It was, of course, in honor of the wslk Christ took with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. To them He appeared aa CJ vv * Stranger and they recognised Him ^ only when He broke bread at their table that evening ... In aharinc our ’’bread" with those In missionary lands we keep alive this spirit of Emmaus. Chrlat la no Stranger to the 350 good parishioners of the re cently established mission station of AYOOR, in the diocese of Change- nacherry, India . . . Their pastor, the Rev. Twmasso ManalU, celebrates Mass for them every Sunday In a Church of another rite. To build their own Church la out of the question . . . Even a shed for catechism InatrncUon of the children is beyond their financial means. Father Manalil asks $2,000 for this purpose. Your donation In any amount will be priceless to him! Tte Ptibtrt Mam Aid fir tkt Orier.ul Church GOLDEN MOMENTS . . . are few and far between in the life of a refugee child. Left overs are his daily lot. Even his clothes have belonged first to someone else ... So FIRST COMMUNION DAY i$ rightly a GOLDEN MOMENT for these little ones. No department store displays for them its beautiful white dresses and veils, but we can send one FIRST COMMUNION outfit for every $10 you give us . . . Oh, and as you seal the envelope, just imagine the eyes of the child who receives yoitr gift! MAY WE INTRODUCE to you a couple of young friends: ROWERTO MENGHESTEAB and MICHELE GHEBREIGZIA- BIHER. Their names may seem odd to you. but in their sincere desire to become priests, they are Just like seminarians anywhere in America . . . Right now they ere students at the Cistercian Seminary In CASAMARI, Italy. To return home as ordained prleste ready to minister to their people, each en« needs $100 a year for six years of study . . . „ you help them now, they will help you later with a share of graces from their Masses and good works. You can sepd this amount in any convenient way—$2 a week, $12.50 a month. $3 A WEEK Doesn’t sound like much, does it? You hardly notice spending that much nowadays. But did you know you can turn it Into a fortune? It’s not magic. Simply send about that much each week to a young novice In a Near East convent. It will add up to $150 a year, and $150 a year adds up to—just about everything in this case! ... For SIS TER BURKE and SISTER BENETT, of -the Sisters of the Destitute in Alwaye. India. $150 a year for two years completely pays for sisterhood training, completely prepares them to work as nuns among the most abandoned. Don’t you have $3 a week foe one of them? BE A JOINER! OUR MISSION CLUBS NEED YOU! You don’t have to go to meetings, serve on committees, or give up your leisure time. You Just send $1 a month for whichever club you dio©^ one more thing—send it with a prayer for our missionaries and they help! n SS s'bre" c *"* *» pffSr? - Aid. Children “ALA Cl OF GOLD . Provides for th« i ..a THE MO^CA GUILD .. ChsM^Sh” Bast fllissionsj^j HANOI CA1MNAI S? HI MAN, Preside* ' T» CAWoue NtAl mstw&fau ASSOCIATION 4SO UxlAfton Avw. at M. few York 17, N. Y.