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AT U.S. LEGATION
Silence Maintained After
Cardinals 9 Budapest Meet
VIENNA (NC) — Franziskus
Cardinal Koenig returned home
tight-lipped after conferring
with Jozsef Cardinal Minds-
zenty for four hours at the U.S.
legation in Budapest.
But it was announced immed
iately that the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Vienna would make a
second visit to Hungary “in the
near future," Cardinal Koenig
made the 280-mile round trip to
the capital of the communist-
ruled country and back in one
day (April 18). He had ann
ounced a month earlier that he
was going to Hungary to try to
persuade Cardinal Mindszenty
to leave sanctuary of the Amer
ican legation where he has lived
in isolation for six and a half
years and go to Western Europe.
THE 57-YEAR-OLDCardinal
Koenig traveled to Budapest in
a black Mercedes automobile,
reportedly accompanied by two
Austrian diplomats. He crossed
the border point at Nickels-
dorf at 8;30 a.m., and reached
the U. S. legation on the Red
capital's “Freedom Square”
at 11 a.m. It was understood
here that he stopped nowhere
before going to the legation.
According to word reaching
here, officials at the legation
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CARDINAL KOENIG
did not even confirm the fact
that the two cardinals met. A
legation spokesman said me
rely: “Cardinal Koenig arrived
today. He spent four hours in
the legation."
Cardinal Mindszenty, 71, fled
to the legation on November 4,
1956, in the face of a com
munist threat of death and w hile
Soviet tanks were letting blood
flow through dow ntow n Budapest
in mopping up the short-lived
Hungarian fight for freedom.
The Cardinal Primate of Hun
gary had been at liberty just
four days since freedom figh
ters had stormed the provin
cial prison where he was held
and released him. He was ser
ving a life prison term for
“crimes against the State."
WHEN Cardinal Koenig call
ed on Cardinal Mindszenty at
the legation, Hungarian police
were stationed in three automo
biles across the street, as they
had been night and day since
the Hungarian Primate entered
the five-story gray building 75
months earlier.
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Premier Janos Kadar issued a
general amnesty for political
prisoners on March 21, and
Msgr. Egon Turcsanyi, Card
inal Mindszenty's former sec
retary, was released from jail
shortly afterward. Msgr. Turc
sanyi had been sentenced to life
imprisonment in 1958 for
crimes he allegedly committed
during the anticommunist re
bellion of 1956.
THE DAY after Cardinal Ko
enig's return to Vienna, a Ch
urch spokesman stated that he
would return to Hungary “in
the near future to respond to
an old invitation of Hungary's
Bishop Endre Hamvas." Bishop
Hamvas of Csanad is acting
chairman of the Hungarian Hie-
rachy.
Mean while the Vatican has
released no information on
w hat transpired during the visit
to Franziskus Cardinal Koenig
to Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty
in the American Legation in
Budapest.
BOTH the Vatican Press
Office and Vatican Radio pub
lished a terse statement say
ing:
"In Vatican circles an abso
lute reserve is maintained re
garding the mission which
Cardinal Koenig has carried out
in Budapest in regrard to
Cardinal Mindszenty.
"Within the same circles in
particular, no basis has been
found for the news published
this morning by some Italian
papers regarding the Primate
of Hungary's possible arrival
in Rome within a short time."
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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 25-, 1963 PAGE 3
DOCUMENT UNEARTHED
Bishop Neumann
Was U.S. Citizen
MISS SARAH Wade is pictured instructing for First Communion Donna Oglesby of Decatur and
Vicki Ardito of Marietta. Also pictured is Miss Margaret Spohr who is the other instructor.
The instructors are Catholic members of the faculty of the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave
Springs. The sign language and lip reading are employed as well as religious educational aids
specially designed for the deaf children. The students, whose homes are in Atlanta, Augusta,
Albany, Decatur, Harlem, Macon, Marietta, and Savannah, attend the primary and secondary
grades at the White and Negro Georgia School for the deaf. The Sunday School is held on alter
nating Sunday mornings in the rectory of St. Bernadette’s, Cedartown.
TO NEGOTIATORS
Encyclical Cited On
World Disarmament
GENEVA (RNS) -- An ap
peal for realistic negotiations
as urged in Pope John XXIII's
encyclical, Pacem in Terris,
wah made here by a Brazilian
delegate when he "sought to in
ject a new spirit” into the 18-
nation Disarmament Confer
ence.
His appeal was welcomed by
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TULSA, OKLA. (NC) -- The
restored Catholic alcoholic
should make two retreats an
nually, one religious and the
other with Alcoholics Anony
mous, a priest said here at the
annual Pastoral Institute on Al
cohol Problems.
If he doesn't he may fall
back into his old drinking hab
its, said Father Ralph Pfau of
Indianapolis, executive secre
tary of the National Clergy Con
ference on Alcoholism, which
sponsored the institute.
"I HAVE seen alcoholics
whose drinking was arrested
through AA rush back to the
Church," Father Pfau said.
“They would go to Mass re
gularly and say their prayers
every day, but they got away
from A A.
“Sometimes after 20 years
such people take one drink—
and they are off again. Cat
holic members of AA should
make both an AA retreat and
a regular Catholic retreat an
nually. They must remember
that man is a whole person—
and they must continue to de
velop both sides."
About 150 priests from
throughout the country attended
the institute (April 16), held
under the patronage of Bishop
Victor J. Reed of Oklahoma City
Tulsa.
FATHER Joseph Carton of
Carmichael, Calif., told the de
legates too many people “still
have the wrong picture of the
chronic alcoholic."
“They think of him as look
ing like an unmade bed—a one-
man slum who spends his days
staggering about the streets be
gging the price of a drink be
fore he finally submits to the
prayer meeting at some settle
ment house in order to get a
bowl of soup and a place to
sleep.
"Actually," he continued,
"only three per cent of the nat
ion's five million alcoholics are
of the skid-row type. The aver
age alcoholic is still a mem
ber of a respected family,
but the quality of his work is
deteriorating, his former
friends are cool, his relations
with his family are strained and
his physical health is affected.
"HE IS the victim of a dis
ease which is a progressive
one and which will lead to in
sanity or untimely death if it
is not treated. He is a drug
addict as surely as the user
of heroin—only his drug comes
in a bottle."
Father Francis Kelly of Jam
aica, N. Y., said that a priest
should be “careful, dedicated,
considerate and very charit
able" in handling an alcoholic
who seeks his help.
"Listen to him interestedly
and impartially," he advised,
"but with a noncondemnatory
attitude. The alcoholic is very
sensitive to outward reactions.
He can very quickly tell whether
you are favorable or unfavor
able toward him. If the latter
is the case, he will very quickly
withdraw—and you will be un
able to help him.
"TO BE paternalistic or
point out where he has done
wrong will only point him furt
her toward despair. Nor will the
well-informed priest insist on
abstinence merely through will
power. Refraining from alcohol
does not solve the psychological
problems which drove him to
drink in the first place.
“The man who stops drink
ing in this way," Father Kelly
concluded, "is like the man
trying to hold his breath. He
can only hold it so long."
Britain, India and the United
States. The U. S. delegate, Ch
arles C. Stelle, expressed gra
titude to Brazil for having cal
led the Conference’s attention
to the encyclical. He said his
government had already wel
comed Pacem in Terris in a
White House message, w hich he
read into the Conference’s re
cord.
THE BRAZILIAN delegate,
Alfonso Arinos de Melo Franco,
said Pope John had acquired
“an incomparable authority in
our tormented century by means
of his noble personal qualities
and the spiritual preeminence
of his functions."
"The mild old man of the
Vatican," he continued, “at
tracts the confidence and hope
of the world because he con
fronts the conscience of the
great powers with simple truths
in simple words. He says what
everyone thinks, with the exce
ption of certain government
cabinets, certain command
rooms, certain political assem
blies, or certain laboratories,
where the destruction of world
peace is carefully planned.
"He tells us that without dis
armament there will be no peace
and the idea of security based
on a balance of destructive
forced in a perm ament pro
gression is a senseless for
mula. He shows us that the id
eal of peace in security can be
attained only by a growth of
confidence, by the cessation of
nucelear weapon tests, by real
disarmament under effective
control.
"HE REMINDS us that the
fundamental ideological cont
radiction which divides the
world today can find a solution
only in an international instit
ution strengthened in its means
and functioning according to
the principles of law and the
rules of justice."
The delegate added that
"these ideas are those of the
overwhelming majority of hu
man beings, who watch, terror
ized and powerless in the ric
hest countries of the earth, the
wastage of economic and scien
tific resources in the folly of
armament, while most of
humanity vegetates in ignorance
and poverty."
College Award
JERSEY CITY. N. J., April
18 (NC)—The Rerum Novarum
Award of St. Peter’s College
will be presented to Louis G.
Seaton, vice president in char
ge of the personnel staff for
General Motors Corporation, at
a convocation May 2.
The award is presented ann
ually to a Catholic who has
distinguished himself in the
field of labor-management re
lations,
FEDERAL OFFICIAL
WASHINGTON (NC) — Docu
mentary evidence has come to
light showing that Venerable
John Nepomucene Neumann, C.
SS.R., fourth Bishop of Phila
delphia, was a naturalized citi
zen of the United States.
Bishop Neumann will be beat
ified June 23 in a ceremony
in Rome. He will be the first
male citizen of the United States
so honored.
Proof of Bishop Neumann's
citizenship exists in the form of
his passport certificate, dated
October 13, 1854, and uncovered
in the National Archives here
by Father Michael J. Curley,
C.SS.R.
FATHER Curley, of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Monastery,
Brooklyn, N.Y., is the author of
a life of Bishop Neumann pub
lished in 1952.
The Redemptorist priest said
It had been believed that Bishop
Neumann was a naturalized citi
zen of the U. S. but up until
this time no documentary- evi
dence of the fact was known.
The passport certificate, notar
ized by the Notary Pulbic for the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvan
ia, provides such evidence.
Besides testifying to his citi
zenship, the certificate contains
a description of the Bishop,
who was 43 at the time. It
says he was 5 feet, 3 3/4 in
ches tall, had a "high" fore
head, hazel eyes and a "broad
and short" nose. It describes
him as having a large mouth,
an "ordinary" chin, dark brown
hair, a "dark" complexion and
a "broad" face.
Father Curley also uncovered
in the archives an official's
letter to Secretary of State W.
L. Marcy which accompanied
the passport certificate. The
letter says the Bishop "would
be pleased to have his title as
Bishop of Philadelphia ex
pressed in the passport."
BISHOP Neumann was born
in Parchatitz, Bohemia, on
March 28, 1811. He came to
the United States as a semina
rian in 1836, was ordained the
same year and was assigned to
work among German Catholics
in the Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
area.
In 1840 he entered the Rede-
mptorists and from then until
1852 traveled in many states
giving missions and retreats
and building schools and ch
urches. He also served in Pitts
burgh and Baltimore, where he
was rector of the Redemptorist
parish of St. Alphonsus when
he was named Bishop of Phila
delphia in 1852.
In Philadelphia he established
the country’s first diocesan
school system and established
the 40 Hours devotion on a per
manent basis. He died on
January 5, 1860.
THE VATICAN’S Sacred
Congregation of Rites in Febru
ary formally certified the aut
henticity of two miracles at
tributed to the intercession of
Bishop Neumann as a necessary
step toward his beatification.
Hie miracles were the cure
of J. Kent Lenahan of suburban
Philadelphia, who suffered a
fractured skull and multiple in
ternal injuries in a 1949 auto
mobile accident, and the cure
of Eva Benassi of Sassuolo,
Italy, of acute peritonitis in
1923.
Bishop Neumann will be the
third U. S. citizen to be beati
fied. The first was St. Frances
Xavier Cabrini, whom the Ch
urch recognized as a saint in
1946. Mother Cabrini, a native
of Italy, was like Bishop Neu
mann a naturalized citizen. The
first native-born U.S. citizen to
be declared "blessed" was
Mother Elizabeth Seton, found
ress of the Sisters of Charity
in the United States, whom His
Holiness Pope John XXIIIbeati
fied in ceremonies in Rome
March 17.
Low Income Areas
Need Our Schools
Anne Frank Father Sees Pope
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
father of Anne Frank, the teen-
aged Jewish girl whose diary
has lived on as a testimonial
to human warmth and dignity-
long after her extermination
by Nazi Germany, was given
a special audience by His Hol
iness Pope John XXIII.
K C Barbecue
A barbecue will be held at
the Knights of Columbus Co
uncil 4420 on May 19, 1963
from 2 p.m.
A portion of the net proceeds
from this affair will go to the
Youth Organizations of the Par
ishes of St. Anthonys, St. Johns,
Most Blessed Sacrament, and
Immaculate Conception, Admi
ssion Adults $1,25 and children.
.75.
Otto H. Frank called on Pope
John (April 19) accompanied
by his second wife. Anne’s mot
her died in January of 1945-
two months before she herself
came to her death in the Ber
gen - Belsen concentration
camp—her mind frayed after
the nazis routed her family
out of the hiding hole in Ams
terdam where they had cooped
themselves up for more than two
years.
Otto Frank went to Muppertal,
Germany, in May of 1959 to lay
the foundation stone for Anne
Frank Village, a center for
displaced persons founded there
by Belgium's Father Dominique
Pire, O.P. Father Pire contri
buted $20,000—about half the
cash award of his 1958 Nobel
Peace Prize — toward con
struction of the Anne Frank
Village.
ST. LOUIS -NC— A high
Federal official urged Catho
lic high school educators not to
abandon low - income urbam
areas where he said there are
Catholics who need their ser
vices most.
Undersecretary of Labor
John F. Henning spoke to the
second of three general ses
sions at the 60th anniversary
convention of the National Ca
tholic Educational Association
Henning citedfigures showing
that markedly higher unemploy
ment is found among low-in-
come minority groups because
they lack schooling. Predicting
grave social tensions if this
istuation continues, he appeal
ed that Catholic high schools
say in urban areas and help
the community by educating
teenagers of minorities such as
Pureto Ricans, Mexicans and
Negroes.
Henning said there is a ten
dency today for Catholic high
schools to move to the flour
ishing suburbs. He said this is
due in large part to the move
ment by the schools with the
majority of American Catho
lics who have gone from low-
income to middle and upper-
income groups.
"But this is leaving behind
millions of Catholics who are
in great need of your services,"
he said.
“Certainly it takes a sense of
sicial conscience to say behind
Named Consultor
VATICAN CITY, April 18 (NC)
—His Holiness Pope John XXIII
has named Ukrainian Rite Ar
chbishop Josyf Slipyj of Lvov,
who reached Rome February 9
after 18 years of Imprisonment
and exile in the Soviet Union,
a consultor of the Sacred Con
gregation for the Eastern Chur
ch.
in urban areas," he said. "But
whether you like it or not you
are facing the social crisis of
our time.
“In a historical sense, be
cause Catholic education’s
vitality came from its struggle
to help a lower income group,
you would be abandoning your
tradition if you choose the eas
ier way."
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