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PACE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963
AT CONVENTION
Communists In South America
Catholic Press Concern This Year
AN ALTAR BOY NAMED "SPECK"
PROTESTANT SCHOLAR
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - NC —
The communist threat to nations
of the Americas v»as the major
chord struck at the 53rd annual
Catholic Press Association
convention.
Convention delegates, meet
ing in plush surroundings in
Miami Beach, heard several
speakers warn that against the
Red menace a waiting game in
a losing game.
WHILE some speakers stres
sed urgency of action, parti
cularly in regard to Cuba,
other cites the importance of
inter-American cooperation
based on friendship and under
standing.
The focus was on Latin
America, but there was also an
evaluation of press perfo -
ance at the first session of the
Second Vatican Council and a
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look toward the council's up
coming session in September.
The convention's chief speak
er, Pedro Begran, said that
Cuba is "an ideal center of
operations for the subversion
of Latin America, and the So
viets intend to retain their hold
on it.
Calling for inter-American
cooperation against commu
nism in the Western hemis
phere, the former Prime Mini
ster of Peru said: "No action
should be taken unilaterally by
any of our nations that would
assist the Russians in their
drive to divide the American
family."
BELTRAN, publisher of La
Prensa, a dally in Lima, Peru,
also said members of the Ca
tholic press can play a signifi
cant role in promoting Inter-
American unity. "You, as Ca
tholic journalists, can create,
in a manner far more effective
than most, mutual understand
ing," he said. "You, like no
one else, should be able to
bring our peoples together."
An exiled Cuban journalist
sounded a grimmer note by
calling for "radical surgery"
in regard to Cuba. Humberto
Medrano, former director of
the newspaper Prensa Libre in
Havana, said he was not asking
for "Military intervention by
the U. S. in Cuba," but for
"backing to liberate Cuba."
"WE want the same (amount
of) help to liberate Cuba as
Castro has to enslave Cuba."
Medrano said.
Another Cuban in exile, Jose
Ignacio Lasaga, said "the dan
ger that all Latin America will
follow the steps of the Cuban
revolution in a few years is
very high."
"In that case, the fall of the
United States would not be far
away," said Lasaga, a former
professor at Villanueva Uni
versity in Havana. He stated
that "the people of the U. S.
represent the last hope of the
free world, if it awakes be
fore it is too late."
A MORE sanguine note in re
gard to nations of the Americas
was struck by Father John J.
Considine, M.M., director of
the Latin America Bureau, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference. He said there is a
Catholic resurgence in Latin
America and it "will contri-
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bute just that small fraction of
added strength to the anticom
munist forces (there) as to
frustrate the Reds in their plans
for a continental takeover."
He stated that when this cen
tury ends, communist leaders
will say: "If it weren’t for that
Catholic comeback, we would
have gotten our hands on the
whole Latin American World."
Msgr. William J. Quinn, co
director of the Latin America
Bureau, stressed the need for
more knowledge by U. S. Ca
tholics about Latin America,
and particularly about the sit
uation of the Church in that area.
HE SAID an effort in this di
rection will be one objective of
the newly established Catholic
Inter-American Cooperation
Program (CICOP), which is
sponsored by the Subcommittee
for Latin America. It will en
list the aid of Catholic organi
zations in this effort, he said,
and will hold an annual meet
ing the first scheduled for Chi
cago in January, 1964.
Panalists at a general ses
sion of the convention agreed
that Catholic press coverage of
Latin America leaves a lot to be
desired. They called for more
in-depth coverage and on-the-
scene reporting. John J. Deedy,
Jr., editor of the Pittsburgh
Catholic, suggested that CPA
regional conventions be held in
different areas of Latin Ameri
ca.
The convention also heard two
Protestant journalists give
their reaction to the council.
Dr. Harold E. Fey, editor of
the Christian Century maga
zine, said: "Working against
effective press coverage was
a historically entrenched tra
dition of wariness concerning
the press on the part of Vati
can authorities. In operation at
the beginning of Vatican II, this
tradition did not preserve se
crecy, and the council bene
fited from leaks which soon
became numerous."
DR. FEY termed it "good
news" that Vatican press au
thorities are working to make
conditions more favorable "for
responsible reporting at the
second session" of the council.
Don Taft, religious editor of
the Miami Herald, said there
was a lack of realism in stor
ies originating from the coun
cil. Referring to the comment
of a bishop that there were
"no disagreements or factions"
at the council, he said; "We
may be regarded as a example
of correctness and noble be
havior."
THE CPA lauded Pope John
XXIII "for his outstanding con
tribution in the field of world
communications, and for his
continued messages, particul
arly his recent magnificent en
cyclical Pacem In Terris, which
aim to bring about a better
understanding among all men
of their International, national
and individual responsibi
lities.”
It hailed the National Con
ference on Religion and Race
in Chicago last January and
urged full support to follow-up
activities throughout the coun
try. It also praised Catholic
efforts "to implement the
teachings of the Church on ra
cial justice so eloquently ex
pounded" in the encyclical Pa
cem in Terris.
New members on the CPA
board of directors are Msgr.
Terrence P. McMahon, exe
cutive editor of the Catholic
Transcript of Hartford, Conn,
(three-year term); Gorman Ho
gan, managing editor of the
Catholic Sentinel, Portland,
Ore. (one year); and Father
Donal O’ Mahony S. S. .
C., editor of the Far East, St.
Columbans, Neb. (three years).
Reelected to the board were:
Floyd Anderson, manager-edi
tor of the Central California
Register of Fresno (twoyears);
William Holub, general mana
ger of America magazine of
New York (three years); and
Father Albert Nevins, M.M.,
editor of Maryknoll magazine,
Maryknoll, N. Y. (three years).
Anderson was reelected pre
sident. Msgr. Robert G. Peters,
editor of the Peoria (Ill.) Re
gister, was reelected vice pre
sident. Holub was again chosen
treasurer. At a meeting of the
board of directors held im
mediately following the close
of the convention, Msgr. J. G.
Hanley, editor of the Canadian
Register of Kingston, Ont., was
reappointed secretary,
quoted him, but don't think many
readers believed it.”
Msgr. James Tlicek, direc
tor of the N.C.W.C. News Ser
vice Rome bureau, said there
is a good chance at the coun
cil's next session that one or
more council Fathers, aided by
experts, will explain daily to
all journalists in the council
press center the official corn-
unique, making use of siL
taneous translations.
At a session on local news
coverage, Father John J. Grant,
associated editor of the Pilot,
newspaper of the Boston arch
diocese said that in some cas
es news not considered "nice"
should be printed. He said
"society is made up of sin
(and) selfishness and it is soil
ed some of it by Catholics —
ancTwe should be willing to tell
this story."
FATHER Leo F. McFadden
associate editor of the Nevada
Register, newspaper of the
Reno diocese, said Catholic
papers are overlooking many
stories "because the viewpoint
of the Catholic press today
is ... not universal in Its reach,
not broad enough in its scope,
not penetrating enough in its
compassion."
Gorman Hogan, managing
editor of the Catholic Sentinel,
newspaper of the Portland In
Oregon diocese, warned of the
danger of a newspaper becom
ing merely a journal of opinion.
"Catholic editors," he said,
"should take a long hard second
look at their spineless paro
chial bulletins— they junk the
hard news of their own dio
ceses."
In resolutions adopted at the
convention, the CPA urged par
ticipation in a 10-year plan for
information and education of
American Catholics toward
building greater inter-Ameri
can understanding and friend
ship.
ANOTHER resolution pledged
efforts to strengthen the
public’s confidence in the Ca
tholic press "as an Instrument
of man's aspirations to full de
velopment by the exercise of
responsible freedom."
Another resoluvon congratu
lated the Diocese of Miami
and Catholic Relief Services—
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference "for their unstinting
and continuing efforts in be
half of the Cuban victims of
communist oppression” and
commended all dioceses which
"Have Joined in sharing the
burden of resettlement and re
habilitation" of Cuban refugees.
“We want to thank you for blessing our tree house,
Father.”
MISSIONARY WORK
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Gets Doctor Award
The Guild of St. Luke, a group
of Greater Boston physicians,
chose Sister M. Thomas More
as the recipient of this year’s
Laetare Award. She is the sister
of Mrs. Arthur Q. Mathews of
St. Anthony's Parish, Atlanta.
The award, which is given to
an outstanding doctor in North
or South America, was given to
Sister M. Thomas More for her
work among the tubercular pa
tients in Lima, Peru.
SISTER Is a member of the
Marist Missionary Sisters
whose mother house in W al
tham, Massachusetts. She re
ceived her medical degree from
Marquette University and in
terned at New York’s Bellevue
Hospital, the first nun ever to
do so. She later studied at the
leprosarium at Carville, Loui
siana, and spent a year at the
Mariest leprosarium in Jama
ica, B.W.I. In the year 1961-
1962 under a fellowship grant,
she earned her Master of Pub-
Golden Jubilee
WASHINGTON, May 3 (NC)—
Father Francis J. Connell, C.
SS.R., one of the country's top
theologians, quietly marked 50
years in the priesthood by of
fering a Mass of thanksgiving
In the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception here.
A native of Boston, he joined
the Redemptorists in 1908 and
was ordained to the priesthood
in 1913. He has spent most of
his priesthood teaching priests
and seminarians. He was dean
of the school of theology at
the Catholic University' of
America from 1949 to 1957,
Dialogue Should
Assist Differing
On Right Issues
SR. THOMAS MORE
lie Health degree at Harvard
University where she was pre
sident of her class.
Since last August she has
been living in Mendocita, a
slum area of Lima, where the
Marist Sisters are working with
its 12,000 poverty-stricken re
sidents. Two other Marist Sis
ters also working there, Sister
Mary Frederick, R.N. and Sis
ter M. Paul Gabriel.
Gets Grant
Sister Francis Maureen one
of the eighth grade teachers at
Christ the King School has been
awarded a National Defense
Educational Act grant to Rosary
College, River Forest, Illinois
for a six week summer lan
guage institute for French. Sis
ter was one of fifty participants
selected throughout the U. S.
for this grant.
SAN FRANCISCO - NC—A
Protestant scholar said here
that one of the main jobs of
interreligious dialogue is to
help Christians begin "dis
agreeing about the right
things."
Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, a
Presyterian theologian and a
professor at Stanford Univer
sity, said "breaking through the
stereotypes and the misunder
standings" will enable Ca
tholics and Protestants to get
down to the issues that really
divide them.
"DISAGREEING about the
right things is what will begin
our work in following the will
of Christ: that all His children
be one," Dr. Brown said.
Dr. Brown, an observer at
the first session of the Second
Vatican Council, made his com
ments at a press conference
with two Catholics leaders in
the ecumenical movement—Fa
ther Gustave Weigel, S.J., of
Woodstock (Md.) College and
Father Thomas Stransky, C. S.
P., an American on the staff
of the Vatican's Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity.
The three men were here to
speak at the fourth National
Conference on Doctrine and
Ecumenism.
FATHER Weigel cautioned
Catholics against misunder
standing the true alms and
methods of the ecumenical
movement.
He noted that Protestants
have been working in the area
of religious unity since 1910,
but Catholics are by compari
son "Johnny-come-latelys" in
these matters. He warned that
Catholics, with more good will
than experience, could make
some serious mistakes in ecu
menical matters.
The Jesuit theologian distin
tinguished two different kinds of
religious unity—organic, in
which all Christians would be
long to the same church under
the same head; and cooperative
in which Christians would work
together in common causes.
While much progress has
been made toward cooperative
unity among Christians, he said,
"as for oragnic unity, that is up
to God."
DR. BROWN cited the cause
of racial justice as one in which
there is room for Catholic-
Protestant cooperation. He said
the national Conference on Re
ligion and Race, held last Jan
uary in Chicago, was a major
step forward in this field.
Father Strasky said His
Holiness Pope John NX III voic
ed "the spirit of cooperative
unity among all men" in his
recent peace encyclical Pacem
in Terris )Peace on Earth).
The encyclical was addressed
to all men "of good will" and
urged them to work for peace.
The Paulist priest also call
ed attention to the significance
of the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity. "For the first
time in the history of separa
tion in the Church," he pointed
out, "the Vatican has set up a
body to deal with the subject
intelligent good will."
IN AN address to the Con
ference on Doctrine and Ecu
menism, Father Stransky de
clared that differing views of
the nature of the Church are at
the heart of the disagreement
between Catholics and non-
Catholics.
He said the Church must
give witness itself to its status
as a divinely-established in
stitution.
"This is the reason," he
explained, "why Pope John
XXIII strongly feels that a
sweeping renewal of the church
is, at the present stage in the
history of Christian divisions,
a more realistic way to pro
mote Christian unity than theo
retical, inaffectual appeals to
'return' or smooth letters writ
ten to the World Council of
Churches."
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Carrollton Pastor Addresses Group
The dramatic contrast be
tween the father's position In
the ancient Hebrew times and
today was vividly presented by
Rev. Richard B. Morrow in his
talk to the Altar Society of the
Chutch of Our Lady, Carroll
ton on Thursday.
In the days when Jesus Christ
walked this earth, the family
home was known as “Our Fa
ther's House". The father was
addressed as "Master" or
"Lord" by his wife, sons and
daughters, and his decision was
law.
THE wife was considered a
possession, even as the oxen
and serfs, and gave total obed
ience to her husband. As
"queen" of the household, she
wove the cloth and made the
clothes, prepared the food,
ground the meal, carried the
water from the weU. She did
not eat with the men but stood
and served them at table. In
Public and at the Temple, the
women kept a distance back of
the men, and were veiled. A
wife could not seek a divorce,
although her husband could go
thf Jewish priest and secure a
letter to divorce her. The wife
would then be required to re
turn to her parents with her
dower property.
Hie sons and daughters, like
the wife, were regarded as
minors and the property of the
father. A son who cursed his
father was condemned to death.
WITH the coming of Christ
ianity, and the increasing honor
given to Mary, the Mother of
Jesus Christ, women were
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Pamela Parker, daughter of Mr.
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study in mathematics at Emory'
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students from Alabama,
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participate in the special pro
gram from June 17 to July 19.
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gradually raised to the status
of equal partners in the manage
ment of the home and raising
of the family, although subject
to the final authority of the
husband and always helping him
to earn his eternal salvation.
The father’s position in today's
world as the absolute head of
the family may be somewhat
dimmed but that does not alter
his status or his authority.
Father Morrow's talk was
given at the concluding meeting
of the Altar Society for this
term. A new slate of officers
selected by the nominating com
mittee was unanimously ap
proved by the members. They
were Introduced by the outgo
ing president, Mrs. Peter Cap-
pell i, as follows: Mrs. Ray
mond Harrell as president;
Mrs. Hubert Chandler as secre
tary; Mrs. Ryamond Gordon as
treasurer; Mrs. Cary Maddox
as parliamentarian.
In concluding her term of
office as president of the Altar
Society', Mrs. Cappelll was hos
tess at a bountiful breakfast
for the members. She thanked
them for their support during
the past year, and was, in turn,
presented with a perpetual en
rollment in the Purgatorial
Society.
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