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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963
THEOLOGIAN STATES
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Issues Transferred To
Tribunal Of Conscience
NEW YORK, MAY 21—Father
John Courtney Murray, S.J.,
said here that legal victories
in the cause of racial justice
remove the issue from the
courts to the “tribunal" of
conscience.
“When the limits of law have
been reached, as they have,”
said Father Murray, “the whole
issue in all its subtler/ of re
ach is inescapably presented to
the higher tribunal of consci
ence."
The Jesuit, a professor of
theology at Woodstock (Md.)
College, said it is up to indi
viduals to make tomorrow’s
news on the race issue, and
make it good news.
“We are not Marxists, We
reject the notion of historical
d> .erminism," he said. “But
we shall do well to take one
leaf from the Marxist book,
that reminds us of our Chris
tian duty to give history a help
ing hand toward the fulfillment
of a design.
“The design is not inscribed,
as the Marxist would have us
believe, in the course of sec
ular history; but it does exist,
as we Christians believe, in the
mind of the Master of history,
the Lord God of hosts. It is
the design of love, whose in
tention is human unity."
FATHER Murray spoke (May
20) at a New York Catholic
Interracial Council dinner
honoring Mayor Robert F. Wag
ner for his efforts on behalf
of racial justice.
A citation saluting W agner for
efforts to combat discriminat
ion in employment and housing
was presented to him by Father
John LaFarge, S. J., an asso
ciate editor of America maga
zine and chaplain emeritus of
the interracial council.
Father Murray said the
forces opposed to race justice
are doomed to defeat “and I
think they know it.”
“I think this is why they fight
their hopeless battle with such
despreate passion,” he com
mented.
HE SAID recent events in the
interracial field have been fully
reported in the press, but they
are not news.
“In a true sense they belong
to the past,” he said, “and in
the light of the past they might
BECOMES KNOWN
have been predicted. They re
present, tragically, the work
ings out of a past tradition of
injustice, ignorance, apathy,
distrust, even hatred.”
Mayor W agner, in accepting
his citation, said that the chal-
enge to civil rights had to be
met not only in Birmingham,
“but everywhere in the South.”
THE Mayor cited the Catholic
Interracial Councils throughout
the country and said “this or
ganization can be proud of the
role it has played“and will
continue to play “as the stru
ggle rages on and approacees
its climax."
The New York Catholic Inter
racial Council was organized
in 1934. There are now 45
additional councils operating in
different parts of the country.
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BONN, Germany (NC)—The
place where Archbishop Josef
Beran of Prague is being held
by Czechoslovakia's commun
ist rulers has now become
known, according to KNA, Ger
man Catholic news agency here.
KNA has reported that it
learned from reliable sources
that the Archbishop is being
detained in the Neureich mon
astery in southern Moravia.
The monastery, KNA added, is
under strict surveillance.
THE 74-YEAR-OLD Arch
bishop is in good health, accord
ing to the news agancy, and is
being cared for by four nuns.
In 1949, Archbishop Beran
was placed under house arrest
by the Reds and two years later
was moved to a secret place
of confinement.
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that the Archbishop was under
detention in a castle in Bohe
mia, that he was being moved
from place to place by his Red
captors and that he was ill in
an unspecified hospital. It was
even reported that he had died.
IN FEBRUARY, 1962, an non
religious organization to free
political prisoners, Amnesty,
sent former Irish Foreign Min
ister Sean MacBride to Prague
to try to contact the Archbis
hop, Czechoslovak officials
would not allow him to visit the
prelate but told him Archbishop
Beran was alive and well and
living in an unidentifiedmonas-
tery.
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Earlier Czechoslovak Minis
ter of Health Josepf Plojhar,
an excommunicated priest, and
a spokesman for the Czechos
lovak embassy in London said
the Archbishop would be re
leased if he takes an oath of
loyalty to the communist
government. They added that the
Archbishop has refused to do so.
ROME—NC—W o r 1 d w i d e
contributions to Catholic mis
sion work given through the
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith in 1962 came to a
total of $22,894,000—an in
crease of $937,000 over the
previous year.
These figures were made
public here by the Sacred Con
gregation for the Propagation
of the Faith in connection with
the annual general meeting of
national directors and members
of the supreme councils of the
agency mission aid societies.
FIDES, news agency of the
congregation, said that despite
the gain of close to one mil
lion dollars in contributions,
the Supreme Council of the Soc
iety for the Propagation of the
Faith was able to grant only
765 out of 936 requests for
special mission help. It said
that even in the cases where
aid was given, it averaged only
37.61 per cent of the amount
requested.
(The collection of the nearly
$22.9 million is a worldwide
figure which includes the
amount received from the
United States. It does not in
clude aid given through mis
sionary orders or individual
missionaries. The latest avail
able statistics for U.S. Pro
testant contributions to foreign
mission work show a total an
nual contribution of $77.8 mil
lion given through 44 American
Protestant bodies.)
Fides said that despite the
fact that “much greater con
tributions are needed,” the in
crease in 1962 giving enabled
the Supreme Council of the
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith to “give extra help
to very important activities.”
Among the mission activities
aided, it said, was the Society
of St. Peter Apostle for the
Native Clergy.
IT ALSO revealed the follow
ing specific disbursements;
• $1,851,600 for educational
work, or almost $500,000 more
than in 1961.
• $748,000 for maintaining
catechists—an increase of
$ 100,000.
•$680,000 to help overseas
Chinese—$60,000 more.
•$407,000 for social work—
and additional $150,000.
•$312,300 for student main
tenance—$150,000 more than
in 1961.
•$148,000 contributed to
ward missionaries’ traveling
expenses—an increase* of $50,
000.
•$179,500 for press activi
ty—a boost of $88,000.
•$140,700 for radio work—
$20,000 more than in 1961.
•$45,000 for radio work—
$20,000 more than in 1961.
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FLINT, Mich. (NC)—A priest
-expert in convert work advo
cated here that Catholics ex
change visits as a means of
bringing about Christian unity.
Father John A. O’Brien, re
search professor of theology at
the University of Notre Dame,
author and convert worker, told
the First Friday club of Flint
the drive toward Christian unity
“is a long, long road and it
will be a long hard struggle.”
But it can be achieved, he
added.
ONE MEANS is through ex
change of information between
Catholics and other Christians,
he said.
Father O’Brien suggested in
viting non-Catholics into Ca
tholic churches, rectories, con
vents and schools "to see us
as we are.” He said Catholics
"should get to know their non-
Cathollc brethren better” by
learning to understand their
doctrines, Bible and "beautiful
hymns.”
He also said Catholics should
attend “their potluck suppers
if they will have us.”
Father O'Brien, author of
such books as “The Faith of
Millions” and “Truths Men
Live By," said historians may
look upon the drive for Christ
ian unity “as perhaps the most
outstanding development of the
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protection of Catholic school children in crossing a busy highway, parochial school stu
dents in Minnesota, as in many areas of the U, 8., are still not allowed to ride public
school buses designed to protect schoolchildren from traffic hazards.
Orthodox Theologian
Urges Unity Efforts
CHICAGO-NC—A Russian
Orthodox theologian advocated
here a move toward reunion of
Christian churches by exploring
their “commom and separate
histories and traditions.”
Discussing Orthodox reaction
to the Second Vatican Council,
Father Alexander Schmemann,
dean of St. Vladimir's Russian
Orthodox Seminary, Crestwood,
N.Y., acknowledged some pro
gress has been made in ecu
menism in recent years.
HE CONTRASTED the pre
sent situation with the era of the
First Vatican Council. He said
since the 11th century separa
tion of the Catholics and the
Orthodox there had been an
independent development of
East and West.
“The First Vatican Council
(1869-70), for all Its achieve
ments, represented the com
pleteness of the separation and
a mark of Western self-suffi
ciency,” Father Schmemann
said. “In the past hundred years
the world has witnessed a re
covery of consciousness of
depth in Christian life and in
the church.”
He added that “although there
may be little hope, humanly
speaking, in trying to clear
obstacles, still we cannot hesi
tate in clearing a climate for
discussion.”
THE THEOLOGIAN, who was
an official observer to the Vati
can council from his church,
spoke of “the spirit w hich gives
new dimension to our strivings”
and added "although we may
not remove obstacles to unity
which exist and which shall
exist we are, nonetheless, en
gaged mutually in creating a
new climate, and this is, with
out doubt, progress.”
Appearing with Father Sch
memann on the panel at the
Palmer House (May 20) was
Father Theodore Thallas-
sinos, pastor, Assumption
Greek Orthodox church here.
They participated in a lecture
sponsored by the Reunion Cen
ter of the Benedictine Fathers
of St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle,
Ill.
In analyzing the differences
between the churches of the
East and West, the Orthodox
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theologian said “both East and
West from the two original and
necessary components of mem
bership in the church of Christ
as it was established in the
Greco-Roman world and this
duality is in no way something
divisive, but, rather, would ap
pear as a part of its very
form.”
FATHER Thalassinos said
"although there may be little
hope, humanly speaking, in try
ing to clear obstacles, still we
cannot hesitate in clearing a
climate for discussion.”
Father Regis Barwig, O.S.B.,
secretary of the Apostolate for
Christian Unity and chairman of
the lecture, said that evidences
of the dialogue for Christian
unity' are noted in many parts
of the world.
"The danger,” Father Bar-
wig said, “which most faces
the world is not that our striv
ings toward unity may not suc
ceed, but rather that they may
be discolored by a dishonest
and sophisticated type of intel-
lectualism which discounts es
sentials as non-essential, the
necessary as arbitrary.”
Representatives of Catholic,
Episcopalian, Eastern Orthodox
and of several other Protestant
denominations were present.
20th century.”
"ALL OF Christendom is ex
periencing a renaissance,” he
declared.
He pictured the Body of Christ
as being broken by the various
Christian denominations but
said “all now are seeking to
make that body whole once a-
gain.”
Father O’Brien said the
struggle for Christian unity may
take decades but Christians who
realize the power of prayer
know when understanding
“comes in the hearts of Christ
ians, God, too, is there” with
power capable of "bringing re
sults far beyond our ability to
Understand.”
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Baby Talk
Dangerous
To Kids
CLEVELAND (NC)—An author
ity on speech and hearing cau
tioned parents against teaching
their children “baby talk.”
Robert Valyo, director of the
speech and hearing clinic at
John Carroll University’ here,
told the Carroll Alumni Lunch
eon Club it may sound cute to
have a child call a dog “bow-
bow” but sooner or later "he
has to get the habit of calling
it a dog.”
Valyo said that almost 10 per
cent of children have some de
gree of school trouble because
of inadequate speech stimula
tion in their early years. And
for some, he added, the con
sequences can be “rather tra
gic.”
IF PARENTS wait too long,
Valyo said, before making the
transition from baby talk to
standard English then some
“unpleasant and perhaps harm
ful experiences are likely to
result.”
He said if a child is still
using baby talk when he gets to
kindergarten or first grade,
public exposure of his habits
can make him introverted, un
sure of himself, inhibited from
doing his best work, and often
a poor reader.
For example, Valyo explain
ed, if other youngsters make
fun of him for calling water by
the wrong name, all he can do
is wonder: "What else do you
call this stuff but wa-wa? That’s
what my old man calls it.”
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