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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963
CONGRESS
Pressure Increasing
For Prayer Amendment
WASHINGTON, D. C.(RNS)—
Pressure is steadily mounting
In Congress for consideration
of a proposed amendment to
the Constitution to overrule the
Supreme Court's decision bar
ring prayer and Bible reading
as religous exercises in the
public schools.
Intlal reaction was more re
strained than it was in June,
1962, when the Court struck
down the non-sectarian Re
gents’ Prayer in the public
schools of New York.
HOWEVER, it is proving
more sustained and, as reso
lution after resolution pours
into the Congressional hoppers
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proposing that an amendment
be submitted to the states, it
is increasingly evident that,
if agreement can be reached
on the wording of such an amen
dment, it probably could com
mand the necessary two-thirds
majority in House and Senate.
Ratification by 38 of 50 sta
tes would be required to make
it a part of the Constitution.
No action by the President is
required in the case of Con
stitution amendments.
If ratified, the amendment
would become the 25th Amend
ment to the Constitution. The
24th, proposing abolition of poll
taxes as a requirement for vot
ing in federal elections, has
already been ratified by 34
states and will probably be
come part of the Constitution
early in 1964 when state legis
latures that meet only in even-
numbered years go into ses
sion.
UNLESS special sessions of
a number of state legislatures
were called by Governors to
deal with an amendment on
prayer and Bible reading, it
probably would not be ratified
until 1965, due to a consider
able number of legislatures
that convene only in odd-num
bered years.
There have been only a few
sweeping condemnations of the
Supreme Court on the floor of
Congress following its June 17
decision on prayer and Bible
reading exercises in Maryland
and Pennsylvania schools.
Sen. storm Thurmond (D.-
S.C.) called it "another major
triumph for the forces of se
cularism and atheism which
are bent on throwing God com
pletely out of our national life."
Rep. John Bell Williams (D.-
Miss.) renewed his suggestion
that the Court’s powers be
sharply curbed. A number of
other Southern members made
scathiqg comments. Rep. Alvin
E. O’Konski (R-Wis.) announced
that he would object on "a point
of order" to prayer being of
fered by the House chaplain at
the opening of the session, but
he withdrew his threat after
reading the text of the Court’r
opinions.
IN general, criticisms have
, been restrained and on a more
scholarly basis than was the
case in 1962.
Typical was a two-hour ad
dress by Sen. A. Willis Rober
son (O.-Va.) who argued that
control over education should
rest exclusively in the states
and not be subject to interven
tion by federal courts.
His address produced a collo
quy in which several Southern
senators joined, Including Sens.
B. Everett Jordan (D.-N.C.)
John J. Sparkman, (D.-ALA.),
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Defends Liquor Ads
OKLAHOMA CITY, okla.
(RNS)—Defending its accep
tance of liquor advertising, the
Oklahoma Courier, official
newsweekly of the Roman Ca
tholic Oklahoma City-Tulsa
diocese, declared "there is no
thing wrong with sensible and
moderate use of any alcoholic
beverage."
It added, "Whatever the fan
ciful attributions of Mephisto-
lenian origin, there is nothing
in the Bible or Catholic teach-
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ing to make us believe that
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COMMENTING that com
plaining letters about liquor ad
vertising were received occas-
slonally, the editorial stated:
"The Courier makes no apo
logy for accepting advertise
ments of alcoholic beverages.
We may even go so far as
to cite the views of physicians,
psychologists, sociologists and
biochemists, who in a study
prepared by the California
School of Medicine, concluded
that ’alcohol is the safest most
readily available tranquilizer
mankind has.’
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"What ever the therapeutic
value of alcoholic drinks, The
Courier does not prescribe
them; nor do we feel it is our
business to warn people against
the enjoyment and moderate use
of such beverages. We are most
emphatic, however, in sound
ing alarm against abuses, which
have nothing to do with wise,
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"As a newspaper we make no
secret of the fact that liquor
advertising is an important
source of revenue for The Cour
ier. It enables us to produce
more economically a Catholic
newspaper which, we hope, is
both informative and entertain
ing, while at the same time
stimulating discussion and pro
viding religious instructions."
"TO those who object so
violently to alcoholic bev
erages," it concluded, "we can
only say that we are not for
cibly pouring them down any
body's throat. We also hope that
the opponents of alcoholic bev
erages will not try to stuff
down our throats their ideas,
many of which we recognize
as reflecting misguided Ameri
can puritanlsm, not to mention
outright distortions of biblical
teachings."
Appearing in the same issue
was an article by managing
editor Stan Twardy, "In De
fense of Spirits," which traced
biblical and historical refer
ences to wine growing and
drinking. In his introduction,
Mr. Twardy wrote, "This re-
; ply may also serve as a scrip-
answer to those Courier
readers who disapprove of liq
uor advertisements supposedly
on religious grounds."
The article upheld the posi
tion that "Jesus did not shun
Intoxicating beverages."
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IN an inspiring ceremony at Garrison, N. Y„ the first gioup of five Graymoor Friars as
signed to the diocese of Jatai, Brazil received their mission crucifixes and official assign
ments. The pioneer band will study the language, customs and traditions of Brazil and
will prepare living quarters for other Friars who will join them later. The Sister's of the
Atonement, also from Graymoor, will make their foundation soon in the same area. In
the vanguard group (left to right) are: Rev. Camillus Daniel, S.A., of Meriden, Conn., Su
perior: Rev. Leigh Martin, S.A., of Caribou, Maine, Rev. Martin Madison, S.A. of Jersey
City, N.J.; Brother Francis Bray, S.A., of Bloomfield, N. J.; and Brother Julian Stone.
S.A., of Malone, N.Y.
RESULT OF COUNCIL
Church In Hungary Seen
Improving Its Position
BUDAPEST, Hungary (NC)—
The Catholic Church in Hungary
began to come to life again
with the opening of the ecumen
ical council last October and has
been increasingly more active
ever since, a Church spokes
man told the N. C. W. C. News
Service.
"The late Pope John XXIII
opened the window of the Ch
urch," he said, "and the fresh
air also poured into the Ch
urch in Hungary, spurring not
only the higher clergy, but all
priests to greater efforts."
THE spokesman stated that
the Church’s renewed vitality
has been aided by a number of
friendly gestures on the part
of the country's communist
government. He said that many
Catholic priests had reentered
the life of the Church as a
result of a government amnesty
and that the government had
allowed a delegation of Hungar
ian churchmen to take part in
the ecumenical council.
(Meanwhile, it has been re
ported from Vienna that a Hun
garian government leader, De
puty Prlemler Gyula Kallai, told
newsmen there that Hungary
will approve the naming by the
Holy See of bishops to fill
Hungary’s vacant dioceses.)
THE Church spokesman cited
as evidence of the government’s
increasingly conciliatory at
titude toward the Church the
fact that it was represented
by three cabinet ministers at
the Requiem Mass held here
for the late Pope John and that
Deputy Premier Kallai spoke of
John XXIII warmly in a recent
SOUTHERNERS TOLD
speech. The whole nation, re
gardless of party affiliation, re
spected and admired Pope John,
he stated.
The upward trend of Catholic
life here, he continued, is con
firmed by two recent events:
Recently, for the first time, the
head of Hungary’s Religious Af
fairs Bureau, Jozsef Prantner,
attended the graduation ex
ercises at the Budapest Theolo
gical Academy and spoke cor
dially with Its dean. Abbot Janos
Pfeifer. The second event is the
recent departure of Bishop En-
dre Ham vas of Csanad and a lar
ge delegation of Hungarian ch
urchmen for the coronation of
His Holiness Pope Paul VI in
Rome.
PRIOR to his departure, Bis
hop Ham vas paid a visit to the
semiofficial Catholic news ser
vice here, Magyar Kurlr, and
told me:
"With overflowing happiness
of heart and soul I am going
to the papal coronation. I am
taking with me the respectful
thoughts of the clergy and mil
lions of Catholics. Clergy and
laity are standing with undivid
ed heart and will around the
See of Peter, the See of Truth."
On his arrival in Rome, Bis
hop Hamvas, acting head of the
Hungarian Bishops* Confer
ence, told Italian newsmen that
he is very hopeful that negoti
ations between his country’s
government and the Holy See can
improve Church- State re
lations in Hungary.
He was asked about the pos
sible success of the negotiat
ions— Interrupted by Pope
John’s death—between Hungary
and the Vatican regarding Joz
sef Cardinal Minds zenty, Hun
garian Primate now living in
asylum at the U. S. legation
in Budapest, and better condit
ions for the Church in his
country.
He answered that he is "op
timistic, very optimistic about
the possibility of reopening ne
gotiations and their positive re
sults.” He added that "on the
part of the Hungarian govern
ment there is good wilL"
Asked about the fact that Hun
garian officials had blocked the
appointments of bishops to va
cant dioceses, he said: "The
question of vacant diocese is
not difficult to solve."
Bishop Hambas declined to
comment on his relations with
Cardinal Mindszenty. The Car
dinal, now 71, entered the U. S.
legation in Hungary’s capital on
flovember 4, 1956, as Soviet
troops were quelling a short
lived anticommunist uprising.
The anti communists had freed
the Cardinal only four days
earlier from the jail where he
was serving a life sentence.
On April 18, this year, Fr-
anziskus Cardinal Koenig, Ar
chbishop of Vienna, went to Bud
apest and had a four-hour talk
with the Primate of Hungary at
the legation. Earlier Cardinal
Koenig had revealed that he hop
ed to persuade Cardinal Minds
zenty to go to Rome. After re
turning from Hungary, Cardinal
Koenig told newsmen that many
factors are involved in Church-
state negotiations regarding
Cardinal Mindszenty’s possible
depature. He said: "I do not
think there will be a rapid so
lution." He added: "I feel that
the very fact that there have
been contacts between the Holy
See and the Hungarian govern
ment represents a positive
evolution."
Northerners Face
Racial Problems
MONTREAT, N. C. (RNS)—
Northern whites will have a
"rough time" in the integra
tion struggle unless they im
prove their individual commu
nication with Negroes, a Sou
thern Presbyterian Family Life
Conference was told here.
A family discussion on race
relations featured a major
workshop at the conference,
held under auspices of the Board
of Christian Education, Presby
terian Church in the U. S. (Sou
thern). Leading the discussion
was Dr. Clifford Erie of New
York, secretary for interna
tional affairs of the United Pres
byterian Church in the U. S. A,
"WHEN a people is near its
goal of freedom, whether in Af
rica or the U. S.,"hesaid, "the
pushing and fighting starts until
the goal is secured, and we’re
in for a rough time, particular
ly in the white community of
the North, not the South."
Opportunities for peaceful in
tegration in the North, he stres
sed, could be implemented eas
ier if there were more wide
spread communication between
whites and Negroes, as can be
found in some parts of the
South.
"The church of Jesus
Christ," Dr. Earle added, "is
heterogeneous and God’s con
cern for every man should de
mand the response of brother
hood among all human beings.”
PARTICIPATING in the
workshop were some 60 fami
lies attending the conference. A
number of race questions were
raised for discussion by dele
gates. Many of them focused on
racial tensions in the church.
Discussed were such ques
tions as these: "Should an all-
white southern congregation ad
mit Negroes freely and trust
the Lord to guide solutions to
the ensuing problems, or should
the doors remain shut to Ne
groes as a compromise to keep
the white congregation toge
ther?
Cardinal Koeing was refer-
ing to the visit to Budapest of
a Vatican official in May when he
talked with Church and State of
ficials. He was Msgr. Agostlno
Casaroli, Undersecretary for
Extraordinary Ecclesiastical
Affairs of the Papal Secretariat
of State. The monsignor has
made no public comment on his
visit.
A few days after Msgr. Cas-
aroli’s visit, the Hungarian gov
ernment ldicated a willingness
to make concessions to the Ch
urch ami announced it had re
leased five bishops who had been
underhouse arrest-although the
bishops did not return to their
Sees—-and also freed about 70
of the some 100 priests in Hun
garian Prisons. Earlier—
in March— Msgr. Egon
Turcsanyi, Cardinal Minds
zenty’s former secretary, and
a dozen other priests were
released from jail under an am
nesty for political prisoners
proclaimed by Premier Janos
Kadar.
At the time of their release
Premier Kadar stated that out
standing Church-State pro
blems in Hungary could be sol
ved in a mutually satisfactory
manner.)
COUNCIL MAY
Draw Christians
And Jews Closer
CINCINNATI, (NC)—A priest
expert on Christian-Jewish re
lations said "there is every
reason to hope that the coun
cil will have something to say
on the ties that bind Christians
and Jews together."
more than once to this klndship
and its several implications. If
the council lasts long enough to
take up...many of the Issues
the Church and the world face
today, it will notbypass the spi
ritual bond*—I sincerely hope."
Msgr. John Oesterreicher
said here that these ties are "of
a truly ecumenical nature since
both Christians and Jews con
sider themselves, and are, sons
of Abraham,"
THE monsignor is director of
the Institute of Judaeo-Chris-
tlan Studies at Seton Hall Uni
versity, South Orange, N. J„ and
a member of the Vatican Secre
tariat for Promoting Christian
Unity. He made his statement
during a visit here.
He said that "at no time was
there contemplated or drafted a
mere condemnation of anti-Se
mitism by the (Second Vatican)
counsil.”
"The Church has denounced
anti-Semitism several times in
the past,” he continued, "and
these denunciations stand. They
will remain in force. The coun
cil, however, as envisaged by
Pope John and equally, I am
sure, by Pope Paul, is not to
issue or reiterate condemna
tions but to make Catholics
everywhere see the great pro
blems of today in a fresh and
positive light."
(Father Gustave Weigel, S.J.,
theologian at Woodstock (Md.)
College, stated in Atlantic City
recently that a statement on an
ti-Semitism was prepared for
the council's first session last
fall. But it was not presented,
he said, because, though theo
logical in nature, it might be
mlscontrued by the Arab states
as a political statement. He said
that for the same reason he
does not expect the council’s
second session, opening Sep
tember 29, to adopt a statement
condemning anti-Semitism).
MSGR. Oesterreicher said
the Christian-Jewish relation
ship is a deeply human one,
and the council "dealt with this
aspect when it solemnly pro
claimed die dignity of every
human person, and the brother
hood of men that exists and must
be made more and more opera
tive among individuals, nations,
races and continents."
"The Christian-Jewish rela
tionship is further one among
heirs...of a basically common
heritage, the heritage of Holy
Scripture," he stated. "The
recent popes—Pius XI, Pius
XII and John XXIII—referred
Msgr. Oesterreicher recall
ed that "long before Jewish or
ganizations placed before the
Secretariat for (Promoting)
Christian Unity a list of their
wishes, the Institute of Judaeo-
Christian Studies at Seton Hall
University petitioned...that the
council continue the work of re
conciliation and amity between
Christians and Jews so fervent
ly pursued by Pope John."
"Whenever a story of this
kind appears in the press, one
or the other Arab state pro
tests. I said, state. At no time,
to my knowledge, has an Arab
bishop opposed a statement by
the council seeking to streng
then the religious as well as
human bond between Christians
and Jews."
Msgr. Oesterreicher said
"no one knows what the council^
will decide on this or any other
matter...but there is every like
lihood that the Second Vatican
Councll...will promote the spi
rit of dialogue and friendship
between Christians and Jews."
He noted that, according to
press reports, Augustin Cardi
nal Bea, S. J., president of the
Unity Secretariat, had discus
sed in his first audience with
Pope Paul "the state of Catho-
lic-Jewish relations."
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