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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 RED LEADER Sharpest Polish Attack On Church Since Stalin Nuns, summer students at Loyola University, Chicago join the picket line formed by members of the Student Action Committee and the Catholic Interracial Council against the racial policy of the Illinois Club for Catholic Women. The club, founded in 1920, and located on the campus is the center of controversy over its alleged refusal to admit Negroes to membership. The club has been carrying on charitable work for many years without distinction of race, color or creed, on behalf of Chicago’s needy families. NUNS PICKET Chicago Catholic Club Color Bar Draws Fire Poland’s communist chieftain i has denounced that country’s Bishops in one of the sharpest attacks on eht Church there since the end of the Stalinist era, according to reports re aching here. Wladyslaw Gomulka, reports stated, told a convention of the Polish United Workers (Com munist) party that the Bishops are reactionaries who do not follow Pope John XXIlI’s peace efforts, and are out of line with what he termed the coexistence views expressed by the late Pontiff in his encyclical, Pacem in Terris. HE interpreted as an attack on communism the words of the Bishops in a recent pastoral letter, in which they said: "Those who drowned the world in the hell of wars were fighting Christ’s evangelism and His Church... We fear they will start a new war more cruel than all previous wars—anato mic war." Gomulka then declared that the Bishops "protect those who with the words 'Gott mit uns’ (God with us) on their lips, are drawing the world into the hell of war." "GOTT mit uns’’ was themot- to inscribed on the belt buckles of Nazi troops who invaded Po land during World War II. Gomulka continued: "So instead of a distinction between supporters and ene mies of peace, the Polish Bis hops introduce a religious dis tinction.” He warned the Bishops that religious bodies must choose sides in the battle between com munism and capitalism. GOMULKA’S attack - which came as reports from nearby communist-ruled Hungary in- * dicated that Christ-State rela tions are improving there—cli maxed reports in recent months of a stepped-up government drive against the Church in Po land, particularly in the field of education. The Red leader spoke the day before Stefan Cardinal Wyszyn- ski Primate of Poland, left Rome, where he had attended the coronation of His Holiness Pope Paul VI, to return to War saw. Reports here said that Church sources in Poland be lieved the Cardinal would reply to Gomulka’s speech on his re turn. In 1956, after a political shift in Poland ended the Stali nist period there and brought Gomulka to power, the Red leader made an agreement with the Cardinal which improved Church-State relations and per mitted religious instruction in state schools. In his speech the communist leader reverted to Stalinist tac tics in warning Polish writers and intellectuals that spreading anticommunist ideas will not be tolerated in Poland. Since 1956, Poles have had more freedom of express ion than peo ple in any other Iron Curtain country. SPEAKING the day before the opening of Soviet-Chinese talks on their ideological conflict re garding communist strategy, Gomulka reaffirmed Poland’s support for Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev, who has also recently cracked down on intel lectuals and artists. "Reactionary forces still try to influence the mind of the com munity," he declared. "Those reactionary forces based their activities hostile to socialism (communism) on the old clas ses, the activities of the old bourgeois parties. Those forces find the support of the Church’s Hierarchy.” Since the beginning of the year, reports from Poland show that the government has been taking increasingly harsh measures against the Church. In particular it has been re doubling its efforts to force re ligious instruction into the s traitjacket the Gomulka re gime fabricated for it two years ago. The religious instruction is sue was the main reason for the April meeting between Gomulka and Cardinal Wyszynski, which followed the Polish Bishops’ joint pastoral declaration that religious teaching would con tinue despite government har- rassment. THE pastoral, read in chur ches throughout Poland on April 21, reported many cases of ban ning religious instruction in private homes, parish property, chapels and even in churches. It said that fines of from 1,000 zlotys ($43) to several thousand zlotys were being im posed by the government on persons violating the 1961 law restricting religious instruc tion. It said also: "Since the beginning of the school year, state school in spectors have been banning men Religious from teaching reli gion in nearly all dioceses. In the same way, Sisters and lay people are prohibited from giv ing religious instruction to chil dren. "We will continue to teach religion, because this is in con formity with our conscience, our vocation, and the highest law codes of our fatherland: the constitution of the Polish People’s Republic, the decree about freedom of conscience and profession of faith, the (1956) agreement between the govern ment and the episocopate." THE Bishops took their stand after the regime had been tight ening up the screws on religious instruction operations all along the line. The government had promulgated laws which would give it supervision and control over catechitical training in the summer of 1961. But the Church stood its ground at that time, and enforcement of the laws was lax. CHICAGO, (NC) — The Illi nois Club for Catholic Women, which was picketed by Catholics because of its racial policy, has opened its doors to quali fied members regardless of race. this good cause (of charity) with us.” HER statement was read over television (July 9) by her son, Edward Dean Lewis. lng began: "We, as a private club, have every right to de cide who shall be our mem bers and only through this me thod can we continue to raise the funds to carry on our pro gram of welfare." m SHOUT IT FROM THE WANT ADS THERE’S MAGIC IN WANT ADS JHEwA Whatever you want to buy, sell or rent... whatever you want to find, from a lost umbrella to a new job... Want Ads serve you results "on a silver platter” ...at low cost. FAST ACTION FROM WANT AOS Wp” IT’S VERY EASY TO PLACE V'f YOUR HARD WORKING, INEXPENSIVE WANT AD.... Call 231-1281 and tin blindly dassHM girl will hip yta word your result producing advertisement THE GEORGIA BULLETIN The club’s president, Mrs. Frank J. Lewis, said in a state ment: "It is not our desire to exclude from our company any worthy, responsible, well-in- tended person...We open our doors to welcome without re striction any woman who can and has the desire to serve in STUDY NEEDED Members of the Chicago Ca tholic Interracial Council, stu dents and nuns had picketed the 40-year-old club because of Its refusal to admit Negroes as members. Mrs. Lewis said in a state ment Issued after the picket- US-Vatican Ties Urged By Paper BALTIMORE(RNS)—A study aimed toward the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Va tican was urged here by The Catholic Review, official news weekly of the Baltimore arch diocese. Urging "new consideration" of such a tie, the paper said that the "massive lack of pro test” over President Kennedy's visit with Pope Paul VI showed that such action would not have "divisive effects." THE Catholic Review noted that President Kennedy was on record as opposing diplomatic relation s with the Vatican, but said he had done so for fear its effect would divide the coun try along religious lines. "We can’t help wondering," the paper said in an editorial, "whether these divisive dan gers were not always greatly exaggerated and have been ren dered considerably less pro bable with the new understand ing and sympathy won for the role of the modern papacy by Pope John. "If in the near future the Holy See deems it advisable to establish some sort of new diplomatic contact with one or another Communist countries, how curious it will be that the United States and the Vatican can realistically give diploma tic recognition to atheistic, anti-West governments and yet cannot do so to one another in this fateful hour of history." THE Catholic Standard cited two New York Times colum nists, James Reston and C. L. Sulzberger, who advocated U.S. Vatican diplomatic relations recently. "As a Catholic," it said, "President Kennedy can hardly be expected to initiate a new consideration of this problem. It is even awkward for a Ca tholic newspaper to do so. Hence Mrs. JJ. Doyle The mother of Mrs. Ernest B. Duckworth of St. Thomas More's Parish, Decatur, died recently in Baltimore. Mrs, John J, Doyle, 83, is survived by her husband and two sons and four daughters** Including Mrs. Duckworth. The funeral Mass was said by one of her sons, the Rev. Joseph N. Doyle. we would like to hear the ques tion freshly assessed by com mentators like Reston and Sulz berger, whose objectivity may be more widely credited than that of American spokesmen who are Catholics." In a recent issue, Osserva- tore Romano, the Vatican City dally newspaper, hinted at the desirability of U.S.-Vatican di plomatic ties. Osservatore Ro mano is not an "official” pub lication of the Vatican. MEXICO JOHN A. McDermott, execu tive director of the Chicago Ca tholic Interracial Council, had immediately referred to the club’s refusal to admit "out standing Negro women" to membership as "immoral and un-Christian.” In her latest statement, Mrs. Lewis also said: "Our charity has been for all. Our club is for all who are willing and able to work with us. We are more than willing—we are eager—to take into our com pany all women of good will who share our concern for hu man misery and who have the substance and the free time to help us alleviate suffering and hardship as best we may.” McDermott welcombed Mrs. Lewis's statement. "We are willingness delighted at the of Mrs. Lewis to change her mind in regard to this matter and to admit Ne gro Catholic women to the club,” he said. "This is in the best tradition of the many good works of the Lewis fam ily.” Anti-Church Laws Rarely Enforced NEW ORLEANS, (NC)— Mexico’s antireligious laws are still on the books, "but by and large they are not enforced," a Mexican nun commented here. "We are still careful not to embarrass the officials by pub licly acting counter to the laws. We never wear our religious habits on the streets. Instead we use dark colored glasses when we go out in public, as do all other Mexican nuns," re lated Mother Maria of the Ob- lates of the Holy Eucharist. SHE and Sister Benigna stop ped off for a two-day rest at the Ursullne Convent here while enroute from Mexico City to Cincinnati. They are making the 4,500-mile trip by bus to learn how to bake better altar bread from a community of Francis can nuns in Cincinnati. The two Mexicans belong to a community founded in Mexico in 1945. The Oblates now have 55 members. The community was found for the primary pur pose of perpetual adoration be fore the Blessed Sacrament to pray for world peace. The nuns sew, make Mass vestments and altar breads. Some time ago Msgr. Law rence Walter, business mana ger of the Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati archdiocesan news paper, visited the Mexico City convent and offered Mass. He later commented to the nuns that the altar breads were not ideal quality. When asked how the breads could be improved, the monsignor told of the Cin cinnati Franciscan nuns, who have specialized in making al tar breads for years. MOTHER Maria, 52, is one of the original members of the sisterhood founded by Mother Maria Auxilio de la Cruz, who is Superior General. "Vocations are on the up grade generally in Mexico, es pecially in the active apostolate. But since our community is mainly contemplative, we are somewhat lagging in novices. The Mexicans are not yet well acquainted with the contempla tive life," Mother Maria said. Priest Leaves Bequest To U.S. SCHNECTADY, N. Y., (NC) —A Spanish-born priest be queathed $6,000 to the United States Government as an ex pression of appreciation forhis American citizenship. Father Jesus de Corcuera, 68, assis tant pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel church here, died last March 8. He was ordained in Spain in 1931 and came to the U. S. a short time later. He left an estate of $30,000 in personal property. His will, admitted to probate here, direc ted one-fifth of his estate go "to the Government of the Unit ed States as an expression of appreciation for the happiness I have enjoyed during my life time as a resident and citizen •of the U. S." SEPTEMBER 29 Council Prepares For Next Session VATICAN CITY, (NC)—The Central Coordinating Com mission of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council has held its third session and completed its review of the projects to be sub mitted to the council when it reconvenes on September 29. Also discussed was a propo sal for improving press ser vices during the council’s se cond session. THE session (July 3 and 4) was presided over by the com mission president, Amleto Car dinal Cicognani, Papal Secre tary of State. All cardinal mem bers of the commission save Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ar chbishop of New York, were present. Also attending was Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia, who is an under secretary of the commission. The session was to have been held in June but was postponed because of the death of Pope John XXIIL During the firstmeeting(July 3) the commission reviewed two projects, one on the missions and the other on the sacrament of Matrimony. THE project on the missions was introduced by Carlo Card inal Confalonieri, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Con gregation, a member of the cen tral commission, in the pres ence of Gregorio Cardinal Ag- aglanian, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagat ion of the Faith, and Archbish op Pietro Sigismondi, Secretary of the same congregation. Both are top officials of the councill Commission for the Missions. The project on matrimony was Introduced by Benedetto Cardinal Alois! Masella, Cham berlain of the Holy Roman Ch urch, in the presence of the se cretaries of the three council bodies that helped to draft it— the Theological Commission, the Commission for the Disci pline of the Sacraments and the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. AT its second meeting (July 4) of the session, the Central Coordinating Commission stud ied a synthesis of the final chapters of the project on the nature of theChurch (de Eccle- sia). The revised version of the project was presented by Leo Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels. Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P., Vice President of the Theological Commission, and Father Sebas tian Tromp, S. J., Secretary of the same commission, assisted in the presentation. Cardinal Suenens then re ported on the work done by the mixed commission composed of members of the Theological Commission and the unity' se cretariat on revising the parts of the project on the nature of the Church in which the two bodies have a mutual interest. Fernando Cardinal Cento, pre sident of the Commission on Communications Media and the Lay Apostolate, and Msgr. Ach- ille Glorieux, Secretary- of the same commission, joined in the presentation. After this, Archbishop Per- icle Felici, secretary general of the council, explained in de tail a proposal for improving information services during the council’s second session. Msgr. Fausto Vallalnc, director of the council press office, answered questions about the proposal. It was approved by the central commission. The central commission will meet once more before the open ing of the second session of the council. The business and time of the future meeting were not announced. tEWIS PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE CALL US: CE 3-5353 2802 PIEDMONT ROAD, N.B; ATLANTA, GEORGIA Leroy’s Auto Service Tune Up - Fr*ont End Alignment Automatic Transmission 4011 P’tree Rd. CE 7-1288 NELSON RIVES REALTY INC. 8669 CLA1RMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, SALES, RENTALS, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 NATIONAL ROSARY PILGRIMAGE ^ Me PPicPc TO LOURDBS and Paris OCTOBER 1 TO OCTOBER 9, 1963 Write To Dept. G. 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