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PAGE 6 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963
IN BASEBALL
Catholic Profiles
BY RONDEL
Batting practice at Candlestick park was getting to its final
stages with the New York Mets taking their last cuts before the
final bell which would signal the teams to leave the field and
begin infield.
One of the last persons in the batting cage for the Gotham nine
was ports ide hitting veteran Duke Snider.
As he rocked two consecutive pitches out of the park Snider
turned and left the batting cage with a smile on his face.
Visibly he was not the Duke of Old. No longer did he play ever-
day and terrorize pitchers as he did in his prime five possibly
six seasons ago.
Yes, the old Duke of Flatbush
was no more, but the Duke that
had returned homeafter an absence
of four years was greeted like the
blbical prodigal son.
He still plays with all the hustle
and zest of a rookie, even though
he is approaching the 40 mark.
A member of the original Brook
lyn Bombers, Snider is third in
the all-time National League homerun parade.
With one more good season he could Join the select club of
players that have poled 400 or more homers in their careers.
As the Duke smiled and walked toward the group of reporters
gathered around the cage he said, "It feels pretty good to be
playing in New York again. Just like old times. The fans are
great, and even though we don't have a winning club they display
more loyalty and enthusiasm than fans I've seen in first division
towns.
It is unlikely that Snider, aravocado rancher in Fallbrook, Cali
fornia will ever again appear in a world series, but if, by some
quirk of fate he should ever make it to another fall classic he
will undoubtedly set new series marks.
At present he trails only the great Bab* Ruth in series homers,
having smashed 14 roundtrippers in six October appearances.
He holds the series mark for having hit four homers in one series,
having accomplished the feat three times.
Edwin Duke Snider is a quiet man. He accepted his trade to
the Mets as nothing more than a facet of the game. Undoubtedly
he was disappointed, but not to the point that some veterans
might have been. Where others would have quit, or complained,
he went, disappointed, but willingly.
On and off the field, Duke possesses a great personality and
sense of humor. While speaking at a banquet Immediately
after the formation of the Meta he quipped, "The only reason they
put this club together and got me and Stengel together is so we'll
quit beating each others brains out in the series."
Practically lost In the shadow of his hitting heroics Is his
outstanding fielding. The Duke has been acclaimed one of the top
centerflelders of all time, bar none. He has made many catches
which most fans thought impossible, and he owns one of the stron
gest throwing arms in the game.
His playing years are rapidly diminishing but the Duke con
tinues to be a steadying influence on the Meta* younger ball
players.
Young Jim Hickman, Duke's understudy claims that Snider
h/u taught him hundreds of helpful little hints on how to play
the hitters, and secrets about different pitchers.
"You wouldn’t expect to learn these kind of things from some
one whose Job you're trying to take," says Hickman. "Duke Is
Just one hell of a nice guy."
The Duke of Flatbush is finally back In Flatbush, but no one
will be surprised If he finds himself enshrined in Cooperstown.
DUKE
SNIDER
MR. AND MRS. James Phillips Carow were married Saturday In
the Cathedral of Christ the King. Mrs. Carow la the former Miss
Moiiie Beth Moran, of Atlanta and is a relative of John England,
first Catholic bishop of Georgia and the Carolines. The wedding
was performed by Msgr. Jospeh G. Cassidy.
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CONGRESSIONAL FIRST
Prayer In House
By Negro Priest
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A Ne
gro priest from Mississippi
opened a session of the House
of Representatives with a pray
er that Americans "may now at
last have the courage to meet
the challenge of this crucial
hour"—the racial issue.
Father Harold R. Perry S.V.D.,
rector of St. Augustine's Semi
nary of the Society of the Di
vine Word at Bay St. Louis,
Miss., asserted (July 8):“Too
long have we ignored Your laws,
O God, Giver of human dig
nity and human rights."
THE text of Father Perry’s
prayer follows:
may keep its promise to the
world to be the home of free
dom and brotherhood for all.
Too long have we ignored Your
laws, O God, Giver of human
dignity and human rights.
"Grant that we may now at
last have the courage to meet
the challenge of this crucial
hour to seize this historic op
portunity You have given us for
healing an ancient rupture in
our national family, All these
favors and blessing we beg in
the Name of the Father, and
of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit. Amen."
US IMAGE has been much in the news as President Kennedy's by Cardinal Cushing of Boston. Right, Secretary Dean Rusk con-
visit to Italy all but coincided with the coronation of Pope Paul VL fers informally with Vatican Secretary of State Amleto Cardinal
Left, above, the President, on his visit to the North American Cicognani, who was Apostolic Delegate to the US for 25 years,
College, is presented with gifts from the late Pope John XXIII and has known many American government leaders.
ATTORNEY STATES
School Aid Not Constitutional Issue
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ (NC)— A
prominent Pennsylvania at
torney believes the Catholic
layman is the key to the change
in public opinion on the quest
ion of federal aid to private
and parochial schools.
William B. Ball, general
counsel of the Pennsylvania
Catholic Welfare Committee,
said in an interview here that
change in public opinion on the
federal aid to education issue
is coming about "because we
Catholics have been willing in
creasingly to enter into dis
cussion with non-Catholics on
these and other civic Issues
which have a religious tie."
CATHOLIC schools are gene
rally misunderstood by non-
Catholics through lack of know
ledge and "inherited fears,"
he said, and Catholics them
selves are the key to enlight
enment.
MOSLEM FANATICS
The idea of the "wall of se
paration of Church and State"
is not referred to in the Con
stitution and is not the basic
problem in parochial school
air# Ball believes. He explained
Row the "constitutional issue,
when you look at it, vanishes."
The First Amendment, so of
ten used for support of Church-
State issues, says only that
"Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof. . .."
A 1961 decision of the Sup
reme Court, the attorney point
ed out, has defined the legal
meaning of "religion," and ex
pands its definition to Include
nonthelstlc religion ( secular
humanism and ethical culture).
BALL described, for ex
ample. a Maryland court case
wharf a man to be sworn in
Lebanese Convert
Threatened By UAR
DUESSELDORF, Germany,
(NC)—A young Catholic convert
from Islam is living in hiding
here because he fears he will
be murdered by Moslem fana
tics and persons connected with
the United Arab Republic Em
bassy who wanted to prevent
his Baptism.
He is aLebanese>born Egyp
tian—John JCamal Rouahy, 22—
who was baptized under police
protection last month follow
ing threats of violence from
Moslem students who were
actively supported by Abdel
Chaafi of the U.A.R. embassy.
He claims that he was for
cibly held for two days at the
Embassy where threats were
made against his own life and
the life of the priest who lat
er baptized him.
ROUSHY came here from
Egypt to take a job as an ap
prentice in a Duesseldorf fac
tory, where he had contact with
Catholic circles and decided
to become a convert. While
here, he met Father Lukas
Malik, O.P., a brother of Char
les Malik, former Lebanese
Foreign Minister and once a
president of the United Nations
General Assembly.
Father Malik is the founder
of the Rainbow, an association
of leading citizens here which
seeks to aid young people from
Asia and Africa who are work
ing and studying in Germany.
The Rainbow tries to find them
homes with German families
and bring them into contact
with German youths.
Father Malik instructed Rou-
shy for Baptism, which was to
take place on Easter. On Good
Friday, however, Arab students
besieged the house, where Rou-
ihy was living with a German
Catholic family named Hahnen.
THE next day an Egyptian
came to see him on behalf of
the U.A.R. embassy In Bonn
and persuaded him to go to the
German capital to dlacuas the
matter with embassy officials.
Rouahy was accompanied to
Bonn by Father Malik and Mr.
and Mrs. Hahnen.
Mr. Hahnen went to the em
bassy and told an official there
that Roushy was willing to talk
with a representative of the
embassy at a neutral place.
Members of the Embassy's cul
tural department then met Rou
shy at a nearby restaurant.
They demanded that he go with
them to the Embassy where,
they said, he should put through
a telephone call to his father
to tell him about his plans.
They said Roushy could be back
in Duesseldorf within two hours.
Roushy was not able to re
turn to Duesseldorf for two
days, thus missing his sche
duled Baptism. But, he re
ported, on Easter Monday he
was able to escape and ask for
the protection of the German
police. The police took him at
once to a secret place and tape-
recorded his report of what
had happened to him at the
embassy.
HE said embassy officials
told him that Father Malik Is
a Zionist agent who uses hypno
tism on young Arab students
In Germany to promote his own
political aims. They also told
him that the priest is paid $125
for every Arab he baptizes,
Roushy declared.
Embassy officials, he con
tinued, warned him that If he
were baptized, he would be con
sidered a traitor to Islam and
the Arab nations, and forcibly
sent back to the U.A.R. and
treated as a spy. Roushy said
they added that a plan had
been worked out to prevent
his Baptism by stabbing him and
kidnapping Father Malik and
drowning him in the Rhine Ri
ver.
On June 2, Roushy was taken
under police protection to the
Dominican monastery here and
baptized by Father Malik, tak
ing the name of John. During
the ceremony the monastery
was guarded inside and out by
police.
The U.A.R. embassy has re
fused to comment on the case
save to tell newsmen: "We
know nothing about it. It must
be Zionist propaganda." The
embassy has also refused to
see a lawyer representing Rou
shy and father Malik. The at
torney, however, has informed
the German Foreign Ministry
about the matter.
as a notary public refused to
take the oath which required
him to swear to "Almighty
God." "I do not believe in
God," he told the courts, and
the courts responded to his
appeal by saying that nonbelief
is equated with religion, that
there are beliefs not based on
belief in God. Thus, by its de
cision, Ball said, "the court
says clearly that secularism is
a religion."
The Pennsylvania attorney
reasons that if secular human
ism is backed in the public
schools, the public dollar "can
also be used to help support
schools where other religions
are preferred."
If Federal aid were approved
for all schools, Ball does not
believe a "proliferation of ..our
private religious schools would
break out, because it takes t
tremendous number of teac
hers, facilities, money and tra
dition, and tht requirements are
rugged."
THERE is a general miscon
ception of what Catholic schools
provide, Ball said. "We've got
to bring Catholic education out
of the closet," he added.
This , he said, is now be
ing aided by the layman in his
new willingness to speak in his
community—and not leave die
total talk of Church to the cler
gy*
"Part ox our Catholic school
system is inferior," he admit
ted, "but not inferior to the
public school system, because
they have the same problems,
l say we have good, bad and
Pope Asks Aid
From Women
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Pope
Paul VI, addressing leaders of
the Women’s Union of Italian
Catholic Action, called on all
Catholic women to give greater
assistance to their parishes and
dioceses.
He also asked women to pro
mote a "community sense of
Christian living" and to follow
their priests in the practice of
self-denial.
NOTING that as Archbishop of
Milan he had watched with inte
rest die work of the Women’s
Union, the Pope said he was
“fully conscious of the spiri
tuality that sustains you in your
work and apostolate."
Members of the Women's Un
ion were in Rome for a meeting
under the general theme of
“Apoatleshlp and Pastoral."
Referring to this theme, the
Pope told the women that pas
toral "means above all the ex
exercise of responsible minis
try."
PRIESTS, he said, are bound
to perform acts of "advantage"
to others, and, following the
example of Christ, "must offer
their lives for thtir sheep and
for the souls of tht faithful."
Pope Paul also received youth
leaders of Italian Catholic Ac
tion at a separate audience and
reminded them of his love for
youth and his concern for their
problems.
"One cannot conceive of an
efficient pastoral care without
assistance to young people who
must be carefully and assidu
ously protected," he said.
mediocre schools, and so do
th’ey.”
"THE tide is definitely turn
ing on the school aid question;
that is very clear," he said.
He cited former secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
Abraham Rlblcoff, and news
paperman Walter Lippmann as
two prominent figures who no
longer turn their backs on the
idea of aid to private or paro
chial schools. He also men
tioned Dr. Robert M. Hutchins,
a noted Protestant educator,
yho in recent magazine article
calls the walls of separation be
tween Church and State as a
deterrent to school aid "a dan
gerous myth."
"The most forward looking
people in the country are now
leading us to a whole new atti
tude in this area," Ball said.
And, he believes even Presi
dent Kennedy, "who had not been
properly briefed in the matter"
is "showing a sign of thaw."
Ball added, however, "We're
not for Federal aid unless the
other guy (public school) gets
it too— and we don’t want
Federal control in any of the
schools."
"Most gracious God, Father
of all of us, inspire, we be
seech Thee, Americans every
where with the spirit of love
and justice, that we may live
together as brothers in charity
and peace. Bestow Thy boun
tiful blessing on our esteemed
public leaders assembled here
at this great center of power
to make decisions that will
shape the destinies of million
of Americans.
"Let mighty voices of jus
tice be raised by those of great
hearts, farsighted vision and
strong faith, that this nation
Southern Bishop
Blesses Boats
GLOUCESTER, Mass., (NC)
—Bishop Charles P, Greco of
Alexandria, La., officiated at
the annual blessing of the Ita
lian fishing fleet In this sea
port city, climaxing a three-
day celebration of the Feast of
St. Peter.
Bishop Greco, standing on a
platform overlooking thefogen-
shrouded harbor, called out the
name of each fishing vessel and
recited the following invocation:
"Bless thtse boats and those
who sail thereon. Stretch forth
to them Thy right hand as Thou
did to Peter and his fishermen.
Keep them safe from every pe
ril."
The Louisiana prelate led a
two-mile street procession in
which a huge statue at St. Peter
wts carried by captains of 16
flehing boats.
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