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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. TICKKT PRICE* PLIASI WIIKNIQHTS: SI, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50; SOX HATS, SI ADO 3% GA. I<rt . 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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. 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