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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN
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GOV'T INTERFERENCE
Red See Bishops
Had To Miss Council
KOENIGSTEIN, Germany, (N
C)—At least 89 bishops of Sees
behind the Iron Curtain were un
able to attend the first session
of the ecumenical council, ac
cording to a survey made here
by Msgr. Adolf Kindermann.
Msgr. Kindermann, rector of
St. Albert the Great College and
Carolina Council
Studies Racism
WAKE FOREST, N. C. (RNS)-
The Executive Committee of the
North Carolina Council on Hu
man Relations, which includes
Christian and Jewish clergy
men, agreed here to make a
study of racial discrimination
in rural areas of the state
“with a view to developing re
medial programs in these
areas.*’
Heretofore the council's work
has been confined to urban
areas.
At the same time, it com-
menHpri North Carolina Gov.
Terry Sanford for “his vigor
ous and constructive leadership
in the current racial crisis.**
It urged continued and re
newed efforts on the part of
bi-racial committees and pub
lic officials in towns which
have moved toward integration
and adoption of desegregation
policies by municipalities which
haven't.
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president of the relief society
for priests expelled from eas
tern Europe here, said that his
survey might not be complete
because of the difficulty of get
ting information from commu-
nlst-run countries. The study
was released in connection with
the 13th convention on the
Church in Distress to be in
Koenlgsteln here from August
2 to 6,
THE SURVEY noted that eight
heads of Sees in Czechoslovakia
were absent from the council,
including Archbishop Josef Be-
ran of Prague, who is being
detained in an unknown place.
Seven Hungarian Ordinaries
were also unable to attend the
first session, the study pointed
out. Among them was Jozsef
Cardinal Mindszenty, Hunga
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No bishop from the Baltic
countries of Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania—which were made a
part of the Soviet Union follow
ing the war—were at the coun
cil save for those living in exile,
the study said.
MSGR. KINDERMANN noted
that Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of
Lviv in the Ukrainian, S.S.R.
was released from 18 years of
Soviet detention too late to go to
the council.
Three Ordinaries each from
Bulgaria and Rumania were un
able to go to Rome since all are
either in prison or otherwise
under detention. Albania's three
heads of Sees were likewise
kept away from the council.
Of Poland’s 58 bishops, the
report said, only 16 were given
exit permits to go to the coun
cil.
No bishops were able to go to
Rome from communist-ruled
countries in Asia: China, North
Korea and North Vietnam.
But all bishops in Yugoslavia
and East Germany were able to
attend, the survey reported.
No Catholic Immunity In
‘Church-Ruled’ Vietnam
ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan is pictured above being interviewed by Charles Carruth, an editor
of The Catholic News, newspaper for the Archdiocese of New York. Mr. Carruth presently is do
ing a feature story for the paper on the status of the Church in the south with particular emphasis
on the Newman Club Federation.
Critical Bible Study
Key To Ecumenicism
MONTREAL (RNS) — An
American Roman Catholic
scholar of the New Testament
declared here that critical Bib
lical studies serve the ecumeni
cal movement better than lite
ralistic approaches to the Bible.
Biblical criticism, said Fa
ther Raymond E. Brown, S.S.,
of Baltimore, Md., demands
“a humble submission to evi
dence and a willingness to ac
cept truth no matter where it
may be found".
THE conference has been held
under the auspices of the Faith
and Order Commission of the
World Council of Churches and
attended by 270 delegates of
Protestant, Anglican and Or
thodox faiths from 50 coun
tries. In addition, 200 obser
vers and other participants
were in attendance.
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THE GEORGIA BULLETIN
Father Brown, the only Ro
man Catholic speaker to ad
dress a daily general session
and one of 16 Catholic obser
vers (five were officially as
signed by the Vatican), said Bib
lical criticism should be recog
nized as but one avenue of
research into the church of the
first century.
“NEVERTHELESS," he said,
“it is incumbent on us to use
all the means at our disposal,
including the science of Biblical
criticism, to know and under
stand what the church of the New
Testament was and was not as a
guide to our understanding of
what the Church must be today".
Rejecting what he called an
“oversimplified picture of the
continuity and uniformity of New
Testament ecclesiology," Fa-
Father Brown said that even in
the Book of Acts, the great
steps in ecclesiastical life and
organization are presented as
responses to novel challenges,
responses guided by the Spi
rit...
He warned, however, that New
Testament theology is not sim
ply a picture of linear progress
toward a uniform position.
There are strong differences
in outlook found among the va
rious New Testament writers,
Ask K Of C To
End Color Bar
CHICAGO, (NC)—The Catho
lic Interracial Council of Chi
cago has resolved to use "di
rect action methods" if neces
sary to open the way for Negro
membership in the Knights of
Columbus In the Chicago area.
The council's board stres
sed ‘in a (July 17) resolution
that peaceful demonstraton
method will be used only If
negotiation and other persua
sive methods fall,
JOHN A. MCDERMOTT, CI-
CC president, said In a sepa
rate statement: "There are no
Negro Knights of Columbus in
the Chicago area. There Is an
unwritten policy against hav
ing them as members. No action
has been taken to deal with this
situation, which is a scandal,
contrary to the teachings of
the Church and to requests of
Cardinal Meyer that fraternal
groups be free of racial bias.’’
HE expressed the hope that
“the K. of C. in the Chicago
area would follow the example
of other councils that Integrated
long ago."
He also said: "We wish the
national leaders of the K. of C.
would show leadership on this
question, and, specificially, that
they would disqualify councils
that practice racial discrimina
tion."
a fact neglected in past theolo
gical discussion, he said.
“Thus, to ask us to believe
that there was absolute unifor
mity of theology among the dif
ferent groups or theologians
represented in the New Testa
ment is to ask us to deny
obvious evidence. Indeed, has
there ever been absolute unifor
mity of theology in any stage of
Christianity?"
He also rejected an over-em
phasis on the diversities found
in New Testament thought. “If,
with justification, we can speak
of theologies present in the
New Testament, we must recog
nize that each of the New Tes
tament theologians were con
scious of belonging to the one
-Christian church.”
CHRIST THE KING
SAIGON, (NC) - Military
court proceedings here have
shown that Catholics enjoy no
immunity in Vietnam under
President Ngo dinh Diem, whose
government has been labeled
"Catholic - dominated" in the
foreign press during the Budd
hist controversy.
Catholics suspected of plot
ting against the government
were arrested and tried like
other accused persons. One Ca
tholic lieutenant was sentenced
to ten years' hard labor on
charges of complicity in the
attempted coup of November,
1960. A Catholic civilian was
sentenced to six years* soli
tary confinement. There were
at least six Catholics among 80
military and civilians brought
to trail, of whom 44, including
four Catholics, were acquitted.
TO BE Catholic in Vietnam
is no guarantee of government
favor. To be a Buddhist or any
other kind of non-Catholic is
no guarantee of government dis
favor. What the government
wants is support. It reacts a-
gainst every sort of opposi
tion, whether it comes from a
Catholic, a non-Catholic , a
former supporter or a family
connection.
Catholicism is certainly not
the dominant influences in
government policy, in spite of
some journalists’ obsession
with the President’s religion.
Some foreign observers do
not realize that years before
they ever saw Vietnam, Catho
lics, including Catholic priests,
suffered penalties because they
opposed or criticized the go
vernment.
CATHOLIC foreign mission
aries in Vietnam are given re
sidence permits for only one
year at a time. They are re
quired by law to pay the same
yearly tax of 1,000 piastres
(about $13.50) each that other
foreign residents such as busi-
Requiem Here For
Archbishop O’Hara
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Final funeral Rites were held
Philadelphia’s Cathedral of
Sts. Peter and Paul on Wednes
day for the Most Rev. Gerald
P. O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D.,
Apostolic Delegate to Great
Britain.
The 68 year old Prelate, who
was a Pennsylvania native, suf
fered a fatal heart attack and
died on July 16 in London.
Archbishop O’Hara was or
dained for the Philadelphia
archdiocese. At the age of 34, he
became the youngest Bishop in
this country when he was named
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadel
phia.
Before he died, he had seen
service in the Church as a Bis
hop in Georgia, Regent of a
Nunciature in Roumania, Nuncio
to Ireland, and Apostolic Dele
gate to Great Britain. He was
serving in the last post when
he died.
A Requiem Mass was offered
in England’s Westminster Ca
thedral by the senior member
of Britain's hierarchy, Arch
bishop Francis Grimshaw of
Birmingham*. Valerian Cardi
nal Gracias, Archbishop of
Bombay, India, presided at the
Mass, and the sermon was
preached by Bishop Cyril Cow-
deray of Southwork.
Following the Requiem Mass,
Archbishop O'Hara’s body was
flown to Philadelphia for burial.
The Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, Archbishop Ede-
gio Vagnozzi, offered the Re
quiem Mass at the Philadelphia
Cathedral.
A group of Georgia clergy led
by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
of Atlanta and Bishop Thomas
J. McDonough of Savannah, at
tended the final funeral Rites
in Philadelphia.
From the Atlanta area also
in attendance were Abbot Au
gustine Moore, O.C.S.O. of Con-
nesi men have to pay. Mission
aries may apply for exemption,
which some receive. But the
majority—unsalaried priests,
Brothers and Sisters, some erf
them working under great dif
ficulties—have to pay the tax.
Fifty per cent of Vietnam
ese Catholic seminarians who
have their higher secondary
school diploma must do mili
tary service for an indefinite
period. Thus there are now
about 60 senior seminarians
serving as officers, with no
prospect of returning to the se
minary by any fixed date. Budd
hist bonzes (monks), however,
are given deferment from mili
tary service, by Ministry of De
fense decree, if they apply in
due form and within prescribed
time. They have to show that
they are not recently robed
bonzes who may have sought
refuge in the pagoda (temple)
MOSCOW MEETING
to escape army duty.
IN FREEDOM to operate
schools, in building pagodas,
in deceiving government aid
in university and professional
life, in obtaining government
employment, in everyday ex
istence, Vietnamese Buddhist
and leftists have joined hands
to persecute Christians. Of
course Buddhists are more nu
merous in each country than
the Christian minority. But hu
man rights reside in the in
dividual. They do not need a
majority to be valid.
Apparently it is not the Budd
hist religion but distrust of a
Buddhist movement that has
caused the friction here. The
President and his associates
have seen potential political op
position in the renovated Budd
hism of the General Buddhist
Association.
Swiss Bishop Meets
With Soviet Clergy
BERLIN, (NC)—A new era in
brotherly relations among
Christain churches has begun,
a Swiss Catholic bishop told
a meeting of Orthodox leaders
at a meeting in the Soviet Union,
it was reported here.
Bishop Francois Charriere of
Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg
spoke at the start of celebra
tions marking the 50th anniver
sary of the consecration of
Patriarch Alexei of Moscow,
head of the Russian Orthodox
Church. The opening meeting
was held in Holy Trinity Mon
astery in Zagorsk near Mos
cow.
BISHOP Charriere, believed
to be the first Catholic pre
late ever to speak in what is
regarded as the holiest shrine
of the Russian Orthodox, said
that His Holiness Pope Paul VI
has "clearly announced his in
tention of continuing the mag
nificent cause of renewal and
reapprochement so vigorously
begun" by the last Pope John
XXIIL
Patriarch Alexei, 86, once
a severe critic of the Catho
lic Church, welcomed the Ca
tholic representatives and said
their presence "allows us to
hope for the good development”
of Catholic-Orthodox relations.
The appointment of Bishop
Charriere and Father Chris-
tophe Dumont, O.P., of the Do
minican Fathers' Instina Center
in Paris as representatives of
the Church to the anniversary
celebration was authorized by
Pope Paul following an invi
tation from the Russian Or
thodox Church's Holy Synod.
The representatives were cho
sen by Aumstin Cardinal Bea,
S.J., president of the Secre
tariat for Promoting Christian
Unity,
yers; Monsignor Joseph G. Cas
sidy, Monsignor Joseph E.Moy-
lan, both of Atlanta; and Mon
signor P. J. O’Connor of De
catur.
Earlier this week, Monday,
Archbishop Hallinan had offered
a Requiem Mass at the Cathe
dral of Christ the King, Atlan
ta, for the late Apostolic Dele
gate.
It was this same Cathedral
structure which Archbishop O’
Hara had constructed soon after
he came to Georgia in 1936
as Bishop of Savannah.
Archbishop O'Hara had been
responsible for changing the
name of the Diocese from the
Diocese of Savannah to the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta. Later
in 1956 he had urged the Holy
See to make two dioceses in
the state, and at that time he
once again became Bishop of
Savannah, and his Auxiliary
Bishop was named the first
Bishop of Atlanta.
Priest Addresses
High School Club
“The Catholic approach to
the Ecumenical movement" was
the subject of an address re
cently given by the Rev. Ric
hard Malone to some 40 stu
dents of the Interfaith Fellow
ship of Norths ide High School.
Father Malone, a member
of the faculty of St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, is pre
sently assisting the clergy of
Atlanta’s Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church during the sum
mer.
The meeting which took place
in the school rooms of the Tri
nity Presbyterian Church open
ed with an introduction being
given by the Co-Presidents,
Luke Curtis and Lisa Coba.
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