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I THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 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. SHOUT IT FROM THE WANT ADS THERE'S MAGIC IN WANT ADS FAST ACTION FROM WANT ADS BUDDHIST CONTROVERSY 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 rian Primate who has been liv- ^ . rjpTTf\T TC' C/'TI/lT A D O A ‘17C ing in asylum at the U. S. 1^- LAIHULIL OtHULAK SA li gation in Budapest since 1956'. ' 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. Whatever you want to buy, sell or rent... whatever you want to find, from a lost umbrella to a new fob... Want Ads serve you results "on a silver platter” ...at low cost tfjjti t\ WHAT COULD BE EASIER? ITS VERY EASY TO PLACE YOUR HARD WORKING, INEXPENSIVE WANT AD.... Call 231-1281 and the friendly classified girl will help you word your result producing advertisement 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 in SUPPORT YOUR ADVERTISERS 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. Sponsored by The Marlst Fathers Lourdes Bureau Boston, Mass. NATIONAL ROSARY PILGRIMAGE @<<yi Mte tiPicA TO LOU It D 1 S and Paris OCTOBIR v< % V. *