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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
PROTEST
Buddhist Plans
Ritual Suicide
Honor graduates from St. Joseph's Infirmary are pictured left to right: Miss Carol Chappell,
winner of the Catherine Stulb Mememorial Award, bestowed on the student who excels in school
spirit; Miss Mary Lu Ackerman, First Honor Graduate; Miss Beverly DeLoach, Second Honor
Graduate; Miss Mary Frances Anderson, The Mother Catherine McAuley Award, given to the stu
dent who best exhibits the "Spirit of Mercy" as shown by the Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy;
Miss Mary Anne Wilder, the Haverty Award, given to the Student who excels in the characteris
tics of Professional Ability. This award is given in memory of Mr. Clarence Haverty.
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To Be Desegregated
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SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC)—An
elderly Vietnamese woman vo
lunteering to burn herself to
death "for the Buddhist cause"
does not regard the act as con
trary to the Buddhist teaching
that it is wrong to destroy life.
So she told a press conferen
ce here, answering a question
put by a correspondent.
MRS. DIEU Hue, widowed mo-
Xavier Faculty
To Gov’t Posts
The Housing and Home Fin-
-ance Agency of the Federal
Government has announced the
appointment of Dean of Men
Norman Francis and Placement
Director Anthony M. Rachal,
Jr., of Xavier University, New
Orleans, as recruiting consul
tants. TTie two Xavier officials
will work with the staff of FHA
and other organizations within
HHFA to assist in the recruit
ment of professional, technical
and clerical personnel in the
Housing Agency’s offices thro
ughout the South and Southwest.
They are the first representat
ives of a Southern Negro Col
lege to be hired to assist the
government with the recruit
ment of qualified Negroes.
ther of Vietnamese scientist
Buu Hoi, who is ambassador
to several African countries,
was presented with her sister
to some 30 foreign correspon
dents in a Buddhist pagoda li
brary.
The Buddhists allowed no
Vietnamese Journalist to at
tend. Mrs. Dieu Hue’s voice was
almost inaudible. Hence there
was no way of checking the in
terpreter’s translation.
He said her purpose in burn
ing herself would be to "per
suade the government to carry
out our five requests." (The
government claims they are be
ing carried out.)
"ACCORDING to the moral
doctrine of Buddhism, is it not
forbidden to destroy life?" this
correspondent asked.
After a whispered consulta
tion with the old lady, the bonze
replied:
‘ 'According to her knowledge,
the act is not against the doc
trine of Buddhism."
He said she had read of a
Buddhist hero of the past who
had burned himself to death.
The bonze-interpreter quoted
her also as saying: "Up to now
the high-ranking Buddhist bon
zes have not given her permis
sion to burn herself."
When this correspondent ask
ed if their unwillingness was
based on the fourth principle of
the Buddhist "Eightfold Perfect
Way," which forbids the taking
of life, the bonze replied for
Mrs. Dieu Hue: "There are
many Buddhist teachings.”
Asked whether Buddhist su
periors had given approval to
Quang Due, the bonze who burn
ed himself to death on June 11,
the press officer answered that
he was not authorized to reply
to that.
FOE OF INJUSTICE
BATON ROUGE, La. (RNS)—
Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Ba
ton Rouge announced plans to
desegregate parochial schools
in his diocese, beginning with
the junior and senior classes
of four Baton Rouge area high
schools in September, 1964.
In a letter read in all dio
cesan churches, Bishop Tracy
said the action had been taken
in line with "the Christian con
cept of social justice," and
"is supported by the highest
religious authority,"
THE MOVE toward paro
chial school integration was de
scribed by the prelate as "an
initial step." Others steps, he
said, would be taken "until
all Catholic institutions of the
diocese, educational and other
wise, are progressively freed
of all limitations not in harmony
with the stated policy of the
diocese."
Bishop Tracy told his flock
that he would not try to pace
Catholic school desegregation
to that of public schools. "Ours
might be more rapid," he said.
Public school desegregation
is scheduled to begin in the
12th grade in East Baton Rouge
Parish (county) this fall, and a
grade-a-year thereafter.
BISHOP TRACY said the
parochial school desegregation
also would have been effected
this year if registration for
classes was not over.
plans.
Catholic policy has been not
to desegregate parochial
schools until public schools
were desegregated. New Or
leans and Baton Rouge public
schools are the only ones in
the state under specific dese
gregation orders.
The integration ordered here
came close in the wake of si
milar orders in two other Ca
tholic dloceseq, in the deep
South. A month ago the dioceses
of Savannah, Ga., and Charles
ton, S. C., announced plans for
racial integration of their
schools. Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough directfd integration of
Catholic schools in the Savannah
diocese in September while Bis
hop Francis F. Reh of Char
leston ordered integration of
Catholic schools in September,
1964.
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From tha early days of his
career, the Archbishop showed
great concern over social in-
Justica and civil liberties.
In Puerto Rico, he once com
plained to visiting President
Atlanta, Ga. Knights of
Columbus Elects" The Arch
bishop Garsld P. O’Hara Gene
ral Assembly, Knights of Co
lumbia elected to office for the
coming year 1963-64.
The following Sir Knights. ,
Edmond A. Schattle, Faithful
Navigator; Josaph A. Cragln,
Faithful Captain; William Mc-
Mullin, Faithful Pilot; John l
Delamater, Faithful Admiral;
George T. Ashworth, Faithful
Scribe; Herbert M. Fox, Faith
ful Purser; Joseph A, George,
Faithful Comptroller; Jacob
Bollmer, Faithful Inner Senti
nel; Mark A. Lunday, Faithful
Outer Sentinel.
The bishop noted that his
desegregaton order applied
only to East Baton Rouge be
cause the two-year old diocese
"is still in the organizational
stages."
"It is our clear belief that
the faithful will accept the
'action* with sympathy and
understanding, and, above all,
in a true spirit of obedience,"
the prelate said.
THE BATON Rouge See is
the second in the state to an-
nouce parochial school dese
gregation. Hie first was the
Archdiocese of New Orleans
which Integrated its schools
last year. The Diocese of La
fayette and Alexandria have
yet to announce desegregation
There now are more than 20
archdioceses and dioceses in
the South which already have
put an integration program in
effect or have announced plans
for desegregation in the near
future.
Bishop Bans
Beauty Contest
DUBUQUE, low., July 25 (NC)
— Archbishop James J. Byrne
of IXibuque has asked the people
of his archdiocese not to at
tend or participate in beauty
contests in which the contest
ants parade about in bathing
suits.
Atlanta K Of C
Word is awaited from Sir
Knight Nicholas T. Stafford of
Savannah, Worthy Master of die
De Soto Province, as to the date
of the installation of the newly
elected officers.
Launching the “Buy a Theatre Brick" drive at Catholic University of America, for a
new campua theatre building, Darby Costello, Irish International Airlines hostess, pre
sents Father Gilbert V. Hartke, C.U, Drama Department head, with an authenticated
brick from Dublin’s old Abbey Theatre. It will be placed near the corneretone of the new
theatrical center of the university, when construction begin* in the fall.
SANTA FE, N. M„ -- Re
quiem Mass was offered here
for Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne
of Santa Fe, 71, spiritual lea
der since 1943 of the historic
Santa Fe archdiocese.
Franklin D. Roosevelt that wa
ges paid rural workers were
"miserable” and far below st
andards of Christian justice.
The result was a step-up in the
Federal aid effortfor the island.
Death came to the Philadel
phia-born prelate in St. Vin
cent’s Hospital herei following
surgery. The Requiem Mass
was offered in the venerable
Cathedral of St. Francis by
Bishop Sidney M. Metzger of El
Paso, Tex.
BEFORE HE became spiri
tual leader of the 113-year-old
archdiocese’s 300,000 Cath
olics, about half of the popu
lation, he spent five years in
the Philippines and 18 years as
a Bishop in Puerto Rico. He wai
the first Bishop of Ponce from
1925 to 1929 and Bishop of San
Juan from 1929 until 1943.
IN NEW MEXICO, he opposed
the ban on closed and union
shops, stating that it would be
"the death blow to unionism."
The Fair Employment Pract
ices amendment to the state
constitution received his sup
port. He also praised a pro
posed amendment to end racial
discrimination. He frequently
served as arbitrator in labor
disputes in the state.
Dies In Santa Fe
JOSEPH W. BEAN
Saint Pius X
Stadium Named
As progress continues on the
construction andfinancingof the
football stadium for St. Plus X
High School, it has been de
cided to dedicate the new facility
as a memorial to the late Joseph
W. Bean, an outstanding figure
in high school and college ath
letics in Georgia for many
years. Approval has been given
by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
and Mr. Bean's family to call
the field the Joseph W. Bean
Memorial Stadium. Bean was
athletic coach at Marist College
for twenty-eitht years, from
1904 to 1932. He also coached
baseball team sat the University'
of Georgia and Georgia Tech.
He was responsible for thefor-
matlon of Atlanta’s first high
school athletic league and ser
ved as its first president in
1921. In 1958 he was named to
the Georgia Prep Sports Hall of
fame. In 1960, the year
of his death, he was referred
to in The Atlanta Consititution
as "the most remarkable poin-
eer and builder of sports in-
Georgia’s history."
Under the leadership of Fat
her James L. Harrison, the
principal of St. Pius X High
School, a committee of men is
at work to raise sufficient funds
for the construction of the faci
lities for the athletic stadium.
Dedicated and generous work
on the part of these men, among
them Ed Gasperini, the part of
these men, among them Ed Gas
perini, Charles Munhall and
Vincent Lauria, has brought this
long-desired project to near
completion.
Because there is still an ur
gent need for continued finan
cial suport, a Football Fiesta
has been planned for October
5 at the Joseph W. Bean
Memorial Stadium. This pro
ject is under the chairmanship
of William Waidelich. Mr.
Waidellch has made an appeal
for prizes, manufactures’sam
ples and other suitable Items
for the Football Fiesta. He
may be contacted by anyone
interested in donating such
items at ME 4-3942 or GL 7-
3111.
Archbishop Albert E. Soegi-
japranata, S.J. (above), of
Semarang, first Indonesian
named a bishop has died at
Steyl, The Netherlands, July
22 at age 66. A leader in his
country’s advance to inde
pendence, he was born a
Moslem, became a Catholic
at the age of 14, a priest at
age 35 and a bishop at 44.
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GOD
ON THE SHORES OF THE ARABIAN SEA is the city of
TELLICHERRY, India. Seventy miles from this southern In
dian seaport lies the little colony of
THOTTUMUKKU, a new settlement
. . . Land prices are low and the
poorest settlers have gone to make
their homes there. The Bishop of
TELLICHERRY tells us about them:
"All they have for religious services
is a poor thatched shed which serves
as ehureh, rectory and Sunday
school... About 400 children attend
daises. The people have collected
money for five acres for a church
and small presbytery and are willing
to give any amount of their labor
Tb* Holy Fttbtr’s Minion Aid
for lb* Orirntsi Cbmrtb
to build them . . . They need 83,000 for materials for buildings
large enough to serve three hundred families . . Can we give
any assistance, asks the Bishop, to these sincere Christians
working to establish a new and better life for their families?
A dollar in THOTTOMUKKU means much more than a dollar
In America . . . Any amount you can send therefore will be a
substantial help. But please hurry—THOTTOMUKKU'i 400
children are growing up fast!
PREPARING FOR SCHOOL? Hardly, it we mean our re
luctant young scholars to whom vacation stretches Into the
hazy distances of September! But for some students freedom
from studies Is a tragedy, not a boon ... We mean those semi
narians and Sisters preparing for their vocations in the 18
countries of the Near and Middle East, always In fear that they
won't have sufficient money to finish their training ... We have
the name* of many of them: JOHN KUPERTINE VELIYIL-
PARAMPIL and CHRYSOSTOM THOMAS PLAVUNIKUN-
NATHIL of Bangalore, India, and SISTER ALAXIA and SIS
TER XAVIER of tha CARMELITE SISTERS of Kothamangalam,
India. You can sponsor one of them by sending $100 a year for
tha six years of a seminarian’s training or $150 for each of the
two years nacassary for a Sister , . , Money can be sent In
Instalments. You will hava tha wonderful feeling of partici
pating In tha good these future missionaries will do!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A STATUE?
Soma famous persona do bteoma statues, reminding their
countrymen of great deeda and aeeompllihmante from genera
tion to generation! Anothsr kind of “statue” la a MEMORIAL
CHAPEL or SCHOOL In soma missionary territory dispensing
graoe and knowledge for years to ooma. You oan arrange euoh
a living MEMORIAL for yourself or a loved one through our
Aaeoeiation.
SOME SUGGESTIONS: CHAPEL ($8,000 to $6,000)| SCHOOL
($I,I00)J MASS KIT (8100); CHALICE (|40)j VESTMENTS
(I80)t CIBOEIUM (|40)| ALTAR (875); MONSTRANCE <|40).
PLEASE REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL, Our legal title:
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION,
Kindly keep sending ui your Mass stipends. Often they are
the only support of our missionaries.
Religion pure and undafiled before Ood the Father 1« this:
to gtvo aid to orphan* and widows In their tribulations . . .
so says It. James in his Epistle! In the NEAR and MIDDLE
EAST, our SISTERS, BROTHERS and PRIESTS are valiantly
looking after thousands of orphans, giving tham a home, food,
clothing and love . , . Our ORPHANS BREAD CLUB la an
•asy way for you to help tham. All wo aak la a prayer a day
and $1 a month and you can send It when abla . . . Other
CLUBS look after other needs:
DAMIEN LEPER CLUB (cares for lepers); MONICA GUILD
(provides ehallcei, eta. for ehapels and churches); PALACE
OF OOLD (provides for aged); THE BASILIANS (supports
schools); MARY’S BANK (trains Sisters).
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Ms«r. Joseph T. Rfea, NoH Soe*y
CATHOUC NuVlAiTw'llMU ASSOCIATION
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