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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
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COMMUNIST OPPRESSION
Situation For
In Red China
FOME (NC) — The status of
the Catholic Church in Red
China is getting worse, a mis
sion news agency has reported.
Travelers coming from Red
China speak of a general har
dening of communist opposi
tion, according to Fides, a news
service issued here by the Sac
red Congregation for the Propa
gation of the Faith.
Fides speaks of a two-fold
silence: Christians of the free
world know almost nothing about
the Church in China, and Chi
nese Catholics are absolutely
ignorant of religious events in
the world outside.
AS FAR as is known, no
newspaper mentioned the ecu
menical council or Pope John's
encyclical on peace, pacem in
Terris, or the awarding of the
Balzan peace prize to Pope John
XXIII, the agency's report said.
The death of Pope John and the
election of His Holiness Pope
Paul VI were mentioned in a few
lines. Private letters to bishops
and priests giving information
FOR SISTER’S WEDDING
Marist Father
To Offer First
Solemn
Mariat Father Edward J,
Whyte will offer hie flrat So
lemn Maes at Sacrod Heart
Church, Atlanta on Sunday (Aul
guit 10) at XOtSO a.m. He wae
ordained February 2 in the
National Shrino of the Immacu
late Conception, Washington, D.
C, by Bishop Thomas J, Wade,
8,M., former Vicar Apostolic
of the North Solomon Islands.
It will be a Nuptial Mass,
Fathor Whyte will Officiate at
the wedding of his sister, Ar
lene Frances, and Joseph
res, who will be united in the
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony,
Father Whyte recently re
ceived his first assignment as
a Marist Priest, He will teach
at Channel High School, Bed
ford, Ohio,
He is the son of Mrs, Ellen
J, Whyte and the late Alexan
der Whyte, and was born in Long
Island City, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs, Alexander
Whyte and family were among
the first parishioners to com
prise the newly founded pariah
of St, Thomas More, with Fa
ther Thomas Sheehan as pastor.
Father Whyte attended Sacred
Heart school for two years.
Military Council
GERCHTESGADEN, G e r-
many, (NC)-Some 500 U, S.
women stationed in Euopre and
North Africa are expected to
attend the eighth annual con
vention of the Military Council
of Catholic Women to be held
here from September 18 to 22
on the theme: "Leadership-
Unity-Peace." Among conven
tion speakers will be U. S.-
born Dishop John E. Taylor,
O.M.L, of Stockholm,
JUHAN'S CLEANERS
Kxpert • P.r.onaH.nl Borvlr*
Olv*n to Kvory Onrmfnt Coming
Into Our Plnnt
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Mass
FATHER WHYTE S.M,
In 1946, Father Whyte’s fa
ther died suddenly, Mrs. Whyts
decided to take the family to
Glasgow, Scotland, where both
she and her husband were born,
Returning again to this country
in 1948, the family came to At
lanta and settled in Sacred Heart
parish. For two years, Father
was a Marist cadet and then de
cided to begin his studies for
the priesthood, entering St.
Mary's in Pennsylvania.
HIS FOUR years of high
school and first two years of
college were spent at St. Mary's
and in 1956 went to the Marist
novitiate on Staten Island. He
was professed on September 8,
1957. He received his D.A. in
philosophy from' the Catholic
University of America.
For the last tour years Fa
ther has been at Marist Col
liege Washington, pursuing stu
dies in theology and scripture.
During summers, he has stud
ied music and sociology at Ca-
tholic University. After the
completion of his theological
training in May of this year.
Father Whyte set the date of
his first Solemn Mass in order
that it could be a Nuptial one at
the marriage of his sister to
Mr. Ayres.
IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS
Schedule for next six weeks
August 22-25 Men
August 30- September 2- Womtn
Stpttmbtr 5-8 Men
September 12-15 Woman
September 19-22 Men
Stpttmbtr 26-29 Womtn
Wioiw 288-0503 or \Srlte 6700 Riverside Dr. N, ... Atlanta 5, Oa.
Father Thomas A. McDonough, C.SS.R., port chaplain at
New Orleans exchanges stories with two sailors on a Greek
freighter. He is one of only four full-time port chaplains in
the United States, and is also secretary of the National
Cathollo Apostlaship of the Sea, U.S.A. He is a native of
St, Louis, Mo.
PRIEST MODERATOR
Church Supports
Church
Worse
about the council have brought
no response.
The Church is still living but
public practice of religion va
ries greatly in different parts
of Red China, Fides said. In
rural districts where churches
have been converted to other
uses, there is hardly any pub
lic practice. In some places,
the faithful think that they can
receive the sacraments from
"patriotic priests" without
fault, while in others they do
not.
In some places, government
officials posted at church doors
take down the names of those
who enter and keep a close check
on sermons, the report said.
IN SHANGHAI, Fides said,
"patriotic priests," who are a
minority, are in charge of the
churches, which are generally
deserted by Christians. The
jther priests are in pslson, or
in "camps for reform by labor"
or Just missing. Priests held
In work camps are forcsd to
perform the most msnltl tasks.
Newspapers constantly harp
on "class struggle" and tht
need to sllminatt "bad ele
ments," the report said,
A movsmsnt known as "Tsi-
fan," although not almsd di
rectly at Catholics, his caussd
the arrest of many Catholic
lsymen and sevsrsl Religious—
Including Sistsr Gabrlsl Sen
•nd Sistsr Stanislaus Chow of
ths Sisters, Helpers of ths Holy
Souls, and Jesuit Lay Brother
Laurence Tsso*
FATHER Mathias Zeng Sin
Tsh, 52, of the Shanghai dio-
esse his died 1 prison, Fldts
said. Tht prlsst had been sen
tenced to imprisonment andfor-
ced labor for giving informa
tion to the "lmperiallsti M of
Hong Kong,
A 52-year-old Carmelite nun,
Sister Marie of the Angelicas
reported to have died of exhau
stion in the fields of a peoples'
communs near Shanghai.
Marist Missions
LAWRENCE, Mass. (NC)—
Some 350 priests, 200 Brothers
and 500 Sisters are serving in
Marist missions in the Pacific
Islands, according to a broc
hure the Marist published here.
Marists in the southwest
quarter of the Pacific work in
islands scattered over area
roughly 3,000 miles from east
td west and 2,000 miles fron
north to south, about the size
of the U. S.
MARYKNOLLER
Seamen’s
ST, LOUIS (NC)—"Staman
are endeavoring to form a re
volution to fightfor their Chris
tian herltags, and the Church is
behind them," Father Thomas
A, McDonough, C,SS,R„ sec
retary of the National Catholic
Apostleship of the Sea, U,S,A„
said hers,
"Our work is to help seamen
become convinced of their own
apostolate of the sis," he said,
"We hive to convince them of
their work is Christ's couriers
to ill the ports of ths world."
THE REDEMPTORIST
priest, one of the only four
full-time port chaplains in ths
U.S., cautioned, however, that
the Church "must do this slow
ly."
"Seamen live in t unique,
special world of their own," he
said, "They are a minority
group, and are generally not
considered human. They are
migrants. For all their appa
rent toughness, they are very
timid. It is only lately that
the Church is beginning to be
Identified with the sailors In
the ports of the world."
A native of St. Louie, Fa
ther McDonough was here to
visit his sister. The port chap-
CHIDED
Struggle
lain sines 1944 in New Orleans,
second largest port In ths U.S.,
he had Just returned from the
first joint convention of the Na
tional Apostleship of ths Sea in
Canada and the U.S, Apostle
ship of the Set,
FATHER McDonough debunk
ed the public image of nilori
ai "being mutinous and alcoho
lic and generally a bunch of
bumi,"
"Ssamsn are honest working
man just like everybody elie,"
ho laid.
The 60-year-old priest ad
mitted, however, that "you
should never tell a aallor he'a
got rallglon, They don’t like to
be thought of ai sentimentally
religious men, but when it
comes to practicing brotherly
love, seamen excel any other
class of men I know,"
"Remember that there are no
bishops, no dioceses once you
are past the three-mile limit at
sea," he said, 'mils tremen
dous territory of the sea re
mains hardly upped. That's
why it Is so imporunt for the
Church to uke immediate and
organized action to help the
seamen, especially at the ma
jor ports of the world,"
Cuban Bishop Denies
‘Church Is Free’
CARACAS, Venezuela (NC)—
The exiled Auxiliary Bishop of
Havana denied here that there
is religious freedom in Cuba.
"Religious freedom does not
consist solely in the opportuni
ty of q/fering Mass in some
churches," said Auxiliary Bis
hop Eduardo Boza Masvidal.
"If the government rsally
wants to facilitate ths work of
the Church, it would have to
start by permitting all Cuban
prints to return to their apos
tolic work,” the exiled Bishop
said,
IJttHOF Ho/a wai comment*
Ing in in interview on publish
ed reports about claims made
by the Fidel Castro regime that
there is religious freedom in
Cuba, He alio referred to state*
meins attributed to Fathor Po
ll* MeOowan, M,M„ American
Maryknoil priest, It has boon
reported that Father McGowan
told the Cuban newspaper B1
Mundo that reports circulating
In the U,g, of persecution of
tht Church in Cuba ire "very
far from the truth,"
(In Maryknoil, N.Y., the mis
sionary society's Vicar Gene
ral, Father John F, Donovan,
M.M., said Fathor McGowan had
gone to Cuba agalnit the in
structions of his superiors. Fa
ther Donovan said "any state
ments attributed to him are so
lely his own personal views and
not those of the Maryknoil Fa
thers,’ )
Bishop Boza saldhewas "as
tonished" by the statements at
tributed to Father McGowan in
El Mundo.
"IN VIEW of pait Incident*
of misquotation in Cuban pa
pers, it la possible that he hai
been misquoted," the Blihop
■aid.
Denying that there is reli
gious freedom in Cuban, ho said
the Church cannot toach or ope
rate sohoola there, nor ean it
carry on public information
progrsmi or set up i well or
ganised lay apoitolats,
Even the eeiebration of Man
is limited due to a ihortago of
priosti following largoieils ex
pulsions of clergy in 1961, ho
said,
The Bishop laid "almost all"
the expelled priests would re
turn to Cuba If the regime gave
thorn ,u.iminion, Ho mid this
return could begin "itarting
with mo, ai 1 am eager to re
turn to Cuba ai soon ai they
authorize me,"
HE DENIED daimi that tht
Report
Church in Cuba was "in the
hands of Spanish priests" in
pre-Castro days.
"Although there was an ap
preciable number of Spanish
priests who helped in the minis
try, some had come In their
early youth and had been well
assimilated into the country,"
ha said. Hs noted that all but
ons of ths Cuban Bishops art
native-born. He Is a native of
Cuba hlmsalf.
"Hie Church has always had
deep roots among ths people and
still his,” he said,
Bishop Boxa acknowledged
that diplomatic relations exist
between Cuba and the Holy loc,
Ho said the Holy lie "prefer*
to remiin in eentict with i
country is long as it la allow
ed to do so ind work to tho
maximum extent possible to
preserve and guarantee the spi
ritual welfare of louli) but this
does not moan approval or ac
ceptance of a particular state of
things,"
THE BISHOP noted state
ments by government spokes
men that they will permit the en
try of priests Into Cuba but
aaid that up to now "hardly any"
of those expollod have been al
lowed to roeurn.
WORLD JAMBOREE
Pope Urges Scouts Push
Universal Brotherhood
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
international Boy Scout Jambo
ree in Greece can help its par
ticipants see the value of uni
versal human brotherhood, His
Holiness Pope Paul VI declar
ed in a special message to the
scouts.
The Pope also said that the
goals of the scout movement
are "those which Christianity
has always recognized as its
own and which it has always
encouraged,"
HE TOLD the scouts that their
meeting place on the plains of
Marathon is "privileged soil"
that is "permeated as are few
other places in the world with
human and Christian culture,"
ascension. For what does
Christian education strive if
not to inform, with the help of
grace, men who can see high
and afar? It is such men as '
these that the world needs to
day more than ever.
"Therefore, my dear scouts
of the 11th jamboree, dedicate
your efforts and your honor to
ward looking higher and always
farther. Look higher than the
easy life of the modern cities,
higher than the material inte
rests of pleasure, where too
many souls sink and are de
based I Look farther afield than
the narrow calculations of indi
vidual selfishness, than the petty
rivalries of race, language and
nations.
on the recognition of the one
and only and Almighty God, the
Father of all men! These are
Our wishes for your jamboree.
"YOUR JAMBOREE is being
held on privileged soli. May
you be able to hear the voices
which rise from it, premeated
as are few other places in the
world with human and Christian
culture.
"Your jamboree is being held
also at a time which coincides
with the ecumenical council, at
an historic moment when an
immense desire rises from
souls to put an end to centuries
-old divisions. May you know
how to recognize this breath of
the Spirit and be inspired by it.
The Pope remarked that the
11th international jamboree was
being held at the time of the
ecumenical council, and called
to the attention of the scouts
the council's response to a
worldwide desire to end the
old divisions among Christians.
Pope Paul said that his own
close observation of the scout
ing movement over a long pe
riod made him "appreciate the
educational qualities of this
magnificent association and its
ability to devslop the best ele
ments of personality in the souls
of young men."
Then he said:
"AMONG thsse elements are:
respect for honor and loyalty,
ths service of one’s fellow man
In a spirit of fraternal devo
tion, training in physical and
moral courage through disci
pline voluntarily accepted, All
these are human Values which
Christianity has always recog
nized is its own and which it
has always encouraged, To sse
this ideal shared and practiced
throughout the world by an In
creasing numbtr of young peo
ple gives Us cause for profound
Joy and firm hope,"
Urging the Boy Scouts to
"look higher than the easy life
of the modern cities, hlghsr
than ths material interest* of
pleasure," the Pope added:
"May your 'great game of
friendship,* the symbol of the
spirit which inspires you, help
toward overcoming the artifi
cial barriers raised between
men or ethnic groups. May it be
for all of you an Inducement to
move forward along the paths
of universal brotherhood which
was taught by Christ and based
on the reoegnition of the one
and only Almighty God, the Fa
ther of all menJ"
THE TEXT of the Pope’s
letter, addressed to Archbis
hop Benedlktos Printesis of
Athens, follows:
"While thousands of scouts
from the whole world are ga
thered at this moment on the
Plains o f Marathon for their
traditional jamboree, Our heart
goes out to them with paternal
affection’. Following the ex
ample of Our recent predeces
sors, We invoke with a heart
full of emotion the protection
of Almighty God on their great
world assembly.
"Having Ourself known the
scout movement very closely
for a long time past We appre
ciate the educational qualities
of this magnificent association
and its ability to develop the
best elements of personality in
ths souls of young men.
"Among these elements are:
respect for honor ind loyalty,
ths service of one's fellow man
in the spirit of fraternal devo
tion, training the physical and
moral courage through a disci
pline voluntarily accepted, All
these are human value* which
Christianity has always recog
nized is its own and which it
has always encouraged, To see
this ideal shared and practiced
throughout the world by an In
creasing number of young peo
ple gives Ui cause for profound
Joy and firm hope,
"THU THEME of this ele
venth jamboree ii summed up
in a particularly expressive
formula: 'Higher and Farther.'
This in itself is i program full
of promise which the Church
cannot fail to applaud, What in
fact doe a the Church want if
not the elevation and progress
of souls? Life viewed in the
light of God is not stagnant:
it is s march forward and an
"May your 'great game of
friendship,' the symbol of the
spirit which Inspires you, help
toward overcoming the artifi
cial barriers raised between
men or ethnic groups. May It be
for all of you an Inducement to
move forward along the paths of
universal brotherhood which
was taught by Christ and based
'PRACTICE GOSPEL’
"To Our beloved sons, the
Catholic scouts, to their bro
thers of all nations gathered
with them on the Plains of Mara
thon, to the organizers of this
great event, and finally to you,
Venerable Brother, go Our cor
dial greetings, Our congratu
lations, Our wishes and Our
apostolic benediction."
Pontiff Hails YCW
Progress
RENSSELAER, Ind., (NC) —
A letter written in behalf of
Pope Paul VI urged some 300
Young Christian Workers at
tending their national study
week here to act "as Chris
tians in every walk of life with
all the consequences this en
tails."
Written by Amleto Cardinal
Clcognanl, Papal Sec re tar of
State, In commemoration of the
25th anniveraary of the found
ing of the YCW in the U. S„
the letter expressed the Pope's
satisfaction with ths move
ment's progress in this coun
try.
IT ALSO said that YCW mem
bers can help their neighbors
"put into practice the teach
ings of the Gospel in their own
personal lives as well as in
their relationship to the com
munity and society in which
they find themselves,"
Serra Official
CHICAGO (NC)—Patrick E.
Raleigh of Chicago has
been named executive assistant
for Serra International, bus
iness and professional men's
organization which seeks to
promote vocations to the priest
hood. Raleigh, a native of Cuy
ahoga Falls, Ohio, and former
director of College relations at
St. Xavier College here, will
be primarily concerned with
communications and public re
lations in his Serra post.
In U. S.
The (Aug, 4-9) study week
stressed the young adult's re
lationship to the parish, to po
litical life and to racial justice.
The YCW haa about 2,500
members in 46 dioceses.
Since the formation of the
YCW in 1938, two other move
ment* have sprung from it: the
Christian Family Movement and
the Young Christian Students.
All three share the common
purpose of training lay apos
tles, through personal and so
cial action, to be effective
Christians in the world,
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