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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 % I I % ; i ! * 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 IN N. Mnln Ml. 1*0. 1-4404 OillriCC l’tirk. 0». 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. 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