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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1963
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CHURCHES CLOSED
Congres Told Reds Still
Continue Anti-Church Stand
BERLIN (RNS) — Speakers
before the annual Church in
Distress Congress held that the
Vatican's “new Eastern policy"
produced certain “human eas-
ings" for Societ-bloc Catholics
but brought no change in the
anti-religious attitude of com
munism.
They charged that in some
instances the anti-Church cam
paigns in some Iron Curtain
countries have been intensified.
SOME 600 Catholic delegates
from 28 nations, including refu
gees from 16 Communist-domi
nated countries, attended the
annual congress which is aim
ed to promote aid and under
standing for the Church in Red
areas.
Professor Alfred Kinder-
mann, initiator and longtime
president of the congress, said
at a press conference thatchur-
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continue in distressed circum
stances.
He warned the West against
“illusions" about the Soviet
Union. Premier Khrushchev, he
held, hopes to break the pas
sive resistance of Christians in
his power sphere by making
small concessions to the Va
tican and using “diplomatic
softening-up" as a means of de
feating the Church from within.
PROFESSOR Kinder-
mann said one must not overlook
the danger that in Eastern Bloc
propaganda the Vatican will be
played against the hierarchy and
the hierarchy against the parish
priests.
A declaration by the Interna
tional Planning Committee of
the congress stressed that
Communist anti-Church tactics
have become more camouflag
ed and subtle and thus more
dangerous. It was more essen
tial than ever before, the com
mittee said, for a close watch
to be placed on Red anti-Church
tactics and to bring them to
world attention.
The committee charged that
“peaceful coexistence offers"
made by the Communists were
a “tactical means" to achieve
their long-range objectives.
MSGR. BERNARD Hanssler,
ecclesiastical director of the
Central Committee of German
Catholics, said that Christians,
because of their failures, must
accept some responsibility for
communism’s growth.
In a decisive phase of his
tory, he declared, the Church
had lost contact with the world
and life and the social encycli
cal (Rerum Novarum) of Pope
Leo XIII had come late in a
time of stress.
A Christendom which does
not take seriously the serious
message of Christian love
drives distressed people sys
tematically into the arms of
communism, Msgr. Hanssler
told delegates.
A famed Belgian priest stat
ed, in a major address, that
Communist objectives continue
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to be Christianity's total de
struction and that the Church
cannot conclude a pact with
Moscow without losing the con
fidence of surpressed peoples.
Father Werenfred van Straa-
ten of Antwerp Belgium, found
er and president of the Dutch-
Belgian Aid for Eastern Priests
organization, also spoke of the
“price" of negotiation with the
Communists.
IT IS possible, he said, that
the Kremlin has reasons now to
pursue a more moderate policy
toward the Church, but he held
that improved relations with
Moscow must not be paid for by
the Church in silence about per
secution.
“Whoever flirts with peace
movements and wolves in
sheep’s clothing trying to break
into the stable of the Church,
does not recognize the Com
munists’ real intention, namely
to turn the Western Church al
so Into a Church of Silence."
Father van Straaten told dele
gates that the release of a bis
hop is not yet proof of the
Church’s freedom and so long
as the entire Church is not free
the liberation of Archbishop
Josyf Slipyi after 18 years’
imprisonment is a “Commu
nist fraud."
He said that “we do not be
long to those who at any smile
or tactical concession by die
hard atheists believe in perse
cution’s termination."
The Belgian priest told dele
gates that in 1962 alone some
1,500 chupches had been closed
in Russia, and cited the "end
less scandal’’ of the installa
tion in Communist countries of
Moscow-sympathizing “puppet
priests and Quisling prelates."
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Baghdad’s Al-Hakma University from St. Michael’s College, Winooski Park, Vermont, by
Comille Tebshirary (left), and Father Robert J. Sullivan, S.J. of the Jesuit school. They
are learning the techniques of language laboratory St. Michael’s uses for its students
from 32 countries. Seated is Prof. Ernest A. Boulay, founder and director of St. Mich
ael’s program of English for Foreign Students. Standing is his assistant director, Eu
gene O’Neill.
AT HELSINKI MEET
Common Elements Between
Lutherans, Catholics Hailed
HELSINKI, Finland (RNS)—
Roman Catholicism recognizes
the Lutheran Church as a “gen
uine Christian Church” — al
though not on the same level as
the Roman Catholic Church, a
Jesuit theologian declared here.
Father Johannes Witte, S. J.,
professor of evangelical theo
logy at the Papal Gregorian
University in Rome, made the
statement in reply to a ques
tion at a press conference dur
ing the Fourth Assembly of
the Lutheran World Federation.
“ROMAN CATHOLICS cannot
acknowledge the Lutheran
FROM CONVENTION
JFK Gets Peter
Claver Honor
INDIANAPOLIS (NC)—Pre
sident andMrs. JohnF. Kennedy
were named to receive the
highest honors of the Knights of
St. Peter Claver during the Cat
holic fraternal order’s 48th nat
ional convention here.
The Caritas Die Award was
accepted by Indiana Gov. Mat
thew E. Welsh in the name of
the President in recognition of
“outstanding leadership in
human relations and heroic ef
fort for achievement of social
justice for all men everywhere."
Mrs. Welsh received the Jea
nne D’Arc Award for Mrs. Ken
nedy.
THE AWARDS were pre
sented during the convention
banquet, at which a $25,000
check was given to Laurian Car
dinal Rugambwa. He indicated
that the money would be used
to help build a cathedral in
his East African See of Bukoba,
Tanganyika.
Principal address of the con
vention banquet was delivered
by Rabbi Maurice Davis, of the
Indianapolis Hebrew Congre-
Cardinal
Member
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (NC)—
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa,
Bishop fo Bukoba, Tanganyika,
is die third cardinal to become
a lifetime member of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
He was awarded lifetime me
mbership by Dr. P. T. Robin
son of Richmond, Calif., during
the convention of the Knights
of St. Peter Claver here. The
Knights also gave the Cardinal
a purse to help build schools,
hospitals and churches in his
diocese. The convention cited
the Cardinal for his "right
eous wisdom in the field of
religious leadership, his social
wisdom in the direction of peace
and human brotherhood."
Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York, and
Richard Cardinal Cushing,
Archbishop of Boston, also are
lifetime members of the NAA-
CP.
gation, who told the 1,000 Kni
ghts and ladies that the Negroes’
struggle for freedom is not
theirs alone.
He said the Negro's “march
for freedom’’ is America’s gre
atest moral problem today and
that this is the year to learn
"what America really is."
“We are told we must give
these rights to the Negro gra
dually," Rabbi Davis said.
“Now, 100 years after the Ema
ncipation Proclamation, the Ne
gro has run out of patience and
America has run our of time.
To be stagnant is not to be
gradual."
200,000
Spanish
Speaking
MIAMI, Fla., (NC)—The La-
tin-American population in the
Miami diocese is nearing the
200,000 mark, the director of
the diocesan Spanish-speaking
apostolate said here.
“The Latins in our midstare
not our problem; they are our
opportunities,” saidMsgr. John
J. Fitzpatrick, assistant chan
cellor “They are our brothers
in Christ and we must be the
first to know them and to love
them.
HE TOLD a Miami Serra Club
meeting that half of the Latin
Americans in the diocese are
Cuban refugees, while others
represent every Central and
South American country.
Empahsizlng the shortage of
priests in Latin America, the
monlignor said “if every priest
in the United States and every
priest in Spain were to go to
Latin America today, there still
would not be enough priests."
He said one-third of the Catho
lics in the world live In Latin
America and by the year 2000
more than half the Catholics will
be Latin Americans.
Church as the true church,"
he said, “because Jesus Christ
founded one church and this
one church is guaranteed by
Jesus Christ Himself until the
end of time.”
Father Witte was one of two
official Catholic observers at
the 12-day LWF Assembly. The
other, who also participated in
the press conference, was Fa
ther Peter Blaeser, M.S.C., of
the Johann Adam Mohler Insti
tute and lecturer at the Theo
logical Academy in Paderborn,
Germany.
According to LWF officials,
their presence marked the first
time official Catholic represen
tatives have been sent to an
assembly of a world confes
sional organization.
CITING a 1950 Vatican policy
statement, Father Witte said
that “Roman Catholics recog
nize the several elements of the
church which are outside the
Roman Catholic Church."
He emphasized that “there is
a dividing line between the
church of Jesus Christ and the
world," and that this dividing
line “is to be found in bap
tism, received in faith."
"Therefore all Christians
having received baptism in
faith, are in this sense within
the one communion of Chris
tians and separated from those
who are outside," Father Witte
said.
Therein, he added, “is the
basis for an ecumenical move
ment, as a special task of the
Churches, distinguished from
the missionary task."
THIS ecumenical movement
“should strive at the reunion of
all these Christians in one, uni
que church of Jesus Christ,"
he declared.
Stressing the difference in
level between the Roman Catho
lic Church and the Lutheran
Churches, according to Roman
Catholic doctrine, Father Witte
said that “Roman Catholics ful
ly recognize the several church
elements" in existing Protes
tant bodies.
In this connection, he men
tioned that the late Pope John
XXIII referred to non-Roman
Catholic Churches as "Chur
ches."
There has always been an
ecumenical movement, although
it is “very strong" at this new
period of history, Father Witte
continued. During the last 30
years there has been increas
ing study of problems relating to
Roman Catholicism and Protes
tantism.
“BOTH Roman Catholics and
Protestants believe in the mes
sage of salvation," he declared.
“The most crucial question fac
ing both sides is the nature of
the church."
In reply to another question,
Father Witte expressed his be
lief that "if there were but one
Lutheran Church (instead of an
association of Lutheran chur
ches like the Lutheran World
Federation) there might be an
advantage for the reunion of all
Christianity.”
He said it was a question for
the Lutherans themselves to de
cide, and that he had the im
pression there was a strong
feeling against a Lutheran "su
per-Church.”
FATHER Blaesser said that
he considered it a “great hon
or" to have been asked by Au-
tustine Cardinal Bea, presi
dent of the Vatican Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Uni
ty, to be sent as one of the ob
servers.
He referred to the presence
of Dr. George Lindbeck, re
search professor of the LWF’s
Commission on Inter-Confes
sional Research, and Dr. Kris-
ten-Ejnar Skydsgaard, profes
sor of systematic theology at
the University of Copenhagen at
the first session of the Second
Vatican Council, and to the fact
that the two Lutheran delegate
-observers will be joined by
•Dr. Vilmos Vajta, director of
the LWF’s Department of Theo
logy, at the Second Vatican
Council’s second session, open
ing Sept. 29.
"The exchange between visi
tors and observers makes for
good relations between the Lu
theran Churches and the Roman
Catholic Church," Dr. Blaesser
said.
He said that the Roman Ca
tholic Church has “good con
nections” not only with Lu
therans but Reformed and Or
thodox confessions as well.
"IT HAS been my experience
in nearly twenty-five years of
study and contact with Protes
tant theology in Germany that
there has grown up and is exist
ing now an excellent coopera
tion between Lutherans and Ro
man Catholics in nearly every
city and hamlet in Germany."
He said he was "especially
honored" to be designated as a
“guest" at the LWF’s Fourth
Assembly here and stressed the
importance of “contacts" made
by the two Roman Catholic visi
tors with Lutherans, "giving us
a chance to know each other bet-
ter.
"I really feel like a guest
here — I feel that I really be
long," Father Blaesser said.
In addition to the exchange of
ideas with Lutheran theolo
gians, he said one of his best
impressions had been the kind
ness he has received in Hel
sinki — "an openness of mind,"
as he put it.
HE SAID one of the impor
tant problems at the LWF As
sembly, as it was at the Sec
ond Vatican Council, was “How
shall we speak to people where
they are?"
“There is much more piety in
the Lutheran Churches,” he ad
ded, “than Lutheran theology
shows."
Both Catholic theologians re
plied to questions in both Ger
man and English, interrupting
the official translators occa
sionally to correct some phras
ing in Interpretation of their re
plies.
Archbishop’s
Notebook
The name of Bishop Fulton Sheen is magic 1
Last week, one of our Atlanta universities invited him to speak
next January, and I wanted to invite him, on the same occasion,
to give a public, city wide lecture, The telephone operator was
taking my telegram message; as I came to the end, I said, “Well,
that’s It - please sign it Archbishop Paul J. Hallman."
The operator gulped in amazement. "Aren’t you," she said
disapprovingly, "ever going to say 'God love you.' "
P. S. Perhaps I should have. The celebrated bishop regrets
that he cannot come because of commitments in regard to the
Vatican Council.
ROME, GA. - Like Rome in Italy, our own Rome has some in
triguing customs. One of them is - if you can’t attend a meeting,
send some refreshments. So, when Father McDonough and I sat
down on a Saturday evening with seven parishioners, the men
who couldn't be on hand supplied the sandwiches. In different
ways, we were all trying to correct the imbalance of a diocese
that has 7/8 of its Catholics in one big city, and 1/8 in 68
other counties. We discussed high schools, tithing, archdiocesan
plans - and I found plenty of vision, deep loyalty and good-
natured rivalry. In fact, I grew so enthusiastic about Rome’s
spiritual pulse that at Sunday Mass the next day, I learned on the
pulpit and accidentlally turned the volume up to a deafening roar.
The only parishioner in Rome about whom I have any doubts
was the four - year - old in the front pew who at this point, put
his hands over both ears. He wanted quiet, archbishop or no
archbishop!
GEORGIA TECH - Father Theophilus McNulty, a man of large
wisdom, is building a library at the Catholic Center. The day
has past when the Newnan program was a ball, and the Newnan
Club was ticked off as the “poor man’s fraternity." The Center
is at Georgia Tech (and the other fine colleges and universities
of our area) for one purpose—to be the focus of religious education
of all kinds of Catholic activities, for faculty and students, and
a place where all students of whatever faith can be in touch with
Catholic culture.
Meanwhile, aided by some vigorous professors and students,
Father McNulty - who although a Franciscan, appears as a sort
of latter day Thomas Aquinas - keeps building the library.
I
GAINESVILLE, GA. - Father Donald Kiernan, pastor of St.
Michael’s, is a host with the most. The most friends, the most
grilled hamburgers,and the most unusual stories about the most
remarkable experiences. Last week as he entertained the priests
of the archdiocese at his rectory, he told how in one short span
of a few hours - a thief stole his television set while he was out
to breakfast, the fire department was called to put out a blaze
on his lawn while he was out on a sick-call, and the archbishop
dropped in to find Father Kiernan knee-deep in explanation to
the police and the fire department!
ROADS TO ATLANTA - The Grand Knights of all Georgia met
at Council 660 on Buford Highway on Sunday afternoon, and
had a chance to see their beautiful little prayer chapel. The presi
dents and moderators of the various Councils of Catholic Women
in this region plan to meet in Atlanta next month the first time
they have come together to compare notes. On Decamber 8,
the Sodality of Cuban college people will rally their members
from all over the U. S. for a day devoted to the honor of the
Blessed Virgin. It is to be in Atlanta. Roads still lead to Rome,
but Georgians will note that more and more Catholic roads
lead to Atlanta, - and even when it’s Rome, it could well be Rome,
Georgia.
LAKE JUNALUSKA - Nobody can sing like Methodists. On
my recent visit to address the World Methodist Council, the
program opened with two stirring Methodist hymns. Everybody
knew them, everyone sang them, everyone meant them. They have
never lost the stirring spirit of their founder, John Wesley.
Their cordial welcome to an archbishop speaking on the “Pro
gress and promise of the Vatican Council" was warm and most
ecumenical. Bishop Fred Corson, President of the World Con
ference, and I refreshed our memories of Rome last fall. Bishop
Corson was an official observer. I was happy to tell the assembly
that our Archdiocesan Center is located on Welsey Road.
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