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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
PERSONAL FRIEND
Cardinal Cushing Lauds
JFK On National TV
OSTON — “For those of us
" knew the President as
fhd as well as statesman,
"Is mock our attempts to
fc ^ss the anguish of our
hc s ."
3s Boston's Richard
Cair,al Cushing underscored
wt| :ility of trying to fash
ion %ting eulogy to the great
ness^ goodness achieved by
assas-i ate( j President John
Fitzgijd Kennedy, whom the
Cardii had known all his life.
ills i\ surec j words went out
by tele j on t0 the tragedy-
numbed tion during a Requiem
Mass of-.d here (Nov. 24)for
the Pres. ntt
AND Afh e Cardinal sought
to console. t . grieving nation,
down the C* at Hyannis Port,
the Preside, mother, Mrs.
Rose Kenne* assisted at two
Masses offtd die white
clapboard Stp ri ncis Xavier
church.
Her youngei son , S en. Ed
ward M. Kenny t joined her
for one Mass. 1rs , Kennedy
left her pew bunce«—to walk
to the altar rail^ t o receive
Holy Communion.
Meanwhile, at e Kennedy
home at Hyannis P t , die Pre
sident’s invalided ither, Jo
seph P. Kennedy, anted at
a Mass offered by and friend.
Father John Cavar lgh , C,
S. C„ former preside of the
university of Notre Dame.
Special permission hj been
granted Father Cavan, g h to
offer the Mass
home.
in the Kennedy
Father Cavanaugh also of
fered a Mass in the Kennedy
home at which the President’s
father assisted at the same
hour that the funeral Mass was
offered Nov. 25 for the Chief
Executive at St. Matthew’s
cathedral in the nation's capi
tal.
After she left the church,
Mrs. Kennedy took a walk alone
in the sunlight and cold along
the beach of Nantucket Sound,
where the President used to
sail and swim.
Sen. Kennedy said his father
“was holding up pretty well’’
since being told the tragic news,
but said the former Ambassador
to Britain’s Court of St. Jame’s
was unable physically to attend
the funeral in Washington. Late
in the afternoon, Mrs. Kennedy,
her Senator-son and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Eunice Shriver, en
planed for the nation’s capital
and the funeral.
Cardinal Cushing in his ser
mon asserted: “Now all of a
sudden, he has been taken from
us and 1 dare say we shall never
see his likes again.’’
The famed churchman paid
tribute, too, to the President’s
widow, Jacqueline Beauvier
Kennedy. The Cardinal, who
nad officiated at their marriage,
said the “bonds of love which
made them one in marriage
became like hoops of steel
binding them together,"
"When men speak of this sad
hour in times to come, they
will ever recall how well her
frail beauty matched in courage
the stalwart warrior who was
her husband," Cardinal Cush
ing said.
And the Prelate did not for
get the Kennedy children, Caro
line, 6 and John, Jr., 3—
"Charming Caroline stealing
the publicity, jovial John-John
on all fours ascending the stairs
of an airplane to greet his
daddy. . .’*
SURVEY SHOWS
AMERICA’ EDITOR
THREE SEMINARIANS from St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester,
N. Y., Studying for the Priesthood for the Atlanta Archdiocese,
are shown with the North Georgia Mission exhibit recentlymected
on the seminary grounds. Left to right they are Rev. Mr. Rob
ert L. Roemer, Rev. Mr. Raymond C. Horan and Rev. Mr. Jacob
R. Bollmer.
U.S. Retains Tradition
Of Sunday Day Of Rest
NEW YORK (RNS)—Has the
pressure of modern American
society, the creeping tide of se
cularism, changed the tradi
tional concept of Sunday as a
day for church, rest and family
get-togethers?
According to Elmo Roper and
Associates, who surveyed
adults across the nation, the
answer is “No,''
REPORTING HERE on a re
search project sponsored by
This Week magazine to inves
tigate popular attitudes and nor
mal habits on Sunday, Mr, Rop
er said religion, relaxation and
STRONG INUMIDATION
Catholic Villagers Hit
By Vietnam Persecution
UE, Vietnam (NC)—About
20 fmiliei who became Cstho-
llciiome four years ago have
been forced to renounce their
Faithin a village northwest of
here,
Cathlics in Thus Thlen pro
vince, of which Hue is the
capital,and adjoining provin
ces arebeing threatened, fal
sely accsed and bloodily beat
en,
SOME AVE BEEN made pri
soners,
Some lwe been terorized
into takingdown the Crucifix
and religioi pictures from the
walls of tlir little homes.
High pres»re intimidations
are being apged to force Ca
tholics conve.ed i n recent
years and thoi now under in
struction to absdon Christiani
ty.
ALL THIS as happened
since the recent svolution that
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brought about a local as well as
a national change of govern
ment, Contrary to official as
surance, the situation in the
villages of this province has
not improved in the past week,
Out in the lonely country-
sde, this correspondent has
vlilted a parish where a band
of young men descended upon
twt villages, obliged the Ca-
thoics and catechumens to ga-
thei and harangued them with
acciaatlons and threats. The
youig men accused them of
klling Buddhists and demand
ed that they remove their re
ligious emblems.
N ANOTHER VILLAGE, a
CaJiolic woman was seized and
terrified into accusing four Ca
tholic men of murdering Budd
hists by putting them into rice
sacks and throwing them into the
river. This fantastic allegation
has been spread assiduously. It
is probably the distinctive pro
paganda Invention of the pre
sent anti-Christian campaign.
In many villages now, Chris
tians are afraid to store ordi
nary rice sacks in their houses.
IN ONE DISTRICT headquar
ters, an official assured this
correspondent that no Catho
lics were held prisoners there.
At that time a Catholic school
teacher seized in another vil
lage was seen in the headquar
ters, not locked into a cell,
but certainly under detention.
Catholics have been beaten
and tied with wire. Victims
wounded by beatings in one
village were reportedly refus
ed treatment in the small gov
ernment medical s tation to
which they had recourse,
IN QUANG TR1 province north
of here, touching the 17th par
allel which divides South Viet
nam from the communist-ruled
North, the situation is parti
cularly disquieting
One village police chief has
been leading a group of young
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men making night raids on Ca
tholic houses, Buddhists in that
area are so intimidated that
they fear to be seen goiqg to a
Catholic hospital that has been
serving people of all religions,
It was constructed with aid
from Mlsereor, the German
Bishops' relief fund,
THE SLANDER CAMPAIGN
that goes with these attacks
includes allegations that priests
and Sisters have poisoned the
wells and that Catholics keep
guns and daggers to kill Budd
hists. The Legion of Mary has
been singled out for attack, as
has also Catholic Action.
In Hue city, a member of the
Legion of Mary is in prison. He
was baptized last June, accord
ing to local legionaries, but had
been preparing for Baptism
several years. He had not been
a Buddhist, but had practised
veneration of ancestors. He was
denounced for having become a
Catholic while Buddhists were
engaged in their big dispute
with the government. He was
beaten and accused of belonging
to a secret organization.
SIGNIFICANTLY, the anti-
Christian campaign in the vil
lages did not begin until about
one week, in some places 12
days, after the coup that over
threw the former government.
The pattern it follows and the
kind of accusations made —
familiar to those who watched
the anti-Christian campaigns of
Chinese communists 15 years
or so ago—lead many to sus
pect communist influence.
In some of the villages the
new pressure groups have al
ready forced the hasty holding
of elections to replace the ex
isting village councils. The
military revolutionary leaders
have decided that now is no
time to hold general elections.
Village elections held now are
sure to be affected by the cli
mate of insecurity and local in
timidation.
ONE RESULT may be the
weakening of the world village
defense system In the provin
ces, who have guaranteed free
dom of faith and religious equa
lity, wish to avoid all religious
conflicts. But new local autho
rities in some places seem
weak, either through exper
ience or fear of "the icrowd %
t which is actually an aggressive
minority certainly not repre
sentative of authentic Budd
hism,
relatives still are the keywords
of the day.
While about half of the popu
lation still has a nostalgic long
ing for Sundays of yesteryear,
he said, 56 per cent of today’s
people look forward to Sunday
more than any other day of the
week,
AND FOR ABOUT half of the
people, he reported, the day is
most popular because of its re
ligious significance,
"I think we can still describe
ourselves as a church-going na
tion," he said, pointing out that
the survey showed that slightly
more than half of America'*
adults will be found in church
on an average Sunday.
TWO-THIRDS OF the popu
lation, he added, attends church
at least once a month,
Drawing a profile of the typi
cal American's Sunday, he said
the survey showed "the chan
ces are 50-50" that he had s
special dinner, read a news
paper but not a magazine or
book, watched some television
but probably didn't go to a mov
ie, did some outdoor exercis
ing and went somewhere in at
automobile,
CONCERNING EXERCISE,
the researcher said, only about
one in ten people engage in an
active sport like swimming,
fishing or golf.
It was reported that a majo
rity of people "want to keep
the Sunday in Sunday." With
the South again leading in the
regional percentages, there was
predominant feeling against
Sunday politics, liquor sales
and commercial activity except
for essential services.
"Despite the anxiety and ten
sions, the confusions and com
plexities of modern life," Mr.
Roper said, "there still exists
in the nation a deep and sound
reservoir of people whose lives
are grounded in the things that
count."
TO DRAMATIZE THE sig
nificance of the day, he said
people were asked what would
happen if Sundays were abo
lished, if businesses stayed
open around the week and peo
ple took off random days.
The answers i n eluded?
'There would be a loss of spi
ritual values...religions would
die out...families would drift
apart...life would be a mess."
Persons interviewed were
supplied a series of words to
choose as their description of
the day, he reported. Frequent
churchgoers predominated in
selecting "happy", "restful,"
"satisfying," "contented", and
"Inspirational" while larger
percentages of those who at
tend church occasionally or
never led in -the "tiring,",
Congress Aide
To Be Priest
WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS)
— Walter Flaherty, a top aide
to House Speaker John W. Mc
Cormack, has turned down a pay
raise in his$18,000-a-year Job.
The reason: he lsleavlnghls
post next week as secretary to
Mr. McCormack to enter the
first class of the new Pope John
XXIII National Seminary for De
layed Vocations now under con
struction at Weston, Mass.
"lonely" and
categories.
"monotonous"
WHILE THE SURVEY of 2,500
adults showed church atten
dance rates still substantial,
the researcher also pointed out
that there is an indication of a
"falling away from the religious
fold."
It was shown that about 22
per cent of the population at
tend services more often than
they did 10 years ago, 41 per
cent attend "about the same"
but 29 per cent are gping less,
Mr, Roper said Protestant* and
Jews are attending less fre
quently, while the Catholic rate
has remained approximately
balanced in the last decade,
THE RESEARCHER also bal
anced the findings on church
attendance with a conclusion
that "almost tied in impor
tance with religion" is antici
pation of Sunday as a day for
"rest and relaxation," And of
high importance, is recognition
of the day primarily as a time
for being together with fami
lies and friends, he said,
Father LaFarge, Racial
Justice Champion, Dies
NEW YORK (NC)—A Requiem
Mass has been offered for Fa
ther John LaFarge, S. J. au
thor, editor and champion of in
terracial Justice, in St. Igna
tius Loyola church here.
The Jesuit priest, a founder
of the Catholic interracial
movement in the U. S., died
in his sleep at age 83 (^ov. 24)
at Campion House, residence
of the editorial stafit of Ameri
ca magazine, of which he was
an associate editor.
ACTIVE IN interracial work
for more than 30 years, Father
LaFarge fought against racial
discrimination with his voice
and pen and with his organiza
tional ability, He called the in
terracial problem "cancerous"
and ruled out any postponement
in dealing with it.
"If we don’t meet it, we're
sunk as a nation," he said in
an address in 1960 in Toledo,
Ohio.
ASKED IN AN interview in
1958 if he thought "the Negro
is trying to go too fast," here-
plied; "My answer is that we
have had too much slowdown al-
ready,.,Today a slowdown would
WARNS AFL-CIO
only give the forces of violence
prejudice the opportunity to
build up their strength...”
He also said then that any
Catholic organization or insti
tution which would as a matter
of policy reject applications for
admission from Negroes 'Is
acting entirely contrary to the
spirit of the Church and con
trary to its own profession of
true catholicity."
BORN IN NEWPORT, R. 1.,
in 1880, Father LaFarge was
the son of John LaFarge, the
artist, and Margaret Perry La
Farge, He decided to become a
priest at an early age, but took
a somewhat circuitous route to
ward his goal. He attended pub
lic schools and Harvard Uni
versity, from which he was
graduated in 1901,
He went to Innsbruck, Aus
tria, to take his seminary stu
dies and was ordained there in
July, 1905, and in November,
1905, Joined the Jesuits, He
worked in various parishes or
as a chaplain until 1911, when
he was assigned to Jesuit mis
sions in Maryland, where he
worked for 15 years. In Ridge,
Md., he founded the Cardinal
Gibbons Institute, a secondary
Hoffa Is Labor
Threat; Priest
Other findings i
More women attend church
than men (72 to 63 per cent);
elderly people are no more ds-
vout than the young (65 percent
of people over 50 are church
goers, to 67 per cent under 35){
more Southerners (73 per cent)
are churchgoers than those in
the Northeast (68 per cent).
Middle West (65 per cent) or
Far West (58 per cent),
THE RESEARCHER said it
also was found that Roman Ca
tholics lead Protestants in the
number of regular churchgoers,
85 to 65 per cent, and that 3
per cent of the Jewish popu
lation attends services at least
once a month.
And what, "in an adjective,"
does Sunday mean to people?
"WE FOUND THAT the bet
ter the churchgoer, the better
his Sunday," Mr. Roper said.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
PROVIDENCE, R. I, (RNS)
—James R. Hoffa, president of
the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, is the most dan
gerous threat facing the Amer
ican labor movement today, ac
cording to Father Charles B.
QUlrk, O, P„ chairman of the
economies department of
Providence College.
Father Quirk spoke here at
a dinner marking the fifth anni
versary of the merger of the
AFL and CIO unions in Rhode
Island.
HE SAD HOFFA is so power
ful that there is a danger that
important AFLO-CIO affiliates
may be "panicked" into press
ing for the reinstatement of
Hoffa and his union in the AFL-
CIO on his own terms,
The international Teamsters
Union was expelled from the
merged labor movement
in 1957.
Urging that union members
fight against Hoffa's reinstate
ment on his own terms, Father
Quirk predicted that the
Teamsters leader eventually
"will become a victim of his
own success."
INEVITABLY, the American
public will become increasingly
angered at the union chief's
power to strangle whole sect
ions of the nation's economy,
Father Quirk said.
At this "breaking point," he
claimed, the public will demand
and get legislation to curb Hof-
fa's power. The priest said it
would be disastrous for the Am
erican labor movement as a wh
ole — whose leadership he pr
aised as wise and prudent —
to become hidden beneath the
image of Hoffa,
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school for Negroes, as an agri
cultural R existed until 1933.
IN 1926 FATHER LaFarge
was appointed to the editorial
staff of America magazine. He
was executive editor of the
magazine from 1942 to 1944
and its editor-in-chief from
1944 to 1948,
In 1934, the Catholic lay
men's Union, which he direct
ed sponsored a meeting that re
sulted in formation of the Ca
tholic Interracial Council of
New York, This was the fore
runner of many such councils
throughout the U. S,, and even
tually resulted in the estab
lishment of the National Catho
lic Conference for Interracial
Justice, which has headquar
ters in Chicago,
THE JESUIT priest receiv
ed numerous honors during his
long life, including the 1955
award of the Catholic Associa
tion for International Peace,
Other honors included the
World Brotherhood Award, the
American Liberties Medallion
of the American Jewish Com
mittee, an award from the Re
ligion and Labor Foundation of
Washington and the 1961 Cam
pion Award of the Catholic Book
Club.
FATHER LaFARGE complet
ed the last of his books, "Re
flections on Growing Old," last
month, Hia other books include
'The Race Question and the
Negro," 'The Catholic View
point on Race Relations" and
'The Manner Is Ordinary," an
autobiography published in
1953.
In that book he said that in
tegration is bound to come, but
its achievement "calls for
study, research, patience and a
vast expenditure of honest good
will and sincere love of God and
man,"
“Ultimately," he said, "it
must be worked out from within,
for out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts and passions,"
Priest-Observers
To World Council
Bishop Of Dallas
Shocked By Death
ROME (NC)~Bishop Thomas
K. Gorman of Dallas-Fort Wor
th in expressing shock at Pre
sident Kennedy's assassination
hailed him as "this great Cat
holic man, a historic person
age in the history of the Uni
ted States."
He made the following state
ment the day of the President’s
death:
"AS THE BISHOP of Dallas-
Fort Worth I am deeply shock
ed at the news at the violent
death of President Kennedy. To
his wife and family I express
my deepest sympathy, as to the
whole American people,
“In these days of violent poli
tical upheavals it is deeply to
be regretted that even in our
own country of democratic tr
aditions the growing resort to
violence in so many nations sh
ould once again have taken vio
lent form in a successful ef
fort to take the life of the Pre
sident of the United States.
"THIS TRAGEDY has brou
ght recent events throughout the
world home to us. We may now
realize more fully what the vio
lent solution of real or imagi
nary dissatisfaction really me
ans, and be awakened to the
violence that is rampant thro
ughout our modern troubl
ed world.
"Naturally 1 am very pleased
to learn from the reports that
our Dallas priests were on the
alert and able to give this fine
Catholic man, the first Presi
dent of our Faith, the conso
lations of the last sacraments.
"MAY GOD GRANT this
great Catholic man, a historic
personage in the history of the
United States, eternal rest and
peace. May his countrymen ho
nor him with the place he des
erves in the story of American
life."
‘Yes, Virginia’
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (NC)—
A spokesman for the U, S, Su
preme Court has reassured a
sixth-grader here that the court
hasn’t barred Christmas carols
from public schools.
GENEVA (RNS) - Two Ro
man Catholic priest observers
have been named by the Vatican
to attend a Mexico City meet
ing Dec. 8-20 of the World
Council of Churches’ Commis
sion on World Mission and
Evangelism, it was announced
here at WCC headquarters.
Appointment of the priests,
it said, was made by the Va
tican Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity headed by Au
gustin Cardinal Bea.
THE OBSERVERS ARE U. S.
-born Father Thomas F. Stran-
sky, C.S.P., a mission specia
list and permanent staff mem
ber of the Secretariat; and Fa
ther Jorge Mejia, S.J., a Bib
lical professor at the Argen
tine Pontifical University and
editor of the Catholic maga
zine, Criterlo.
Father Mejia is now serving
as head of the information of
fice in Rome of the Latin Ame
rican Bishops attending the Sec
ond Vatican Council. The Coun
cil is slated to adjourn shortly
before the Mexico City meet
ing begins.
FATHERS STRANSKY and
Mejia were named in response
to an invitation from the WCC.
Other groups invited and ex
pected to send observers, the
WCC announcement said, in
clude the World Alliance of
YMCA’s, the Lutheran Church-
Mlssourl Synod, and the Na
tional Baptist Convention of
Mexico.
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