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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 -nuy Your ll«Wro a Mu" MAX METZ1, Own" MAX'S MEN' SHOPS Mfn Pachtr#, Inctrtal Blvd. ChamblM Plata Bh.pm, Otntar Phont 45) ii 95 P»»chir»#,N.E. Phon* TV «-#MI — At 10th It. 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 0 the complete, ready to operate sound system Now..xarryyour own 0 ‘public /4iiruM Sftitem $*te*uu «* A6 wherever yu go sets up anywhere IN ONLY 10 SECONDS PHONE 525S417 172 WHITEHALL S'iEET, S.W. ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA 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, MEXICO cm 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. JUHAITS CLEANERS JCxptrt • PmoMltMd StnrtM Otvtn to Evtry Otrmcnt Oomin* Into Our Plant in M. Mata at. TO. OaSnga Park, Q*. 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