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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
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Moscow-Linked Archbishop
Protests Russian Policy
NEWLY APPOINTED SECRETARY to the Archbishop for Education, Monsignor O'Connor (center)
is pictured with school officials at the recent Teachers' Institute, (left to right) Rev. Daniel J.
O'Connor, Sister Severine, C.S.J., Monsignor O'Connor, Rev. James L. Harrison and Rev. Richard
Leary, C. P.
LONDON (NC)--A call to the
world to protest against cur
rent increasing persecution of 1
Christians in Russia has been
made here.
Orthodox Archbishop Antony,
Exarch in Western Europe of
the Moscow Patriarchate, gave
his sponsorship to the appeal.
According to students of church
affairs in Eastern Europe, this
is the first time that a prelate
connected with the Moscow Pa
triarchate has publicly com
plained against Soviet persecu
tion.
THE CHARGES AGAINST the
Soviets were made at at Ortho
dox ceremony that was held in
FATHER DAVIS
SPEAKERS AT THE TEACHERS' Institute were, left to right,
Mr. Frank Kaler, Sister M. Margaret, S.S.J. and Monsignor
Vincent J. Horkan.
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with “calloused hands’’ and
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Unity ‘Courtesy’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)—
Simple human courtesies- and
plain ordinary good manners
have “extremely important"
roles to play in the Christian
unity movement, Father Thurs
ton N. Davis, S. J., editor-in-
chief of America, national
Catholic weekly, declared here.
Discussing the etiquette of
today’s ecumenical age, the
noted editor said that charity
and courtesy have become the
"texture" of day-to-day relat
ions between separated Chris
tians.
“WE NOW GIVE each other
the time of day, as we were
once not used to do," he said.
“We visit back and forth more
frequently across the distances
that separate us. A new gentle
ness has come into our manner
of writing and speaking of those
with whom we await th e in
evitable, though still far-off
day of full communion."
Father Davis spoke at the
National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception during the
week-long Chair of Unity Octave
observance (Jan. '18-25), an
eight-day annual period when
Catholics around the world pray
for Chrisitian unity.
AS CHARITY and fellowship
grow in the ecumenical move
ment and “old prejudices melt
away in the warming atmosp-
away in the warming atmos.-
phere,” he said, a new sense
of assurance and confidence
asserts itself.
This feeling, he cautioned,
should not make Catholics
“race the ecumenical horse
too fast.’’ He stressed that
in the “delicate matter of
Christian unity, gradualism is
the only valid path to our ulti
mate goal."
COMPARING THE movement
for unity to a seed planted in
the ground, the Jesuit priest
said that Catholics could “un
wittingly and disastrously kill
the vital thing that has now
taken root,’’ if they demand
too much of the ‘little garden
we are all so busy cultivat
ing.’’
“Zeal is not the gardener’s
most appropriate virtue,’’ he
continued. “If he waters or
hoes or weeds too vigorously,
he kills what
bear fruit.’’
he hopes will
IN THIS connection, Father
Davis observed that some Ca
tholics “are anxious that we
begin to exchange pulpits with
our Protestant brethren before
we have learned to exchange
Christmas cards."
But at the same time, he
said, “there would be nothing
premature about exchanging a
few hymns or even a prayer
here and there. And who will
seriously oppose the sober ef
forts that are now being made
by Catholics and Protestants
to provide the whole Christian
world with common vernacular
versions of the Holy Script
ures?”
WHILE CAUTIONING against
haste in the ecumenical move
ment, Father Davis stated that
Catholics should not erect bar
riers by clinging to “outworn
attitudes and hopeless, frozen
posture."
“Indifference, sheer pre
judice and simple ignorance on
our part,” he said, “can to a
degree nullify the brilliant
leadership that Pope John XXIII
and Pope Paul VI have given the
Catholic world.
‘TO FAIL TO see that God’s
unifying grace is being poured
out on the Protestant and the
Orthodox as well as on the Ca
tholic; to continue to think and
speak with conscious or un
conscious disdain of those out
side the family of the Catholic
church; to persist in using the
old metaphors of a bruising
‘triumphalism’ when dealing
with such Christian friends;
to keep alive an outmoded and
sterile repertory of polemical
rhetoric in treating with
separated brethren —these are
all temptations to be avoided."
Father Davis emphasized that
the charity and etiquette of the
dialogue does not mean there
are to be no frank exchange,
“or that we must speak a sort
of milksop language of com
promise.”
“Frank and even starkly un
equivocal talk is essential to
productive dialogue,’’ he said,
“and charity is never wounded
by complete honesty.”
conjunction with a Christian
Unity Rally at Trafalgar Square
that brought together Catholics
and representatives of various
Protestant churches. The Or
thodox performed an Epiphany
Blessing of the Thames River.
\rchbishop Antony presided.
The speaker at the ceremony,
Rusian-born Archpriest Vla
dimir Rodzianko, declared: “It
is a paradox that we have just
blessed, in full freedom, the
river of a Western country, for
which anyone would be perse
cuted if he dared to do it in the
(Eastern) part of the Orthodox
world."
ARCHPRIEST VLADIMIR
then related details of current
Soviet persecution froma docu
ment transmitted last fall to a
group of British tourists in
Russian. The document recited
instances of forcible removal of
children from religious in
struction and services, threats
against seminary students, ha
rassment of monks and pil
grims, diversion of church
funds and closings of churches.
“We do not want to interfere
with the Soviet laws/’ said the
archpriest, who is stationed
now at the Serbian Orthodox
Church of St, Sava in London.
“We appeal to them to follow at
least what they themselves set
as their own laws.
“WE APPEAL TO the Unit
ed Nations and ask them to re
consider the question of reli
gious freedom and liberty. And
we, the Orthodox gathered here
in London, appeal to our patri
archs and bishops, to the Holy
Father of Rome and all his bis
hops the world over, to our host
here, the Archbishop of Canter
bury and all Anglican bishops
the world over, to all bishops
and ministers of other chur
ches, to the World Council of
Churches—let us all show our
Christian unity In this our com
mon concern for our suffering
brethren,"
Th e Orthodox protest here
has called attention to other de
tails concerning the situation of
believers in the Soviet Union.
These people are regarded as
being under greater pressure
now from the Red regime than
ever before.
SEVERAL MONTHS ago, for
example, new state decrees
were Issued forcing pastors to
turn over the full administra
tion of their parishes to com
mittees of laymen. These com
mittees always Include mem
bers who are devoted to the Sov
iet authorities.
Regulations now enforced re
garding Baptism require that
the pastor must have a request
signed by both father and
mother. This is aimed at the
practice of having the “ba-
bushki," the grandmothers,
bring babies to church secretly
for Baptism. Fathers whose
livelihood depends directly on
state favor, which applies to
nearly everyone must have
great courage to go ahead with
Baptism for their children un
der the new conditions.
HONOR LATE PRESIDENT. Representatives of Catholic
women’s organizations all over the U. S. gathered at the
grave of President Kennedy in Arlington National Ceme
tery, Arlington, Va., to offer prayers.
Letter To Editor
TO THE EDITOR:
It was with a great deal of
appreciation and interest that I
read Fr. Leonard F. X. May-
hew’s recent column in the
GEORGIA BULETIN.
If mere of us would speak
out against prejudice and ex-
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BALTIMORE, Md. (RNS) —
Priests in the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Baltimore have
received this advice: try to
stop smoking.
An editorial in the archdio
cesan paper, the Catholic Re
view, said Catholics should ex
amine their consciences about
the morality of smoking. Child
ren should be kept from smok
ing as long as possible, it
added. Priests were urged to
lead the way by refraining from
smoking.
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