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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 PIUS XII AND JEWS Magazine Says ‘Deputy’ Raising Valid Questions NEW YORK (RNS) — Com monweal, national weekly edit ed by Roman Catholic laymen here, in a special issue on "The Deputy, ” said that the controversial German play raises valid questions about the responsibility of Catholics for the murder of six million Jews during World War II. In the play, which was to open on Broadway February 26, dramatist Rolf Hochhuth portrays Pope Pius XII as a morally insensitive leader who refuses to condemn the mass killing of the Jews because of personal ambition, fear of Com munist Russia and concern for Vatican financial investments, COMMONWEAL called this view of Pius "a base calumny' 1 that cannot be supported his torically. But the magazine added:", .. it is to Hochhuth's credit that, however distortedly, he saw a moral problem and tried in his defective way to make us face it, . , .If one cannot flatly say SPANISH EXPERT the Church demonstrably failed, neither can one say that the Church stood as an exemplar of the Christian conscience,” "AT A MOMENT in history when the Church should have borne constant, unmistakable witness at every level thatNazi persecution of the Jews was a despicable crime, its voice was muted and erratic,” the week ly said. The Catholic Church, Com monweal said, shared in a gen eral moral failure "through its passivity in the face of European anti - Semitism, through its faulure to instruct vigorously the consciences of its members, through its fail ure to use fully the moral pressures at its disposal,” ON THE specific quest ion of whether a papal con demnation of the Nazi kill ings would have deterred Hitler or merely made matters worse for the Jews, the magazine doubted that any definitive judg- First Nun-Teacher For U. Of Miami MIAMI SHORES, Fla. (NC)— Latin American professionals enrolled for post - graduate studies in the University of miami's School of Medicine are finding a nun as their English instructor. She is Sister Mary Kenneth, chairman of the Spanish de partment at Barry College and the first Religious to join the faculty at a Florida secular university. SHE WAS invited to join the faculty to teach English, in cluding the highly techinical terms of the medicine profes- Dutch Churches THE HAGUE, The Nether lands (NC)—A new law by which the Dutch state will pay for30% of church building construction costs has gone into effect here. The subsidy will remain in ef fect until 1971. "Buy Your >l»x From Mii’V MAX METZEL. Owjjtr MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS ft494 P«chtr»« Industrial Blvd. Chamhlt* Plata Shopping Ctntrr Phont 451-1911 975 Ptachirta, N.I. Vhonc TR 4-9M2 — At 10th it. sion, to Spanish-speaking phy sicians and surgeons. About 200 doctors represent ing 16 Latin American countries and Cuba participate in two- hour English classes twice weekly as they prepare for foreign board examinations through the "drill, drill drill” method. ACCORDING TO Dr. EmU Taxay, assistant professor of medicine, who invited Sister Kenneth to join the faculty, "the effective teaching of English of a highly specializ ed kind as conducted by Sister Kenneth has met with notice able success." Assisting Spanish - speaking persons is not a new experience for Sister Kenneth who was as signed to Barry College after 14 years at the Adrian Domini can Sisters’ Colegio in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. SISTER KENNETH has since 1960 been the "heart” of an extensive English language pro gram offered free of charge at Barry College for Cuban and Latin American physicians, dentists, and lawyers. Classes are conducted four times week ly for doctors on the Barry campus. FRESH SEAFOOD TO&tit (At 6t4( Atuf £uA BUD AND TOM’S SEA FOOD 5441 PEACHTREE ROAD TELEPHONE 457-9890 CHAMBLEE, GA. ST. JOSEPH’S INFIRMARY SODA FOUNTAIN COFFEE SHOP AND RESTAURANT LOCATED NEXT TO GIFT SHOP ON MAIN FLOOR IN NEW BUILDING ATLANTA. OA. “PET.*you bet!” PET Milk COMF**v DAIRY DIVISION For Convenient Home Delivery In Atlanta Call 636-8677 ment could be made, "At most,” it said, "one deals here with probabilities for which their is evidence on both sides.” Pope Paul VI, in a letter, and Dr. Lichten, in excerpts from a booklet, defended Pope Pius. Pope Paul's letter, received by the English Catholic Journal, the Tablet, on June 21, 1963 — the day of his elections as Pope — accused Hochhuth of historical second - guessing. "Let us suppose that Pius XII had done what Hochhuth blames him for not doing,” Pope Paul wrote. "His action would have led to such reprisals and de- vestations that Hochhuth. . . would have been able to write another play . . . about the vicar, who, through political exhibitionism or psychological myopia, would have been guilty of unleashing on the already tormented world still greater calamities. . .” DR. LICHTEN maintained that the Pope's concern for the Jewish people cannot seriously be doubted, and claimed there is "considerable documentat ion in support of Pius’ fear that a formal statement would worsen, not improve, con ditions for the persecuted.” He quoted a Jewish couple from Berlin as saying: "None of us wanted the Pope to take an open stand. , .The Gestapo would have become more ex cited and intensified its in quisitions. . .It was better that the Pope said nothing. We all shared this opinion at the time, and this is still our conviction today. . .” MR. HEER, a widely known __ Catholic historian teaching at the University of Vienna, was highly critical of Pope Pius. He termed "The Deputy" a "direct hit” on "the frightful failure of Rome from 1933 to 1945," and called Pius "a pri soner of the nineteenth-Century curial mentality” that thought of the Catholic Church as an embattled fortress to be de fended through pacts and con cordats. The historian said that under - this mentality, later overthrown by Pope John and Pope Paul, it was not regarded as self- evident that the Catholic Church should champion the rights of those outside its fold. HE ALSO charged that Pope Pius had made "a terrible er ror. . .more unconsciously than consciously” in regarding Hit ler's war against Russia as a possible liberation from com munism. All Catholics, he said, from the top of the Church to the bottom, are co-responsible for the slaughter of the Jews, and Hochhuth’s play "is a clear Invitation” to a confiteor ("I confess”) that should be made. HE CALLED upon Catholic writers to follow Hochhuth’s lead and break the "plaster saint” image of Pope Pius to reveal the pontiff as a tort ured human being carrying a burden which proved to be be yond his strength. Mr. O’Gara wrote that the only valid question about Hoch huth’s play as a historico-legal document is its truth, and that on this score Hochhuth’s indict ment should be thrown out, "IN ANY case,” he said, "it can certainly be argued that plus erred. But this is not what Hochhuth charges. The playwright does not say Pius made a mistake in Judgment; he says he followed the wrong course because he was a vain, greedy and unprincipled man. Hochhuth does what no man can do: he inserts himself into the mind of Pius and draws only the worst conclusions. He is guilty of the worst kind of McCarthyism, and only the staggering immensity of his charge has kept people from seeing this fact.” Nevertheless, Mr. O’Gara said, Hohhuth is wrong only in singling out Pius, because Christians "by the hundreds of thousands. . .were at best silent and at worst cooperative with Hitler's final solution’ to the Jewish problem.” PRIEST URGES U.N. Membership For Red Chinese CRS FOOD FOR NEEDY CHILDREN—In Colombia, South America, 1.2 million children are being- fed by the Alliance for Progress, with 2 per cent of the youngsters cared for by NCWC’s Catholic Relief Services working with the local Caritas. In this photo Dr. Martin Forman, Coordinator of the Operation Ninos Program there examines the facilities for formula preparation with a nun at a day nursery on the outskirts of Bogota,. OVERRULES STATE Spanish Court Backs Baptists TORONTO (NC) -- A Jesuit educator said here he would favor the admission of Red China to the United Nations if Nationalist China would con tinue to remain a member. FATHER DUNNE S. J-. assistant to tne president of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., expressed belief the move would have a beneficial effect on the Peking government. He spoke at the Catholic Information Center, "RECOGNITION of a state means recognition of a fact,” said Father Dunne. "For 13 years China has been under the effective control of the regime in Peking and not un der the regime of Formosa. I do not see anything to be gained by refusing to admit Red China to the U.N. "Her very presence in the U.N. would, over the long run, have the somewhat beneficial effect of tempering her extremists; the more she is cut off from the rest of the world, the more she will be driven into extremism, I would favor the admission of Red China upon condition that Nat- MADRID (RNS) — A landmark case in Spain’s legal history was reported here when the ^ nation’s Supreme Court ruled against the government and authorized establishment of a Protestant church in Valencia. The high court held that the government, in 1961, had erred in barring Protestants from opening a house of worship. IT SAID that the government ministry involved had issued an order "not consistent with law” and ruled the edict null and void. Involved was a small Baptist group whose spokesman was identified as Tomas Perez. Re presenting the appellants in court was Ernesto Vellve, who successfully opposed the government’s restriction after a three-year legal battle. He told newsmen here the church would be opened in Valencia. OBSERVERS here said that the court’s decision was of "the greatest importance” to Protestants in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain. Some noted that the ruling could be another phase of a trend indicating more liberal treatment of Protestants by the government. Permission to open churches has been grant ed often enough in some areas in the past year to raise the hope of the nation's 30,000 Pro testants for religious freedom. THE COURT’S action follow ed quickly on the heels of a report that the nation’s Ca tholic hierarchy had approved a draft law that would give con siderably more freedom to Pro testants in Spain. According to the report, the first draft of the proposed law was endorsed in principle by the late Pope John XXIII in 1961, Observers said a re vised draft, approved by the bishops, would be sent on to the Vatican for study. Approval is expected. How Come God Is Sick? Minneapolis, Minn.—Colum- ban Archbishop Harold Henry of Kwangju, Korea, convales cing in St. Mary's hospital here, smiled as he quoted a letter from Father Joseph Murrin, S. S.C., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “I told the parishioners in Song Jeong Ap that Archbishop Henry had suffered a heart at tack,” read the Columban mis sionary’s letter, "and asked them to pray for your speedy recovery. After Mass some old ladies came to me and wanted to know how come God was sickl” ionalist China also remains in the U.N.” ON THE same grounds, Father Dunne supported sale of U.S. wheat to Red China and other communist nations. He said these regimes are too deeply entrenched to support the hope that they will be brought down by economic sanctions or boycotts. ‘The only hope I see for the future of Russia is a gradual evolution, a gradual develop ment, an extending of their appreciation of human liberties and a gradual granting a human rights,” he said. ‘THEREFORE,” he con tinued, "anything that encour ages the communist nations to move in the direction of human freedom is beneficial. There has been considerable relaxat ion in the Soviet Union com pared with the Stalin days. "If selling wheat to the Soviet Union means that people are better off and not suffering from hunger, I think this is a per fectly good moral reason for doing it, and it will, in the end, serve the interests of the free world.” PAPAL LEGATE — Paolo Cardinal Marella t above > Archpriest of St. Peter's ba silica has been appointed by Pope Paul VI as a special le gate to represent him at the opening of the Vatican Pa vilion at the New r York World Fair, April 21. The 69-year- old papal diplomat served on the staff of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington from 1924 to 1933. JUHAN'S CLEANERS Expert • Ptrsonillsid Benrtc* Given to Every Olrment Coming Into Our Flint US N. Mila at. ro. Cade— Bark. (H Seminary Fund Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be quests should be made to the “Most Rev erend Paul J. 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PRESIDENT GREGORIE Kay- lbanda of Rwanda, has asked the Legion of Mary, of which he is a local founder, to "put their Christian principles to work in helping to develop" this new ly independent African nation. KENNETH O. Brown, St. Louis Building Commissioner, has ordered safety improve ments on a number of Catho lic schools. One of the "schools” turns out to a Greek Orthodox church, another a playground, Lutherans were notified on 24 schools - they have only 20. KNOCK IA RUE DU BAC LISIEUX No matter what European Shrine you choose to visit LOURDES MONTSERRAT ST. PETERS WALSINGHAM Choose Irish to fly you there Because Irish offers the most com plete service to, from, or in be tween the major shrines of Ireland and Europe. New low 21-Day Economy Excursion fares, as of April 1, make the round-trip fare from New York to Dublin a low $277.* Or you can fly to Lourdes for just $366.40.* Fly Irish and go direct from Lourdes to Rome. 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