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PAGE 3 ‘GRAVE MISTAKE’ Priest-Lawyer Opposes Public School Prayers FOR HER FIRST HOLY COMMUNION—The traditional long, white dress completes the picture for this little girl in San Salvador who has just made her First Communion. Hundreds of these dresses were contributed by the National Council of Catholic Women in cooperation with Catholic Re lief Servlces-NCWC. The dresses were hand-sewn and then donated to the Holy Father’s Storerooms for redistribution. CARDINAL SPELLMAN Reveal Prelate’s Support Of Israel WASHINGTON (NC)—A Jesu it professor of constitutional law told the House here he is opposed to proposals to change the Constitution to authorize re ligious exercises in public schools. Father William J. Kenealy, S.J., professor of law, Boston (Mass.) College Law School, told the House Judiciary Com mittee (May 8) it would be a "grave 1 mistake" to amend the constitution. FATHER KENEALY, who stressed that he spoke for him self, appeared on the final day of the third week of the commit tee’s public hearings on 147 proposals to nullify the U.S, Supreme Court’s 1962 and 1963 decisions against prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Father Kenealy, who has taught constitutional law for 25 years, said he opposed an amendment because it would "seriously abridge the consti tutional ‘free exercise’ of re ligion, which is beyond all dis pute a fundamental personal right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and essential to our pluralistic and democra tic society," FREE EXERCISE of religion, he said, means not only free dom "of" religion, but also freedom "from" religion as far as state pressure or coer cion is concerned. He said that he does not ac cept arguments that school re ligious devotions, although of ficially scheduled, would be vo luntary and thus religious free dom is neither denied nor abridged, HE SAID the child whose parents instruct him not to take part in school religious exer cises faces "serious practical pressure in the actual circum stances of the school to conform to the official orthodoxy." "It is wrong in principle, wrong against both parent and child, to force the child into the cruel dilemma of going BOSTON (NC)--A Catholic specialist in Christian-Jewlsh relations said here that the ecumenical council’s proposed statement on the Jews is nei ther a political document nor a declaration of missionary in tent but rather is purely pas toral and religious, Msgr. John M. Oesterreich- er, director of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, Newark, N.J., added that the council, in view ofnazi "savagery” against 6 Religious People’ WASHINGTON (NC)—Chief Justice Earl Warren said here separation of Church and State does not deny that Americans are a religious people, Mr. Warren spoke (May 7) at the dedication of a bell tow er at the National Episcopal Cathedral here. AGAINST A backdrop of controversy over the Supreme Court’s decisions that the con stitution prohibits prayer and Bible reading in public schools, but without mention ing this, Mr. Warren said in part of his address: "... though our Founding Fathers maintained and we have preserved a separation of Church and State, we are a re ligious people. The underlying concepts of our system of jus tice, , .are ethical, or reli gious, if you please, They de rive from our convictions about the dignity of man," MR, WARREN also said that the Constitution’s ban on es tablishment of religion is "for the protection not only of the State, but of faith itself. along with the crowd in the classroom or of obeying his parent and suffering the con sequences at the hands of un thinking classmates, I would respect and protect the reli gious freedom of both parent and child," he said. FATHER KENEALY said America has a strong spiritual heritage and religious charac ter. But he insisted this comes from the people, the communi ty and the society and not from the state itself. "Although our society is re ligious, our state is not," he said. "Neither is it secularis ts or irreligious. It is reli giously neutral. It has been deliberately constituted reli giously neutral, by a religious society." ’THE PRESERVATION and tradition of the religious heri tage of America," he said, "must depend chiefly upon the non-governmental institutions and activities of American so ciety: upon the church, the home, the religious school, the groups and associations which carry on study, discussion, teaching, writing and publish ing of matters philosophical and theological." The committee’s third week of hearings was in line with the proceeding two. The 35-mem ber unit heard from a steady parade of witnesses with con flicting opinions. THE COMMITTEE’S chair man Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York, tangled sharply with one pro-amendment witness who accused opponents of fos tering atheism. Cexiar also hinted that he may propose the House act on a res olution merely expressing the sense of Congress on the issue, rather than recommending a full-fledged amendment to the Bill of Rights. HOWEVER, the leading sup porter of an amendment, Rep. Frank Becker of New York the Jews, "ought not to remain ailent on the duties of Chris tians toward Jews." MSGR, OESTERREICHER, speaking (May 11) at the annual congress of the Boston archdio cesan League of Catholic Wo men, disputed criticisms of the proposed council statement which he said have come both from Arab sources and some Jews. He said some Jewish writers have lately criticized the docu ment because "they think they have detected in it an evange listic undercurrent, a mission ary dimension." "A CATHOLIC will be hard to find such elements anywhere in the proposed document which is, after all, one by the Church for the Church—that is, by her bishops for all her members," he said. As for Arab complaints that the statement is in effect "a political manifesto," he said that in fact it does "little else than spell out once more the gospel of love." THE PROPOSED statement, according to Msgr. Oesterrei- cher, emphasizes Christiani ty's roots in Judaism, notes that all men—not Just Jews— share responsibility for the death of Christ, and condemns anti-Semitism, The monslgnor, a Jewish con vert to Catholicism, said both Christians and Jews should "cleanse their thoughts" and "purge their language" to avoid saying and writing things offen sive to each other, HE CALLED for "awareness of individual Christians and Jews that no far-reaching change in their relationship will come about unless each and every one does his share." quickly rejected the suggestion. He demanded again that the committee put forward an amendment. Two Episcopal bishops led the list of witnesses opposing an amendment, adding to a long line of prominent Protestant church men who have taken such a stand. EPISCOPAL Bishop William F. Creighton of Washington and Bishop J. Brooke Mosley of Delaware both said the Supreme Court’s rulings supported free dom. Bishop Mosley added that for cing a child to leave the class room if he cannot conscien tiously Join religious devotions puts a burden on the youngster. ‘THE STATE has no right to impose this burden on him, I believe it is especially offen sive when it is done in the name of the Christian religion," he said. A leading supporter of an amendment was Francis B, Burch, former city solicitor of Baltimore who argued and lost one of the Bible reading cas es before the Supreme Court, He is now chairman of the Con stitutional Prayer Foundation, a leading force in urging adop tion of a constitutional amend ment, BURCH TOLD the committee that atheists were aiming at a "godless society" and that if the committee ignored the pro posals before it, "it can be said that you are negatively favoring the goals that have been estab lished by the atheists," Chairman Celler, an opponent of the amendment proposals, interrupted Burch to ask if he "really meant" what he had said. CELLER SAID: ‘That’s a very bold, very unusual and very untoward statement." He added: "I’m opposed to these amend ments and I do not subscribe to any atheist tenet," Burch said that he could not make such an interpretation himself, but some persons might. ANOTHER pro-amendment witness was Rep. Albert W. Watson of South Carolina. He predicted "open rebellion" against the government if there was an attempt to enforce the court’s prohibition against school prayer in his state, "Church martyrs of yester year will find their counterpart in thousands upon thousands of God-fearing Americans should the Federal government attempt the enforcement of this deci sion," he said, ANOTHER supporter was David A. Robertson, supervis ing principal of the New Cum berland (Pa.) Joint School Sys tem, who said Church-State separation and individual free dom do not outlaw "recognition of a Supreme Being, nor the right of Individuals or groups to ask divine guidance as part of the educational process." On the other hand, Dr, Frank lin H, Littell, a Methodist min ister and professor of church history at Chicago Theological Seminary, called an effort to permit official worship in pub lic schools "a sickness of Christendom" which threatens religious and political free dom. A PETITION said to contain names of one million youths urging Congress to return pray er to public schools was pre sented to the committee. It came from CarlT, Mcln- tire of Philadelphia and Larry Miller of Fort Wayne, Ind., rep resenting the International Christian Youth in the U, S, A. which conducted a "Project America" petition drive, REP. JAMES Corman of Cal ifornia read into the record dur ing the testimony of the two youths' endorsement of their project by the John Birch So ciety Bulletin. Miller said he was "happy" to have this endorsement, but added the campaign also had support from other quarters, including chruch-related youth groups. NEW YORK (NC)--Francis Cardinal Spellman was saluted by a New York Zionist leader for having helped make Israel "a nation among nations." The Archbishop of New York, who marked his 75th birthday on May 4, was guest of honor at a dinner celebrating the 75th an niversary of Beth Israel Hospi tal here (May 10), CHARLES H, Silver, presi dent of the Hospital and former president of the New York City Board of Education , told the 1,800 guests that he had gone to the Cardinal in 1949 asking him to make a statement supporting the admission of Israel to the United Nations, A personal friend of the Cardinal, Silver said that in stead, Cardinal Spellman "with out a moment's hesitation" re plied that he would call in in fluential members of various Latin American delegations and tell them of "his fond wish" that Israel become a U.N. mem ber. BISHOP DECLARES CHARLESTON, S.C. (NC)~ Catholic schools are "uniquely equipped" for providing a "God - centered education," Bishop Charles F. Reh of Char leston declared in a pastoral letter read in Catholic chur- BISHOP - ELECT — Father Robert Anglim, C.SS.R., (above) a native of Lom bard, Ill., and a member of the St. Louis Province of the Redemptorists has been named Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Conri. in Brasil. Silver added: "WHEN THE vote was taken, Israel became the 59th member of the United Nations, winning by almost exactly the number of countries to which His Emi nence had gone for assistance in our cause," Silver also told the audience that Cardinal Spellman over the years had given more than $200,000 to Beth Israel Hospi tal. HE CALLED the Cardinal's > support for Israel’s U.N.mem- ’ bership "one of the most amaz ing stories of brotherhood and fellowship among men of good will you are ever likely to hear." While keeping it secret for 15 years, he said that "in this time of vindictive post mor- tems and afterthoughts about the apathy of other faiths when the survival of the Jewish people was threatened, I feel that this story should now be told," ches throughout the state (May 10). Bishop Reh stressed the "grave responsibility" of par ents to provide for the reli gious education of their child ren and noted that "in a so ciety of different religions the public school cannot give a God-centered education to. , . children." WHILE THE home should ac count for much of a child’s re liglous education, he said, it cannot do the whole job. ‘The child spends many hours of the day out of his home in the school," the Bishop said, "For him it is the primary place of his learning. If he rarely or never hears orleams anything about God and his Cath olic Faith in the classroom, he can easily become less aware of the first place these should have in his life." BISHOP REH called for coop eration with the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine program for those not in Catholic schools. On the college level, he said parents should send their child ren to Catholic colleges if pos sible or, if it is not, see to it that they participate in the New man program at the non-Cath- olic school they do attend. COUNCIL ON JEWS Pronouncement Seen Pastoral 9 Catholic Schools Uniquely Equipped THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAROCHIAL SYSTEM CRITIC Wouldn’t Close All Schools DETROIT (NC)~Mrs, Mary Perkins Ryan, author of the controversial book, "Are Cath olic Schools the Answer?", de nied here that she advocates the closing of all parochial schools. "At least, not right away," she added, IN DETROIT to participate in a panel sponsored by the Wayne State University New man Foundation, Mrs. Ryan said that her book was intend ed to probe an idea that she has had for some time—name ly, that Catholic education has only one aim: the formation of a people acceptable to God. Asked if this religious for mation is taking place in Catho lic schools today, Mrs. Ryan said no. ‘TOO MANY of our Catho lic educated people have the same pagan goals as public- educated adults. •, .success, money, Jobs. ents that they are equipped by God and nature to be teachers of their own children. It is by example and attitude that spiri tual formation is begun. ‘The church and the pastor must assume their obligation to aid in this formation and for their guideline they should look to t*he new liturgy, greater lay participation in the Mass and the sacraments", Mrs. Ryan said. IDEALLY, spiritual forma tion, begun in the home, could be embellished by intensive courses in Christian doctrine conducted in churches or cate chetical centers supervised by nuns or .lay people specially trained in the work, she said. For children in culturally de prived areas, whose parents are of little help in forming a real Christian, she said paro chial schools would seem to be the only answer. WILL I THOUGHT VDU W*RB TAKING ME TO THE. RIVIERA RESTAURANT. c & s REALTY COMPANY "Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate" Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3, Ga, Warehouses, Stores, Mfg, Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev„ Subdivision Dev., Industrial Dev,, Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH 'Too many of our Catholic children—about one-half-nev- er attend a parochial school. For one reason, it may be too expensive. audio stereo me. "AND I ASK, how long can the American Church continue to educate a smaller and small er elite, leaving such great numbers of children neglect ed in secular schools and col leges?" She said that she doubts that Federal aid to private schools would ease the parochial school problem. High Fidelity Components Sales and Service A. J. “DOC" SCHIER 2929 Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 231-4374 "I BELIEVE it is better for Catholics to involve themsel ves in education per se. We need Catholic opinion and Cath olic spiritual attitudes repre sented in all phases of live, but mostly in education," she con tinued. She said she believes that the spirutual formation of a child belongs rightfully in the home and the church. "WE NEED TO assure par- — 1 — . JUHAN’S CLEANERS Expm - NnoMllnd Berrict Olv«n to Bvrry Otrount Oomtnf Into Our Plut Its X. Mala M. PO. 1.44M 9niunance in all iti JjOA+ha! 91 Wi written, we wsule it . . Sutter & McLettan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. 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