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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964
‘MODUS VIVENDI’
Tunisia Accord
With Holy See
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
Holy See and Tunisia have
reached an agreement ensuring
the Church freedom of action
in that Moslem country and the
transfer of many church build
ings and properties to the Tu
nisian government without com
pensation.
Among the terms of the
agreement, it was revealed in
an “authoritative" articles pu
blished in the Vatican City daily,
L'Osservatore Roman, it has
been agreed that the present
archdiocese of Cathage will be
reduced to the status of the
independent prelature of TUnia.
A Vatican press office bulletin
termed the agreement a “mo
dus vivendi."
IN THE accompanying article
in the Vatican City daily, a
“modus vivendi" was des
cribed as a diplomatic inter
national conventionwhich“does
not constitute a complete or
wholly satisfactory settlement
of the various questions con
cerning relations between the
Church and state in a given
country." In the absence of
such a settlement, “evidently
immature or not yet possible,
the “modus vivendi" alms at
ensuring at least certain con
ditions indispensable for the life
of the Church and for its rela
tions with state authorities and
organizations."
This modus vivendi is the
fruit of a long period of ne
gotiations between the Holy See»
and Tunisia, resulting in part
from the wholesale migration of
Italian and French settlers from
Tunisia after it passed from
French control to the status of
an independent country in 1959.
A Vatican press office bul
letin announced the results of
the negotiations with the fol
lowing statement;
“ON JUNE 27, by an ex
change of diplomatic notes be
tween Amleto Cardinal Cicig-
nani. Papal Secretary of State,
and Mongi Slim, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs in
the Tunisian Republic, a 'modus
vivendi' was signed between
the Holy See and Tunisia re
garding the juridical situation
of the Church and the republic.
“The exchange of the instru
ments for ratification of the
agreement—which is accom
panied by an additional protocol
and other documents which are
part of it—took place today
(July 9) at Tunis. On the part
of the Holy See, the plenipo
tentiaries were Msgr. (Agos-
tino) Casaroli, Undersecre
tary of the Sacred Congregation
for Extraordinary Ecclesiasti
cal Affairs, and nunciature
counselor, Msgr. Luigi Poggl;
on-the part of tve Tunisian
Republic, were Taleb Sahbanl,
Secretary General of the State
Secretariat for Foreign Affairs,
and Mohamed Senoussl, juri
dical advisor of the Tunisian go
vernment."
IN THE L'Osservatore Ro
mano article, which the press
bulletin described as “authori
tative," it was pointed out that
the agreement is the “first
diplomatic agreement between
the Holy See and the government
of a nation which has entered
Ialan.ism into its constitution
ac die state religion and in which
those who belong to the Catholic
religion have so far represented
a minority living on Tunisian
soil."
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MOST OFFICIALS
Support Shared Time Concepts
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNb,
More than 60 per cent of 183
public school superintendents
polled in a National Education
Association study said that on
the basis of their experience
with shared time programs of
instructlw, they would recom
mend the practice to other
school syscems.
Believed to be the flrsp na
tionwide survey in the field,
the NEA study report attempt
ed to reach no conclusion or
recommendations as it high
lighted the problems, advan
tages and disadvantages of such
arrangements.
THE NEA study is confined to
arrangements in which non
public, usually Roman Catholic,
schools send their pupils to
public schools for instruction
in one or more subjects during
a regular school day. All
schools Involved had enroll
ments of 300 or more.
The report 1* based on in
formation drawn from question
naires aent to achool superin
tendents who reaponded to an
earlier NEA poll of school sys
tems.
While it did not cover all
shared time arrangements In
the country nor even a repre
sentative sample of them, the
number of replies produced
some insights into the workings
of shared time, observers said.
STATES with the largest
humber of shared time pro
grams reported were Michigan
(42), Ohio (36), Pennsylvania
(31), Illinois (27), Wisconsin
(25), Minnesota (13), Indiana
(11) and Missouri (10). ,
Industrial arts, vocational
education and home economics
were the subjects most fre
quently provided by the public
schools. Others, in the order of
frequency, Included instrumen
tal music, physical education,
phyeics, chemistry, driver
training, advanced mathema
tics, foreign languages, general
science, and business and cleri
cal subjecta.
Three of the 183 public schools
reporting provided English
courses, four offered art, and
only “one or two" gave social
studies courses to non-public
school students.
In reply to the question: “In
the light of your experience,
would i you .-advise school dis
tricts to provide a program of
shared time?" 63 per cent of
the superintendents answered
“Yes," 9 per cent said “No,"
and remainder either did not
answer or gave qualified re
plies,
NEARLY HALF of the super
intendents said shared time had
brought good relationships be
tween parochial and the public
schools and greater public
school support from Catholics.
“We were able to secure a
favorable vote on a new build
ing bond issue on our Initial
attempt," said an Illinois sup
erintendent. A Michigan school
head said; “Perhaps this is the
reason there has never been an
organized opposition from pa
rochial parents on public school
issues."
Almost one-third of the sup
erintendents expressed concern
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)~
According to the Louis Harris
Poll, U.S, public opinion op
poses, by an almost 2 to 1
margin, the campaign of Nor
thern students to assist Negro
voter registration in Missis
sippi.
Only 31 percent of these in
terviewed, Mr. Harris said,
endorsed the students' pro
gram. Fifty-seven per cent
were opposed, while 12 per
cent were undecided,
SOME 700 Northern students
were expected to be at work
throughout Mississippi by mid-
July.
The program was being di
rected by the Council of Fe
derated Organizations (COFO),
a coalition of four civil rights
groups — the Mississippi
branches of the Congress on
Racial Equality (CORE), Stu
dent Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), Southern
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP).
The National Council of
Churches' Commission on Re
ligion and Race is cooperating
with the student program, hav
ing conducted orientation ses
sions at Western College for
Women, Oxford, Ohio, and Le-
Moyne College at Memphis,
Tenn.
ACCORDING to Dr. R.H. Ed
win Espy, general secretary
the NCC agency has not recruit
ed students for the Mississippi
Summer Program.
"We have recruited respon
sible ministers and lawyers
to counsel and assist all stu-
over the fact that such courses
as industrial arts, vocational
education and business educa
tion are “expensive to offer and
qualified teachers of such sub
jects are difficult to find." For
this reason, they held, paro
chial school children often
would be deprived of such edu
cation, were it not for shared
time programs.
“The education of all children
Is the responsibility of the pub
lic schools," said a Pennsyl
vania superintendent. “If this
can be done through a shared
time program, I am in favor
if it."
dents participating," he said
recently. “The NCC orienta
tion program was designed to
apprise them of the real risks
Involved and to prepare them
spiritually for this very de
manding experience."
According to the Harris Poll,
copyrighted by the Washing
ton Post, the nation is over
whelmingly behind the use of
federal troops in Mississippi
If violence breaks out or the
state's officials refuse to com
ply with desegregation orders,
SEVENTY-EIOHT per cent
would support President John
son's use of troops to curb
violence, whlls 72 per cent
would support such a move if
It became apparent that state
and local officials would defy
the Civil Rights Act and court
orders directing segregation.
In each case, Mr. Harris
reported, more than half the
Southern white residents res
ponding favored use of federal
troops In either case.
Hails Rights Act
CHARLESTON, S.C. (NC)—Bi
shop Francis F, Reh of Charles
ton said here that the new civil
rights law provides a "legal
framework within which all men
can fulfill their Christian ob
ligations of Justice and love,"
Abstainers Meet
NEW YORK (NC) — The 92nd
annual convention of the Catho
lic Total Abstinence Union of
America will be held Aug, 9-11
at the Statler Hilton Hotel here.
IN MOST communities paro
chial schools go only through the
eighth grade. Shared time ar
rangements in the seventh and
eighth grade, a number of sup
erintendents noted, helped ease
the way of parochial school
pupils into the public high
school.
Twenty-five superintendents
expressed convictions that the
public schools are established
for the education of all child
ren; that parents of parochial,
school pupils help finance the
public schools and are there
fore entitled to benefits from
them.
Most of the disadvantages cit
ed were problems of adminis
tration — scheduling, trans
portation, student control, stu
dent activities and record main
tenance.
Sixteen superintendents not
ed that shared time strengthen
ed their own school offerings.
A Minnesota school leader re
ported that his school was able
to establish an agricultural de
partment only after the addition
of parochial pupils made en
rollment large enough to Justi
fy it. Similarly, he said, the
school band was greatly en
hanced by the added numbers
of parochial school pupils.
ONE SUPERINTENDENT said,
“Discipline is sometimes a
problem because these students
think we have no right to dis
cipline them."
Holy days, when Catholic
children are not required to
attend school, also raised prob
lems if parochial school and
public school children were in
the same classes.
Some public school men said
their facilities were already
crowded and shared time pro
grams added further strain.
Another problem in some
areas was the lack of state re-
lmbursment for part-time stu
dents,
The NEA study showed that
most shared time arrangements
are negotiated on a year-to-
year basis. Once the school
boards have approved the policy
in principle, details are left to
be worked out by the principals
of the participating schools.
Arrangements are usually in
formal and are rarely reduced
to writing.
SUBJECTS provided are us
ually limited by the availability
of space, personnel and time in
the public schools. It is usually
the parochial school that ad
justs its schedule to that of the
public school.
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IRAN: MEET SISTER P0UILART
IN IRAN, (ancient Persia), the city of ISFAHAN is famous for
Its mosques, its bazaar, and the Persian carpets it produces. Its
atmosphere is exotic, old-world
Moslem.—And. then, shockingly, you
meet Sister Pouilart . . . Wiry and
vivacious, with exhaustion in her
eyes. French horn Sister Pouilart
9 loves the sick. The reason, if you
^ ask. is simple: “Our Lord loved
them.” she says . . . She tells you
how you can help the sick. She
shows you lontc..lin«s of ragged. half
starved youngsters waiting in the
heat outdoors for medicines, innocu
rvt Holy rnskar’s Mission Aid lations, sometimes food . . . You go
tor she Orient si Church with her into an old building, the
property of the Sisters of Charity, which she hopes to convert
intn a clln«e for expectant mothers. “With very little money.’
she says. ”we can save hundreds of lives Just by giving expect
ant mothers the proper care. We can save the infants, too
M's the best way to show Moslems that Christians love them.”
. . . M ill you help Sister Pouilart? No gift ($1, $2. 85, 810) In
too small—but Sr. Pouilart needs large gifts, too. A sanitary
bathroom, for instance, will cost 8250. The entire clinic, an
excellent memorial for a loved one, will cost 82,800 . . . It’s
hard to refuse Sister Pouilart. She has exhkustlon in her eyes
Please do alt you ran.
A LOT FOR A LITTLE
WHAT IN TIIF. WORLD can you get for 81? In Now York.
Chicago. Snn Francisco, 81 won’t buy much. In IRAN (only 1H
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NATIVE PRIESTS. The boy in INDIA, let's say. who
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a year (1600 altogether) pays the eost of his education,
Would you like to ba his sponsor?
H MASH STIPENDS. The offering you make -lien you
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