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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1966
FATHER THOMAS Gilroy, S.M t , blesses the flag for the new
Kinghts of Columbus flagpole dedicated recently. The flag will
be displayed outside the Council #660 home on Buford highway.
Holding the flag is 4th degree knight Joseph Cragin.
Will .Continue Appeal
Conviction Of Italian
For Extortion Upheld
Capuchins
In Court
PERUGIA, Italy (NC) — A
court of appeals here has up
held the conviction of two
Capuchin friars for extortion,
but acquitted them of conspir
ing to break the law. Their
sentences' consequently were
reduced from 13 years to eight
years.
The Capuchins are Father
Agrippino (Antoinia Joluna), 43,
and Father Venanzio (Liborio
Marotta), 47. The three lay
men convicted in the same case
are Girolamo Azzolina,
Giuseppe Selemi and Filippi
Nicoletti.
Of the three laymen who also
appealed their convictions, both
of those who had been convic-
red of murder were acquitted of
that crime because of lack of
evidence. Their sentences were
therefore reduced, however,
the conviction of all three on
charges of criminal conspiracy
was upheld.
The priests and laymen had
all been charged in 1960 with
extortion and murder in the
Sicilian town of Mazzarino a-
long with two otherpriests, Fa
ther Vittorio, the superior of
the Mazzarino monastery, and
Father Carmelo.
The series of crimes in which
the friars were involved began
on Nov. 11, 1956, when an un
known assailant shot at Father
Agrippino. According to the
friars, that was the beginning
of a threat to their lives which
held them in terror for more
than three years and forced
them to cooperate with a band
of. extortioners.
Extortion notes were sent to
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wealthy residents of Mazzarino,
and one of the friars would
follow up the notes with a per
sonal visit and urge the vic
tims to pay the money demand
ed.
When a local druggist failed
to pay, his store was burned.
Another wealthy man, Angelo
Cannada, was shot to death for
refusing to pay the money de
manded in an extortion note, and
notes continued to be sent to
his widow.
On the Capuchin monastery
grounds police found a type
writer, on which the extortion
notes were said to have been
written, and a shotgun said to
have been used in the crimes.
The four friars claimed they
were innocent because they had
been compelled by fear to co
operate with the extortioners.
At the trial; in 1962, thepro-
secutor recommended ac
quittal for Father Vittorio be
cause of lack of evidence.
All four Capuchins were ac
quitted at that trial on the
ground that they had “acted
under duress.*'The prosecutor,
however, appealed the acquittal
of Fathers Agrippino, Veanzio
and Carmelo. The three laymen
on trial with them received
prison sentences.
In 1963 an appeals court at
Messina, Sicily, reversed the
acquittal of the three Capuchins
and sentenced each to 13 years
in prison plus various fines.
In 1965 their sentences were
reduced, but Fathers Agrippino
and Venanzio still appealed
their conviction. It is this ap
peal that we heard in the Perugia
court.
Father Carmelo, who was
over 80 when arrested, died in
1964.
The laymen have been in jail
since 1960, but the priests have
been allowed their freedom
pending the final outcome of
their trial.
The case now goes to the
Court of Cassation for review.
If the judgement of the Perugia
appeals court is not upheld, all
defendants go on trial again.
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Churchmen Cite Race Problems
SYDNEY, Australia (RNS) — Deteriorating race relations in
Papua-New Guinea were cited by territorial churchmen in a
special report to the House of Representatives of the Australian
Parliament.
Their warning, accompanied by recommendations, is being stu
died by the House foreign affairs committee.
Growing racial unrest was charged in a document signed by
Catholic Bishop Virgil Copas, Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby;
Anglican Bishop John W. Chisholm of New Guinea; Major John
Walz, divisional officer for the Salvation Army; and Bishop
John Kuder, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
New Guinea,
Theologians Will Meet
BELGRADE (RNS) — Theological experts from all the Eastern
Orthodox Churches will gather here in September to discuss
their common attitude toward the Roman Catholic Church trad
the Churches of theAnglican Communion, it was announced here.
The announcement was made by officials of the Serbian Ortho
dox Church who said, 'This will be the largest gathering of its
kind ever held and will undoubtedly issue guidelines for the
Orthodox Churches.”
Has ‘Holy Impatience 9
CENTER HARBOR, N.H. (NC) -- Coadjutor Bishop Peter
L. Gerety of Portland, Maine, ; expressed "holy impatience"
at the slow progress in achieving rights for Negroes.
He told a New England Council of Churches friendship
gathering here that he endorsed Project Equality of the
Catholic Church which urges ithe patronage of firms willing
to employ without racial bias.. The friendship gathering was
sponsored by the Council of Churches of the six New England
states.
Bishop Gerety called on Protestants, Jews and Catholics
to work together for racial 'justice in the United States.
Luci To Have Big Wedding
WASHINGTON (NC) — Acombined choir of 100 men and
boys from two Catholc churches in Baltimore will sing at
the wedding of Luci Baines Johnson, the President’s dau
ghter, and Patrick J .Nugent here on Aug. 6.
The White House announce^ the choirs from the Cathedral
of Mary Our Queen, directed by Robert F. Twynham, and
the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, directed
by Norman Sydnor, have been selected. The Nuptial Mass
will be offered at noon in the National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception here, with 700 guests present.
Twynham will write original music for parts of the Nuptial
Mass and Sydnor will direct the 100—voice combined choir.
Expelled For Bible 6 Smuggling’
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MOSCOW (RNS) ®ritislr fOifrists 2nd a' Diitdh 'cf- h
tizen were expelled from the Soviet Union for attempting to
smuggle religious literature into the country, Moscow Radio
reported.
It said Anthony Richard Hippisley and his wife, Anne Marie,
tried to smuggle through a border checkpoint 400 Bibles and
other books which they had received from the British and Foreign
Bible Society for ‘‘illegal" circulation in the U.S.S.R.
Tie books, the station said, were concealed in eight secret
compartments in a specialy adapted Volkswagen.
Pope
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ed about the problem, Father
de Riedmatten commented.
The priest’s audience with the
Pope was reported by Vatican
Radio, but the station revealed
nothing of what transpired be
tween the Pope and his visitor.
Only Italian Radio reported that
the topic of conversation con
cerned the report submitted by
the birth control commission.
When newsmen approached
Father de Riedmatten immed
iately after the audience, he re
fused any comment whatsoever.
However, an Italian Radio
commentator said he thought
the Pope would make his ruling
on the birth control issue this
coming Fall, after having stud
ied the commission’s report
thoroughly during his usual stay
at the papal Summer residence
in Castel Gandolfo.
It was expected that the Pope’s
departure for Castel Gandolfo
would be made in a matter of
days. In some quarters it was
believed the date would be ear
lier than usual, owing to the high
temperatures currently pre
vailing in Rome.
Meanwhile, the Italian Radio
reported that II Regno, a relig
ious magazine published in Bo
logna by the Priests of the Sac
red Heart, had revealed that
more than 500 Catholic lay in
tellectuals from 17 countries,
including the United States, had
sent an appeal to the Pope ask
ing him to delay any decisions
regarding the Church’s teaching
on birth control.
In their petition — submitted
also to the papal commission —
the intellectuals warned against
precipitating "decisions which
. could in a short time be over
taken by new discoveries in the
medical and scientific field,”
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For Catholics
SECAUCUS, N.J. (NC)—The
board of education here voted
to restore free bus service to
some 100 students who attend
two Catholic high schools in
nearby Union City.
The action came less than
two weeks after the board had
directed Arthur Couch, super
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the ser vice for the next school
year because of the cost.
Students from Secaucus at
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a 30 per cent cut in the $1 mil
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the new school year, The cut
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