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2 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1967
CALLS IT ‘RACIST TRASH’
roppi Blasts Pastor’s Letter
MILWAUKEE (NC) — Father
J ames E. Groppi, militant civil
• rights leader, has attacked the
•parish bulletin of St. Aloysius
"church in suburban West Allis
fo r publishing what he called
“racist trash.”
Occasioning Father Groppi’s
attack was a bulletin article en
titled "The Spiritual Works of
"Mercy” written by St. Aloy-
;;sius’ pastor, Msgr. Oscar Win-
ninghoff. The article cited il
legitimacy as one of the pro
blems in Father Groppi’s inner
city.St. Boniface parish which
“Could not be helped by integra
tion.
Msgr. Winninghoff said he
was relating a story he had
been told of four boys in St.
. Boniface who had the same mo
uther but different fathers. He
■ s aid he wrote the article be-
'■cause the inner-city residents
"are causing trouble and dis-
turbing the rest of us.”
Father Groppi explained he
made public (Nov. 19) a letter of
reply to Msgr. Winninghoff be
cause he believed the public na
ture of parish bulletins demand
ed a public response.
Father Groppi told Msgr.
Winninghoff that "some of your
concerned parishioners were
deeply scandalized and sent the
bulletins here. I cannot under
stand how a man who proclaims
to be a follower of Jesus Christ
could write such racist trash.”
Discussing in the bulletin a
priest's duty “to admonish the
sinner under their charge,”
Msgr. Winninghoff said he had
been told by a former St.. Boni
face pastor of the difficulty of
performing this task in the case
of four illegitimate brothers in
the parish school.
Msgr. Winninghoff wrote that
“God said a man should have
one wife and a wife should have
one husband. As to the boys—
would integration solve the pro
blem?
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"If we would take these four
boys into St. Aloysius school
could we imbue them with the
ideal of a holy marriage and of
Catholic family life? If we
would exchange four of our boys
and send them into St. Boni
face school would they maintain
the ideal of Catholic family life
and of Catholic marriage?
"It is easy to go down hill
but hard to go uphill. Which
families from St, Aloysius
would volunteer to send their
boys into St. Boniface school
as exchange students? Who
would pay the transportation,
etc.? We would end up in a
regrettable situation.
"How would we remedy this
situation? A priest, interested
enough, might with the help of
God, solve the problem, if he
could call into play all the spi
ritual works of mercy; to in
struct the ignorant; to counsel
the doubtful; and to admonish
the sinner.”
Father Groppi replied:
"Your problem, Father Win
ninghoff, is a common problem
in white society. You want
black people to be as moral
as you would like to be.
"I do not deny that there
are weaknesses in the black
family structure. But then it
has been racist attitudes such
as yours that has destroyed it.”
Father Groppi told of meeting
a Negro woman with five chil
dren who came to Milwaukee
from Mississippi and was un
able to read or write. He said
after finding it impossible to
support her family "she sold
her body evenings so her chil
dren could eat the next day.”
He wrote: "It is a tragedy
that Pharisees like yourself can
judge so easily and shout—
'adulterous.' It reminds me of
a scene from the Gospel.
'•Recall for a moment that
scene of the weeping woman at
the feet of Jesus, and listen
again to His words, ‘Let he who
is without sin among you cast
the first stone.’
"You, Father Winninghoff,
have had the audacity to throw
the first stone.”
Msgr. Winninghoff said, re
garding the woman who turned
to prostitution, “there are oth
er means for help, such as Ca
tholic Charities, and the St.
Vincent de Paul society."
'The Church is the greatest
charitable institution and any
one who condones prostitution
is equally as guilty as the pros
titute," he added.
The West Allis pastor said
he would not reply to Father
Groppi's letter.
CRS Reply
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fact that CRS has no organized
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leaders but on the initiative of
the CRS director in Vietnam
in 1955, he said.
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Forces as "sort of a home
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grams were impossible because
North Vietnamese authorities
would not allow CRS to super
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grams might be .construed as
violating American laws.
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include Caritas when partially
incorrect reports began circu
lating about plans for Caritas
to build a hospital in North Viet
nam at a cost of $1.5 million.
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$ 1.5 million was the amount of
material aid requested from
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aid but, through its French and
German branches, sent several
packages of medical equipment
to North Vietnam through Mos
cow. This was partially an ex
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material would reach its des
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packages has been acknowledg
ed by the North Vietnamese Red
Cross and Caritas reportedly
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Vietnam.
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$1.5 million figure but may
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A PHOTO of a bombed church, identified as the “Church of the
Binh Hai Parish in Haiphong,” was given to the Rev. John Pair-
man Brown, an Episcopal minister and professor at the Church
Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley, Calif, during a re
cent visit to North Vietnam. The source of the photo was the
North Vietnam National Liaison Committee of Peace Loving and
Patriotic Catholics, which also issued a statement denouncing
U. S. policy as aggression and calling for immediate, uncondi
tional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Brown
said that he had personally seen many damaged churches while
in North Vietnam. (RNS Photo)
U.S. Catholic Calls
War Immoral, Unjust
CHICAGO (RNS) — Declaring
the war in Vietnam to be “im
moral,” '’unjust,” and
"wrong,” a Roman Catholic
monthly magazine suggested
three steps open to the United
States which might bring an end
to the fighting.
U. S. Catholic, a magazine
published here by the Claretian
Fathers, suggested as alterna
tives to continued American
military action:
—A recalling of the Geneva
Conference.
—A total commitment of the
problem to the United Nations.
—Direct, open-minded nego
tiations with Russia, "theprin
cipal supplier of North Vietnam*
but 'a natidfi akhfestP&s artXfOS
to end the war as is the United
States."
According to the magazine's
editorial, many "believe our
government, for reasons of its
own, continues to insist on pre
conditions that prevent a so
lution.”
"It is obvious that American
prestige throughout the world
has been all but drained away
because of Vietnam,” the edi
torial added. 'The United
States has long since surpassed
Russia as the most hated coun
try.”
The editors, in the first state
ment of its kind since the maga
zine was founded in 1934, said
U. S. Christians now have a
moral decision tomake regard
ing Vietnam not unlike that fac
ing German Christians during
the Hitler years preceding
World War II.
“Just as it was the responsi
bility of the Germans to speak
out against the immoral policies
of the Nazis, it is the responsi
bility of Americans to speak
out,” the editorial said.
"It is our contention that the
war in Vietnam is wrong, is
unjust, is immoral. We in no
way impugn the sincerity or
good will of those who believe
the war is just and moral, even
righteous. But we believe the
present course of the United
States in Vietnam cannot be
justified.”
The editorial cited four con
sequences of the war that "alone
make it unjustifiable.”
—American troops are using
"inhuman and immoral me
thods” of warfare, such as na
palm, defoliation, and the "ar
bitrary uprooting of people and
relocation of them...without any
real regard for the effect that
such relocation has upon the
families concerned.”
—Continued use of such me
thods is having a "brutalizing”
effect on those involved,
—The war is creating a di
vision and increased hostility
among the American people, ra
ther than uniting them.
—The conflict is causing a
“deadly drain*’ on American
resources “desperately need
ed” for more essential things,
such as "feeding the hungry,
clothing the naked, sheltering
those in need of shelter.,.”
The editorial, conceding that
some will say that it is unpa
triotic to oppose the U.S. war
policy, said:
"We reject this as utterly
specious. We reject as beneath
contempt the argument that to
oppose the war is to betray the
Americans who are fighting
there. Far from betraying
them, we want to defend them,
to save them from fighting a
barbarous, fruitless war that is
morally wrong.”
Labeling the war as "the
principal obstacle to the thaw
ing of relations between the
United States and Russia," the
editorial concluded;
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“We believe that the war in
Vietnam must be ended before
it does irreparable harm to the
nation. We believe that it is
immoral, and that die American
people, imploring the grace and
mercy of Almighty God, must in
sist that it be concluded without
delay.”
U.N.
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for South Africa, in addition to
$70,000 in past contributions to
similar programs.
As a result of these differ
ences among countries which
had much to lose in the imple
mentation of the resolution, and
those which only could gain by
it, the committee did not achieve
unanimity on the key operative
paragraphs of the resolution.
Thus, it voted 104 to 1, with
one abstention, that apartheid
was a "crime against hu
manity.” Portugal disagreed,
France abstained, and the Unit
ed States agreed.
The division was more pro
nounced when a roll call was
taken on a paragraph demand
ing universal and mandatory
economic sanctions against
South Africa. The vote was 85
to 10 with 9 abstentions, with the
majority of the Western de
veloped countries either oppos
ing the measure or abstaining.
Coolness among many of the
same countries was registered
when the committee voted 92 to
2, with 8 abstentions, to request
the Security Council to resume
its consideration of enforce
ment measures against South
Africa. This was also tried
in 1964 when it failed for lack
of support on the grounds that
South Africa was economically
too strong to be toppled by
sanctions which, in fact, would
hurt its underdeveloped neigh
bors sooner and harder,
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