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10 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1968
O’Boyle
Stops
Building
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle of
Washington has called for a
“temporary moratorium’’ on all
new ecclesiastical building in the
archdiocese in order that Church
efforts may be more directed
toward aiding the poor.
Buildings already designed,
contracted for “or without which
a state of extreme hardship or
emergency would result” will be
allowed, however, the cardinal
said.
He made his plea for increased
aid to the poor in a pastoral letter
read in all churches in the
Washington archdiocese.
Citing the “spontaneous
outpouring” of help to persons
made “homeless, hungry and
helpless” during recent rioting in
Washington, the Cardinal said:
“Now the work of reconstruction
must begin.”
“By reconstruction,” he
continued, “I mean not only the
erection of new buildings and
businesses of the city, I mean also
the reconstruction of society, so
that, as much as is humanly
possible, we shall witness the
disappearance of ghettos and the
appearance of equal opportunity
of employment that assures every
man a living wage, a type of
education in which every child
can develop to his full potential
and the universally recognized
freedom for all American citizens
to live and move and exercise
their human rights with dignity,
decency and true brotherhood.
“This ideal must be achieved
locally and nationally if our
American nation is to survive.”
The archdiocese, he said, is
currently spending $400,000 a
year on programs aimed toward
achieving this ideal.
THE REV. Ralph Abernathy (center), who succeeded the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as head of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, makes plans with his aides for the Poor people’s Campaign in
Washington, D.C. With him are the Rev. James Bevel (left) and Bernard LaFayette. Abernathy announced that
the campaign would start April 29 and would be conducted as it had been planned by Dr. King. He said it would
be “the most militant and aggressive non-violent war ever .waged by the human and civil rights movement in this
country.”
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BLOODSHED PREDICTED
Priests Told-Be Prepared
To Die With The Oppressed
DETROIT (RNS) - American
Catholic priests must be prepared
to die with their “oppressed”
people of inner city slums, a
California priest said here.
Father Peter J. Riga, professor
of St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s,
Cal., said he sees little evidence
for optimism that U.S. racial
troubles can be settled without
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Even a cessation of the
Vietnam war would promise no
funds to promote social justice,
he claimed, for money saved
“will just go back into the
pockets of the rich.”
Addressing the Catholic
Conference on the Urban
Ministry, Father Riga said
Negroes cannot gain from direct
conflict, for “whites . have the
guns and the numbers to beat
Negroes in direct confrontation.”
He called on priests attending
the conference to fulfill the
non-violent role of prophet
during these times.
“Being prophetic means
bringing action to the abuses of
society, in season and out of
season, to government, to the
hierarchy, to the white
community,” he said.
“Non-violent means of
confrontation must be used, such
as rent strikes, demonstrations,
cooperation for self-help, even
civil disobedience in extreme
cases.
“The priest must be prepared
to live with, to suffer with, and
even to die with his oppressed
people.”
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Discord-among - Catholics after
the Second Vatican Council is
perfectly normal, “but it is not
normal for progressive or
conservative Catholics to refuse
to accept the directives of the
council and the pope,” Father
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general said here.
At a press conference, Father
Arrupe is in Brazil for 30 days to
visit Jesuit houses in the country
and to preside at the May 6 to 14
meeting here of all South
American Jesuit provincials.
He said that his visit is
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intention is only to serve
mankind better.”
During his stay here, Father
Arrupe will visit 20 localities
where Jesuits are working. There
are 1,000 Jesuits in Brazil.
- He said that he regarded as a
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references to him as “the black
Pope.”
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