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PAGE 3 — The Georgia Bulletin, February 1,1973
Father Alden Stevenson
Priest Compares Chinese
To Primitive Christians
SAN FRANCISCO (NC) -- The first American priest
admitted to mainland China since the Communists
assumed power there in 1948 described Chinese
society as “a rather primitive Christianity in action.”
Father Alden J. Stevenson, a member of the campus
ministry at the University of San Francisco here, said
he was referring to a saying of Chairman Mao “that
you see everywhere and is practiced everywhere.”
The saying is “Wei Ren
Min Fu Wu” - “Serve the
People” - and to the Chinese
it means “for otherness,
rather than for the self,” the
priest said. “It’s much like,
‘Love your neighbor as you
love yourself.’ ”
Father Stevenson was part
of a 15-member USF
China-America Friendship
Group which toured China
from Dec. 15 to Jan. 9 as
guests of the Peking
government.
“As far as we know, this
was the first group
representing an American
University to have been
approved for entry (to
China),” said James Kelly,
USF information officer.
The USF tour group visited
seven Chinese cities and
studied China’s laws, its court
systems, the organization of
communes, child care and the
status of women. The group
also witnessed an
acupuncture operation in
Canton and viewed Chinese
art treasures seen by few, if
any, Westerners.
The 11 students on the
tour earned academic credit
at USF.
China is “a poor country
beginning to pick itself
up . . .” Father Stevenson
said, adding that it is also a
very clean country.
“All of China looks
swept,” he said. “We saw one
fly in Nanking. Everybody in
the place ran over to chase it,
poor thing.”
The priest said the Chinese
people he talked to were not
angry over new bombing raids,
but “felt sorry for the Ameri
can people” because they
believed the U.S. government
was not being responsive to
the wishes of its citizens.
Father Stevenson said he
did not wear his Roman
collar during the 25-day tour,
but he never encountered any
hostility when Chinese
citizens discovered he was a
priest.
“I didn’t talk to any
Chinese priests,” he said,
“but I did sit with people
who had gone to Catholic
schools and we talked
church.”
The country’s churches
were closed down after the
Chinese communists seized
power, but some of them
have since been reopened,
Father Stevenson said.
Mass is celebrated in Latin,
he said. “Vatican II reforms
haven’t entered China.”
“Religious Orders Dead,”
Christian Brother Says
NEW YORK (NC) - “The
religious order isn’t
disappearing-it’s already
dead. It died five years ago,”
said a writer who is an official
of a religious order himself.
“I think it’s legitimate to
call something dead when it’s
no longer an operating
organization,” Brother
Gabriel Moran said in “The
Commune Way: Catholic
Version,” published here in
INTELLECTUAL DIGEST.
“You can call yourself an
organization, but if a body
has no authority, no power to
do something, then I don’t
think it’s alive.”
Brother Gabriel, president
of the Christian Brothers’
Long Island-New England
province, suggested that
future religious communities
may resemble communes in
which men and women live
together and raise children.
Maintaining that the two
ways of participating in the
Church offered to today’s
Catholie-the local parish and
the religious order-are both
unsatisfactory, Brother
Gabriel said they must be
replaced by “something that
is more human, and that
builds on qualities other than
geography or sexual
segregation and
institutionalization of
religious orders.”
“I stand for destruction,”
he said. “I’m against both the
existence of the religious
order and the parish. I’ll work
and take part in developing
anything that is
different . . .”
He said that he regards a
religious community as “a
group of people who are
bound together in some sort
of communion-it’s part
economic, part social, part
political if it’s a community
at all, but in part it’s
religious, held together by
belief, ritual, life style.”
He maintained that new
religious communities should
include men, women and
children. “Right now we have
people who have been in
Catholic religious orders who
might get together and say,
‘Look, we have lots of good,
strong, free, intelligent
adults-why don’t we bring up
some of these children
who’ve been abandoned?’ ”
He said the old religious
orders could provide a way of
transition to the new
communities. “I think the
last act of the religious
order’s life can be its
greatest--to provide
personnel, stabilizing
elements, to form new kinds
of communities that refuse to
put up with the old
insitutional forms. I’m trying
to test it in my own
order . . .Once you establish
communities with two sexes
in them, you’ve broken all
boundaries and all the legal
systems and you have another
ballgame.”
Cease-fire . ..
Dear Editor:
With the cease-fire it now
becomes essential that we do
not dwell on the saddening
past, but move on to effect
true peace at home. The
mistaken of war and the costs
of 45,937 young men’s lives
and $200 billion have divided
this country in a manner that
will demand all our energies
to reunite. It is urgent that
we who admit to the message
of the Christ take the
initiative in bringing unity in
America.
No longer can we label
“hawks” or “doves.” No
longer can we vilify the other
person for not sharing our
dream for America.
The issue for our
immediate consideration is
amnesty. Many young men,
anguished by the question of
the immorality of war,
decided for the unpopular
alternative of leaving their
homeland. We Christians
maintained silence too long
concerning the immorality of
this war. We must now
dynamically call for a general
amnesty, for anything less
than this will continue to
devastate this country.
Can we, clergy and laity,
rise beyond ourselves and
truly accept and work for a
general amnesty? For unity
will never be achieved in
America unless we work for it
in the spirit of understanding
and concern.
The Catholic Peace
Fellowship rejoices that our
war involvement is over,
hopefully never to be
resurrected. We now call on
all persons of good faith to
bring justice to America.
There are all too many
problems facing us in
America, problems which
were set aside too long in
order to concentrate on war.
All Americans, young and
old, veteran and pacifist,
must now courageously
concentrate on peace.
MATTHEW J. ROBBINS
CATHOLIC PEACE
FELLOWSHIP
ATLANTA, GA.
Standard missal . ..
Dear Editor:
Surely the changes
recommended by Vatican II
have by now been
incorporated in the liturgy.
There shouldn’t be any need
for any more experimenta
tion in the Mass but the Mass
and the Eucharist should be
continually explained for
greater appreciation by the
laity.
I recommend we now
standardize a missal in our
archdiocese. There are two
missalettes in use that I know
of. One is published by the
Liturgical Press, St. John’s
Abbey, and is more complete
than the other published by
J. S. Paluch Company of
Chicago.
Some parishes are using a
black, hard cover book called
the PEOPLES MASS BOOK,
published by the World
Library Publications and
combines the Mass with more
hymns than the others,
containing both words and
music. This book is virtually
useless in following the
participating in the Mass. It
does not contain the Prefaces,
the Eucharistic Prayers, nor
any of the Sunday readings.
It is more a hymn book than
a missal.
The St. Joseph’s missal
comes in paperback and
hardback covers. There is a
St. Joseph’s Sunday Missal
and a St. Joseph’s Weekday
Missal. The Sunday missal is
reasonable in cost and
complete for the Sunday
Masses of a cycle. I would
think it could be expanded to
include the daily Mass
Propers as they are shown in
the missalettes. Such a missal
would seem to offer the best
as far as content and
eliminate eight to 12
missalette purchases during
the year. The cost would be
less than purchasing the
missalettes and the missal
would be easy to handle. The
PEOPLES MASS BOOK does
not offer the best for Mass
participation and I would
think higher or equal to the
cost of the St. Joseph missal.
I urge Archbishop
Donnellan to standardize the
missal for our archdiocese by
selecting or creating one that
is complete for greater
appreciation and
participation. We are
supposed to be one
community and should have
some semblance of missal
standardization.
It is of great importance
that the laity realize what
grace is, how it is obtained,
and what can be
accomplished when many
have received it. There isn’t, I
believe, a greater means of
obtaining grace than
participating in the Mass and
reception of Holy
Communion. It is important
that we have this instruction
and by attention to the
increasing of grace in us all,
by sacrifice and good works
as well, we will hopefully see
in our time an increase in the
laborer’s needed to work in
the vineyard.
J. M. JOSEPH
HENRY COUNTY, GA.
Right-Wing Group Attacks Priest,
Bishop at Detroit Peace Vigil
DETROIT (NC) - An
estimated 12 persons
belonging to the right-wing
group Breakthrough
disrupted an ecumenical
service for peace at Blessed
Sacrament Cathedral here and
attacked Auxiliary Bishop
Walter F. Schroenherr of
Detroit and Father Thomas
Hinsberg.
The group also unfurled a
15-foot banner that read:
“Dearden is a Communist” -
referring to Cardinal John F.
Dearden of Detroit.
Detroit police requested a
warrant for the arrest of
Donald Lobsinger, head of
Breakthrough and the alleged
leader of the assailants, and
three other members of the
group. The warrant was
withheld, however, while the
police searched for
eyewitnesses who could
provide positive identification
of the assailants.
According to the
MICHIGAN CATHOLIC,
Detroit’s archdiocesan
weekly, Breakthrough earlier
staged a demonstration
against Cardinal Dearden’s
Mass for Peace at the
cathedral January 1.
At the ecumenical peace
vigil, the group entered the
church while a mime (a play
without words) was in
progress. Lobsinger walked
up to Bishop Schroenherr and,
according to witnesses, said:
“Is this a church? This is a
circus!”
The mime depicted the
effects of war. (Mime
performed in chruches
preceded the mystery and
miracle plays of the 12th
Century and were used as a
form of religious instruction,
with the actors portraying
characters from the Bible.)
Bishop Schoenherr told
Lobsinger to leave the Church
which he did but not before
pulling the bishop’s stole
from his shoulders.
His supporters, who had
unfurled the banner reading
“Dearden is a Communist,”
also left.
They reportedly got into
their cars but only drove a
short distance before
returning as the 200 persons
attending the peace vigil
assembled on the steps
outside the cathedral.
As Father Hinsberg began
reading a telegram that had
been sent to President Nixon,
he was struck in the face by a
piece of wood and then was
jumped from behind and
knocked to the ground.
Three youths then
reportedly jumped on him.
They were pulled off but not
harmed. “The whole thing
lasted 30 seconds,” Father
Hinsberg said. “I think it was
significant that no one fought
back. It was a witness to what
they wanted . . .it shows the
contrast between those who
will pray for peace and those
who will seek violent
solutions.”
Detroit Police had not
been called in advance despite
the heavy police contingents
that usually had accompanied
Lobsinger’s political rallies in
the suburbs.
Breakthrough has been a
counter demonstration group
that has taken on such varied
projects as picketing Masses,
peace demonstrations,
supporting George Wallace in
the 1968 campaign,
disrupting city council
hearings on open housing,
picketing Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., speeches and
serving as a local, right-wing
political group for more than
10 years.
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New York and Father Anthony
LoGatto, pastor of St. Rosalia’s church
in Brooklyn, celebrate the return of two
diamond-studded crowns and other gems
to the Regina Pacis shrine, a mission of
St. Rosalia.
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Have Its Own Godfather?
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NC) -
The jewels from the Regina
Pacis shrine are back in safe
keeping, officially recovered
by the FBI. But unofficially,
no one can say for sure if the
FBI had helped get them
back.
The word from this
Italian-American community
is that top organized crime
figures passed out the word
that it would be “healthy”
for whoever was holding the
jewels to return them.
Two jewel-encrusted
crowns had been stolen from
the shrine. Police later
arrested two men and a
woman in the theft. But no
jewels.
Then the jewels turned up
after the underworld figures
reportedly sent out the word
that they wanted the jewels
returned. “It’s a possibility
that they may have had a
hand in the recovery of the
jewels,” a local FBI agent
said.
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The jeweled crowns had
been formed from the melted
gold wedding rings of World
War II widows and then
encrusted with diamonds and
rubies. The crowns had been
behind what was supposedly
unbreakable glass.
Now that the jewels have
been returned again, the
pastor Father Anthony
LoGatto said that he will find
a safer place for them. “We’ll
never again put them back
where they were - it’s too
much of a temptation.”
The jewels were stolen
once once before from this
predominatly Italian parish
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