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Cardinal' Bea Praises Progress
.Of Catholic-Jewish Relations
n'HEANCiOR-Oiocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 23,1967
Catholic Effort Organizes Northeast Brazil Workers
VATICAN CITY (NC)-The head of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity has praised the efforts in many countries to carry out the ecu menical council's Declaration on the Relations betwen Catholics and Non-Christian Religions.
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From "Social Revolution in ·the New Latin America"
Edited by John J. Considine, M.M.
In northeast Brazil we are assisting a whole program of rural labor development with four technicians that we already have on the scene: a trade unionist, a cooperative expert, an agricultural economist and an agricultural en gineer in Recife. The rural Father Garcia of the Central labor movement of the American University followed Northeast, organized origin Bishop Prata. "I see that CLASC ally by the circulos operarios, isn't here," he said. "This is a represents a' tremendous effort on the part of the Catholic Church to get into the field of campesino de velopment. They've com pletely stolen the t hunde r from . Francisco .Juliao, the Com munist League's cam pes i nist. This . Catholic effort has over 200,000 organ ized workers in their ranks, and our people are wor1~ing hand in hand day by day wi.tb Father Melo and Father Crespo in an effort to establish campesino service centers wherein we teaCH . marketing methods, fertilization, irrigation, and the technical ~now-hl)w of 20th century farm ing because land r-efo.rm is not efll)ugh. This and manY,many &ther efforts are being carried 00 in tite field of social development by the American Institute f<H' Jrree Labor Development, and recently we've established a Community Services Department ljO that we can care for the human element so that wedou't just go down and build a lot l)f buildings and a lot of il'lstitutiGfls which frankly had .as their ulti mate end the material progress of lleople. But where we can we help them maintain those institutions and resist exploitation from either foreign exploitation l)r do mestic exploitation and huild real democracy at the grass roots. This, in the brief time allotted to me, is the record l)f the Amer i.can labor movement to date in l.atin America. Jose Marti We consider Jose Marti of Cuba f<o be one of the great po litical philosophers of Latin America. He had some advice that many of us leaders of the American Institute for Free l.abor Development take to heart and try to practice in Latin America. He was the Abraham Lincoln of Latin America. He could coin a phrase. At one time 'he said as he observed the world, "EI nnundo se divide en don ramas: los. que aman y fundan, los que .odian y destruyen."-"The wocld divides itself into two branches: those who love and build, those who hate lIIld destroy." , We like to think we'are lov,.. 'ing and we like to think we are lMiilding. CODeerning CLASC At the CICOP conference in Chicago, as soon as Mr. Doherty eom~leted this presentation of the work of ORIT in. Latin America, Bishop Prata of' La PJZ, Bolivia, asked for the, floor. "I appreciated verY much the wonderful explanation Mr. Doherty gave," he said, "but please forgive me if 1 voice a little criticism. We are here to d.iscuss the topic 'Christians and the Workers' Movement' an~ w-e had the idea that we would hear from the d.ifferent movementS. I would appreciate a word af explanatio.m."
Christian movement and' appar ently hasn't been invited. Why is it that qLASC and ORIT, both of which are labor movements, do LEAVES POST: Father not mingle in Latin America? Where CLASC and ORIT work' John F. Cronin, S.S., widely in Latin America I have seen . known author and lecturer that CLASC criticizes ORIT very on economic and political af strongly. I would like to know fairs, is leaving the post he why." has held since 1946 as assist The CICOP program commit tee tried hard to have a presen' ant director of the Social tation of CLASC at the confer Action department, U. S. ence but did not succeed. To Catholic Conference. NC many men of experience, the Photo bitter controversy between the two movements threatens to play' into the hands of the lef.tists. Origins of CLASC In 1954 Christian 'Democratic elements established a labor con federation for the purpose of co- . INDIANAPOLIS (NC)-Indi ordinating Christian trade union .ana Gov. Roger Branigin has activity throughout Latin. Amer vetoed a controversial 'bili to ica. permit abortions in cases of rape This organization, the Confed or ineest. eration l)f Latin American Cbris-· The bill, passed only last week Uan Trade Unionists (CLj\SC), by the state Senate, was a re early became the rl;!gional affili stricted version oia House ate of the International Confea passed bill, which would have eration of Christian Trade Union added the additional grounds. ~ ists which claims membership of mental and physical .healto:md some millions, two-thirds af the probable birth of a defective whom are in Europe. child. Its world .headquarters are in Present Indiana law permits Brussels, Belgium. Christian abortion only to save a woman's trade unionists of Europe have life. shown great sympathy for CLASC. Branigin, a Baptist; said 'De "For most of the opponents, had "ljstened to the many .prctC CLASC is an insignificant group, tical medical and social goals not worth while talking about," which are' thought. to be accam states N. Leynse on the ORIT- plished 'by .this act. But," 1le CLASC controversy in the Eng added, "I cannot in good <:00. lish-Ianguage edition .of Labor science approve it." . (Issue Number 2, 1965), the Both were strongly opposed by house organ of the International the state's Catholic bishops. In II Federation of Christian Trade statement issued shortly after Unions. the House measure was intro Representative !Expelled duced, the bishops called the "Yet, these last two years more bill a "betrayal" of the inviola bility Gf human life. paper and ink have been used up in writing on CLASC than about any other organization." It is the contention of the In ternational Federation of Chris tian Trade Unions that forces from the. United States sought to block the entry of the IFCTU into Latin America. The first representative 'of that organiza tion to carry on in Latin America was expelled as a communist agent and U. S. influence was 365 NORTH FRONT SJREET blamed. NEW BEDFORD "Let we were not destroyed," observes Leynse, "we have 992-5534 grown up to be a movement that embodies the hope in a better future in .all the countries (){ Latin America." FiDaDdn~ CLASC NO JOB BIG European sources have of late NQNE-roo SMAll supplied considerable' funds for the development of CLASC. "The largest part of this money," explains Leynse, "and the whole budget of aid to or PRINTERS
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financed by the German (Chris tian) Foundatil)n 'Int.ernational Auxiliary~antl Solidarity.' BOSTON "But one should not think that only Christian-social activities CAMDEN. N.J. are financed by German funds. OCEANPORlI', N.J. Social-democratic services also, MIAMI and in Latin America the groups linked with ORIT, the Inter PAWTUCKEV, IU. american Regional Trade Union, PHILADELPt1lilA receive German support:'
The l)ccasion of the statement was a visit to Rome by a dele gation of the American Jewish Committee. Headed by Robert . T. Cutler of Philadelphia and Simon Lazarus Jr l)f Cincin nati, the delegation has already visited Israel and Greece. Mter its Rome visit it continued tis tour, stopping at .Madrid. Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., joint discussions between Christians and Jews on contem porary social issues, as well as in areas of religious understanding. u~ged
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