Church Emerging Stronger From Congo Crisis
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Says Filipinos Have Special Vocation CHICAGO '(NC) - Filipino CJatholic students were told here . that their country's unique position as a Catholic nation in the Far East gives them a special vocation. Father Bernard J. Cooke, S. J., chairman of the theology department at Marquette University,
MWANZA (NC) - Independence ill the former Belgian Congo and the disoJ;'ders I' that followed it have strengthened the Church there, III i' weeklong meeting of Catholic laymen from East and Central Africa heard here. Father Edward Van Loock, general chaplain of the lay apostolate in the Congo, said the troubles had tempered the Faith of Congolese Catholics like iron in the fire. He said the departure of Belgian rule had made the Catholic Faith less a matter of fashion and more a matter of conviction. The priest was: addressing 130 delegates from 35 dioceses' in Uganda, Kenya, Nyasaland, Rhodesia and Tanganyika. This meeting of laymen and lay-, women dealt with problems of the lay apostolate in an awak~n " ing Africa. le,. \. Study Faith ~,--,.;.:'U,.;::s~ Both Africans and people of European extraction' attended. the meeting, which was spon:' sored by the Bishops of Tanganyika. The .host was Bishop Joseph RESTORE ANCIENT SHRINE: Origina,l' frag:ments .of . Blomjous, W,F., of Mwanza,' chairman of the Lay Apostolate, · the broken columns' of the anciEmt 'Basilica of St. John the,' , Department of the Tangany..ika · Evangelist' at SelcuJc (Ephesus)" Turkey, are reassembled Catholic Welfare OrganizatiQn. Foremost among the problems byTurki,sh workmen during restoration efforts at'the site' , tackled was how Catholics could of the tomb of the Apostle. NG Photo: keep the Faith alive if. the.ir priests were forced out ,of the country by a hostile government. . Father :Van Loock ,pointed to the Congolese experience, sayi.ng Catholics have taken a more serious interest in studying'tl:\e,ir .. NEW YORK (NC) .' . When George. Hunton: told ,. Faith now that Catholicism as a Catholic friend in 1934 that he and severa}.· other persons mere convention is fading away. had joined Father John LaFarge, S.J., in f(;>nning the first Power of Radio He said that the radio played · Catholic Interracial Council, 'the friend remarked: "You are . a notable role in exciting hatreds , a.bsolutely right.' No reason.tor, sociologist or economist who during the months following In- ·able. man can argue with the doesn't wholly .and enthusiastdependence, and that it 'is 'still validity of your principles. ically subscribe to the, Church'll an influential factor in Congo. lese life. There is at least one But .you are 50 years ahead interra~ial teac~ing. " Much Remains radio in just about every village of your time and you will get in the Congo. nowhere." . "But much remains to be done. The . Congolese still listen There have been many times The teaching must penetrate avidly to their sets and many since when the usually optimistic ..do}Vn to the people on the parish missioners, he said, think the · Hunton was convinced that his level. There are many parishell forces of peace could achieve · friend had been more prophet on tile bordel;s of Negro neighmuch through the radio. than pessimist. . borhoods that soon will have He said trouble still remains Interviewed in the council's Negro parishioners. Now is the for the Church in the Congo, es- 'lOth floor office at 20 v.esey time to prepare. Neighborhood pecially from a number of local Street, the still vigorous Hunton committees should be set up t6 schisms that have flared up. --:he hesitantly admits to being solve community problems. NegThese, it is hoped, are merely "70 plus" - leaned back in his roes and .whites working totemporary and usually based on chair and musingly scanned the gether for better schools and some insignificant point. They sunbaked Manhattan skyline. clean streets usuaily find t\1ey frequently find support only Unpopular have a l(lt in common." after pious young girls join "Justice for the American Hunton', a member of the board them due to "finding religion" ,Negro was a most unpopular of directors of the National Asin them through the singing of cause in 1934," he recalled. sodation' for the Advancement hymns and the like. "Even well-meaning Catholics of 'Colored P e 0 pie, objects The Church hopes to win back thought the Church should con- strongly to recent criticisms levthese souls through Grace and fine itself to missionary efforts eled at the Negro rights organiinstruction, and looks forward among the Negroes. And there zation. to a fruitful future in the Congo, were those who never referred "The NAACP, far from being he said. to us other than "those flag- cqmmunist or leftist," he said, wavers on Vesey Street.' " ':i5, next to the Catholic, Church, • '. Seton Hall UniverSity Hunton, who is executive sec- one of the most effective fighters Planning 'Bible Days' Irnett,aerr;aoc:aih~_Nuenwcl'lYaO:dkedetttohrOloiCf"a gainst communism. 'It 'has conG C) \"N tinually demonstrated' that the SOUTH, O~AN .E, (~, - ' '.the Catholic Interracial Review,.battle 'for equal rights fortbe Seto.? ~all Umv~rslty .''''?ll spon- ,said one of the' early struggles Negro can be won,:not by bombs, sor BIble. Days· on ItS· campus ,Was to gain the:'confidence of the' boycotts' or 'slander;bu:t .solely . Thursday, Oct. 12 and ~unday, Negro press. . 'through the orderly processes of Oct..15, Msgr. John J; Dougherty" . Early. Days· democracy:" .,.. , ' . . .... preslden~, has announced. . HIn the early days, moSt of the" . . , .The purpose, s~id the no~d Negro papers were bitterly,anti"~'~lIei~;S~(leDts B~bl~cal schola~ ~7111 be to brIng Catholic," he said. "They would 'Asked, if the "present crop of Blbhcal al;lthor1hes and ~each~rs, . refer to. 'the' Rev. Mr. LaFarge' Catholic college:' studEmts held of the Sctl'p~ure to Seto? !i~ll to and, that sort of thing. But grad. . different attitudes on the' race talk to· p~lests and RebglOull of uaUy we gained their confidence "qLestion ,than, those Of' previoull the archdIOcese. . . by never trying to cover up anti-· generations, Hu.nton replied: . Through the progra~, he saId, Negro prejudice and"by helping ."I'm ·not worried in the least Seton Hall hopes "to further a n ' . . . .. understanding Of the sublime ,~h~rn~et the facts on every ~se. . about the present generation of th' ' InvolVIng Negroes and Cathohcs.· students: Their attitude can be · th B'bl na t ure 0 f e 1 e as e In-" . , d 'Wh spired word of God to man and . W~ saw the edItOrIals change summe up as, . at are we. to elucidate the role of the Bible from the good Fat~er .LaFarg~ waiting for? Let's go!' They are, in the Church as the permanent but the bad Cathoh~ hlerar~hy thank God, far more socialand living source of her teach- to the present cordial relahons minded than their parents." , g" between the Church and the Hunton, who has 'ganlered In . Negro press. In recent years I many awards in his lifetime, in. ty haven't seen one anti-Catholic cluding the Pro Ecclesia et PonJ esult onor OCBe statement in any Negro paper tifice medal from Pope Pius XII; Re-Elects Attorney in the U.S. That's one measure will receive the St, Francis Peace MILWAUKEE (NC)-William of,the progress ,made." Medal of the Third Order of St. C. Rogers, Jr., a Baltimore, Md., Educate Catholics Francis today. lawyer, has been elected to a. He said .the' council's other third term as president of Alpha front was to educate Catholics on College Via TV Sigma Nu, national' Jesuit honor ., 'the Church's teachings on interDETROIT (NC) - Marygrovo society. ,l"8cial justice. . College here will offer a nationDelegates from 25 Jesuit col"As Catholics," he stated, "we ally tillevised course in Amerfcaa ,leges and universities attended, i~sisted that the integration of government, beginning n ex t the 15th national convention at the Negro into Americall society Monday, on the NBC-TV proMarquette University. ' was not primarily a socio19gical gram ·"Continental Classroom~!f Hugo Hellman, director of or economic 'problem~,' but a The college, conducted by SisMarquette's speech school,· was moral and spiritual challe,nge." ·ters, Servants of the Immaculate re-elected to bis fifth term all - ''The ideological bil·ttle for ·,Heart of Mary, is offering three secretary-treasurer. New viee-. interraeial' ju'stice"has 'been hours" credit',-each"semester for prEisident Is Dr': Werner P. Jen- won,"- he continued. "There·is persons in: the' Detroit· area -taksen, an Omaha, Neb.. surgeon.today no Ca·tholk: edU4lator. edi- ing the course.
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