Prelate Protests Exile
Of Anglican Bishop
CAPE TOWN, $outh Africa —
(jjC) — The Catholic Archbishop
of Cape Town has issued a formal
protest against the deportation of
an Anglican bishop by the South
African government.
Archbishop Owen McCann said
he deplored the “summary action”
of the government in expelling
Anglican Bishop Ambrose Reeves
of Johannesburg.
| Bishop Reeves, an outspoken
critic of the racial policies of the
Nationalist government, was de
ported (Sept. 12) 48 hours after
returning to the country after six
months abroad.
He had left the country last
March when a state of emergency
was declared as a result of the
native unrest surrounding the
Sharpeville shootings.
The Sharpeville incident, last
March 21, took place during a pro
test demonstration by Negroes
against the government’s strict reg
ulations requiring identity cards
for Negroes. Police opened fire on
the demonstrators, taking scores of
lives and injuring hundreds of oth
ers.
Bishop Reeves said he left the
country to avoid being put under
detention and because he wanted
to be free to give the world “the
truth about Sharpeville.” He re
turned to South Africa when the
government lifted the state of em
ergency.
In a press statement published
(Sept. 17) in the Cape Times, Cape
Town daily, Archbishop McCann
said:
“I disapprove and deplore the
summary action of the government
in deporting Bishop Reeves.
“Evidently, only a charge of po
litical activity could be brought
against him.
“I consider that it should have
been borne in mind that he is the
leader of a religious community,
chosen by that- community and re
sponsible to it.
“It was as such that he believed
himself justified in his activities,
and saw as part of his function as
a religious leader action not us
ually taken by a religious leader,
but it cannot be denied that he
was within his rights.
“As a religious leader, therefore,
he could not be treated simply as
an individual. If the ‘authorities
judged that he had abused his
position, that does not justify his
summary deportation.
“They should show that they are
able to meet his points by valid
evidence and arguments.”
In Durban, meanwhile, a protest
was issued by Leo Boyd, leader of
the Progressive party in Natal and
one of South Africa’s most prom
inent Catholic laymen.
Mr. Boyd called the Anglican
Bishop’s expulsion “the act of men
who are afraid — afraid to answer
the growing challenge which
Christianity is presenting to race
prejudice in South Africa.”
. . . from ivy towers
Pope Invites Biblical
Scholars To De-Perch
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy —
(NC) — His Holiness Pope John
XXIII has urged Bible scolars not
to close themselves off “from the
needs of the pastoral life and the
requirements of the faithful.”
The Pope welcomed participants
•n the 16th Italian Biblical Week
*t a general audience before his
return to the Vatican from his
summer residence.
The Catholic people, he said,
hunger and thirst for the word
of God and are waiting to draw
from it light, comfort and counsel.”
The Pope said, he was glad to
see among the participants in the
biblical week priests engaged in
*11 levels of the apostolate — sem
mary professors, spiritual direc
tors and ecclesiastical advisers to
groups of laymen.
He urged them to make “ever
®ore widely known the wisdom of
me Divine Book.”
aii can not encourage enough
i the means by which souls are
rought to the Bible, the vivify
ing source of spiritual doctrine,
he said.
Encouraging study of the Bible,
the Pope cautioned his audience
to observe “absolute faithfulness
to directives of the Holy See, as
contained in the documents and
discourses of our predecessors,
and to avoid . . . every rashness
of judgment which might offer
opportunity for dangerous doc
trinal deviations.”
He concluded by urging them
to explore thoroughly the “sacred
deposit of faith which is explained
with unchanging faithfulness to
patristic and scholastic tradition.”
Later, the Pope received Mayor
Mario Costa of Castelgandolfo and
the local parish pastor to say fare
well.
Town officials presented the
Pope with a monstrance, a vessel
in which the Blessed Sacrament is
exposed to the view of the people
at Benediction and Exposition and
in which it is carried in procession.
Following the audience, the Pon
tiff went to the balcony of his
residence, which overlooks the
town’s main square, and blessed a
group assembled there.
Laymen Urged to Action
Copenhagen—(NC)—The 1
Lay Apostolate has urged Cal
felt in the “new Europe” that
cal and economic alliances of
This resolution was in re
Holy See, which exhorted the
late “measure up to the great
needs of the new Europe which
is gradually being built.” The mes
sage was send on behalf of Pope
John XXIII by Domenico Cardinal
Tardini, Vatican Secretary of state.
THE RESOLUTION, one of
several adopted at the final ses
sion of the five-day (Sept. 16-20)
meeting urged “that the necessary
instruments be fashioned to pro
mote, at the European level, ef
fective collaboration between
Catholics in various fields.”
It requested the Permanent Com
mittee for International Congresses
of the Lay Apostolate (Copecial)
in Rome “to facilitate exchange be
tween Europeans in the field of
the Lay Apostolate” and “to main
tain contact between all those who
OFFICIAL
Father Francis Campbell,
OMI, is replacing Father
Timothy Mulvey, October 5th,
as Assistant Pastor at St.
Patrick’s Parish in Fayette
ville, N.C.
George E. Lynch
Chancellor
MAIN SPEAKER at the
Greensboro Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine closing
banquet Saturday evening,
October 1, Dr. Paul van K.
Thompson will address CCD
and NCCLA delegates on
“Christianity and America’s
Destiny.” Dr. Thompson is
professor of English at Pro
vidence College in Rhode
Island, and is well known as
writer and lecturer on Cath
olic thought in the United
States. Saturday night’s ban
quet closes the three-day
convention of the South At
lantic CCD Conference.
Feast Dropped;
Chair Of Unity
Octave Remains
GARRISON, N. Y. — (NC) —
Abolition of the feast of St. Peter’s
Chair at Rome on January 18 will
not change the dates for the an
nual observance of the Chair of
Unity Octave from January 18 to
January 25.
Father Titus Cranny, S.A., na
tional director of the Chair of
Unity Octave, said “the popes have
approved the Octave as of Janu
ary 19 to 25 and it has been set
that way for so long that I am
certain these dates will remain.’’
The Octave, an eight-day period
of prayer for the conversion of
non-Catholics and a return of Prot
estants to the Catholic fold, in
previous years had been publicized
as starting on the feast of St.
Peter’s Chair at Rome (January
18) and ending on the feast of
the conversion of St. Paul (Janu
ary 25). The Holy See recently
abolished the feast of St. Peter’s
Chair at Rome.
irst European meeting of the
holies to make their presence
is taking shape through politi
free nations.
sponse to a message from the
meeting to help the Lay Apos
are endeavoring to ensure an ef
fective presence of Catholics with
in the ‘new Europe.’ ”
Another resolution “invited” the
national movements of the 18
countries represented at the meet
ing “to take their responsibilities
more fully in relation to the stu
dents and trainees from outside
Europe” who are studying in
Europe. This again was in response
to a special request from the Holy
See. Cardinal Tardini’s letter said
that an important task of the meet
ing was to encourage Catholics to
help African and Asian students
in Europe become “an elite with
convictions.”
THE MEETING convened under
the presidency of Professor Silvio
Golzio, chairman of the directing
council of Copecial in Rome. Miss
Rosemary Goldie, executive secre
tary of Copecial, took a foremost
role in organizing the meeting.
Bigotry, Says Prelate
Has Gone Big Business
SPOKANE, WASH. — (NC) —
Bigotry in the current presidential
campaign “has become a com
mercial enterprise,” an archbishop
said here.
“In certain parts of the country,
presses are running day and night
turning out thousands and thou
sands of leaflets and pamphlets
and brochures criticizing and
condemning the Church for her
stand on certain moral problems
. . . rehashing slanderous, libelous
calumnies that long since have
been laid to rest,” Archbishop
Thomas A. Connolly of Seattle de
clared. (Randleman, N.C. has such
a bigotry mill. Ed. Note)
As a result of the injection of
the religious issue in the presi
dential campaign, “a disinterested
observer might get the idea that
the Holy Roman Catholic and
Apostolic Church itself was run
ning for office,” the prelate de
dared.
He spoke at the dinner that
closed the three-day, 11th North
west Regional Congress of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine.
“Every attempt seems to be
made,” the Archbishop said, “to
create the image of a Catholic bloc
— to suggest that independent of
his merits Catholics would vote for
one of their coreligionists for any
office for which he may choose to
run.”
Archbishop Connolly said that
Catholics “have never given con
sideration to a candidate’s religious
convictions as a test for his fitness
to hold public office.”
“We have been voting for un
told scores of years for Protestants
of various denominations, Masons,
Oddfellows, Jews, Mormons, Quak
ers — without reference to their
religious persuasion,” the Arch
bishop said.
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BISHOP’S RESIDENCE
15 North McDowell St.
Raleigh, North Carolina
September 20, 1960
IVLy UCHL iJICUUCIl,
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the found
ing of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Since its
inception, this all important work has spread to every
country in every continent of the world. St. Charles Bor
romeo was noted for his work with the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine as early as the year 1566 when he
brought about the publication of the first Catechism. Our
modern methods of teaching have kept pace with the mod
ern world but the teachings remain the same.
I am pleased to note the great progress that has been
made in our Diocese in C.C.D. work. The Laymen have
done a tremendous job in helping in the Priests with
the teaching of Catechism, the Parent-Educator work and
Discussion Clubs. These three sections of the Confraternity
work have received much emphasis in the past years.
But, there is more work to be done. We need a complete
C.C.D. program functioning in every parish in North
Carolina. And we need your help to attain this end. How
can this be done?
1. A group or me parisnioners, unaer me airecuon oi
the Pastor should have a meeting and analyze the needs
of the parish that can be taken care of by the laymen.
The Manual of the Parish Confraternity of Christian Doc
trine should be used as a guide post in the organization
and conduct of the meeting.
2. The materials and help furnished by the Confra
ternity Office at Nazareth and the Mission Helpers of the
Sacred Heart at Statesville and Farmville, along with the
Glenmary Sisters at Hayesville, N.C. should be used in
your parish planning.
I know that it is difficult to get another organiza
tion started in a parish but, because of the importance of
the work, I ask you to help me and your parish priest to
have a working C.C.D. unit in every parish. This is a pro
gram for the laymen.
Each year on the first Sunday in October we have a
collection for the Diocesan C.C.D. Office. The North Caro
lina Catholic Laymen’s Association is the sponsoring agency
for the Confraternity in our State. Many blessings and
indulgences are given to those who help in this important
work. Please be generous to this plea that I am making for
the Confraternity in the Diocese of Raleigh.
Thanking you for your kindness in this matter, I
remain
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Bishop of Raleigh