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Congo Parliament Meet Closes Catholic College LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (NC)—Professors and students of Lovanium University were evacu ated on 24 hours’ notice to make way for a meeting of the Congo lese parliament aimed at restoring unity to the quarreling nation. The formal governmental order for evacuation came in the wake of weeks of negotiations between university officials, the Congolese government and the United Na tions command. The university had pleaded that the meeting of parliament be de layed one week to July 22, to al low time for examinations. But Doctor & Family Leave for Africa Port Huron, Mich —(NC)— A doctor here who has long wanted to aid the people of Africa has decided to do something about it. In fact, he is already on his way with his wife and four chil dren to Solwezi, Northern Rhod esia. Dr. Robert Barnet said he will be the only doctor in a 20,000 square-mile area. A graduate of Notre Dame Uni versity, he received his medical degree from Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University in Chicago, in 1954. His wife, an occupational ther apist, was graduated from Duch esne College of the Sacred Heart in Omaha, Neb. In Africa, Barnet will man a government clinic in Solwezi and St. Francis Mission Clinic, about 30 miles away. He will be assist ed by two nurses and three Af rican orderlies. The doctor’s trip is sponsored by the Foundation for All Africa, a nonsectarian organization, and the St. Luke Catholic Physicians Guild of Boston. the government finally decided that parliament should be sum moned as soon as possible, what ever the cost to the university. The Lovanium, a Catholic insti tution, is the only university in operation in the Congo. The Congolese parliament was convoked to approve a proposed constitution giving a federal struc ture to the Congo, and to ratify decisions taken by rival political groups who got together at Tan anarive, in the Malagasy Republic (formerly Madagascar), and in Coquilatville. Some of the key figures in Congolese politics held up the opening of Parliament by pleading illness and remaining in their own areas. Lovanium University was chos en as the site for this meeting of parliament because it is far enough removed (12 miles) from Leopoldville, seat of the central government, to be neutralized po litically. Security can also be maintained here more easily than in any of the bigger Congolese cities, most of which have become strongholds of one- political fac tion or other. The argument that Lovanium was chosen as politically neutral and militarily defensible rings true to the ears of Lovanium’s stu dents. But they also suspect that a strong anti-Catholic and anti Belgian current among the inter national groups involved in the Congo brought about the im mediate evacuation of the univer sity, which is not only Catholic but administered mainly by Bel gian personnel. Even while the professors as sembled to receive the evacuation announcement of the rector, Msgr. Luc Gillon, U.N. troops were dig ging trenches and erecting gun emplacements. An electrified barbed-wire enclosure 12 feet high was built around the maxi mum security area. This includes Capital Ice & Coal Co., Inc.' BLOCK, CRUSHED ICE REFRIGERATORS CHESTS AND SIZED ICE QUALITY COAL SWITCH TO £ssa HEATING OIL 600 WEST HARGETT STREET—PHONE TE 2 5589 Raleigh, North Carolina _______ We Give SAV-A-STAMPS _ Carolina Securities Corporation ~TQwestmmts for Security (fpSjlf?) Members Midwest Stock Exchange Raleigh Charlotte New York ALSO REPRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING TOWNS Albemarie—Asheboro—Asheville—Belmont—Clinton—Concord Durham—Edenton—Greensboro—Greenville—Henderson Kannapolis—Lancaster, S. C.—Lumberton—New Bern Oxford — Rocky Mount — Rockingham — Roxboro Statesville—Shelby—Willmington—Winston-Salem CATHOLIC COMMENT J Rundown On Cuba MIAMI — (NC) — Eight Cuban priests have returned to their posts in Camaguey province, one of the areas hit hardest by the Castro regime’s anti-Church cam paign, according to reports re ceived here. Along with Bishop Carlos Riu Angles of Camaguey, the priests will care for the province’s 600, 000 Catholics. In June it was re ported that most priests in the Camaguey diocese had been ex pelled. All Cuban Bishops, except one, are at their posts, reports stated. Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betan court, Archbishop of Havana, is staying at the Argentine embassy in that city. Cuban priests who have not been expelled from the country, reports continued, remain at their posts but must carry out their duties in the face of government restrictions and a hostile atmos phere. They are encouraged by the solidarity of Cuban Catholics, it was reported. It was also reported that in Ha vana and other cities there is a growing fervor among the people at the few religious services which are still being held. An increasing number of men are reportedly attending these services. Points Up Aid To Schools WASHINGTON _ (NC) — Sen. Barry Golwater of Arizona told the U.S. Senate that the Federal gov ernment “has for many years been giving property to parochial schools” under the Surplus Prop erty Act of 1944. “Up to this time no one has raised the constitutional issue [of Church-State separation] over these actions,” Sen. Goldwater added. The Arizona Senator said a De partment of Health, Education and Welfare tabulation of 299 cases in which government property was released to church schools showed that 140 cases involved Catholic schools; 54 involved Seventh Day Adventist schools; 26 involved Baptist schools; 20 involved Metho dist schools; and 59 involved schools of other denominations. “We have been at this business of aiding parochial schools for a good many years and . . . the activity is not confined to one church group,” Sen. Goldwater said. Rubrics For Ferias Are Simplified VATICAN CITY — (NC) — The Holy See has further simplified the rules concerning Mass on fourth-class ferias, the lowest rank ing days of the liturgical calendar. The Sacred Congregation of Rites issued a declaration stating that “a feria of the fourth class is never commemorated either in a festive Mass or a votive Mass, even if it is the conventual Mass.” A fourth-class feria is in ef fect an open day on the Church calendar, and normally the Mass of the preceding Sunday is offered. The new provision thus eliminates the addition of the Collect, Secret and Postcommunion prayers of the Mass of the Sunday if the Mass offered is either that of a feast or a votive Mass, such as a wedding Mass or a Mass on the occasion of the Forty Hours devotion. The new ruling provides for three minor changes in the re vised code of rubrics which was issued in July of last year. The congregation said its dec laration was made as a result of questions that had risen concern ing fourth-class ferial days. The statement was dated May 27, 1961, and appeared in the July 1 issue of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the of ficial publication of the Holy See, just made public. Cork Painting May Be Rubens CORK, Ireland — (NC) — A 17th-century painting of the Cruci as you go up stairs Eliminate the strain of climbing stairs with an In elin-alor or Elcvette. ECONOMICAL, ATTRACTIVE, Greensboro, N. C. • Box 2910 • Phone BR 2-454J <y % ■ f COUHUt STO»7s1 EWARE OF Termite Damage! Up to 40% discount given On Bonded Termite Control GUARANTY EXTERMINATING COMPANY Free Inspection & Estimates without obligation Complete pest control 3900 Western Boulevard P, O. Box 3033 Raleigh, N. C. TE 3-3595 fixion, discovered in a unusued room of St. Mary’s cathedral her* has been tentatively attributed to Reubens or Van Dyke. A Cork building surveyor named T. F. McNamara came upon the eight-by-five-foot painting while j examining the architecture of the cathedral. He said a preliminary examination by Professor Joha Reeves, curator of the Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, indicated that Rubem * or Van Dyke was the painter. I Canon A. J. Kelly, administrator 1 of the cathedral, has been search- < ing the cathedral archives for evi- j dence. He said he believed the painting had been donated by a Cork man living in London, and * that it had been purchased from a reputable dealer in Cologne. Cork already has a Rubens paint ing, Rebecca at the Well, in the Cork School of Art. Pope Lauds Press CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy - (NC) — His Holiness Pope John, XXIII underlined the mission of the press as the defender of the truth during an audience granted to the Association of Belgian Cath olic Journalists. The Journalists called on Pope John to present to him the “Papal Donation,” an annual collection which the association has gathered through its newspapers every year since 1898. The collection, intend ed as a contribution to the popes’ personal charities, has been in terrupted only twice — during the first and second world wars. Replying to an address given by the president? of the association, Erasmus Gillard, the Pope thanked the journalists for their devotion. He reconfirmed his interest in the Catholic press and stressed the noble mission entrusted to it in“ the defense of truth and the eleva tion of its readers. Polish Religious Grow By 17% BERLIN — (NC) — A hostile book on religious orders in Poland, published by a state-operated firm , there, reveals that the number of Religious grew 17 per cent from 1949 to 1958. The book, Religious Orders pub lished by Ksaizkai Wiedza in War saw, said the Warsaw regime ordered all religious orders to give details of their memDership and organization in 1949, alleged ly with a view to regulating their legal status. The registration showed that Poland’s 46 orders of men had a total of 7,457 Religious. There were 111 religious congregations of women, with a total of 23,318 Religious. Among the orders of women were 18 called “secret” by the government. 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