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in New Orleans Catholic Segregationists Face Excommunication NEW ORLEANS—(NC)—Arch bishop Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans has threatened Catholic segregationist leaders here with excommunication if they continue to agitate against his school inte gration order. , The Archdiocesan Chancery Of fice said that identical letters had been sent to a few other Cath olics. It did not name them. The letter was made public (April 6) by Mrs. B.J. Gaillot, Jr., president of a group called Save Our Nation, Inc., which says the Bible teaches segregation. MRS. GAILLOT and members of her group picketed the resi dence of Coadjutor Archbishop John P. Cody of New Orleans fol lowing the announcement of March 27 that all New Orleans Catholic schools will be desegregated next fall. The same day Mrs. Gaillot made public the text of the Archbishop’s letter saw the announcement by a six-man committee of a new group called Catholic Laymen Support ing School Integration. The new group disbanded, how ever, after a midnight meeting with Coadjutor Archbishop John P. Cody. Leaders declined to say why the group has dissolved and referred questioners to the Arch diocesan Chancery Office. Chan dlery spokesmen would not go be yond an earlier statement, saying that Archbishop Rummel had not given his approval either to the group or its purpose. THE COMMITTEE said in a statement that the new organiza tion would back Archbishop Rum mers school integration order. It criticized Catholic organizations and individuals for failing to back up the Archbishop. The statement said the group was set up without the knowl edge of Church officials. “Now is the time for all Catholics to stand up and be counted,” the statement said. LATER, one of the signers of the statement was given police protection after he said he received threatening telephone calls. Police said they would keep under sur veillance the residence of Harold F. Dittmann, a student at Loyola University here. Other signers were Eldon B. Bonnet, a part time professor of sociology at Loyola; Shelby Hamp ton, a Loyola student; Thomas Nielsen, a sociology professor at Loyola; Gaston Smith, a psycholo gist for archdiocesan parochial schools; and Gerard Walsh, A Loyola graduate student. IN MAKING public the text of Archbishop Rummel’s letter, Mrs. Gaillot said she had been unable to arrange an interview with him in the presence of witnesses, in cluding the press. She said she had requested an interview on these terms. Mrs. Gaillot, who described her self as a seventh generation Cath olic, said she was “innocent of these charges and accusations.” U.N. Body Adopts Text Citing Role of Religion UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — (NC) — The basic role a religion plays in the lives of those who be lieve in it was embodied in a text adopted by the United Nations Hu man Rights Commission here. The text is one of five para graphs of a preamble to a proposed declaration of principles relating to freedom of religion and con science. Discussion of the rest of the proposed declaration was de ferred to next year’s commission session when the time limit set for discussion expired. The text was adopted after Dutch and Argentine delegates at the ses sion — Father L. C. J. Beaufort, O.F.N., and Mario Amadeo — argued that the true nature of re ligion must be taken into account in efforts to protect religious free dom. Yakov Ostrovsky, delegate of the Soviet Union, maintained that everything said about freedom of religion must apply equally to atheism. The proposed declaration dis cussed by the commission is called “Principles Relating to Discrimina tion in Respect of the Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion.” It is envisaged as a set of rules to guide governments in protecting freedom and prevent ing discrimination in regard to re ligious rights and practices. The original text was drafted by Arcot Krishnaswami of India in connection with a study on re ligious discrimination he prepared for the UN subcommittee on the prevention of discrimination, which is under the Human Rights Com mission. ADDITIONS TO NATIONAL SHRINE — Work continues on one of several new chapels under construction at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. This chapel, dedicated to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, is being donated by the Redemptorist Fathers of the U. S. The total construction, which will cost more than four million dollars and take five years to complete, will dramatically change the interior and exterior of the church which upwards of 2,000,000 pilgrims have visited since its dedication in 1959. Thirty new chapels, 56 tower bells and a new organ will be added to the shrine. (NC Photos) Powell Predicts Action in May On College Aid WASHINGTON — (NC) — A key figure among House cam paigners for Federal aid to educa tion has predicted that Congress will work out a college assistance measure late in May. This word came from Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of New York, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Powell told a press conference he is confident college aid will be enacted this session. Asked if it would include Federal scholar ships for collegians, he said: “I don’t think so.” Both Senate and House have passed bills to aid colleges. Church-related and other private institutions would share on an equal footing with public colleges in the measures. But the scope and method of distributing the Federal fur.ds dif fer in the two proposed five-year programs. The Senate bill contains a $924 million, 212,500-scholarship program which House education leaders rejected. In addition the $2,674 billion Senate measure proposes only loans — up to 75 oer cent of the cost — to help finance construc tion of non-religious academic facilities. The $1.5 billion House bill com bines both loans and grants, a procedure favored by college edu cators. Loans would be given for 75 per cent of the cost of con struction or grants could be given for one-third of the cost. Group Challenges School Prayer PROVIDENCE, R.I. — (NC) — Recitation of a prayer in public schools here violates both U. S. and state constitutions, the Rhode Island Civil Liberties Union has charged. The union’s Church-State com mittee voiced its opposition in a letter to James L. Hanley, super intendent of schools. The commit tee is headed by the Rev. Canon John Crocker, Jr., Episcopal chap lain to students The prayer — written by St. Francis — was distributed for use in her school by Marie G. Mallory, principal of the Joslin Street School. Hanley said he would re fer the Civil Liberties Union’s communication to the school com mittee. Booklet Issued On Study Of Communism In School WASHINGTON —(NC)— Views of two Catholic educators are among articles written by 19 edu cators and scholars on the prob lem of teaching facts about the communist conspiracy in U. S. high schools and colleges. They were printed in a booklet published by the Senate Internal Security Sub committee. The Catholic educators are An thony Bouscaren, political science professor at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N. Y., and Father Stan ley Parry, head of the political science department, University of Notre Dame. The booklet is titled “Education for Survival in the Struggle Against World Communism.” Sen. James O. Eastland of Mississippi, subcommittee chairman, said: “I hope this symposium here pre sented will be merely a beginning in this field and that it will help to inspire our educators to far greater efforts toward strengthen ing the forces of democracy, edu cationally, against the enemy which seeks to destroy us.” Sen. Thomas O. Dodd of Con necticut, vice chairman, said every member of the senate had been re reiving mail from persons worried about the state of world affairs, “who consider it their duty, as citi zens, to try to learn more about the nature of communism.” “I believe that this symposium will prove an effective instru ment in this struggle and I am confident that all those who are interested in anti-communist edu cation will find it in the wise and moderate counsel which must guide such efforts,” he said. Church Unity Theologian Pleads For Fast Action By William J. Ladyka DETROIT—(NC)— A Lutheran minister, founder of a group seek ing reunion of the Evangelical Lu theran Church with the Roman Catholic Church, believes that “the times we live in do not allow us to indulge in disunity.” “Christ founded one Church for the world and every separation in the Church is a sin,” declared Pastor Max Lackmann of Soest, Germany. Founder of the League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion, Pas tor Lackmann was here on a month-long U.S. visit, during which he has sought to promote establishment of local league units and to assess prospects for Chris tian unity. He has spoken widely before both Catholic and Lutheran groups, stressing the need for Christian unity and the duty of Christians to work for it. He will leave the U.S. April 18 for a speaking tour in England. Pastor Lackmann disclosed in an interview that the League for Evangelical-Catholic Reun:on has just completed work on a Mass and rubrics. The proposed liturgy will be printed in June and submitted for study to Evangelical authorities who will take part in the Second Vatican Council in Rome in Oc tober. The league’s next task, he said, will be the compilation of an Evangelical catechism which will be submitted for approval to Cath olic authorities. During his U.S. tour, Pastor Lackman has told his audiences that it will take “prayer, work and suffering on both sides” to accomplish the unification of Christendom. Protestants and Catholics alike must have the humility to realize that no one “knows all things,” he said. He urged Catholics to famil iarize themselves with non-Cath olic achievements in Biblical re search and the history of the Protestant Reformation. Too often, he commented, Cath olics “cannot recognize their new brethren.” Pastor Lackmann has suffered for his beliefs in both the political and religious spheres. He spent three-and-a-half years in a concen tration camp for his outspoken criticism of the nazi regime. Long concerned with the ques tion of religious unity, he won wide attention in 1956 with his book “Cry for Help for the Church from the Church.” In that work he called on the Evangelical See Church Unity, page 2A
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