cardinal . . .
Suggests Over-Secrecy
In Pre-Council Meets
NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands —
(NC)— Bernard Cardinal Al
frink said here that greater lay
participation by lay people in the
preparations for the coming ecu
menical council would not have
made any essential difference in
the work of the council.
The emphasis of the council
might vary somewhat if the laity
had a more active role in the pre
paratory work, the Archbishop of
Utrecht acknowledged. But he
said, “I do not think there is any
Calvinists Feel
Catholics Too
Optimistic
THE HAGUE — (NC) — The
Dutch Reformed Church issued a
pamphlet calling on the Calvinists
of the Netherlands to “pray for the
Catholic brothers and sisters in
Christ.”
But it said also:
“Risking the danger of being
considered doctrinal spoil-sports,
we must insist that the abyss divid
ing the belief of the Dutch Reform
ed Church and Roman Catholic
dogma is deeper than many Cath
olic theologians think when they
state that the Reformation can be
integrated into the whole of Cath
olic truth.”
The 34-page pamphlet, entitled
“The Attitude of the Reformed
Church towards the Roman Cath
olic Church and Its Members,” was
issued by the General Synod of the
Dutch Reformed Church, the coun
try’s major Protestant denomina
tion.
wish of the lay people which has
not been laid before the council
commissions in one way or an
other.”
Cardinal Alfrink, a member of
the council’s Central Preparatory
Commission, spoke at the opening
session of the annual theological
study week at the Cardinal Univer
sity of Nijmegan. This year’s week
centered on topics up for dis
cussion at the general council, es
pecially the question of the rela
tionship between papal primacy
and the role of diocesan bishops.
None of the 20 previous ecumen
ical councils has had such a thor
ough and intensive preparation as
the one opening next October 11,
Cardinal Alfrink said.
The preparations have been the
work of men, he said, and there
fore there can be differences of
opinion about them. But this is
no reason “to withdraw our confi
dence in the council,” according
to the Cardinal.
As head of the Hierarchy of the
Netherlands, Cardinal Alfrink said
there would be a major informa
tion campaign for the clergy and
laity concerning the council. He
said he is holding a long series of
conferences with the diocesan and
religious priests of the country’s
seven dioceses, and that they will
be concluded with an informative
but confidential meeting between
himself and leading Catholic jour
nalists.
The Cardinal said he is glad the
meetings of the council’s prepara
tory commissions and secretariats
have been conducted in closed ses
sions. There is no doubt he said,
that without such secrecy “our dis
cussions would not have been so
frank.”
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SAN JUAN, P.R. —(NC)— The
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico re
ferred to a lower court the writ
of mandamus filed by the Cath
olic-oriented Christian Action par
ty which demanded full recogni
tion as a major political group.
Chief Justice Luis Negron Fer
nandez and Associate Justice Luis
Blanco Lugo filed dissenting opin
ions. The dissenters said the CAP’S
petition was of utmost importance
since it deals with the existence of
a political party in a democratic
form of government and that the
island’s highest court should take
original jurisdiction in such a
matter.
“I firmly believe that we can
hardly deal with a case of greater
importance than this one,” Justice
Blanco Lugo said.
Jose L. Feliu Pesquera, the CAP
leader, resorted to the Supreme
Court action after Gov. Luis
Munonz-Marin rejected an appeal
to him by the party that it be
given full recognition as a major
political group, given representa
tion on the Board of Elections,
financial subsidy and other rights.
The party claimed it is entitled
to such a status since it polled
52,275 votes in the 19p0 general
elections, which amount to 6.5 per
cent of the total vote and was 1.5
more than the law-required 5 per
cent of the total vote for recogni
tion of a major political party.
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JUNEAU, Alaska — (NC) —
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tending parochial and other pri
vate schools in Alaska to be put
off public school buses.
Theo J. Norby’s directive is the
result of an April, 1961, ruling of
the Alaska Supreme Court that
such transportation violates the
state constitution. The U.S. Su
preme Court refused to review
this decision on February 19, 1962.
Norby sent telegrams to all su
perintendents of public school dis
tricts directing that the tax-paid
buses carry only children attend
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NEW YORK — (NC) — The
American Jewish Congress has op
posed Federal aid for parochial
schools, religious observances in
public schools and compulsory
Sunday-closing laws.
The biennial convention of the
organization charged (April 15) in
a resolution that U.S. assistance to
parochial schools would violate the
Federal constitution and “would
bring in its train all the evils the
constitutional provision was de
signed to prevent.”
The 500 delegates expressed
“vigorous opposition” to Bible
reading, prayer recitation and re
ligious holiday celebrations, such
as Christmas, in public schools. It
said these practices are unconsti
tutional and interfere with the
educational function of schools.
The congress hailed a recent de
cision in Oregon against lending
tax-paid textbooks to children in
private schools; a ruling in Florida
against religious practices in pub
lic schools and an opinion of a
Federal court in Pennsylvania
against a school Bible-reading law.
Church Tax
Exemption Holds
WASHINGTON — (NC) — The
U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed,
“for want of a substantial Federal
question,” a challenge to tax ex
emptions granted church prop
erty in Rhode Island under a state
law.
The court declined (April 16) to
review a decision of the Rhode
Island Supreme Court upholding
the constitutionality of exemptions
for church property, and for vet
erans, veteran s’ organizations,
gold star parents, Brown Univer
sity professors, and cemeteries.
Six justices were in favor of dis
missing the challenge. Associate
Justice Hugo L. Black said he
thought the court should hear the
case. Associate Justices Felix
Frankfurter and Byron R. White
took no part in the decision.
Frankfurter has been ill and
White was sworn in as a justice on
the same day the court’s action
was announced.
The case was brought to the
high court by the General Finance
Corporation, which in 1959 was
assessed a tax of $842 on property
it owns in Cranston, R.I.
The firm took legal action in an
effort to have its tax reduced by
$30.42. It estimated that its tax
would have been that much lower
if exemptions had not been grant
ed under Rhode Island law to
church property used for religious
purposes and to other individuals
and organizations.
Grade School
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POLAND, Ohio — (NC) — Six
teen youngsters in the upper ■
grades of Holy Family elementary
school here are reading the class
ics in an experiment which may
spread next year to all Youngs
town diocesan schools.
The handpicked students are
reading classics in the Junior
Great Books Program and meeting
once a week after school to discuss
their readings.
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of Two Cities,” Edgar Allen Poe’s
“Pit and the Pendulum” and Pla
to’s “Apology,” their teacher Ei
leen Kane says they want to read
more.
“Some are resentful that they .
cannot get adult cards from the
public library,” she said. “They
don’t like to be seen with the
readers they use in regular class
Lack of Preparation
Stalls Integration
NEW YORK — (NC) — Father
John LaFarge, S.J., said here that
the Church in New Orleans is ap- 4
pearing as the Church Universal
because of its school desegregation
campaign.
The widely known Jesuit author,
a pioneer in Catholic Interracial
Council movement, said, however,
that action by the U.S. Church to
end racial injustice has been ham
pered by lack of preparation
among the people and absence of
a “clear-cut plan of action.” <
Father LaFarge saw two major
obstacles in the way of integration
moves.
“One is lack of preparation
among the people themselves,” he
said. “For fear of broaching an.
unwelcome and controversial top
ic, our adequate duties of justice
and charity to our neighbors have
not received from the pulpit, from
our educational programs, from
our classes in Christian Doctrine,
the treatment they deserved.
“On the other hand, we have
all too often lacked any clear-cut
plan of action to serve as a guide
for the great body of our well
meaning and apostolically minded
Catholic laity.
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