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Priest's Ad Backs Alabama Vote Drive Selma, Ala. — (NC) — A Cath olic priest took out a full-page advertisement in the Sunday news paper of this racially-divided com munity to outline the Catholic position on civil rights and to praise the Negro voter registra tion drive. May 14-16 Winston-Salem Council to Host KC Convention Winston-Salem — The 45th North Carolina State Council Meet ing of the Knights of Columbus will be held at the Sheraton Motor Inn, here, May 14 through 16. Alphonse D. Daye, Convention Chairman, states that the Santa Maria Council No. 2829, which will host the meeting, is already hard at work. All committees have been appointed and are functioning. Registration will begin on Fri day, May 14,, at 12:00 noon, and the business meeting will be held that evening. The Convention Mass will be offered at St. Leo’s Church on Saturday morning. Harry C. Pierotti, Supreme Di rector from Memphis, Tennessee, I will be the guest speaker at the Convention Banquet Saturday eve ning. State Deputy, Donald Cole, will preside over the banquet, and Past State Deputy, Raymond W. Rohlfs, will serve as toastmaster. A tour of Old Salem, and a luncheon to be followed by a fash ion show are the highlights of the program for the women, which is being arranged by Mrs. Virginia Rohlfs. as Chairwoman of Ladies’ Activities. 'Perfect' System For Regulating Cycle Claimed BOSTON —(NC)— A medical irocess which can potentially (ring the human reproductive iycle to a point of “perfection” las been announced by Dr. Harold d. Groden, an obstetrician of Wal »le, Mass. In an article in the Linacre luarterly, a magazine for Catholic ihysicians, Dr. Groden said that ftsts of his technique have been 00% effective in regulating the lenstrual cycle. He also “specu »ted” that use of his system to romote conception may reduce irth defects caused by “prema »re ovulation.” In an interview Dr. Groden said e submitted his findings to a umber of theologians and all, he ud, found his system compatible ith Catholic moral principles. The advertisement appeared in the Selma Times-Journal follow ing a week of demonstrations and mass arrests during which the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., spent five days in jail for leading the voter demonstration. Signed by Father John P. Crow ley, S.S.E., director of the Society of St. Edmund missions in Ala bama and northern Florida, the ad vertisement declared that “the problem in Selma is that neither as a man nor a citizen are the rights of the Negro fully respect ed.’’ IN CALM TONES the article described the Negro’s dignity as See Alabama Vote, page 4A FIRST CURSILLO FOR WOMEN — Thirty nine lay women and five Sisters were candi dates. at the first Cursillo for women in the Diocese of Raleigh held at Notre Dame High School, Greensboro, January 21-24. Rev. Martin J. Gamber, Notre Dame Motherhouse, Baltimore, Maryland, served as Spiritual Di rector, and Rev. J. Paul Byron, Priest-Direc tor of Cursillos in the Diocese of Raleigh, was Assistant Spiritual Director. Miss Betty Sweeny, Blessed Sacrament Parish, Balti more, Rector, was assisted by a group of women from Baltimore who made up the team. Bishop Waters addressed the assetnbled group of men and women Cursillistas at the closing. Notices will be forthcoming relative to future Cursillos for women in the diocese. (J. Harold Smith Photo) -I Vatican Negotiates Agreement With State of Lower Saxony Bonn, Germany — (NC) — A draft agreement dealing mainly with the settlement of Church State problems concerning edu cation has been drawn up by rep resentatives of the Holy See and Lower Saxony state after several years of negotiations. It will not go into effect until it has been approved by the Papal Secretariat of State and the Lower Saxony government. THE AGREEMENT states it will regulate Church-State rela tions in Lower Saxony while rec ognizing the continuing validity of the Vatican’s concordat with Ger many of 1933. Although Germany’s Supreme Court has held that the concordat is binding on the national govern ment, it has also held that the various German states are sover eign in matters of education and Former Ambassador Calls for Religious Freedom in Spain By Manuel Mira (N.C.W.C. News Service) MADRID — The need for reli gious freedom in Spain was stress ed her by a Spanish leader who served as a lay auditor at the ecu menical council last year. Joaquin Ruiz-Gimenez said this country’s Catholics have no right to oppose “a principle which is im portant to the Church,” but con ceded that religious liberty could be put into practice gradually. An ex-minister of e$Kication and former Spanish ambassador to the Holy See, he noted that Marxism is still strong in Spain and urged sup port for Catholic labor leaders who are trying to combat it. RUIZ-GIMENEZ said he sup ports the proposed law to give more freedom to Spanish Protes tants, calling it an important but not final step toward full reli gious liberty. No action has been taken since the proposal was first announced at a cabinet meeting last Sept. 10 following three years of talks be tween the government and repre sentatives of the bishops. When the ecumenical council failed to A LIGHT MOMNET at the Catholic Inter- American Coopera tion Program conference in Chicago (Jan. 27-29), brought together (left to right) Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara of Recife, Brazil; Dr. Gerard Griffin, president, National Federa tion of Catholic Physicians, and Bishop Manuel Larrain Er razuriz of Talca, Chile, who is president of CELAM, the Latin American Bishops’- Conference. act on its own declaration on re ligious liberty before recessing last Nov. 21, it was announced that Spain would follow suit and delay passage of the proposed law. At present, most Spanish Prot estant services take place in pri vate homes which cannot display signs showing they are places of worship. Non-Catholic Bibles and publications are banned. Protes tants may not have seminaries. Protestants have no military chap lains and Protestant clergymen are not exempt from the military draft. THE PROPOSAL to give Prot estants full freedom has brought opposition, especially from con servative Catholic circles, who say it would harm the nation’s Catho lic unity and that the overwhelm ingly Catholic Spanish people are not ready for it. Ruiz-Gimenez said, however, that “we Spanish Catholics have no right to oppose for purely domes tic reasons a principle which is important to the Church, particu larly to day when solidarity among all nations and among all Chris tians is so strong. “To say that the Spanish peo ple are not ready for religious freedom — which is accepted in countries very similar to their own like Venezuela and Chile — is to underestimate them. “Perhaps religious freedom should be put into practice grad ually. That is what the proposed law for non-Catholic confessions would do. It is not conclusive, but it is an important step. It is diffi cult to explain the opposition it is meeting.” Ruiz-Gimenez urged that plural ism replace totalitarianism. He said: “THE HARSH EXPERIENCE of the totalitarian states, both capi talist and Marxist, has had the im mense value of directing the Cath olic social and political thinking that they can decide whether or not to abide by the concordat’s educational provisions. THE NEW agreement provides that Catholic religious instruction will be offered as a regular part of the curriculum of all state schools and that state-supported Catholic schools may be set up at the request of parents if adequate organization of the requested schools appears assured and the educational area of non-Catholic pupils is preserved. One of the state’s teacher train ing colleges will become a Catho lic institution and a Catholic theology faculty will be establish ed at the University of Goettingen as soon as a sufficient number of students is assured. STATE RECOGNITION and fi nal support for Catholic institu tions for adult education is also provided for. Besides education, the agree ment covers the field of radio. Its provisions in this matter aim at preventing broadcasts offensive to Catholics and giving adequate time for Catholic broadcasts. LOWER SAXONY has agreed to pay an annual subsidy as salaries for priests and for diocesan ad ministrations. of our times toward pluralism. The requirements of human nature de mand that the political develop ment of peoples be aimed at a system which will increasingly guarantee a legitimate diversity of belief and opinion within the framework of the common good. “Such pluralism exists in Spain. It is up to the government to chan nel it normally, not necessarily all of a sudden, but without losing time, without interruptions.” Speaking of the influence of communism in the country, Ruiz Gimenez said that there is still “great tension among the social classes of Spain.” “UNLESS WE PROCEED with a true sense of justice and charity,” he added, “the class struggle will, unfortunately, break outt again some day. “In this atmosphere of tension it is not surprising that Marxist ideas continue to be strong, though clandestine. For this reason it is important to understand and aid Catholic-oriented labor leaders who untiringly strive to make their fel low workers see that the move ment for a profound renewal of the world of work is not only com patible with religious faith, but also a requirement of that faith.”
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