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tat icon and Lutheran Body ame Ecumenical Study Group Vatican City - (NC) - The [oly See and the Lutheran World -deration have set up a joint orking group to explore the pos hes of future contacts be the two communions. Vhe 14-member body is the in which the Roman Catholic Ihurch is dealing with another Hurch at a world level. The an acement of its establishment s made simultaneously (July 5) the Vatican Secretariat for Pro ving Christian Unity here and Lutheran World Federation .jdquarters in Geneva. The announcement came one before the start of the first ,nnal theological discussions held Baltimore between representa ves of the U.S. Bishops’ Commis ion for Ecumenical Affairs and of U.S. National Lutheran Coun Two of the participants in the lltimore conversations were nam NEWLY ARRIVED in the Dio cese of Raleigh is the Reverend Joseph Maule, OSFS, (Oblate of St. Francis de Sales). Ordained in 1943, Father Maule has been I high school teacher through ont most of his priesthood, and ms most recently stationed at St Peter’s, Onancock, Virginia. Presently he is in residence at St Lawrence’s Church, Ashe ville. ed to the new international work ing group: Msgr. William W. Baum of Washington, Secretary of the Bishop’s Commission on Ecumen ism, and the Rev. Warren A. Quanbeck, professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Earlier this year, the Unity Sec retariat named representatives to a joint committee for consulta tions with the World Council of Churches, which while composed of over 100 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Churches is not en titled to speak for any one of them. The establishment of the Catholic-Lutheran working body was seen as setting a precedent with representatives of other Churches. The Lutheran World Federation is a free association of Lutheran Churches. While it has no power to legislate for them or to inter fere with their full autonomy, it can act as their agent in matters they assign to it. There are more than 80 million Lutherans in the world, and 53 million of them be long to churches which are mem bers of the LWF. The new joint working group’s activity will be limited to study ing the possibilities of future con tacts and to collaboration in study and action between the Federa tion and the Roman Catholic Church, and to making recommen dations to authorities of the re spective churches. 1 JSortj) Carolina Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $4.00 Copy 10c Volume LIV July 11, 1965 No. 11 P.O. Box 9503 RALEIGH, N.C. Says Indifference Fans Persecution LONDON, Ont—(NC)—The “ab solute indifference of the free world” has helped ease the way for stepped up religious persecu tion in the Soviet Union, accord ing to a new study published here. The document charges that the current Soviet “antireligious cam paign of terror” is being carried out “relentlessly” and aims at “the total .and final annihilation of all religious institutions in the near future.” The study, a 12-page booklet en titled “Religious Persecution in the U.S.S.R.,” is the work of the Very Rev. Dimitry Konstantinow, pastor of St. Mary’s Russian Ortho dox church in Maynard, Mass. He is a former professor of literature and journalism at the University of Leningrad who left the Soviet Union in 1944 and became an Or thodox priest in Germany. The booklet was published by S.B.O.N.R., an organization of anti communist Russian exiles. An in troductory note says it is based on reports in the Soviet press and communications by Christians in the U.S.S.R. to the Orthodox Pa triarchs of Constantinople and An tioch and the secretary general of the United Nations. The report says that, finding re ligion thriving in the Soviet Union during and after World War II, the communists turned first to an tireligious propaganda and then, in late 1959 and early 1960, to “more decisive measures” against it. Official Appointments The following clergy appointments made by His Ex cellency, Bishop Waters, are announced through the Dioce san Chancery: Effective Thursday, July 15, 1965: The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Lawrence C. Newman, V.F., Pastor of the Church of the Holy Child, Jacksonville, is appointed Vicar Forane of the New Bern Deanery. The Reverend Francis J. Gorham is appointed Pastor of St. Aloysius Parish, Hickory. The Reverend James J. Noonan is appointed first Pas tor of the newly established parish of St. Vincent, Char lotte. The Reverend Thomas M. McAvoy is appointed Vice Rector of St. John Vianney Pre-Seminary, Asheville. The Reverend Albert J. Todd is appointed Pastor of St. Mildred Parish, Swansboro. The Reverend Thomas P. Hadden is appointed Pastor of the combined parishes of St. Paul and St. Joseph, New Bern, which will new be known as St. Paul Parish. St. Paul’s will be the parish Church, with St. Joseph’s a Chapel within the parish. The Reverend William N. Pharr is appointed Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Monroe-Sacred Heart Par ish, Wadesboro. . , The Reverend Edward J. Sheridan, Co-ordinator of william Gaston Memorial High School, is also appointed i Assistant Administrator of the new St. Paul Parish and St. Joseph Chapel, New Bern. ' Gerald L. Lewis Vice-Chancellor Among the forms which current religious persecution takes, the document lists the following: —Monasteries and churches are closed “on all kinds of pretexts.” By the beginning of 1964 their number was only half that of 1958. —Missionary work and the teaching of the Scriptures to chil dren are forbidden and sermons are subject to censorship. —Religious services outside offi cially recognized places of worship are forbidden. —Religious organizations are forbidden to perform any charit able or social work. —Children and young people aged 3 to 18 are forbidden to at tend religious services or to re ceive Communion. Children over the age of one-and-a-half are not to be baptized. —Threats and social and eco nomic pressure are used on indi vidual believers to force them to give up religion. The document says many monks, priests and bishops have been im prisoned or placed in labor camps. There is presently a spe cial camp for clergy and Religious in the steppes near the Sea of Aral with about 30,000 inmates. CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION AT WALLACE BISHOP VINCENT S. WATERS dedicates the Church of the Transfiguration the evening of June 29. The church, which seats 220, was designed by architect Julian Altobellis. The pas tor is Father Robert McMahon.
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