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FIDENE, Italy — Pope Paul VI offered Christmas Mass at the church of this Homan suburb,
and accepted a gift of this baby lamb from the grateful parishioners. The Holy Father prom
ised that a local child will be among the children he plans to invite to the Vatican to be his
guests at lunch on Epiphany (Jan. 6).
Reds Tighten Control Over Religion
Hong Kong — (NC) — Red Chi
na’s campaign against religion be
gun in 1950 is still going strong
at the end of 1965.
As in past years, stories with
Peking, Shanghai or Canton date
lines describing Christmas eve and
Christmas church celebrations are
being filed by foreign correspond
ents in China and the New China
'News Agency.
But these are “showplace”
churches —like puppet theaters
with the Chinese communist au
thorities pulling the strings.
According to reliable sources,
the Chinese Communist party is
actually tightening control over
religion as well as over every as
pect of traditional peasant activ
ity—weddings, funerals, festivals,
and ancestor worship.
“Feudalist” ceremonies includ
ing Taoist rituals, have been elimi
nated according to a Canton Radio
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Serra Club to Hear
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Dr. William Rabil will present a
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Recent arrivals from China re
port that there is also a fresh or
der forbidding peasants to worship
their house gods or pay respect to
ancestors. They said that as a re
sult, many peasants have simply
hidden their house gods and an
cestral tablets, and conduct their
religious ceremonies in secret.
Contrary to some recent reports,
Catholic priests are not allowed to
receive bibles and breviaries.
Prison or death is the fate, ac
cording to sources here, of priests
found to be in secret possession
of these visible testimonies to
their faith.
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Jamaica, N. Y. — (NC) — The
leaders of the alumni federation
of St. John’s University have de
fended the firing of 30 teachers
as in the best interest of students
and faculty.
The officers, directors and
executive committees of the alum
ni federation said in a statement
which they adopted unanimously
that dissident faculty and students
had abused the right of free di
alogue expression and protest.
The alumni accused “some mem
bers” of the faculty of “slander
ous, offensive, false and unpro
fessional statements and on occa
sion unprovoked violations of rea
sonable university statutes and
regulations.”
The statement said the federa
tion' acted “after a study of the
events of the last year and ex
tended discussion and considera
tion thereupon.”
St. John’s, the nation’s largest
Catholic university, with some
12,500 students, fired more than
two dozen teachers during the
Christmas holidays as an out
growth of administration-faculty
disagreements,
“We believe,” said the alumni,
“that the recent measures taken by
the board of trustees resulting in
the separation of certain members
of the faculty, which were con
cededly within the board’s power,
were taken with the best interest
of students and faculty in mind
and not out of vindict "eness or
as a device to frustrate the reason
able right of expression.”
The alumni held that the Vin
centians who administer the uni
versity have taken “effective steps
toward a fair solution of existing
problems.”
The statement said that “the
alumni . . . pledge their complete
and wholehearted support . . . and
are in complete accord and affirm
the administration’s action and
policies as promulgated by the
board of trustees and carried out
by its officers and administrators.”
Judge John T. Ryan of the
Criminal Court of New York heads
the alumni federation, according
to a St. John’s spokesman. There
are some 30,000 alumni.
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January 9, 1966 Edition of Our Sunday Visitor