POPE PAUL VI speaks animatedly to Dr. Thomas P. Melady,
New York, (April 30), as the Holy Father received the head of
the Africa Service Institute, an organization which sponsors
technical assistance projects in various African countries. At
right is Msgr. Paul Marcinkus, Chicago priest attached to the
Vatican Secretariat of State. (NC Photos)__
Protestant Leaders Laud
South Carolina Bishop
COLUMBIA, S.C. — (NC) —
Protestant leaders from various
areas of South Carolina attended
a breakfast here, honoring newly
consecrated Auxiliary Bishop Jo
seph L. Bernardin of Atlanta, Ga.
Bishop Bernardin, who was con
secrated in Charleston April 26,
was praised by the Protestant
leaders for his contributions to
better Catholic-Protestant rela
tions in South Carolina.
“There has been a new spirit of
cooperation among Protestant and
Catholic ministers in Charleston,’
and much of the credit goes to
Bishop Bernardin, said Dr. Ralph
Cannon, president of the Charles
ton Ministerial Association.
Dr. L. C. Jenkins, representing
250,000 Negro Baptists in the state,
said he hoped Bishop Bernardin
would be South Carolina’s first
cardinal.
Episcopal Bishops Gray Temple
and John Pinckney, Methodist
Bishop Paul Hardin, Jr., and Luth
eran, Presbyterian and Southern
Baptist leaders also praised the
new bishop.
Bishop Bernardin credited Pope
John XXIII with stimulating the
Church to ecumenical action.
“In God’s providence, Pope
John came along and changed the
Catholic Church’s entire perspec
tive relative to what our attitude
should be toward other Christian
churches, as well as toward non
Christians, especially our Jewish
brothers,” Bishop Bernardin said.
He added, “All of us should be
happy that we live in such excit
ing times. It is truly a new Pen
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Elected Secretary
In the election of student lead
ers held recently on the campus
of Belmont Abbey College, Bel
mont, N.C., Thomas D. Siegle was
elected secretary of the Student
Government.
A rising senior, he is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Siegle of 146
Westdale Avenue, in Winston-Sa
Honor Society
Inducts Girls
At Charlotte
Our Lady of Mercy High School
in Charlotte had its National Hon
or Society Induction Monday, May
1.
The girls newly inducted into
the society are: Barbara Gavan,
Melody Lajoie, Cissy Conlon, Mary
Joan Potter and Deborah Aston.
The guest speaker for the occa
sion was Dr. Philip D. Vairo,
head of the education department
of the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte. Dr. Vairo out
lined the academic achievements
of Our Lady of Mercy and con
gratulated the students on their
accomplishments. He then gave an
informative talk on the importance
of education.
Friday, April 29, the students
of Our Lady of Mercy went to the
polls to vote for their new student
council officers. Monday, May 4,
the results of the election were
announced to the students and for
four happy students, the long week
of campaigning was rewarded a
hundredfold. They are: President,
Lynn Stavrakas; vice President,
Barbara Steegmuller; recording
secretary, Robin West, and treas
urer, Joyce Vaillancourt.
Recently, the student council of
Our Lady of Mercy High in Char
lotte tried a novel project for
raising money. It sponsored a
slave sale.
An auction was held and the
members of the Student Council
were sold for prices ranging from
$1.25 for a representative to $10
for the president.
On a designated day, the slaves
worked for the student or stu
dents who had bought them. They
were made to do everything from
cleaning-out cars to crawling on
their hands and knees across the
floor.
lem. A graduate of Bishop Mc
Guinness High School, he is seek
ing the Bachelor of Arts degree at
the Abbey, majoring in business
and economics. •
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Rome Police Search
For Spanish Priest
ROME — (NC) — A priest ap
parently abducted here by Span
ish anarchists in an attempt to
force the Franco government to
release political prisoners was still
missing after a week of search by
Italian authorities.
Msgr. Marcos Ussia, assistant for
ecclesiastical affairs at the Span
ish embassy to the Holy See, had
been missing since April 29, when
his car was found still running
but empty near his home in an
old section of the city.
The Rome office of the French
news agency received on. May 5 a
letter signed by an organization
calling itself the “May Day group.”
It demanded the Vatican’s support
for the release of political pris
oners jailed by the Franco govern
ment as a condition for the priest’s
release.
THE SAME news agency earlier
had reported that a spokesman for
a group of anarchists in Madrid
was claiming responsibility for the
abduction.
The Spanish ambassador to the
Holy See received a letter May 2
reportedly signed by Msgr. Ussia
stating that he was a “prisoner of
the anarchists of Spain.” A second
letter came later assuring the am
bassador he was not being harmed.
The May 5 letter read as fol
lows:
“We pledge ourselves to set
Msgr. Ussia free as soon as the
Church makes a declaration in
favor of freedom for political pris
oners in Spain. Although we are
against violence, we had to act as
we did because of the indifference
of the world and because of the
arrogance of Spanish fascism
toward the lot of anti-fascists who
are deprived of freedom, and
toward the state of oppression
in which the Spanish people live.”
THE FRENCH news agency
said the letter also expressed the
abductor’s regret that the incident
should have taken place in Italy,
“because the Italian people have
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always expressed understand!
and support for the cause of fn
Spain.”
They decided to take action I
Rome, according to the agency r
port, “in order to confront t!
Church with its responsibilities
a moment which- is particular
critical for the Spanish peop
and when, after 27 years of fasci
dictatorship, Spanish democra
are demanding a measure of fre
dom of expression and associ
tion.”
Science Croup
Taps Tar Heel
Michael Bowermaster, son of M
and Mrs. James Bowermaster i
919 Sewickley Drive, Chariot
and a student of Charlotte Cat
olic High School will partieipa
in the National Science Found
tion’s Summer Project at the Ui
versity of Iowa this summer.
Michael, a junior, was one of 1
students chosen nationally out i
1600 applicants.
The program at Iowa will co
sist of an intensive study of mo
ern math and chemistry, with e
tensive field trips to other co
leges and various industrii
throughout the nation. Lead!
scientists and businessmen wi
speak to the group over the tw
month course.
Michael has also participated i
the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Juni
Achievement program and was to
salesman of the year during tl
1964-65 school year.
PRIESTS’ SENATE
Salamanca, Spain — (NC) ■
Bishop Mauro Rubio Repulles
Salamanca has summoned a med
ing of the 400 priests of his di
cese to elect a diocesan priest
senate. The clergy are to ele
members of three different coi
missions to be set up to advii
the bishop.
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