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Father Morton A. Hill, S.J., testified before a subcommittee of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on behalf of an interfaith, anti-smut movement in Queens called "Operation Yorkville." The subcommittee, held three days of hearings on proposals to permit individual parents to strike back at mailers of smut and other materials judged by them to be obnoxious. The bills would provide that a parent whose children got offensive material by second or third class mail could demand that the mailer remove the child's name from his mailing list. If this is not done, the Postmaster General would be empowered to cancel the mailing permit of the sender. One version of the legislation, would apply only to material judged by the re-
cipient to be either obscenity or communist propaganda. Another version, would extend the penalties to any material judged "obnoxious and offensive." The bills were supported by Operation Yorkville, by the Citizens for Decent Literature and by spokesmen of a successful "Freedom from Filth Week" recently held in Fort Wayne, Ind., a town which the week's spokesmen said "stands now upon the threshhold of being completely devoid of abnormalities in print." Opposition to the bills came from the American Civil Liberties Union which said the proposals amount to "a virulent species of precensorship." Other opponents and the U.S. Post Office Department were heard when the subcommittee began its hearings again on July 10.
• • On the right of FATHER O'FARRELL (parish priest of Q ueens Park) are his sisters, REV. MOTHER COLUMBANUS ( Lesmurdie) and SISTER M. CELINE (Leederville), and on his left his cousin, SISTER M. BRIGID (West Perth). They are pictured after the celebration of Father O'Farrell's Silver Jubilee Mass at which the nuns—all Sisters of Mercy —had received Holy Communion.
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NAMESE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO ABOLISH ALL MILITARY CHAPLAINCIES RATHER THAN YIELD TO THE DEMAND THAT FIFTY BUDDHIST CHAPLAINS BE APPOINTED, ACCORDING TO WELLINFORMED SOURCES. There is consternation among Catholics in and outside the armed forces who have heard the report. There are nol,v about fifty Vietnamese Catholic priests and four Protestant ministers serving as commissioned Chaplains in the Vietnamese armed forces. They serve with infantry divisions, special units, military schools and hospitals. Since the soldiers' families usually accompany them and live inside military areas, the chaplains have a heavy load Of pastoral work to carry. According to officials, the law and the defence budget had provided for Buddhist Chaplains, but until now no Buddhist bonzes (monks) had applied. Within the past
two weeks, however, the Buddhist groups who have been agitating against the government have demanded fifty chaplaincies. The authorities feel pressure especially from America to give in to every Buddhist demand. At the same time, they seem to fear that chaplains taken from among bonzes who have recently held organised demonstrations against the government may spread disaffection among the troops.
P ANIC The proposed "solution" of doing away with all chaplaincies would give the widespread impression of panicky weakness and would make the Vietnamese Christians feel they have been let down. It is generally admitted that they have been notably loyal and self-sacrificing in the defence of the country. Had they been less loyal they might have suffered from less misrepresentation abroad during the past two months. No public announcement h a s been made yet on the chaplaincy issue. It is still possible that the government may reconsider and decide to retain chaplains, commissioning Buddhist chaplains as was formerly oontemplated with normal security checks.
ROME: THE ACTING HEAD OF THE HUNGARIAN BISHOPS' CONFERENCE SAID HERE HE IS VERY HOPEFUL THAT N EGOTIATIONS BETWEEN HIS COMMUNISTRULED NATION AND THE HOLY SEE CAN IMPROVE CHURCH - STATE RELATIONS THERE. Bishop Endre Hamvas of Csanad spoke in an interview published by the Rome newspaper Il Tempo. He arrived here from Hungary to attend the coronation of His Holiness Pope Paul VI. Acmompanying him were Monsignor Pal Brezanoczy, Apostolic Administrator of the Eger archdiocese, and a layman, Vid Mihelics, representing the Hungarian Catholic Action organisation. The Bishop and the monsignor were also here for the first. session of the Ecumenical Council. Bishop Hamvas told -tra Rome daily that his only reason for coming to Rome was to represent Hungarian Catholics at the coronation. He was asked about the possible success of interrupted negotiations between his government and the Holy See regarding Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary—now living in asylum at the U.S. Legation in Budapest—and better conditions for the Church in Hungary. He answered that he is "optimistic, very optimistic, about the possibility of reopening negotiations and of their positive results." He added that "on the part of
the Hungarian government there is goodwill." Asked about the fact that communist officials have blocked appointments of bishops to vacant dioceses in Hungary, he said: "The question of vacant dioceses is not difficult to solve." To a query about his relations with Cardinal Mindszenty, he replied: "I have no relations. "I have- never made efforts t o eon\ erse with him. It was I who invited Cardinal Koenig (the Archbishop of Vienna) to Hungary. But he returned to Vienna directly from Budapest without coming to my residence at Szeged." Bishop Hamvas refused to comment further on Cardinal Mindszenty's status. Cardinal Koenig saw Cardinal Mindszenty in midApril. After his return from Budapest he told newsmen that many factors were involved in Church-State negotiations there concerning the Hungarian Primate's possible departure from the U.S. Legation. He added: "I do not believe there will be a rapid solution." Before going to Budapest, Cardinal Koenig revealed that he had hopes of persuading Cardinal Mindszenty to come to Rome. Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation since he took refuge there in 1956 after the anticommunist uprising which had freed him from prison was put down by Soviet t roops.
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The Old Boys' Association of St. Ildephonsus' College has been co-operating with the Brothers to let as many of the past pupils of the Marist Brothers in Western Australia know of the arrangements for the jubilee. Apart from the Mass on August 14, there will be a dinner for the Old Boys and on August 17 and 18 a special jubilee reunion will be held at New Norcia. This will include an afternoon Mass and a general Cornrilunion followed by an evening banquet. The Marist Brothers came t o Western Australia in 1913 at the request of Bishop Torres. The first superior of the College at New Norcia was Brother Stanislaus. For many years this was the only community in the West until Northam school was opened in 1948. This was followed by Bunbury in 1954
and then St. Joseph's College at Subiaco. A letter has gone out to the many hundreds of past pupils from the Marist Brothers inviting them to recall their friendship and contact with the Brothers in the celebration of the jubilee. The letter said that "our main purpose in organising these functions is not to engage in presumptuous celebrations, but rather to offer humble thanks to God for whatever we have been instrumental in achieving in our first fifty years in this State, and to ask His Blessing on the years to come." The secretary of the St. Ildephonsus' Old Boys' Association, Mr. N. Mannolini, has asked that any request for accommodation for the jubilee reunion and any names of ex-scholars of the Marist Brothers be directed to him at his home address: 65 Axford Street, Como.