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SIMS WILL PROBE MORAL PAPAL DELEGATE TO GREAT BRITAIN PROBLEMS DIES SUDDENLY
One of the most ambitious series of Religious Television p rogrammes ever made will be seen on Channel Seven. The series. beginning on Sunday. July 21, called "Insight," was produced in Hollywood by the Paulist Fathers with the help of many of the best-known personalities of the film and television industries. Chief production executive or the series is Joe Compri i I.% who has many TV sii, •..esses to his credit. They melude "Leave It To Beaver." "Going My Way." and others. The assistant producer is Jim Moser, the creator and director of "Medic" and "Ben Casey." Father Elwood Kieser, a young Paulist priest, has been responsible for the presentation of the programme-, Amone the actors and ac-
LONDON: ARCHBISHOP GERA LD PATRICK O'HAR ( 68) DIED IN ENGLAND ON TUESDAY. THE ARCHBISHOP. WHO WAS APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO GREAT BRITAIN, SUFFERED A HEART ATTACX
tresses uho take part in the series are such 11411114's as Ann Blyt h, Macdonald Carey, Eduardo Cianelli, f lans Conreiu, lynx Dunne. Derry! Ilicknian. Jane W y• man. Raymond :NI asse Christine Whit7 and Everitt Sloane. It has been estimated that on a purely professional and commercial basis each episode would have cost about £20,000 to produce.
MATERIAL "Insight" probe.. the major problems of today's world in a blending of dramati and documentary presentation. It handles such subjects as Sin. Suffering, Communism, Atheism and Social Obligations in a manner which is new to television
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• IRENE DUNE joins host FATHER FL WOOD KIESER to portray the famed German novelist, Gertrude eon le Forte, in the "Insight- production which will be of "Beelzebub and the Bo!she shown fourth in the series by TVW Channel Seven. and with professional skill and impact. From a one-station show in Hollywood, " Insight soon captured a coast-tocosst audience in America.
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Its ratings turned o u t higher than competing sport and feature prgrammes. The series will be telecast on Sunday. July 21. and will be playing simultaneously m all States of the Commons wealth. Times of viewing should be checked on the TV programme. The first in the series for Perth is entitled "The Perennial Problem." This film, which stars Darryl Hickman and Christine White. is the story of a young couple's struggle for sexual control and dramatises the detrimental effect of sexual licence. Other films in the series will be "Face of Tyranny" ( August 18). "God and the Atheist" (September 15). "Insight" was obtained for Australia after negotiation between the National Catholic Radio and Television Centre and the Hollywood Distributors.
new Archbishop of I.Vestr. ster to succeed William Cai ciinal Godfrey who died last January 22, may between them lead to stronger diplomatic relations between Britain and the Holy See. ONE WAY ONLY The appointment of a papal nuncio or internuncei in London would end the anomoly of a one-way diplomatic channel between this country and the Vatican, for Britain has a minister to the Holy See, at prelent Sir Peter Scarlett. The Vatican on the other band is only represented in London by an Apostolic Delegate, a purely ecclesiastical past with no diplomatic status.
Archbishop O'Hara was born in Pennsylvania and was the former Bishop of Savannah. He was a popular and experienced diplomat, who was often the late Pope's representative consulted on pertinent matters by the British Governrnent. Previously speculation had arisen in Catholic circles in Britain that in the pontificate of Pope Paul VI that NO OBSTACLE the Apostolic Delegation Catholics here have a would be raised to that of a Nunciature. number of times in the past This was strengthened urged the establishment of when Lord Home, Britain's full diplomatic relations beForeign Secretary, attended tween Britain and the Holy a reception given in London See. A major obstacle has by the Apostolic Delegate. appeared to be that a nunArchbishop O'Hara, for the cio, or papal ambassador coronation of Pope Paul VI. customarily becomes dean of diplomatic corps. This The previous day Lord the possibly be an embercould Home had sent his represenassment in the capital of to Bland. Nevile tative, Sir a non-Catholic country with the official Pontifical High own State Church. Mass celebrated in West- its This could be avoided by minster cathedra! for the corthe appointment of an inor.ation. Other government ternuncio. or minister, who and political leaders. memwould have the • diplomatic bers of both Houses of Parliament. diplomats, leading powers of a nuncio but not the same precedence. laity and most of the Hierarchy of England and Wales For a few years during attended the Mass sung bsWorld War II the Apostolic Archbishop Francis GrimDelegate here did in fact enFhaw of Birmingham. the joy diplomatic status as he Bishop. senior country's was at the same time pre- 0:(trge d'Affaires of the Archbishop O'Hara sided. Polish Government in Exile. This was Archbishop William Catholic circles in Britain Godfrey who later became are tem- optimistic that the of Archbishop new pontificate of Paul VI Cardinal Westminster. and the appointment of a
Priest Murdered In Haiti Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: A
French priest has been murdered in Caracol, a village on the northern coast of Haiti, according to reports reaching here.
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The priest. named Le Seao and aged about 50. was killed with a machete during the night of June 24-25 in his second floor bc±room. the reports said. Information on the incident is incomplete because the regime government of President Francois Duvalier tightly restricts communications, it was noted here. The mayor and village police chief of Caracol and two other men have been arrested for complicity in the murder, according to ir.formation reaching here. and have reportedly confessed to the murder. It was said that Father Le Scao, a priest of the Cap Haitien diocese, was well liked by the people of Cameo). but did not get along with the local officials. According to reports. Father Le Scao was at a par-
ish feast in the nearby village of Trou on June 24. He returned to Caracol in the evening, and it is presumed that the assasins were then hiding in his home. The next morning. the Caracol police chief went to Trou and told the priests there that Father Le Scao had been murdered. This was the first public knowledge of the murder. Police in Trou questioned the chief and then went to On their way, Caracol. they arrested a man wearing a bloody shirt who reportedly admitted being an accomplice and said that the police chief and the mayor had instigated the murder. On reaching Caracol, the Trou police arrested the mayor and another man they found wearing a bloody shirt. According to the reporis,
an attempt is being made to Implicate the U.S. government in the murder by spreading rumours that the U.S. arranged it to stir up ill will between Fen.nee 2:sr1 Haiti. The U.S. recently cancelled its last aid programme in Haiti, construction of a 2.8 million dollar airport. and Haiti is now turning to France for financial help. A French priest expelled from Haiti in August. 1959, said then that the Duvalier regime, which has expelled three bishore and 17 priests since 1959. was especially French to antagonistic Many priests in priests. Haiti are French or Canadian. The reports said that the manager of a sisal factory in the village of Dumas, near Cap Haitien. has been arrested and charged with accepting 1,000 dollars from the U.S. government to instigate an incident which would jeopardise Haiti's relations with France.