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Deicide Issue Now Dropped ST. LOUIS, U.S.: Joseph Cardinal Bitter of St. Louis said here that a proposed condemnation of the charge of deicide against the Jewish people has, at least for the time being, been dropped from the statement on. Jewish-Christian relations pending before the Ecumenical Council. Deicide—"God-killing"— is the charge levelled against the Jews alleging
that they as a people bear special responsibility for the death of Christ. It is considered a factor in antiSemitism.
The cardinal said it is possible that the condemnation could be restored to the statement during deliberations by the bishops, who will return to Rome this month for the council's third session. He said the bishops Nre unlikely to would accept a "watered-down" version" of the statement, which is a repudiation of anti-Semitism.
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RUMANIAN BISHOPS HELD PRISONER S
[The U.S. President chose Senator Hubert Humphrey, a non-Catholic, last weekend.]
Addressing themselves to the Democratic Party's chairman, Mr. John Bailey, the priests said that to select a person for national office because of his religion is just as ridiculous as to reject him for the same reason "If the Republicans selected their candidate for vicepresident simply because of his competence, and if the Democrats make their selection on similar grounds, Catholics will have no quarrel. "But if the selection of either political party is indeed by the new demand for a "religiously balanced ticket," then the results will be, not only ridiculous, but might well introduce into American public life a new and undesirable practice of exploiting a religious issue for partisan purposes." Meanwhile, in Atlanta, well-known champion of Archbishop Paul Hallinan, a Negro rights, has pointed out that, four years ago, many Americans, including Protestants, "voted for Kennedy as a definite stand against the exclusion of a Catholic."
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BONN, GERMANY: IX Rumanian-rite bishops — five of whom were secretly consecrated by the late Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara before he was expelled from Rumania where he was Apostolic Nuncio until 1950—have been held prisoner by that nation's communist government in Gherla since 1948.
W ashington: Seven prominent American Priests publicly urged the Democratic Party not to nominate a Catholic for the vicepresidency of the United States merely to "balance the ticket" or to capture Catholic v otes.
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In effect, they were supported by the Archbishop of Atlanta who has declared that political parties are "sowing the seeds of a very dangerous practice" if they nominate Catholics in order to get the Catholic voter on their side. These moves followed the Republican Party's selection of Mr. William Miller, of New York, a Catholic, as Senator Barry Goldwater's running mate in the forthcoming presidential election. The seven priests, who outlined their views in a joint letter to the Democratic Party's national committee, include five powerful editors, a law school dean and a leading lay action chaplain. The non-journalists are Father Robert Drinan, S.J. dean of the Boston College law school, and Monsignor Daniel Cantwell, chaplain of the lay action organisations of the Chicago archdiocese. The editors are Monsignor Salvatore Adamo, of the Catholic Star Herald (Camden diocese); Father Edward Flannery, of the Visitor (Providence); Father Bernard Law, of the Mississippi Register (Natchez-Jackson); Father Ralph Gorman, C.P., of Sign magazine (New Jersey); and Father John Reedy, of Ave Maria (Indiana).
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SISTER MARY CONCEPTA, OP., left Perth on the Galileo last Monday. to begin a three-year period of study at the Regina Mundi Pontifical Institute in Rome. Founded only about ten yeaars ago, this now famous theological institute for nuns is attended by about 300 Sisters belonging to a hundred Religious Orders from at least forty different nations. The purpose of the Regina Mundi (Queen of the World) is to help the study of religion keep pace with that of secular sciences, and the courses, which are given in English, French, Spanish and Italian. range from dogmatic theology to archaeology and sacred art. Its professors, Dominicans from the Angelicum. Jesuits from the Gregorian University, and theologians from other Orders, teach in the four separate language faculties. Graduates of the three-year course are qualified to teach religion anywhere in the world, from kindergarten to university level. Sister Concepta, with another Dominican Sister from Sydney, Sister M. Luke, will take the place of two Sisters from the same Order who have just returned to Australia after completing their theo logical course. Sister Concepta has been teaching at the St Thomas Aquinas Secondary 'School, Bedford Park. and at Siena Girls' High School, Doubleview. (See Page Three.)
This was reported here scribed as "impeded" by by the German Catholic the Vatican year book. news agency, K.N.A. K.N.A. also reported Until the K.N.A. release that the only bishop in was issued, there had been Rumania not under detenno report of the secret tion — Latin-ite Bishop consecration of the five Aaron Marton of Alba bishops. They were identi- Julia—has received an infied only as Bishops vitation to attend the third Chertes for Cluj-Gherla; session of the Ecumenical Hirte for Oradea-Mare; Council. It said the RuVostinaro for Lugoj; To- manian postal authorities dea for Blaj, the See city refused to deliver the inviof the Fagaras-Alba-Julia tations sent by the Vatican archdiocese; and Dragomir to the first two council for Baja, a suppressed dio- sessions. It added that it cese in the region of the is not know if 12I shop Marpresent Jasi diocese. None ton has received permisis listed in the official sion from the government to go to Rome. Vatican year book. According to the VatiAlso reported in prison can year book, four of at Gherla is Bishop Juliu Rumania's Latin-rite dioHossu, who is listed as ceses are vacant, as are Ordinary of the Cluj- three of its five Sees of the Gherla diocese and de- Rumanian-Byzantine rite.
Reservation For Interference CATHOLICS in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana (U.S.A.). who interfere with Negro Catholics in the practice of their religion or who join organisation whose aim is to oppose the teachings of the Church with regard to race relations, will henceforth be guilty of a reserved sin (i.e. they can obtain absolution from the bishop of the diocese only). This was announced in a strongly worded pastoral letter by Bishop M. Schexnayder of Lafayette which was read throughout his diocese on Sunday. August 2. The pastoral was written as a result of an attack on a white parish priest of a Negro parish in the diocese. The Bishop called for half an hour of prayer in all churches and chapels on Friday, August 7, in reparation for the assault of the priest. He also asked for prayers that a change of heart would come in other places where a spirit of rebellion existed a gainst the teaching of the Church with regard to race.
JESUIT PRIEST TO STUDY IN ENGLAND
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JOHN EDDY. S.J. is passing through Perth on his way to Oxford University, where he will be studying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the field of Commonwealth History. He will be living at the English Jesuits' well-known Oxford house, Campion Hall. Father Eddy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Eddy, of 16 Lillian Street, Cottesloe, was educated at St. Louis' School, Claremont. and Xavier Colleg e, Melbourne. After his Noviceship and Philosophy course at Loyola, Watsonia, Victoria, he spent five years at the University of Melbourne, where he took a First Class Honours Degree in Politics and History, winning many prizes and distinctions, including
FATHER J. EDDY. Si. a University Exhibition in Russian Language, the Gyles Turner Prize in Australian History and the
Jeannette Kosky award for International Relations. He was for a year Tutor in British History in Melbourne University's History Department, and in Modern History at Newman College. Father Eddy was at the Jesuit house of Theological Studies, Canisius College. Pymble, New South Wales, from 1960 and was ordained in January last year in Melbourne by Archbishop Simonds. On the completion of Theology, he was again invited by the Melbourne University to join their full-time staff as Senior Tutor in Australian History. In Oxford, Father Eddy will be working with Dr A. F. Madden, of Nuffield
College, and before returning to Australia will complete his years of Jesuit theological and spiritual training in Munster, West Father Eddy, Germany. holds a comprehensive Post-Graduate Scholarship from the British Government, through the agency of the Universities Commission of the Commonwealth.
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