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Name Men CLERGY, RELIGIOUS JOIN IN Holy Urged To Heed CIVIL RIGHTS PROTEST Call For Action SELMA, Alabama: Hundreds of priests, ministers and rabbis gathered here in defiance of a federal judge's injunction and threats of violence to join the Rev. Martin Luther King in o protest march demanding equal voting rights for Negroes. "They feel that the Church is really on trial—just as it was in Nazi Germany—and this is the moment of truth," declared Father Geno Baroni of Washington. "They know that a man would be dead in spirit if he is not free to follow his conscience," the priest said. Several hundred clergy from many parts of the country — among them an estimated 35 to 40 Catholic priests—flocked here in response to an appeal by civil rights leader Dr. King. They planned to march the 50 miles from Selma to the State capital at Montgomery in protest against denial of voting rights to This was the Negroes. same route that several hundred Negro demonstrators intended to take earlier before they were turned back by State troopers firing tear gas and wielding clubs in an outburst of violence that sent scores of injured Negroes to hospitals on March 7. U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., issued an injunction barring the second march. But Dr. King announced that the demonstration would go ahead anyway, and hundreds of demonstrators massed at Methodist African the Episcopal chapel in Selma which has been a focal point of civil rights activity. The procession was halted by State police — this time without violence —a mile after its start.
CLERGY SUPPORT Father Baroni said many of the clergy supported the decision to defy the judge's injunction against marching. "The clergy have come here from around the country," he said. "It would be a tremendous psychological defeat if nothing happened. If the clergymen aren't in it today, then we will go back home and the people here will be left by themselves again." During a rally at the church, he said, speaker after speaker "expressed his commitment that this hour and this time are meaningful not only for Selma but for the world." He said one Catholic priest, explaining his decision to march, stated: "Conscience is the highest law." Father Baroni said there were priests present from all parts of the country. He said many had found their reception in Selma to be "one of the deepest and most moving experiences in their lives . . . a spiritual experience of the highest order." "Never have we seen so much hospitality and charity," he said. "The people took us in last night, opened up their tiny homes, gave us breakfast:'
"For many priests this is the first time they have faced violence. It's a humbling experience—to be able to walk side by side with brave people in the face of threats, violence, imprisonment."
NO VIOLENCE Many in Selma, he said, were calling this the "high water mark" of the nonviolent civil rights movement and of religious involvement in inter-racial justice efforts. "With only few exceptions," he noted, "this is the first time that Catholic clergy could feel that they had the backing of their fellow clergy and their bishops. "One priest from San Antonio told me he called his bishop at 10 o'clock last night to ask permission to come here. The archbishop told him, 'you go with my fervent blessing.'" Father Baroni praised the conduct of Dr. King and his associates and said they provided "a tremendous motivation for nonviolence." "During the rally," he said, "one white minister got up and said he didn't know if he could be nonviolent. They told him he would have to stay out of the demonstration if he ' couldn't." He said there was "great resentment" that the federal judge's injunction was directed against the nonviolent civil rights demonstrators rather than "the horsed policemen and the helmeted masked foot soldiers who caused so much violence and brutality on Sunday night."
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###### ON7onday, hundreds of demonstrators led by white clergymen and nuns from all over the United States began a march from Selma. There was evidence that city authorities had eased their ban on marching, although they issued no official statement. Police officers had been withdrawn from the area and barricades which had surrounded the scene of a prayer vigil there last week
were removed. A courthouse deputy also. said that there would be no attempt to arrest the marchers. Earlier an ultimatum had been issued warning that. any marchers would arrested. In Harlem, about ten thousand civil rights demonstrators, led by hundreds of Catholic nuns, marched through the streets to protest against the treatment of Negroes and their white sup• porters in Alabama. •
than a hundred Holy Name Society delegates MORE and their Spiritual Directors at their annual Con-
vention on March 9 were urged by His Lordship Bishop M. McKeon to heed the call of the Vatican Council and Pope Paul for more lay activity. The Bishop said that obvious that the Church proposed changes in the and the people could not constitution of the Holy be separate identities. Name Society to allow for All had a special role to added activities could not contribute to the salvation have come at a more apof their neighbours and propriate time. the new Holy Name handHe .asked the men to book was geared to make heed Pope Paul's appeal men realise the necessity for patience in changes in for activity in the Church. The Bishop said that the the Church. The Bishop said that old-time Catholic days Holy Name men would were Kne and it was up to need patience when they lay members of the Church examined the new Holy to work for more unity. Name Society handbook He pointed out how little and studied the amended the average Catholic was constitution. doing compared with those The Vatican Council dis- who were being martyred cussions had made it quite in persecuted countries.
ST. PATRICK HONOURED
Girls from St. Mary's High School, Leederville, were among many thousands of children who marched past His Grace the Archbishop and Bishop McKeon during St. Patrick's Day celebrations on Wednesday. Bands from the Marist Brothers' College, Subiaco, and St. Philip's High School, Tuart Hill, the Trinity Pipe Band and Clontarf Band took part in the celebrations.
Five New Parishes Franciscan Ex - Provincial Dies H
IS Grace the Archbishop has announced the following clerical appointments, in which are included four new parishes. This makes a total of five new parishes announced this year. The previous one was Father P. Quinn to Mirrabooka. Other appointments are: to be priest-in-charge of All Hallows', Boulder; Rev. E. Rev. P. J. Duffy—Chaplain McGrath to be assistant at to St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco; Rev. T. Tomich to Subiaco; Rev. M. F. Byrne be priest-in-charge of St. to be parish priest of Kai.- Jerome's, Spearwood; Rev. rinyup (new parish); Rev. N. McSweeney to be actingR. J. O'Reilly to be parish administrator of Kalgoorlie; priest of Armadale; Rev. L. Rev. B. Whitely, S.T.L., to be Eivers to be parish priest of assistant at St. Brigid's, Cunderdin; Rev. M. Maslo- West Perth; Rev. D. Foley, var, D.D., to be parish priest to be assistant at Kensingof Hamilton Hill-Jandakot ton; Rev. B. Hickey, S.T.L., ( new parish); Rev. P. O'Mara to be administrator Sacred to be parish priest of Dia- Heart parish, Highgate; nella (new parish); Rev. R. Rev. J. Bianchini to be asHealy to be parish priest of sistant at St. Mary's CatheWillagee (new parish); Rev. dral; Rev. C. Degiorgio to L. Leunig to be parish priest be assistant Sacred Heart, of Quairading; Rev. M. Toop Highgate.
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REVEREND Mary Immaculate he became Provincial ot V ERY FATHER SEBAS- Church, Waverley, in the Australian Province.
TIAN DAY. 0.F.M., Custos and immediate the of ex-Provincial Franciscan Australian Province, died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, on Saturday last, March 13. following a series of severe heart attacks. He was 48 years of age, had spent 32 years in the religious life, and had been ordained 26 years. Solemn Requiem Mass was sung on Tuesday at
the presence of the Apostolic Delegate, His Excellency the Most Reverend Domenico En-
Father Sebastian had been a brilliant student. He obtained his M.A and Ph.D. at Washing. ton University, U.S.A. Later he was professor of philosophy and master of students. He was the first Superior at the retreat house in Palmerston North, New Zealand. For six years
and currently held the office of Custos. Only recently he had returned from America and the Philippines, w here he had conducted canonical visitation for the Minister -General of the Order. His body was taken to Melbourne and buried at St. Paschal's Theological College, Box Hill. He has a brother a priest. and a sister a Sister of Mercy in the Melbourne A rchdiocese.