Jersey Hiradó, 1964 (45. évfolyam, 3-39. szám)
1964-09-25 / 39. szám
6 September 25, 1964 Reds Keep Prelate From Third Session VIENNA (NC) — Czechoslovakia’s communist government has refused to allow Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague to leave the, country to take part in the Ecumenical Council’s third session in Eome. “I have been told that I will not receive permission to go to Eome,” the Archbishop said in a telephone interview. “The authorities maintain that it is out of the question for me to attend the Council because I am not at present in office as an archbishop.” The Czechoslovak prelate was not allowed to attend the first two sessions of the Council. In October, 1963, he was released after 14 years of internment but was not allowed to return to his archdiocese. Instead, he was sent to Mukarov near Prague where, during the first weeks following his release, he was allowed relative personal freedom. He received visitors, including newsmen and priests of the Prague Archdiocese. Hopes began to rise that an agreement could be reached between the Czechoslovak Government and the Holy See to allow Archbishop Beran to attend the Council’s third session. Last April, however, the Government-supported vicar capitular of the Prague See, Fr. Antonin Stehlik, complained to the Government’s religious affairs office that Prague priests were going to Mukarov to see the Archbishop on pastoral matters instead of coming to him. Soon afterward, Archbiehop Beran was moved to Radanov in southern Bohemia and kept under closer surveillance. Guards on duty at his residence there required written permission from the religious affairs office before admitting visitors. Later the office refused to issue permits to visit the Archbishop on the grounds “that conversations with ‘Mister’ Beran might disturb the very difficult contacts with the Vatican.” In August, the Czechoslovak Government said it was ready to give the Archbishop permission to leave the country to go to the Council provided he agreed in writing not to return to Czechoslovakia. Receives Master’s Degree Miss Rosaline M. Costantino, daughter of Mrs.' Louis Costantino of 284 Tyler Street, Trenton, and the late Mr. Costantino, was awarded a master’s degree in the psychology of reading at the Summer commencement exercises of Temple University August 13. Miss Costantino is an English teacher with the Pennsbury (Pa.) schools and a member of St. Joachim’s Parish, Trenton. R. SARGENT SHRIVER Preparing Poverty Offensive WASHINGTON (NC) — On the door of a one-time hospital in downtown Washington a sheet of white paper is taped to the glass. On it is scrawled unevenly: “Task Force on Poverty.” Inside, President Johnson’s “war on poverty” is being geared up—at high speed and some confusion. Wall clocks have been hurriedly tied with string to coat racks. Building materials to partition off new cubbyholes lie in hallways. Handmade signs for offices and their occupants are the rule. Offices are awash in paper work, piled on desks and stuffed in boxes. In another building several blocks away, R. Sargent Shriver, the 48-year-old brother-in-law of the late President Kennedy, reportedly is spending 12 and 14 hours a day preparing to launch the program for which $947.5 Nuncio Named by Pope VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Paul VI has named Msgr. Bruno Torpigliani as Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala and El Salvador and Titular Archbishop of Malliana. Archbishop-elect Torpigliani has served in Britain, Colombia, Peru and Vatican City. He was counselor in the Apostolic Delegation in London at the time of his appointment. million is budgeted the first year. As in the Peace Corps, which he continues to direct and in whose headquarters he has kept his office, Mr. Shriver dominates the Office of Economic Opportunity, as the anti-poverty effort is formally known. His associates try to imitate Mr. Shriver’s work hours as they bring into being a sweeping program they hope will raise living conditions for millions of Americans. They will directly administer or coordinate with other branches of the Federal Government projects to get school dropouts to attend conservation camps or urban training centers; to obtain volunteers to assist mental health, migrant worker, Indian and other Federal help programs; to start local communities on their own wars against poverty; to give needy farm families 15-year loans; to give work experiences to unemployed youths; to help pay for part-time work by college students from low-income families; to assist heads of families on relief to get job and training opportunities; and to encourage small business to hire the chronically unemployed. Cooperation in the program of both public and private agencies, including those which are churchrelated, has been urged repeatedly by President Johnson and Mr. Shriver. Spokesmen for Mr. Shriver told that the stress on this cooperation is pointed up in the office’s determination to give priority to joint public-private community action programs over plane proposed by a single agency. Community action is a $315- million project to give Federal technical and financial assistance to local efforts aimed at curbing social ills such as illiteracy, unemployment, poor health and dilapidated housing. “It will require a network of anti-poverty programs that are varied, while they are coordinated,” a spokesman said. “Local talent and leadership must mobilize the public and private resources. The effort can be administered through public or private, non-profit agencies or a combination,” he said. Inquiries already have come from community action groups in more than 100 cities, 17 state or regional groups and hundreds of small towns asking how to apply for the office’s assistance—which can be “as much as 90 percent of the cost in the first two years. A manual to guide groups seeking such assistance will be available by the end of September. It will suggest various programs and means of enlisting all appropriate community groups in them. Although church agencies and Vatican Will Issue Red Cross Stamps VATICAN CITY (NC)—Vatican City has announced plans to is sue'on September 22 a series of postage stamps commemorating the first centenary of the founding of the International Red Cross. Subjqpts of the 10, 30 and 300- lire.. stamps will be based on the parable of the Good Samaritan. WANTED I' am looking for a capable woman to do housework, some cooking, for a family of two adults and two school children, five days a week. Please call TU 2-4158 if you would like to discuss the position. institutions can be part of community action programs, Mr. Shriver’s office professes confidence that Church-State problems will not seriously hamper the effort. “First, the church-affiliated agencies will be part of a general public service effort. Secondly, there can be no general aid to schools, such as using money to reduce class size. Thirdly, in appropriate places, the legislation specifically bans aid for strictly sectarian purposes,” a spokesman explained. Facilities of parochial schools or church halls can be used as part of a general program, the spokesman said. They can be used for courses such ae remedial reading, as long as they are open to all needy children in the area. In response to the call for cooperative efforts to meet the problem of poverty, the new program has won strong endorsement from a variety of Catholic agencies, led by the NCWC Social Action Department. On the local level, some Catholic groups already are investigating cooperative efforts. Prominent in this is the Philadelphia Archdiocese which has established an Archdiocesan Planning Commission for the War on Poverty. There is a dim side to the office’s plans. The sweep of its intentions have come under attack. It has been called a hodgepodge and a duplication of existing agencies’ work by critics. Furthermore, the bi-partisan support hoped for it by its sponsors is being lost. Republican congressional leaders have called it a “political hoax” fashioned for the election year. Colleges, which are expected to assist in the operation of the Job Corps for youths, are restless over a provision that participants must sign an affidavit disclaiming support for overthrow of the Government by illegal means. Logan Wilson, president of the American Council on Education, has called for a statement on who must sign the disclaimer. He noted that several influential colleges and universities refused to take part in other major Federal programs until the requirement for an affidavit was dropped. They judge it an invasion of freedom. Nevertheless, steps to launch the big program continue at full steam and its first projects are expected to be announced shortly. 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