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«- Courier-Journal — Friday, July 19, 1968 Support Goals of the Poor Four leaders of an unprecedented Interreligious Legislative Conference confer in Washington, D.C. They are, left to right: Father John McCarthy, assistant director of the Social Action Department of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Dr. Marian Wright, Congressional liaison for the Poor People's Campaign; Dr. Charles S. Spivey, Jr., director of the Department of Social Justice of the National Council of Churches, and Rabbi Irving Lehrman, vice president of the Synagogue Council of America. Some 150 clergy and laymen from 19 states visited members of Congress in support of the Poor People's Cam- paign and the recommendations of the Kerner Report during the two-day conference. (RNS Photo) Black Power Conference Scheduled Philadelphia—(RNS)—A third Na- tional Conference oh Black Power will be held here Aug. 2ftrSepL_l to consider black self-determination and unity through direct action. Dr Nathan Wright, chairman of the Continuations Committee, Nation- al Conference on Black Power, said the confereace \will deal with meth- ods, techniques and strategy to forge a black nation in thought, experience and commitment.\ Specifically, Dr. Wright continued, the conference would seek ways of unifying blacks, \particularly in the ghetto,\ examine methods and stra tegies for use by black communities, and would try to mobilize blacks \to resist the increasing- genocidal ten- dencies of American society.\ Among the program topics for the Philadelphia conference will be A Black Nation: A State or State of Mind; Formation of a Black Militia; A Black Foreign Policy^-Developing a Black Press and Black Communica- tions Media; and black power and Control in economics, labor unions, education and politics. -Church Lobby' Urged To Press for Aid to Poor Washington, D.C. — (RNS) — A • Southern Christian—-Leadership—Con- ference official said it is largely up to church leaders and the \church lobby\ now to mobilize the nation \to do something about the needed change\ in the American economic climate and political system. The Rev. Andrew Young addressed the Interreligious Legislative Com- mittee which was called for a two-day session of concentrated lobbying in behalf of bills aimed at helping the poor. \We've got to organize the people who are of this world and help them to understand that there is a re- ligious factor necessary in bringing these things about,\ he said. The Negro leader said the press, for the most part, \misread\ Resur- rection City. \'This thing is awful,' they said. What they were supposed to see was a slice of the poor put under the microscope of the Wash- ington press corps. \We didn't call for the religious poor to come. We didn't call for the emotionally stable poor to come. We didn't call for the poor who have a IS kindly attitude toward white people. We wanted to give-a good-eross-sec- tion of the poor in America. Resur- rection City was a slice of the poor placed out there on the mall so Amer- ica could have to see it.\ Mr. Young said hr does not view Resurrection City or the Poor Peo- ple's Campaign in any way a failure \In fact,\ he added, \I'd say we are just about on schedule.\ The churchmen are pushing par- ticularly for measures primarily aim- ed at providing adequate food for the poor, rent subsidy and housing programs, job provision bills and education legislation. Mr. Young told the group, that it is of t/ic highest priority that the forces of goodwill organize to assure \one America.\ The chief contributions the Churches can make now, he said, is to work on building up opinions among people not ordinarly concern- ed about the social ills of the nation, ;md to spread goodwill. \You're going to have trouble . . . but you just, don't have resurrections without crucifixions.\ Let Lincoln Rochester get you straight with a Home Improvement Loan Mmt: m Some people ju«t talk about home improvement*. ptfcaui replacing the bathtub and plumbing and musty jpintry. They talk About paneling and aluminum siding. 0W talk and-t*lk, Th*»t they wake up. When a potential buyer cringes at the things undone. They learn the hard way that home Improvement is a good investment. Le&ra the easy way. At Lincoln Rochester. Our loan department is somewhat of a rarity. We try to clear loans in one day-by one man, not a committee. Take up to $5,000. With 5 years to repay at reasonable bank rates. You'll be surprised at what you can afford. So atop talking. Act. Let Lincoln Rochester set you strafghTwith a Home Improvement Loan. We're a homey place to do business. Czechoslovakia New Appointment Has Catholics Worried Bonn, Germany — (NC) — The appointment to a key government post of a man who many blame for the oppression of the Church during Czechoslovakia's Stalinist era is re- portedly disturbing many Catholics in that country. Karel Hruza, who headed the church affairs department of Czecho- slovakia's Ministry of Cultural Af- fairs before the change in that coun- try's Communist party leadership last March, has now been appointed chief of the church affairs department in the foreign office. What particularly disturbs Catho- lics about Hruza's new appointment is that any future negotiations with the Vatican on ehurch life in Czecho- -slavakia-Avould be- handled- through his office. His appointment was announced only a few days before a Prague daily, Lidova Demokracie, reported that negotiations between Czecho- slovakia and the Vatican will start in October. In another area, the paper reported that heads of elementary schools will be required to make rooms avail- able for religious education if the churches do not have adequate space. Catholics in Czechoslovakia became optimistic when a new Communist regime took over last spring and pro- claimed a policy of liberalization and intentions to \democratize\ the coun- try. During that changeover Hruza was replaced as head of the cultural min- istry's church affairs office by Dr. Erika Kadteeova. Dr. Kadlecova had headed the Religious-Sociological In- . stitute of the Prague Academy and was professor of dialectiv and histori- cal Marxism at that institution. She has already helped to restore the Catholic Eastern rite banned in Czechoslovakia since 1950. Her de- partment has formally petitioned for the release of imprisoned priests whose activities were motivated by religious convictions or religious obedience. She has also conducted re- habilitation proceedings for priests and laymen who, she said, had been imprisoned illegally and whose sen- tences had been out of proportion to their offenses. On taking office she said that it is y undesirable for- millions of Catholics to be torn between~~their consciences as believers and their duties as citi- zens. \We want to give Catholics elbow room for their religious needs,\ she said. The new Communist regime is al- lowing three bishops t» return to their Sees 15 years or more after they were ousted by the Stalinists. The first to be reinstated was Bishop Karl Skoupy, 81, of Brno, barred from of- fice in 1953 after refusing to take an oath required by the country's anti- Churcb laws of 1951. Bishop Frantisek Tomasek, apos- tolic ^administrator of Prague, an- nounced that Bishop Josef Hlouch, 66, of Budejovice, banished from his See in 195.2, and Bishop Stepan Trochta, S.D.B., of Litoverice, placed under house arrest in 1950 and barred from directing his diocese in 1952, •will also resume their duties. Despite these changes, many Cath- olics in the country are still skep- tical, 'Glub 231' No Nifcht Spot Hartford, Conn. — (NC) — \Club 231\ is not, as its name might suggest, a lush night spot in Manhattan or Las Vegas. It doesn't have a doorman, though the people who belong to it remember- all too well the guards at the gate. And it is unfortunately not very exclusive. \Club 231'Vis a by-product of the political Upheaval which has overtak- en Czecholosvakia in the last six months and has seen the former Stal- inist regime supplanted by a more liberal Communist government. The members of the three-months-old club are former political prisoners of the ousted regime. The new club gets its name from paragraph 231 of the law under which its members were prosecuted, sen- tenced and imprisoned for \crimes against the state.\ A Hartford musician and teacher who left Czechoslovakia nearly 20 years ago was in Prague's St. Vitus cathedral for a special requiem Mass sponsored by \Club 231.\ The Mass was offered for the country's victims of Communist persecution. Josa M. Karas told about the club on his return to. Hartford from his visit to Czechoslovakia, where he spent his youth. Karas, who teaches music at the University of Hartford, is a violinist with the Hartford Sym- phony and organist at St. Brigid's church in nearby Elmwood. He had a special reason for being at the Prague Mass; his father died in a Communist prison. Bishop Frantisek Tomasek, apos- tolic administrator of the Prague arch- diocese in the absence of exiled Josef Cardinal Beran, was principle cele- brant of the concelebrated Mass. Some of the priests who sang in the choir were ordained secretly in prison, Kar- as said. The Hartford musician's father was an official in the Czechoslovak gov- ernment when the Communists seized power after World War II. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison and died tJhere after two years. Karas' mother still lives in Prague. He said on his return here that many people in Czechoslovakia are skeptical about the changes in the government \because they went through such a terrible ordeal for 20 years. They refuse to believe that anything has changed. But I told them that if they look around, they'll see -that it has.\ Karas-said he feels that4he present climate in Czechoslovakia is \more nearly like it was when I left, before the Communists took over.\ in a South Aitwrieaii slum. Summer is no different to him than the rest of the ^ear. He still must scav- enge through a garbage dump to find something to eat. The dizziness, nausea, stomach pains are still with him. His stifling, one-room, fly- infested cardboard and tin-stapled shack is still just that. The disease, the open sewers are still here, and so is he. You can get away from it all. He CANNOT! Won't you share just a little of your summer savings? Then this Latin American can be given at least one full meal. THE MISSIONS NEED YOUR HELP IN THE SUMMER TOO! name:. address:. SALVATION AND SERVICE ARE THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH SEND YOUR GIFT TO The Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara The Right Reverend John F. Duffy National Director /\VD Diocesan Director * COUPtNr MIMIln FO'C OlM* 366 Fifth Avenue New York,- New York 10001 50 Chestnut Street Rochester, New YVtrk 14604 NAME AODRESS ZIP Courier-Journal — Friday, July This is the site of the mai bia, in August. The capacil highlighted by the firs* vi« its closi Change in Ends Brazi Between P Botucatu, Brazil — (NC) — naming of a new archbishop for archdiocese of Botucatu has reso a conflict between a majority of archdiocesan priests and. Church thorities. Archbishop Romeu Albert!, foi bishop of Apucarana, has been na to head the Botucatu See. He is second Ordinary \named to the since the resignation of Archbi Henrique Golland Trindade, O.: in April. When Bishop Vicente Zion Bauru was named earlier to sue Archbishop Trindade, a majoril the archdiocesan priests refuse accept him as their archbishop threatened to leave the archdi< unless an archbishop was named they considered more up-to-dati ' The priests contended that 'Archbishop Trindade' and B Zlonl had not Implemented th< crees of the Second Vatican Co land hid acted unjustly against rights, liberty and responslbllil the local clergy. The priests addressed two ments to Agnelo Cardinal.Ros Sao Paulo, president of the Bra: Bishops' Conference, and Archb Sebastiano Baggio, apostolic n to Brazil. The first statement ana the archdiocese's pastoral situ and the second announced tha priests would withdaw from wo the archdiocese if Bishop Z nomination were not withdrawr a new, and more acceptable, pi named. A few days later, after the cai and nuncio had declared thems opposed to any change, the doct concerning the priests' determir to quit the archdiocese and wort Rector Adv Be Married New York — (RNS)—Msgr. G A. Schlichte, rector of the Pope XXTTT National Seminary for 1 ed Vocations in Weston, Mass, here that Roman Catholic semi: in the future should expect the tering students to be college-tr capable of supporting themseh secular employment and po married. Addressing the 18th annual tute for Religious and Sacerdot cations, sponsored by Fordham versity, Msgr. Schlichte said hard to believe there is a real age of vocations.\ \Authentic vocations are ther suggested, if the Church will \c er adjusting our structure to J them\ and \put our own hoi order, so that intelligent, matur \will want to be part of our efl promote the Kingdom of Gc earth.\ 4 (The Pope John XXIII Sen was established in 1964 for whose priestly vocation occurs they have become established other profession. The 42 men 'Friend o Vatican City —(NO— In ai step toward beatification, the C gation of Rites has examine reports of theologians on the wi of CaplichT^FaTner^StephSff\ who was known as the \champ the colored people\ of Milwauk Father Eckert, a white mar the first resident pastor of St. diet the Moor Mission for Negr Milwaukee, serving there from until shortly before his death in He was born in Dublin, Ont. 28, I860, After studying at SI ome's College, Kitchener, On entered the Franciscan Cai order in Detroit on May 21, 181 completed his philosophical an ological studies at St. Francis' &:*
