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Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 1-19-1961 The Advocate - Jan. 19, 1961 Catholic Church Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Catholic Church, "The Advocate - Jan. 19, 1961" (1961). The Catholic Advocate. 183. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/183 Holy See Excommunicates Haiti Officials for Expulsions VATICAN CITY (NC) The Holy See has excom- terfcrcncc with Uic and municated rights all persons who connected with liberties of the were in any way Church, persons the of who violent expulsion two lay hands on prelates from Haiti by the govern- Bishops ment and the liability of of President Francois Duvalier. accomplices in offenses. Francois of Archbishop Poirier Port au Prince was The decree described the sanc- from expelled that Caribbean tion as "latac sentcntiac," which country on Nov. 24 and has re- The means that the guilty Advocate turned parties to his native France. He were excommunicated the has denied as by “absolutely false fact that mere they committed Qffidal Publication and utterly without foundation” of the Archdiocese of the acts without Newark. N. J., and Diocese of N. J. the necessity for Paterson, the Duvalier regime’s charge that a further specific Vol. No. 4 he pronouncement 10, THURSDAY, JANUARY gave money to 19, 1961 PRICE: TEN CENTS university of sentence. students striking against the gov- ernment. He said his expulsion IN NEW YOIIK, was Bishop Augus- part of a anti- Fear longstanding tin is staying at the Church headquarters Egypt the campaign. of Montfort Fathers. On his On Jan. the 10, regime ex- arrival at Idlewild, he issued a School pelled Auxiliary Bishop Remy Policy statement giving details of his of Port Augustin, S.M.M., au midnight arrest. Present A. R. and also CAIRO, U. (NC) who Prince, administered the Sec arrested that at time were Father Egyptian Catholics fear the ouster that following Archbishop’s Bellcc and Father Le Nir. the takeover of Bishop Augustin, the first Haitian Taken to government prison, he was held to be named a Jesuit Bishop, has gone there until 3 a school here is the p.ni. when he was to the U. S. of taken to a plane and his anew series of given passport and a duplicate 'measures against Catholic educa- IN NEW YORK, pass- Bishop Augus- port. The passports contained tion in the Egyptian of tin said he “NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN”: looks province was asking for the Pope John courtesy visas, one for 30 days the United Arab Republic. protection of American the authori- in Argentina through rain-spattered window of his car en route and one for 30 Last year 20 Catholic schools ties. He added in statement to visit facilities a days in Venezuela. of the Sacred the Congregaton for in the Asyut area of Upper Egypt that he had not been mistreated When the plane arrived in Oriental Church to were closed the get a first-hand by government, during his 14 hours in Port au Bishop Augustin acquaintance with Puerto Rico at 6:30 p.m., its work, started the and the Minister of Prince’s Fort Dimanchc Bishop the Pontiff New with province's Francois Lc Augustin Year sim- prison Nir, secretary was taken to Education, El Ahmed Na- and said he did gen- Archbishop ilar visits to Saycd not know why all other congregations of the Roman eral of the archdiocese, and James P. Davis of San guib Hashem, said Catholic lie had been Juan, expelled. who Curia. Emile Callcc, editor of La made arrangements for the schools the U.A.R. In Buenos Haiti’s throughout Aires, am- Phalange. to They are returning to Bishop lly on to New York. may be obliged to accept Mos- bassador to Hubert Argentina, France. “1 ask the protection of the lem directors. Carre, claimed the Bishop was American The regime also closed down authorities as as Cardinals Named The Jesuit school here ousted for long was political, not reli-. La before 1 remain in the Phalange imposing a U. 5.,” the Bish- seized by the government follow- gious, reasons. The ambassador on all and censorship communica- op said, concluded his state- ing by teachers accused the charges ldty that Bishop of criticiz- ment tions to and from Haiti. The by saying “I do not know the there are “anti-nation- ing the government for priests repres- Haitian met for what reason I have been sive remaining Bishops ex- al," have tried to convert Ortho- measures against striking with Msgr. Giovanni pelled from School Ferro- my country.” dox students and have discrimin- students in an article in the lino, Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, During his stopover in Puerto Rights ated against Moslem students. Catholic daily, La Phalange. He but declined Rico, the to comment on the Bishop said the police The Jesuit Fathers have since also charged that Bishop meeting. who had arrested him forced him Augustin brought suit in the Council of met with opponents News of the excommunication to dress and would of the Duvalier hurriedly not State Egypt’s high administra- regime while decree was officially suppressed even allow him to take his den- Concern tive court against the Minister travelling abroad. in but tal He Haiti, reached the country plate. was allowed to Since of Education, at whose order LAST RITES: An unidentified kneels in the November, Haitian stu- take Pope priest through foreign radio broadcasts. a few a little dents clothes, money their school was taken over. have been out on a protest tangled of auto and personal VATICAN CITY wreckage a head on crash near St. Paul, THE EXCOMMUNICATION some he (NC) Pope John XXIII voiced con- The school’s strike against the de- effects, teaching staff con- imprisonment said. Minn., last to a cern over restrictions on Catholic in giving rites dead while policeman trains by the cree, issued by the Sacred Con- schools parts of the sists of three Jesuits, a Coptic government of a student his on Seven teen- leader sistorial world as he addressed a secret to Rite priest and 20 Christian and flashlight the priest’s ritual book. accused of being a com- Congregation, specified consistory announce for- those who Moslem lay teachers. munist. When the strike were excommunicated of lost their lives in the crash. contin- Paterson mally the names four new cardinals. agers Aids ued after the Christmas-New as all “principals whatever their The new of Princes the Church are Cardinal Year kind and rank, Joseph holiday, the government de- necessary accom- Irish Ritter of St. Louis; Luis Cardinal manded lists of plices . those who induced the striking stu- Bishop Concha Cordoba of dents them to commit Bogota, Co- ily and the moral health of the to Prove so it could take punitive (violations of GALWAY, Ireland (NC)—Bish- lonibia; Jose Cardinal Quintero Hungarians measures their Canon Law) and those who in Michael Browne people, especially of youth.” Try against parents. op of re- Galway Caracas, and Giu- Martial law has any way contributed in such that of Venezuela, been declared. a ports Americans gave him Cardinal POPE way without seppe Ferrctto, Italian- JOHN said he wished to Bishop Augustin has said stu- that, their coopera- almost $300,000 toward the con- born member of the Vatican ad- address “A of dent opposition to the tion, the crimes might not have struction of cathedral prayerful message Freedom Exists government a for this to been ministrative staff. peace ... the whole on Religious is not committed.” diocese world supported by the Church. during his five-month the threshold of this Release from the excommuni- tour of the U. POPE JOHN new year. S. said that among THE HAITIAN VIENNA (NC) Red rulers are ex- “It is a matter for that Hungary’s intensify- the massive government-sponsor- government cation, the decree said, is re- areas he his other anxieties at the regret Among'thc specifically begin- their ed atheistic the im- pelled four priests all French- served to the the unanimous and worldwide ing campaign to convince the world that the Church propaganda, Holy See. mentioned as ning of 1961 arc the continued contributing to the born along with desire of all the nations even prisonment or confinement of Bishop Augus- The excommunication was fund was Paterson. persecution for. lives freely and prosperously in communist Catholics of the Church in that land. tin: Fathers peace docs Bishops, and the of Jean based on canons 2209 2 not succeed in con- at arrogation Bcttcmbourg, (parts 1, there, he said, donated many parts of the world, the Press officers Hungarian $ll,OOO. legations in free coun- superior of St. Martial and 3), quering the widespread fear episcopal authority by state-ap- College; 2334 (parts 1 and 2) and T#tal cost of the growth of materialistic ideas and constructing tries are spearheading the abroad. are Paul Vicar General and tensions which disagree- campaign They commissars. Bellcc, of 2343 (part 3) of the Code of cathedral is continued obstacles pointed estimated at mil- to peace. the Port-au-Prince $1.7 editorial offices with let- Some observers believe the Archdiocese; Canon which deal ments can carry forward to flooding Law, with in- lion. He said his hopes arc placed ters complaining bitterly aoout consequences of great serious- might denounce them to the se- has been in the coming ecumenical Hungarian regime coun- articles freedom ness impugning of re- cret police for anti-government to its ef- ..