Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 4-20-1961 The Advocate - April 20, 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 - April 20, 1961" (1961). The Catholic Advocate. 170. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/170 In Dominican Republic The Advocate Expelled Priest Tells of Violence NEW YORK - (NC) One of two The orgy of violence was part of a At the Redemptorist house itself, the ga, Spanish-born Capuchin who hai Official Publication lledemptorist priests expelled from the scries of provocations that of the Archdiocese began shortly priest related, the three who had been an critic of the of Newark, N. J., and Diocese of Paterson, N. J. Dominican of priests outspoken regime, Republic has told a govern- after Reilly and the Bishop other Bishops remained “went through hell. The mob would be the next of violence. Vol. 10, No. 17 ment-inspired reign of terror that of the Dominican target 1961 TEN Republic con- 600 THURSDAY, APRIL 20, PRICE: CENTS publicly entered in waves, in the first group. Alvarcs told a select destroyed the home of Bishop Thomas demned violations of human reportedly rights by to Reilly, They tore the first floor shreds. group of conspirators that the Bishop, C.SS.R., and forced priests and Gen. Rafael Trujillo’s in regime Feb- They robbed and stripped our carpentry would be tortured and assassinated. nuns to flee for their lives. ruary, 1960. shop, anew stove, ice box and deep The priest, Rev. John Schomber, The regime's hostility toward the freeze. ACCORDING TO Father Schomber, C.SS.R., expressed concern for the safety Church was aggravated when the Bishops “They broke everything in the refec- the attacks were incited by La Radio of Bishop Reilly, a fellow American Re- defied government demands that Trujillo tory, every window, bathroom fixtures, Caribe with a “filthy, daily campaign demptorist who is Ordinary of the Inde- be named “Protector of the Church.” 500 camp chairs in our auditorium and against the Catholic Church” over the pendent Prelature of San Juan de la even the three last seven months. A mass Maguana. jeeps parked outside. They government- THE EVENTS leading up to the latest also destroyed all our marriage records organized demonstration preceded the He said to Bishop Reilly and nine car- attenipt intimidate Bishop Reilly be- and baptismal records going back al- attacks by four days, he charged. loads of priests and nuns had fled San gan when the Bishop denounced publicly most 100 years.” Some of those who spoke at the Juan de la Maguana Apr. 13 for the the regime for "a long series of violations cap- demonstration were forced to do so, he ital city of Ciudad Trujillo, 90 miles to of human rights and the rights of the REPORTS FROM the Dominican Re- said, lie also charged that 400 soldiers the southeast. But he denied earlier re- Church.” public substantiated Father Schombcr's were imported from the capital and ports that Bishop Reilly had been ar- That provoked a vulgar press cam- account of the destruction. These reports dressed as farmers to intimidate the rested in San Juan. He said the Bishop paign against the Bishop. It was "hinted” said crowds in front of the rec- and that and three gathered population some people were American priests were kept that the Bishop would be given "a good tory shortly before 3 p.m. and stood there arrested and beaten by secret agents. under house detention in the and rectory clubbing in his own church.” about a half hour attracting more crowds. About 10,000 people took part in the later released. Asa prelude to the attack on the They then began throwing rocks before demonstration, shouting anti-Yankee slo- house, the Dominican into the for FATHER Bishop’s Republic breaking garage tools and gans in the plaza outside the Redemp- SCHOMBER, who was in accused the Bishop of heading a "vast other heavy objects which they used as torist house. 'to the Cuidad Trujillo awaiting "They yelled rope,’ expulsion when terrorist plot to weapons. designed create n ‘to the wall,’ ‘death to the Fa- the violence broke in San Juan de la priests’,” public opinion the idea that the Domini- The crowds surged through in waves. ther Schomber said. Maguana, learned details of the attack can government is When one wave would police from commiting aggres- subside, Two days later, he said, he and Fa- Bishop Reilly and the priests who sion the Catholic would against clergy." come, check on damage and then ther Kelly were ordered to leave the were attacked. of The government-controlled press said leave. Then anew wave hoodlums country, and traveled to Ciudad Trujillo Less than an hour before the attack the "plot” was uncovered when three would invade the rectory. Several police- to make their on the preparations. Bishop’s house, a mob of 800 men men men arrested for arson more than a stood by watching the destruction. screaming “Death to the priests” went month ago implicated the Bishop. One of No assistance from a military garrison a BISHOP REILLY has taken up tem- through the first floor of the priests’ the men to the few hundred away was residence in a Catholic school in residence like said, according govern- yards given. porary locusts through a wheat ment organs, that he had made bombs The assault on the Bishop’s residence Ciudad Trujillo. He announced that “1 field, it was reported. for the It was began after 4 Public school am to deal with the government Boland meets with and officials in The Bishop. asserted, too, that shortly p.m. going SECOND STEP: Archbishop pastors Region IX priests in the house were able ihe knew all about bombs children, led their carried over these acts of terrorism.” He also of the Essex section of the to hold the Bishop be- by teachers, County Archdiocesan Development Campaign at an Apr. mob back from the service in out the destruction. The said he would take the matter of the 13 cause of World War 11. (Bish- Bishop was up of workers for second floor by on the meeting the general phase of the drive. left to are standing stairs op had been struck twice rocks and his arm terrorist mado him. Seated, right, Reilly a chaplain, not a by was charges against J. with baseball bats. Msgr. James Owens, pastor of St. Mary’s, Nutley, the Archbishop and Bishop combatant.) badly bruised. Nevertheless he and two In Washington, meanwhile, the State walked through the to issued the Curtis, pastor of Sacred Heart, Bloomfield; James FATHER SCHOMBER priests mob the Department following com- standing, McMahon, regional and Rev. John FATHER SCHOMBER said he first lay and police station to ask for protection but munique: chairman, Rev. Joseph G. Sheehan of Immaculate Conception, Montclair, Kelly, C.SS.R., another expellee, arrived received word about the attack on the their plea was ignored. Soldiers did ar- “The State has instructed here 14 aboard Department Thomas H. Powers. Apr. a jet airliner. Father Bishop's house while he and Father Kellv around 7 representing Msgr. rive p.m. but by then the de- the U. S. Consul in Ciudad Trujillo to Schomber, superior of the Redemptorist were with the consulting American con- struction was complete. protest formally through the British Em- mission in San Juan de la is sul Maguana, in Ciudad Trujillo. "The mob An authoritative report from the Do- bassy there the failure of the Dominican Now in the News from New Mass. Father Bedford, Kelly is wrecked everything at the Bishop’s house minican said the dual attack accord from Republic Republic government to proper Pittsburgh. Also expelled was a —the furniture, doors, draperies, win- was engineered by two Trujillo aides. protection to the person of Bishop Thom- Canadian priest, Rev. Bernard O. Con- dows, Father Schomber everything,” One of them, Virgilio Alvaros Tina, was as Reilly and his property, and request nor of the Scarboro Mission said. "Our Foreign priests even had to supply quoted as saying that Bishop Francisco that such protection be accorded to Unconstitutional? Let's Society. him with T-shirt, shorts a and socks.” Panal Ramirez, O.F.M. Cap., of La Ve- him.” Look at the Real Record! Auxiliary Bishop Pontiff Calls Seton Hall to Meet For Novena H. S.T.D., Ph.D. By Msgr. Joseph Brady , Havana Of Jailed VATICAN CITY (NC) With Saddle River rector Msgr. Brady, of Immaculate Conception Seminary, our rights as taxpayers and as John has an Darlington, is the author American citizens to Pope issued of "Confusion Twice Confounded," a a fair and to scholarly work which treats in great detail the unfortunate hand- equal share in the distribution of On apostolic letter the Bishops the First benefits. Money of the world for Officials on any public ling of Amendment issue by the Supreme Court in 1947 Charge calling a Zoning and 1948. This aspect of the current HAVANA Eduardo Boza novena of prayer prcceeding aid-to-cducation discussion Auxiliary Bishop Mas SADDLE RIVER A meeting will take place some- Much attention has been centered has of Pentecost latqly the received Vidal Havana, rector of Villanueva Sunday, May 21, for the in of upon scant consideration; it Catholic University, time the near future between officials this Bergen alleged unconstitutionality of federal aid to has been success of the ecumenical council.