12raTHE PROGRESS
Friday, Nov. 6, 1964
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Father Szeman
Chinese Keep the Faith
From time to time it is a very good thing for us to
stop and think of and say a few prayers for the many
people who are still suppressed in the huge country
of China.
Almost daily these people are compelled to attend unending
indoctrination meetings, sometimes as many as 56 days in a row.
This Communistic propaganda deals mostly with the attitude to
be adopted by Christians in the Sine-Soviet struggle, their way of
looking at the Vatican, "the tool of American imperialism," or
generalities about religious superstition.
There are many articles in the papers in the China mainland
within the past six months dealing with this type of propaganda.
For instance, in April the paper, "Kuang Min Jih Pao," published
an article which said:
"However, religion too is a superstition. It is a kind of
superstition that is deep-rooted and has powerful means at its
disposal. Moreover, since it works on a larger scale, its influ-
ence is more to be feared .... Indeed, religious and supersti-
tious thoughts constitute a serious threat to the socialist revolu-
tion and organization."
With such thoughts constantly thrown at the Chinese people it
is important that we keep them in our prayers constantly.
However, the Chinese people who have fled the Communist
are not forgetting their countrymen who still must undergo all
Society for The Propagation of the Faith
Rev. Stephen Szemon, Archdlocesan Director
907 Terry Avenue, Seattle 4--MA. 2-8880
this suffering and persecution. In fact, the Chinese refugees dis-
parsed throughout the world are strengthening their faith and
grown.
For instance, the Chinese Mission at Taegu, in South Korea,
which started from nothing four years ago, now has about 96
neophytes and a fervent group of catechumens. A kindergarten
school, which opened last summer, now has 76 Chinese pupils.
In The Philippines, in 196S, 559 adults were baptized and
2,795 children were baptized among the dispersed Chinese
refugees. Catholic schools which opened during the past few
years in The Philippines to serve the Chinese, now have 9,800
pupils. Thanks to these schools the younger generation is be-
coming more aware of its Christian life and this is having its
effect on the fervor of the parents.
The same story is true in South Vietnam, where the parish of
St. Francis Xavier in Cholon had 800 pupils.
In Thailand an edition of 10,O00 copies of the "Manual of the
Correspondence Course on Religion" in the Thai language has
just been printed. Five thousand copies of this manual have been
distributed to people who are now actively engaged in taking
this course.
Even in Chile, at Santiago, at the "Pet-Yen" school, 57 pupils
made their First Communion, 24 were confirmed. Besides this,
the pastor has organized a night school for grown-ups. The cur-
riculum covers everything connected with Chinese culture from
literature and history to music and cooking.
We can see, then, that in spite of the persecution, in spite of
the drastic change which people had to adopt themselves to in
the new lands and countries throughout the world, the faith is still
strong among the Chinese people and is still growing.
It is up to us now to continue our prayers and sacrifices to
help them in every way we can.
God bless you.
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and moll it to
Rev. Stephen Szemon, Archdioceson Director of the Society [or
the Propogation o[ the Faith, 907 Terry Ave., Seottle 98104.
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HONG KONG (NC)--Brother
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Christian Brothers, laid the
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miles from the Communist
Chinese border.
The sehool will be the only
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Red China.
The new $260,000 school is be-
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Florence summer school, said
today.
Gonzaga's overseas branch at
Florence is now in its second
year of operation. "With the
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Father Taylor said.
Dedication rites for a new
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regard for Pope John, but he
feared that the release of
Bishop Slipyi would have ex-
actly the opposite effect.
"'In what way?' I had
asked.
" 'The moment he is released,
there will be big headlines say-
ing the bishop was tortured by
the Reds,' he had said. 'This
would not exactly help the
cause of improved relations.'
"I had replied that it was my
understanding that Pope John
was not seeking the release of
Bishop Slipyi for the propa-
gandist exploitation. He was
genuinely concerned about the
health and well-being of the
bishop. As a matter of basic
human justice, he hoped the
bishop would be freed.
"The chairman proceeded to
expound on the cast of Bishop
Slipyi for almost 20 minutes.
He traced the long history of
rivalry between the Ukrainian
Rite Orthodox Church and the
Russian Orthodox Church. He
spoke about Bishop Slipyi's
predecessor, Metropolitan Shep,
tytsky, who died, the chairman
said, under circumstances that
suggested his departure from
this earth may have been un-
naturally accelerated, although
he did not say by whom. In any
event, he said the bishop had
been imprisoned for good and
sufficient reason.
"My purpose was not to
argue that point, l had said.
But it was seventeen years
since the arrest took place.
Surely any further punish-
ment could serve no useful
purpose.
"You may be right, he had
said, adding that he would
look into the matter and let me
know.
"At that December meeting,
as I got up to leave, the chair-
man reached into a drawer and
took out two letters on which
Christmas greetings to Pope
John and President Kennedy
had already been engraved.
Then he signed the letters and
asked me to deliver them on
my return to Rome and the
United States.
"Several weeks later, after I
had returned to New York
from the December meeting in
Moscow, I had received a tele-
phone call from the Soviet Am-
bassador in Washington. Am-
bassador Dobrynin asked if I
could come to Washington soon.
He had some news to transmit
to me.
"Two days later, at the Soviet
embassy, the Ambassador said
he had been asked to convey
the greetings of Premier
Khrushchev and also to say
that the Premier was happy to
arrange for the unconditional
release of Bishop Slipyi. The
Ambassador asked where and
how and to whom the Bishop
should be delivered.
"I thanked the Ambassador
for the good news and immedi-
ately communicated with Father
Morlion, president of Pro Dee
University in Rome, who was
then in the United States.
Throughout all the arrange-
ments leading up to the appoint-
ments in Moscow and the Vati-
can, Father Morlion had occu-
pied a liaison role.
"Father Morlion telephoned
Rome immediately and con-
veyed the good news. Within a
few hours Vatican officials
drew up a plan for Bishop
S!ipyi's return to freedom. The
plan, accepted immediately by
the Soviet government, called
for the bishop to be flown to
Vienna, where he would be met
by the Pope's personal repre-
sentative and flown to Rome.
"The plan was successfully
carried out within a week.
Bishop Slipyi was brought to
the Vatiacn where Pope John,
despite his now advancing ill-
ness, greeted him and told of
his joy at seeing him reunited
with the Church.
"Following this meeting,
the bishop was eseorted to
a secret retreat sothe miles
outside Rome. No reporters
were permitted to see the
bishop. Indeed, it was only
after the bishop had arrived
at his secret retreat that the
news of his liberation was
released.
"The day following this an-
nouncement, I received a tele-
phone call from Ambassador
Dobrynin in Washington asking
me if I had seen the afternoon
newspapers. I said I had not.
The Ambassador suggested that
I do so. Then he read to me
a news story under the follow-
ing headline:
Bishop Tells
Of Red Torture
"He asked me if I would
care to make any comment
concerning what appeared to
be a breach of good faith. I
said I had no direct knowledge
of what had happened but I
was absolutely certain that
there had been no breach of
faith. I said I would telephone
the Vatican directly and find
out what I could.
"Vatican officials were pro-
foundly shocked when I told
them of the news break in the
U.S. Bishop Slipyi had spoken
to no newsmen. They termed
the story a pure concoction.
They said they would set the
record straight immediately. In
particular, Osservatore Romano
would carry a front-page state-
ment quoting Pope John to the
effect that the news stories
about Bishop Slipyi were with-
out authority and were repudi-
ated by both Pope John and
Bishop Slipyi.
"What troubled Vatican of.
ficials most of all was that
this incident might interfere
with further attempts to bring
about release of churchmen
imprisoned i n Communist
countries.
"I telephoned Ambassador
Dobrynin and informed him
that the news stories were com-
pletely unauthorized and that
the next issue of Osservatore
Romeno would set the record
straight on the authority of
the Pope."
(L'Osservatore Romano on
the front page of its Feb. 15,
1963, issue, noted that some
segments of the press had pub-
lished detailed stories concern-
ing Archbishop Slipyi, and then
added: "We are authorized to
state that neither the Holy See
nor Archbishop Slipyi had any
part in issuing them.")
Cousins in talking of his
meeting the following April
notes that he began their seven-
hour encounter "by thanking
the chairman for his affirma-
tive response to the request for
Bishop Slipyi's release."
He continues:
"Once again, I expressed the
regrets of Vatican officials at
what had appeared to be a
breach of faith in some of the
news coverage that followed the
bishop's release and of the pro-
found elation of Pope John at
being reunited with Bishop
Slipyi.
"The chairman said he un-
derstood, adding that some
journalists didn't know what
to do with good news.
"The chairman then inquired
about the health of Pope John,
saying he had often thought of,
and been inspired by, Pope
John's desire to contribute to
world peace in whatever time
remained to him.
"This seemed like a propi-
tious moment to transmit to
the chairman an advance
eopy, translated into Russian
by Vatican officials, of Pope
John's encyclical, Paeem in
Terris.
"The chairman said he was
pleased to know about the en-
cyclical in advance and would
read it with great interest.
"I then brought up the mat-
ter of Archbishop Beran, of
Czechoslovakia, who had been
interned for some years. Card-
inal Augustus Bee, of the Vati-
can, had told me of his great
concern for the bishop's health.
"The chairman said he was
unfamiliar with the case of
Archbishop Beran, and that this
was a matter that concerned
the Czechoslovak government.
"Recognizing this, I said
that Cardinal Bee was hope-
ful that the chairman might
be willing to use his good
offices to explore the matter
with Czech government offi-
cials.
"The chairman said he would
take the matter under advise-
ment."
(Archbishop Josef Beran was
freed by the Czechoslovak re-
gime the following October, but
was not permitted to resume
his duties as Archbishop of
Prague. Last spring, however,
the prelate was moved from
his relative freedom in Muka-
roy to an isolated place called
Radvanov, where he has been
held under close surveillance.)
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