Sunday, June 13, 1948 THE OBSERVER EDITION OF OUR SUNDAY VISITOR News Section--Page llA
Christian Groups At U. N. Protest
Proposal To Insert Right To Divorce
In Declaration Of Human
Lake Success, N.Y.--(NC)---An amendment offered by
delegate of Byelo-Russia that the right to divorce be in-
serted in the Declaration on Human Rights brought quick
protests from the delegates of two Christian organizations
during the U.N. discussions here of Article 13 in the Declara-
tion on Human Rights.
The protests were made by A."
Vanistendael, representative of the
International Federation of Chris-
tian Trade Unions, and Miss Cath-
erine Sehefer, representative of
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Fthv International Union of Catho-
lic Women's Leagues. Both or-
ganizations have consultative sta-
I tus with the United Nations Eco-
nomic and Social Council and its
Commissions.
"If the Commission accepts the
insertion of the dissolution of
marriage in this text," Mr. Vanis-
tendael told the U.N. group, "it
must recognize in all fairness an
equal right to the Christians for
the proclamation of the indissolu-
bility of marriage, which is
equally valid for men and women,
and presents another aspect of
equality as to marriage.
"Christians, however don't ask
such a proclamation because they
respect the freedom of conscience
and practice a real tolerance.
Nevertheless, they require that
the same tolerance should bei
shown toward them." A declara-!
tion of the right to divorce, he
said, would take on the aspect of
a norm for "moral guidance for
individuals and for peoples,"--a
norm to which Christians through-
out the world could not agree.
Stating that her organization
comprises 36,000,000 women in
120 organizations in more than 60
countries, Miss Schaefer asserted
the proposed amendment would
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The Diocese of Rockford will
gratefully accept gifts and lega-
cies from benevolent persons who
desire to make an acknowledg-
ment of God's goodness to them.
Gifts to the Diocese will be
used for Saint Vincent's Home for
Children and Saint Joseph's Home
for the Aged, for the education
of worthy young men to the Priest-
hood, for works of charity in on
ever-broadening field, and for the
support of religion in the needy
areas of the Diocese.
Bequests to the Diocese should
be made i~ the legal title: "John
J. Boyish, Catholic Bishop of
Rockford." Bequests to an indi-
vidual parish should be made in
the above title, but with a direc-
tive stating filet the bequest be
administered for the benefit of the
parish.
"be offensive to our consciences
and contrary to our deepest con-
victions of the real freedom, dig-
nity and good of individuals, the
family and society."
State Of Israel
Also
Special Citation
New York--(NC)--Maj. Audrey
E. Eban, Israeli representative to
the United States, has declined on
behalf of the new State of Israel
to accept a special citation from
The Churchman, independent Prot-
estant Episcopal magazine which
has been accused of a prQ,-Soviet
bias.
The citation was refused by
Israel to avoid involving "the
state of Israel in domestic con-
troversial matters." Recently Sec-
retary of State George C, Marshall
refused The Churchman's annual
award because, he said, the mag-
azine was not an official publication
and it en~aged in world political
discussions.
Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of
the magazine, was one of a group
of Protestant ministers and one
Protestant layman who visitecr
Yugoslavia and reported finding
"full freedom of religion" under the
Tito regime. The report has been
attacked as presenting an incom-
plete and untrue picture of re-
ligious conditions in the "Iron Cur-
tail" country.
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Even though the citation had
been officially refused by Israel, it
was accepted by Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, formez president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America. acting
as an "American citizen and a
Zionist," at The Churchman's an-
nual dinner here. The citation was
presented by Bishop G. Bromley
Oxnam of the New York area of
the Methodist Church, who is an
outspoken critic of the Catholic
Church.
Dr. Goldstein accepted the cita-
tion in behalf of Israel despite a
letter/rein Alfred Kohlberg, chair-
man of the American ~Iewish
League Against Communism, who
had written to him charging that
The Churchman had a "pro-So-
viet" bias and requesting him to
reconsider his acceptance. At the
dinner Dr. Goldstein replied to the
letter, stating that he felt no bar-
rier to registering his personal ap-
preciation for the award to Israel.
The citation honored Israel for
offering refuge to persecuted Jews
of Europe and a home to ~]isplaced
persons and for its stand for the
dignity of man and equality of op-
portunity.
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I ~ I New York-- (NC) --An appeal to
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Open Persecution In Red China
Subsides; Opposition To Religion
Continues, Missionary Writes
Pezping, China.--(NC)--The open persecution of the
Church by Chinese communists has subsided in recent weeks,
but a deep-seated opposition to the Church and all religion
continues, according to a letter received here from a mission-
ary deep in Red-held territory.
believed here to be due to the
to the Red excesses against the~
missionaries. To avoid any kind
of reprisals the missioner uses
pseudonymns for the missions and
priests of whom he speaks in the
letter.
"Anti-religious measures have
subsided a bit," the letter says.
"Father B. went out bravely and
spent Easter at 'Highwall.' But
he had to leave the place the same
day. Too many Christians crowd-
ed to his Mass, and this the au-
thorities resented. He is tolerated
at 'Oldtown' now, however.
"For one month he was able to
visit all his Christian units by
i night. I hear that he was not seen
by any pagans during the whole
month. The nights go swiftly:
Confessions, a sermon, conversa-
tion with the people, Baptisms.
Just after midnight he offers
Mass. Then he walks a few hours
to the next group of Christians,
where he finds hiding and sleeps
during the day.
"The young Chinese priest, Fa-
ther C., can circulate more easily,
although he was arrested and held
for 14 days by the communists. He
visits the villages tinder his care
quietly and recently visited the
city where two priests were exe-
cuted last summer. The four Sis-
ters there had been without Mass
or the Sacraments for eight
months. The sacrifices of the Sis-
ters have brought about conver-
The easing of persecution is
wide publicity given recently
sions all through the city. The
man who killed Father Anthony
with an axe at the mob trial has
asked with tears to become a
Christian.
"I am bus~ at the mission cen-
ter, but sometimes go to outlying
missions. The joy of Christians
on seeing a missionary makes us
forget any danger in the visit. An
old man told me: 'Father, I was
here under the Boxers, but their
reign of terror was nothing com-
pared to this.' It's harder to
stand up day after day under op-
pression, than with God's grace to
meet the direct challenge of
martyrdom.
"Our principal solicitude is for
the youth. We have no schools.
All who profess any religion have
been removed from teaching posts.
Parents who try to teach self-
control and exert a good influence
are attacked. The youngsters get
nothing in school but ideology and
license..."
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