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Newspaper Page TextWITH • CANNED MEATS • TABLE SAUCES NOW AT YOUR GROCER’S ^ READY TO SERVE President Kennedy 1961 Laetare Medalist NOTRE DAME, Ind. — President John F. Kennedy will receive the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare (LAY-TAR’-RAY) Medal for 1961, it was announced here tonight (March 11th) by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., University president. The award has been conferred annually since 1883 on an out standing American Catholic layman. Father Hesburgh, in announcing the se lection of the President for the honor this year, said that Mr. Kennedy “in a most un usual way, at a most unusual age, and against unusually long odds, has risen to the top of his profession . . . Because of what he has accomplished in so few years,, because of his unique position in the long list of distin guished American Catholic laymen, and be cause of the sincere hope placed in his vision, energy and dedication by so many Americans of all races and faiths, the University of Notre Dame is pleased to confer this year upon John F. Kennedy the highest honor within her power to bestow: The Laetare Medal.” The formal presentation of the Laetare Medal to Mr. Kennedy will be held- at. a place and time to be announced later. He is the 79th recipient of the award which has been won through the years by celebrated states men and soldiers, artists and industrialists, diplomats and philanthropists, educators and scientists. Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal was con ceived in 1883 by Professor James Edwards of Notre Dame, and his idea met with the im mediate approval of Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., founder and first president of the University. The Laetare Medalist is selected each year by an award committee headed by the pi’esident of the University. The recipient is traditionally named on Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent and an occasion of joy in the liturgy of the Church. The pre sentation takes place later at the convenience of the recipient. President Kennedy’s association with Notre Dame began more than ten years ago. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws de- PRESIDENT KENNEDY gree from the University on January 29, 1950, when he was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives. As a U. S. senator, Mr. Ken nedy accepted the annual Patriotism Award of Notre Dame’s senior class and delivered an address at the Washington’s Birthday Exer cises on the campus in 1957. The President is also a member of the University’s Advisory Council for the Liberal and Fine Arts. Pope John Creates Chaldean Rite See In Iraq, Approves Appointment Of Two Bishops ST. 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Bishop Souleyman Sayegh, former Auxiliary for the Mo sul diocese of Chaldean Rite Patriarch Paul II Cheikho of Babylon, has been named Auxiliary for the Baghdad archdiocese. Chaldean Rite jJ Catholics, who use Old Syriac in their liturgy, are descendants of heretical Nestorian Christians who returned to the Church four centuries ago. Today they number more than 275,000, including about 1,000 in the U. S. The great majority of them live in the Middle East, mainly Iraq, where they are governed through 17 Sees, including the new Alqosh diocese. Christianity came in the late second century to the ances tors of Chaldean Rite Catholics in Iraq and Iran, then ruled by Persian kings. It spread rapidly jthrough the numerous Jewish i communities dating from the Babylonian Captivi ty. In the early 300s, despite persecution by the Persians, the Church in the area was or ganized under the bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Almost constant war be tween the Persians and the Roman Empire made its com munications with the rest of the Church very difficult. The area’s Christians had to avoid any suspicion of contact with the enemy and so, in 424, a synod at Markabta broke its ties with the Antioch Patriar chate and declared itself inde pendent. Soon afterwards the Chaldean Church refused to accept the Council of Ephesus’ condemnation of the Nestorian heresy that there are two na tures in Christ. Thus a Nestorian Church came into being under the pro tection of the Persian kings. This church flourished throughout Asia and by the 13th century had won nearly 50,000,000 adherents from Mongolia and China to south ern India. It was almost com pletely destroyed by the Mon gol invasion under Tamerlane in the 1400s. Only a few rem nants were left in the Mosul, area and along the Malabar coast of southwest India. Soon afterwards Catholic missioners from the West reached the area and succeed ed in converting a number of Nestorian bishops. In 1551 a conflict arose ov6r the succes sion of the katholikos, the head of the Nestorians Chris tians. One group elected John Sul- aka, who turned to Franciscan missionaries for aid against his rival. The Franciscans urged him to go to Rome, where he made a profession of faith be fore Pope Julius III, who nam ed him patriarch of members of his Rite who would also profess the Faith. ☆ ☆ ifir Praise For Two Movies; One In Separate Class NEW YORK, (NC) — The National Legion of Dencency has recommended two films for general patronage and put a third in a “separate classifi cation.” The praised films are “The Absent Minded Professor” and “Bernadette of Lourdes.” The first was lauded as “superior, whole some entertainment.” The second was praised for “inspirational and artistic mer its” which make it “superior religious drama.” The film put in the legion’s “separate classification” is en. titled “Never Take Candy From A Stranger.” ☆ ☆ ☆ THE TOUCH OF LOVE Skillfully preparing: religious statuary that will someday enhance some home, church or far-off mission, two Sisters of the Divine Master make every touch of the brush an act of love of God. These Sisters, whose motherhouse is located on Staten Island, N.Y., have a threefold mission-'-the apos- tolates of adoration, liturgy and service to the priesthood. (NC Photos) Polish Primate Warns Dark Days Are Ahead (N.C.W.C. News Service) BERLIN — Poland’s Primate has warned that dark days lie ahead for the Church in his communist-ruled country and called on Polish priests to de fend Church rights at any cost. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynsky spoke in a letter to the nation’s priests dated January 12, but only now reported here. The Cardinal noted that the Church’s difficulties are grow ing because of the “fighting, fanatic spirit of atheism (that) has arrived” and told priests to “prepare for the worst.” He urged priests to resist government attacks on Church ATLANTA • L E N OX S QJJ A JR E • DECATUR • WEST END • MARIETTA AH stores open Friday Nights. Lenox open Monday, Thursday, Friday Nights. 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Black, blue or bone mesh 14.95 Sizes 10 Vi up, $1.00 extra STREET FLOOR Add 40c postage on prepaid orders plus 3% soles tax Charge Accounts Invited—Regular and Budget rights — increasingly severe in recent months — “even at the price of punishment, exile or loss of freedom.” The letter said a campaign is now being waged to sow dis sension among the country’s priests and called for unity among them, “especially in view of the heavy and unus ually difficult tasks which face the Polish clergy at the pres ent time.” “A further attack against priests is expected,” the Card inal warned, whose aim will be “to undermine the confi dence of Catholics in their priests and to divide priests into the more or less loyal and (to impose) financial restric tions.” The letter also denounced the “renegade behavior” of some Polish priests who, prompted by “self-love” and “excessive ambition,” have re cently joined the schismatic Polish National Church being promoted by the communist government. “Painful instances of aposta- cy have been revealed recent ly,” the letter said. “Several priests . . . did not stop at breaking their links with God, but started anti-Church and antireligious activities.” “It is not without pain that we note the increased activi ties of fallen priests, the orga nizers of the so-called ‘Nation al Church,’ ” it declared. It added that priests should follow the example of our Catholics, who are sometimes more faithful and sacrificing than any of us.” The letter, which became known during the campaign preceding Poland’s April 16 parliamentary elections, told priests to stay out of politics “We must realize,” it said, “. . . that priests making links with any system — with the current policy of a state or particularly with parties fight ing for influence — have never acted in accord with Christ’s words.” “Let us not let ourselves be divided into patriots and non patriots, into progressives and nonprogressives,” it said. But the letter told priests to make it clear to Catholics that the Church does not intend to battle the communist regime over nonreligious matters. News of the Cardinal’s letter reached here at the same time as reports that Polish Presi dent Aleksander Zawadski had urged religious tolerance dur ing the parliamentary election campaign. Speaking at an executive session of the National Unity Front, a coalition of the com munist and procommunist par ties, the President stated: “Tolerance and freedom of choice whether to believe or not is the basis on which co operation and coexistence should exist in Poland between believers and nonbelievers, who carry out together the task common to all Poles.” Cardinal Wyszynsky’s letter f THE BULLETIN, March 18, 1961—PAGE 3 Protestant Leader Asserts CHURCH UNITY IS URGENT AS OPPORTUNITY MAY PASS CAMBRIDGE, England (NC) — A Protestant leader as serted here that the question of Christian unity is an urgent one and that “the time of opportunity may not be with us for ever.” The Rev. Kenneth Slack, general secretary of the Brit ish Council of Churches, said in a sermon at Cambridge Uni versity that what is needed to achieve unity is “readiness for costly obedience.” “If we cling to the thought of the time not being ripe, what do we imagine is going to ripen time for unity?” he ask ed. “What is lacking among the churches in regard to unity is a sense of urgency. The blunt fact of the matter is that in regard to Christian unity we will not recognize that the time of opportunity may not be with us forever.” Pinpointing his remarks on the need for Anglicans and other Protestant bodies to achieve unity, the Rev. Mr. Slack said that calls for further theological study of the problem of unity “may become an escape from the disturbing prospect of having actually to do something, to abandon the secure cosiness of our own church tradition and face the uncomfortable rigors of change.” Mr. Slack said that two major questions arise concerning the church unity question: “One is whether it is sufficinetly recognized that unity is a quite central part of the truth about Christ and His Church — and that it may only be as we take the plunge with out every doctrinal and ecclesiastical position secured before hand that we shall know more of the truth about Christ and His Church. “The other is whether the Roman Catholic Church will take the non-Roman churches seriously until their recognition of the essential unity of Christ’s Church is at least strong enough to compel union between them. “There is this small evidence to support this view — that even the degree of unity which the World Council of Churches has increasingly shown has caused a change in the Roman Catholic attitude to the ecumenical movement . . . What was formerly dismissed as mere cooperation on, for example, social questions, is recognized as a truly religious movement worthy of profound study such as not a few Roman Catholic scholars are giving it. “We do not recognize the urgency of the significant time. We think that time by its-very passing will redeem us from our disunity. Christ’s summons to us is to obedient action in the here and now. was written against this back ground: In recent months the com munist government has clamp ed ruinous taxes on communi ties of Religious. When the communities find it impossible to pay the taxes, the govern ment confiscates their prop erties. In September of last year the government told Cardinal Wyszynsky to withdraw a pas toral letter condemning it for attacking the Church. The pas toral, later published outside of Poland, denounced attacks on the Christian Faith by “ath eism which from month to month increases its activity and fights against the Church with truly inhuman fanati cism.” In October, the Cardinal ac cused the government of breaking promises regarding the building of new churches. A month later the Sejm (Parliament) ruled that the feasts fo Epiphany and the Assumption were no longer le gal holidays in Poland. Early this year the Com munist party adopted a resolu tion to stop all after-hours re ligious instruction in public schools, thus breaking the 1956 agreement between the Polish Bishops and the govern ment. Later it was reported that communist party chieftain Wladyslaw Gomulka made a deal to increase the parliamen tary representation of Pax, a pro-Red economic and political organization which claims to be Catholic. Most recently Poland’s or ganized atheists announced plans to step up their anti- Church campaign during 1961. 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