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Archbishop Hallinan:
"NORTH, SOUTH AMERICANS
MUST LIVE AS BROTHERS”
TO COMBAT COMMUNISM
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC) -
North and South Americans
must make a Christian effort
to live as brothers in the Wes
tern Hemisphere because com
munism thrives where Chris
tian justice is forgotten, the
Archbishop of Atlanta, Ga.,
warned here.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
of Atlanta spoke at a dinner
(Sept. 2) honoring Francis Car
dinal Spellman, Archbishop of
New York, in the Hotel Fon-
tainbleau. The Cardinal offici
ated at the ordination of Father
Daniel Sanchez, a Cuban refu
gee who completed his theo
logical studies in the United
States.
Eight other visiting members
of the Hierarchy were present
at the ordination rites held in
the Miami Beach Convention
Hall. Thousands of Cuban ref
ugees were in the congregation.
During the dinner Cardinal
Spellman made a $10,000 gift
to the Miami diocese. He said
it was to “Help in educational
projects.’’ He noted that
Miami’s Bishop Coleman F.
Carroll “has had a terrific
handicap to meet because Cu
ban children who go to public
schools are helped by the U.S.
Government, but those in par
ochial schools do not receive:
such help.’’
“They say it is unconstitu
tional,’’ Cardinal Spellman
commented.
Gov. Farris Bryant told the
dinner guests Florida was bles
sed by the presence of Cardinal
Spellman. He also asserted:
“It can truly be said that with
out the open handed, open heart
ed, continued feeling and care
of the Catholic Church and the
"Catholic laity, what has been
accomplished here for our Cu
ban friends could not possibly
have been done.”
The ordination of Father San
chez by Cardinal Spellman is
a sympol of “cooperation of the
Americas,” Archbishop Hallin
an said.
“The power of the Gospel
to speak to all men has been
diminished by man’s refusal to
live by the Gospel he has
heard,” the Atlanta prelate as
serted. “The great driving
force of Christian grace has
been hobbled by the way Chris
tians themselves neglect and
abuse it. In our nation we are
only starting to rid ourselves
of the bitterness engendered by
the fact of racial color, and in
deed, by the fact of religious
creed. We have much to learn,
and much to repent.”
Nearly five centuries after
the arrival of Columbus Ameri
cans still live “Like stran
gers,” Archbishop Hallinan re
minded.
“We need not lose one whit
of proper pride, loyalty and ob
edience to our particular na
tion. Nor need we abandon a
common concern for all human
ity, of every color, in every
land, In one sense it is a
simple matter of geography,”
the prelate explained. “Since we
all live on a long slice of land,
it is imperative that we try
to live like brothers. If we
avoid fuzzy schemes and idle
dreams, can we not walk for
ward to a fuller title —' a
citizen of the Americas'? Only
the little mind and the faint
heart will see this as a denial
of national unity and national
rights.”
Emphasizing that those who
live in the Americas have the
same reasons for fear and for
confidence, Archbishop Hallin
an said that “Noisy nation
alism” and “private apathy”
are just as dangerous as com
munism. When the social or
der of lands that are heavily
Catholic is sickly with injus
tice, there is good reason to
fear the cancer of commun
ism he warned.
“When the chest swells with
proper national pride, that is
one thing,” he said. “But when
the head swells with national
ego, that is something else and
something far worse.”
“Communism is monolithic,
and quite easy to spot,” he
commented. “But nationalism
wears many coats, and speaks
many tongues. It may be rau
cous like fascism, vicious like
nazism, or polite and smug and
condescending. Nationalism is
a businessman absorbing an
other country’s oil, or ruler
absorbingranother nation’s ter
ritory.
“Nationalism is a Yankee
preacher in South America
sneering at the people’s dev
otion to Our Blessed Mother,
or a foreign visitor to the
United States sneering at the
pragmatism, the 'practicality
of our Catholicism. It is the
refusal to share, to learn, to
sympathize,” he declared.
In addition to communism
and nationalism apathy and
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complacency, which have sap
ped the Christian vitality, are
to be feared, the prelate dec
lared.
‘The pessimist totals up the
fears and cries out in despair,
‘Enoughl’ But the man who is
cast in a different mold, the
mold of the apostles, and their
smiling hopeful successor in the
chair of Peter, Pope John
XXIII, cries ‘Enough’ for a
different reason.
“Whether he be North or
South American, he counts his
resources and he is cpnficteot;. t
Whether he cries out in Span
ish or Portuguese or English,
his cry is trusting and clear, i
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He understands the reasons for
fear, but he sees beyond them
the reasons for Christian hope
and confidence,” the Archbish
op said.
Outlining the program of the
Latin American Bishops’ Coun
cil for improvement in the fields
of education. Christian doc
trine, social justice and char
ity, and communication, Arch
bishop Hallinan said the priests,
Religious, and laity of Latin
America are meeting the fears
that disturb those nations with
blunt questions and honest an
swers.
He cited the new Alliance of
Progress as “a giant step in
the right direction,” which
“faces challenges of almost
superhuman difficulty, and
which must harmonize Latin
dignity with North American
organization and system.’’
The framework for coopera
tion in the Americas, both re
ligious and secular, needs
more understanding and love,
the Archbishop said.
“We can learn from the Lat
in American’s sense of dignity.
We can learn from their ex
ample of deep faith and we
can give to Latin America our
own good gifts as Catholics
in the United States: our love
of the sacraments; our sacri
fices for Christian education
and for Christian works of com
passion; and perhaps most sig
nificantly, the working example
of how we live without loss and
without compromise in a soc
iety of many religions.
“Every good gift is from
God, and His grace can ener
gize the Christian of every
POPE JOHN ON ECUMENICAL COUNCIL:
"Expect No New Doctrines
- - Sensational Formulas”
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
- His Holiness Pope John XXIII
said here that the coming ecu-
continent. Ours is the task of
perfecting each his own spirit,
the Latin spirit and the North
American spirit,’’ Archbishop
Hallinan said.
“Diverse cultures should
feed, nor starve, each other.
In one particular place in our
country, history has violently
thrown together the elements of
this dream. Here in Miami, Lat
in and North American Cath
olics live and worship side by
side, under the prophetic vis
ion of an outstanding churchman
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll.
“Certainly we pray, as the
Cubans pray, that the day will
not be distant when they will
be free to go back to the land
of their birth, the land they -
love. We hope that many Cu
bans will remain. It would be
a society that can blend the
best of both worlds, the mu
tually complementary cultures
of two continents. If, in God’s
good time, this happens, it will
be a blessed day for the Church,
and a blessed day for the United
States,” Archbishop Hallinan
said.
menical council will not pro
duce any new doctrines or sen
sational formulas.
The council, Pope John said,
will seek “to extend charity to
the different needs of nations
and will present to them the
message of Christ in a clearer
way.”
The Pope spoke at an aud
ience granted (Sept. 2) to a
group of architects, the first
audience granted here since
Pope John returned from his
summer residence at Castel-
gandolfo (Sept. 1).
The Pontiff told the archi
tects that “the council seeks
to erect a new building on the
foundations which have been laid
throughout the centuries.”
While speaking mostly about
the council, the Pope also gave
the architects some advice
about church building. He urged
those called on to design a
church “to meditate on the
Holy Scriptures and penetrate
the spirit of the liturgy before
drafting your plans. Finally,
fortify the work of your mind
and your hand with the spirit
of intimate prayer.”
He pointed out that archi
tects work to provide pleasant
places for man to live in which
AUGUSTA
German Bishop's
Call For End
To Nation’s
Division
FULDA, Germany, (Radio,
NC) - Germany’s Bishops have
deplored their nation's division
by Red-erected walls and bar
bed-wire fences.
They have also appealed to
responsible statesmen through
out the world to do all they
can to keep the “Berlin Wall
from continuing to be a place
of fratricide.”
The Bishops spoke in a state
ment issued here following their
annual meeting by their chair
man, Joseph Cardinal Frings,
Archbishop of Cologne.
The statement expressed the ‘
Bishops’ “deep grief” that the
Bishops from communist-ruled
East Germany were not allowed
to attend the Fulda conference.
The Bishops said that the
recent death of Peter Fechter—
East German youth shot (Aug.
17) while trying to escape to
the West across the Berlin
Wall and permitted to bleed
to death by East Berlin com
munist police—has shown the
whole world the inhumanity of
their country’s unnatural divi
sion.
The prelates expressed the
hope that German reunification
will be achieved in peace and
freedom, and announced they
will spend $1.6 million to aid
East German dioceses.
They also sent a message
of thanks to President John F.
Kennedy for the aid extended
by the U. S. to Germany after
World War II.
The Bishops’ meeting deci
ded to set up a research center
to study the history of the
Church in Germany during the
nazi period, and named a
commission to prepare a com
mon prayerbook and hymnal-
for all German dioceses.
Cardinal Frings acknow
ledged that Catholic scholars
preparing a new German trans
lation of the Bible are con
sulting with Protestant Scrip- i
ture scholars. He said that
the “desired goal” is to work
out translations of the most
important texts - the Lord’s
Prayers, for instance - that
can be used by both Catholics
and Protestants.
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are. adapted to the needs and
requirements of the present
day. He went on:
“Well, this is precisely what
the Church strives to do with
its own means and within its
own orbit.”
Noting that architects can
learn from “the heritage left
to us by past centuries,” the x
Pontiff said that the Church
through the council “intends
to renew itself by basing itself
on its past.