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‘Silent Treatment’
Hit With Retreatants
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif.,
(NC)—The “silent treatment”
and an insight into Catholicism
were the highlights of a retreat
made by 25 Protestant and Jew
ish businessmen at St. Francis
Retreat House here.
The retreatants were requir
ed to keep 50 hours of silence.
Their retreat master was Fa-
SECREATR Y- — Archbishop
Francesco Carpino, secretary
of the conclave will have the
honor of handing the newly-
elected pope the white skullcap
symbolic of the papacy. The
new pontiff may, like the late
Pope John XXIII, place the red
skullcap he wore as cardinal
upon the secretary's head to
signify his intention of making
him a cardinal. Archbishop
Carpino is now Secretary of
the Sacred College of Cardi
nals.—(NC Photos)
ther Eric O’Brien, O.F.M. Ac
companying the businessmen
on the retreat, the first of its
type held in central California,
were four Catholic hosts.
One businessman commented
after the retreat: “We particu
larly liked the silent treatment.
Actually, you can’t do any think
ing if you are jabbering all the
time. Our wives had assured us
that we couldn’t keep silence.
But we did.”
“Most of us intend to make
another retreat,’’ he added,
“and I’m sure that everyone
will recommend it to their
friends. It’s been a grand suc
cess.”
A Jewish businessman re
ferred to the meditative si
lence maintained by the group
as “unbelievable.” He also said
the retreat was educational and
enjoyable.
A Protestant said that a pre
vious retreat he had made with
Catholic friends “did not have
the educational value for me
that this special retreat had.”
* ‘This retreat gave me a much
greater insight into Catholicism
and into understanding between
all religions,” he said.
The idea for the retreat ori
ginated during an informal con
versation between Fresno Ca
tholic businessmen John Sulli
van, William Timmings and Mel
Wright, and the vicar general
of the Monterey-Fresno dio
cese, Msgr. James G. Dowling.
* ‘Someone mentioned that we
had never invited our non-Ca-
tholic friends in the community
to a Mass or on a retreat,”
Timmings said. “So, we invited
them.”
160 Attend
Religious
Instructions
C O LU M B US—160 children
attend classes each day from
8:30 until 12:00 noon at Our
Lady of Lourdes Vacation
School of Religion. They are
taught by three Ursuline nuns
and five lay teachers.
The vacation school session
will last until June 28th, which
will give them three full weeks
of religious instruction. Several
weeks ago a training course for
the teachers was held in the
parish.
Classes for the children be
gin with a general assembly
each day at 8:30 then follows a
varied program of instructions
and filmstrips until 10:15 when
they are given a free cold drink,
and a recreation period until
10:45. More instruction follows
and the day is concluded with
the whole group attending Holy
Mass at 11:30. Father William
P. Dowling, pastor, celebrates
Mass for them each day and
gives them a short sermon.
Turntable Only
Link With
Conclavists
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—As the world waits outside
the conclave area for word on
the deliberations of the cardi
nals, inside the single link of
communication is a turntable
at the head of a staircase.
The turntable, which serves
the officials of the conclave, is
guarded by the marshal and
governor of the conclave. It is
situated on the staircase of
Pius IX at the edge of the court
yard of San Damaso. There are
two other turntables, located in
the Parrot courtyard, but they
serve only to admit supplies.
Eighty-two cells in the
closed-off section of the Vatican
now have beds, movable closets,
chairs, bedside tables, work
tables and other simple fur
nishings. Some of the quarters,
used regularly by prelates liv
ing in the Vatican, were already
equipped for the extraordinary
Use by the conclavists.
Two dining rooms are in use
by those in the conclave area.
The cardinals are dining in the
hall of Leo XII, the largest room
of the Borgia apartments. Their
assistants take their meals in
another room in the same
apartment. Two kitchens are
operating to serve the groups.
The kitchen for the cardinals
is that which was formerly used
when the diplomatic corps dined
at the Vatican. It is located
near the Parrot courtyard. Dur
ing the reign of Pope J ohn this
area was renovated and a num
ber of medieval frescoes were
uncovered and restored. The
second kitchen is in the area
generally used by the Palatine
Guard.
A first aid center and infir
mary for the conclavists has
been set up in the Hall of Bene
dictions, the large room which
constitutes the second floor of
the front of St. Peter’s Basili
ca. It is directly above the open
porch of the basilica and is
familiar to thousands of per
sons everywhere as a scene of
papal audiences. From the cen
tral balcony of this hall, facing
St. Peter’s square, the new
Pope will give his first public
blessing.
Always associated with a con
clave is the stove that sends
out the signal of a decisive
vote, the white smoke accom
panying the burning of ballots.
It will have some help this
time in sending up black smoke
after an unsuccessful balloting.
A plastic substance is ready,
along with the traditional straw,
to insure a rich black smoke
when the votes are inconclusive.
At the last conclave a ballots-
plus-straw fire sent up a signal
that was widely misinterpreted.
Another precaution taken out
of the experience of the 1958
voting is the new safeguard for
the stovepipe. It has been wrap
ped in asbestos to eliminate
any danger from overheating.
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School of Religion being held at Our Lady of Lourdes, Columbus.
Cardinal Bea Calls U. S.
Ecumenical Developments
‘Benevolent Explosion’
ATLANTA, Ga. (NC)—Aug
ustin Cardinal Bea, S. J.,
regards the growth of the ecu
menical movement in the Uni
ted States as a “benevolent ex
plosion.”
Cardinal Bea, head of the Va
tican’s Secretariat for Promot
ing Christian Unity, said it is
“clear evidence of the fruitful
energies, ready for every type
of good, which lie hidden in
American Catholicism and only
wait to be aroused.”
The German Jesuit Cardinal
expressed his views on ecumen
ism, the Church in the U. S. and
other subjects in a copyrighted
interview with Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, pub
lished in the Georgia Bulletin,
archdiocesan newspaper.
The interview was conducted
while Archbishop Hallinan was
in Rome attending the spring'
session of the ecumenical coun
cil’s liturgy commission.
Cardinal Bea spent lOdaysin
the United States earlier this
year, taking part in an inter
faith meeting at Harvard Uni
versity and visiting several
eastern cities.
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In the interview, the Cardi
nal said the ecumenical climate
in the United states “has im
proved in an absolutely sur
prising manner.” As an in
stance he noted that before his
recent visit he received some 70
speaking invitations which he
had to decline, 20 of them from
non-Catholic sources and the
others from Catholic sources
all over the country.
Referring to the general pro
gress of ecumenism, he said
that “perhaps the most urgent
task” of the moment is “the
spreading of the ecumenical
apostolate among Catholics by
carrying it into every diocese,
every parish, to every social
group or profession, into the
life, no matter how humble it
is, of each of the faithful.”
He voiced the “lively hope”
that American Catholics will
bring the “energy and vigor”
they have shown in other fields
to ecumenical work.
Cardinal Bea conceded that
the large number and diver
sity of religious sects in the
United States renders ecumen
ism “much more difficult.”
Nevertheless, he said, there
are “positive aspects” to the
situation: it makes “more in
tense” the “nostalgia of unity”
and makes “more clearly ap
parent all the absurdity of the
division itself and spurs on the
search for a remedy.”
Commenting on the respec
tive advantages of diocesan and
national ecumenical commis
sions, he said that before estab
lishing a national organization,
“care should be taken to create
concrete bases and stimulate
initiatives on the diocesan and
parochial level.”
He emphasized that ecumen
ical work is a ‘ ‘new and unex
plored” field in which it is
“possible to make mistakes, to
take false steps.” For this
Obscenity Charges
PHILADELPHIA, (NC)
—Ralph Ginzburg, New York
publisher whose mail order op
erations allegedly have drawn
a record number of complaints
to the Post Office Department,
was found guilty on obscenity
charges in U. S. District Court
here.
Judge Ralph C. Body found
Ginzburg and three of his en
terprises—a magazine called
Eros, Documentary Books, Inc.,
and a "newsletter”—guilty on
all of 28 counts of using the
mails to advertise and distri
bute obscene material (June 14).
reason, he said it is “neces
sary to reamin in the closest
contact with the hierarchy.”
On the question of religious
liberty, Cardinal Bea noted that
the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity had prepared a
schema on the issue which was
discussed by the ecumenical
council’s Central Preparatory
Commission last year.
He said this schema “up
held the necessity of recog
nizing a man’s right to follow
the dictates of his own con
science in matters of religion”
and recognized “the duties of
civil society, in all its forms,
including the state, to respect
in practice the citizen’s inalian-
able rights to religious lib
erty.”
Today’s “ever-increasing
“differentiation” among men in
religious matters makes it
* ‘even more urgent that the af
firmation of the dignity of the
human person. . . of which the
Church through her social doc
trine becomes more a champion
every day, be applied also with
respect to religious liberty,”
he said.
This matter of religious lib
erty, he added, is of “great im
portance . . . for ecumenical
work.”
As for Church-State rela
tions, Cardinal Bea said the
WASHINGTON, (NC)—It was
like being back in the class
room for some 40 vacationing
boys from a Catholic high school
in Cleveland who were sight
seeing in the nation’s capital.
Corralled in the office of a
government official, the young
sters were put through a quiz
on American history. The con
sensus was they flunked.
“Who was mainly responsible
for writing the Bill of Rights?”
the youngsters were asked.
“Thomas Jefferson,” cho
rused a few.
“Wrong! Look that up,” said
the * ’teacher.”
The boys fumbled a series of
questions about the Missouri
Compromise, a law passed in
"truly flourishing” condition of
the Catholic Church in the U.S.
is “irrefutable proof that your
particular experience in this
area has been truly fruitful and
that it can make a strong con
tribution to the solution of this
perennial and thorny prob
lem.”
He expressed the hope that
U.S. Church leaders and other
Father s of the ecumenical coun
cil will “give to this question
their strong and fruitful wit
ness.”
Cardinal Bea predicted that
the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity will have an
even more important role to
play after the ecumenical coun
cil. He said the establishment
of the secretariat is comparable
in importance to the creation
in the 17th century of the Sacred
Congregation for the Propaga
tion of the Faith, which is in
charge of the Church’s foreign
mission work.
He said the unity secretariat
is concrete evidence of
the Church’,s concern for “sep
arated Christians” as well as
an agency to which “our bre
thren have been able to turn
. . . with the security that
they would find not only a ready
welcome but also assistance and
understanding, and fraternal
treatment, advice and aid.”
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1820 to deal with the slavery
problem. A couple of them tit
tered when unable to come up
with an answer. The “teacher”
chided: “You shouldn’t laugh
about it. It’s your own history
and you should know it if you
are going to contribute to
American life.”
The “teacher” was none
other than Atty. Gen. Robert F.
-Kennedy. The youngsters came
from St. Joseph’s High School
in Cleveland, members of the
school speech and drama club.
Kennedy told them they should
study history harder, “as
signed” some homework deal
ing with several of his questions
and suggested some books for
summer reading.
NOT HONORARY—Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan (left) of
Atlanta, Ga., receives his doctorate degree in history from
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, from Carl F. Wit-
tke, dean of WRU’s graduate school, during the school’s
commencement exercises. The Archbishop began his stud
ies when he was director of the Newman Club at WRU
and culminated his doctorate work with a 400-page dis
sertation on Bishop Richard Gilmour, second bishop of
the Cleveland diocese.—(NC Photos)
40 Boys Flunk Quiz
The Southern Cross, June 22, 1963—PAGE 3
Mississippi Bishop Asks
Steps Toward Recognizing
Grievances Of Negroes
JACKSON, Miss., (NC)—
Mississippi’s Catholic Bishop
appealed here for positive steps
toward recognizing legitimate
grievances of Negroes.
Bishop Richard O. Gerow of
Natchez-Jackson called the
murder of Mississippi Negro
leader Medgar Evers * ‘a shock
ing and saddening occurrence”
which is “more meaningful than
the death of one man.”
"Rights which have been
given to all men by the Creator
cannot be the subject of con
ferral or refusal by men,” he
said in a plea for local leaders
to seek “a civic order based on
human dignity and a concept of
justice under God’s law.”
The prelate, a native of Ala
bama who has been Bishop here
since 1924, issued his statement
on the eve of funeral rites for
Evers who was shot in the back
of an unknown gunman (June 12)
outside his home.
Immediately after returning
(June 14) from a spiritual re
treat for the diocese’s priests,
Bishop Gerow went to the fune
ral home where Evers remains
lay to pay his respect to the
slain man and extend con
dolences to his widow.
The Bishop was accompanied
by Father John Gasper,
S.V.D., pastor of Jackson’s
Christ the King church.
Although the Evers are
Methodists, two of their child
ren attended Christ the King
school. Denise was in the third
grade last year and Darryl was
in the fourth. The Evers were
active members of the King’s
Workers, a home-school group.
At the funeral itself, organi
zations represented included
the National Catholic. Con
ference for Interracial Justice
of Chicago.
The Evers funeral was held
(June 15) in the 3,000-seat Ma
sonic Temple here which the
NAACP uses as state head
quarters. Burial was scheduled
for Arlington National Ceme-
tary (June 19).
Bishop Gerow, spiritual lead
er of about 67,000 Catholics
among Mississippi’s population
of 2.1 million said that “as a
loyal- somof Mississippi and a
man of God, I feel in con
science compelled .to .speak out
in the face of the grave racial
situation in which we now find
ourselves.”
The text of the prelate’s
statement follows;
“The assassination of Med
gar Evers is certainly a shock
ing and saddening occurrence in
our community and is more
meaningful than the death of
one man. I personally extend
my heartfelt sympathy to the
wife and children of Mr. Evers,
and convey to them by blessing
and the assurance of my
prayers.
“I am saddened when I re
view the events of recent days
and weeks. As a loyal son of
Mississippi and a man of God,
I feel in conscience compelled
to speak out in the face of the
grave racial situation in which
we now find ourselves.
“This problem is un
mistakably a moral one.
“We need frankly to admit
that the murder of Mr. Evers
and the other instances of vio
lence in our community tragi
cally must be shared by all of
us. Responsible leadership in
some instances has been singu
larly lacking.
“I entreat our leaders and
men of good will of both races to
find some common ground on
which to build a civic order
based on human dignity and
a concept of justice under God’s
law.
“Rights which have been
given to all men by the Creator
cannot be the subject of con
ferral or refusal by men. The
Declaration of Independence of
this great nation has given us
the proper attitude in this re
gard, in the words, ‘We hold
these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by the
Creator with certain un
alienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
‘ ‘Our conscience should
compel us all to acknowledge
the deep moral implications of
this problem and to take some
positive steps toward recogniz
ing the legitimate grievances of
the Negro population.
“In the name of our common
faith in God the Father let us
all join together in prayer that
the clouds of hate and fear may
be pierced by the light of justice
and fraternal love.”
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