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i V * 1 Non-Catholic ‘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. Columbus (Q NEW & USED McMillan motor co. 934 Fourth Ave. FA 2-5400 Columbus Albany (~ l Cleaners and Launderers Fur Storage and Rug Cleaning 232 Roosevelt Ave. Lake Parr Shopping Center 1107 N. Slappey HE 2-0575 BUS DAVIDSON’S*/// 2029 Buena Vista Road 323-3805 BRUNSWICK W. W. PARKER — J. C. KAUFMAN PARKER-KAUFMAN INSURANCE COMPANY J 513 GLOUCESTER STREET ft cy /A. / BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA Automobile and General Casualty Insurance Fire and Allied Lines PARKER REALTY CO. Realtors SALES - RENTALS - LOANS LEASES - APPRAISALS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Parker Building, Brunswick, Georgia COLUMBUS VACATION SCHOOL—Pictured above are children attending Vacation 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. JT- . . • v'iwcjW 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.” ,lr 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. 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