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t PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, June 29, 1963 CORONATION OF POPE TO TAKE PLACE ON JUNE 30 By Patrick Riley (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) VATICAN CITY—His Holiness Pope Paul VI receives the triple crown of pope and the duties of universal pastor just 10 and a half years after he turned down the red hat of cardinal. In complying with the will of the cardinals, the man who was born Giovanni Battista Montini began a momentous 10 days of both spiritual and temporal dis tinction. He was elected pope on Fri day, June 21, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Three days later came the celebration of the feast of his great bap tismal patron, St. John the Bap tist. And his coronation is tak ing place on Sunday June 30. The feast of the day is the Com memoration of St. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles and pa tron of the new pope. It follows by one day the feast of SS. Pe ter and Paul, great feast of the papacy. The new Pope began his reign with firm indications that he would pursue the outgoing course set by his friend and predecessor, Pope John XXIII. Within hours of his election the 65-year-old Pope Paul an nounced the reappointment of Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Pope John’s closest collabora tor, as Secretary of State. The 80 members of the Sa cred College of Cardinals had ceremoniously sealed them selves off from the world on Wednesday evening, June 19. There followed a day of incon clusive balloting under Michel angelo’s immense fresco of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Then at 11:18 a.m. (6:18 a. m. EDT) Friday, scar cely 42 hours after the con- 1 clave began, the telltale plume of white smoke rose from the thin stovepipe which had been erected above the chapel to in-: form the waiting world of the election. There was more cheering before the Cardinal could go on: "who has taken the name Paul VI.” With this, the cheering became tumultuous. Cardinal Ottaviani quickly withdrew from the balcony. At 12:20, the cardinals who had elected their brother of Milan to fill the vacant Chair of Peter gathered in the open windows on either side of the central balcony. At 12:22, preceded by the papal precessional cross, Pope Paul VI stepped onto the bal cony, receiving the crowd’s ovation and replying with his silent blessing. Then he stood with hands joined in prayer for a minute while the throng roared and waved hands, hats and han dkerchiefs. Over his new white cassock Pope Paul wore a short red cape and a heavily brocaded stole of the same color. At his right hand stood Eu gene Cardinal Tisserant, the bearded French-born Dean of the College of Cardinals. Dra ped from the balcony rail was a huge red-embroidered papal banner bearing the arms of the late Pope John. A military band struck up an anthem. At 12:23 p.m., Pope Paul’s strong baritone voice intoned Columbus NEW & USED mcmillan motor co. 934 Fourth Ave. FA 2-5400 Columbus Albany &c<t4a0 Cleaners and Launderers Fur Storage and Rug Cleaning 232 Roosevelt Ave. Lake Parr Shopping Center 1107 N. Slappey HE 2-0575 the first words of the blessing Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world): ‘ ‘Sit Nomen Domini benedictum. . .” Three times he raised his right hand in blessing. Each sign of the cross was clear, precise and easily seen but not overly large. After the blessing, Paul VI stood for a minute to receive the ovation which burst from the crowd in the square and atop to outstretched arms of the Bernini colonnades. Then came an announcement by a prelate standing on Pope Paul’s left: Pope Paul had granted a ple nary indulgence to all the faith ful present and to those who listened prayerfully to his voice over the airwaves. Then the new Pope withdrew without further ceremony. En graved on the facade above him as he walked inside was the name of the last pope to take the name of Paul—Paul V.the Borghese prelate from Siena whose 17th century pontificate witnessed the completion of St. Peter’s. The doors closed. The man wearing the white skullcap had a new worldwide pastorate which he could not decline. A decade earlier—it was Jan uary 12, 1953—Pope Pius XII had elevated 27 prelates to the rank of Cardinal. In doing so he revealed that he had chosen as first among them his two chief aides in the Secretariat of State—Msgrs. Domenico Tar- dini and Giovanni Battista Mon tini. Then he disclosed that the two prelates "requested Us so insistently to allow them to de cline this very high honor that We though it befitting to hear their oft expressed wishes and repeated petitions.” The following year, Pius named Msgr. Montini Arch bishop of Milan. And in Decem ber of 1958, Pope John chose him to be the first of his cardinals. This time he did not decline the red hat. Nor did he refuse the white hat-—the heav iest burden of all—willed on him by the Church’s College of Car dinals five and a half years later. IN PLEDGE OF OBEDIENCE—Immediately following his election, Pope Paul VI received each cardinal who gave the pledge of obedience and loyalty to the Holy Father. He is shown here with the secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Arch bishop Enrico Dante, Prefect of Vatican Ceremonies (left). —(NC Photos) POPE PAUL- (Continued from Page 1) been called to form one body... But it is also a spirit of jus tice, which tolerates neither the shameless contrast of wealth and misery among the members of the parish com munity, nor the hypocrisy of a fraternity in church that would not have for its effect that of creating, at work, more fra ternal social relations. "Indeed, does not the parish altar, the center around which the most sacred bonds of union are formed, invite each and ev ery one who comes before it to make an examination of con science in regard to his duties of justice towards his breth ren?” (Letter to the Canadian Catholic Social Conference, August, 1953). —On overpopulation "Efforts to reestablish the equilibrium between growing population and means of live lihood are therefore not to be directed toward violation of the laws of life or interference with the natural flux and flow of the human family. "Such an attitude of renoun cement of life, indeed, kills the BRUNSWICK BROWN-GAY MOTORS, INC. 3749 ALTAMA AVENUE TELEPHONE AM 5-7380 Your Authorized Volkswagen Dealer P. O. BOX 546 BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA noblest aspirations of the spir it; while a declining birth rate, aimed at by such systems, has always proved sooner or later to be, in the history of the na tions, a sign of defeat and of doom. "No, such efforts must ra ther thend to educate men’s con science regarding the value and responsiblity of human life, to foster a more equitable distri bution of the world’s goods, to exploit natural resources in an ever more rational manner, to protect the family in all that concerns its inviolable rights and exercise of its high func tion.” (Letter to the Italian Catholic Social Week, Sep tember, 1953). You Never Can Tell NEW ORLEANS, (NC)—A priest arrived at a local ra dio station to lead the Holy Name men of his parish in the Rosary. To his dismay he found that he was the only person present—but he de cided to go it alone. The announcer, seeing the priest’s plight, introduced the Rosary broadcast and then dashed into the studio and gave the responses, thus saving the day. Following the program the grateful priest thanked the announcer and asked the name of his parish. The an nouncer replied that his par ish was Temple Sinai, a Jew ish synagogue. 35-Year Friend Of New Pope Describes Him As “Exceptional Person” PROVIDENCE, R. I. (NC) — An Italian-American doctor who has known His Holiness Pope Paul VI for 35 years descri bed the new Pope as an "ex ceptional” man, an intellectual of warm human feeling. Dr. Ciro Scotti, Providence surgeon who came to the Uni ted States from Italy in 1937, said Pope Paul is "very aus tere with him self but very gentle and kind to others.” "He is a man of tremen dous human feelings.” Dr. Scotti said. "He is a man of great culture—an intellectual— but also a man of action.” Dr. Scotti met fhe future Pope—then Msgr. Giovanni B. Montini—in 1928 when he en tered the University of Rome as a medical student. The young churchman was then a clerk in the Papal Secretariat of State, and also served as moderator of the university section of Ita lian Catholic Action. Dr. Scotti recalls Msgr. Mon tini’s regular Sunday talks, given in the university chapel on the Epistles of St. Paul. Complementing these dis courses were talks on the Gos pels by another rising Vatican official—Msgr. Amleto Cicog nani, who later was to become a cardinal after serving for a quarter-century as Apostolic Delegate to the United States. One of Pope Paul’s first offi cial acts after his election on June 21 was to reappoint Car dinal Cicognani Papal Secre tary of State. “They were associated in our minds even the,” Dr. Scotti commented as he recalled those Sendays in Rome 35 years ago. Over the years thedoctorhas kept in touch with Msgr.—later Archbishop and Cardinal— Montini, visiting him several times on trips to Italy and also seeing him during his visits to this country in 1951 and 1960. i He met fope Paul most re cently last February when he and Mrs. Scotti visited the Car dinal in his See of Milan. Dr. Scotti said Pope Paul’s “foremost interest” has always been "religious life.” Also, he said, "he has always been appreciative of books and clas sical music.” New Pontiff Began Diplomatic Career At Age 25 (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) Here are some significant dates in the life of His Holiness Pope Paul VI: 1897, September 26— Born in Concesio, on outskirts of Bres cia. 1920, May 29—Ordained at age of 23. 1922—Named by Pope Pius XI as attache at apostolic nun ciature in Warsaw. Held post for one year. 1932—Became clerk in Vati can Secretariat of State. 1936—Appointed undersec- Pope No Stranger To U. S. (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) The United States is familiar territory to Hil Holiness Pope Paul VI. He was leisurely tou rist here in 1951 and returned in 1960 for a quick trip to sev eral major cities. The new Pope’s first trip to North America was, by his own description, a holiday tour. He told newsmen then that it was the fulfillment of a long standing wish to see the United States and Canada. In three weeks, then-Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Sub stitute Papal Secretary of State, covered several thousands miles, much of it by automobile. He was here August 20 to Sep tember 9. He flew from London to Mon treal. After four days in Canada he entered the United States through Niagara Falls, N.Y., and visited Buffalo, Washington, St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York and many points in between these major cities. When he came back in June, 1960, as the Cardinal-Archbi shop of Milan, he received an honorary doctorate of laws de gree from the University of Notre Dame in the same cere mony at which then-President Eisenhower was honored by the institution. The citation at Notre Dame praised him as "the Archbishop of the Working Man,” noting that he earned this title because of "inexhaustible apostolic vi gor to the strengthening of the Christian world.” On that trip, the new Pope also visited New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Wash ington. He was accompanied by Frank Folsom, a prominent Catholic layman who is chair man of the executive board of the board of directors of RCA. The only other public cere mony in which the Pope parti cipated in 1960 was the dedica tion in Boston of a huge statue of "Madonna, Queen of the Universe” at the Don Orione Shrine. ECHOLS TRANSFER INC. HAULING & MOVING Truck & Driver $3.50 per Hour Tractor Trailor & Driver $4.50 per Hour "Serving Customers Throughout Georgia” 370 Lee St. S. W. PL 3-2153 Atlanta retary of state. 1944—Named one of two Sub stitute Secretaries of State by Pius XII. 1951— Spent three-week holi day in North America. 1952— Named Pro-Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs. 1953— Pope Pius XII reveal ed he planned to name Msgr. Montini a cardinal, but had been asked by the Monsignor not to give him this honor. 1954, November 1—Named Archbishop of Milan. 1958, December 15—Named to Sacred College of Cardinals by John XXIII. 1960—Re-visited United States. 1962—Made extensive trip in Africa, visiting missions. 1963, June 21—Elected by Sacred College of Cardinals as Pope. POPE PAUL VI AT AGE THREE—Three-year-old Giovanni Battista Montini, the new Pope Paul VI is shown in the arms of his grandmother, Francesca Buffoli Algihisi, in this photo taken in 1900. Shown with him is his brother, Lodovico (at right) who is now a member of the Italian Parliament. The 65-year-old Cardinal Archbishop of Milan was elected pope on June 21, 1963, by the Sacred College of Cardinals.—(NC Photos) Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Says Extraordinary Means Not Required For Terminally III ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (NC) —Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York said here no moral difficulty is involved if “extraordinary” medical means are not used to keep a terminally ill person alive. "Particularly if the family doesn’t ask for such meas ures,” there is no need to use them to prolong the final hours of life in a case regarded as hopeless, the Bishop said at a joint press conference (June 16). Dr. Edward R. Rynearson of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., was the other person giving his views at the confer ence. He and Bishop Sheen took part in a special program on physician-clergy relationships at the American Medical Asso ciation convention here. ~ Dr. Rynearson said that whenever possible he would "fight” the use of "extraor dinary means” to keep alive so-called hopeless cases. He referred to the use of tubes, oxygen and special equipment in keeping the terminally ill patient alive. Bishop Sheen said: "If the doctor told me that extraor dinary means would be needed and I was lying with a body full of tubes to keep me alive, I would ask him to take them out. There is no moral difficulty in such a situation.” * ‘Here we are dealing with a medical problem,” the Bishop added, explaining that in such cases he would ‘ 'consel the fam ily to take the advice of the doc tor.” He and Dr. Rynearson stress ed that their opinions had noth ing to do with euthanasia, the deliberate taking of life in so- called mercy killings. (In an address to an interna tional congress of anesthesiolo gists, Pope Pius XII said on November 24, 1957: "Natural reason and Christian morals say that man . . . has the right and duty in case of serious illness to take the necessary treatment for the preserva tion of life and health ... But normally one is held to use only ordinary means . . . that is to say, means that do not involve any grave burden for oneself or another. A more strict ob ligation would be too bur densome for most men and would render the attainment of the higher, more important good too difficult. ’ ’ SILVER TRUMPETS RING OUT AND THE BRILLIANT CORONATIpN PROCESSION ENTERS ST. PETER'S. FOLLOWING IT IS THE HOLY FATHER ROBED IN WHITE AND GOLD AND SEATED ON THE SEDIA CESTATOR/A. THREE TIMES THE PROCESSION HALTS AS THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES BURNS A WISP OF FIBER- "HOLY FATHER, SO PASSES THE GLORY OF TH/S WORLD” THEN THE POPE BEGINS HIS CORONATION MASS. THE CARDINAL DEACON PLACES THE PALLIUM OVER HIS SHOULDERS. IT IS THE SIGN OF AUTHORITY. AFTER INCENSING THE ALTAR, HE PROCEEDS TO THE THRONE AND RECEIVES THE OBEDIENCE OF THE CARDINALS WHO KISS HIS FOOT AND HAND. HE EXCHANGES WARM EMBRACES WITH THEM. AFTER THE CREDO, THE SACR/STA CONSUMES TWO OF THE THREE HOSTS PREPARED, LEAVING ONE FOR MASS, AND TASTES THE WATER AND WINE. THIS ACTION DATES FROM THE RENAISSANCE WHEN THESE PRECAUTIONS WERE CUSTOMARY THE HOLY FATHER RETURNS TO HIS THRONE FOLLOWING THE AGNUS DEI, KNEELS AND RECEIVES THE HOLY EUCHARIST. THE HOLY FATHER HAS ENTERED THE HALL OF BENEDICTIONS, ACCOMPANIED 8Y THE CARDINALS, PRELATES AND OTHER DIGNITARIES. THE CORONATION IS AT HAND. *RECEIVE THE TIARA;' SAYS THE FIRST CARDINAL DEACON, "ADORNED WITH THREE CROWNS,...” THE NEWLY-CROWNED POPE APPEARS ON THE BALCONY OF ST. PETER'S TO GIVE HIS BLESSING TO THE CITY AND TO THE WORLD. NOW, AMID THE HAPPY SHOUTS OF "LONG LIVE THE POPEt” HE TAKES UP THE HEAVY CARLS OF HIS OFFICE. " ' corriuoirr. i*m. nv ;r>n .NC