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4 * PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 11, 1963 Protestant Conference r SUMMER VACATION SCHOOL—Youths attending St. Clare’s (Albany) Summer School pose at the end of the session. Miss Carilyn Hall won highest honors in the upper grade group. William Johnson was highest in the middle grade group, with William Signil heading the lowest grade group. Robert Lee and William Signil received their First Communion at the conclusion of the two week's school. Instructors were Sisters Mary Ephrem and Helen Jordan, O.S.F. from St. Francis Convent, Savannah; Mr. Joseph Rau, recent graduate of St. John Vianney Seminary; Miss Pedderborn of St. Teresa’s parish. Polish Reds Intensify Anti-Church Activity In Katanga Missionaries Return To Massacre Scene (Continued from Page 1) as instruments of Royalist policy, not because of any disa greement with Anglican inter pretations of episcopacy in the New Testament or in the primitive Church. In a spirit of new-born real ism, the conference determin ed that the work must continue. “As we’ve got together,” they said, “we’ll stay together.” Following the Lund Con ference, study commissions were set up to deal with four topics: “Christ and the Church,” “Tradition and tra ditions,” “Worship,” and “In stitutionalism.” The Montreal Conference will consider the reports of these commissions, and link them up with other ecclesiastical ques tions. Ever since Lund it has been recognized that the most valid and fruitful approach to the fundamental issue of the nature of the Church is further studies in the relationship of the Church to Christ its Head, in the Holy Spirit. All this is of significance to Catholics, for the more realis tic the attitude of the ecumen ical movement to its differenc es, the more warmly has Rome been interested. There was an aloofness in the early days. Pope Pius XI had reason to fear that the move ment might lead to a pan-Pro testant federation of religious indifference. The World Coun cil of Churches has made it clear that it stands for nothing of the kind, and stronger Ortho dox participation has provided an effective brake to mere pan- Protestantism. Pius XII cautiously allowed Catholic observers at Wrold Council conferences. John XXIII opened the doors still wider in activity encouraging Catholic participation by setting up the Secretariat for Promoting Christian unity under Augustin Cardinal Bea. The Montreal Conference marks a new stage in Catholic participation. For the first time, Faith and Order will meet in a city that is predominate ly Catholic. Furthermore, it meets in a diocese governed by a “progressive” archbishop who feels very keenly the Church’s responsibility to those outside the fold of visible un ity. Paul Emile Cardinal Leger has already established his own ecumenical commission for the archdiocese, which has per manent headquarters in the cen ter of the city, and has appoint ed a priest to be its full-time head. In connection with the con ference, an “Ecumenical Ral- Hungary Relaxes Ban On Bishops VIENNA, (NC)—Deputy Pre mier Gyula Kallai of communist Hungary told newsmen here that his government will approve as signments by His Holiness Pope Paul VI of new bishops to head his country’s vacant dioceses. He said that the government’s only requirement is that “the bishops respect the laws of the Hungarian state,” and added: "We have no intention of ob structing such a measure (by Pope Paul) and we are sure it will be useful.” Meanwhile, it was also re ported here that improved Church-State relations was one of the topics discussed by U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, in his talks with Hungarian leaders during his visit there in early July. Of Hungary’s 13 Sees, seven are either vacant or have Ordi naries who are impeded in their work. Two of the three arch dioceses—Eger and Kalocsa— are vacant, and the third is headed by Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty of Esztergom, now living in asylum at the U. S. legation in Budapest. 11th Centenary WASHINGTON, (NC)—Some 2,000 pilgrims honoringSS. Cy ril and Methodius were told here that like the famed mis sionaries, they too should carry Christ’s message to their fellow men. This exhortation came in the sermon of a Mass celebrated in the National Shrine of the Im maculate Conception as part of a regional observance of the commemoration of the eleventh centenary of the arrival of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia, which is part of pre sent day Czechoslovakia. ly” will be held at the (catho lic) University of Montreal on the evening of July 21. Cardin al Leger himself will speak on the subject, “What it means to be ‘in Christ. ’ ” And he has appealed to Catholics of Mon treal to pray for divine guid ance for the conference. At Vatican level, the Sec retariat for Promoting Chris tian Unity has nominated five official observers. From the North American continent are Father Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., of St. John Abbey, Col- legeville, Minn., editor of the liturgical monthly “Worship”; Father Gregory Baum, O.S.A., of Toronto, editor of the Paul- ist-sponsored periodical “Ecu menical Studies”; and Father George Tavard, A.A., of Mount Mercy College, Pittsburgh, who is the author, among other books, of “The Catholic Ap proach to Protestantism.” From Europe will come France’s Bernard Lambert, and Father Jan C. Groot of War- mond, Holland, the representa tive of the Dutch hierarchy for ecumenical affairs. A Catholic theologian, Father Raymond E. Brown, S. S., of Baltimore will speak on “The Church and the New Testament” at one of the three public even ing meetings which are sched uled during the conference. At another, “The new development in relations with Roman Catho lics” will be a subject for discussion. The report on “Christ and the Church” is probably the one which will attract the greatest interest from Catholic theolo gians. It is a formidable attempt to break new ground, a fresh seek ing to understand the reality of the whole Christian community as the people of God in a dif ferent way, and in different PORTLAND, Ore., (NC)— The major obstacle in the path of Christian reunion is “the question of the primacy of the Roman pontiff and papal infal libility,” an English Domini can from a French ecumeni cal center said here. “It is the only really grave problem for both Protestants and Orthodox,” said Father Thomas Cowley, from the French institute Istina, near Paris, An attempt to overcome the obstacle has been presentation of the idea of the pontiff as a “service to Christianity rather than domination of it,” he said. At the same time, Father Cowley stated, the presence of Russian Orthodox observers at the Second Vatican Council may be a “presage of better rela tionships between Catholics and the extremely important Patri arch of Moscow.” “Paradoxically enough, the Patriarch of Moscow is more independent of the state now than ever in the past,” he said, adding that of all non- Catholic churches, the Russian Orthodox comes nearest to the Catholic in beliefs and prac tices. The Vatican council had an effect on non-Catholics’ under standing of the primacy of the pope, Father Crowley contin ued. “They saw ecclesiastical de mocracy at work. There was no attempt to impose a pre-con- ceived solution of any question before the council,” he said. terminology, from that of most conventional statements, Ca tholic or Protestant. One thorny and fundamental issue, however, has been delib erately avoided in this report— the question of spiritual author ity. (“We did not deem it neces sary or wise,” it reads, “to seek a precise definition.”) The dilemma appears again in a report on “Tradition and tra ditions.” To the Catholic, the whole concept of Tradition and the development of doctrine seems inseparable from the question of spiritual authority in determining which traditions are valid and which are false. The report, however, admits that Tradition “may connote either faithful or unfaithful transmittance . . . the tradi tionary process is both pre carious and treacherous,” and leaves the matter of determin ation to the theologian and the historian. This approach must seem a weakness to the Catholic, as the whole question of spiritual au thority is basic to our differ ences. However, the matterwill doubtless come to the fore in due course. As the eyes of the ecumenical world focus on Montreal this month, Faith and Order goes forward in trust that God will disclose answers as yet unknown to those who seek the unity which He wills for His Church. It proceeds with pa tience an d realism, with thoroughness and with a grow ing sense of urgency. Catholics who see a new wind of reform and renewal surging through their Mother Church can add prayers that each fal tering human step may be guid ed by the Holy Spirit towards the true goal, seemingly many generations away, of unity in Christ in one flock, under the one Sheph$2$. Father Cowley, an Anglican priest before he became a Ca tholic and Dominican in 1957, said “the most remarkable” result of Pope John XXIII's reign was the tremendous ad vance in Catholic and Protes tant relations” which “would have been almost inconceivable five years ago.” He said His Holiness Pope Paul VI might be expected to continue “the ecumenical open ing of Pope John and even a more lively policy toward the pastoral and missionary crises which face us.” Father Cowley said fur ther advances toward Christian reunion may be considered in two sections: faith and order, a doctrinal dialogue, and like work, and implication of their religion for all Christians and its application to socity. “In life and work there can be immediate cooperation of Catholics, Orthodox and Pro testants for world peace, to assist underdeveloped coun tries, in racial problems and for human rights, I am sure this was the thinking of Pope John and Cardinal Bea,” he said. Augustin Cardinal Bea, S. J., is president of the Vati can Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Growing together in * ‘frater nal charity” will bring all ul timately to the questions of doctrine “in a climate of char ity already established,” he said. Father Cowley will represent the Istina institute, established BERLIN—Poland’s commun ist chieftain has denounced that country’s Bishops in one of the sharpest attacks on the Church there since the end of the Stalin ist era, according to reports reaching here. Wladyslaw Gomulka, reports stated, told a convention of the Polish United Workers (Com munist) party that the Bishops are reactionaries who do not follow Pope John XXIII’s peace efforts, and are out of line with what he termed the coexistence views expressed by the late Pontiff in his eycyclical, Pacem in Terris. He interpreted as an attack on communism the words of the Bishops in a recent pastoral letter, in which they said: “Those who drowned the world in the hell of wars were fighting Christ's evangelism and His Church. . .We fear they will start a new war more cruel than all previous wars—anato mic war.” Gomulka then declared that the Bishops “protect those who with the words ‘Got mit uns’ (God with us) on their lips, are drawing the world into the hell of war.” “Gott mit uns” was the motto inscribed on the belt buckles of nazi troops who invaded Poland during World War II. Gomulka continued: “So instead of a distinction between supporters and ene mies of peace, the Polish Bi shops introduce a religious dis tinction.” He warned the Bishops that MARRIED MAN IS ORDAINED GRONINGEN, The Nether lands, (NC)—A former Presby terian minister who is married and the father of three children will be ordained a Catholic priest by Bishop Petrus A. Nierman of Groningen. A spokesman for the Bishop said that Pope John XXIII short ly before his death authorized the ordination of Jacobus Loos, 55-year-old resident of Zwolle, in the Groningen diocese. He will be the first married man to be ordained a Latin Rite priest in the Netherlands. Loos became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1933 and was engaged in pastoral work successively at Oudega, Arnhem, Workum and Hilver- sum. He resigned as vicar in Hilversum in 1955 to be re ceived into the Catholic Church. Mrs. Loos became a Catholic the same year. Urges Brotherly Love WASHINGTON, (NC)—Arch bishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington has urged Catholics of this archdiocese to help eli minate racial discrimination by looking upon all men as bro thers. He said in a letter read in archdiocesan churches (June 30) that the racial crisis has resulted mainly because of a * ‘failure to act upon our Chris tian belief that men of all races are made in the image and like ness of God and that we are all brothers redeemed by the blood of Christ.’’ by Pope Pius XII in 1957, at the World Council of Churches Faith and Order conference in Montreal this month. religious bodies must choose sides in the battle between com munism and capitalism. Gomulka’s attack—which came as reports from nearby communist-ruled Hungary indi cated that Church-State rela tions are improving there— climaxed reports in recent months of a stepped-up govern ment drive against the Church in Poland, particularly in the field of education. The Red leader spoke the day before Stefan Cardinal Wyns- zynski Primate of Poland, left Rome, where he had attended the coronation of His Holiness Pope Paul VI, to return to War saw. Reports here said that Church sources in Poland be lieved the Cardinal would reply to Gomulka’s speech on his re turn. In 1956, after a political shift in Poland ended the Stalin ist period there and brought Gomulka to power, the Red leader made an agreement with the Cardinal which improved Church-State relations and per mitted religious instruction in state schools. In his speech the communist leader reverted to Stalinist tac tics in warning Polish writers and intellectuals that spreading anticommunist ideas will not be tolerated in Poland. Since 1956, Poles have had more freedom of expression than people in any other Iron Curtain country. Speaking the day before the opening of Soviet-Chinese talks on their ideological conflict re garding communist strategy, Gomulka reaffirmed Poland's support for Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev, w ho has also recently cracked down on intel lectuals and artists. “Reactionary forces still try to influence the mind of the community,” he declared. “Those reactionary forces base their activities hostile to soc ialism (communism) on the old classes, the activities of the old bourgeois parties. Those forces find the support of the Church’s Hierarchy.” Since the beginning of the year, reports from Poland show that the government has been taking increasingly harsh mea sures against the Church. In particular it has been redoub ling its efforts to force religious instruction into the straitjacket the Gomulka regime fabricated for it two years ago. KONGOLO, The Congo, (NC) —The Kongolo diocese, which was deserted by most of its people after the 1962 massacre of 21 Holy Ghost missionaries, is awaiting the arrival of four priests who will bring the total here to eight. Both missioners and the local population left this north Katan ga region after the New Year’s Day killing of 20 priests and one brother by Congolese sold iers. One missioner returned June 12, 1962, but he had to leave because of fresh outbreaks of violence. The people of Kongolo have started to come back. Three missioners returned at the end of February, 1963, and a young Congolese priest of the Kongolo diocese joined them shortly after. Congolese National Army troops stationed in Kongolo have been helping to rebuild the mis sion. A group of Congolese soldiers from the Kongolo area stationed in Leopoldville are taking up a monthly collection among themselves to help Bi shop Gustave J. Bouve, C.S.Cp., of Kongolo rebuild the mission. Damage done to mission buildings has been repaired and primary schools have been re opened. In September, the mission aries hope to reopen teachers’ colleges and secondary schools and start a new liberal arts college. The Congolese Army has suc ceeded in bringing order to the area and Bishop Bouve has de cided to recall both Congolese and European Sisters. St. Joseph’s parish in Kongo lo and the missions of Budi, Ankoro, Malemba-Nkulu and Manono have been reopened. The mission of Lubunda is to be reopened soon. Only the mis sions of Kabongo and Ngoya- Mputu are still without priests. The late Pope John XXIII shortly after the New Year’s Day massacre told a general audience (Jan. 17, 1962) that the massacre was like the killing of Abel by Cain. “Abel is well represented by these missionaries,” he said, * ‘missionaries who have aban doned their countries and fami lies to consecrate themselves to the good of others, their bro thers. * 'What is more sorrowful for a father than to have two sons, one who kills the other?” Father Henry Parkinson, C. S.Sp., Provincial of the Holy Ghost Fathers in England, said (Feb., 1963) that the mas sacre was a "glorious page in the history of the Church.” He asked for prayers for those who killed his fellow Reli gious “that they also may come to love what they threatened to destroy.” Father John A. Bell, W.F., director of the White Fathers’ African Research and Informa tion Center, Washington, D. C., said in June, 1962, that the widespread anarchy which hit the Congo in the first years of its independence made Congo lese Catholics “exercise their own initiative.” He said they were “beginning to understand their responsibilities as mem bers of the Church.” Under the colonial regime, “there were no problems the missioners could not solve sat isfactorily with their fellow Belgians, the civil administra tors,” he said. After indepen dence (June 30, 1960), the Con go’s Catholic laity realized that they had to “come to the aid of their priests and bishops to protect the Church and to work for the good of the country,” he added. ECHOLS TRANSFER INC. 1 V HAULING & MOVING Truck & Driver $3.50 per Hour Tractor Trailor & Driver $4.50 per Hour “Serving Customers Throughout Georgia” 370 Lee St. S. W. 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Cardinal Cicognani, before serving as Secretary of State under Pope John XXIII was Apostolic Delegate to the United States for 25 years.—(NC Photos) To Reunion Says Infallibility Is Major Obstacle