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NATURE OF CHURCH IS MAIN TOPIC
AT WORLD PROTESTANT CONFERENCE
SAN FRANCISCO, (NC)--The
nature of the Church, perhaps
the most fundamental issue di
viding Catholics and Protes
tants, will be a major topic of
discussion during a World
Council of Churches conference
now in progress in Montreal.
That prediction was made
here shortly before the con
ference’s opening by Father
Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., one
of five official Catholic obser
vers to the meeting appointed
by the Vatican’s Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity.
“There is a growing convic
tion among Catholics and Pro
testants that the point of mis
understanding now and of ulti
mate union in the future lies in
ecclesiology—the nature of the
Church,” declared Father
Diekmann of St. John's Abbey,
Collegeville, Minn.
And, he noted, the July 12 to
26 meeting of the Faith and
Order Commission of the World
Council of Churches, being held
in Montreal, will continue
discussions on the nature of the
church begun at its most recent
meeting in Lund, Sweden, in
1952.
Father Diekmann is editor
of Worship magazine, a litur
gical journal, and was a mem
ber of the preparatory com
mission on the liturgy for the
Second Vatican Council. He was
recently named an expert for
the council’s second session
which begins in September.
Interviewed as he completed
teaching a liturgy course at the
University of San Francisco,
Father Diekmann said it is
"becoming clear that the word
‘ecclesia’ (church) as used in
the New Testament has a Eu
charistic dimension—the com
ing together of the people for
the breaking of bread, for the
Lord’s Supper, to give worship
together.”
"In other words,” he added,
* ‘the Lord’s Supper is the way
for establishing the community.
This means in practice that the
normal Protestant service
should be a Communion service,
the Lord's Supper.”
He said there is a growing
realization among Protestants
that the church does not exist
merely to preach the word of
God but to celebrate the sign
of the Lord’s Supper.
"This perhaps is the most
important catalyst for sacra
mental devotion in Protestant
churches,” he said.
At the same time that Pro
testants are showing renewed
sacramental interest, Father
Diekmann said, in the Catholic
Church there is a "return to
the Scriptures insofar as they
are the lifegiving Word of God.”
NON-CATHOLIC CLERGY AT RETREAT—Forty clergy
men of different denominations attended the second annual
Retreat for Christian Clergymen held at the Jesuit retreat
house at Faulkner, Md. Bishop William G. Connare of
Greensburg, Pa., was retreat master. He is shown there
with Rev. (2. Leslie Glenn, who for 20 years was pastor of St.
John’s Episcopal Square, Washington, D. C., known as the
“Church of the Presidents."—(NC Photos)
Islam Designated As National
Religion For Federation Of Malaysia
LONDON, (NC)—Islam has
been established as the national
religion for the projected Fed
eration of Malaysia, which will
be made up of Malaya, Singa
pore, North Borneo and Sara
wak.
The agreement setting up the
federation, which will come into
being August 31, was signed
(July 9) by a British official
and by representatives of the
four commonwealth territories
that will form the federation.
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The British protectorate of
Brunei, expected to be a part
of the federation, refused to
come in at the last moment.
The establishment of Islam
as the federation’s national re
ligion was not unexpected, but
Christians and other non-Mus
lims in the federation’s four
territories had hoped there
would be no designation of an
"official” religion.
It is believed that plans to
have Islam as the national reli
gion were prepared as early as
January, 1963. In February a
report published as a British
government White Paper stated:
“Islam should be the religion of
the Federation of Malaysia.”
Subsequent draft proposals for
the proposed federation imple
ment this recommendation.
The federation has a popula
tion of about 10 million, in
cluding nearly 250,000 Catho
lics. Muslims make up about
40 per cent of the population.
The federation has about four
million Malays, four million
Chinese and a million Indians.
From the politic an stand
point, the West regards the fed
eration as a protective barrier
against communist expansion
in southeast Asia, while the
Soviet Union looks upon it as an
attempt * ‘to preserve the posi
tions of British imperialism.”
The federation’s capital will
be at Kuala Lumpur in Malaya.
Its first prime minister will
be Malaya’s premier, Tunku
(Prince) Abdul Rahman.
Archbishop Says
Communism Weak
In Puerto Rico
TUCSON, Ariz., (NC)—Com
munism has made scant head
way in Puerto Rico, Archbishop
James P. Davis of San Juan,
P. R., said here.
Archbishop Davis, formerly
a priest of the Tucson diocese,
said there is no Communist
party in Puerto Rico and there
is very little sympathy for Cu
ban dictator Fidel Castro. Pu
erto Rico has provided refuge
for some 20,000 Cuban exiles,
he noted in an interview, and
the few Castro sympathizers
carrying " on an active propa
ganda campaign met with little
success.
Archbishop Davis is the 57th
head of one of the two oldest
dioceses in the Western Hemi
sphere. It was founded in 1511,
less than two decades after
Columbus’ first landing, and
was raised to an archdiocese in
1960.
Only two bishops in its 452-
year-history have occupied the
See longer than Archbishop Da
vis, who is observing the 20th
year of his consecration.
Archbishop Davis expressed
satisfaction at the increase in
vocations among his people in
recent years. Like the rest of
Latin America, Puerto Rico
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suffers from a severe shortage
of priests. About 500 clergy
serve almost two and a quarter
million people on the island-an
average of about 4,000 souls for
each priest.
However, this year’s total
of 14 native priests ordained
is the largest in Puerto Rico's
history and climaxes a gradual
increase over the past three
decades. From 1933-43 only six
priests were ordained in all of
Puerto Rico. During the next
decade, the total rose to 13, and
in 1953-63 to 20.
Of the newly ordained priests,
six will serve in religious or
ders. Five of the eight secular
priests will serve in the Arch
diocese of San Juan.
The Archbishop attributes
this gain to prayer and to a con
certed campaign for vocations
dating from the founding of a
minor seminary in 1949. This
year the archdiocese will dedi
cate a new major seminary.
Woman Credits
Survival To
“My Prayers”
GRANTS, N. M., (NC)—Mrs.
Frances Tweed, 47, a 100-pound
Van Nuys, Calif., housewife and
technologist, credited "my
prayers and my determination
to live" for her survival after
six days on a desolate mesa
following a plane era shin which
her husband was killed.
In her hospital bed here Mrs.
Tweed detailed how their small
plane, piloted by her husband
Wendell Tweed, 47, on a return
flight from Iowa, crashed (June
29) about an hour out of Albu
querque.
She said she lost conscious
ness briefly then roused to put
out a fire caused by the crash.
Her husband died that evening.
She related: "I am a Catholic.
My husband was a Lutheran. As
he lay there, I gathered up our
extra clothes and covered him
with them. Then I put some
boughs over him and said final
rites for his soul.”
Mrs. Tweed said her only
food through the six-day ordeal
was a piece of pastry. She re
counted that a "beautiful big
rainstorm" came and supplied
her with drinking water. She
spelled out "SOS” with the
plane’s air maps and rocks;
could see the lights of Grants
from the plateau height and
could hear the sound of passing
trains, but "I had to stay and
take care of Wendell.” She said
(Continued on Page 6)
Europeans Vanish
In Algeria
PARIS, (Radio, NC)—The
Cardinals of France have issued
k statement expressing grave
concern for the Europeans who
have disappeared in Algeria.
Since Algeria became an in
dependent country on July 3,
1962, the vast majority of the
approximately one million Eu
ropeans who lived there prior
to independence have left the
country. Of those remaining, an
unknown number—but at least
several hundred—have disap
peared without leaving a trace.
Church authorities in France
have taken steps to find out about
and aid the persons who have
disappeared and are believed
to have been kidnaped. Their
efforts were not made public to
avoid giving their relatives
jfalse hopes and to keep from
arousing antagonism between
the French and Algerian gov
ernments.
The text of the Cardinals’
statement as released by the
National Secretariat of Reli
gious Information here follows:
“The Cardinals of France
have already intervened in the
sad problem of persons who
have disappeared in Algeria
since the Evian Agreements,
which led to Algerian indepen
dence. Their interventions have
not been made public.
“They are obliged to make
known that they are not indif
ferent to the fate of so many
French Christians—men, wo
men and children—about whom
there has been no news for such
a long time.
“Along with the associations
which are dealing with this
grave problem, they are close
ly following the investigations
undertaken by the International
Red Cross and, hoping that this
organization may have all faci
lities necessary for success,
they ask all Christians to join in
prayer for those who have disa
ppeared and their families.”
Vietnam Aids
Buddhist
Schools
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columban
SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC)—
Three Buddhist semipublic
schools specializing in Buddhist
studies have received financial
aid amounting to 501,000 pias
tres (about $6,800 U. S.) from
the Vietnamese government, the
Director of Private Education,
M. Vu due Chang, told the
N. C.W.C. News Service here.
Purely private schools in
south and central Vietnam num
ber 2,111 primary and 340 se
condary schools, he said. No
government subsidy or aid is
given to 98.8 per cent of these
schools. For the remaining 1.2
per cent, that is, 29 schools, a
token grant averaging 16,000
piastres (about $218) was given
by the government last year.
PAPAL AWARD TO JEWISH LEADER—Bishop James L.
Connolly of Fall River, Mass., presents the papal decora
tion, the Benemerenti Medal, to. Myer JSL Sobiloff, direc
tor of the Temple Beth-El in Fall River. The award was
made by the late Pope John XXIII, and was given in recog
nition of the Jewish leader’s distinguished services to the
city.—(NC Photos)
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The Southern Cross, July 18, 1963—PAGE 5
Papal Coat Of A rms
The above is the coat-of-arms of Pope Paul VI. At
the base are six stylized small mountains (in Italian
they are "montini”) in silver with three fleurs delis
in silver on a crimson field. The coat-of-arms is the same
as the Pope had as a cardinal with the exception of his
motto, "in nomine domini”. Popes do not carry mottoes
on their shields. (NC Photos)
Pope Paul Retains
Same C oat-0jArms
ROME, (NC)—His Holiness
Pope Paul VI has decided to
retain the same coat-of-arms
he had as the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Milan.
A pontiff is free to choose
whatever coat-of-arms he
wishes when he assumes the
throne of Peter.
The Pope’s coat-of-arms de
picts six mountains in silver and
three fleurs-de-lis in silver on
a crimson field. It does not
have the motto that it had while
he was a Cardinal: "In nomine
Domini" (In the name of the
Lord). The papal crest tradi
tionally bears no motto.
Pope John XXIII also retained
his cardinal’s coat-of-arms
when he was chosen pontiff. His
shield bore the lion of St. Mark,
the patron of Venice, two silver
lilies and a tower on alternate
fields of red and silver.
Lebanon: Remembering Pope John XXIII
IN SIDON, a city of Lebanon once known to Christ, Christians,
and Moslems together attended a memorial Mass on June 7 for
the late beloved Pope John XXIII. City officials
proclaimed a minute of silence in his honor and
clergy of the two faiths were present at the
service, demonstrating dramatically the spirit
of fraternal love Pope John so ardently desired
. . . Moslems and Christians about equally
divided make up over 75 per cent of Lebanon’s
1.3 million inhabitants. In the city of KOUNEI-
TRAH. however, there are only 800 Catholics
. . . Members of the Greek Melchite rite, they
are so poor they may have had to make do
rith a rented room for Divine services. Often lack of room pre
vents many from attending . . . Inspired by their Bishop, they
are trying to build a modest parish church, 27 feet long by 17
feet wide. But as most are day laborers and farm hands they
can’t give enough money to complete the building . . . §4,000 is
needed. Can you give a lot or a little to help?
PENNIES FROM RIDGEWOOD
“Deal’ Monsignor Ryan: I am interested in helping the
Missions. I have been saving pennies with my mother’s
and friend’s help to try to educate a Sister. I am enclos
ing $4.08 until I can save more. Will you please send me
the name of a Sister so we can get acquainted?”
—K. O’T. Ridgewood, N. Y.
10 years old
On the occasion of Pope John XXIII’s coronation anniversary,
the then CARDINAL MONTINI celebrated a Mass in the Am
brosian Rite. The Cardinal of Milan is the successor of St. Am
brose, Father and Doctor of the Church, who originated one of
the several rites in the Western Church . . . Our Association
has the care of those 18 countries where Eastern Rites predom
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Ethiopia, India, Eritrea and others. Our task is to help the priests.
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helps support these missionaries, as do your Mass Offerings,
frequently their only source of daily sustenance.
Will man be on the moon in six years? That target date is
still in doubt. But while scientific minds struggle to advance
this project, other minds work toward a different goal. Yes, it
takes just six years of study for a young man in mission lands
to complete his seminary studies. The Moon Shot may be far off
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Sisters and Brothers.
Dear Monsignor:
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or $ of the $600 needed for the six years training
of a seminarian. I will send $ monthly; or $
once a year, I will also pray for him or her.
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