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V I 4 PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, December 19, 1963 Memorial For President John Kennedy Fredericton, N. B.—A per manent memorial to the late President John F. Kennedy will stand in the city where he re ceived his first and only honor ary degree from a Canadian university. PROPOSED MEMORIAL to late President John Kennedy. Entering Wrong Door Pays Dividends UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (NC)—John Kovach of the John Carroll University football team has been presented a con tract with the New York Foot ball Giants—all because four .years ago he walked in the wrong door at Carroll. Kovach, now a senior, visit ed Carroll the summer before his freshman year, trying to line up a job through the un iversity’s placement bureau. But he ' walked through the wrong door and entered the athletic office and found John Ray, Carroll football coach. Ray asked the 5-11, 210- pound Kovach if he played foot ball. Kovach replied that his high school coach did not recommend him for college football be cause he didn’t think he was good enough. Therefore, said Kovach he didn’t intend to go out for the team. Try it anyway, said Coach Ray jokingly. Picking up the bait, Kovach said, "I guess I will.” He played with an undefeated > freshman team, then starred as defensive end for three years on the Carroll team which has become known in the Ohio- Pennsylvania-Michigan area as the “Wolfpack.” He has been presented with Carroll’s first Loyalty Award as the senior who has “con tributed most to the team in his four years as a John Car- roll football player.” The cit ation came from Coach Ray. There is only one thing sep arating Kovach from a career with the Giants. He faces mil itary service which he hopes to meet in six-month sessions. Jottings (Continued from Page 4) and peace and joy. It is not so much a time for spoken words or noise but silence and thought. I will never write the stars out of the sky at Christmas or any other time. It matters lit tle. For everyone holds his own communion with Christmas. This year, there is much to meditate upon. One does not have to be a mother, a nun, a little girl or, alas, even a writer to know the wonder of Christmas and to hold it close, even amid darkness and sadness. All we must do is contemplate again the birth of a Baby who brought victory over darkness many years ago when people were sad and lonely. His first cries brought the leaping of joy to the heart. This same gift could be ours this year as chastened and needy we ap proach His crib. $est Wishes Lunsford-Wilson Co. 714 Stewart Ave. S.W. Atlanta, Ga. Hon. Louis J. Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick, has announced a memorial (mo delled here) which will take the form of a triangular shelter in Officers Square on Queen Street in Fredericton. The roof and supporting uprights will be of reinforced concrete. It will measure 21 feet in length across the front, while each of the two sides will be 18 1/2 feet in length. The roof will be 12 feet high at the front and will slope back to a rearward col umn measuring seven feet. The railing will be of iron grill- work with benches running along the two sides. The rear column will bear a commemorative plaque. A vent in the roof, with southward exposure, will ensure direct illumination by the sunlight for a maximum period each day. On cloudy days and in the even ings the plaque will have arti ficial lighting. It is uniquely fitting that the Kennedy memorial in Frederic ton will be near the monument to Lord Beaverbrook in Officers Square. His Lordship has been a longtime friend of the Kennedy family and it was he, as Chan cellor, who gowned (then) Sena tor John F. Kennedy at the au tumn convocation of the Uni versity of New Brunswick here on October 8, 1957. Unveiling of the Kennedy me morial is planned for the spring of 1964, Hon. Mr. Robichaud said. Hail College Bill NEW YORK (NC)—Two top officials of Citizens for Educa tional Freedom said here they are encouraged by passage of the Federal college aid bill to press for similar equal treat ment of all pre-college level students. In a joint statement issued here, Mark Murphy of Flushing, N. Y., CEF president, and David La Driere of St. Louis, the or ganization’s executive director, said: “Congressional approval of the college and bill rejects the Church-State extremists’ slo gan, ‘public funds for public schools’ in favor of the tradi tional American position, ‘pub lic funds for public purposes.’ ” (jj Kristuias Jot) REINFORCING STEEL METAL SASH STEEL CONSTRUCTION SUPPLIES JOE BRASHEARS STEEL, INC. P. O. Box 1305 Phone HE. 5-4548 ALBANY, GEORGIA YULBTI0B CHBBR BUY or SELL THR0UC GIILI OR Warren & Brimberry INCORPORATED Insurance — Rents — Realtors H. B. BRIMBERRY — R. H. WARREN, 3RD — CLEM B. RAKEL R. E. COLEMAN -- CHARLES C. FOSTER 120 N. Jackson St. Phone HE. 2-2357 ALBANY, GEORGIA FOR LIBRARY FUND—On behalf of the Little Apostles Club, Our Lady of Lourdes School, Columbus, Dorothy Gott presents a check to Mother M. Paul (Principal) in the amount of $290.00. The money obtained by the sale of Religious Christmas Cards will be put in the school library fund. Also in the picture are Benedict Swiderek, Rosa Lewis, Debbie Wourms, Susan Oswald, Maureen Martin, Susan Reardon, Leonard Eichkoft, Mike Regnier. Protestant Observer On Council Future (The following article gives an evaluation of the second ses sion of Vatican II as seen by a noted Protestant ecumenical leader. He attended the session as an observer for the World Alliance of Reformed and Pres byterian Churches. He is pro fessor of religion at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.) By Dr. Robert McAfee Brown (N.C.W.C . News Service) ROME—A thorough evalua tion of the ecumenical implica tions of the second session of the Second Vatican Council re quires a perspective that is dif ficult to achieve when it has just ended and all connected with it have battle fatigue. But short-range appraisals can sometimes give the “feel” of an event better than more considered, later judgments. I came to Rome in September as a Protestant observer with buoyant optimism. I leave— still a Protestant observer— with chastened optimism, but optimism nonetheless. I now have a more realistic picture of how the Catholic Church functions. I have dis covered that there can be epis copal obstructionists just as much as presbyterian obstruc tionists. I realize that things take more time than I want them to take, even when it seems perfectly clear to me what the Holy Spirit and I want. So the buoyant opti mism is tempered by reality, which is probably a good thing. Why does the optimism re main? There are many reasons, but a handful must suffice to indicate why the Second Vatican Council remains very impor tant to the ecumenical dialogue with the non-Roman Catholic. 1. This council has made it absolutely clear that ecumani- sm is in the Catholic Church to stay. It may take a while for some bishops to discover what it means, and there may be some pockets of resistance, but there is no doubt whatsoever that the vast majority of the Fathers want to foster ecumeni cal dialogue and exchange on all levels. Christendom will never be quite the same again as a result of the overwhelming ac ceptance of Chapters I to III of the schema on ecumenism as a basis for discussion. A new era in Christian history was inaugurated by that vote. 2. The council has made it clear that one of the tasks in ecumenical encounter is inner renewal. It is encouraging to discover that "reform” is no longer a dirty word. Indeed, many of the council Fathers are prepared to go far beyond the relatively cautious schema on ecumenism. Taking their lead from Pope Paul’s opening allocution, they press for open acknowledgment by Catholics of their share of guilt in the events that have lead to disunity. Rea lizing that we must know one another better, they press for greater opportunities of com mon worship together than are now possible. Realizing that religion must bind a family rather than tear it apart, they are asking for revision of the laws concerning mixed marriages. Recognizing that there is genuine ecclesial reality in Protestant corporate life, a number of them ask that we be acknowledged as “churches,” however defective our churchmanship may be,' rather than be described socio logically as mere “communi ties.” 3. The council has promulgat ed a constitution on reform of the liturgy that will open new doors in the corporate life of Roman Catholics beyond any thing that can yet be imagined. Provision for the vernacular, greater participation by the lai ty, certain occasions for Com munion in both species, greater stress on Scripture and ser mon—these and many other re coveries of ancient usage will transform the Mass from being a spectacle the faithful watch to an experience in which they share. And when the Church is right in its prayer life, it will become more and more right elsewhere. Any renewal in inner vitality and integrity is ecu menically important. 4. The council demonstrated that it wants to keep its un derstanding of the Christian Gospel properly focused. This is how I interpret the vote to include a treatment of Mary within the schema on the Church, rather than as a separate schema. This vote was most encour aging to non-Catholics. Had the vote gone the other way, it would have suggested to us that Mariological dogma was to con tinue to develop in a fashion independent of the rest of Catho lic Faith. But now the under standing of Mary is to be seen within the context of an under standing of the Church, rather than the other around. And if, as is proposed, the new chapter has a basically Bi blical orientation, then on these terms Protestants must be will ing to look with fresh eyes at the Biblical material con cerning Mary. Such treatment of Mary might thereby draw us closer together rather than shoving us further apart. 5. The council demonstrated that it wished to move beyond A NEW HOME FOR CHRIST MAS—Because some American Catholic families cared enough to open their hearts and homes, these four Asian waifs will have a new home for this Christmas. The four, shepherded on the 10,000 mile jet flight from Hong Kong to New York by airline stewardess Madeline Ho, were brought to this country by the Catholic Committee for Refu- gees-NCWC, New York City. —(NC Photos) the one-sided view of authority that has haunted the Church since the First Vatican Coun cil decree on papal infallibility. Nothing has raised more ecu menical roadblocks than the First Vatican Council. And while Vatican II does not re move all of them, it puts them in a new focus. This is how I interpret the famous “five questions” vote of Oct. 30. The principle of col- legiality, so heavily supported by the council Fathers on that date, does not, of course, deny anything promulgated in 1870. But if it does not repudiate the definition, it amplifies it, en larges it, gives it a more significant context. Pope and bishops have rule in the Church. The ecumenical value of this decision is incalculable. For it lays to rest many of the gro tesque stereotypes of “one-man rule” and unilateral papal monarchialism, that have been attributed by most Protestants, and not a few Catholics, to the teaching office of the Church. Many problems remain, but they are new problems, or at least the old problems focused in a very new way. Had this vote gone the other way, it would have meant the end, I think, of really serious ecumen ical conversation between us. For it would have seemed to interpose the pope between God and man as a new mediator of proportions beyond our com prehension. 6. The council showed us the manifest concern of the bishops for the state of the world. This was not contained in anything the bishops completed—and the actual “results” thus far are meager—but in the spirit and content of many of the interven tions made on the council floor. Again and again there was an exciting and prophetic quality in these utterances. No observer will forget Paul Cardinal Leger of Montreal warning against “immobilism” in Catholic doctrine; Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis asking for forthright acknow ledgment of sin in the Church; Valerian Cardinal Gracias of Bombay pleading again and again that the Church concern herself more directly with the poor, the Illiterate, the hungry; Auxiliary Bishop Mark McGrath of Panama City reminding the Fathers that if the Church is not concerned about the physical (Continued On Page 7) Red Violence (Continued From Page 1) progress toward democracy are of paramount importance to them. Should Red violence come close to precipitating chaos and the intervention of the army— which is what communism wants —COPEI probably will stay in the coalition. But much of their impetus is slowed down when the religious issue is injected into politics, mostly because the old conser vative or liberal parties try to use the issue for their own ad vantage. To avoid this the ma gazine Sic has urged a cam paign of profound civic and po litical education. In a recent article it wrote: “The Church has a doctrine based on moral and social grounds, but not a platform, which is the characteristic of politicians. Some platforms may favor the doctrine of the Church, some may oppose it. Catholics, as citizens, must study each platform and form their own opinions. “It is amusing to see some candidates and public figures —including a number who not long ago said they were athe ists, anti-religious or Marx ists—now taking great pains to say that they ‘highly respect the Church.’ But to be a Chris tian means more than that; it means a whole concept of life.” Whatever the political ba lance of the government or the impact of the Red offensive, C atholics have been reminded in recent times by the nation’s Bishops that they have a duty to contribute actively to the common welfare of the coun try. The record of Venezuelan progress is impressive. This country is diversifying production — more industries, more food crops and exports- to avoid over-dependance on oil and its world price fluctuations. Thanks to a determined pro gram of land reform and farm improvement—one of the min istries held by COPEI is agri culture—crops are up 14% over last year. Schools are now twice as numerous as in 1958 and 1 million adults have learned read. More jobs are being pro vided by new farms, industries and mineral exploitation in the more heavily populated regions. Housing programs are pro viding over 38,000 homes by the end of this year. Therefore the communists cannot claim popular discon tent. What truly worries them came out, perhaps unwittingly, in one of their publications, Critica, which lamented the forced retreat of Marxism education. The magazine be moaned the fact that Catholics have one-third of elementary Schools and 53% of secondary schools, and that Catholic in fluence is growing stronger in state universities in Carabobo, Zulia and San Cristobal. Fur thermore, Christian Democrats have captured more and more leaders among the university student organizations there and in Caracas. Georgia is first in the pro duction of marble, of quality recognized as the world's finest. CENTRAL SEAFOOD MARKET All Kinds of Sea Foods HE. 2-7457 230 TARVER AVE. ALBANY, GA. (Merry Christmas BISHOP LAUNDRY CLEANERS 232 ROOSEVELT AVE. 1107 N. SLAPPEY DRIVE ALBANY, GA. Season’s Greetings BEAN PEANUT COMPANY ALBANY, GA. ESTATE OF SAMUEL FARKAS Established 1872 Cole Farm Implements & General Line of Farmers Hardware 112-114 BROAD AVENUE ALBANY, GEORGIA GEORGIA CROWN DISTRIBUTING COMPANY 208 South Harding ALBANY, GEORGIA