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1 X, Pope Paul’s Trip Will Make History Vol. 44, No. 25 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year —— SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1964 IN COUNCIL POST. Ameri can-born Bishop John E. Tay lor, O.M.I., of Stockholm, Sweden, has been named to a new seat on the Second Vatican Council’s commission on the Sacraments. Born in East St. Louis, Ill., 49 years ago, Bishop Taylor went to Denmark in 1958 to begin work to open a mission to Greenland. He was conse- crated bishop in Stockholm’s city hall in 1962. (NC Photos) Welcomes Meeting BERLIN (NC) — The Soviet news agency, TASS, reported (Dec. 28) that Patriarch Alexi of Moscow, head of the Rus sian Orthodox Church, wel comed the projected meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Ath- enagoras I of Constantinople. TASS quoted Patriarch Alexi as saying, however, that Pa triarch Athenagoras would be representing only the Orthodox Christians under his jurisdic tion, and would not be a spokes man for all the Eastern Ortho dox Churches. Pope’s Transport Is DC 8 Jet VATICAN CITY (NC) -- The plane carrying Pope Paul VI to the Holy Land will be a new DC 8 jet with only a few mo difications made to accommo date the Pontiff and his party of 30. A spokesman for Alitalia air lines told a press conference that “arrangements made for the Pope are far less com plex and far less revolutionary than might be imagined.” The Pope’s seat, located in the forward section of the plane, is one of two regular commer cial airline seats. At the Vati can’s request no provisions for a throne, an altar or a kneel- er have been made. The character of the trip (Jan 4-6 ) is that “of a pil grimage, a penitential journey, and everything has been done with this in mind,” the Ali talia spokesman said. From the outside the four- engine jet differs little from the normal aircraft operated by Italian airlines. On the fuselage near the door of the first class section, the coat of arms of the Pope has been painted. The tail section has been painted in the gold and white colors of the Vatican. Inside, three rows of twin seats have been removed from the left side of the plane to provide room for the Pope, whose seat is next to the win dow. The seats between have been covered with light green velvet and the walls and curtains carry out the color theme. The spokesman said use of tradi tional red damask was decided against because that color can be disturbing to air passengers. Also on the wall is the papal coat of arms. On the forward walls of the Pope’s section are bronze sta tues of Our Lady of Loreto, patroness of air travelers, and a crucifix, both gifts of the Vatican to Alitalia. In the papal section there are a total of 10 seats and 2 tables which will permit the Pope to have visi tors as he wishes. -In what would be the equiv alent of the tourist section of the plane are located the rest of the Pope’s entourage, in cluding the three cardinals who will occupy the first rows of seats near the papal section. The plane has a total of 64 seats, more than necessary. The plane is due to take off from Fiumicino at 8:30 a.m., Jan. 4, and will fly the normal air route from Rome to Bei rut, Lebanon; Damascus, Sy ria; and Amman, Jordan. Flight time will be approximately 3 (Continued on Page 2) Pray For Our Deceased Priests REV. PATRICK HOOKE Jan. 2, 1859 REV. JOSEPH REISERER Jan. 5, 1880 REV. MICHAEL J. BYRNE Jan. 8, 1922 Oh Cod, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, we implore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. MONSIGNOR MCDONALD INSTALLED—The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald kneels before Bishop Thomas J. McDonoough during ceremonies at which Monsignor was installed as pastor of Blessed Sacrament Chruch, Savannah. Monsignor McDonald will continue to serve as Chancellor of the Diocese. Bishop McDonough is flanked in the picture by the Rev. Eladio Pascual (left) and the Rev. Cornelius Keane. (News- Press Photo by Robert McDonald) ‘To All Nations’ On December 4, 1963, the world took a new look at the papacy. Paul VI, calmly and solemnly an nounced he was going to become a pilgrim to the Holy Land. Be cause, he said, he was convinced that “prayers and good works are necessary” if the Vatican Council is to succeed in its job of renewal. BlAXtry VG-, What is a pilgrim? A wanderer with a purpose. A man who goes to see with his own eyes the holy places where his Faith has roots. From the days of the Apostles, Christians have set out to Jerusalem. Special laws allowed them to pass through battles and warring countries without harm. Some stopped and built towns. Some carried letters. Others wrote them and laid the foundations for modern geography. A few travelled with troops but most walked unarmed, their only ‘‘safety . . . and strength” the “sign of the Cross of the Lord,” across their chest. Pope Paul too, wears a cross. It is a symbol of his dignity as a bishop; a sign of his dedication to Christ. Now his cross has become a pilgrim’s cross. He goes to the Holy Places, he said, to pray and do penance, ‘‘To implore Divine Mercy on behalf of peace among men” and to ask “for the salvation of the entire hu man race.” Paul is not alone. As Christ’s vicar he stands for Christ on earth. He heads His Church. We, too, stand for Christ as members of His Mystical Body. At Christmas, as we go in spiritual pilgrimage to the crib, we see vividly how much Christ chose to depend on us for His Mission. He came as a hungry, helpless child. And He gave His Mission into our hands when He gave us the Church. Today, that Church’s relations with the world have entered a new era. The papal flag no longer represents a small armed kingdom in central Italy. It represents a spiritual kingdom—without boundaries. The last Pope to leave Italy. Pius VII, left as Napoleon’s captive in 1809. In 1964 an air corridor is cleared for Pope Paul’s plane. The Israeli Cabinet sets up a special committee for the visit; King Hussein of Jordan offers the hospi* tality of his palace; the Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople speaks of the hope for a spiritual summit and the Christian world prays for Unity. In Jerusalem Pope Paul will pray in the Garden of Gethse- mane, walk up the winding road to Calvary, celebrate Mass at the Holy Sepulchre where Christ rose from the dead. He’ll visit Bethlehem and Nazareth and hear the Sea of Galilee. In a significant stop he’ll offer Mass at the Church of the Annunciation; to bring Christ to men in the Eucharist in the same place Christ first came to men in Mary’s womb. Each place, he said, will be a place of “prayer, penance, and re newal.” Today, although Jerusalem is a divided city, it is a symbol of unity. Men of all faiths call it holy. Moslems believe it is the site of Mohammed’s ascent to Allah. Jews pray here near Solomon’s Temple and go to see the stone where God asked Abraham to offer his son. Christians of every kind come, to be in the land where Christ was born. Now Pope Paul comes on pilgrimage. But there is more in this pilgrimage than the first papal airplane ride; more than a courtesy visit with Orthodox leaders, more than the Pope’s leaving Italy. The Pope’s plane marks a new era for the Church. For with Pope Paul the Church goes forth into the modern world in a modern way. The re newal called for by the Council has already begun. Next fall it’s India. The Pope has taken the lead; we must prepare to follow. Holy Land Visit Follow-Up To Ecumenism Of Late Pope John By Carl A. Balcerak (N.C.W.C. News Service) Pope Paul Vi’s visit to the Holy Land is a dramatic se quel to the late Pope John XXIII’s announcement two^ed * : * ago that he was convoking an ecumenical council. Pope Paul was expected to keep in motion the ecumenism started by his predecessor, but not in the unexpected fashion characteristic of Pope John. Pope Paul’s announcement came on the final day (Dec. 4, 1963) of the second ses sion of the Second Vatican Coun cil, and it was made in words as simple and clear as those with which John XXIII convoked the council. Despite this some persons have tagged the trip with political connotations, al though objective, general app roval of it has far out weighed any criticism or ul terior motives ascribed to it. “We wish to go to Pales tine in January,” Pope Paul said, “to honor personally the holy places where Christ was born, lived and died and as cended to heaven after His Re surrection.” After noting that no succes sor of Peter has returned to the Holy Land, Pope Paul said that among the reasons why he is making the (Jan. 4-6) pilgram- age is * 'to summon to this One Holy Church our separated bre thren, to implore divine mercy on behalf of peace among men . . . and to beseech Christ Our Lord for the salvation of the entire human r^ce.” War and peace, Arab and Jew, Bethlehem and Nazareth, King and President, Pope and Patriarch—these are some of the pairs of words that come to mind in the context of Pope Paul’s pilgrimage. For the Holy Land the Pope is going to is an armed camp, no longer referred to as Pales tine but as either Jordan or Israel. The sacred shrines are cut off from one another: Beth lehem is in Jordan, Nazareth is in Israel. Jerusalem is a divided city, with Jordanian and Israeli soldiers, armed with submachine guns, facing each other daily. The Pope, the first pontiff to travel by plane, will be met by King Hussein at the Amman airport on Jan. 4. The fol lowing day he will be welcomed to Israel by President Shneor Shazar at Megiddo, in the nor thern part of the country. Pre sident Shazar will also bid the Pope farewell in Jerusalem on Jan. 5. Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) said he may go to Je rusalem to pray with Pope Paul on Jan. 6. This will be the first meeting between a pope and a patriarch in 525 years. In 1439 Pope Eugene IV and Patriarch Joseph II met in northern Italy in a n effort to heal the breach originating between Rome and Constanti nople in 1054. The Israeli government cal led the papal visit “a unique and memorable event” and said it “welcomes the Pope’s intention to visit our country.” Gov. Daoud Abu-Ghazaleh of the Jordanian sector of Jerusa lem said he is * 'very proud of the visit of His Holiness” and referred to it as “an ex ceptional and historic event.” » There was some discord be tween the Israeli press and Egyptian newspapers in regard to the visit. Major play was given in Israel to stories quo ting editorials in Egyptian newspapers stating that the papal trip could be looked upon as constituting support of Israel. A leading Cario daily, A1 Abram, said that “Israel has already embarked on endeavors to exploit the Pope’s pilgrim age for her own ends.” The Rome embassies of Jordan and Israel stressed the religious nature of the Pope’s pilgrimage the day after he announced it, but rumors con tinued strong about “political” connotations. Two weeks after the Pope’s announcement, Is- rale’s Ambassador to Italy, Maurice Fischer, reiterated: “The pilgrimage of the Holy Father to the Holy Land has an exclusively religious signi ficance, as he himself has de clared.” In his Christmas message, Pope Paul said: * ‘Once again we declare clearly that the na ture and purposes of our pil grimage are solely religious.” Pope Paul mentioned several reasons for his trip, but its accent will be on reli gious unity. This is evident from an announcement (Dec. 12) that experts on the Oriental Chur ches, including three cardinals, will go with him; from a Vatican Radio description of the nature of the pilgrimage and from the attention the Pope himself gave to these themes in his Christmas message. Accompanying the Pope will be Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who has devoted most of his life to Oriental studies; Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State, who served in the second highest ranking post in the Ori ental Church congregation for five years; and Gustavo Car dinal Testa, secretary of the Oriental congregation, who is Pope Speak Paul 8 Of His Trip VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul spoke of his trip to the Holy Land to more than 30,- 000 gathered to receive his New Year’s blessing. The Pontiff said: “Soon we will begin our pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We will pray for you so that the Lord may grant to you the grace that we are seeking, to be brought back to the fidelity of his origins.” a Scripture scholar and expert in Semitic languages. The papal entourage will also include Msgr. Jan G. M. Willebrands, secretary of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Msgr. Jo seph T. Ryan of New York, president of the Pontifical Mis sion for Palestine. A Vatican Radio commenta tor referred (Dec. 19) to the papal journey as “an appeal to unity.” He said that “in penance and spiritual renewal” the Pope ' ‘will offer his Church to Christ there where Christ founded it, and will call the separated Christians to the one and holy Church, as the Lord wished.” In his Christmas message the Pope referred to his pilgrim age as * ‘a journey of search and of hope, search for all those who are for us sons and bro thers in Christ.” * ‘Where is the flock of Christ?” he asked. “Where are the lambs and the sheep of His fold? Are they all here? Which ones are missing? And so we cannot but implore Jesus the Good Shepherd, using His own words: ‘May there be one fold and one shepherd! ” The Pope said that on the pilgrimage “our heart will reach out also to those outside the fold of Christ, and our good intentions will embrace all the peoples of the world, those far and near, with sentiments of respect and love, wishing them happiness and peace.” After Pope Paul is wel comed at the Amman airport (Jan. 4) by King Hussein, he and his entourage will go by automobile through Amman to Jerusalem, a distance of about 65 miles. Before reach ing the Holy City he is sche duled to visit Bethany, where Mary and Martha and Laza rus lived. He plans to arrive at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Old Je rusalem at 4 p.m. and will offer Mass there at the site of the Resurrection. Afterwards he will go to the residence of Archbishop Lino Zanini, Apostolic Delegate to the Holy Land, where he will have dinner and spend the night. At 10;30 that evening he will take part in a holy hour on Gethsemane in the Church of the Agony. During the cere mony ->$he • Gospel account of Christ’s Passion will be chant ed in several Eastern languages as well as in Latin. On Jan. 5 Pope Paul will leave the apostolic delegation at 6 a.m. to drive to Israel. There he will visit the Sea of Gal ilee, the Mount of the Be atitudes, and the town of Tab- gha, which preserves ruins of (Continued on Page 2) Patriarch’s Meeting With Pope Set ISTANBUL, Turkey (NC) —The Orthodox Patriar chate of Constantinople an nounced (Dec. 30) that Pa triarch Athenagoras I was leaving Istanbul, Friday, Jan. 3, and would meet Pope Paul VI in Jerusalem. Officials of the patriar chate said that the Ecumeni cal Patriarch would join Pope Paul in prayer atop the Mount of Olives, where Christ suffered His Agony the night before the Cruci fixion. Pope Paul is flying to the Holy Land for his three-day visit on Jan. 4. PAPAL TRIP MAP—This special newsmap shows some of the Christian shrines in Israel and Jordan which Pope Paul VI will visit during his Jan. 4 to 6 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Jerusalem map (right) indicates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over the site where Christ was entombed, where the Pope is scheduled to offer Mass on the feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6. (NC Photos) *