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;Peru Daily Attacks
IPriest As Leftist
By Father Vincent Mallon, M.M.
LIMA (NC)—A serious accu
sation, a sharp reply and a quick
apology have dramatized the
brewing battle between Catholic
social action leaders here and
the defenders of Peru’s me
dieval system of land tenure.
Lima’s influential newspa
per, La Prensa, published
(Dec. 20) a front page attack on
Father Ivan Pardo, 37-year-old
vicar general of the Diocese of
Huacho. La Prensa headlined
the story: “A New Father
Bolo,” alluding to Father Solo
mon Bolo, a Peruvian priest
excommunicated for commun
ist activities.
The attack provoked an im
mediate reply from the Catholic
Information Center in Lima, un
der the direction of Father Jo
seph Michenfelder, M. M., of
St. Louis. The CIC communique
was carried in almost all Lima
dailies (Dec. 21). It declared that
the La Prensa article was “cal-
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umny and demanded a clear re
traction.’’ It added that Father
Pardo “enjoys the complete es
teem and help of the Peruvian
Hierarchy.’’
In an action almost unheard
of in Peruvian journalistic cir
cles La Prensa published an ap
ology on the first page (Dec. 21)
lamenting that a speech of Fa
ther Pardo’s had been “misin
terpreted by error.’’
Father Pardo is the spiritual
director of the Institute to Rur
al Education. His organization
is engaged in forming leaders
among Peru’s impoverished
rural population in an effort to
help the people to imorove their
social, economic and cultural
situation.
Father Pardo spoke on Dec.
19 at a meeting in the Presiden
tial Palace in Lima, at which
Peru’s President Belaunde
Terry was present. La
Prensa reported that Presi
dent Belaunde applauded the
address. Then La Prensa char
ged that Father Pardo used
"leftist words in his speech.’’
La Prensa added that many
who heard the talk said that in
Father Pardo could be seen "a
perfected and more moderate
Father Bolo.’’ Father Bolo was
suspended and excommunicat
ed in 1962 for scandelous pub
lic conduct and insubordination.
He twice ran as vice presiden
tial candidate of the Commun
ist party in presidential elec
tions.
The Catholic Information
Center said that the La Pren
sa article was a "flagrant twist
ing of a news event, which evi
denced not only a lack of good
taste and journalistic respon-
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Again Calls For Peace
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promise to visit you again.”
The Pope’s first Mass was
celebrated in surrounding
greatly different from those of
the Pietralata district. The
Sistine chapel at midnight was
filled with a quiet crowd of dip
lomats, their wives and child
ren. The congregation answered
the prayers in a dialogue Mass,
while the Sistine choir sang.
To the diplomats also, the
Pope addressed thoughts on the
subject of peace. He stated:
"Gentlemen, is it not your
mission to work to break down
the walls which divide peoples
and to announce peace to both
those near and far away? Words
are not enough, and the Babe
of the Crib who gives witness
to us by His example, and daily
experience as well, unfor
tunately confirms this. We are
obliged to do more. We must
be men of peace, completely
given over, if possible, to
thoughts and feelings which are
those of God and which led
Christ to become man. Thus
only can one announce effective
ly peace to others and have it
penetrate the heart.”
At his third Mass of the
day, Pope Paul was carried
into St. Peter's while 15,000
voices chanted the Creed. The
whole nave of the church re
mained empty except for the un
occupied banks of seats of the
suspended ecumenical council,
but the entire aspe of the church
as well as both trancepts were
jammed.
The Pope showed no signs of
weariness after his morning
across the city at Pietralata.
In fact, he seemed to have been
buoyed up by it. His voice
was strong as the carefully en
unciated words of the prayers
at the foot of the altar were
c arried by loudspeakers
throughout the church. Even as
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he began Mass, a baby was being
baptized at the baptismal fount
at the church’s rear.
Present in the sanctuary for
the low Mass were Cardinal
Traglia, Paolo Cardinal Ma-
rella, Archpriest of St. Peter’s,
and numerous members of the
papal household. As the Pope
delivered a short homily after
the Gospel, he was flanked by
Archbishop Enrico Dante, Pre
fect of Papal Masters of Cere
monies; Archbishop Diego Ve-
nini, Papal Almoner, Bishop
Peter Canisius VanLeirde, Pa
pal Sacristan. And again his
theme was peace.
Speaking extemporaneously,
Pope Paul said peace is to be
found in the mystery of the In
carnation. He added:
"Peace is God coming into
the world, a God who knows us,
who speaks to us. . .Christmas
is the feast when God reveals
Himself not in greatness, but
as the Lord who comes in love
and goodness.”
As he spoke, the Pope’s voice
became noticeably emotional
and dramatic. With a wide
change of inflections, the Pope’s
voice rose vibrantly and then
fell almost to a whisper.
In the Gospel account, "so
beautiful, so enchanting," the
Pope said, one reads of peace
and the crib of Bethlehem.
"There is the crib, the human
scene, the sensible scene, but
not only that. Behind it is ano
ther immense scene, immense
ly mysterious. . . Behind the
crib scene is the mystery of the
Incarnation.”
At the end of Mass, the Pope
went directly to the elevator at
the left side of the basilica to
reach the central balcony of
St. Peter’s from which he gave
his blessing to the city and the
world. Approximately 80,000
people were gathered in the
square despite threats of rain.
At the Pope’s appearance on
the balcony, a warm series of
cheers and applause greeted
him while the massed band of
the Palatine Guard of Honro
struck up an anthem on the wide
platform atop the stairs leading
to the basilica.
Pope Paul, wearing the bul
let-shaped tiara which he had
worn on the day of his coro
nation and which had been a gift
from the people of Milan, took
his seat on a throne. The papal
banner carrying the three
mountains—the Pope’s family
name, Montini, can be trans
lated into little mountains—
fluttered slightly with the win
ter wind.
To the thousands below he
wished "a merry Christmas
on the feast of peace. . .peace,
the gift of the Lord.” Then he
pronounced the Latin formula
of the apostolic blessing, to
which there was attached, a
plenary indulgence. Pausing
briefly to acknowledge the
crowd’s greetings, Pope Paul
turned and disappeared behind
the crimson curtains of the
doorway to begin his private
Christmas observance.
Metropolitan \s
Address To Pope
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Or
thodox Metropolitan Athena-
goras of Thyatira in his formal
address to Pope Paul VI on Dec.
28 said that the Pope and the
Patriarch of Constantinople in
their projected meeting in Jer
usalem can try "under the
Cross to reconstruct in Chris
tian consolidarity the broken
bridges and build the abandoned
roads . . .”
The Metropolitan, official re
presentative of Patriarch Ath-
enagoras I of Constantinople,
alluded in his talk to the tra
dition that as St. Peter founded
the See of Rome, his brother,
St. Andrew, founded the See
of Constantinople. He said that
the successors of the two Apos
tles for centuries were “not on
speaking terms.” But he said
that today, Peter and Andrew
“express a mutual desire to
meet and talk and walk together
with their Master.”
The text of Metropolitan Ath-
enagoras’ address follows:
"Your Holiness: Conscious of
the significance of this historic
moment, I am indeed over
whelmed with emotion. For
after so many centuries of sil
ence, the Latin West and the
Greek East want now, in mu
tuality of love and respect dic
tated by the Gospel and the
hearts of all Christians, to meet
each other.
“They want now to exchange
views and brotherly greet
ings and embark, if possible, on
a dialogue of Christian under
standing for the peace of the
world and the progress of all the
holy churches of God. This is
the reason why 1 am overwhelm
ed with emotion.
* ‘But trying to collect myself,
I hand to Your Holiness a letter
which your brother in Christ,
Athenagoras, the Ecumenical
Patriarch, entrusted to me to
bring to you and to express,
on his behalf and on behalf of
the Holy Synod of Metropoli
tans, greetings of love and peace
and good will.
"It seems that you are called
to climb the same mountain, the
mountain of the Lord. Your
Holiness climbs from one side
and the Ecumenical Patriarch
from the other side. Those who
understand the significance of
this daring climbing pray that
you both may meet on the top,
in the land sanctified by our
common Redeemer, near His
Cross, near the empty Tomb,
and from then on you may walk
together, trying under the Cross
to reconstruct in Christian con-
solidarity the broken bridges
and build the abandoned roads,
knowing that Christ has nothing
else to teach but one, old les
son of love, that we may be one
as He is one with the Father.
St. Peter and St. Andrew
were brothers. For centuries
they were not on speaking
terms. But now they express a
mutual desire to meet and talk
and walk together with their
Master. May the Lord help
that this apostolic meeting be
realized for the glory of the
Church and the encouragement
of the faithful.
Your predecessor of blessed
memory, John XXIII, called the
Second Vatican Council for the
"aggiornamento" of the Wes
tern Church. Perhaps Your Ho
liness, as the first Bishop of the
Church, with the consent of the
other church patriarchs and
leaders of the East and West, is
Jottings
(Continued from Page 4)
has given you the chance to see
all the world—Providence and
Boston, Dublin and Rome, Lour
des and Notre Dame and He
asks, no, He demands that you
share His love for all mankind
by offering everything you have,
are and love. . It is in friends
and their letters of encourage
ment that we find the greatest
gift of all the years.
THE ROME TRIP and partic
ipating in the press session of
the Vatican Council would be the
dream of any journalist and the
side trips to Sourdes and Par
is and Ireland can be lived over
in memory at any moment.
There is so much seen and heard
yet to be shared in columns.
So many experiences of the
trip and the people who made
it with me which would fill
reams of news columns. The
sight of the Bishops pouring out
of the Basilica of St. Peter’s
at high noon in red and purple
robes; black , yellow, brown,
white, fat, tall, thin, climb
ing onto buses like obedient
schoolboys! This was the pic
ture of the year for me yet all
seems washed away with the
tears of late November. It be
comes hard to remember the
shades of Roman red or Irish
green through the tears of world
grief. The audience with the
Holy Father in which the pontiff
seated on his sedia stopped
near our group and spoke of the
sacrifices made to come to
Rome and to see the person of
the Pope is another event which
must not be forgotton or lost
amid the year’s personal and
public crosses. There is so
much to remember and for
which to be thankful. It is said
that the human heart does not
remember pain as well as joy
but I think that in the events
of the year’s ending, we find
an exception. Dylan Thomas
wrote a poem e^itled: "All
deaths are one.” To each of us
as we recall the happy-sad
events of the past year at this
time, all the personal griefs
of the sickness of loved ones,
our own pains and frustrations
pour into this one deaty. But
all this must be left now with
the closing of the year. They
are not carried into the next.
We must bring only joy and
hope with us across the thresh
old into 1964.
Hold Day Of
Recollection
At St. Clare’s
ALBANY—The Rev. Eugene
Krygier, assistant pastor of
St. Teresa’s pasish conducted
an advent day of recollection
for the ladies of St. Clare’s
parish.
Following the High Mass at
noon donuts and coffee were
served the ladies in the hall
and a meeting was held to ex
plain to the ladies the different
organizations in the parish and
ito exhort them to join them—One
of them. Also the business of
becoming affiliated with the
Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women was brought up at this
time.
Fr. Krugier engaged in an
informal but very informative
discussion in the hall followed
by and question and answer
period. From 4:30 until 5:30
there was a Holy Hour.
The day of recollection con
cluded with a catered chicken
dinner served in the hall.
A few noncatholics also part
icipated.
destined to call, in a pan-Chris-
tain conference, all the repre
sentatives of the Christian
Churches to discuss in love and
conviction how to combat sin,
how to protect the Church and
the peace and freedom of the
world, threatened by a common
enemy—atheism and tyranny.
With the prayer that the Holy
Spirit guide you and grant you
health and length of life for a
great task for the glory of the
Church, which is the prayer
of His Holiness the Ecumenical
Patriarch, may I present to
Your Holiness this letter.”
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