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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, May 7, 1964
To U. N.
Appointment Reflects
i .Positive Approach 9
By Father Placid Jordan, O.S.B.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
GENEVA — His appointment
as a permanent observer of the
Holy See to tfie U.N., in the
opinion of Msgr. Alberto Gio-
vannetti, is an implementation
of the positive approach to the
world organization expressed in
Pope John XXIII’s encyclical
Pacem in Terris and reflected
in the thinking of Pope Paul
VI.
Msgr. Giovannetti, a veteran
officer of the Vatican Secre
tariat of State, received word
of his New York appointment af
ter his arrival here as head of
a five-man delegation of the
Holy See to the U. N. Confer
ence on Trade and Development,
held at the U. N. European
headquarters.
The monsignor said he ex
pects to remain here until mid-
June and to return by July 15
for the 37th session of the U. N.
Economic and Social Council.
He will arrive in New York in
time for the opening oftheU.N.
General Assembly in Septem
ber.
Questioned about the charac
ter of his New Yorkmission, he
said he is to give his special
attention to problems of a social
and moral import as they arise
within the framework of U. N.
activities.
“Obviously,” he added, “the
strict neutrality always ob
served by the Holy See of ne
cessity means it must avoid
being involved in matters of a
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purely political nature. It is for
this reason that the Holy See
cannot accept full U. N. mem
bership.
“The encyclical Pacem in
Terris, however, has clearly
expressed the Church’s senti
ments in favor of all measures
meant to promote peace and the
welfare of nations under an in
ternational authority. The ency
clical therefore gives its sup
port to the U. N. and expresses
hope that the world organization
will be increasingly effective
in the accomplishment of its
noble tasks.
“The encyclical considers
the (U.N.) Declaration on Hu
man Rights as a suitable ap
proach in the defense of the
dignity of the human person.
Consequently, the Holy See is
interested greatly in the efforts
of the U. N., and above all its
Economic and Social Council,
which deals with such vitally
important matters as human
rights, population problem sand
the development of the new na
tions.
As Pope Paul VI said when
he received U. N. Secretary
General U Thant last July, the
cooperation of so many nations
in a world organization whose
main object is the preservation
of peace, is fully in harmony
with the concepts of the Holy
See about the destinies of the
human race which are consonant
with the spiritual mission of the
Church in this world,” the mon
signor said.
He pointed out that the Holy
See has already manifested
these sentiments by the appoint
ment of representatives to other
U.N. bodies such as UNESCO,
the Food and Agricultural Or
ganization (FAO), the High
Commissariat for Refugees and
the International Atomic Energy
Commission.
Asked whether this concern
of the Holy See also refers to
the technical problems arising
in the meetings now in pro
gress here which deal with in
ternational trade, Msgr. Gio
vannetti said:
“Obviously, commerce is not
an end in itself. It is also evi
dent that some important objec
tives may be pursued by the
promotion of more equitable
trade relations which in turn
further the welfare of mankind.
These objectives, therefore,
are fully in line with the goals
outlined so eloquently in the so
cial encyclicals of the last
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THE CATHEDRAL DAY SCHOOL All Sports Banquet was held April 28th in the
Cafetorium. Awards, left to right: Jackie Dressel, Most Valuable Basketball player;
Joseph Rochefort, Best Lineman; Martin Koncul, D. L. Henderson Award; Laurie Stacy,
Best Guard; Gloria Deal, Best Forward; Angela Paul, Achievement and Effort; Edward
Ramsey, Track Trophy; Edwin Rappe, Best Back; Gregory Bell, James Ramsey Sports
manship.
Bogota Research Center
Helps People Help Themselves
By Floyd Anderson
(N.C.W.C News Service)
BOGOTA, Colombia—It looks
like the other nice buildings in
a good residential section of
Bogota, made of brick and
stone and on a treeshaded
street. It is more than a nice
residence, however; it is the
home of Centro de Investiga-
ciones Socialies—the Institute
for Social Research—which is
helping form new attitudes, new
approaches to social, educa
tional and other problems
among peoples and institutions.
While its effect is primarily
in Colombia, its work is being
watched in many other coun
tries in Latin America.
Basically, the center is
primarily designed for re
search, for studying prob
lems and helping to point out
solutions. The center’s Father
Isaac Th. J. Wust mentioned
a number of studies which has
been completed, on the textile
industry, on agrarian reform,
on community development, and
the like. He said that "we have
tried, especially with the last
studies, to stay in contact with
the execution of the plans, be
cause even in studies on a lo-
cfl level, we can see that it is
jjfficult to get people to fol
low the recommendations.”
One of their projects has
been the publication of a Ca
tholic yearbook for Colombia.
This was published in 1962
through organization of a "sta
tistics department” of the
Church with the help of a Bra
zilian organization in the same
field. These are the Sisters of
Jesus Crucified, a congrega
tion of Sisters who dedicate
themselves to the statistics of
the Church. With their help,
the center organized statistical
archives for the secretaries of
bishops and of religious orders,
and they helped organize the
statistical department of the
Church in Colombia.
This, in turn, made it pos
sible to publish the Catholic
yearbook. It is indeed a hand
some book, with 1,227 pages,
listing bishops, directors of
diocesan works, lists of parish
es, priests in each parish, the
address, and so forth. To those
of us in the United States, ac
customed to the fine Kenedy
Official Catholic Directory, this
may not seem as great an ac
complishment as it does to La
tin Americans. However while
this is the yearbooks’ seventh
edition, it is the first time
it has been done in such de
tail.
An evidence of the problems
faced was the' center’s ex
perience in making a study for
the education department of the
Colombian Bishops’ Confe
rence. They wanted to show
what the Church is doing in
education and the importance of
its work. Father Wust said that
often the government ministries
of education are not able to get
these facts and figures.
He added: "Even when we did
this study, it was very diffi
cult to get information, espec
ially the economic part of Ca
tholic education, for example,
in schools directed by nuns.
In one case we went with our
research men to a school with
a letter from the Bishops’ de
partment of education and one
from the local bishop. Both re
commended that the school di
rector give all the informa
tion we asked. But the mother
superior answered that only the
mother provincial could give
this kind of information.
Father Wust said there has
been a great willingness by in
ternational organizations to co
operate with Catholics to help
solve education problems in La
tin America. They put two ques
tions to the Catholic represen
tative:
First, what is your equip
ment? How many schools, how
many professors, how many pu
pils, and so on?
Second, what is your pro
gram?
At the time no country was
able to provide this informa
tion but in March, 1963, Colom
bia started a systematic in
quiry of what Catholic educa
tion was doing. This was fol
lowed later in Chile and Bra
zil.
This inquiry into education
had already been started in Bo
gota by the center, and then
spread throughout the country
so that by December, 1963,
Father Wust said, "we could
finish this inquiry in all the
dioceses of the country.” The
only exceptions were the mis
sionary territories, which were
in a special category.
However, said Father Wust,
"we couldn’t stay only in
research.” In a developing
country like Colombia "we
thought it would be necessary to
promote also other activities in
order to get things done.” He
added "we are not trying to get
employment for sociologists,
but we are trying to get this
knowledge used for the develop
ment we think the country
needs.”
One means for getting things
done was a seminar on agrarian
reform, to help carry out a
"most excellent law on agra
rian reform,” approved in 1961.
For various reasons, resis
tance came from big land own
ers and even from the campe-
sinos, the peasants in the coun
tryside.
They established the seminar
in 17 commissions, each study
ing a specific aspect of agra
rian reform. They were able
to get really important people,
telling them that if they weren’t
so occupied ( a common ex
cuse for not participating), they
would not ask them, because
"people who were not occupied
are not of interest to the com
pany.”
One of the hoped-for pro
jects would be a rotating fund
to help start cooperatives. At
present funds are lacking for
this, but Father Wust is hope
ful ways may be developed to
do some of these necessary
things.
One of the center’s projects
has dealt with what are some
times called "marginal peo
ple”—those living on and off
the fringes of society. Some
times they are called ragpick
ers, the people who make their
living from the garbage dumps.
Father Wust said that Father
Alhambra del Coro had worked
in Chile for seven years pro
moting a system of production
cooperatives. His method was
to look for such people as these,
marginal people in society,
"who have this kind of human
values without being able to ap
ply it in a reasonable way.”
In Bogota, as in other areas,
he looked, as Father Wust de
scribed it, “to people who are
living from the garbage of the
municipality.” The first step
was to convince these people of
the need of organization, so
they could receive a better
income and improve their stan
dard of living.
"We told them,” said Father
Wust, "you need to organize
yourself better just as the big
enterprises do. It is the only
way you will have a stable way
of living,” They agreed but
said "we need something for
that, for instance, a truck.”
"Our course,” they were
told. "Get it like big businesses
does. Ask for a loan in a bank.
And Father Wust relates, “we
started to talk with people in
banks who got interested and
enthusiastic, and helped them
to get a loan of 25,000 pesos
to buy the truck.
That was the beginning—now
there are such enterprises or
ganized in three cities of Col
ombia, Bogota, Medellin and
Cali.
One of the "accounts” is the
Bogota airport. It was burning
waste paper every day, using
special incinerators for this
purpose. Now this organization
takes the airport’s paper each
day and sells it for 400 pesos.
CATHEDRAL MAY CROWNING—His Excellency The Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough and Monsignor T. James McNamara are pictured with the Cathedral May Queen
and her court. The annual May procession was held last Sunday. The children are (1 to r)
Cathy Cowart, Judith Wolfe, Teresa Smith, Beth Gannam (Queen), Patricia Towns, Joann
Kearns and Deidre Solomon. — (Carroll Burke Photo)
Pentecost Prayers For Council
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has called on the
world’s bishops to offer spe
cial prayers on Pentecost Sun
day for the success of the Vat
ican Council.
He also asked clergy and laity
to pray for the council, and
to inform themselves about it
and in particular to "draw
closer to our separated bre
thren.”
Noting that the Church’s bi
shops "are preparing them
selves with the greatest dili
gence for the third session
of the council,” scheduled to
open Sept. 14, the Pope declar
ed that "such a great event
calls therefore for the over
flowing virtue of the Holy Spi
rit who fills minds with en
lightenment and who streng
thens wills to undertake new
projects and to accept respon
sibility.”
The Pope’s appeal was con
tained in a letter dated April
30 and addressed to all the
bishops of the world.
He urged them "especially
as Pentecost draws near, to
redouble your prayers to ob
tain for the ecumenical coun
cil those copious and consider
able fruits which all of us de
sire."
The Pope called upon the
clergy and laity to "continue
with calm and reverence to draw
closer to our separated
brethren, not turning down some
opportunities for calm and
friendly conversations and,
being more concerned for their
welfare rather than our honor,
they may seek together the
means for recomposing bro
therhood, based on the identity
of the faith and mutual charity
which was desired by Christ
for His Church.”
Referring to the council, the
National
Honor
For Editor
NEW YORK (NC) — Gerard
E. Sherry, managing editor
of the Georgia Bulletin, was one
of seven journalists presented
with national honors here.
The editor of the Atlanta,
Ga., archdiocesan newspaper
was honored for the best news
paper editorial in the presenta
tion of the 1964 national mass
media brotherhood awards of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
The presentation was made
(May 5) by Dr. Lewis Webster
Jones, NCCJ president. Sher
ry’s editorial concerned the
bombing of a Negro Baptist
church in Birmingham, Ala.,
and appeared in the Bulletin on
Sept. 19, 1963.
It marked the second time in
two years Sherry has been cited
by the NCCJ for contributing
to good human relations. He was
presented with a media brother
hood award in 1962 for a series
of articles he wrote while serv
ing as editor of the Central
California Register, newspaper
of the Monterey-Fresno, Calif.,
diocese.
Pope urged all the faithful that
“in this time of diligent pre
paration, they accompany the
common effort with their
prayers and voluntary acts of
penance. He expressed the
wish that they "be informed
about the themes of the coun
cil with opportune methods, es
pecially by means of the press
and by suitable talks.”
The Pope recalled his pil
grimage to the Holy Land, du
ring which he prayed that all
Christians may participate in
the riches of divine grace, and
that "men of our day may be
brought efficaciously to a bet
ter knowledge ‘of the mind of
Christ.’ ’’
Dwelling on his visit in the
land of Jesus, the Pope re
called that "there we prayed
to obtain a sure means of ap
proach to the recomposition
in unity of our Christian bro
thers, now sorrowfully sepa
rated from us.”
"On that same occasion when,
surrounded and greeted by an
immense crowd, we came to
place ourself near the most holy
memories of the Saviour,” he
said, "we moreover dwelt with
emotion on how we might di
rect our ardent affection and the
inclination of our heart even
beyond the confines of Christ
ianity toward all souls and all
peoples who believe in the one
God. This is a fact which of
fers great hopes for a progress
toward just understanding, for
mutual charity and for a more
sure peace of civil society.’’
The Pope declared that these
are the goals to which his pon
tificate and the ecumenical
council aspire. The council is
working to make the Church
shine before all men. so that
they may be attracted to "the
marvelous life of the Mystical
Body of Christ,” he said. To
achieve this, therefore, " we
increasingly exhort our most
beloved sons of the clergy and
the laity that, aware of their
own dignity, they may dedicate
themselves and their own
proper means to the stable es
tablishment here on earth of the
Kingdom of Christ,” he added.
Without naming names, Pope
Paul expressed his sympathy
for non-Catholic religious bod
ies undergoing difficulties, a
particularly important point in
light of the difficulties which
the Orthodox Church is encoun
tering in Turkey these days.
He said: "On this occasion
we demonstrate very willingly
to them our good will and that
we are close to them with our
paternal heart to share with
them joys and anxieties. And es
pecially we pray ardently to the
Lord for those among them who
under present * circumstances
are in fear, desiring that, with
the removal of every danger,
they may enjoy in liberty, in
security and in peace their pro
per rights, which are founded
on the natural law.”
Returning to the subject of
the council, the Pope noted that
the third session is being pre
pared for with great diligence
and that the new, reduced and
concentrated schemata will be
sent to the bishops soon for their
study, along with an outline of
the procedure which will be
adopted for examining and ap
proving the individual projects.
The Pope also addressed
himself to the council experts,
"persons qualifiedby virtue and
wisdom,” and said, "may they,
conscious of their duties, faith
fully carry out their mandate.
May they work for the progress
of the interest of the council,
which are superior to indivi
dual aims, with their examplary
lives, with words and writings
so that, under the authority of
the council itself, with their
cooperation they may promote
and hasten the happy outcome
of the great event in as much
as they can.”
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