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DCCW CONVENTION- MACON,APR. 24-25
NEWSPAPER DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Vol. 45, No. 41
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965
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EASTER MESSAGE
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Pontiff Optimistic
InF ace Of Vietnam
War, Racial Conflict
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI, speaking on Easter to
all Catholics, all Christians and
all men of good will, said that
optimism is the message of the
Resurrection.
“Optimism will prevail,” the
Pope declared.
The Pope also made what was
generally regarded as a veiled
appeal for an end to the fight
ing in Vietnam. He said:
“May the day come on which
the discords among peoples will
be resolved, not with the force
of arms but rather in the light
of reasonable negotiations. And
let every war and guerrilla ope
ration give way to constructive
collaboration which is mutual and
fraternal.
“And may the day come on
which the prodigious energies
of progress will be employed to
satisfy the world’s hunger and
to educate future generations,
to bring remedies to the re
current ills of mankind.”
His 1,500-word speech, de
livered from a balcony over
looking a crowd of more than
100,000 people who had braved
rain to attend his Mass in St.
Peter’s square, brought the my
stery of the Resurrection to bear
on the problems of modern man.
“Such a positive, optimistic
viewpoint, drawn from the my
stery of the risen life, throws
into clear relief not only the
world outside man but the world
within him—his own heart and
soul,” the Pope said.
“There can be no doubt that
the heart of man, especially
the heart of contemporary man, is
reaching out for life, for growth,
for fullness of knowledge and
possession, for the power to will
and to enjoy, for achievement of
happiness.”
But the Pope asserted that
man’s restless search for hap
piness “stirs up in his heart
feelings of desolation, distress,
fear, deep-rooted pessimism and
uncertainty about the future.”
All these destroy foundations of
happiness the Pope said.
“The same could be said of
that characteristic feature of our
time, social coexistence, so
familiar in our world of change
and yet so difficult to maintain,
3so insecure in its final outcome
whether for peace or for war,
for freedom or for totalitarian
ism and slavery. . . for the
construction of a world society
in collaboration or for the de
struction of everything that has
been planted and built up on the
iace of the earth.”
“Well then, how much comfort,
hope and strength for renewal
and peace can be spread abroad
in the world of today by the spirit
of the paschal season. 11 is the
spirit which raises up out of this
temporal city of man the timeless
city of God, in this very way giv
ing life to our present ideals and
striving toward unity and uni
versality, toward freedom tem
pered by wisdom and a concern
for what is right and good, toward
an ever-growing practice of jus
tice, toward a charity that is al
ways effective.
“Oh, let us then reaffirm to the
world the message of paschal
joy--not just an announcement,
but a wish; not just a wish, but
a prophecy; the desire, at least,
and by its very strength and in
tensity the prelude of a new start
in the history of man as studied
against the background of the
resurrection of human life in
eternity.
“And so, in the name and in the
spirit of the Risen Christ, may
the day finally come on which
men will put aside their false
ideologies, urged on by their
need for a new wisdom or be
cause they have accepted this
new wisdom which reveals man’s
nature as well as his true des
tiny.
The Pope’s final expression of
longing was for an end to politi
cal and religious persecutions
“And let there no longer be
on this earth any of those de
liberately caused and useless
sufferings brought about by
systematic political and social
oppression, or racial strife, or
contempt and restriction of just
freedom of conscience and of
expression!
“The thought of brothers in
the faith who even today in so
many countries are obstructed
and oppressed, puts on our lips
a special greeting for them: Cou
rage, beloved sons! Persevere in
your loyalty and in your fidelity.
Nothing will be lost of your suf
fering, which even today is a
stunning witness to belief in re
ligious liberty and of the spiritual
unity of the Church of Christ.”
COLLEGE HEAD SA YS
Education Should Place
More Stress On Freedom
‘PEACE BE WITH YOUR — Pope Paul VI is seen as he delivered his Easter mes
sage from the porch of St. Peter’s Basilica April 18. (NC Photos)
AIMED AT NEEDY CHILDREN
Cardinal Spellman Hails
Passage Of School Aid
NEW YORK (NC)—Francis
Cardinal Spellman expressed
gratitude here to the American
people for passage of the new
Federal aid to education law.
He praised President Johnson
^^Congress for adoption of the
13^ but told the opening session
of the 62nd annual meeting of
the National Catholic Educational
Association:
“Above all, I thank the people
ON POPE JOHN
of the United States because they
were responsible for having the
Senate and the Congress respond
to our plea against discrimina
tion.”
The $1.3 billion law signed
recently by President Johnson
will launch a massive program
aimed chiefly at bolstering the
education of children of low-
income families. Needy children
attending parochial and other pri
vate schools will share certain
services and facilities extended
to them by local public school
districts.
President Johnson sent a
greeting to the convention whose
keynote speaker was the Chief
Executive’s Commissioner of
Education, Francis Keppel.
Mr. Johnson’s greeting, read to
the assembly by Archbishop John
P. Cody of New Orleans, called
this a “bright moment in the
history of American education.”
“This was a promise made
long ago and one that many fine
men and women have worked very
hard to keep. But it remains to
us in this day to use our new
technical knowledge and skills
and our greater understanding
of man’s potentialities to give
every child, rich or poor, black
or white, a chance to live a full
an honest life,” he said.
Guessed Wrong,
Prelate Admits
NEW YORK (NC)--Catholic
schools should be putting more
stress on freedom and less on
obedience, a Catholic college
president told the 62nd National
Catholic Educational Association
convention.
“Rather than holding up sub
mission and conformity as stan
dards to meet, we have to en
courage our students of today
to take stands that may be un
popular, may even expose them
to ostracism,” Sister Mar
garet, president of Trinity Col
lege in Washington, D. C., said
at the convention's final general
session (April 22).
“Debate, controversy, initia-
tive—these must be the hallmark
of educated people today,” Sister
Margaret said. “We are in a
learning society. Our students
must be characterized as those
prepared to go on learning.”
The nun-college president ur
ged a reorientation of Catholic
education putting more emphasis
on international responsibilities,
including the work of such
agencies as the United Nations
and UNESCO, and also giving
students a greater sense of com
mitment to social goals and
duties.
“Education today,” she said,
“must develop an environment
that will stimulate thought about
ethics in society, and the re
lation of each individual to that
society interms of his own ethical
principles. To reach this result
the environment must be one that
is free.”
She called on Catholic teachers
to be true educators, rather than
propagandists, explaining:
“The educator recognizes each
pupil as a unique person who has
a particular task to fulfill in
time. The propagandist, on the
other hand, is concerned with his
own ideas, opinions and feelings
and is concerned with the pupil
only for exploitation.
“Too often today people in our
schools are more propagandists
than educators, and so our pupils
never do develop to the point
where they make a difference in
the world.”
Sister Margaret said en
actment of the administration’s
new Federal aid to education pro
gram has presented Catholic edu
cation with a new challenge.
“Now is the time to demon
strate that our interest, just as
that of the public school educa
tors, is the education of the
youth of the United States,” she
said.
“We have the opportunity now
to come up with ideas of co
operation, of pooling our best
CALLED NECESSARY
LONDON (NC)—John Cardinal
Heenan said here that before the
election of John XXIII to the
papacy, he had thought that the
Church would have to be “hard
up” to choose the man who was
Angelo Cardinal Roncalli.
The archbishop of Westmin
ster recalled his assessment of
Cardinal Roncalli in the course
of a speech at a literary luncheon
marking the publication in Bri
tain of Pope John’s spiritual
^p^es.
Cardinal Heenan said that at
the funeral of Pope Pius XII in
October 1958, he glanced at the
cardinals present when he should
have been 1 , praying. The then
archbishop of Liverpool was
wondering which would become
pope.
“I must confess,” he said,
“that when my eyes rested on
a very fat old gentleman called
Cardinal Roncalli my glance did
not rest long. It was clear to
me that the Church was not so
hard up that we would have to
select Cardinal Roncalli.
“But in due course he be
came Pope John XXIII and soon
afterwards I was received in
private audience.” At their first
meeting Pope John said to him:
“Why on earth did God choose
me to be the Pope?” Cardinal
Heenan said he thought; “Heav
en, this man’s a clairvoyant.”
The cardinal went on to say:
“I would never have believed
that so many people in this
country would have been con
cerned at the death of this great
and good man. . . Everyone of
every religion and none agreed
that there never was a pope like
John in modern times. . .He had
no use for what was bogus in the
practice of the Church. He had
a power of love whereas most
people have a love of power.
He was a man with a heart so
big that it should embrace the
whole world.”
AWARD—Dr. Charles O. Galvin,
dean of the Southern Methodist
University school of law will
receive the National Council of
Catholic Men’s 1965 Award for
Intellectual Leadership at the
Biennial N.C.C.M. convention in
Dallas, Texas, April 28-May 1.
(NC Photos)
talents and thought in order to
arrive at the best possible edu
cation of our young. . .
“This moment of time which
is ours is not one that calls
for retreat. It calls for re
thinking and for creative action
based on careful and thoughtful
planning. ’ ’
“FOR DISTINGUISHED
ACHIEVEMENT” in the
field of journalism, Patrick F.
Scanlan, K.S.G., veteran man
aging editor of “The Tablet”
weekly newspaper of the Brooklyn
diocese, has been named winner
of Villanova University’s “St.
Augustine Award.”
(NC Photos)
GOOD SHEPHERD statue in chapel of Vatican Pavil
ion at World’s Fair in New York has been placed for
better viewing this year, according to Msgr. John J.
Gorman, pavilion director. The statue, believed toj
date from the 3rd century, is on loan from the Lateran
Museum in Rome. More than 13 million people last
year visited the Vatican Pavilion, making it the second
most popular exhibit at the fair. (NC Photos)
Moral Base For
4 Great Society’
NEW YORK (NC)—The “Great
Society” which President John
son has asked the nation to seek
must be built on the philosophy
that Americans are a religious
people, Catholic educators heard
here.
“We must not be afraid to
think and speak and act like a
religious people,” said Auxiliary
Bishop John S. Spence of Wash
ington.
“An airplane cannot fly with
out fuel,” he said. “And we can
not build a Great Society with
out a motivation worthy of it.”
He suggested that the motive
is found in the phrase, “order in
the universe,” used by the late
Pope John. He said this concept
has deep roots in the U.S. na
tional heritage, noting the Su
preme Court’s 1952 observation
that “we are a religious people
whose institutions presuppose a
Supreme Being.”
“We are indeed a religious
people,” he continued. “In this
tradition, our nation has grown
to greatness. In this spirit and
only in this spirit, we can help
to build the Great Society to
which the President has so elo
quently called us, on the foun
dation of ‘order in the uni
verse.’ ”
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
NATION
Three New Bishops
WASHINGTON - Pope Paul VI has made the following appoint
ments to the U.S Hierarchy: Msgr. Cyril J. Vogel, vicar general
of Greensburg, Pa. - Bishop of Salina Kans; Msgr Frank Grete-
man, Pastor of Holy Spirit Church Carroll, Iowa - Auxiliary Bis
hop of Sioux City; Msgr. Edward A. McCarthy, secretary to Arch
bishop Alter of Cincinnati - Auxiliary to Archbishop Alter.
Editor Improves
DENVER—Msgr. John B. Cavanagh, editor-in-chief of the Regis
ter system of newspapers, was taken off the critical list at St.
Joseph’s Hospital (April 18) following a heart attack.
EUROPE
Anglican Gift To Pope
LONDON (NC)--An Anglican bishop will present Pope Paul VI
with a set of Mass vestments made by Anglican nuns, it was an
nounced here. Bishop Robert Mortimer of Exeter is making the
presentation on behalf of some 300 Catholic, Anglican, Protestant
and Orthodox pilgrims when they are received in audience on April
24 on their way to the Holy Land.
Soviets Visit Basilica
MADRID—Members of a Soviet basketball team, TS.KA of
Moscow, visited the Benedictine monastery and basilica of the
Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen near here, built in memory
of those who died in the! Spanish Civil War (1936-39).