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MOSAIC FACADE of Benedictines’ Blue Cloud Abbey
church, Marvin, S.D., features Mary, Mother of the
Church, a title Pope Paul VI officially proclaimed last
year. Composed of 15 granite panels with 392 in
dividual pieces, (the mosaic has six predominant colors
in various finishes and tones. (NC Photos)
LUTHERAM
Cardinal Asks
Unity And Love
BOSTON, (NC)—Boston's Ri
chard Cardinal Cushing made a
)lea for “unity of love” in an
iddress here to 1,U00 delegates
it the national convention of the
_,utheran Laymen’s League.
In the first address ever given
Dy a Catholic prelate to a na
tional LLL meeting, Cardinal
Pushing warned that “atheism
is on the march,” that “Chris
tianity is losing out” and that
Christians must unite, “if not
organically, then in the unity of
He stressed the need for dia
logue at the grassroots level and
declared: “I am spreading the
ecumenical spirit among the
common people, like you and
me.”
“The time was when we didn’t
even speak to each other,” he
said. “At least now we are talk
ing. The whole attitude of the past
was absolutely absurd, especially
for Christians who should love
one another whether we are in
complete agreement or not.”
He reminded the Lutherans that
‘you and I agree more than we
disagree.” He commended them
fo^^heir work and asked their
for the success of the
foiSi session of the Second Va
tican Council to convene Sept. 14.
“The Church always needs and
always will need reformation,”
he said, “because we are human.
We could have had the reforma
tion without a revolution 400
years ago if there had been a pope
like John XXIII.”
IN S. AMERICA
On parochial education, Car
dinal Cushing said he was con
cerned at the growing teacher
shortage and suggested the for
mation of “Christian education
centers” operated by laymen to
supplement public schooling.
The Lutheran convention was
welcomed by Massachusetts Gov.
John Volpe, who said that dia
logue between Catholics and Lu
therans is “most welcome in an
age when we see a need to work
together.”
6 Flying Saucers
Seen By Jesuit
BUENOS AIRES (NC)—A Jesuit
>riest-astronomer here said he
las seen unidentified flying ob-
ects—“flying saucers”—in Ar
gentine skies.
Father Benito Reyna, S. J.,
s professor of mathematics at
Salvador University in Buenos
and an astronomer with
than 30 years experience.
“The first time I saw UFOs
was in Cordoda,” Father Reyna
old newsmen. “With the help
>f my telescope I was able to
ollow their flight clearly and
o note their shape and color,
iredominently white, yellow, red
ind blue hues.
“Then last March I saw them
>n two successive nights in San
Atguel. At that time Echo II
vtt orbiting the earth and I
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By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY--“Home for
Christmas!” well could be the
motto of the world’s Catholic
bishops as they open the fourth
and final session of the Second
Vatican Council in St. Peter’s
basilica on Sept. 14.
A long, hard pull is predic
ted for the more than2,000 coun
cil Fathers before the curtain
falls on the historic drama of
Vatican II. But the old theatri
cal query—it was a great third
act, but what are they going to
do for a finale?—does not apply
to this coming council session.
The question is: How can they
possibly do all that has to be done
in a reasonable amount of time;
how can they get home by Christ
mas? Pessimists already have
been heard making predictions of
a post-Christmas duration of the
fourth session. Yet optimists,
and these seem to be in the
majority, discount these dire
forecasts.
Pessimism is based mostly
on the fact that there are 11
schemas or documents still to
be completed by this fourth ses
sion. They point to the council’s
record of achievement to date.
At the opening session of 1962,
no document was finished. In
1963, two documents emerged,
and in 1964, three others were
promulgated.
In other words, it has t'aken
three sessions, almost nine
months of meetings working five
days a week, to produce five
completed council documents.
How will it be possible to finish
11 other documents in a relatively
short time?
The optimists answer that
much of the work already has
been done. They point out that
council documents go through
a series of stages of develop
ment, and each stage represents
a very definite advancement to
ward that ultimate moment when
the council in plenary session
gives it final approval and the
Pope orders the document’s pro
mulgation.
As matters stand now, five of
the 11 documents are in a “final”
stage. Two others are in a “semi
final’ ’ stage. There are only four
of the 11 schemas which still
must go through a complete con
ciliar process.
The five documents awaiting
immediate and final action of the
council are those on ; the pastoral
office of bishops, on Religious,
priestly formation, Christian
education and relations with non-
Christian religions.
These five documents have
been debated and voted upon sec
tion by section. Following the
voting, each of the documents
was returned to the appropriate
commission, together with all
the suggestions for changes or
improvements desired by the
council Fathers. The amend
ments themselves already have
been drafted by the commissions.
Thus, when the council resumes
its work, the Fathers will only
have the choice of accepting or
rejecting the amendments, with a
concluding vote to accept or re
ject a document as a whole. There
will be no debate and no further
opportunity to offer further
amendments. In other words,
the processing of these five docu
ments—almost 50% of the work
load of the agenda—will be cut
and dried.
Two other documents are in
what can be called a semi-final
stage. These are the schemas on
the lay apostolat e and on divine
revelation. These two documents
have been accepted in general.
believe the crew of the flying
saucers was closely following
the U. S. man-made satellite
to study its characteristics.
“We are not certain of the ex
istence of other intelligent beings
similar to ourselves but, on the
other hand, we have no evidence
to the contrary,” said Father
Reyna.
The priest’s statement coin
cided with the claim of an Ar
gentine professional photo
grapher, Hugo Taboada of Bahia
Blanca, to have obtained a pic
ture of a flying saucer.
Other people in the city of
Bahia Blanca say they have seen
the UFOs, and the Argentine
naval base on the Orkney islands
reported “unidentified objects”
during the second week of July.
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The council Fathers must vote
on them, however, section by sec
tion, offering whatever amend
ments they think necessary.
Since they have been approved
in general, no further debate on
their contents is possible. The
Fathers’ suggestions for change
and improvement must be
reviewed by the competent com
missions, which then offer them
later as amendments or set them
aside as not significant or not in
keeping with the overall spirit of
the documents.
When the amendments are
ready, they will be submitted to a
simple “yes” or “no” vote,
similar to that of the five docu
ments already mentioned, and
thus reach that point where they
await the closing plenary session
of the council and the Pope’s
final action.
In short, seven of the 11 docu
ments on the council agenda are
already beyond the debate stage.
They are well along the produc
tion line already and can be dealt
with even as the council works on
the four remaining schemas.
These four are: religious free
dom (scheduled as the first mat
ter of business); the Church in
the modern world; missions; and
the priestly life and ministry.
Each of these must go through
the entire conciliar process. Ad
mittedly the process is a long
one, but there are several fac
tors which argue that it will not
be as protracted as during past
sessions.
The principal argument for a
shorter voyage through conciliar
waters is that all four have al
ready been debated at length.
In preparing the new documents,
the commissions have taken into
account not only the remarks
made on the council floor during
the third session but also the
hundreds of written criticisms
submitted by interested council
members.
BROWNSVILLE
New U.S. Diocese
Created By Pope
CHAUNCEY D. STILLMAN,
New York, has been named to
receive the 1965 Cardinal New
man Award by the National New
man Apostolat.
(NC Photos)
WASHINGTON (NC)--Pope
Paul VI has created the new
diocese of Brownsville, in the
State of Texas, and has made
the following appointments:
Bishop Adolph Marx, former
Auxiliary of Corpus Christi, has
been named the first bishop of
the new Brownsville diocese.
Bishop Thomas J. Drury, for
mer bishop of San Angelo, has
been named bishop of Corpus
Christi.
These actions of the Holy Fa
ther were announced here by
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
apostolic delegate in the United
States.
The diocese of Brownsville has
been created in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley by detaching the
four counties of Starr, Hidalgo,
Willacy and Cameron from the
diocese of Corpus Christi. These
counties comprise an area of
“WE HAVE SEEN AND ADMIRED!” wrote Pope Paul VI on the margin of this
Mariner IV picture of Mars (July 16). This first close-up photo of Mars was
transmitted to earth from a distance of 134 million miles. (NC Photos)
CAIP ISSUES STATEMENT
Peace Group Backs U.S.
Role In South Vietnam
WASHINGTON (NC) — While
pressing for a negotiated settle
ment in Vietnam the U.S. must
be prepared to see the war there
through to the end, the World
Order Committee of the Catholic
Association for International
Peace has declared.
“We cannot abandon South
Vietnam under existing circum
stances and without the promise
of negotiations,” the CAIP group
said in a statement.
The statement voiced support
for the use of U.S. armed force
in Vietnam, “provided always
that this force is measured and
is calculated to bring about a
negotiated peace.” It added:
“Deliberately to bomb civi
lians or to seek to match the
Viet Cong in terrorist tactics
would be, in our judgment, an
immoral use of legitimate pow
er. The use of American troops
as advisers and defenders of
South Vietnam we applaud.
“We believe that the use of
air power should be realistic
but limited. Past evidence of the
effectiveness of bombing as re
vealed by surveys casts doubts
in our minds even as to its
military merits. We oppose the
use of nuclear weapons in Viet
nam.”
Chariman of the CAIP World
Order Committee is Charles O’
Donnell, associate dean of the
Georgetown University foreign
service school.
The statement described the
situation in Vietnam as a “tra
gedy” inherited from French
colonial rule and one from which
there is “no easy way out.”
It accused North Vietnam and
Red China of having “aided and
abetted” the Viet Cong guer
rillas, and said the latter have
used “force and terror” in their
drive to rule the country.
The statement said neither the
1954 nor 1962 international agree
ments regarding Vietnam have
been effective and “are not now
a help in bringing order out of
the situation.”
“Indeed they have become part
of the controversy,” it added.
“We hope that a future agree
ment could prove to be the best
way to achieve a fresh start in
Vietnam.”
The United States, the docu
ment continued, “has a pre-i
scriptive obligation to see the
end of this war. For this lau
dable purpose it has to pursue
relentlessly a policy of giving
strength to the Vietnamese gov
ernment and of thwarting mili
tarily the threat of domination by
the Viet C ong and at the same time
to pursue a policy of steadily
encouraging every reasonable
hope for a negotiated settle
ment.”
The statement said the U.S.
should be “prepared to continue
the use of military power for as
long as the Viet Cong with its
supporters continue hostilities.”
“This may be a long time,”
it added. “We need to match
communist patience with our pa
tience.”
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4,226 square miles with a total
population of 371,348 of whom 234,
700 are Catholics. The princi
pal cities in the new jurisdic
tion are Brownsville (48,050),
Harlingen (41,195) and McAllen
(34,500).
Brownsville diocese will have
74 priests, of whom 24 are dio
cesan and 50 members of re
ligious communities. The latter
are for the greater part members
of the Congregation of Missionar
ies of the Holy Family and of
the Oblates of Mary Immacu
late. There are also 135 Sisters
and 22 seminarians in the new
see.
In the new diocese there are
31 parishes, 53 missions and
24 stations. There are also two
high schools, 18 elementary
schools, a general hospital and
a home for the aged and the
infirm.
WASHINGTON (NC)—A religious theme will be prominent on this
year’s Christmas postage stamp for the first time in the four-year
history of the special holiday stamps. The design for the red, green
and yellow stamp is taken from a 1939 watercolor painting by Boston
artist Lucille Gloria Chabot, showing a weathervane whose chief
feature is the Archangel Gabriel blowing his horn.
EUROPE
Protest Law
BERLIN (NC)—A group of Catholic priests and professional
men in East Germany have protested to the East German govern
ment a pending law which states that all children should be educa
ted in Marxist socialism. The Catholic group noted that socialism
in the Marxist sense means atheism, and they said Catholic parents
have an obligation to give their children religious training.
Ceases Publication
STUTTGART, Germany (NC)—One of Germany’s oldest Catholic
daily newspapers, the Deutsches Volksblatt of Stuttgart, has an
nounced it will cease publication Aug. 1. No reason for the closure
was given, but it was understood the paper was losing circulation
and money.
NEW EDITOR—Elmer Von Feldt,
N.C.W.C. News Service news edi
tor since 1956, will join the staff
of the Knights of Columbus maga
zine, Columbia, Sept. 1, to suc
ceed John B. Donahue as editor
upon his retirement later this
year. (NC Photos)
FAR EAST
Schools Closed
NEW DELHI (NC)—The Burmese government has ordered the
closing of all mission language schools. The government stated
there is no need for school to teach languages to missionaries since
they can attend the Burmese Institute of Languages opened last
year.