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LABOR DAY STATEMENT
Personal Action Needed
In Fight Against Poverty
WASHINGTON (NC)— Every
citizen should “take advant
age of every opportunity to
minister to the poor and the
disadvantaged by the personal
practice of the spiritual and
corporal works of mercy,”
says the 1965 Labor Day state
ment of the Social Action De
partment, National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
Prepared under the direc
tion of Msgr. George G. Hig
gins, department director, the
statement emphasizes: “This
is our common responsibility
and not merely an elective,
so to speak, for the few.
None of us, in other words,
is free to look the other way
or to stand on the sidelines
as a passive spectator. We
are all called upon to be
come personally involved in
helping the poor to help them
selves.”
On the day of judgment, the
statement said, “our love of
God will be measured strictly
by the degree to which we have
ministered--or failed to min
ister—to the material as well
as the spiritual needs of our
neighbor. ‘Believe me,' the
Lord will say to each of us on
the final day of judgment,
‘when you did it to one of
the least of my brethren, you
did it to me,’ or ‘. . .when
you refused it to one of the
least of my brethren here, you
refused it to me. And these
shall pass on to eternal pun
ishment, and the just to e-
ternal life.’ ”
Moses’ commandment to his
followers “to be generous and
open-handed to those who
might fall upon evil days,”
the statement said, has not
lost its meaning as “a bind
ing dictate of conscience.”
“This is true,” it added,
“not only because there is
no lack of poor people in this
bountiful and phenomenally
prosperous land, but also, and
more importantly, because
there is less excuse today for
the continuation of widespread
poverty and infinitely less ex
cuse on our own part for steel
ing our hearts and shutting our
purses against its unfortunate
victims.”
The statement said labor
and management have done
much “to raise the living stan
dards of millions of Ameri
cans.” However, “the tradi
tional techniques of labor-
management cooperation are
not sufficient, of themselves,
to solve the nagging problem
of abject poverty in the midst
of plenty.”
The suggestion that working
men with a “ ‘favorable stan
dard of living. . .may be in
clined to forget their com
rades who are not so well off ”
was termed “unfair to the ma
jority of American workers.”
But the statement added that
such a charge can serve as
“a chastening reminder. . .
that they have an obligation to
concern themselves per
sonally with the problems of
the poor and to help them to
improve their lot in life.”
“That this will require
special attention,” the state
ment continued, “to the dis
mal plight of our Negro fellow-
citizens and the members of
other disadvantaged minority
groups is self-evident. . .No
greater mistake could be made
than to think that the problem
of racial injustice, the sheer
magnitude and tragedy of
which we have yet fully to
grasp as a nation, was taken
care of once and for all by the
enactment of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.”
Although this law was his
tory-making, “in the long run
(it) could prove to have been
a curse rather than a blessing
if the hopes and expectations
which it has aroused among
our Negro fellow citizens are
frustrated.”
The statement praised those
who support reforms and con
tribute to appeals for the re
lief of the needy. “On the other
hand, a purely impersonal in
terest in the plight of the poor
and the disadvantaged is far
from being adequate. Much
more is demanded of all of us.
We are called upon to per
form the corporal and spiri
tual works of mercy on a
person-to-person basis and to
do so with profound respect
for the dignity and the sensi
bilities of those whom we are
privileged to serve in the name
of the Lord.
“We will most certainly
fail to meet this challenge if
we think of the poor and the
underprivileged only as so
many digits in a cold statisti
cal abstract and fail to see
them in all their dignity as
the favorite children of God.”
The statement asked all to
live in such a way as to gain
“the benediction which (God)
Himself, speaking through Da
vid the psalmist, has bestowed
upon those who show their love
for the poor by the true test of
action:
“ ‘Blessed is he who has
regard for the lowly and the
poor; in the day of misfor
tune the Lord will deliver
him. The Lord will keep and
preserve him; He will make
him happy on the earth, and
will not give him over to the
will of his enemies.”
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ARCHBISHOP EGIDIO VAGNOZZI, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. (right),
escorts Archbishop John P. Cody to his symbolic throne in Holy Name Cath-
ednal during installation ceremony for the new Ordinary of Chicago.
(R.N.S. Photo)
AT HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL
Archbishop Of Chicago
Enthroned Before 2,000
CHICAGO (RNS) — The
Most Rev. John Patrick Cody,
57, was enthroned as sixth
Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Chicago before more than
2,000 persons of all faiths in
Holy Name Cathedral here.
The ceremony was filled
with medieval pageantry and
touched by the 20th Century
ecumenical spirit, as scores
of religious leaders from the
Protestant and Jewish faiths
came to attend the. centuries-
old ceremony.
According to tradition, the
new archbishop was escorted
to the cathedral in a color
ful procession of bishops,
priests and other religious
officials.
Wearing purple robes, he
was led to the front of the
highvaulted cathedral, where
he took his place at the “fa
ldstool,” a backless folding
chair used in the early part
of the ceremony when the
archbishop has not yet been
formally installed.
Later, Archbishop Cody sat
in the cathedral, in the high-
backed throne symbolic of the
archbishop’s ruling and teach
ing authority.
Fourteen bishops jointly ce
lebrated the Mass before a
green-draped altar. Archbis
hop Egidio Vagnozzi of Wash
ington, D. C., Papal Delegate
to the United States, conduct
ed the installation ceremony.
The papal bull, a letter from
Pope Paul VI designating
Archbishop Cody, formerly of
New Orleans, as the new lead
er of the 1,800,000 RomanCa-
tholics in the Chicago area,
was read.
In accordance with the Va
tican’s new policy of using
modern languages in the Mass,
the prayers of the Mass were
intoned in English by a group
of bishops standing in a semi
circle.
Concelebration of the Mass
—the joint offering of the Sa
crifice by more than one priest
— was common in the West
ern Church until the Middle
Ages.
Before the formal enthrone
ment began, Archbishop Vag
nozzi led Archbishop Cody by
the hand to the red-draped ca
thedral. He then placed the
crozier, the symbol of the
archbishop’s authority, in
Archbishop Cody’s hand.
The prelate was then for
mally enthroned as archbishop
of the largest archdiocese in
the United States and one of
the largest in the world, with
460 parishes, 434 elementary
schools, 90 high schools, 14
seminaries, six colleges and
universities, 22 general hos
pitals, 49 cemeteries, 33 or
phanages and infant homes,
9,700 nuns 2,909 priests and
nearly 700 brothers.' In this
enormous task, he succeeds
Albert Cardinal Meyer, the
noted Archbishop of Chicago
and one of the American pre
lates playing a leading role
at the Vatican Council, who
died April 9.
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Holy Family Council No.
5588, Knights of Columbus,
has named J. Emmett Moy
lan “Knight of the Year.”
This award, a new one, will
be presented annually to an
outstanding member of Holy
Family Council.
During the past year, with
Moylan as Grand Knight and
chairman of the Development
Committee, Holy Family
Council received the only
“Star” Council Award in the
state of Georgia. The Star
Council Award is given by
Supreme Council for achieve
ments under the K. of C.
Six Point Program.
The Knight of the Year pre
sentation was made by Robert
Powers, General program
Chairman. In making the pre
sentation, Powers said: “It
is my distinct pleasure to
present this award to the gen
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J. Emmett Moylan, 1964-65.
Moylan is presently serving
as trustee of Holy Family
Council.
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The Southern Cross, September 2, 1965—PAGE 3
CATHOLIC RELIEF
Agency Steps Up
Aid For Vietnam
WASHINGTON (NC)—U. S.
Catholic relief efforts in South
Vietnam are being sharply
stepped up at the request of
Pope Paul VI and of the Fed
eral government.
Archbishop Patrick A.
O’Boyle of Washington, chair
man of the administrative
board of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, made the
announcement.
It was in response to a di
rect appeal from the Pope
to the U. S. hierarchy for
increased aid. In recent
weeks, the Catholic agency,
and other private voluntary
organizations, also has been
asked by the U. S. govern
ment to raise their contri
butions.
It is expected that a “sub
stantial portion” of the world
wide relief work of the U. S.
Catholic agency will be con
centrated in South Vietnam
from now on.
The aid will be used to al
leviate what officials call the
urgent needs of 650,000 re
fugees and other war victims
as well as help develop long-
range plans for economic sta
bility of that country.
U. S. Catholic aid goes into
South Vietnam through the fa
cilities of Catholic ReliefSer-
vices--National catholic Wel
fare Conference, which pre
sently conducts relief pro
grams in 79 nations in Africa,
Asia and Latin America.
CRS has been in South Viet
nam since 1954 when the U. S.
government requested its ser
vices.
Following Archbishop O’
Boyle’s announcement, the
executive director of CRS,
Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom,
announced at the agency’s
New York headquarters that
the first shipment under the
increased program will be 200
tons of salt.
The prelate, who announced
that his agency j now helps
about 450,000 persons in South
Vietnam, said salt is acutely
needed. It will leave from
New Orleans by ship on Sept.
7, he said.
There is a “most extra
ordinary and pressing need”
for salt, the bishiop said. * ‘Salt
might seem like a luxury in
view of all the other needs in
Vietnam, but is an absolute
requirement in that climate,”
he said.
CRS representatives in
South Vietnam, he added, re
port that salt ordinarily sells
for two or three piasters per
kilo, but its scarcity has in
creased the price to 25 to 35
piasters, the equivalent of a
day’s wages for an unskilled
worker. A kilo is 2.2 pounds.
The burden is great on un
employed refugees, he said,
for the current price equals
the total amount of aid given
by the South Vietnam govern
ment to a family of five peo
ple for one day.
CRS also will quadruple its
shipment of clothing and medi
cine, the bishop said. Last
year it sent more than 400
tons of clothing and 25 tons
of medicines.
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