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Vol. 46, No. 12
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1965
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FOR I/.JV. TALK
Pope To Meet
President On
Historic Visit
PENITENTIAL PROCESSION — Floodlights provide a spectacular view of the
Basilica of St. John Lateran where, following the opening meeting of Vatican
IPs fourth session, the Pope addressed a “penitential procession” of some 2,500
Council Fathers. Pope Paul took part in a half-mjle procession from the
Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem to the Basilica. (R.N.S. Photo)
FOR VIET REFUGEES
Catholic Relief Agency
Asks Increased U.S. Aid
1,997 TO 224
Council Upholds
Religious Liberty
In Lopsided Vote
WASHINGTON, D. C.(RNS)
President Johnson will meet
with Pope Paul VI on Oct, 4
in New York City, the White
House has confirmed.
The announcement ended
widespread speculation — al
though some held protocol
provided a stumbling block,
most observers felt a meet
ing of President and Pope was
a certainty.
Press Secretary Bill D. Mo
yers made the announcement,
noting the Mr. Johnson was
“looking forward” to the vi
sit with Pope Paul.
Details were relatively
scant, and Mr. Moyers said
arrangements would be an
nounced shortly. It was ex
pected, however, that the
meeting would be held in the
Waldorf-Astoria apartment of
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg.
Whether the conference
would be held before or after
the Pope’s address before the
U. N. General Assembly also
was unknown. Pope Paul’s
plea for peace will be made
between 3 and 4 p.m. on Oct.
4.
The meeting of the head of
the Roman Catholic Church
with a U. S. President is not
unprecedented --it has hap
pened three times in 46 years,
but always at Vatican City.
The October meeting will be
the first to be held on U. S.
soil.
President Woodrow Wilson
met with Pope Benedict XV
on Jan. 4, 1919, less than two
months after the signing of
the Armistice ending World
War L
On Dec. 6, 1959, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower called
on Pope John XXIII, and on
July 2, 1963 Pope Paul re
ceived President JohnF. Ken
nedy.
For President Johnson the
meeting will be his second
with a reigning Pope. In 1962,
when he was Vice President,
he visited Pope John at the
Vatican. They spoke princi
pally of war and peace and
the drives against hunger and
illiteracy throughout the
world.
When Pope Paul greeted Mr.
Kennedy, in the formal ex
change of addresses that pre
ceded a private conversation,
the pontiff spoke out in praise
of the U. S. campaign to in
sure civil rights for all.
According to the White
House, President Johnson had
long planned to visit New York
on Oct. 3, the eve of the pa
pal visit, to have dinner with
Ambassador Goldberg and U.
S. aides at the United Nations.
Some newspaper reporters
held that the “coincidence’*
was remarkable, that the
meeting of Pope and Presi
dent had been planned in ad
vance.
Pope Paul’s appearance be
fore »the General Assembly
is the result of a long-stand
ing invitation issued by U.
Thant, Secretary General of
the United Nations.
It was apparent that the Va
tican had waited for the White
House to make the announce
ment. Vatican Radio did not
carry the news until a few
hours after Mr. Moyers’ press
conference. It said:
“The spokesman of the
White House announced yes
terday that the President of
the United States, Lyndon
Johnson, will meet Pope Paul
VI on Oct. 4 on the occasion
of the pontiff’s visit to the
headquarters of the United
Nations. Particulars of the
meeting are not yet complete
ly outlined, but they will be
made known within a few days.
President Johnson, added the
White House spokesman, is
extremely glad about this
meeting, which will be the
fourth between a President
of the U. S. and a Pontiff.”
WASHINGTON (NC) - More
help is needed from the U. S.
government if private volun
tary agencies are to meet the
alarming increase in refugees
in Vietnam, Congress has been
told.
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“We are at a junction that
requires the full support of the
federal government,” said
Msgr. John F. McCarthy, as
sistant executive director of
Catholic Relief Services —
National catholic Welfare
Conference.
“This means not only finan
cial and material, but moral
support as well, ’ ’ he told (Sept.
21) the Senate Judiciary sub
committee on refugee and es
capees headed by Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Msgr. McCarthy was one of
about a half-dozen spokesmen
for voluntary U. S. relief a-
gencies appearing before the
Senate panel studying Viet
nam’s refugee problem. Oth
ers included the Red Cross,
Church World Service, CARE,
the International Rescue Com
mittee and the American
Friends Service Committee.
CRS operates the largest
private relief effort in Viet
nam. In late August, it an
nounced a sharp step-up in its
program, saying that a “sub
stantial portion” of its world
wide work will be concentra
ted in that southeast Asia na
tion.
“The United States,” said
Msgr. McCarthy, “is meeting
the Vietnam challenge in the
military and political arenas.
But as pointed out by Pres
ident Johnson, we cannot fail
to meet the challenge in the
welfare arena.
“We admire the President’s
concern and your concern in
recognizing the needs at this
time for the kind of action we
call people - to - people pro
grams. We have responded to
the appeals of the federal gov
ernment and are trying to meet
the need in Vietnam, but we
are at a junction that re
quires the full support of the
federal government.”
CRS, he related, in recent
weeks has sent more than 40
tons of medicines, valued at
$407,958, to refugees —“the
largest single shipment of me
dicines in the agency’s 20-
year history.”
In addition, he said, the a-
gency supported by contribu
tions of U. S. Catholics has
sent 200 tons of salt and 2,400
cases of condensed milk. It
plans to quadruple its ship
ments of clothing which last
year came to 400 tons.
“We have requested the
Agency for International De
velopment to grant permis
sion for us to increase our
feeding program from 450,000
to 650,000 persons..We think
consideration of our request is
most urgent,” he said.
Msgr. McCarthy lauded the
cooperation received from U.
S. military . services. “A
refugee program has been
launched in the Mekong Delta
and in the central highlands
with the cooperation of the
American special forces and
the Vietnamese forces.”
VATICAN CITY (NC) —
A history meeting of the ecu
menical council voted over
whelmingly to present to the
world a definitive document af
firming man’s civil right to
religious freedom.
The vote was taken (Sept.
21) after five days of debate
on the subject by 62 council
Fathers and was a speciali
vote proposed by the council’s
board of moderators. The Fa
thers at the 132nd general
council meeting were asked to
vote on the question:
“Do the Fathers judge that
the revised text on religious
liberty can serve as a basis
for a definitive declaration
which will be perfected in
the light of the Catholic tea
ching on the true religion
and according to observations
proposed by Fathers during
the discussions and which will
be approved later according to
the regulations of the coun
cil?”
The answer to the question
was resounding. Of the 2,222
Fathers voting, 1,997 said yes;
224 said no, and one vote was
null.
With the closing of the de
bate on religious liberty the
council turned to the next mat
ter on its agenda, the lengthy
and complicated schema on
the Church in the modern
world, sometimes known as
schema 13 because of the place
it occupied during the third
session of the council in 1964.
The first to speak on it was
Francis cardinal Spellman of
New York, who asked that
the present text not be weak
ened because the document
should be a clear affirmation
of the Church’s place in the
world today. The Church wants
to listen, Cardinal Spellman
said, and wants to be listened
to in a real dialogue.
Before council business got
underway, the council’s se
cretary general, Archbishop
Pericle Felici announced that
Pope Paul VI has chosen an
international group of cardi
nals to accompany him on his
flight to the United Nations in
New York on Oct. 4.
They are Amleto Cardinal
Cicognani, Italian-born Papal
Secretary of State; French-
born Eugene cardinal Tisse-
rant, dean of the College of
Cardinals; Gregorio Pietro
Cardinal Agagianian of the
Roman curia, who was for
merly Armenian-rite patriar
ch of Cilicia and born in
what is now the Soviet Union;
Norman Cardinal Gilroy of
Sydney, Australia; cardinal
Spellman; Antonio cardinal
Caggiano of Buenos Aires;
Peter Cardinal Doi of Tokyo;
and Laurean cardinal Rugam-
bwa of Bukoba, Tanzania, A-
frica.
While Cardinal Spellman
was warmly in favor of the
document, he took exception
to one part dealing with mili
tary conscription. He said cla
rification is needed to state
that military service is obli
gatory.
The cardinal, who is head of
the Military Ordinariate for
the U. S. armed forces and
in effect the bishop of Ca
tholics in the services, said
the responsibility for judging
the necessity of drafting men
for service belongs to civil
authorities and that in
dividuals cannot refuse their
obedience to the state.
Although the New York car
dinal was highly favorable to
the new text of the 146-page
document on the Church in
the modern world, most of
the other speakers of the day
were not.
The morning’s debate began
with four council Fathers
rising to speak on the fifth
day of debate on religious li
berty including Enrico Car
dinal Dante of the Roman cu
ria and Switzerland’s Charles
Cardinal Jour net. After the
four had spoken, the day’s
moderator, Cardinal Agagian
ian, noted that 62 speeches had
been given on the subject and
asked the Fathers if they
wanted to close debate. The
AKRON, Ohio (NC) — An
interracial council chaplain
contended here that a “per
son-to-person” meeting be
tween the poor and the mid
dle class is necessary for the
success of the war on poverty.
Father Thomas J. Gallag
her, chaplain of the Akron
Area Catholic Interracial
Council, told a meeting (Sept.
16) in the Akron Community
Center it is not enough for
affluent Christians to ease
their consciences by sending
old clothes, money and other
aid to the poor.
“The poor must be given
hope, a sense of responsibi
lity, and a chance to parti
cipate in their own improve
ment. This can be done best
through leadership formation
programs organized by the
poor themselves,” Father
Gallagher said.
He pointed out that a re
curring theme in discussions
on the subject is: what is
the Church’s role in the an
ti-poverty movement in our
country? He cautioned that
the Church must not become
just another welfare agency
dispensing old clothes to the
poor.
The same note of indivi-
Fathers approved this by a
standing vote.
Speaking on religious li
berty, Cardinal Dante, long
time secretary of the Con
gregation of Rites, criticized
the schema for containing what
he called a “very grave equi
vocation.”
He said the text smacks of
liberalism and objected that
the limits set on religious
liberty in terms of public
order opened the door to dan
gers to the Catholic Church.
In pagan countries the
Church’s right to preach the
Gospel, he said, would be de-
fendable only in terms of the
natural law, and in communist
countries public order could
be twisted to suit communist
regimes. He called for a com
plete revision of the document.
Cardinal Journet made the
point that there exists a doc
trinal unity among council Fa
thers in the matter of religious
liberty—as was proved by the
vote later in the day.
dual involvement was sound
ed in the Nation’s Capital
last week by another priest
widely known for his activi
ties in inter-racial matters.
Speaking before Washing
ton’s St. Vincent de Paul So
ciety, Father L. J. Twomey,
S. J., director of the Insti-
tutute of Human Relations at
Loyola University, New Or
leans, declared that poverty
is widespread today because
“too many Catholics have
carelessly overlooked their
obligations to fight for social
justice and charity.”
The noted priest-sociolo
gist appealed in particular to
“those Catholics who attend
Mass and receive the sacra
ments, have good incomes, and
live comfortably in split le
vel . . . homes in the su
burbs, but overlook their mo
ral obligations to help the
poor.”
“They must realize,” he
added, “that their religion
should mean more to them than
attending Mass and going to
the sacraments — as impor
tant as those duties are. They
have the obligation in con
science to help their needy
neighbors, regardless of race
or creed.
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EUROPE
Offertory Gifts
LONDONfNC) - -Father Terence Tanner, pastor at Dover, South-
East England, has revived the practice of the early Church in
receiving his collection each Sunday. At the offertory during
Mass in his church of St. Paul, he sits himself at the sanctuary
gates with the plate held before him and the congregation go up
to the altar and place in it their offering. The pastor sits
with his head bowed and his eyes closed so as not to intimidate
parishioners into giving more than they wish.
VATICAN
Vatican U.N. Stamps
VATICAN CITY (NC)—-Vatican City will issue a special series
of stamps Oct. 4 commemorating Pope Paul’s, visit to the UN
that day and his appeal for peace. The series will consist of
stamps in four values depicting two subjects: Pope Paul pronounc
ing his discourse, and the UN building itself. All will carry the
inscription in Latin, “Pope Paul VI, Messenger of Peace,” and
the date.
NATION
Updated Layman
DULUTH, Minn. (NC)—A layman has taken office as executive
secretary of the Duluth diocese. The appointment of Stephen A.
Rodman, lifelong Duluth resident who has been active in many
Catholic organizations, to the newly created office was approved
by the diocesan board of consultors. The office principally is
concerned with business matters of the diocese and its organi
zations.
CROSIER in hand, Pope Paul, flanked by Cardinals
Ottaviani ,and Larraona, passes among his brother
'bishops to concelebrate Mass opening the fourth
session of Vatican Council II. (NC Pnotos)
/\ POVERTY WAR
‘Middle Class’
Effort Needed