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METHODIST LEADER AND POPE — Bishop Fred Pierce Corson (right) of.
Philadelphia, president of the World Methodist Council, and Pope Paul VI
are shown after a private audience early in the fourth session of Vatican II.
(R.N.S. Photo)
BISHOP CORSON
World Methodist Head
Pope
PHILADELPHIA - The head
of the World Methodist Coun
cil said here that the ecu
menical council’s approval of
a declaration on religious li
berty provides the world with
a “Magna Carta” for free
dom of worship.
Bishop Fred Pierce Cor
son of Philadelphia also had
high praise for Pope Paul VI,
who he predicted will “take
his place in history amongthe
great popes and will be seen
as one of the ablest strate
gists who ever sat on the
throne of St. Peter.”
Bishop Corson made his
comments in a press confe
rence (Sept. 27) after return
ing from Rome, where he at
tended sessions of the coun
cil. He also had a private
audience with Pope Paul on
Sept. 23.
The Methodist leader said
the council’s fourth session
was making “notable gains”
in Church renewal and Chris
tian unity.
“The impression set forth
in some circles that the slow
ness of council action on some
of the main issues is a kind
of foot - dragging is erro
neous,” he declared.
BY U.N. PRESIDENT
Spiritual Values
In Charter Cited
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(NC) —The visit of Pope Paul
VI to the United Nations will
remind its members of their
commitment to the ideals em
bodied in the U. N. charter,
the newly elected president
of the General Assembly told
the opening meeting of its 20th
session.
Amintore Fanfani of Italy
said:
“The announcement of this
visit has been welcomed as
an example of confidence in the
spiritual values common to
aU mankind, which all the
member states are called upon
to safeguard.”
Fanfani stressed the obli
gations imposed on U.N. mem
bers to ensure peace and em
phasized the urgency of the
problems of disarmament and
economic development. He
caUed for courageous and con
crete action in response to
the anxious expectations re
flected in puoiic opinion
throughout the world.
“Vague declarations of good
will are not enough,” he told
the delegates. “Only concrete
facts can demonstrate that we
know how to build and to build
solidly. If we do not achieve
concrete agreements the U.N.
will be an international forum
perhaps, but we shall have re
fused t o make it the guaran
tor of law, the guardian of our
security, the soul of peace.”
Fanfani, Italy’s foreign
minister, is a former pro
fessor of economic history at
Milan. He has been associat
ed with the Christian Demo
cratic party since 1945, when
he served as a member of
its central committee.
He twice served as Italy’s
prime minister (1958-1959 and
1960-1963), and this is his se
cond time as foreign minister.
Other Catholics who have
served as presidents of the
General Assembly are the late
Oswald Aranha of Brazil, Vic
tor Andres Belaunde of Peru,
Frederick Boland of Ireland,
and Carlos Sosa Rodriquez of
Venezuela.
“It is rather an evidence of
the able strategy of Pope Paul
VI, who is acting for the so
lidarity of the future and not
for the popularity of the hour.”
In a prepared statement,
Bishop Corson predicted that
“the bridge-building for un
ity” will continue when the
council has ended.
Several times during the
press conference Bishop Cor
son returned to the subject of
Pope Paul’s tactical skill.
Asked to comment on a re
cent magazine article in which
the Pope was characterized as
“a conservative man, fearful
of change, suspicious of li
berty, myopic on certain areas
of modern life,” the Methodist
leader said:
“I read that article and
found it irresponsible and
disgraceful. If the man who
wrote it had had the courage
to use his real name, no doubt
he would also have checked
his facts more carefully and
avoided distortions and half-
truths.
Asked to compare Pope John
and Pope Paul, Bishop Corson
said that the pontiffs com
plement each other.
NEW EDITOR—Mr. A.E.P.
Wall has been appointed man
aging editor of the Baltimore
Catholic Review, weekly
newspaper of the Baltimore
archdiocese.
(NC Photos)
RECORD CRQEM EJLPECTED
New York Poised
To Greet Pontiff
On Historic Visit
NEW YORK (NC)—This city
and the United Nations stand
poised for the unprecedented
visit of the pilgrim Pope who
is coming Oct. 4 with his ap
peal for world peace.
Pope Paul VI will enter the
city in a modest motorcade
over a 24-mile route to the
greetings of millions. But for
him it will be a serious visit
whose every event is meant
to emphasize man’s duty to
work for peace.
The Pontiff, who turned 68
years of age on Sept. 26, will
expose himself to a grueling
schedule whose highlights will
be a visit with President John
son, an appeal to the United
Nations, a talk with repre
sentatives of Catholic, Pro
testant and Jewish groups
which maintain contacts with
the UN and a Mass for Peace
at Yankee Stadium.
Beneath the outward calm
around the United Nations, St.
Patrick’s Cathedral and the
residence of Francis Cardinal
SpeUman, where the Pontiff
wiU rest, there were how
ever, strong undercurrents.
Police officials estimate 3,
000 reporters want to be pre
sent, but there is room for
less than one-fourth the num
ber. The tightest security net
in the city’s history has been
spread because of the pre
sence of Pope and President.
Officials also expect crowds
at least as large as those
which welcomed General Mac-
Arthur in 1951.
Chartered buses from up
and down the Eastern sea
board and as far away
as Montana, are expected here
with thousands hoping to see
the Pope.
Television and radio net
works are readying an army
of technicians and broadcas
ters for nearly full converage
of the Pontiff’s visit. At least
one network (NBC) , plans
coverage of the 8:30 p.m.
Yankee Stadium Mass in color.
The city’s famed cathedral,
Patrick’s, ha« received a
“once-over.” The huge bron
ze doors of the Gothic struc
ture have been shined and
shined again.
Tickets which will admit the
100,000 persons expected at
Yankee Stadium have been
mostly distributed. In addition
to local parishes and large
numbers of neighboring dio-
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NATION
Cardinal Cushing Home
BOSTON (NC)—Richard cardinal Cushing of Boston has
returned home from the ecumenical council (Sept. 24). Reports
said earlier that the cardinal may enter a hosital for obser
vation and possible surgery.
N. EAST
More Arab Protests
JERUSALEM, Jordan (NC)—The mayor and city council of the
Jordanian sector of this city have appealed to Pope Paul VI to
reconsider the ecumenical council’s draft declaration dealing
with the Jews. Mayor Rouhi Khatib declared that the Jewish
people are “enemies of God, Jesus Christ,” and warned that
those who approve the document must bear the burden of “grave
consequences.”
MEXICO
Traditionalists
MEXICO CITY (NC)— Strident opposition to liturgical changes
and to increased Catholic contacts with Protestants is being ex
pressed here by a splinter group that caUs itself the Catholic
Traditionalist Movement. The group attracted some attention
with advertisements in the daily newspaper Excelsior attacking
supposed trends away from devotion to Mary and substitution
of Protestant-favored Psalms for the Our Father and Hail
Mary.
AFRICA
Orthodcx-Cafholic
MATATIELE, South Africa (NC)—A Greek Orthodox priest and
96 of his parishioners have been received into the catholic Church
here. Father C. Mdeleni is the African-born leader of the
new converts. After receiving the consent of his Orthodox bishop,
he decided in 1964 to become a catholic.
ceses, tickets have gone to
the National Council of Chur
ches, the U. S. Protestant -
Eastern Orthodox federation,
and to the New York Board
of Rabbis.
Department store windows
feature pictures of the Pontiff
in place of the latest fall fas
hions. One tall new office buil
ding near the UN has put up
a mammoth -sign, reading:
“Welcome, Holy Father,”
Other signs of affection are to
be seen.
While Pope Paul is the first
pontiff to address the world
body, formed to promote world
peace, he is not the first Pope
to support efforts to prevent
war.
Back in 1911 Pope Saint
Pius X praised the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace for trying to build “a
royal road. . „ .to peace.”
Benedict XV supported the
League of Nations after World
War I, and Pius XI returned
again and again to the themes
of reconciliation and disarma
ment.
Immediately after his elec
tion in 1939, Pius XII broad
cast a radio plea for “peace,
the fairest of all God’s gifts.”
After World War H he im
plicitly supported the founding
of the U. N. and later became
and outspoken advocate of in
ternational government.
And Pope John XXIH
strongly supported the U. N.
in his famous encyclical,
Pacem in Terris.
Pope Paul’s appearance at
the U. N. will be in response
to an invitation issued by the
organization’s Secretary-
General, U Thant early this
year. But there is still specu
lation as to why he chose to
accept it at this time.
Msgr. Alberto Giovannetti,
permanent observer of the
Holy See to UNESCO stated
the Pope’s reasons this way:
“It is not surprising that the
Holy Father should be willing
to share his viewpoint with the
governmental representatives
who assemble here. He does,
after aH, speak for the many
millions to whom those
governments have specific and
inescapable obligations.”
JOSEPH CARDINAL BE-
RAN of Prague, one of several
‘Iron Curtain’ bishops who
gave strong support to
recently passed shema on re
ligious liberty. (NC Photos)
LEGENDS o<n map indicate some of the highlights
of Pope Paul’s visit to New York (Oct. 4).
(NC Photos)
WASHINGTON PRELATE
Bishop Hannan
To New Orleans
WASHINGTON, D.C.(NC)—
Pope Paul VI has named
the Most Rev. Philip M. Han
nan to be the archbishop of
New Orleans. Bishop Hannan
has been an auxiliary to Arch
bishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of
Washington.
The appointment was an
nounced here by Archbishop
E gidio Vagnozzi, apostolic de
legate in the United States.
The archbishop - designate
was born in this city, May
20, 1913; has been a priest
since 1939, and a bishop since
1956, and is a long time edi
tor of The Catholic Standard,
newspaper of the archdiocese
of Washington.
Bishop Hannan served as a
paratrooper chaplain in the
Army from 1942 to 1946, and
had a reunion with his World
War n buddies of the 82 nd
Airborne Division Association
here July 3 and 4, 1964. In
1962, ‘Bishop Hannan offered
Mass ana preacned to mem
bers of the 82nd Airborn Di
vision at Fort Bragg, N. C.
The Mass followed an air
drop by more than 800 Ca
tholic paratroopers.
Bishop Hannan has been a
prominent figure at Vatican
Council H. He has addres
sed the council, and direct
ed the U. S. Bishops’ Press
Panel, which assists newsmen
in their coverage of the coun
cil. He was spiritual direc
tor of the charter flight to
Rome sponsored by the Ca
tholic Press Association for
the opening of the fourth ses
sion of the council.
Bishop Hannan has been as
sistant episcopal chairman of
the Press Department of the
National catholic Welfare
Conference since 1962, and be
fore that was assistant epis
copal chairman of the NCWC
Department of Immigration.
CAPT. VERSACE
Priesthood Goal
Of Slain Officer
MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (RNS)-
Capt. Humbert R. Versace,
one of two U. S. war priso
ners executed by a Vietcong
firing squad in Vietnam, was
identified by the MaryknoH
Fathers here as a candidate
for the priesthood whose ap
plication had been accepted in
October, 1963.
Capt. Versace andSgt. Ken
neth M. Roraback of Fayette
ville, N. C., reportedly were
killed in reprisal for the ex
ecution of three civilian, non-
uniformed Vietcong agitators
by a South Vietnamese firing
squad.
Maryknoll spokesmen said
Capt. Versace, whose home
was in Baltimore, Md., be
came interested in the priest
hood while at W est Point from
which he was graduated in
1959. He had participated in
a number of retreats conduct
ed by the Maryknoll Fathers
for West Point cadets.
His application to enter the
Maryknoll Order was accept
ed in 1963, and he was to en-
roU for pre seminary train
ing at Glen Ellyn (HI.) Col
lege when his term of Army
service expired. He was cap
tured in November 1963,"when
the Vietcong overran a camp
west of Saigon near the Cam
bodian border.
Capt. Versace, borninl937,
was the son of a retired" Army
colonel. He was educated at
Norfolk cathoUc High School
in Virginia.
His execution, and that of
Sgt. Roraback, was denounced
by the U. S. as an act of
“wanton murder,” and as
showing “utter disregard for
humanitarian principles and
the provisions of the 1949
Geneva prisoners of war con
vention of which the Vietcongs’
masters, the Hanoi regime
are adherents.”