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NEVER OIJTSIDE VATICAN
U.S. Grant First Chief
Executive To Meet Pope
By Thomas E. Kissling
(N.C.W.C. Newsservice)
Ulysses S. Grant, in March,
1878, a year after leaving the
U. S. presidency, and while on
a world tour, was received in
audience by Pope Leo XIII.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
Grant and their son Jesse.
William Howard Taft, be
fore his election to the pres
idency, was received by Pope
Leo XHI, in June and again
in July, 1902, while serving
as chairman of the Philip
pines Land Commission. Gov.
Taft was accompanied by Mrs.
Taft, their son Robert and
daughter Helen.
SEVEN STATES
NEW YORK (NC) - State
affiliates of the American Ci
vil Liberties Union “across,
the country” are presently
fighting existing or proposed
legislation giving tax-paid bus
rides to nonpublic school pu
pils, and ACLU publication
says.
The U. S. Supreme Court
in 1947 held that the bus rides
for parochial school pupils
are constitutional. The ACLU
“disagrees with the Supreme
Court’s 1947 ruling” and also
thinks present or proposed
laws violate “many” state
constitutions.
State affiliates of the ACLU
have filed or supported or are
preparing suits against bus
ride statutes in Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
Jersey, the publication says.
New Jersey was the point
of origin for the 1947 Ever
son case, which led to the Su-
Woodrow Wilson, first in
cumbent President of the Uni
ted States to leave the Amer
ican continent, was received
by Pope Benedict XV on Jan.
4, 1919, while enroute to the
Paris Peace Conference.
Herbert Hoover met three
popes, before and after his
term as President, while en
gaged in war relief missions
in Europe. He was received
by Pope Pius XII in March,
1964, and February, 1947; by
Pope Benedict XV in 1920;
and met the future Pope Pius
XI, (the then Archbishop Ac-
hille Ratti, Papal Nuncio to
Poland) in 1919.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fol-
preme Court’s ruling that tax-
paid bus transport for paro
chial school pupils is allowed
under the federal Constitution.
The New Jersey Civil Liber
ties Union feels it “would
probably need to overturn the
Everson decision” in order
to win its current case, the
ACLU publication says.
Affiliates of the organiza
tion have also recently been
engaged in fighting bus ride
bills in Indiana, Minnesota
and Missouri, the Feature
Pres s Service states.
In fighting such legislation,
the ACLU says, its affiliates
are “battling to maintain the
separation of church and
state.” It also notes a be
lief “that there will be a good
deal of litigation in the church-
state area due to the recently
enacted federal aid to educa
tion law,”
lowing his reelection to the
U. S. presidency in November,
1936, received in his Hyde
Park, N. Y., home, the fu
ture Pope Pius XII (the then
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Pa
pal Secretary of State, who
was touring the United States.
Harry S. Truman, accom
panied by Mrs. Truman, was
recieved by Pope Pius XII
in May, 1956, three years af
ter leaving the White House.
(While he was President, his
daughter Margaret was re
ceived by Pope Pius XII in
June, 1951.)
Dwight D. Eisenhower has
met three popes, one of them
while he was U. S. President.
On Dec. 6, 1959, President
Eisenhower was received by
Pope John XXIII, whom he
had previously met in Paris
in 1945, as Archbishop Ange
lo Giuseppe Roncalli, Papal
Nuncio to France. In Sept
ember, 1945, General Eisen
hower, then U. S. Commander
in Germany, and his son Lt.
John Eisenhower, were re
ceived by Pope Pius XII at
the Vatican. While still Pre
sident he met the future Pone
Paul VI (the then Giovanni
Cardinal Montini) on June 5,
1960, at Notre Dame Univer
sity, Indiana, where both re
ceived honorary degrees.
(Mrs. Eisenhower and her mo
ther, Mrs. Johns. Doud,were
received in special audience
by Pope Pius XII in October,
1951.)
John F. Kennedy met two
popes. As President he was
received in audience by Pope
Paul VI on July 2, 1963, four
months before Mr. Kennedy’s
death. When he was a U. S.
senator, he was received by
Pope Pius XII in 1955. (Mrs.
John F. Kennedy was received
by Pope John on March 11,
1962, while she was “First
Lady” of the U. S.)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Pope
Paul VI will meet in New York,
Oct. 4, during the latter’s
peace mission to the United
Nations headquarters. It will
be the first time a reigning
pontiff has visited the western
hemisphere and will be Pope
Paul’s third visit to the United
States. While Vice President
of the U. S., Mr. Johnson and
Mrs. Johnson and their daugh
ter Lynda Bird were received
in audience by Pope JohnXXIII
on Sept. 7, 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt, the
year following his term in the
White House and while on a
world tour, asked for an au
dience with Pope Pius X. This
was scheduled for Apr. 5,1910,
but the ex-President, dis
pleased with some of the pre
liminary stipulations, cancel
ed his proposed visit.
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RALLY FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM — Petitions asking “Restoration of Re
ligious and Cultural Freedom for Soviet Jews” were carried to the Soviet Em
bassy in Washington, D.C., following a rally by more than 7,500 persons in
Lafayette park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
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SCHEMA SCORES MARXISM
Council Debate Centers
On Influence Of Atheism
VATICAN CITY (NS>-
Speaker after speaker at the
ecumenical council’s 136thge
neral meeting urged the coun
cil to speak out loud and clear
against atheism, especially
the Marxist brand of atheism
which rules a third of man
kind.
Debate on the entire first
part of the schema on the
Church in the modern world
(Sept. 27) focused on one ar
ticle only, the one dealing
with the problem of atheism.
Although this article does not
mention Marxism by name,
it describes Marxism in un
mistakable terms, deplores
its irreligious intolerance and
denounces it as a denial of
what all men learn through
experience.
But this was not enough for
many of the day’s speakers.
many who call themselves
atheists are not necessarily
against the Church.
“They are,” he said,
“scandalized by Christianity,
which often has proved itself
to be egotistic. We, too,
should oppose the exploita
tion of man by man.”
He was folbwed by Franz
Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop
of Vienna, who said “we are
faced with the problem today
of explaining the world-wide
spread of atheism in the face
of a traditional saying that
‘every soul is naturally
Christian.’
“In the 16th Century,” he
said, “the unity of Christen
dom was shattered, in the 17th
Century attacks were launch
ed on the super-natural order,
and in the 19th Century men
tried to expel God from the
world. Now there is the add
ed element of Christians who
do not act in conformity with
the principles of the Chris
tian life. If we seek the re
medies, we must look first
of all toward fraternal coope
ration among all Christians.”'
Bishop Michael Klepacz of
Lodz, Poland, warned that
“false prophets and pseudo-
reformers are taking advan
tage of the situation arising
from incredible scientific
progress, accompanied at the
same time by a moral decay
in spiritual values.”
CHRISTIAN S DUTY
Preserve The Faith,
Don’t Desert World
“It would be a grave scan
dal for future ages if the
council were not to speak of
atheism, which is not just
any heresy but the very de
nial of God,” declared Bi
shop Antonio PildainyZapiain
of the Canary Islands.
The general of the Jesuits,
Father Pedro Arrupe, S. J.,
branded the schema as too
intellectual in its approach to
the highly practical problem
of atheism.
He asserted that atheistic
communism has virtually
taken over the international
organizations which play such
a key role in today’s world.
He saw it holding “almost
complete sway” in other im
portant fields as well--“in
financial circles, in the field
of mass communications:
press, movies, radio and te
levision.”
Later, Father Pedro Ar
rupe’s talk was the main to
pic of discussion at the U. S.
bishops’ press panel here as
the press asked for explana
tions of his “warlike ap
proach” to atheism.
The implication of atheist
control over mass media
brought puzzled questions
from the press and what a-
mounted to apologies from the
panel. Msgr. George G. Hig
gins, director of the Social
Action Department of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference, Washington, D. C.,
called it “most unfortunate
and strange.” Father Fran
cis J. McCool, S. J., of the
Pontifical Biblical Institute of
Rome, said it must be taken
in context and certainly was
not meant literally.
The debate on atheism was
initiated by Maximos IV Car
dinal Saigh, Melchite Patri
arch of Antioch, who said it
should not be forgotten that
VATICAN CITY (NC)
Striking a balance between
their faith and their involve
ment in the modern world must
be the characteristic of “con
scious and faithful sons of the
Church,” Pope Paul VI told
his weekly general audience
here.
Speaking to thousands ga
thered in St. Peter’s basi
lica ( Sept. 22 ), the Pope
took up the theme then be
ing discussed at the ecumen
ical council, the schema on the
Church in the modern world.
Preserving and professing
the faith while at the same time
taking part in modern life is
the “immediate problem in
consciences of the faithful,”
he said, “the more so in pro
portion to their desire to be
good Christians and sincere
Catholics.”
“Our times—times in which
everything is changing, ev
erything demanding our ac
ceptance and conformity—
raise continuous difficulties
for one who wants to remain
free and logical, and who can
not and does not want to set
himself apart from the world
which conditions, absorbs,
shapes and overpowers him.”
Pope Paul said he raised
the question not to provide a
solution but to warn those at
the audience to prepare them
selves for the problem and to
think about it.
He continued: “The prob
lem is a revival of the one
which faced the first converts
to Christianity, who were
compelled to live in a pagan
society. In certain aspects
of secular life, the Christian
must stand apart, defending
himself and making himself
immune. In other aspects
he should search in his in
ner being in an attempt to
penetrate secular life and re
deem it, as it were, with the
goodwill with which his faith
provides him.
“It is admittedly a demand
ing task, but it holds great ad
vantage and merits for those
who apply themselves to it.
It is a task that makes the
Christian vigilant and yet mi
litant. It gives him a con-
sciouness of self and a know
ledge of the problems of his
times. It makes him capable
of living a way of life which
we could call new but holy,
self-assured but austere, open
but cautious. It is an exer
cise which must become cha
racteristic of the sons of the
Church if they wish to be con
scientious and faithful.”
He said the ecumenical
council will deal fully with
“the enormous problem” of
the relationship between the
Church and the modern world.
“But meanwhile every be
liever must train himself to
solve on his own, following
the norms outlined for him
by the Church, many every
day problems in which the
question arises how to be
true Christians and at the
same time men of our times.”
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LEVELED BY JEWS
U.S.S.R. Ridicules
Persecution Claim
MOSCOW (RNS)— In a
special English-language
broadcast beamed to the
United States, Radio Moscow
charged that U.S. demonstra
tions charging persecution of
Jews in Russia were a pro
paganda device to divert the
world’s attention from “blo
ody” race riots.
The broadcast was inspired
by the week-long vigil in
Washington, D. C., where Jew
ish leaders were protesting
treatment of Jews in the USSR.
Said Radio Moscow; “Three
million Soviet Jews woke up
last Sunday without realizing
that another campaign for
their ‘freedom and equality’
had begun in the U.S.A.
“They did not know that
President Johnson himself, in
a special message to a meet
ing in Washington had expres
sed concern for their well
being, thus joining ‘those who 1
remain vigilant and keep up
the eternal flames of free
dom.’ ”
“What was behind the meet
ing?” the Communist station
asked. “In Lafayette Square,
as night follows day lately,
every outburst of racism in
the U.S.A., such as the re
cently bloody events in Los
Angeles, has been followed
by a meeting, a public state
ment of the Congressional de
claration on the ‘position of
Jews in the USSR.’ ”
Moscow said the meeting
in Washington was sponsored
by Jewish nationalist organi
zations and that “of an at
tendance of 19,000, at least
18,000 of them were victims
of slander and misinfor
mation, people who wish no
evil to the Soviet people and
least of all to Soviet Jews.”
state that Soviet Jews, since
1917, have “enjoyed the same
practical and legal rights of
the other 60 nationalities of
the country.”
“This equality,” it claimed,
“embraces all spheres of pub
lic life, including religions and
national culture. Wherever
there are believers Jewish
synagogues function as freely
as Orthodox Churches or Mus
lim mosques.”
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NEW ORLEANS (NC) - St.
Louise de Marillac parish in
surburban Arabi has been de
luged for the second time
within two weeks.
But the second onrush was
by what Father Thomas J.
Wesner, C. M., describes as
angels of mercy rather than
waters of devastation.
Father Wesner, pastor of
the parish whose buildings
were inundated by waters
whipped in by Hurricane Bet
sy, expressed enthusiastic
gratitude to members of St.
Francis Cabrini parish in New
Orleans who swarmed over
his place with brooms, mops,
soap and cleaning utensils of
every variety.
The 300 men, women and
children answered an appeal
from the pulpit of their church.
They were joined by others
on a Sunday afternoon, in
cluding a Lutheran family who
had heard about the project.
It added that “it is to be
regretted that these victims
included such progressives as
Linus Pauling and (Dr. Mar
tin) Luther King who are much
respected in the USSR.”
The broadcast went on to
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