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‘TARGET FOR MANY DENIALS’
The Southern Cross, December 8. 1966—PAGE 3
Faith Is Necessary Basis
For Salvation, Pope Says
VATICAN CITY (NC)
Faith is the “indispensible
basis for our salvation,” Pope
Paul VI told his weekly general
audience, “and the foundation
for the unity of the Church ...
“But even in our times it is
a target for many denials . . .
and a battleground for many
controversies, evenamongbe-
lievers,” he said (Nov. 30).
The thousands who regular
ly gather inSt. Peter’s basilica
for general audiences, he said,
come to renew “not the sacra
ment of Baptism, which you
have already received and
which cannot be repeated, but
rather to renew the sacrament
of the Church which includes
and dispenses every other di
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“Maybe you too have heard
echoes of erroneous opinions
which dare to uphold arbitrary
interpretations which offend
against the sacrosanct truths
of the Catholic Faith. There
have been voices for instance-
few iri number, indeed, but
coming from all corners of the
world—which attempt to dis
tort fundamental doctrines
clearly professed by the
Church of God concerning, for
instance, the resurrection of
Christ, the reality of His real
presence in the Eucharist, the
virginity of Our Lady and, for
that reason, the august my
stery of the Incarnation, and
so on.
* ‘What is frightening is not
only the gravity of these false
affirmations. But the irrever-
ant and foolhardy audacity with
which they are made . .. gives
us the impression that the
criterion is gaining ground,
here and there, of judging
truths of the faith as the indi
vidual thinks best, and accord
ing to his capacity for under
standing and his own personal
preferences of phraseology in
the theological and religious
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“While this aforementioned
phenomenon which is troubling
postconciliar renewal and con
fusing ecumenical dialogue
gives us cause for painful re
flection and makes us aware of
the difficulties which the
modem mentality meets in
giving allegiance simply and
firmly to the one true faith . .
it nevertheless confirms us in
the persuasion that faith is not
possible without two very dif
ferent but complementary
forms of assistance: grace for
faith is a grace — and the help
of the magisterium (teaching
authority) of the Church, which
has been established by Christ
and sustained by the Holy Spir
it.”
Pope Paul noted that the
word “faith” can be used cor
rectly in two ways, either re
ferring to * ‘the subjective and
supernatural virtue by which
we believe, that is to say give
our assent to, things revealed”
or it can refer to “God’s re
vealed word itself and the
dogmas which define it.”
Thus faith is “the way
through which divine truth
penetrates the soul,” he said.
‘ ‘It is the condition and indeed
the principle of justification—
that is to say of the new life,
supernatural life which God
confers on those who believe
and who place their trust in
Him.
“Faith is the indispensible
basis for our salvation and the
foundation for the unity of the
C hurch. It is the main element
of the Church’s inner co
hesion, of the singleness of its
thought and doctrine ... We
can never give sufficient
importance to faith and we
can never study enough the
immense, delicate, difficult
and wonderful doctrine which
deals with faith and its essent
ial rapport with the Church
itself, that Church which is,
as the council says, ‘a com
munity of faith.’ ”
Pope Paul singled out the
virutes of Father Charles de
Foucauld during the audience
on the eve of the 50th anni
versary of his murder by
nomads of the Algerian Sa
hara.
The Pope made special men
tion of the priest at the audi
ence for the benefit of several
religious communities which
have modeled their life on his
and who claim him as their
spiritual founder.
“You have wanted to come
here to reaffirm on this occ
asion the love for the Church
which inspired him all of his
life and which you want to
inspire yours,” Pope Paul
said.
LATIN TROPHY FOR PACELLI — The Association for the Promotion of
the Study of Latin has awarded its 19 66 Trophy to Columbus’ Pacelli High
School. The trophy was given for the outstanding achievements of the Pa
celli Latin students who participated in the A.P.S.L. nationwide Latin Ex
aminations during the past three years. Pictured with the award are Mrs.
Dorothy Lagen, Latin teacher, Mary Henry, Rita Swisshelm and Susan Hen-
erdson, the students who attained these high scores for the past three years.
(Photo by Brady Bynum)
BY MISSION CHIEF
Refugee Neglect Blamed
For Palestine Violence
(The author of the
followng article — the
president of the Pon
tifical Mission for Pa
lestine and national
secretary of the Cath
olic Near East Welfare
Association — has just
returned from a 25,000-
m i 1 e tour of critical
areas in the Middle
East.)
By
Msgr. John G. Nolan
WASHINGTON (NC)—As I
write this, frightening head
lines threaten war again in
the critical Middle East.
In the City of Jerusalem—
divided, like Berlin, by a wall
—blood is being shed again.
On the Arab side, up the
street from our Pontifical
Mission office, two Arab
demonstrators wereshotdown
recently by Arab policemen
dutifully maintaining order.
Right now a curfew is in for
ce.
On the Israeli side, only a
few hundred yards away, Zion
ist Jews have reason to won
der and worry. Is this the
year the Arabs will try to
make good their threat to
“drive the Jews into the sea?”
That’s the key issue of the
moment—but it’s not the only
issue.
Basically, the issue is Arab
Parish Profile...
NATIVITY OF OUR LADY CHURCH, Darien, was
dedicated in June of 1946. The original Catholic
Church in Darien dated back to the 1870’s. During
the middle ,1800’s Darien was the center for ship
ping of cotton and other exports to all parts of the
world and Catholics in the area numbered about
two hundred. The original church burned in 1931,
and as there was only a handful of Catholics left,
no effort to rebuild was made until the middle For
ties. The church is administered by the Marist Fa
thers in Brunswick, who have cared for the area
since 1897. The church is a memorial to the early
Spanish Missionary Martyrs and also to the dead
of McIntosh County, who died in World War II. A
statue of Our Lady of Fatima graces the grounds.
vs. Israeli and Israeli vs Arab,
yes—but it’s really not quite
that simple.
The issue is also Arab vs.
Arab and Israeli vs. Israeli.
To Americans aware of the
importance of our understand
ing the strategic Middle East,
this can be disconcerting.
It can be upsetting, too, to
people who oversimplify—who
characterize the participants
in every argument as either
“good guys” or “bad guys”.
It’s this very kind of over
simplification that makes the
Middle East difficult to ex
plain. Because here, like any
where else in a divided world,
there are some very “good
guys,” and not a few “bad
guys,” on each side.
It should be stressed that the
Holy Land after 17 years is
still in a state of war, that
only an armistice has been
achieved; that the Arabs and
Israelis still reject each
other’s basic claims.
Extremists are marching
in the streets of Arab Jeru
salem today because they feel
that any further delay only
hardens the status quo. Ex
tremists on the Jewish side,
too, want re-opening of the
fighting—for the conquest of
“greater Israel,” including
parts of Palestine still in
Arab hands.
But the most disquieting
element in the entire conflict
—as the identification of to
day’s rioters plainly shows—
is the war’s most terrible by
product-more than a million
refugees. Here, displaced
from Israel (to the Arabs
“Ocuppied Palestine”), are
1.2 million angry Arabs and
their children. Stateless, they
refuse to yield the land of
their fathers to people they
regard as foreign aggressors.
On the Zionist side of the
line, there is fear that the
basic conflict cannot be re
solved without some settle
ment of the refugee question.
Each side has justified its
armistice violations as “re
taliatory” of course, but at
the moment, the Arabs enjoy
the rare advantage in the bal
ance of world opinion.
Pope Paul VI foresaw this
kind of hazard to the world’s
peace. In 1949, as Msgr. Gio
vanni Montini, he and Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New
York, president of the Catho-
lice Near East Welfare
Association, founded the Pon
tifical Mission for Palestine.
In cooperation with United
Nations Relief and Work
Agency (UNRWA) and other
voluntary agencies, the Pon
tifical Mission has since ex
pended more than $10 million
in goods and self-help training
for refugees, regardless of
creed or politics. In a quiet
way, by helping a refugee to
help himself, the Pope’s mis
sion is trying to make peace.
Why does Palestine—
everybody’s Holy Land—ex
plode? Mostly, because or
dinary people elsewhere in the
world are neglecting their
duty. Preferring to over
simplify, they hope the war
will settle itself or simply “go
away.” So long as the basic
issues are unresolved—in
particular, justice to the re
fugee—the Middle East will
know no peace.
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Nativity C.Y.O.
Attendance at the December 2nd C .Y O. Partv at Nativity
parish, Thunderbolt, was estimated at eighty. Highlighting the
evening was a skit “The Night Before Christrtias.” Rickey
George and Karen Walsh told the story. Santa’s elf was played
by Josey Bell and the part of Santa Claus by John Smith.
Thomasville Party, Dec. 18
Members of St. Augustine (Thomasville)Parish are invited
to attend a Birthday Party for the Christ Child to be held at
3 P.M. on Sunday afternoon, December 18th, at the Coates
and Clark Recreation Center. Children are requested to bring
gifts, an article of infant’s clothing, to the party. Layettes
will be sent to the Holy Father’s storerocrtn to be distributed
to needy infants in all parts of the world.
St. Clare’s P.C.C.W.
Mrs. H. J. Hoffman, Albany Deanery Chairman of Organi
zation and Development, was the guest speaker at the monthly
meeting of St. Clare’s (Albany) P.C.C.W. Mrs. Hoffman out
lined the work of Catholic Women from the national level
down to parish and mission council levels. Plans were for
mulated for the decorating of the altar at Christmas. Other
guests were Mrs. A. T. Cyganiewicz, president of the Al
bany Deanery Council and Mrs. Thomas B. -Mazur, president
of Albany’s St. Teresa’s Parish Council.
KC Program On WMAZ-TV
The Warmer Robins, Ga, Council No. 4371 has scheduled
the Film “The Papal Challange” to be shown on WMAZ TV,
Macon, Ga. on December 17, 1966 at 1;30 P.M. The half hour
program is narrated by Frank Blair. The Film depicts a modern,
progressive organization of Catholic layman-of diversified
talents and interests, influential and important forces in the
community. It shows the modern Knight of Columbus as a leader
in his role as devoted family man, stauncfy loyal and active lay
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