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‘NEGOTATION NOW’ GROUP
Committee Asks Hanoi
To Join In Cease-Fire
NEW YORK (NC) - The
National Committee for a
Political Settlement in
Vietnam (formerly known as
Negotiation Now), of which
Auxiliary Bishop John J.
Dougherty of Newark is a
co-chairman, announced it
welcomed President
Johnson’s action in partially
halting the bombing of North
Vietnam, and called on Hanoi
to agree to negotiate and join
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nation.”
Archbishop Thomas J.
Toolen of the Mobile-Bir-
mingham diocese, in which
Dr. King started his civil
rights career in Montgomery
in 1965, directed that
memorial masses be
celebrated throughout
Alabama and Northwest
Florida.
“The loss of Dr. King,” he
said, “is indeed a national
tragedy and this tragedy will
be even greater if our future
actions show that he has died
in vain.”
From Chicago where Dr.
King’s marches caused racial
strife in 1965, John Cardinal
Cody said he was “deeply
dismayed at the news of the
tragic passing of Dr. Martin
Luther King.
“Our nation,” he said, “is
now engaged in a mighty
crusade for justice and
equality for all our citizens.
The dedicated labors of Dr.
King in this crusade will be an
inspiration to America for
many years to come.”
In Baltimore, Lawrence
Cardinal Shehan celebrated
(April 5) a noon memorial
Mass at the archdiocesan
Catholic Center.
Cardinal Shehan said that
in a full cease-fire.
These messages have been
conveyed to both sides in
cables from co-chairmen of
the committee.
At a press conference here,
Clark Kerr, former president
of the University of
California and a committee
co-chairman, said the cable to
Ho Chi Minh pointed to a
Dr. King’s death “underlines
the importance of the
recently issued report of
President Johnson’s National
Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders.
“This event emphasizes
those recommendations of
the report contained in its
third part-those things which
can and must be done both
on the local and national
levels to remove
discrimination against the
Negro people.”
If these things are done,
the cardinal said, “Dr! King
will not have lived and died in
vain.”
Savannah—
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-That Negroes be allowed
to join all local churches.
Dr. King’s death brought
the following statement from
the Savannah Deanery
Council of Catholic Men:
“We deplore the act of
violence that caused his death
and the turmoil that has
resulted from it. There is no
way we can rectify this act,
but we do dedicate ourselves
to positive action towards
bettering relations with all
men of the community. We
urge all citizens to involve
themselves in community
programs that will bring
about a better understanding
among all men.”
fundamental change in U.S.
policy with declaration of
American support for
“political conditions that
permit South Vietnamese-all
South Vietnamese- to settle
their own differences by free
political choice rather than
by war.”
Kerr added: “This has
been the basic point of the
committee, that the central
problem cannot be settled by
escalation or de-escalation
but only by facing the
question of how the
government of South
Vietnam is to be
determined-by violence or by
free political choice.
“This statement by the
president means acceptance
of the principle that all
political groups including the
National Liberation Front
(the political arm of the Viet
Cong) should be free to
participate fully in the
political life of South
Vietnam,” Kerr said. “This
was the most important point
in the president’s speech and
has been entirely missed in
press reports and in political
interpretation,” he asserted.
Meanwhile North Vietnam
and the United States
exchanged public statements
in which they agreed to
establish contact between
their representatives.
Officials in Washington
said they were looking
forward to a face-to-face
meeting. But there was no
immediate indication as to
the time and place of talks or
who would participate.
Moreover, Hanoi’s response
was conditional. It stipulated
that the initial contacts
should be arranged to bring
about an “unconditional”
end to all American bombing
of North Vietnam and “all
other acts of war” against it
“so that talks may start.”
In London, Soviet
informants said they
expected preliminary
Vietnam peace talks to begin
in Moscow within a week.
They said the North
Vietnamese have already
assured the United States
privately that they will
launch no major offensive if
all American bombing attacks
are halted.
The sources said Hanoi
already has begun lifting the
siege of Khe Sanh as a sign of
its intentions.
Kerr said the National
Committee for a Political
Settlement in Vietnam has
additional suggestions and
plans for achieving a lasting
peace. To widen the door to
peace and to increase the
chances of acceptance by
Hanoi and the NLF, the
committee asked President
Johnson to go before the
U.N. General Assembly and
seek the help of the
international community in a
resolution calling for:
-A full cease-fire by both
sides.
--Acceptance of
responsibility by the
international community for
helping to establish an
international presence to
oversee free elections and to
assure protection of minority
groups once elections have
been held.
Kerr said the committee
will call a “peace summit” of
national organization
leadership to determine
future steps and to work out
plans for a election year
activity focused on “policy
rather than personalities.”
In the coming months the
committee will work for a
peace plank in the platform
of all candidates in both
parties. They will organize a
group of 500 young people
who will help at both
conventions to carry the call
for fundamental changes in
U.S. Policy.
Kerr also announced the
committee will establish
direct contact between
American voluntary and
religious organizations and
counterpart groups in South
Vietnam to help strengthen
independent non-communist
and democratic forces in that
country.
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US BISHOPS
Bishop Gerard L. Frey (center) is shown at the Blessing and Dedication of the new classrooms at
Augusta s Aquinas High School. Assisting with the ceremony is Father Joseph Stranc, moderator
of Aquinas, (L) and Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke (R).
$250,000 EXPANSION
Dedication At Aquinas
The recently-completed
expansion at Augusta’s
Aquinas High School was
blessed and dedicated on
March 24th by Bishop Gerard
L. Frey.
Due to the enlarged
enrollment at Aquinas and its
curricula being broadened,
the enlargement of the Boys’
and Girls’ Division was
inevitable. The $250,000
expansion included seven new
classrooms, guidance offices,
an infirmary, a new choral
room, faculty lounge, library
enlargement, writing rooms
and auxiliary rooms such as
publications and audio-visual.
Following the religious
ceremony, a Public Reception
was held for the bishop and
the Very Rev. Kevin Boland,
Chancellor, who accompanied
the Bishop, Sister Mary
James, SSJ, principal of Girls’
Department, and Brother
Luke, Marist Brothers,
principal of Boys’
Department formed the
receiving line with Msgr.
Bourke, Father Stranc, Mrs.
Mastrionni, president of the
PTO joining Father Boland
and Bishop Frey in the
receiving line.
The Aquinas Choral group
and Glee Club presented a
program of selected songs.
The Aquinas PTO, new
Laymen’s Board at Aquinas,
Administration and Faculty
assisted with the reception.
Eleven year-old Aquinas
High School was built shortly
after the closing of the old
Boys’ Catholic High School.
Initially its students were
from Mount Saint Joseph’s
(now closed) and Boys’
Catholic High. The school is
operated by the Marist
Brothers and the Sisters of St.
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“And There Came a Man.” Mr. Steiger plays the role of
“Intermediary” in the film which covers the pontiff s life from
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Cardinal Shehan noted the
increasing number of priests
and Religious leaving its
service and the diminishing
number of vocations to the
priesthood and Religious life.
“Particularly are we
disturbed,” he said, “by the
confusion, the doubts, the
anguish, that are being
suffered by a seemingly
growing number of our
people.”
Such confusion, he
maintained, has arisen both
because some people have
‘‘gone too far” in
reinterpreting Catholic
teachings and because others
never fully comprehended the
original doctrines.
“To put an end to
confusion,” he said, “it seems
well to reaffirm, first that the
Second Vatican Council,
while it made explicit the
doctrine of collegiality of the
episcopate, gave expression to
the principle of religious
freedom, gave approval to the
ecumenical movement, and
dealt explicitly with the role
of the Church in the face of
such problems as war and
poverty, yet made no changes
whatever in the doctrines of
faith or in the principles of
morality; and, second, that
the supreme ordinary
teaching authority within the
Church is the Pope, who has
certainly made it clear that
there has been no change in
doctrines of faith and
morals.”
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DETROIT (NC)--A major
study on the life of priests
being made by the bishops of
the United States will include
the question of celibacy,
according to a joint
announcement from the
office of Archbishop John F.
Dearden of Detroit and the
officers of the National
Association for Pastoral
Renewal (NAPR).
NAPR is an organization
of priests and lay persons
formed primarily to promote
the idea that celibacy should
be optional--not
mandatory--for Catholic
priests. Last December its
officers cabled Pope Paul VI
asking him to permit “further
discussion” of clerical
celibacy and to “make it
possible for those men who
honorably wish to leave the
priesthood to do so with
dignity.” NAPR has
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changed. Such expectation is
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Dearden, who is president of
the NCCB, and Bishop
Alexander M. Zaleski of
Lansing, vice chairman of the
NCCB committee
undertaking the tudy, met in
Detroit with a group of
NAPR officers, including the
president, Father Thomas
Pucelik of Lincoln, Neb.
“The discussion centered
around the present study that
is being made by a number of
scholars,” according to the
joint announcement. “Its
purpose is to define the role
and meaning of the
contemporary priesthood.
“Since the study will be of
a scholarly nature, all aspects
of priestly life will be
considered including celibacy.
It was emphasized that the
study will be objective, with
its conclusions in no way
predetermined. The
cooperation of individuals or
organizations, such as the
NAPR, will be welcomed by
those involved in the study.”
The announcement said
there was also discussion at
the meeting of problems
relating to the process of
laicization for priests who
wish to leave the ministry.
“Both the officers of the
NAPR and the bishops
expressed their concern for
priests who for reasons of
conscience have decided to
leave the ministry.”
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