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POPE PAUL
PAGE 3—June 6.1974
State of Grace Important
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI told general audiences May 29 that a
Christian must actively try to stay in the
state of grace in order to become a hero
and a “true follower of Christ.”
He also deplored the terrorist
bombing May 28 at an anti-fascist rally
in Brescia, his hometown, that killed six
persons and left almost a hundred
injured.
As he has done for the past several
weeks, Pope Paul held two audiences in
order to accommodate the crowds.
To the more than 7,000 persons
present in the Papal Audience Hall, the
Pope spoke in English, French, German
and Spanish. Then he crossed over to St.
Peter’s Basilica to speak in Italian to
thousands of other visitors, including a
group from Brescia.
The Pope had a special message for
that group and the other Italians present
who were vividly conscious of the
outbreak of violence at Brescia the
previous day.
END OF ERA
Priest
BY GERALD M. COSTELLO
PATERSON, N. J. (NC) - A Paterson
priest who was a principle eulogist at
NEW JERSEY
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (NC) -
Protests aimed at the Upjohn Co. for its
manufacture of an abortion inducing
drug have been encouraged here by the
New Jersey State Council of the Knights
of Columbus.
The Upjohn drug, Prostin F2 Alpha,
is manufactured for use as an
abortifacient during the second
trimester of pregnancy.
“The New Jersey Knights of
Columbus,” the resolution stated,
“endorses protest activities against
Upjohn and urges all hospitals, doctors,
pharmacists and consumers to join in
these protests until that company
withdraws as a participant in the
abortion process.”
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI lamenting the death of French Jesuit
Cardinal Jean Danielou paid tribute to
his vast theological knowledge, his love
of the Church and “his concern for
doctrine and dynamism of the faith.”
Cardinal Danielou
In ringing tones he spoke of “our
most lively bitterness and .our deep
deploring of the vile and criminal act
committed yesterday in Brescia, our
dearest city of birth and of spiritual and
civic training.”
At both audiences he spoke of the
importance of Catholics living in the
grace of God and actively seeking to
stay in the state of grace.
The Pope, defining the state of grace,
said:
“It is the friendship of God, the
thought of God, but it is even more. It
is the presence of God, a new, living,
joyous presence; the presence of the
Holy Spirit, who is love, who is joy,
who is consolation, who is help, who is
light, who is strength and courage and
life. It is the living God who comes to
dwell within us.”
The Pope, speaking almost in the
terms of a child’s catechism, explained:
“If we should by misfortune cut
the funeral of Duke Ellington in the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in
New York said here that the death of
the famed musician marks the end of an
A spokesman for Upjohn said that
the company takes no position on
abortion.
“We felt we had an obligation to
provide a safer more efficient drug for
physicians to use when indicated,” he
added.
Although it is currently used only
“on a very controlled basis” in selected
hospitals, the spokesman noted, the
drug is also being studied for possible
use in controlling high blood pressure.
Prostin F2 Alpha, he noted, is not
advertised and is made available mainly
to teaching hospitals such as those
affiliated with universities.
Cardinal Danielou died unexpectedly
from a heart attack on May 20 in Paris
six days after his 69th birthday. A
patristic scholar and theologian who
edited the French theological review
Etudes and was a member of the French
Academy, Father Daneilou was named a
cardinal by Pope Paul in April 1969.
For much of his life the late cardinal
was considered a lonely theological *
liberal. However in his last years and
particularly after having been made a
cardinal, he became one of the most
outspoken defenders of Pope Paul and
of the Church’s traditional positions on
such subjects as priestly celibacy,
religious authority and doctrinal
orthodoxy.
In 1970, for instance, he launched a
broadside against Dutch Catholic
progressivism in the Vatican newspaper,
L’Osservatore Romano. The cardinal
charged that some of the agitation
against priestly celibacy was only a tool
“to shake loose the Pope’s authority, to
blackmail it and finally to suppress it.”
ourselves off from this relation with
God, we become dead souls, empty
souls, no longer destined for eternal life.
God ignites His presence within us and
it is that which destines us for eternal
life. Therefore it is necessary to always,
always be in the grace of God.”
Pope Paul also stressed that the
Christian who is in the state of grace is
open to the movement of the Holy
Spirit, who “can make of us and out of
our natural weakness a person who is a
witness, a hero, a martyr, a saint, that is,
the true follower of Christ.”
The Pope insisted this transformation
through the Holy Spirit is not limited
only to charismatic persons or
contemplatives but is the common
inheritance of all those “who live in the
grace of God.”
Concluding his talk, the Pope said:
“We must all reaffirm in ourselves the
double conviction: yes, it is necessary
and it is possible, to live in the grace of
God.”
era and that no one else on the horizon
of the jazz field seems likely to take his
place.
“He was probably the most
important figure in the history of
American jazz,” said Paulist Father
Norman O’Connor, a long time expert
in the world of jazz. “There were great
instrumentalists -- people like Louis
Armstrong or Charlie Parker - but on an
overall basis, there was nobody like the
Duke. As a composer, as an arranger, as
a leader - even as a spokesman - he was
always trying to do new things.”
In his eulogy, delivered before a
packed throng that included greats of
the music world in addition to civic and
business leaders, Father O’Connor
repeated the famous Ellington signoff.
“Duke, we thank you,” he said. “You
loved us madly. We will love you madly
today, tomorrow and forever.”
Father O’Conner, who conducted
“Dial M for Music” on WCBS-TV for
many years, said he first met Ellington
25 years ago at a New York party for a
mutual friend, tenor saxaphonist Paul
Gonsalves - a jazz great who died within
the month himself. They remained good
friends over the years, with the priest
introducing the performer at numerous
concerts and other programs.
He last saw Ellington in the hospital a
week ago Saturday, when the
75-year-old musician was in “marvelous
spirits,” despite his fatal illness.
“But that’s the way he always was,”
Father O’Connor recalled. “He was
always good natured, and if he was
angry, he never showed it. He never
fired a guy, you know. If somebody
didn’t belong in Duke’s band, he knew
it before long.
“The audience was always his, right
off the bat. He enjoyed all of what he
was doing. He still had more developing
to do, and despite all the honors that
came his way, he wasn’t ashamed to
admit it. He was willing to learn.”
Who will be the successor to Duke
Ellington as America’s number one jazz
figure?
“There’s just nobody around to
match him,” Father O’Connor
concluded. “When Duke died, it was the
end of an era.”
Eulogizes ‘The Duke’
Knights Protest Abortifacient
Pope Mourns Cardinal Danielou
AWAY HE GOES -- Encouraged by his young
owner, a frog leaps mightily during a jumping
competition which is part of a summer silliness in a
TO PROTECT HUMAN LIFE
small city in the Mideast. (NC Photo by George P.
Koshollek)
Doctors Ambassadors Sent
God
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Medical
doctors are ambassadors sent by God to
protect all human beings, especially the
poor and even those who are “still in
the maternal womb,” Pope Paul VI told
a convention of Catholic doctors
meeting in Barcelona, Spain, May 26-29.
In a letter written in Spanish and
signed by his secretary of state, Cardinal
Jean Villot, the Pope told delegates to
the world congress of the International
Federation of Catholic Doctors:
“If all men participate in the dignity
of divine life, it is not less true that the
love of God is manifested in a special
way to the poor, little ones, invalids and
babies, even when they are still in the
maternal womb.
“Doctors are the principle protectors
of the weak. . .They are like
ambassadors sent to them to offer all
the relief which God has placed at the
disposition of His creatures.”
Turning to the theme of the
convention, “Rapport between the
Doctor and Patient,” the Pope first
listed some of the prominent ethical
problems related to this rapport and
then commented on the Church’s
viewpoint on those problems.
The Pope said those problems
included the obligations of the doctor
to the patient, especially in a medical
world that has become impersonal, as
well as the right of the patient to receive
“sincere and prudent information.”
NEW YORK
Other ethical questions mentioned by
the Pope were:
$8.2 Million in Aid
- Consent of the patient or his family
to complicated therapies, that is, to
those which might have side-effects, be
lengthy or extremely costly.
ALBANY, N. Y. (NC) - Gov.
Malcolm Wilson has signed a bill
providing $8.2 million in state aid to
nonpublic schools to reimburse them
for the costs of providing services
mandated by the state.
Opponents of government aid to
nonpublic schools have announced that
they will challenge the constitutionality
of the law in the courts.
The law provides for payment of the
actual costs of such programs as pupil
evaluation, state examinations,
attendance reports and similar
state-mandated operations.
Last June, the U. S. Supreme Court
ruled that a similar measure, the
Mandated Services Act of 1970, was
unconstitutional because it did not
guarantee that the money would be
used only for the designated purposes.
The present law is designed to
overcome that objection by providing
for payment only after an audit of
vouchers submitted by nonpublic
schools.
However, Leo Pfeffer, counsel to the
Committee for Public Education and
Religious Liberty (PEARL), a group of
36 organizations opposed to state aid to
parochial schools, said “We feel that the
same principle of constitutional law
under which the other measure was
declared invalid is applicable here too.”
Pfeffer said that PEARL would
challenge the new law “within a week.”
In a memorandum accompanying the
new law, the governor noted that all
elementary and secondary schools in the
state are required to administer
standardized tests and report basic
educational data. The costs for these
programs in public schools are offset by
the state, he said.
- The right of a medical person not
to participate in treatment that is
against his conscience, even if the
treatment is called for by “juridical or
professional” groups.
- Need for the medical community to
speak out against socioeconomic
structures that undermine the physical
and moral health of persons.
“In regard to all these difficult
problems,” the Pope said, “the body of
doctors has a decisive task, thanks to its
competence and the efficacy and trust it
inspires.
“Catholic doctors should boldly offer
original and valid answers to these
problems.”
“Since the state monitors educational
quality by requiring all schools to
render certain testing and reporting
services,” the governor said,
“reimbursement for the cost of these
mandated programs should be extended
to nonpublic schools alike.”
The Christian faith does not bring
into the medical field concrete solutions
to all those ethical problems but does
emphasize the “respect due the dignity
of the sick person and holds high a
hierarchy of values which the world in
its race toward technical progress runs
the risk of forgetting,” the Pope said.
Everyone in Today’s Society Somehow Manipulated
BY JOHN MUTHIG
WASHINGTON (NC) - Watergate is a
prime example, but everyone in today’s
society is manipulated somehow and is
in danger of losing freedom due to false
promises of instant happiness, according
to Redemptorist Father Bernard
Haering.
The German moral theologian,
concluding a seminar of research into
manipulation at the Kennedy Institute
for the Study of Human Reproduction
and Bioethics here, said that elements of
manipulation can be seen in the
neighborhood school, in the American
medical profession and in the local
media as well as in the world’s great
ideologies. He called the Watergate
affair the “great case” of manipulation
in an in-bred group where, to be “in,”
the White House staff had to accept a
“false concept of authority and
allegiance.”
Father Haering said that Jesuit Father
John McLaughlin, White House special
assistant who has defended the
President as a great moral leader, lacks
proper education in discernment and
needs time to reflect. “As long as Father
McLaughlin stays in the White House, as
long as he is ‘in,’ he is manipulated,”
according to Father Haering.
In an interview with NC News, the
61-year-old priest, who has written over
a score of books, criticized a global
elitism which is undercutting individual
freedom through manipulation. “A
small minority think that they alone
have the right to determine the world’s
economic system; the president in this
country and in others holds the
conviction that a few must determine
what is right for all; scientists feel that
they have the right to manufacture what
they believe to be the perfect human
being,” Father Haering said.
The priest said that 30 years of
“looking at the whole picture” of
manipulation in society has led him to
conclude that the only antidote is
“freedom and liberation, not for a few
but for all” and participation of as
many as possible in decision-making.
By channeling its power to work
toward the wholeness and freedom of
all men, the Church would be a
prototype of nonmanipulative use of
authority in the style of Christ, Father
Haering said.
Evangelization - the theme of the
world Synod of Bishops in Rome in the
fall - must be a dialogue in which the
evangelizer is “as much a learner as a
teacher” and in which “everyone brings
something - his own person and his own
precious heritage,” Father Haering said.
The priest, who as a youth wanted to
join the foreign missions, said that if the
Church tries to minipulate Africans and
Asians to adopt Western life styles, it
cannot possibly succeed in spreading the
Gospel.
The Church will also lose youth, he
added, in nations where children are
“colonized” and forced to accept
certain values. “All good education of
children” Father Haering said, “is
oriented toward growth of a critical
mind,” toward dialogue and toward
co-responsibility.
Americans, he said, should be
“extremely critical of school systems
which educate children to be part of the
technological society rather than to be
persons.” He called Catholic schools
“part of society’s anti-manipulation
hopes” and urged pluralism in
education.
“When the state has a monopoly on
education, the manipulative power is
enormous,” Father Haering warned.
The priest, author of a book on
medical ethics and a veteran of the
German medical corps during World War
II, criticized doctors for manipulating
patients rather than making them
partners in medical decision-making.
He estimated that 30 to 50 percent
more surgery is performed in North
America than elsewhere and charged
that an ideology of manipulation,
sparked partly by the profit motive,
leads some doctors to perform
operations which may not be necessary.
According to Father Haering, doctors
themselves are manipulated by the
$6-billion drug industry which
persuades American physicians to write
out “about 250 million prescriptions a
year for psychoactive drugs.” Patients,
he said, are manipulated to believe that
“they cannot only have instant coffee
and tea, but also instant happiness.”
Speaking from a stark office,
un-airconditioned and without
windows, Father Haering warned that
the media, too, can be manipulated by
competitive pressures to produce
“instant news” that merely “inundates”
readers. Journalists, he said, should be
given “time for discernment so that
they can furnish readers with
“meaningful information.”
But Father Haering, who is reading a
book a day and numerous articles as
part of his research, rejected the charge
that the media manufactured the
Watergate affair. “If anything, the
whole process surrounding Watergate
has been anti-manipulative, although the
other side - those involved in the
cover-up - have tried very strongly to
manipulate, just to be ‘in’,” Father
Haering said.
The priest, who has preached a
retreat for Pope Paul and the college of
cardinals, called on society to learn “a
pedagogy of the oppressed” through
which they will gain a “sensitivity
toward all manipulative processes of the
past.”
- Every manipulator, he said, must
realize that he himself is manipulated
and needs to have his own dignity
restored. “We cannot acquire our own
freedom,” he asserted, “unless we’re
committed to the growth in freedom of
others.”
Above all, said the slight priest with
penetrating blue eyes, those who are
fighting manipulation must have hope.
“If we are hopeless, we allow everyone
to continue the manipulative process,”
he counselled.