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PAGE 2-The Southern Cross, September 14,1978
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Over One Million View Shroud
TURIN, Italy (NC) - More than a
million persons have already seen the
Shroud of Turin, believed to be the
burial shroud of Jesus Christ, officials at
the Turin cathedral reported.
The visitors have been coming at the
rate of 100,000 or more a day and
waiting at times for up to three hours to
spend less than a minute in front of the
shroud. It is on public display for the
first time in 45 years.
The display of the 14-by-three-foot
linen cloth behind a bullet-proof glass
shield is expected to attract up to 3
million visitors by Oct. 8 when the
public showing ends.
Every 10 to 15 seconds, a priest says
over a loudspeaker: “To your left is the
front part of the shroud with the face,
to the right the rear image of the
crucified man. Please look without
stopping, continue to walk. Hurry, there
are so many people behind you, do not
stop. Do this little act of charity for
those who are waiting outside.”
The line has been at times 500 yards
long.
The Red Cross, the Order of Malta
and other organizations that are offering
free health services have had to
intervene 150 times on some days to aid
individuals, particularly the elderly.
Turin’s 21,000 hotel beds have
almost all been booked on weekends
until the end of the public display.
Restaurants and bars have been doing a
booming business.
Archbishop Anastasio Ballestrero of
Turin told Vatican Radio that the
showing of the shroud is “really taking
on the dimensions of an exquisitely
spiritual event.”
“Despite the crowds there is an
atmosphere of religious silence, of
prayer and of an intense emotion. All
are moved, without distinction, I would
say, of age, of sex, education and indeed
of faith.”
The archbishop added: “All this, it
seems to me, authorizes considering the
display as an event that is succeeding
seriously, and that can bear profound
fruits, either for evangelization, or for
that spiritual reconsideration that it is
provoking.”
Orthodox Bishop Dies While
Meeting Pope
Later he was placed in charge of the
patriarchate’s ecumenical relations as
president of the Synodal Commission
for Ecumenical Affairs.
Pope John Paul immediately sent a
French-language telegram of condolence
to Patriarch Pimen of Moscow.
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“Deeply moved by the death of
Metropolitan Nikodim which occurred
as he spoke with us, we express to Your
Holiness and to the Holy Synod of the
Russian Orthodox Church our
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Vatican sources said that a doctor
had been called immediately, but
arrived in time only to certify the
metropolitan’s death.
Nikodim, metropolitan of Leningrad
and Novgorod, was well known in
Vatican circles.
He had attended part of the Second
Vatican Council as an observer and has
frequently visited Rome as head of
ecumenical delegations from Moscow.
He represented the Moscow
Patriarchate at both the funeral of Pope
Paul VI (Aug. 12) and the inaugural
Mass of Pope John Paul I (Sept. 3).
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Christian in our churches and religious
families and what is a creation from the
cultures we have lived in. For example,
the importance we have given to private
property and' the obsession for quick
accomplishments; our tendency to
separate religion and politics; to stress
the sometimes bogus unity of the flock
over against legitimate confrontation
between rich and poor; to say we must
work with all groups, though Jesus had
a clear bias for the poor and the little
ones,” said the bishop.
Jesuit Father Simon Smith said the
CMSM and the LCWR should join with
similar conferences throughout the
world to counterbalance the unity and
concentration of resources among banks
and transnational corporations.
“We could do all this, not for profit,
but for truth and love, which do not
exploit or kill, but give life and support
it,” said Father Smith.
During the assembly, the CMSM
voted to endorse a textile workers
boycott of J.P. Stevens products. The
company, which employes about
40,000 textile workers in plants mostly
in the Southeast, is said to be denying
workers the right of collective
bargaining.
Boycott support will continue “until
J.P. Stevens and Company dissipates the
atmosphere of fear and intimidation (of
employees) in its plants,” said the
CMSM statement. The LCWR supported
the boycott last year.
At the meeting, Franciscan Father
Alan McCoy was re-elected CMSM
president and St. Joseph Sister Mary
Dooley was elected LCWR president.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) - “We feel
it is unconstitutional for public school
teachers to go into church-related
schools to teach.”
This view of Mrs. Dorothea Yelton,
president of the Northern Kentucky
chapter of the Americans United for
Separation of Church and State, is the
basis of a lawsuit Americans United is
planning to file against operation in
Kentucky of a federal education aid
program that benefits parochial school
students.
At issue is Title I of the Elementary
and Secondary .Education Act which
provides supplementary programs, such
as reading and mathematics, for
educationally deprived children in
public and private schools.
Americans United plans to challenge
the constitutionality of the program
allowing public school teachers paid
with federal funds to teach on the
premises of Catholic and other
church-related schools.
Last year some 520 Catholic-school
students in 19 parochial schools in
Jefferson County in northern Kentucky,
one of the areas to be cited in the test
case, were taught supplementary reading
by 16 public school teachers.
James Ogden, a Covington, Ky.,
lawyer, said he is preparing to file the
suit around Oct. 1.
The basic issue is the way the
program is being administered, with
public school teachers instructing in
parochial schools, said Ogden. “We are
not attacking the principle that anyone
can take advantage of the program.”
Mrs. Yelton said “we have no
objection” to parochial school students
going into public schools for classes. But
when “we send a (public school) teacher
into a church-related school, we are
supporting religion,” she added.
The planned suit will not be the first
attack on the operation of the Title I
program in Kentucky. Four years ago a
Kentucky attorney general’s opinion
said it was unconstitutional for teachers
paid by state or federal funds to teach
parochial-school students on
parochial-school premises.
The opinion caused the Kentucky
Department of Education to change its
policy temporarily. After some months
of debate, the changed policy was
revoked and the program continued as
before.
Ordained a priest in 1949,
Metropolitan Nikodim served as eparch
of Jaroslav and later Minsk before
becoming metropolitan of Leningrad
and Novgorod.
In a statement after his death, the
Christian Unity Secretariat said that
Metropolitan Nikodim was very
interested in the steps toward renewal
taken by the Catholic Church and tried
to make them understood to Russian
Orthodox.
The secretariat said that he was
“open to any deepening of Christian
revelation which could contribute to
full unity of the churches.”
A few days before the Sept. 3 Mass,
Metropolitan Nikodim had venerated
the Holy Shroud, currently on public
exposition in Turin.
The Jesuit superior general, Father
Pedro Arrupe, who had dined with
Metropolitan Nikodim Sept. 3 and who
was his host during his stay in Rome,
said that the metropolitan was “richly
endowed with deep human gifts” and
had “unfailing faith and courage in
serving the interests of religion and the
cause of Christian unity.”
Until 1972 he had served as president
of the patriarchate’s Department of
External Affairs, a kind of foreign
ministry.
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VATICAN CITY (NC)
Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad,
second-ranking prelate of the Russian
Orthodox Church, died of a heart attack
Sept. 5 during a private audience with
Pope John Paul I.
Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, was the
first of several top officials of
non-Catholic churches scheduled to
meet privately with Pope John Paul
Sept. 5.
The white-veiled prelate was received
by the pope in his private study at
about 10 a.m.
Once seated, he expressed
congratulations to the pope over his
election and told the pontiff that the
people of the Moscow Patriarchate were
praying for him.
As the pope expressed his thanks,
Metropolitan Nikodim slumped in his
chair and died.
Those in the study — the pope, a
Jesuit interpreter and Dutch Cardinal
Jan Willebrands of Utrecht,
Netherlands, president of the Vatican’s
Secretariat for Promoting Christian
Unity — said a prayer for him.
sentiments of deep grief,” read the
papal telegram.
“We assure you of our prayers for
the repose of the soul of this devoted
servant of his church and of this artisan
of deeper relations between our
churches.
“May God receive him into his joy
and peace.”
The The ruddy-faced, white-bearded
Metropolitan Nikodim had been seated
in the first row of the ecumenical
delegations at the inaugural Mass
celebrated by Pope John Paul at the
Vatican two days earlier.
He made a small bit of ecumenical
history less than three weeks before by
celebrating a Russian Orthodox prayer
service for the dead before the body of
Pope Paul VI as it lay in state before the
main altar of St. Peter’s.
The prelate, whose several heart
attacks made him look older than his
years, was born in Frolovo, near
Ryazan, about 100 miles southeast of
Moscow, Oct. 14, 1929.
SHROUD ON VIEW - Cardinal Terence Cooke of
New York is escorted by an official as he visits the San
Giovanni Cathedral in Turin to view the Holy Shroud
of Turin. The cardinal called the visit “a splendid
experience of faith.” The linen, believed by many to
be the burial shroud of Jesus, is on public display for
the first time since 1933. (NC Photo)
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