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VOL. 1, NO. 7 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR
Tension Between
Vatican - Soviets
Seen As Easing
HAROLD Bernstein of Minneapolis shows Sister Anne Eugene and St. Margaret’s Academy
freshmen Mary Stuart (left), and Janet Kelly, religious articles in the Jewish Temple of Aaron,
St. Paul. Wearing a Yarmulka (skull cap) and tallith (prayer shawl), he shows the relationship to
the Torah of the tallith and the yod (pointer) used to follow the text during the readings. More than
200 students visited the synagogue as part of a course on the Old Testament.
EDITOR ASSERTS
Social Imbalances Fault
Of Christian Not Pagan
WASHINGTON, — Pope John
XXHI has made the following
episcopal appointments, Arch
bishop Lgidio Vagnozzi, Apos
tolic Delegate in the United
States, announced here today:
Bishop James A. McNulty,
63, is transferred from the See
of Paterson, N.J., and becomes
the Bishop of Buffalo.
BISHOP James J. Navagh, 62,
is transferred from the See of
Ogdensburg, N.Y., and becomes
the Bishop of Paterson.
Bishop Leo R. Smith, 57,
Titular Bishop of Marida and
Administrator of the Diocese of
Buffalo, becomes the Bishop of
Ogdensburg.
Msgr. George H. Speltz, 51,
rector of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary Seminary, Winona,
Minn., is named Titular Bishop
of Claneus and Auxiliary to Bis
hop Edward A. Fitzgerald of
Winona.
Buffalo will be the third See
in which Bishop McNulty has
served the Church as a mem
ber of its hierarchy. He was
named Titular Bishop of Met-
hone and Auxiliary to Arch-
RECUPERATING
LONDON (NC) — Archbishop
Gerald O’Hara, Apostolic Dele
gate to Great Britain, who be
came ill in Milan, Italy, has re
turned to London and is making
satisfactory progress.
The Apostolic Delegate, 67,
a native of Scranton, Pa., be
came ill while on his way to
Parents Meeting
The Parents’ Association of
Christ the King School will
meet on Monday, February 18
in the Cathedral Center with
Mrs. Philip J. Duffy presid
ing. The school choir under the
direction of Sister Mary de
Montfort G.N.S.H. will enter
tain the parents.
Plans for a forthcoming Ci
vil Defense Medical Self-Help
Survival Program will be an
nounced.
bishop Thomas J. Walsh of
Newark in 1947, and was con
secrated on October 7 of that
year.
On April 9, 1953, Bishop Mc
Nulty was named the Bishop of
Paterson, and installed on May
20, 1953. Archbishop Thomas
A. Boland of Newark, former
Bishop of Paterson, officiated
on this occasion.
As Ordinary of Paterson,
Bishop Navagh w ill also be ser
ving in an episcopal capacity in
his third diocese.
He w as named Titular Bishop
of ombi and Auxiliary to Bishop
Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh,
N.C., on August 6, 1952. After
five years in the Raleigh dio
cese, Bishop Navagh was named
the Bishop of Ogdensburg, on
May 8, 1957.
Bishop Smith was Chancellor
of the Diocese of Buffalo at the
time of his elevation to the hier
archy in 1952, and has adminis
tered the See since the death
of the Most Rev. Joseph A.
Burke, ninth Bishop of Buffalo,
who died last fall in Rome while
taking part in the Second Vati
can Ecumenical Council.
London to preside at the funeral
of William Cardinal Godfrey,
Archbishop of Westminster,
who died January 22. He had
stopped off at Milan to visit a
sick priest friend.
ARCHBISHOP O’Hara’s fa
ther was born in Blyth, North
umberland, in the north of En
gland and lived here many years
before emigrating to the United
States.
The Archbishop’s responsi
bilities as Apostolic Delegate to
Great Britain cover also the
British colonies of Malta and
Gibraltar in the Mediterranean
and Bermuda in the W est Indies.
Archbishop O'Hara remained
Bishop of Savannah while hold
ing the Vatican diplomatic posts
until he resigned his Savannah
See in November, 1959. He was
succeeded In Savannah by the
Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough,
ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC)--A
priest-editor primarily blam
ed Christians, rather than pa
gans or atheists for the social
inbalance in the world today.
Msgr. Daniel Moore, editor
of the St. Louis Review, arch-
i diocesan newspaper, told news
paper, radio and television per
sonnel of the St. Paul-Minne-
apolis area at the annual Press
Month symposium at the Col
lege of St. Thomas here, some
editors in their efforts to "en
ter the marketplace" with Ca
tholic newspapers, are over
eager to crusage against ath
eists, agnostics and others who
do not know about Judeo-Chris-
tian principles.
"IT IS not the pagan’s fault
that there is social imbalance,
poverty, greed, strife and war",
Msgr. Moore said. "It is the
Christian’s fault."
The Catholic press, he said,
should exist "to help form the
Catholic’s mind and endow it
with Christian principles, so
that he can aptly think about
and make judgments about the
larger issues of the day."
Msgr. Moore indicated many
Catholic publications have
readers who don’t want to think
about these larger issues.
"Many of our subscribers are
as surprised to see us (Catho
lic periodicals) in the market
place as they are to see nuns
bowling and going to ball
games," he said. "The sur
prise is often well mixed with
chagrin when we discuss a sub
ject about which there are
strong pros and cons.
"BUT OUR diocesan papers
must be Catholic not only with
an upper case ’C’, but a lower
case one as well. According to
Pope John, not one of the lar
ger issues of the day fails to
have its moral facet", he said.
"There is no intention (on the
part of an editor) to neglect
the minor issues, but such
things as sports, wedding an
nouncements and parish so-
DUTCH CARDINAL
Expressed
WAGENINGEN, The Nether
lands, (NC)—The ecumenical
council has demonstrated the
broad spiritual diversity that
exists within the essential unity
of the Faith, Bernard Cardinal
Alfrink said here.
The Archbishop of Utrecht,
who is one of the 10 presid
ing officers of the council, told
a meeting of Catholic students
here of some of his "impres
sions and opinions" of the coun
cil’s activity. In the course of
his talk he explicitly denied a
cial events must be put in their
proper place and proper per
spective. And yet there are
those among your subscribers
whose only interests are the
minor issues, and when per
spectives clash you have irate
customers", he added.
Msgr. Moore said while the
nature of the Catholic press is
different from that of the secu
lar press, the two do overlap
in places. He declared: "The
Catholic press and secular
press do have common inte
rests and sometimes sharp dis
agreements on some issues."
At Council
charge by an Italian leftist
newspaper that a widely pub
licized speech he made last
October in defense of the Ro
man Curia was instigated by
"any Roman institution."
CARDINAL Alfrink said of
the council:
"The external diversity of
the more than 2,000 bishops of
course involves inner variety
and spiritual diversity that show
all the shades that are possible
within the essential unity of
the Faith. That unity in the
Faith and that wonderful spi
ritual unity that seeks to serve
the Church were amply dem
onstrated.
"Various opinions existed—
and the expression of these
opinions was the aim of the
council—but all were of one
will: the welfare of the Church.
One cannot speak of group in
terests or party interests, be
cause there are no parties in the
strict sense of the word. There
are only bishops of the Church,
who all want to determine and
promote the well-being of the
Church.
"The groups are very elastic,
without clearly defined bounda
ries, and for that reason a won
derful unanimity appeared—af
ter days of discussions and,
seemingly, extremely diverse
expressions of opinions—the
mind and the welfare of the
Church had at last been spelled
out in abbreviated form."
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
dramatic release of Archbishop
Josyf Slipyi of Lviv from con
finement is interpreted here
as being a first visible sign
of a relaxing of tensions be
tween the Holy See and the
Soviet Union.
There is no specific official
declaration to this effect. Nor
is it possible to deduce it di
rectly, since a mask of silence
has been clamped on all com
petent sources in the Vatican
which might throw light on the
Archbishop’s freedom.
BUT A change of policy can
be deduced by piecing together
bits of information unofficially
leaked to Italian journalists and
later identified by competent
sources as being true.
Archbishop Slipyi himself,
now a resident in the apartment
reserved for episcopal guests
at the Monastery of St. Nilus
at Grottaferrata outside Rome,
is seeing no one but close
friends and Vatican officials.
He appears to be in good health.
THE BITS of information
drawn from various sources
present this picture:
At some point during the
first session of the Second Vat
ican Council, which was held
from October to December last,
Gustavo Cardinal Testa, Secre
tary of the Sacred Congregat
ion for the Oriental Church,
asked Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.
J., President of the Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity,
to arrange a meeting for him
with the observer delegates of
the Moscow Patriarchate of the
Russian Orthodox Church.
The meeting was arranged in
Cardinal Bea’s apartment in the
Brazilian College. Present
were the two cardinals, Arch
priest Vitali Borovoi of Lenin
grad, Archimandrite Vladimir
Kotliarov of the Russian Mis
sion at Jerusalem and Msgr.
Jan G. M. Willebrands, secre
tary of the Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity.
Pope John was seized with
emotion at seeing Archbishop
Slipyi and moved to embrace
him. The Oriental Rite pre
late, instead of receiving the
embrace, prostrated himself on
the floor before the Pope as a
sign of respect for the Pontiff.
The Pope had been reading
the "imitation of Christ" as
he was waiting for Archbishop
which he had read just before
he entered: "Happy is the mo
ment in which Jesus calls us
from tears to the joy of the
spirit." These were the words
which Pope John wrote on the
photograph of himself which
he gave to Archbishop Slipyi
at the end of more than an
hour’s conversation.
THE TWO spoke in Italian,
since Archbishop Slipyi, who
spent some years in Rome as
a student, knows the language
well.
Why did Archbishop Slipyi
leave Russia? The only clear
information from a Vatican
source says that "the metro-
source says that "the Metro
politan did not request his own
freedom." Archbishop Slipyi
himself is reported to have
told an old friend who visited
him that he left under obedience
—which would mean by orders
from the Pope—and that he
left sorrowfully,
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ARCHBISHOP SLIPYI
It is further reported here
that Archbishop Slipyi left Rus
sia with a passport which bears
no indication that he is not free
to return. A Vatican official
pointed out, however, that for
the moment there is nothing
The Catholic School Office is
sponsoring a training program
for all school lunch personnel of
the Archdiocesan Schools parti
cipating in the School Lunch
Program and Special Milk Pro
gram.
All sessions will be held at
Saint Piux X Catholic High
School, 2674 Johnson Road,
N. E., Atlanta, on February 14,
15 and 16.
ON FEBRUARY 14 and 15,
afternoon sessions will be from
3:30 until 5:30 P. M. and on
Saturday, February 16 from 9:00
A. M. until 2:00 P. M.
The United States Department
for him to return to, since
for all practical purposes the
Ukrainian Rite has been wiped
out in the Soviet Union. There
was also an indication that
Archbishop Slipyi would remain
in Rome indefinitely,
HOW IS A change in policy
indicated? First of all, the iron
clad secrecy is an indication.
There is also the fact that a
letter which Ukrainians in Rome
attempted to circulate during
the ecumenical council was
stopped by Vatican officials,
Indicating that they wished to
avoid giving offense to the ob
server* of the Russian Ortho
dox Church.
This would have been a basic
courtesy to the two Russian
Orthodox prelates. But one Ita
lian journalist, who appears to
be particularly well informed,
writes that It was also to be
noted that "this attitude toward
the Russian observer* was di
ctated by the necessity of not
disturbing the delicate negoti
ations then in progress."
of Agriculture Administrative
office for the nine southern
states will work with the Catho
lic School Office and make
available several of their con
sultants, as well as Miss Jose
phine Martin, State Supervisor,
School Lunch Program, who
will also be one of the speakers.
On Saturday a free lunch and
demonstration will be given.
Since this is the first train
ing program of its kind to be
held in Atlanta, the principals
of the schools participating in
the School Lunch Program and
Special Milk Programs are also
cordially invited to attend the
training program.
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MEMBERS of the nation’s outdoor advertising induitry will place 4,000 copies of this poster throughout the U, S. during Lent
to stimulate interest in Father Patrick Peyton’* Crusade for Family Prayer. Member companies of the Outdoor Advertising
Association of America have donated over half the cost of promoting the campaign. Boaters are also being prepared in Span
ish for us»* in Latin America.
TRAPP1STINES, a popular name for Cistercian nuns, work
on the monastery under conatruction at Whitehom, near Gar-
bervllle, Calif., in the heart of the Redwood empire. Thf
Sisters' first home was destroyed by fire shortly after they
came to northern California last September. Seven Cistercian
nuns form the present community with two additional nuns
arriving from Belgium soon.
Archbishop O’Hara
Now Back In London
Diversity In Church
ARCHDIOCESE program
School Lunch Course
To Train Personnel