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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1963
CHRISTIAN UNITY
Cardinal Bea Visit Hailed As Outstanding Event
An ecumenical red carpet was
rolled out in Boston this week
for a visitor from Rome who
is generally regarded as the
No. I public relations man of
the Second Vatican Council.
Augustin Cardinal Bea, pre
sident of the Vatican Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity,
is in the United States for a
tour that will feature a theolo
gical “confrontation" between
Catholic and Protestant scho
lars that is expected to be one
of the outstanding religious sto
ries of 1963.
THE ROUND of activities that
will take him also to New York,
Baltimore and Washington, D.
C., Cardinal Bea is not only a
distinguished Biblical scholar,
but Pope John XXlII's closest
adviser on ecumenical matters.
Due to celebrate his 82nd birth
day on May 28, he is the pon
tiff's senior by six months.
The German-born Prince of
the Church, the only Jesuit in
the Sacred College, will be the
star participant in a four-day
colloquium at Harvard Univer
sity under the sponsorship of
its Divinity School's Charles
Chauncey Stillman Chair in Ro
man Catholic Studies. These
discussions, in which some 150
prominent theological and spe
cial students will take part, are
intended to explore “areas of
common interests and concern,
not with any ulterior motive in
mind other than mutual under
standing."
The seminars, according to
Prof. G. Earnest Wright of Har
vard, who will serve as chair
man, will be closed to the pub
lic “in order that complete
freedom of discussion can be
permitted along with frankness
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However, Cardinal Bea, (he
is coming as the guest of Ric
hard Cardinal Cushing, Arch
bishop of Boston) will also de
liver three public lectures at
Harvard on unity themes which
will be broadcast live over ra
dio station WGBM In Boston.
One will deal with the "aca
demic pursuits of Christian uni
ty”, and three will examine the
role of the Second Vatican Coun
cil in relation both to non-Ca-
tholics and non-Christians.
Scholarly Catholic priests and
Protestant professors will join
in conducting workshops on
topics of common and prime
theological interest.
CARDINAL Bea's first visit
to the United States — a brief
one — was in June, 1960, when
he was given an honorary doc
torate in laws by Fordham Uni
versity in New York. On March
26, another Jesuit-conducted
university, Boston College, will
hold a special honors convoca
tion for him, and on April 4
he will receive an honorary
LL.D from the Catholic Uni
versity of America in Washing
ton, D. C,
Meanwhile, the cardinal will
be honored in New York at a
dinner sponsored by the Ame
rican Council for the Interna
tional University of Social Stu
dies "Pro Deo" in Rome and
attended by 300 Catholic and
non-Catholic leaders. On the
following day he will preach a
sermon on "The Priest—Min
ister of Unity" at the Cathedral
of Mary Our Queen in Balti
more.
Himself ranked by admirers
as one of Catholicism's fore
most "ministers of unity",
Cardinal Bea is coming to the
United States not only after
having already conducted exten
sive lecture tours in Europe,
but after having had many face-
to-face meetings with promi
nent Anglican, Protestant and
Eastern Orthodox as well as
Jewish leaders.
All these activities have given
him perhaps the most wide and
varied personal acquaintance
with non-Catholic leadership
that any member of the Sacred
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College can claim. In estab
lishing these contacts he has
been helped not only by a cor
dial Informality, but by a re
markable linguistic ability. In
addition to German, he conver
ses fluently in Latin, Italian
and French, and has enough
command of English to dispense
with an interpreter. He also
knows Greek, Hebrew and Ara
maic, the ancient tongue spoken
by Christ.
HIS FOUR-SCORE years have
etched deep lines on Cardinal
Bea’s face and his figure has
become slightly bent. But his
vigor and alertness are shown
by the many times he has left
Rome during the past two or
three years for visits to Eng
land, West Germany, Switzer
land, and Denmark to talk on
the work of the Second Vatican
Council. In one six-month pe
riod, he gave nine major public
speeches and five press con
ferences in five languages on the
Council. His visit to Copenha
gen last January saw a new
ecumenical highlight recorded
as bishops of the State Lutheran
Church gathered to greet and
salute him as "our deer bro
ther in Christ."
In London last August, Car
dinal Bea was a luncheon guest
of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey,
Archbishop of Canterbury. His
constantly widening circle of
non-Catholic friends include
Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher,
the retired Archbishop of Can
terbury; Dr. W. A. Visser 't
Hooft, general secretary of the
World Council of Churches; and
Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New
York, president of the Lutheran
World Federation.
WHAT friends he has not
made while abroad, Cardinal
Bea has won in Rome. To his
offices in Vatican City have
come such visitors as the Rev.
Leslie Davison, president of
the Methodist Conference of
Great Britain; Dr. Harold E.
Fey, editor of the Christian
Century, ecumenical weekly
published in Chicago; Dr. Ar
chbald Campbell Craig, mode
rator of the General Assembly
of the Church of England; La-
of the Church of Scotland; Ca
non Bernard C. Pawley, repre
sentative of the Church of Eng
land; Label A. Katz of Washing
ton, D. C., president of B’nai
B’rith, Jewish welfare and fra
ternal organization; and Dr.
Lewis Webster Jones, president
of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews in the
United States.
In April, 1962, Cardinal Bea
was praised by Louis Caplan,
president of the American Jew
ish Committee, for his efforts
"to create a new atmosphere of
friendship and improved rela
tionships between Christians
tionships between Christians
and Jews." The Committee was
among 15 Protestant, Jewish,
Moslem and Oriental religious
groups which earlier were rep
resented at a banquet in Rome
during which the cardinal called
upon them to join in a common
effort to overcome group con
flict.
Cardinal Bea's visit here oc
curs a month prior to the sche
duled publication of his new
duled publication of his new
book “The Unity of Christians"
in which, among other things,
he calls for working together
with, and not against, other
Christians. The cardinal has
written none other books and
hundreds of articles on scrip
tural themes.
HIS LATEST book contains
an introduction by Archbishop
Gerald P. O'Hara, Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain, who
calls it "supremely valuable as
being the expression of the mind
.In closest contact with Pope
John XXIIL"
BISHOP WRIGHT SAYS:
Outlawed School Prayer
Reflected Community
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — The
New York State Regents’ Pray
er for public schools, ruled
unconstitutional by the U. S.
Supreme Court, was defended
here by Roman Catholic Bis
hop John J. Wright of Pitts
burgh.
He dis sented from the Court's
view, holding that the "Regents’
Prayer did not establish reli
gion."
IN THE final talk of a lec
ture series exploring overlap
ping areas of morality and le
gality, Bishop Wright said that
all the non-sectarian New York
prayer did was "to reduce pray
er in the public schools to an
agreed minimum consistent
with the local community con
sensus which reflected the mo
res of the moment."
He agreed with the recent
stand of Dean Erwin N. Girs-
wold of Harvard Law School
who criticized "absolutist ten
dencies" of the Supreme Court.
"Americans can rightly be
nervous," he said, "over the
absolutist tendencies of the Su
preme Court cited by Dean
Griswold...when these prescind
from the consensus which would
conserve moral precepts which
are not merely legal, but are
bound up with the common pre
cepts which are not merely
legal, but are bound up with
the common good and those
that good."
IN HIS talk, one of several
sponsored by the Catholic Phy-
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sicians Guild and the St. Tho
mas More Society here, Bishop
Wright stressed the "optional"
nature of the Regents' Prayer.
"Recital of the prayer was
absolutely voluntary," he said.
"The option did not only rest
with the parents.
"The option was also with
the student. Likewise, the op
tion was the community's as to
whether the prayer should be
recited or not In the public
schools of a given community.
"IN A word, from beginning
to end the Regents’ Prayer re
flected a community consensus
and a full respect for religious
as for every other freedom."
Bishop Wright charged that
the "Supreme Court is short-
cutting the trend of what it con
siders to be the new American
consensus. It assumes that this
trend Is secularism; it assumes
secularism is good or at least
'safe,’ and so it legalizes Its
position. In fact, it does worse
than that: it illegalizes the op
posite."
If this tendency continues, the
bishop declared, he can forsee
the day "when community re
sistance to the trend will take
the form of counter suits on
questions designed to enable
freedom to function."
HE SECONDED Dean Gris
wold’s advice that the "Supreme
Court should exercise common
sense and keep in mind the com
mon good in defining Church-
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Three o'clock for some
marks the end of the day’s
activities. For many others,
however, the real work begins.
Athletic activities at St. Pius
X are now at a peak. Football,
track, and baseball currently
share the spotlight.
St. Pius X’s 1963 football
squad (present juniors, sopho
mores, and freshmen) has ac
cepted a challenge from the
senior football members to play
in the “P-Day“ game. This
game annually concludes the
spring practice season.
State problems in terms less
absolute than it did in the (Re
gents' Prayer) case."
One way to accomplish this,
he said, would be for the Su
preme Court "to stress the
permissive elements of earlier
Court decisions, and specifical
ly those In the Everson and Mc
Collum cases."
He also suggested "it is time
for Catholics, Protestants,
Jews, and any secular human
ists who recognize that religion
and moral values should enjoy
the favor of the law, to sit down
in an effort to arrive at a com
munity consensus which can be
defended In terms of the Con
stitution." Such efforts are al
ready underway, he added, and
may prove that the Regents case
had been a "boon to united mo
ral witness."
HUMAN RELATIONS
A New Orleans surgeon, Dr.
James T. Nix. is shown dis
cussing a medical study be
ing conducted on nuns in
the U S. Religious communi
ties throughout the country
are cooperating in the pro
gram initiated and conduct
ed by Dr. Nix. who heads
the Committee on Medical
Care of Clergy and Religious
of the National Federation
of Catholic Physicians'
Guilds. See Story Page 5
Future Civic Peace
Depends On Schools
PRESENT seniors are David
Thompson, Tom Hughes, and
Rach Armitage, last year’s tri-
captains. Others Include Mike
Penney, John Stumbler, Joe
Scanlon, Drew Davidson, Joe
Cox, Bill Ryan, Steve Ernest,
and Henry Kempton.
Three members of last year’s
record - breaking mile relay
team are again on hand this
season. Seniors Joe Scanlon,
Terry Lee, and Tommy Med-
calf make up three-fourths of
the current relay , squad.
Other track status remains un
certain at the moment.
CHICAGO (NC)-The future
social peace and unity of Ame
rican society is at stake in what
today's school children are
taught about human relations,
some 500 Catholic educators
hear.
Dr. Deton J. Brooks, Jr., ac
tive in Catholic interracial pro
grams, warned that U. S. edu
cational systems may be bring
ing up the most racially igno
rant students in the world.
"IX) YOU realize that it is
generally easier for a talented
white high school or college
student to get a fund of know
ledge concerning an aboriginal
tribe in the Australian bush than
it is to get intimate knowledge
concerning his Negro brother?"
he asked.
Brooks is director of re
search and statistics for tbs
Cook County Department of
Public Aid and vice president
of the Catholic Interracial
Council of Chicago. He spoke
to the 24th annual meeting of
the midwest unit of the secon
dary school department of the
National Catholic Educational
Association.
STATING that the conscious
commitment of Catholic schools
to religious principles means
they have a special job to do
in human relations, Brooks said
Catholic schools should lead in
the matter of racial justice.
He deplored the ignorance and
stereotypes he said are created
by the average school pupil’s
lack of Interracial contact.
"I sometimes feel," he said,
"that our educational systems
are bringing up the most ra
cially ignorant students in the
world at a time when racial
sophistication and knowledge
are all important."
BROOKS said that including
the life stories of prominent
American Negroes in history
courses would go a long way to
counteract “the concept of ra
cial superiority which is still
built into the American environ
ment and is still having a strong
educational effect."
He called for promotion of
interracial personal contact
among students and teachers.
He described it as "an essen
tial element of any sound pro
gram of human relations edu
cation.”
He said racial integration of
schools should be rated as “a
desirable educational goal."
Enjoying a close relationship
with a reigning pontiff is no
new experience for Cardinal
Bea, since he had previously
been the confessor of Pope Pius
XII and his adviser on matters
that had nothing to do with the
confessional. In 1943 he assist
ed in preparing Pius XII’s en
cyclical letter on Bibal scholar
ship, Divino Afflante Spiritu,
which Catholic scriptural scho
lars hailed as a momentous do
cument.
Today very much in the lime
light, Cardinal Bea's life has
mostly been the secluded and
almost hidden one of the scho
lar and teacher.
HE WAS born in the Town of
Riedbohringen in the German
province of Baden, the only son
of a well-to-do housebuilder.
At the age of ten he fell criti
cally ill and doctors gave him
only a few weeks to live. The
doctors were to be proved wrong
again years later w hen they told
the future cardinal that he could
never stand the climate in
Rome. Rome has been his home
for some 40 years.
The youthful Augustin studied
at three universities —thoseat
Freiburg in Bresgau and Berlin
in Germany and Innsbruck in
Austria. He entered the Society
of Jesus in 1902 and ten years
later was ordained a priest. In
1924 he was appointed to the fa
culty of the Pontifical Gregorian
University in Rome and later to
the Biblical Institute, where he
remained until his elevation to
the Sacred College in 1959.
Shortly afterwards, Pope John
named him to head the Secre
tariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity.
It was to Cardinal Bea that
the delicate task fell of hand
ling the problem of inviting
non-Catholic clergymen to the
Second Vatican Council as
delegate-observers. He had al
ready made clear his belief
that an improved liaison was.
needed between the Church and
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THE SCHOLARLY cardinal is
fond of saying that it is in the
field of Biblical scholarship
that the church unity move
ment has its firmest roots. The
complexities of modern Bibli
cal scholarship, he insists, re
quire the collaboration of scho
lars of varied religious back
ground. Furthermore, the Bible
is the common document of all
the faiths and a source of the
spiritual and devotional life of
millions, regardless of confes
sional adherence.
Cardinal Bea has stressed
that there is no question of
seeking compromises from the
Catholic Church in the realm
of dogma, but at the same time
he has denied that this doctri
nal intransigeance means clos
ing the door to steps the Vati
can Council may make in fur
thering doctrinal union with the
separated Churches.
"Without sacrificing reveal
ed truth”, he declared on one
occasion, "the Council could
help us to understand more
clearly the whole of revealed
truth...meanwhile, the Council,
besides encouraging ecumeni
cal discussion among Catholic
and non-Catholic theologians In
the domain of theology, could
also take a stand in the realm
of collaboration in civil and
social life. Think of what a
wonderful thing it would be if
Christians of all confessions
would work in close harmony
for international peace; the
achievement of human rights
of minority groups and racial
groups; for disarmanent; for
the social progress of develop
ing nations."
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