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VOL 1. NO. 13
EDUCATION OPINIONS
Church-State
Specialist Sees
Dramatic Shift
MAJ. ROBERT M. White, pi
lot of the X-15 rocket plane
and the fifth American to win
astronaut's wings, will receive
the Mendel Medal, science
award, named for Abbot Gregor
Mendel, discoverer of the laws
of heredity, is given to out
standing scientists who are
members in good standing of
the Catholic Church.
MIAMI, Fla. - NC- A lea
der in interracial justice work
called here for religious at
titudes to be transformed into
action against racial discrim
ination.
Father John F. Cronin, S.S.,
assistant director of the Social
Action Department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
said that good wishes are not
enough to combat the evils re
sulting from segregation.
THE SULPIC1AN priest was
the keynote Speaker (April 4)
at the leadership training in
stitute conducted here by the
National Council of Catholic
Women.
He asserted that "the best
of attitudes can be ineffective
Editor Appointed
PITTSBURGH - (NC)— Msgr.
John S. Kocisko has been nam
ed editor of the Byzantine Ca
tholic World, newspaper of the
Pittsburgh Byzantine Rite dio
cese. He succeeds Msgr. John
Kallok, who has been editor
since the paper was founded
eight years ago.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -NC— A
dramatic shift in public opinion
on Federal aid to private
schools has occured since 1961,
an expert in Church-State re
lations said here,
William B. Ball, executive
director and general counsel
of the Pennsylvania Catholic
Welfare Committee, said there
has been "a marked increase
in sentiment” favoring in
clusion of private schools in
any Federal aid program.
if we fail to face up to con
crete problems involved in ra
cial justice."
"We must not merely wish
good to all," he stated. "We
must be prepared to act in a
concrete and effective manner
to remedy evils caused by ra
cial segregation."
"Proper religious attitudes
must be transformed into reli
gion in action,” he continued.
"This poses concrete tasks for
us both within the Church and
in relation to other churches and
to the community.
"WITHIN the Church, we
must seek to eradicate any trace
of prejudice and discrimi
nation — in our houses of wor
ship, in our schools, our hos
pitals, our camps, Indeed in any
institution under our control.
Employment furnished by Ch
urch construction and purchas
ing should be open to all
persons, regardless of race."
Father Cronin asserted that
such within-the-Church activi
ties "should not blind us to op
portunities for interreligious
and community action."
"THIS shift is evident not
only in the opinion polls. It is
in the air," he said in a speech
at the biennial legislative meet
ing of the Ohio Catholic Wel
fare Conference.
"Prominent persons who op
posed the Catholic position just
two years ago have now spoken
out in favor of various types of
aid—aid such as tax deductions.
Scholarship programs and
shared time,” Ball noted.
He explained that this change
has been due to four factors:
1) A more widespread under
standing of Catholic education.
2) A new awareness of constitut
ional questions involved. 3) An
increase in public conscious
ness of the importance of edu
cation. 4) A realization of the
importance of religion in edu
cation.
The recent Supreme Court
decision in which the New York
school prayer was outlawed has
had a "traumatic effect on mill
ions,” Ball said.
He explained that out of the
concern generated by the ruling
has come a realization that the
church - related school in
America is a "truly noble
thing.”
"Moreover," he noted,
"there has been mounting con
cern by members of all
religious groups over the build
up of pressure for an extremist
interpretation on the constitut
ional concept of separation of
Church and State—an interpre
tation which foreshadows the
total secularization of Ameri
can society."
BALL criticized "certain
portions” of the American
press for caricaturing oppo
nents of the recent school pray
er ruling by the Supreme Court.
"Invariably those who oppose
the decision are pictured—in
print and on film—as violently
pro-segregation southerners,"
he said.
This is unfair and inaccurate
on two counts, Ball explained:
"First, because those who
oppose the ruling—regardless
of what part of the country they
are from—are undoubtedly sin
cere in their convictions.
"And second, because many
longtime proponents of civil
rights have found the decision
as distasteful as anyone else."
Good Friday
TV Program
Msgr. P, J. O'Connor, Pas
tor of St. Thomas More Par
ish, Decatur, will participate
In a special Good Friday pro
gram on Station WAII-TV
(Channel 11) from 1:30 to 2:30
P.M.
Entitled "The Seven Last
Words”, the program also In
cludes the Rev. Charles C.
Lindsay, Pastor Covenant Pre
sbyterian Church; Rev. Ray
mond Buck, Pastor Lutheran
Church of the Ascension; Rev.
William M. Holt, Pastor Trin
ity Methodist Church; Rev. Fre
derick A. Mayer, Pastor Cen
tral Congregational Church;
Rev. William Allison, Fulton
County Chaplain; and Major
James V. Coleman, Assistant
3rd Army Chaplain.
ESCORTED by Dean Samuel H. Miller of the Harvard (Unlv.)
Divinity School, Augustin Cardinal Bea, S. J., president of the
Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, enters
Harvard’s Sanders Theater to speak at a four-day Catholic-
Protestant colloquim.
PRIEST SOCIOLOGIST
Desegregation
Through Action
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1963
$5.00 PER YEAR
SOUTHEAST DEANERY meeting of the ACCW featured an address by Archbishop Hallinan. Pic
tured above following the meeting are: Father Michael Manning, Archdiocesan Moderator; Mrs.
Jack Keisler, Deanery President; Archbishop Hallinan; Mrs. George Gunning, Archdiocesan
President; Very Rev. John O'Shea, V.F., Southeast Dean.
IN SEARCH OF UNITY
SOLEMN RITES
Archbishop
To Officiate
Holy Week
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
will officiate at all the major
Holy Week functions in the Ca
thedral of Christ the King.
On Sunday, the second Sun
day of the Passion, there will
be Solemn Pontifical Blessing
of the Palms at 11:15 A.M,
Archbishop Hallinan will pre
side at the Mass to be cele
brated by Msgr. Joseph G.
Cassidy, P, A., V, G„ Cathe
dral Rector,
On Holy Thursday, there will
be a Solemn Blessing of the
oils used in the Sacraments of
the Church. Archbishop Halli
nan will officiate at 10:00 A.M.
The faithful of the Archdio
cese are urged to attend this
Holy Thursday ceremony along
with the school children.
Cardinal Bea
Catholics
On Holy Thursday evening,
there will be Solemn Pontifi
cal Mass of the Lord's Supper
at 6:00 P. M. Archbishop Halli
nan will preside. Msgr. Cassidy
will be the celebrant.
Become ‘Servants Of Truth’
Cathedral assistant, Father
Alan Dillman, will give the com
mentary at the Holy Thursday
Ceremony.
WASHINGTON —Augustine
Cardinal Bea, S.J., urged here
that Catholics make themselves
"servants of the truth” in the
quest for Christian unity.
Cardinal Bea, president of the
Vatican Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity, su
mmed up the spirit behind the
ecumenical movement in the
words of St. Paul: "practic
ing the truth in love."
"TRUTH without charity is
intolerant, and charity without
truth is blind and will not en
dure," he told an audience of
2,500, including dignitaries of
Church and State, at the Catholic
University of America.
The Cardinal spoke after re
ceiving an honorary doctorate
of sacred theology from the un
iversity this week.
The ceremony was his last
public apperance in the United
States before returning to
Rome. During his brief U.S.
visit he participated in a major
OF TRAFFIC LAWS
interfaith colloquium at Har
vard University.
The audience for the Card
inal's address here included
several Catholic bishops as well
as leading Protestant and
Jewish churchmen, a large nu
mber of congressmen andmany
representatives of the diplo
matic corps.
ARCHBISHOP Patrick A. O'
Boyle of Washington, chancellor
of the Catholic University, gave
the invocation at the ceremony
and presided. Msgr. William
J. McDonald, rector of the un
iversity, delivered the address
of welcome.
The citation accompanying
the honorary degree, read by
Msgr. Joseph B. McAllister,
university vice rector, recalled
Cardinal Bea’s achievements as
a Biblical scholar and former
rector of the Pontifical Bibli
cal Institute.
He said that means "an un
derstanding and respect for
Clerical Privilege
Hit On Violations
CHICAGO (RNS)-A regional
interreligious traffic safety
seminar here was told by Cath
olic theologian that clergymen
should expect no "clerical pri
vileges" when they violate
traffic laws.
Father Francis L. Filas, Ch
airman of Loyola University's
Theology Department here,
stressed that clerical garb or
calling does not entitle a min
ister, priest or rabbi to dis
regard traffic regulations or to
expect more lenient treatment
than the average citizen when
laws are broken.
HE SAID clergymen have
the responsibility to see that
safety rules are obeyed by their
congregations when travelling
to or leaving religious services.
Father Filas also suggested
that before clergymen stop at
the scene of an accident, they
should ask themselves If they
are needed or if their presence
would be desirable.
"We might be in the way
or wemight be needed," he said.
"Those are the two pos
sibilities. Please do not be of
fended if troopers wave you on,
either because an accident is
not as serious as it appears,
or because they want no one
else to create traffic dangers."
THE PRIEST concluded by
urging all drivers, clerical and
lay, to accept traffic safety pre
cautions as part of their own
moral code.
Pope Sees
Atlantans
VATICAN CITY, (NC) — Pope
John XX111 told members of the
Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Com
merce that he receives visi
tors from all over the world
and that he is sorry he cannot
return their visits.
Pope John received the Geor
gians (March 30) at a special
audience in the Vatican's
Throne Room along with dele
gates at the annual convention of
the International Federatlonfor
Social Tourism.
what makes them our brothers,
especially the grace of Baptism
and all its consequences, and
for what makes them our
separated brothers."
He declared that it is not
enough for Catholics to have
a "clear but cold" understand
ing of what divides them from
non-Catholics. Rather, he said,
Catholics must have a "loving
understanding" of non-Cat-
holics and must appreciate "the
great sacrificing efforts" that
these "brethren" are making in
the cause of unity.
NEVERTHELESS, he con
tinued, the love of Catholics for
unity and for non-Catholics
"would not be real love if we
would speak to them in a false
irenicism; if, for instance, we
would give them the hope that
all that will be askedfromthem
is but the recognition of the
so-called fundamental dog
mas,' that they will be released
from accepting the dogmatic
decrees of the Council of Trent,
or that we are ready to revise
the dogma of the pope's primacy
and infallibility."
Cardinal Bea emphasized,
however, that "firmness and
absolute fidelity" to Catholic
doctrine do not mean that in
the ecumenical field "nothing is
to be done in doctrinal mat
ters."
"SUCH differences can be
remedied by a new and fuller
interpretation of doctrine that
takes into account the menta
lity and the terminology used
today by our.non-Catholic bre
thren," he said, adding: "Fi
delity to the precision of doc
trine is not compromised by the
use of contemporary termino
logy which the man in the street
understands and accepts."
Cardinal Bea declared that in
philosophy, theology and Bibli
cal studies there are "many
occasions foi che clarification
of ideas and terminologies,"
especially by returning to Holy
Scripture and its "developing
interpretation in authentic Tra
dition."
He said many m ^understand
ings can be cleared up and many
resentments “soothed" by "an
objective and serene examina
tion of the facts, in the light of
a sound historical science."
NOTING that many Church
directives in such areas as lit
urgy and discipline have been
based on particular historical
circumstances and the requir
ements of pastoral care, he
commented:
"Since, with the exception of
occasional dogmatic nonn, the
vast body of ecclesiastical law
is by no means an absolute law,
we will see now and what legis
lation should change today in
fidelity to the principle of all
Church law: ’salus anlmarun,’
the salvation of souls."
On Good Friday Archbishop
Hallinan will be the celebrant
of the Pontifical Ceremony
commemorating the Passion
and Death of our Lord, at 6:00
P.M.
On Holy Saturday the Arch
bishop will officiate at the Sol
emn Easter Vigil Services of
the blessing the New Fire and
the Paschal Candle. Msgr. Cas
sidy will be celebrant of the
Mass, with Archbishop Hallinan
presiding.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan,
through the Chancery Office, an
nounces the following appoint
ment:
Reverend Daniel J,
McCormick, Assistant at Im
maculate Heart of Mary Church,
to Assistant Director of Catholic
Charities. Effective with opening
of Summer School session, June,
1963.
EACH HOLY Week, thousands of Sicilians flock to the city of Trapani to view the '*mysteries"
of the Passion of Christ. Twenty almost-lifesized groups depicting the Passion are carried
through the streets in a great procession on the afternoon and evening of Good Friday. Each
figure group is the special charge of one of the business activities of the city. The group shown
above depicts Christ carrying the cross under the scourge of one of the Roman soldiers, while
Veronica ( at right) holds the towel with which she wiped the face of Jesus.