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Archdiocese of Atlanta PEACE ON EARTH SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES ARCHBISHOP ASSERTS Church’s Stand On Communists As Firm As Ever J. WALTER Kennedy, the new commissioner of the National Basketball Association, is a former social worker for Ca tholic Charities and sports publicist for the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater. Presently serving as Mayor of Stamford, Conn., he will succeed Maurice Podoloff, who headed the nation’s biggest pro basketball circuit for 17 years. Polish Cardinal May Visit US NEW YORK -NC— Richard Cardinal Cushing said here that he wants to invite Stefan Car dinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, to visit the United States next year. Cardinal Cushing, Archbis hop of Boston, made the dis closure in an address (May 12) to more than 10,000 persons at a rally welcoming a replica of Poland’s miraculous picture of Our Lady of Czestochowa. (The Polish Cardinal has been abt'.e on several occasions to leave Poland to attend the first session of the ecumenical coun cil last fall and take part in other ecclesiastical meetings in Rome. LIVERPOOL, England -(NC)- Pope John XXIIIhas not changed the Church's attitude toward communism despite press re ports to the contrary, a British prelate told a group of labor unionists here. Archbishop John Heenan of Liverpool also said at the annual Mass for unionists that he hopes Britian will never have a separate Catholic labor union organization. He stated: ••It has been widely suggest ed in the press that Pope John in his encyclical (Pacem in Terris) has proclaimed a truce between the Vatican and the Kremlin. '•Some writers have even suggested in die press that the Pope has become soft on communism. This is not true." The Archibishop added: "No Christian leader can re lax vigilance inface of an enemy pledged to destroy religion. It is important, therefore, to tell you just what the Pope did say about coming to terms with commu nists. "He said we must never con fuse error with the person in error. While we hate sin, in other words, we must love the sinner. "SO, Pope John says, while disapproving false philosophy, we must not hold aloof from the men who hold these views. IN BIRMINGHAM Bishops Appeal For Race Peace "Hitherto, it was usually thought inopportune or useless for Christians to hold meetings with the communists. The Pope says it is now time to test if honorable and useful results may be achieved by discussion with them. "The Pope is telling us that it is important for all men, irrespective of their political views, to make a geniune effort to come to agreement. Other wise, with the stockpiling of nuclear weapons, war is almost inevitable. "The Pope does not say that communism in itself has be come less evil but only that we ought to recognize any good there may be in the system. "WHERE we can cooperate for the common good we must do so. Christian and commu nist can both be sincere in their struggle for peace. Unless men talk together, they.. .plot each other's destruction. That is the situation which the Pope seeks to remedy." Archcishop Heenan called the peace encyclical "the most im portant document produced this year." He said it is "a reason ed and eloquent appeal to in dividuals and nations to work together for peace." He added: "Even the communists prais ed the Pope. This is because the present party line is to campaign for peace. There is no reason to doubt communists’ sincerity in this campaign. One does not need to be a Christian to appreciate the stupidity and malice of any who would pro voke a third war with its unimaginable horrors." ^ PAPAL ENVOY Pope John XXIII receives the $160,000 Balzan Peace Prize at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican from Giovanni Gronchi, president of the Balzan Foundation and former Italian president. In the center is Msgr. Mario Nasalli Rocca di Comegliano, papal chamberlain. The 81-year-old pontiff said the honor and glory should go to God and vowed to continue striving for world peace. POPE ANNOUNCES Perpetual Peace Fund With His Balzan Prize Vatican City (NC) — Pope John XXIII, the first in dividual to be awarded the Bal zan peace prize, will use the $160,000 prize money to create what he called "a perpetual fund in favor erf peace." He made this announcement in the Quirinal Palace in the final phase of a three-part aw ard ceremony. The first two phases were held on the pre vious day in the Vatican. IN HIS speech at the Quir inal, once the residence of the Popes and now the residence of the President of Italy, Pope John said to President Antonio Segni: "Mr. President, you can well imagine with what emotion this Bishop of Rome and humble Pope of the Universal Church comes to this residence of the supreme authority of the Ital ian State." These words appeared to draw a firm and clear line be tween the spiritual authority of the Pope and the temporal auth ority his predecessors once held but which was wrestedfrom them by Segni's political fore bears. The first part of the ceremony was held in the Vatican's Re gal Hall in the presence of Italian President Antonio Segni, officials of the Balzan Foun dation, other Balzan prize win ners and members of the dip lomatic corps, including U. S. Ambassador to Italy, G. Fred erick Reinhardt. THEN Pope John and the others—-except President Segni who had a cold—went to St. Peter’s basilica to hear, in the words the Pope used in invit ing the others to join him, "the echo of the support all hearts give to the sublime ideal of peace." The following day Pope John arrived just after the winners CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 MOBILE, Ala. (NC) — Arch bishop Thomas J. Toolen has deplored the recurrence of rac ial strife in Birmingham, but at the same time has urged that Negroes be reminded that they have obligations as well as rights. The head of the Mobile-Blr- mingham diocese Issued a statement (May 13) to the N.C. W.C. News Service the day af ter riots in Birmingham broke the momentary calm result ing from an agreement signed between white businessmen and Negro leaders on May 10. IN THE latest violence, there were two bombings, six build ings burned, a patrolman was stabbed and there were several bare-knuckle and rock-hurling brawls. On orders from Pre sident Kennedy, Federal troops moved into position (May 13) south of the strife-torn industr ial city. New Director WASHINGTON, (NC) — Father Theodore E. McCarrick, assis tant to the vice rector of the Catholic University of America here, has been named director of university development. Fa ther McCarrick, a priest of the New York archdiocese, suc ceeds Msgr. John J. McClaf- ferty, who was recently named pastor of the Church of St. Peter, Staten Island, N. Y. Archbishop Toolen said: "We deplore that this violence has taken place. Whoever did this should be punished for the de struction caused. Our people have been asked to pray for pea ce, and as Catholics we cannot harbor hate in our hearts for our Negro brethern. Our people are not taking part in this. We would like to see it all settled. We are glad that Ne groes are obtaining some rights and those in the civil rights field should remind the Negro race of their obligation to their fellowmen." Earlier, in Birmingham, Bishop Joseph A. Durick had appealed for "the best and most peaceful techniques’* to be used in resolving the crisis. In his statement on the racial crisis, Bishop Durick said: "Even though those who are staging these demonstrations may be convinced of the sense of urgency attending them, it does not mean that one can ig nore the question of seeking the best and most peaceful techni ques. . . “It seems to me that it is incumbent upon the moderate element of our city, especially those of strong religious ins piration and leadership, to try once again to initiate programs of harmony and conciliation." FOR THE first time in history, Abbots from Benedictine and Trapplst Monastarles from the U. S. and Canada are pictured together here in Atlanta. They were attending a conference on Heart Diet study under the auspices of the Georgia State department of Health. Both Benedictine and Trapplst com munities throughout North America are participating in this study which is focused directly on members of their communities. Also attending, but not in the picture were Arch Abbot Dennis Strittmatter, O. S. B. of St. Vincent's Arch Abbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B. of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. First row, Abbot Anselm Cop- perslmth, O.S.BConception, Missouri, Abbot Bede Luibel,o.S.B., St. Bernard, Alabama, Dorn James Fox, Abbot of Gesthemlne, Kentucky, Dom Augustine Moore, Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Arch Abbot Bona venture Knaebel, O.S.B., St. Meinrad, Indiana, Dom Columban Hawkins, Our Lady Guddalupe, Oregon, Abbot Individuals Peace Key, UN Is Told Michael Lensing, O.S.B, Subiaco, Arkansas; second row, Dom Jean Vlanney, La Flamme Mistassini, Quebec, Canada, Dom Phillip O'Connor, New Melleray, Dubuque, Iowa, Dom TTiomas Aquinas Keating, St. Joseph’s Abbey, Massachusetts, Dom Hugh McKiernan, Our Lady of the Holy Cross, Berryville, Virginia, Dom Walter Hlemstetter, Our Lady of the Genesse, Piffard, New York, Abbot Raphael Heider, O.S.B., St, Martin, Olympia, Washington, Dom Fulgence Fortier, Notre Dame de Praires, St. Morbert, Canada; third row, Dom Bruno Payant, Our Lady of the Assumption, Ava, Missouri, Dom Eusebius Wagner, Our Lady of New Clairvaux, Vina, California, Dom Emmanuel Spil- lane, Our Lady of the Trinity, Huntsville, Utah, Dom Joachim Viens, St. Benedictine Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, Dom Laurence Bourget, American Definator, Rome, Italy, Dom Anthony Chassagne, Our Lady of Mepkin, South Carolina, Dom Alphonse Arsenault, Calvare, Rogerville, Canda. NEW YORK (NC) -- The en cyclical Pacem in Terris stresses that "international peace begins in the souls of each one of us," a represen tative of Pope John XXIII told the U. S. Committee for the United Nations. Leo Cardinal Suenens, Arch bishop of Malines-Brussels, Belgium, said at the annual meeting Monday of the com mittee, composed of 135 nati onal organizations, that the Pope’s encyclical points out that peace must begin at this first level of the individual. THE CARDINAL was ap pointed by Pope John as his representative at the committee meeting in response to an in vitation Issued by Robert S. Benjamin, chairman of the com mittee. The Cardinal, who spoke in U. N. headquarters here, said he had presented "in the name of the Holy Father" a copy of Pacem in Terris to U. N. secretary general U Thant. Among those present to hear the Cardinal were Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, president of the U. N. General Assembly; Adlai Stevenson, head of the U. S. mission to theU.N.: Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic De legate to the U. S. : and Auxiliary Bishop James H. Griffiths, observer of the Holy See at the U.N. Benjamin, who introduced the Cardinal, said that Pope John’s peace encyclical "reinforces our conviction that man can be master of his history, rather than its victim." HE ALSO said: "It was a document composed by a man whose supreme confidence in the future of his fellowman can not be shaken. . . There is a very clear mutuality of interest between the thoughts of Pope John and the strivings of the U. N. Both are seeking the peace of the world." Cardinal Suenens referred in his talk to the Pope's call for establishment of a public autho rity of worldwide scope to en sure the common good and to the Pope’s appeal for colla boration among men in certain spheres despite their opposing ideologies. He dwelt much lon ger, however, on the role of the individual in regard to peace, the threat of nuclear war and the need for aid to deve loping nations. The Cardinal said there is a fourfold appeal in the ency clical: for respect for the in dividual, for collaboration am ong nations, for the creation of a supranational power and for collaboration among men des pite their ideological differen ces. Right at the start, he st ate-, "the Pope connects the dialogue with delegates of the United Nations who here promu lgated, on Decamber 10, 1948 the Universal Declaratibnof the Rights of Man." The Pope points out, the Car dinal said, that these rights are basic — in all latitudes and longitudes, without regard to place , or to racial, political, ideological or religious differ ences." "This opening up to others, far from contradicting the true CARDINAL SUENENS personality of man, is an in tergrating factor,” the Cardinal stated. ". . .It is therefore in the souls of each one of us that the outset the peace of the world is cast. It is from there that it must spread out, in con centric circles, to the limits of the universe. "International peace," the Cardinal stressed again, "be gins in the souls of each one of us. . .Peace begins in the bosom of each family, and sp reads from there to the street, to the neighborhood, to the city, to the nation, to the world. Each gesture of peace, each little peace, each small-scale decision helps the big-scale de cisions that carry into effect peace among nations." CARDINAL Suenens said that the Pope’s second plea—for collaboration among nations— means "that peoples do not close themselves off in narrow compartments and that they place in common their indivi dual riches, at all levels, and that they enter into broad mut ual interchanges." "This fundamental principle of necessary collaboration bet ween peoples collides, .with that drama of our century which is called the armaments race," the Cardinal continued. "If ’ve CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 FATHER H. A. Re inhold, one of the nation’s best known litur gy experts and the author of four books on theology, is back at his typewriter after an amaz ing recovery from the dread Parkinson's disease. The sub ject of a new treatment, which involves the destruction of cer tain brain cells, he was operat ed on at St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases, New York. See Story Page 2.