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P.4GL f GI.ORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963
POPE ANNOUNCES
Perpetual Peace Fund
With His Balzan Prize
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of other Balzan prizes had re
ceived their awards.
It was the second time the
Balzan Peace Prize has been
awarded and the first time it
has been won by an individual.
The first award went to the
Nobel Foundation of Stockholm.
The prize is named for the late
Eugenio Dalzan, editor of the
Milan newspaper, Corriere
della Sera, who left Italy
for Switzerland during the fas
cist era.
'Hie citation of the award was
read to the Pope in the Regal
Hail by Arangio Ruiz, presi
dent of the Pal/an Foundation's
awards committee. It said the
pri/c given to the Pontiff is
intended to be "a public re
cognition of your activity in
favor of brotherhood among men
and among all peoples through
appeals for peace and to the
good will of men, and for your
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recent intervention at the dipl
omatic level."
THE latter was taken as a
reference to the Pope's appeal
for peace at the height of the
Cuban crisis last October when
Soviet ships carrying arms
were sailing toward a U. S.
naval blockade of that island
nation.
The citation also praised the
Pope “for having promoted the
brotherhood of men and peoples,
particularly during the last
year inviting representatives of
other Christian faiths, Orthodox
and Protestant, to attend the
ecumenical council and take an
active part in it, thus engen
dering between the members of
the churches or these confess
ions and Catholics an attitude
of greater future understanding
which will have manifold and
important consequences, and
for having established contacts
which extend far beyond the
Christian community."
The Pope spoke briefly.
He noted that while the Re
gal Hall had welcomed kings and
emperors, it has also welcomed
"pilgrims of labor" who came
to Rome to thank Pope Leo XIII
for his great enyclical on labor,
Rerum Novarum. He closed with
a blessing and remarked "after
this little blessing here, now the
great one in St. Peter's."
POPE JOHN recalled the five
popes he had known in his life
time—Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Ben
edict XV, Plus XI and Plus XII.
All of them were, he said, "True
friends of humanity and co
urageous artisans of true pe
ace."
He continued:
"The humble Pope who spe
aks to you is fully aware of
being something very small be-
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fore God. He can only humble
himself, and thank God who has
so favored him. . . .
"We tell you In all simplicity
just what We feel: No circums
tances, no event however it may
honor Our humble person, can
exalt Us or disturb the quiet
of Our soul."
Pope John paid tribute to
Balzan— "that humble son of
the working world."
IN THE course of his address
he emphasized points made in
his Holy Thursday encyclical,
Peace on Earth: Peace is an
empty word unless based on
truth, built on justice, enliven
ed and completed by charity,
and realized in liberty.
He noted that "for the first
time in the history of the Roman
pontiffs," a prize for peace has
been given to a pope.
The Pope then referred to the
Magnificat, the canticle in which
the Blessed Virgin Mary ex
pressed her wonder at the In
carnation. Paraphrasing it, he
said that God has regarded the
humility of His servant. Then
he added: "It is in humility
that the Pope who speaks to you
intends to pursue his service
to men and to world peace."
CBS PRESIDENT
PAPAL ENVOY
A group of Catholic mothers led by Mrs. Albert J. VanHoecke (left), registered their
children for public school classes in the Kansas City suburb of Raytown. Mo., in protest
against the Missouri legislature's refusal to permit parochial school students the use of
public school bus transportation.
AT NOTRE DAME
Population Conference
Scheduled For Summer
NOTRE DAME, Ind -NC A
conference of Catholic socio
logists, theologians and other
specialists will be held this
summer at the University of
Notre Dame to study the popula
tion question.
George N. Shuster, assistant
to the president of the Univer
sity, said the meeting is being
planned as "an attempt to bring
Parental Stress
For TV-Radio
WASHINGTON -(NC)--CBS
Radio president Arthur Hull
Hayes said here that parents
have a "great responsibility"
to help bring about better radio
and television programs.
While broadcasters operate
under intense public scruntiny,
Hayes said, "far too little has
been said under the responsi
bility of the audience."
"THERE is a lot of worth
while programing right now on
radio and TV, but there could
be more. In large part the power
to accomplish this is yours, as
parents and teachers," he told
nearly 500 persons at the annual
parent-daughter week end at
Dunbarton College here (May
12). His daughter, Mary Anne,
is a senior at the Holy Cross
Sisters’ school.
Hayes deplored the fact that
a recent broadcast interview
with former President Eisen
hower had one-quarter of the
audience of a crime show on
the air at the same time. Like
wise, he said, a mystery thriller
had twice the audience of a re
cent drama based on the life
of Disraeli, and a western had
three times the audience of a
program on New York's Lin
coln Center performing arts.
Pastor Gives
Parish Slip
BOSTON, (NC) — This time
Father Roland Abi-Jaoude made
It. He was on his way by pla ie
back to Lebanon before nis
2,000-member Syro Maronite
Rite parish of Our Lady of the
Cedars of Lebanon were aware
he had departed.
This time the 32-year-old
priest didn't tip his plans in ad
vance. A week earlier the By
zantine Rite priest had let It be
known he was going back to Le
banon—had been ordered home
by Bishop Augustin Farah of
Tarabulus to take charge of a
high school.
ON THE day of his original
departure 200 of his parish
ioners, fearing his departure
would mean the end of their
63-year-old parish, crowded
Into his residence and would
not let him leave.
Four days later Father Abi-
Jaoude quietly he obtained his
passport from the Lebanese
consul and boarded his plane.
Paul K. Handy, the consul,
said: "It was the only way he
could do it."
Father Abi-Jaoude came here
three years ago and has been
studying at Boston College.
"How much encouragement
have you given us for the good
things we do?" asked Hayes.
"AS PARENTS," he contin
ued, "when did you last call
your children’s attention to a
particular broadcast? As teach
ers, do you use radio and tele
vision programs for classroom
assignment and discussion?"
The CBS executive said
broadcasters have a responsi
bility "to put before you the
full range of many different
kinds of programs, but the
choices are to you."
"At this point, the responsi
bility of parents and future
parents begins," he said. "It
is to make sure that children
are exposed to the good things
which radio and television of
fer.
"In doing so you help to
create your children’s tastes
and to enrich their lives. You
also help to determine the kind
of broadcasting we will have
tomorrow."
HAYES noted that broadcast
ing is dependent on advertising
and "to attract advertisers, we
must first attract audiences."
"A broadcaster who puts on
programs to which no one
listens soon finds himself put
ting on no programs at all,”
he said. "The broadcaster pro
poses but the audience, which
disposes, has far greater
power—and therefore respon
sibility—than you may have
imagine."
together sociologists, moral
theologians, etc., to consider
various aspects of the (popula
tion) situation."
SHUSTER said he has "no
idea what will come out of It."
He said no date has been set
for the meeting and no final
program has been worked out.
These and other details will be
made public later, he said.
At the same time, Shuster
confirmed that an off-the-re-
cord meeting of anthropo
logists, sociologists and theo
logians was held at the univer
sity late last year to discuss
the population issue.
He described that meeting,
held shortly before Christmas
as an "exchange of views about
purely academic problems" and
said it did "nothing except to
explore the question, how could
a university like Notre Dame
engage in population studies?”
NO conclusions were reached
at the pre-Christmas meeting,
Shuster said.
News of the pre-Christmas
meeting at Notre Dame and the
conference plannedforthe sum
mer first became public in
Washington D.C., in reports
emanating from ameetingthere
of the Planned Parenthood Fed
eration May 8.
Donald B. Straus, chairman
of the federation, was quoted as
denying that the federation is an
"anti-Catholic” organization.
"We are cooperating with Ca
tholics on many fronts," he
was quoted as saying.
THE REPORTS also stated
that representatives of the
Planned Parenthood Federation
had attended last year's meet
ing at Notre Dame.
Commenting on this, Shuster
said "it is not correct to say
that any bridge is being build
between the Planned Parent
hood Federation and the Ca
tholic Church."
He said last year’s meeting
at Notre Dame "had absolute
ly nothing to do with" the Plan
ned Parenthood Federation as
such, although "one or two
people affiliated with Planned
Parenthood were there."
NOTRE Dame University has
had no relationship with the
Planned Parenthood Federation
as an organization "and doesn't
intend to have any," he said.
He added, however, that this
"doesn't mean we don’t asso
ciate with competent people who
happen to be associated with
Planned Parenthood."
Schuster said Notre Dame's
interest in population questions
lies in three specific areas:
1) biological research, since
its biology department has a
major research program in
ecology; 2) social sciences and
demography; and 3) population
issues as they relate to con
ditions in Latin America.
BOY SCOUT Troop #35, St. Joseph’s Home Washington, Georgia
took part in a camporee in which 17 troops of the Augusta area
participated. Under the leadership of Scoutmaster Jack Connell,
Troop 35 copped second place for the total number of points earn
ed for various scout activities.
To Editor
TO THE EDITOR:
May I ask the privilege of
replying to the published "let
ter to the Editor" of Leo E.
Reichert, Jr. PhD. of May 2,
Georgia Bulletin.
Contrary to the opinion ex
pressed in this letter, there
are many, many Catholics who
are indeed grateful that Mr.
Sherry has been named manag
ing editor of The Georgia Bul
letin. There are also many
"separated brethren" (to use
Pope John's words) such as I,
who are gratified to read clear
ly and unmistakably, the re
flection of the thinking and
reasoning of the "Good Shep
herd" in Rome.
The whole tone and manner
expressed on the pages of the
paper have given heart to those
of us who long for more under
standing, more graciousness,
more expressions of charity on
the part of all Christians to
each other.
If it is distasteful and insult
ing to Leo E. Reichert, Jr.
PhD. to consider the various
columns, editorials and com
ments of Mr. Sherry, then
perhaps it behooves him (Rei
chert) to examine his heart
objectively and impassionately,
to look into it directly, and to
truthfully question his con
science as a Christian.
I, for one, would like the
opportunity of greeting iMr.
Sherry personally and thanking
him for his enlightened view
point.
JEAN LOMBARDI
EPISCOPALIAN AND
ECUMENICIST
ATLANTA, 6
Magr Edwin M. K i n c h,
O.S.M., & native of Portland.
Ore., has been named the
first Apostolic Prefect of
Ingwavuma, Zululand. South
Africa. Ordained in 1945, he
was a member of the first
American Servlte Fathers’
group to serve among the
Zulu people of the Ingwavu
ma prefecture.
Individuals
Peace Key,
UN Is Told
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want the nations to build to
gether the peace of the world,
we must as soon as possible
free the way and escape from
this impasse. . .The people do
not have a choice: Either they
choose the armaments race
with, as the end of this rival
ry, the permanent risk of col
lective nuclear suicide; or they
select the progressive trust
which alone can engender the
trust necessary to the stabi
lity of peace.
"But this is only the elim
ination of an obstacle. A true
collaboration between peoples
demands a positive converging
effort. If the nightmare of the
armaments race disappears
from the horizon, almost unli
mited possibilities of fruitful
collaboration will present them
selves. We can then begin to
solve. . .the principal social
problem of our time. . .that
of our time. . .that of the de
veloping countries."
THE CARDINAL said "it Is
necessary to break, at any
price the vicious circle which
results in men being poor thr
ough the greater part of the
world because they produce too
little, and produce too little be
cause they are too poor to pro
duce more."
Pacem in Terris points out,
the Cardinal stated, that "the
hour has come for a vast col
lective movement of aid and of
effective solidarity at the scale
of our needs."
"But in order that this aid
may be valid and accepted,"
the Cardinal added, "the ency
clical asserts an essential con
dition: ‘that this indispensable
aid be given with full respect
for the liberty of the develop
ing peoples."
"THE extent of these
problems to be resolved is, of
itself," the Cardinal continued,
"an invitation to constitute a
public authority of worldwide
scope, it being always under
stood that the principle of ‘sub
sidiarity’ must control the re
lations of this world authority
with the governments of states
and that the latter retain, with
in their own sphere, the exer
cise of their responsibilities."
The Cardinal said that the
Pope's fourth appeal—for col
laboration among men despite
their ideological differences—
means "it is not necessary to
identify the flesh and bones
men with whom we come in con
tact according to the abstract
logic of the ideologies they pro
fess."
In a question period follow
ing his talk, the Cardinal was
asked if by his reference to a
"supranational power," he or
the Pope meant an organization
other than the U. N.
He replied: "Pope John
speaks clearly in the encycli
cal of the U. N. There could
be progress in the U. N. it
self, and the U. N. itself might
develop into another organizat
ion. We are here taking a first
step. We are by no means at
the end of the road."
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LEBANON: A TREE DIES
The other day one of the famed CEDARS OF LEBANON
died. Obituary notices appeared In four Middle East news
papers . . , Why? Because these
trees are historical and legendary,
deeply rooted in the life and hills of
Bible lands . . . The Prophet Ezechia!
spoke of them, as did the Psalms,
Cjj Solomon used them for building the
“ mm \ / « Temple . . . Cleopatra and St. Helen
ordered them, one for her royal barge,
the other for the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. In modern times, their
wood was used in Sacre Coeur Basil
ica, Paris . . . Now there are just
100 left, with only a dozen or so of
ancient origin. Not far from the
famed trees, some Lebanese laboring people are trying valiantly
to build a church for their parish, BEIT-EID, In the Maronite
diocese of SABRA ... No longer, they hope, must they assist
at Maaa In their all-too-small building where in winter many
had to stand outside. Through their Bishop and parish priest
they aik us to aid them to the amount of $3,000, enough to pay
for materials like cement and iron which must be purchased.
. . . Will you help?
THUNDER OVER JORDAN
Jordan is much In the news today. Political unrest, plans to
divert the waters of the Jordan River into the Negev, the find
ing of the oldest theater of the Middle East In the “rose red
city of Petra”—and In the midst of these happenings, the con
tinuing, sad, never-solved problem of the PALESTINE REFU
GEES . . . They fled their homes in the 1948 Isracl-Arab war
and were taken into hospitals and convents, orphanages and
schools. Temporary quarters were built . . . Their needs were
many and are still enormous. Will you help with a $10 FOOD
PACKAGE which will keep a family for a month? . . . And
for tha Bedouins, blankets are needed which cost $2 . . . Re
member them now 1
TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE
Billy P., a nine-year-old from Las Vegas, Nevada, writes us:
1 have a great desire to help orphans ... I receive a dollar
a month for my chores and I would like to give It to the
orphans."
You know, Billy, the priests and sisters in the Middle East
will be encouraged by your generosity. They too are helping
orphans ... We have our ORPHANS’ BREAD CLUB to help
these children. Your monthly sacrifice of $1 and a prayer
kaepi It going!
KINDLY SEND US YOUR MASS OFFERINGS. They are
•ften the sole support of the 15,000 priests under our care In
the 18 Middle East and Near East countries.
ADOPTING A SEMINARIAN OR NOVICE? This means
paying the cost of their training. A seminarian needs $100 a
year for six years, a ilster-to-be needs S150 a year for two
years. We have many names such as PIETRO TEAME and
BERNARDO TESFAL, studying with the Cistercians in Italy
for missionary work. Also SISTERS BERNARDINA AND
MIRCITTA of the Sisters of the Destitute In Alwaye, India.
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