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Newspaper Page TextPAGL 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 4, 19b3 POt* PAUL NOTES: Food, Health, Freedom, Major World Problems His Holiness Pope Paul VI has long been a forceful and eloquent interpreter of the Church’s doctrine on major so cial questions facing the world today. Especially noteworthy in this regard are the messages which, as papal Substitute Secretary' and Pro-Secretary of State, he sent in the name of Pope Pius XII to Catholic social congres ses in several nations. In these documents the then Msgr. Giovanni Battista Mon- tini dealt with such issues as overpopulation, world hunger, public health, the role of the government in the national eco nomy, the international com munity, and the parish and so ciety. HERE ARE some of the key- passages from these messages on major social questions: —On world hunger. "Beyond your borders, mas ses of human beings still suf fer from undernourishiment in a universe where economy looks for its equilibrium ever more and more on a worldwide scale. The Holy Father has no hesi tation in thinking that activities such as yours, even if they be of limited range, are an effi cacious help in establishing the temporal conditions for a stable peace, for can peace be brought about as long as Innumerable families share but in an appal lingly insufficient manner the wealth of the earth which nour ishes?" (Letter to the French Social Week, July, 1950.) On public health programs. "Certainly there could be no question of contesting the rights and the duties of the State in the matter of public health and es pecially in favor of those who are less fortunate, of those whom poverty renders less pro vident and more exposed. "A just legislation on hy giene, preventive medicine, and adequate and sanitary housing, the attempt to provide everyone with the best medical care, the elimination of social plagues such as tuberculosis or cancer, a legitimate preoccupation for the health of young generations and many other measures that encourage the health of the body and spirit in the framework of wholesome social relations— all this cooperates toward the prosperity of a nation and its interior peace.,.. "But these achievements in the field of security, of medi cine, or of assistance ought to follow according to the principle of respect for men anc for the family. Unfortunate ly, fear in this matter is not unwarranted." (Letter to the French Social Week, July, 1951.) —The State and economic life. "The economic world is pri marily a creation of the free will of men; it pertains to the State, therefore, to create those conditions which may allow pri vate initiative to expand within the limits of the moral order and of the common good. "The Church, therefore, has always benevolently regarded and encouraged those forms of business undertakings in which she finds it possible for the per sonal initiative of all partici pants to assert itself and to expand, as, for example, in the case of craftsmen’s projects, the family-sized farm, and co operates undertakings.... "BUT THE Church also maintains that, incomplete con formity with the proper order, big business can remain within the realm of private initiative, provided that evident conside rations of the common good do not militate against such a sit uation." (Letter to the Italian Catholic Social Week, Septem ber, 1952.) —On the international com munity. "Now, in spite of the hard lesson of events, too many Christians still remain deaf to the warnings of the papacy. How many, for example, continue to shut themselves up within the narrow confines of a chauvinis tic nationalism, incompatible with the courageous effort to start a world community de manded by recent popes? "But undoubtedly even more numerous are those who have not renounced their strange in ertia despite the frequently re peated appeals of the Holy Fa ther for ’action against every inaction and desertion in the great spiritual combat where the stakes are the destruc tion, nay, the very soul, of the society of tomorrow’..." (Let ter to the French Social Week, July, 1953.) —The parish and the com munity. "In our tragically divided society, does not the parish... function as a school of peace and social justice, inviting all the faithful, without distinction, to unite with one another around us altar? 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"ITS spirit is that of the peace of Christ, unto which we have been called to form one body...But it is also a spirit oi justice, which tolerates nei ther the shameless contrast of wealth and misery among the members of the parish commu nity, nor the hypocrisy ofafra- ternity in church that would not have for its effect that of cre ating, at work, more fraternal social relations. "Indeed, does not the parish altar, the center around which the most sacred bonds of union are formed, invite each and every one who comes before it to make an examination of con science in regard to his du ties of justice towards his bre thren?" (Letter to the Canadian Catholic Social Conference, Au gust, 1953.) —On overpopulation. "Efforts to reestablish the equilibrium between growing population and means of liveli hood are therefore not to be directed toward violation of the law's of life or interference with the natural flux and flow of the human family. "SUCH an attitude of re nouncement of life, indeed, kills the noblest aspirations of the spirit; while a declining birth rate, aimed at by such sys tems, has always proved soon er or later to be, in the his tory of the nations, a sign of defeat and of doom. "No, such efforts must ra ther trend to educate men’s conscience regarding the value and responsibility of human life, to foster a more equitable dis tribution of the world’s goods, to exploit natural resources in an ever more rational manner, to protect the family in all that concerns its Inviolable rights and the exercise of its high function." (Letter to the Italian Catholic Social Week, September, 1953.) Leroy’s Auto Service Tune Up - Front End Alignment Automatic Transmission 4011 P'tree Rd. CE 7-1288 OLD SARGE SURPLUS ARMY AND CIVILIAN SURPLUS Hunting, Fishing, Camping Equipment (Buy, Trade, Sell Most Anything) Hwy.. 23 - Next door to Pine Tree Plaza Doraville, Ga. 451-3377 for the best in*,. •s* pest Control? Service THE SENIOR cardinal deacon, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, places the gold and silver papal tiara on the head of Pope Paul VI (left photo) at the outdoor coronation rites in St. Peter's Square. The new pope then addressed the world in nine different languages, pledging his pontificate to the causes of world peace and Christ ian unity. He is shown (right photo) blessing the hugh crowd at the end of the ceremonies, rich in symbolism and pageantry. BISHOP SHEEN Hopelessly Ill Can Forego Extreme Aid ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (RNS) Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York, noted television per sonality and columnist, said here he saw "no moral dif ficulty" in allowing a hopelessly ill patient to forego medical treatment which would prolong life and agony. The prelate, who is director of the Society for the Propa gation of the Faith, said he did not believe it is necessary for doctors to keep patients alive by such means as intravenous injections and oxygen tents. "IF I had been given all possible medical aid and my case were hopeless, I would ask the doctors to take the tubes out," he said. Bishop Sheen was interviewed to a news conference prior to making an address on medicine SIR GALAHAD’S ISLE? Odor Of Sanctity Bottled By Monks CALDEY ISLAND, Wales (R- NS) — A group of Cistercian monks on this tiny Island off the coast of Wales support themselves by making perfume marketed in the world of high fashion. A monk interviewed here re cently said his order began making perfume at first by dis tilling heather and gorse from the island. Now, he said, the monks have developed more ambitious formulas and the per fume is widely sold. "IT HAS earned high praise at international shows, and is now being marketed by a famous couturier," he said. Caldey — Old Norse for Cold Island — is known for its past as well as for its perfume. Sandy bays surround the is land. One of them — Jones Bay — takes its name from John Palil Jones, the 18 r h-cen- tury seaman who became the first great hero of the U. S. Navy. "He used to put in at the bay for water and other supplies," the monk said. "Some believe that this is his burial place." CALDEY is called "an is land of saints." Fifty years be fore Christianity was brought to Britain, monks were already inhabiting this tiny (one mile by 1 1/2 miles) island. "St. Sampson, patron saint of Caldey, is held by some to have been the original Sir Gala- had of the King Arthur legends," the monk said. "Vikings de stroyed the monastery in the ninth century, and for the next 200 years Caldey wasapirates’ lair. Then the Benedictine Or der was here until the 16th cen tury. Finally, Caldey passed to the Cistercians." Wayside shrines are constant reminders of the past, as are the medieval watchtower, the Pri ory Church of St. Illtyd and the clifftop Calvary erected by the Cistercians. "WE GROW our own food,” the monk said, "but a boat brings everything else that we need. "It also takes away our pro ducts. Besides the perfume we sell pottery and herbs." The monk observed, how ever, that the island is not cut off entirely. Caldey, he said, is linked to the mainland by ra dio-telephone and was the first Island in Great Britain to have the system Installed. "SOME visitors are puzzled that a monastery should support itself by making and selling per fume," the monk said. "It isn’t really strange. I tell them of a medieval monk who produced anew wine and brought prosperity to the crumbling for tunes of his monastery." Rabbi Advocates Tax Relief FALLS BURG, N. Y. (NC)— The head of the Rabbinical Co uncil of America called for legi slation granting income tax cre dits to parents who pay tuit ion for children in parochial and private schools. Rabbi Abraham N. Av Rutick, president of the country's lar gest Orthodox rabbinic body, said (June 24) this "recogni tion of the Inter-relationship between public and private edu cation would not constitute an infringement of the basic American scheme of separation of Church and State," and religion before the Ameri can Medical Association. Asked how he would advise a family in a case involving a doomed patient, he replied; "I would tell them to take their doctor’s advice." However, he added, if the family wanted the patient to be kept alive by all possible means, the doctor should agree. BISHOP Sheen talked with re- proters along with Dr. Edward H. Rynearson of the Mayo Clinic who said last year that he would "step back and let God take over" in the case of a hope lessly ill patient. Since he made that statement, Dr. Rynearson said, he had not received any letters of protest from physicians or clergymen. At the joint conference both men stressed that their stand had no relevancy to euthanasia, or so-called "mercy killing." They emphasized that all ord inary means should be taken to keep the apparently hopeless patient alive. Both observed that there are two ways of keeping terminal patients alive: by use of or dinary medical methods and by use of extrordinary methods. "A terminal patient is not morally bound to use extraor dinary methods," Bishop Sheen said. DR. Rynearson, a Methodist, said he is firmly opposed to keeping "human vegetables" alive through the extraordinary methods, such as tube feeding, oxygen tents, hearing-lung ma chines and other techniques. "I want no part of it for my family, myself or my patients,* he declared. Dr. Rynearson said he had recently removed tubes from a dying friend at a Roman Catho lic hospital in Minneapolis and then informed the hospital’s administrator, a nun, of his act ion. "She aske bless her, if there was any way *1 can have you as a doctor when my time comes,’" he said. The physician said he would "fright as hard as I could" in advising a famiy not to allow a hopelessly ill patient to be kept alive. "I’m not talking about cases that are in doubt, but of pat ients who have had two or three operations, radiation and all the rest and who are still lying there screaming in pain," he stress ed. Emphasizing the human aspect of patients, he said: "There are no diseases; there are only sick people." "The sacredness of the per son actually is the foundation of all medicine," the bishop declared. He said it is because of this that the term "contact" used in business is out of place in the field of medicine. "Contact is absolutely im possible n medicine," he said. "One has communion in medi cine." Bishop Sheen stressed the need for compassion in pract icing medicine. "In the medical profession this compassion shows itself in the visit that is not charged for, such as when the doctor says, T just happened to be passing by and thought I'd come in to see how you are,” he said. GOVERNMENT REPORTS Catholic Relief Aid Tops All Agencies WASHINGTON (NC) —The American Catholic agency for overseas relief distributed about 44 per cent of all the aid dispensed abroad by voluntary U. S. groups, last year, ac cording to a Federal govern ment report just issued. CATHOLIC Relief Services— National Catholic Welfare Con ference distributed aid worth $161,059,043 during 1962. The total by 55 agencies was $363, 566,095. Other major efforts were by CARE, $64,947,609; Church World Services, $41, 432,727; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, $30, 162,819, and Lutheran World Relief, $12,337,895. Catholic Relief Services spent $34,178,956 in funds and purchases in its overseas re lief program, and also distri buted goods valued at $126,880, 087. This included about $104, 000,000 of surplus foods from the Federal government. The report, prepared by the Agency for International Deve- Jew Lauds Pope Paul’s ‘Humanity’ NEW YORK, (NC)— A tri bute to the "basic humanity" of His Holiness Pope Paul VI was paid here by Dore Schary, national chairman of the Anti- Defamation League of B’naiB’- rith. Playwright Schary said it Is clear from Pope Paul’s state ment that "we can continue to look to the Roman Catholic Ch urch as a powerful ally in the cause that so many Americans, of all faiths, hold dear: eq ual opportunity for all people, respect for the dignity of man, concern for his social and ec onomic wellbeing." lopment of the State Depart ment, shows the foilow’ing coun tries as largescale recipients of aid from the voluntary ag encies: Italy, Poland, Yugosla via, Algeria, Morocco, Greece, India, Israel, United Arab Re public, Nationalist China, Ko rea, Brazil, Columbia, Chile and Mexico. 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