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PRAY FOR THE COUNCIL diocese of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL. 1 NO. 38 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR PRAYER FOR THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL O Divine Spirit, sent by the Father in the name of Jesus, Who dost in fallibly assist and guide the Church, pour forth the fulness of Thy gifts upon the Ecumenical Council. Kind Teacher and Comforter, en lighten the minds of our Bishops, who, responding to the invitation of the Sovereign Roman Pontiff, will gather in solemn assembly. Grant that from this Council there may come forth abundant fruits: that the light and strength of the Gospel may ever more widely influence hu man society; that new vigor may in fuse the Catholic religion and its missionary task; that the Church’s teaching may be better known and Christian morality more widely prac ticed. Sweet Guest of our souls, confirm our minds in truth, and dispose our hearts to obedience, so that the de cisions of the Council may find in us generous acceptance and prompt ful fillment. We beseech Thee, too, on behalf of those sheep who no longer belong to the one fold of Jesus Christ, that they also, glorying as they do in the name of Christian, may finally regain unity under one Shepherd. Renew in our time Thy wondrous works, as in a new Pentecost, and grant that holy Church, gathered to gether in unanimous, more intense prayer, around Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and guided by Peter, may spread the kingdom of the Divine Saviour, which is the kingdom of truth, of justice, of love, and of peace. Amen. POPE CAUTIONS Divine Presence In Human Body AT A RECENT meeting held at the school, plans were made for die forthcoming evaluation of St. Plus X High School by the National Catholic Education Association. Shown, left to right, are Sister Mary Joseph, S. N, D,; Fr. James L. Harrison principal of Plus X; Sister Sarita Clare, C. S, J,; Fr, Koob, representative of the NCEA: and Fr. John W. Leahy, archdiocesan superin tendent of schools. The evaluation will be completed by April. PRIEST STATES Birch Society, Black Muslims Are Similar Pontiff Urges Vatican Curia Modernization VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His Holiness Pope Paul VI has cau tioned surgeons to be attentive to the divine presence in man. Speaking to participants in the 20th International Congress of General and Cardiovascular Surgeons, he said: "YOU ARE the benefactors of mankind when the exercise of your profession conforms, as We do not doubt it does, to MSGR. ELMER H. BEHRMANN, A MEMBER OF President Ken nedy's Panel on Mental Ret ardation, will speak, Oct. 4 at 8 pm, at the Dinkier Plaza, before Our Lady's Association for Exceptional Children, higher and permanent moral laws.” The Pope said that he is con fident that the scientists did not visit the Vatican out of simple curiosity as tourists. He said: "IF OUR spiritual diagnosis does not deceive Us, it is a secret awareness of the su perior value of your studies and especially of your efforts against the physical evils which afflict humanity that brings you here. "It is something which many of you perhaps cannot adequate ly define, something in your science and in your art which merits to be brought before Our person because of what We represent and because of the mission that We exercise. Your activity, though dedicated to the well-being of bodies, is worthy of being presented at the door of the kingdom of the spi- THE HUMAN body, whose physical and biological secrets the surgeons explore, is a holy place where divinity resides, he said. CHICAGO, (NC)—The Black Muslims and the John Birch Society are matching symptoms of social deterioration, a Ca tholic priest experienced In so cial welfare work told a Pres byterian meeting here. "There Is a great similarity between Malcom X and Robert Welch (major figures in the Muslims and the John Birch Society respectively),** declar ed Msgr. John J. Egan, direc tor of the Chicago Archdioce san Conservation Council. •THE ONLY obvious differ ence in the makeup of their movements is the social status of their adherents," Msgr. Egan said. "Each offers to his followers a simplistic path to Valhalla. Each is a true demagogue. And the ranks of such organizations .••are rapidly gaining more ad herents," he declared. MSGR. EGAN spoke at the an nual banquet of the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A. He called for greater inter church cooperation in coping with the problems of modern urban society, of which he of fered the Negro racist Black Muslims and the extreme right ist John Birch Society as ex amples. WARNING OF a growing gulf between rich and poor in the modern American city, he said the two groups "are rapidly be coming polarized, and the terms of the polarity are irrationality, violence and hatred." "This is the situation of ur ban society in the 1960’s: a di vided community, lacking in a consensus of spiritual and so cial goals, and divided into camps of hatred accelerated by an increasing breakdown of communication," he said. IN THIS "crisis of urba nism", he declared, the chur ches "must play a significant role." "They have not yet done so," he said. Msgr. Egan cautioned reli gious leaders that they run the risk of irrelevance by failing to speak hard truths to their congregations. "POLITICAL leaders can va lidly argue that they must wait for the electorate to catch up," he said, "We cannot wait for our congregations to catch up or we fall them," Msgr. Egan urged that chur ches cooperate in promoting community and neighborhood CARDINAL CUSHING: BOSTON, (NC) — Richard Cardinal Cushing said here that anyone who gives even "the slightest impression" that Pope John XXIII was soft on commu nism is guilty of a "colossal lie." The Archbishop of Boston said he had personally read "correspondence the late be loved Pope John XXIII had with communist leaders." He did not disclose the nature of this correspondence. HE EMPHATICALLY scored what he said have been claims that this correspondence "lea ves the impression that a po licy of co-existence or appease ment with Marxism was advo cated by Pope John." "I can unhesitatingly write", the Cardinal said in his regular column, "News Notes" in the Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, "that any charge to this effect is a colossal lie." "TO SUPPORT this fact I wish to add that I had the pri vilege of reading all this cor respondence prior to the elec tion of Pope Paul VI. That pri vilege was given to me so that I would be in a position to deny absolutely any such insinua tions," he wrote Cardinal Cushing also cited the universally heralded ency clical, "Pacem in Terris" (Peace on Earth), issued by the late Pontiff on April 11, 1963. "I CANNOT find one sentence in this encyclical that Justifies such opinions," the Cardinal wrote. "Anyone who attempts to see in the heart of Pope John or in organizations, in special educa tion programs, in joint research and in ecumenical programs— all aimed at dealing with prob lems of urban society. " We will make more rapid strides toward Christian unity as we work together in the task of responding to the urban chal lenge," he said. his words or deeds a soft ap proach towards communism does not know the Christlike love of this beloved Pontiff. Anyone who would even give the slightest impression that the correspondence between Pope John and communistic rulers indicated a like attitude is guil ty knowingly or unknowingly of a colossal lie," he wrote. • SEE TEXT, PAGE 2 VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His Holiness Pope Paul VI has an nounced he will simplify and de centralize the Roman curia, the Church's central administra tive body. Pope Paul said the curia has "grown ponderous with its own venerable age." THE POPE announced his plan to the cardinals, priests and laymen of the curia at a special audience. The reforms of the curia, he stated, "will be formulated and promulgated by die curia itself." He outlined some of the re forms: Members of the curia will be recruited on a "superna tional" basis. At present its membership is predominantly Italian. —MEMBERS will receive what the Pope called an "ecu menical" education in prepa ration for the curia work. —Local bishops will take over functions now performed by the curia which can be hand led more efficiently on a lo cal basis. --Local bishops may be brought into the curia. Pope Paul stated: "AND WE shall say more: Should the ecumenical council show a desire of seeing some representatives of die episco pacy, particularly prelates who direct a diocese, associated in a certain way and for certain questions. . .with the supreme head of the Church in the study and responsibility of ecclesias tical government, the curia will surely not oppose it." The Pope spoke in the Hall of Benedictions over the front porch of St. Peter's Basilica. Members and workers of the Curia,-from cardinals to typists —filled the vast room, which is as long as St. Peter's is wide. POPE PAUL began his 3,000- word speech with a tribute to the Curia. He said he had brought the Curia members to gether in an audience to give them all his "cordial and reve rent greeting." He continued: "We Ourself had the honor of giving Our humble service in the Roman Curia for many years. In the ranks that compose it We have had very worthy superiors and teachers, excellent collea gues, collaborators and unfor gettable friends../* NATION NEEDS Federal Private CHICINNATI, (NC)—Federal aid to public education that de nies equal aid to parochial and private schools "would Jeopar dize the national interest," a legal expert said here. William R. Consedine, head of the Legal Department of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference, Washington, D. C„ told the Cincinnati Medievalists that such a denial also "would sev erely hurt the educational ef fort of the American people," "IF THE FUTURE of our country as a world leader lies VISITOR REPORT DAYTON, Ohio, (NCO — A priest said here that "Jews and Christians in Israel are communicating on the basis of mutual respect" despite recent anti-Christian demonstrations in Israel. Father John J. Kelley, S.M., assistant professor of theologi cal studies at the University of Dayton, gave this opinion. He spent the summer in Israel at tending the "Land of the Bible Workshop." "THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN de monstrations apparently are the work of an orthodox minority, who, though relatively few in number are extremely vocal and active," Father Kelley said. The priest, one of a group of 15 educators to take part in the summer workshop, said that every religion which requests recognition in Israel is "es tablished," and there is no per secution of any church, "al though there is an occasional manifestation of antipathy to ward some church groups" by a less well-educated segment of the Israeli population. "IN EARLY August," Fa ther Kelley recalled, "a bus load of Baptists was stoned in Jerusalem for traveling on the Sabbath. Those taking part in the violence were prosecuted, Just as Prime Minister Levi Eshkol promised these more recent demonstrators would be." HE TURNED then to the ecu menical council now underway. He said it had been desired by "a Pope to whom in fact the spontaneous acclamations of the public voice apply the Gospel words about the forerunner of Christ: ’There was a man sent by God whose name was John.*" The Curia must "live" this council, he said. The Pope said that he has made Pope John's heritage his own, and that he is making of that heritage a "program for the entire Church/' Aid For Schools in our schools," he said, "then how can we safely exclude from assistance a school system edu cating almost five and one-half million students at the element ary and secondary levelsandan additional one million or more in our colleges? After reviewing the recent history of Congressional debate and action on proposed Federal aid measures, Consedine decla red that the position of the Ame rican Bishops amounted to "a plea for Justice and fair consi deration of the realities and the rights of parents and students alike." Father Kelley noted that cur rent Christian missionary acti vities touch a tender spot in in terfaith relations in Israel and called for a "more subtle ap proach to evangelism of non- Christians." He suggested encouragement of a continuing cooperation be tween Christian and Jew in such civil matters as education of the minority groups and aid to the poor, and continuation of the in terfaith dialogue in Scriptures and archaeology. NiWMAN FUND, Andrew P. Maloney. New York banker, who is president of the Na tional Newman Foundation. The Foundation is seeking a 85 million fund to carry out a nine-point program to preserve and strengthen the faith. FOUR OUT OF 74 Marist seniors have attained to the rank of semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The four qualifying cadets, shown avobe, are Lester Wright, Chri stopher Arnold, Robert Bochman, David Govus and Paul Apple- grath. Pope John Never Soft On Marxism J e wish-Christian Respect In Israel