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• -- 1 -*. ■ BLESSINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES of Atlanta VOL. 1 NO. 51 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR ISRAELI BISHOP: Visit Of Pontiff Seen Important To Jewish Race POPE PAUL VI—This painting of Pope Paul VI, by artist Bernard Godwin of New York was shown in Rome just before the close of the second session of Vatican Council n. It is said to be the first portrait for which ,Paul VI agreed to sit since his election as pope, U.S. EXPERT SAYS Decree Enactment John’s ‘Renewal’ POPPS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Food, Technology, Peace, Three Basic World Necessities HAIFA, Israel (NC)~ Pope Paul Vi's January visit to the Holy Land will have great im portance for the Jewish people Israel’s only Catholic bishop said here. Melkite Rite Bishop Georges Hakim of Acre told a press con ference: "The Holy Father’s visit is of great importance. It is proof that he bears no ill will toward either the Jews or the Mos lems." THE BISHOP added that "the papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land has importance for the Je wish people because of the good will manifested when the docu ment on Catholic relations with the Jews was presented to the ecumenical council.” He also stated that the visit will "create a better atmosp here on the question of pil grims’ access to the holy pla ces of Jordan and Israel, and Israelis will one day again be able to visit the Wailing Wall (in Jordanian Jerusalem) as well as other sacred sites." Bishop Hakim spoke as Isra eli offficials returned from Rome with technical and secur ity plans for the Pope's visit to this country., The officials of the special cabinet commit tee for the papal visit— the director general of the prime minister's office, Teddy Kollek, and Police Inspector General Yosef Nahmias — not ed that the plans are still se cret. But it is known that more than 3,000 policemen and se curity officers will be posted around the holy places where the Pope will go to protect him and maintain as much sil ence as possible during his pra yers. MEANWHILE, the Israeli Government Press Office an nounced that the government is making every effort to provide all possible facilities for the newsmen who are coming here to report the visit. \ At his press conference,Bis- tiop Hakim expressed his grat itude for the government's ef fort to ensure a successful pa pal pilgrimage. He also re gretted the protest Issued by the NEW APPOINTMENT The resignation of Mr. John Scanlon from the position of Ex ecutive Secretary of Catholic Social Services was announced by the Chancery Office. At the same time, it advised that the new Executive Direc tor will be Mr. John O. Berry, M. S. W. Mr. Berry is eminently qualified for this position: gra duate of Holy Cross; Master's Degree (Social Work) from Boston College; law at Boston University, and Graduate Semi nars at the Smith College Sc hool of Social Work. Mr. Berry has served as the Director of Casework of the Ch ildren’s Home Society of New Jersey; Consultant, Children’s Division of the Health and Wel- nationalist Herut party against the Pope’s entry into Israel out side of Jerusalem and the sug gested meeting between Pope Paul and President ShneorSha- zar in Megiddo instead of Jer usalem. He sid: "While everybody here knows that this is all internal politics, the Herut motion may be misunderstood by the out side world. Arab broadcasts are already exploiting it, cl aiming that Israel doesnotwant a papal visit." At the time Bishop Hakim spoke (Dec. 19), the Pope’s it inerary in Israel had not been officially confirmed. But news papers widely reported that he will enter the country (Jan. 5) from Djennin, Jordan, and be welcomed by President Shazar and cabinet members in Megiddo. Raido and television facilities have been installed in that town. As an alternative, papers here said, the Pope might fly from Jordanian Jeru salem to Lydda airport bet ween Israeli Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. POPE PAUL was not expect ed to enter Israel in Jerusa lem because of die strictly re ligious character of his visit. It was believed possible that such an entry would be regar ded by some as reconition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capi tal. Although Israel regards the part of the city under its con trol as its capital, both the Holy See and the United Nations have called for its internationaliza tion. Bishop Hakim told newsmen that "If asked, I am convined- that the Pope will be happy to offer his good offices in the con flict between the Arab states and Israel." The Bishop also said he was convinced that the Pontiff will pray for peace dur ing his visit here. The Bishop also said at the press conference: "I have asked President Sha zar to grant a good will amnes ty to die 30 Christian convicts who are still in prison, among them a Coptic priest who was convicted as a spy. "I have founded the Pope Paul (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) fare Council of Philadelphia; Executive Director of die Children's Aid Association of Hampshire County, Massa chusetts; Director of the Infant of Prague Adoption Agency, California; and Casework Sup ervisor in various Child and Family Service Agencies. In addition, Mr. Berry taught at the University of Massac husetts; Springfield College; Georgian Court, and Rutgers University. Mr. Berry will arrive in At lanta on December 26th, and as sume his new responsibilities on December 27th. After Mr. Berry has had time to familia rize himself with Atlanta and the Catholic Social Serlvces, we are confident that he will carry on the fine traditions of the Agency. Liturgy Is Pope (The author of the following^ article, the first of a series 1 on the sweeping liturgical reform provided for by the ec umenical council, serves as one of the council's official ad visers on liturgical matters. A priest of the Boston archdioce se and a professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, Washington, he is the immediate past president of the North American Liturgical Conference.) BY FATHER FREDERICK R. MCMANUS (N. C. W. C. News Service) By enacting the Second Vat ican Council’s first document, the constitution on worship or liturgy, Pope Paul VI and the other bishops made concrete Pope John's goal in summoning the council— to renew the Church, to bring the Church’s ways up to date. The liturgical constitution will go into effect for the whole Church on the first Sunday of Lent, next Feb. 16; the waiting period is to enable clergy and faithful to become acquainted with the council’s statement. The importance of reading and studying the document in the interval is obvious. In it the council’s motives and plans are made perfectly clear. THIS LENGTHY document— it runs to more than 16,000 words—is the real beglnnihg of reform within the Church. Itaf* fects the single occasion when Catholics come together every ‘week, the Sunday morning Mass. It confronts what has been called the "Sunday morn ing rflsis" — congregations that are uninvolved or indiffe rent, rites that are routine or unintelligible. Four hundred years to the day after the 1563 closing of the council of Trent, Pope Paul and the Fathers of the present coun cil decreed and issued this new constitution. The historical parallel goes deeper. On Dec. 4, 1563, the bishops at Trent entrusted to the pope the task of revising the offic ial missal—and thus revising the Mass text and rites. On Dec. 4, 1963, a similar but much broader revision was initiated, this time with care ful directives and explanations of the reasons for the renewal. THE CONSTITUTION spells out clearly the mind of the Church concerning the renewal New Post CULLMAN, Ala. (NC) —Father Brian J. Egan, O.S.B., former president of St. Bernard Col lege here, has accepted a post as chaplain at the Newman Center at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. The university has an enrollment of 18,500. Father Egan served as president of St. Bernard’s for nearly 10 years. He left the post the past October. of her public worship. But the practically minded have an im mediate question about the con stitution's effects: How soon can we expect the Mass texts to be In English? How soon can we expect the revision of the sacramental rites? Part of the answer—the time element—involves risky specu lation. A better answer is to describe the council’s legis lation on the liturgy under four rough headings: (1) Doctrinal. Each of the seven chapters of the constitu tion on worship has an im portant doctrinal introduction. In the first chapter, for ex ample, there 1 s a fundamental section on the nature of public worship and its significance in the Church’s whole life. The council explains that the liturgy continues Christ's priestly act ion in all the members of the Church, how Christ acts in every liturgical celebration, that "the liturgy is the sum mit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows." The faithful, says the coun cil, "must be convinced that the preeminent manifestation of the Church consists in the full active participation of all God’s holy people in these liturgical celebrations, es pecially in the same Eucharist, in a single prayer, at one altar, at which there presides the bi shop surrounded by his college of priests and by his minis- (CONT1NUED ON PAGE 8) VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pope Paul VI addressed himself to "three great needs" inhisfirst Christmas message to the world. Food for world's hungry mouths, technical aid for emerging nations, and peace. He said that "solution can be found in the meaning of Chris tmas itself: love and unity of mankind, based on the link which Christ forged between God and man." The Pope also referred to his pilgrimage next week to the Holy Land and stressed anew that its purpose is purely religious. He said one intention will be to pray for Christian unity — that there be "one fold and one shepherd." In looking at the world’s pro blems, the Pope said, "The first is hunger.lt has now been scientifically proved to Us that more than one-half of the hu man race has not enough, food. Entire generations of children, even today, are dying or suffering because of indes cribable poverty." The Pope said the solution is not "In attacking the very fecu ndity of life by means which human and Christian ethics must condemn as illicit." Instead of increasing the supply of bread, he said, this solut ion would dirniqf.jph "by illicit means the number of those who eat". This is unworthy of civilization, he added. THE POPE SAID his mission as Supreme Shepherd makes him look with great sympathy and loving interest "on new nat ions achieving independence in Africa and Asia." He reminded That the Catholic Church, "by means of missions among people has always striven without thought of greater gain to develop them to the utmost capacity, holding in honor all their human and upright qualit ies while proclaming to them their vocation to the supreme destiny of redeemed man." He noted that there is a gre ater need for all to help "those emerging nations not with humiliating and self-seeking beneficence, but with scientific and technical assistanceandfr- iendly solidarity to the inter national world in brotherhood, in place of paternalism." In his plea for world peace, the Pope came up with a new definition for peace: "Peace is a well balanced motion," he st ated, paraphrasing St. August ine’s view of peace as "tranqu ility of order." HE NOTED that peace to day is based "more on fear than on friendship; maintained more by terror or deadly we apons than by mutural harmony and by faith among people." He added: "And if tomorrow peace WASHINGTON (NC)—Face- to-face encounters between po pes and the patriarchs of Con stantinople have been few over the centuries— and always dramatic. The last such meeting ended in 1439 after Patriarch Joseph II and Pope Eugene IV came together in northern Italy in an effort to heal the breach which had split Constantinople and Rome in 1054. THEOLOGICALLY, this en counter was successful because the two bodies agreed to reso lve a major bone of contention. But the agreement was popular ly repudiated and pope and pat riarch have not met since. This is the background to the possibility that Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (now Istan bul, Turkey) may meet during should be broken — which God forbid — all humanity would be destroyed." Men are not at peace, the Pope added, because their minds are not united. "Union of minds is the great need of contremporary man," the Pope declared. This can not be achi eved by clture, he said. But the unique link forged by Christ between man and God," enabl ing each man’s person as it does, is the most soldi and hopeful base for unity between man," he added. THE POPE said he proposed his solution for peace especia lly to those "we believe to be most ready to receive it: the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) the Pope's pilgrimage to the Holy Land next month. Athena goras is honored by other Or thodox Pariarchs as "first among equals.” THE FIRST MEETING of pope and patriarch took place in 536 A. D. and it was a har binger of the tensions that were to grow until the two split fin ally. Pope St. Agapitus went from Rome to Constantinople be cause he suspected a newly named patriarch was guilty of adhering to the Monophysite heresey which taught that Christ had only.one nature, the divine. WHEN THE POPE met the patriarch, in February, 536, he became convinced his suspic ions were true and he set about to remove the patriarch, Anthi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) :ME0ITERRANEAN~h Miles Haifa Tel Aviv CHURCH OF HOLY SIPULCHER JERUSALEM BETHLEHEM 111 OARDEN ! \* OF OETHSEMANE DEAD CITY . NEW CITY ISRAEL CATH. OF ST. JAMES FRANCISCAN.*^ CONVENT ff MT.ZION Negev U.A.R. PAPAL TRIP MAP—This special newsmap shows some of the Christian shrines in Israel and Jordan which Pope Paul VI will visit during his Jan. 4 to 6 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Jerusalem map (right) indicates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over the site where Christ was entombed, where the Pope is scheduled to offer Mass on the feast of the Epiphany. Jan. 6. (gee also page 3) John Berry Heads Up Social Services ROME AND ORTHODOXY Pope-Patriarch Meetings Rare