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i 1 J C f i i i Torch /TEST /SAN TREATY Ursula Koernig L ’ W BLESSINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR VOL. 2 NO. 1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR MILK AND COOKIES’ New York Court Approves Voluntary School Prayer BROOKLYN, N. Y. (RNS)~ A federal Judge ruled here that kindergarten children in a / Queens, N. Y., public school could recite voluntarily a short prayer and sing a chorus of a song addressed to God before they have their milk and cook- . ies. r HOLIDAY PLEA In a decision handed down in Federal Court, Judge Walter Bruchhausen said the customs did not violate a U. S. Supreme Court decision barring recitat ion of the Lord’s Prayer or Bib le reading as part of public sc hool exercises. THE CHILDREN, he said, sh ould be allowed to recite the fol low! ig prayers on a volun tary basis: 1. "God is great,God Is good, And we thank Him for our food, Amen." N.C. Group Asks Racial Goodwill 2, * Thank You for the world So sweet, Thank You for the food we eat, Thank You for the birds that sing, Thank You, God, for everything," RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — A Christmas plea for racial peace and goodwill wa* issued here by the North Carolina Council on Religion and Race. t-- i i i i; i A Christmas letter "from North Carolinians to North Carolinians" said that while ' ["peace on earth, goodwill men 8 was sung by angels 2,000 years ago. . .today ■ here is actually little peace ind goodwill amang Negroes 'ind whites in manycommunities jf our state and ntcion." IT CALLED attention to rac— 'll disturbances a t several orth Carolina locations. “We know the leason," said \9 letter signed by Dr. W.R. r igg of Raleigh, chairman* of ie Council's steering com- . littee. “Negroes are \ 0 longer able f <! accept the iniignities im- jsed upon therr t Now they •e asking whitej for century- ig delayed Juitice. They ve been broight into the irts and chared with 'dis hing the peace,' , ; \ "Indeed, they lave disturb- the peace an d com- icency of whitep e0 pi et »» HE LETTER v a s described a message rom "fellow •tli Carolinian!" w h 0 “earn- t desire to bp n g peace with ce into all of our com ities." 'among learly "l called on residents of the j» to be "ret ewe d by the it of Christ bat we be not >pe Thinks I- ATICAN C1T> (NC)~Pope l VI has told Fresident Lyn- B. Johnson of his “great sfaction and consolation" he news of tie posthumous rding of the P'esidental Me- • if Freedom to Pope John i conformed to the customs and practices of our communities, but that we be transformed and thus show forth in our lives and on the life of our communi ties what is the acceptable word of God." North Carolina citizens “whether. , .white or Negro" were challenged to "stand in the presence of your fellow Christians and fellow citizens for peace with Justice." "WILL YOU speak to your minister, public officials, the men with whom you trade, your school officials, and ask them how you may help to bring about better race relations in your community?" the letter asked. The race and religion council, an outgrowth of the National Conference on Religion and Race held in Chicago last Janu ary, was formed last June by Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish leaders from over the state. Dr. Grigg is secretary of the department of interracial cooperation of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. Simple Dress Is Pilgrimage Rule VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pre lates and bishops who expect to travel in the Holy Land dur ing Pope Paul Vi’s pilgrimage have been instructed to wear the simplest dress appropriate to their station in keeping with the penitential nature of the pilgri mage. Instructions published in Os- servatore Romano specify that bishops and archbishops are to wear abito piano, ordinary daily dress of prelates, but omitting the ferraiola or short scarlet cape normally worn. Other pre lates are to wear simple black without piping or other marks of rank. The first prayer had been re cited in Queens Public School 184 in the morning, and the sec ond in the afternoon. After the Supreme Court decision last June, the prayer customs were continued until October when a mother protest ed and the school’s principal, Elihu Oshinsky, halted the pra ctices. THE PRINCIPAL was sup ported by the New York City Board of Education and the State Board of Regents, However, a group of parents organized a protest and filed a court suit which reached Judge Bruch hausen. The parents were identified in court papers as Protestant, Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Armenian Apostolic and Jewish. They had 21 children in the school and were organ ized in a group called Pray er Rights for American Youth (PRAY). Judge Bruchhausen said the case differed from the U. S. Supreme Court’s decisions barring a Board of Regents composed prayer and prohibit ing Bible reading and other devotional exercises. He wrote; ‘THE FACTS in this case to gether with the applicable law clearly indicate that the volun tary prayer offered by these children is made without com pulsion and it is not prescribed by law and does not tend to est ablish a religion in violation of the First Amendment." The school customs, he rul ed, were "merely a voluntary desire of the children without any coercion or pressure be ing brought to offer a prayer to the Almighty." After Judge Bruchhausen ruled in the case, Charles A. Brind, Jr„ counsel tc the State Education Department, said he would meet with the ci ^*s Bo ard of Education to discuss the matter. ORTHODOX LEADER Patriarch Plans To Meet Pope In Jerusalem STREET SCENE IN NAZARETH—This little town, where Our Lord grew to manhood, is one of the places Pope Paul VI will visit on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Nazareth is within the state of Israel. This narrow street, typical of most of the places the Holy Father will visit, illustrates the difficulties that confront plans to follow the Pontiff’s progress with mobile television cameras. POPE SAYS: Success Up To Cardinals VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has told the Cardinals of the Roman Curia that the suc cess of the Second Vatican Council depends on them. He also emphasized that his trip to the Holy Land is a pil grimage to obtain success for the council. He said that it if were a political excursion or a pleasure trip, he might encount er a reproving Christ as St. Pe ter did—according to the “Quo Vadis" legend when he was flee ing Rome. THE POPE WAS speaking at the traditional Christmastide meeting between the Pope and the Cardinals of Rome. He was replying to traditional greetings from the Dean of the Sacred Col lege, who is now Eugene Cardi nal Tisserant. Almost at the outset of this reply, the Pope recalled “the pious death of our venerated and regretted predecessor, John XXIII, whose spiritual heritage Divine Providence de creed we should receive and whose great and difficult work we should continue." THAT SHIP WHICH is the Church, the Holy Father said, must “save the precious and intangible cargo of its religious patrimony, and move ahead in the stormy sea of the world." Still preserving thesamefig- ures of speech, the Pope said the Church must pray to Christ for ability “on the one hand to Authorize Daily Evening Masses NEW YORK (RNS) — Daily evening Masses are now autho rized throughout the Romah Ca tholic Archdiocese of New York. According to the Chancery Office here, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, has authorized all parish es to celebrate a daily evening Mass, including Sunday, at any hour between 4 and 8 p.m. Two evening Masses may be celebrated on Holy Days of Ob ligation that are not legal holi days. defend the sacred 'depositum* and on the other to confront the sea that surrounds us, that is to say....to approach the faithless but noble world in which we live." OF THE COUNCIL, he said, "It is necessary, Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons, that the ecumenical council whose second session has Just come to a close should be brought to a happy conclusion. And this last phase of the universal synod seems to us the most laborious, the most important." The Holy Father continued: "WHILE WE OWE all of you sincere thanks for the laborious work you have sustained on the occasion of the two sessions of the council which have already been held, we must summon you to more toil for its third phase, which from many points of view is grave and decisive. Much still remains to be done. “And though the council has given itself a structure of its CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 ISTANBUL — Ecumenical Patriarch Athanagoras confir med here Monday that he will meet with Pope Paul VI during th e Pontiff’• pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At press time, however, NCWC News Service said it could not confirm the announ cement, which was considered "premature" by the Vatican Unity Secretariate. A report here said the meet ing has been approved by four other Eastern Orthodox patri archs, among whom Patriarch Athenagoras ranks as “first among equals." They are Pat riarch Christopher of Alexand ria, Patriarch Theodosios VI of Antioch and All the Orient, Patriarch German of the Ser bian Orthodox Church, and Pat riarch Justinian of the Ro manian Orthodox Church. ACCORDING TO the report, no replies have been received from Patriarch Alexei of the Russian Orthodox or Arch bishop Chrysostom, Primate of the Orthodox Church in Greece, to a letter from Patriarch Athenaboras informing them of his plans to meet with the Pope. However, it was believed a de legation would arrive here soon from the Russian Church to dis cuss the matter. Meanwhile, it was learned, the Holy Synod of the Ecumeni cal Patriarchate was convened to discuss details of the Pat riarch’s trip to Jerusalem and the subjects to be discussed while he is there. A BELGRADE Radio report quoted Patriarch German as saying that he "welcomes and completely agrees with the scheduled meeting between Patriarch Athenagoras and the Pope in Jerusalem on Jan. 6." This was in reply to a cabled message in which Patriarch Athenagoras disclosed that Pope Paul had informed him he was unable to accept the patriarch *s original proposal — a "summit meeting" of heads of various Christian Churches — because of the character and program of the Pope’s pilgri mage and because of the short ness of time. Instead, the Pope suggested a personal meeting between them. A VATICAN Radio broadcast said that with the time of the Pope’s pilgrimage drawing closer, preparations were being made “with ever greater in tensity" in Jordan and Israel for “a worthy welcome to the Roman pontiff." Squads of Jordan and Israeli workers, it reported, were working at top speed to repair the road from Jordan to Na zareth, which lies in Israel, and to remove all traces of the Arab-Israel conflict along the route. THE STATION said that in Nazareth, as Christmas tour ists begin to pour in by the thousands, the Muslim mayor and the Christian deputy mayor were "working without respite" in a special office set up in the town hall for the coordination of all arrangements for the Pope's visit to the place where Christ grew to manhood. The Israeli Radio reported that President Zalman Shazar will formally welcome Pope Paul to Israel in a state cere mony on Jan. 5 at the ruins of Migiddo or Armageddon, rather than in the Jerusalem capital or at such usual places as the Lydda Airport. THE MAYOR of the Jordan- held Old City in Jerusalem has announced that he will offer the Pope, as a souvenir of his visit, a medal in mother of pearl, the work of well-known craftsmen. In a Christmas message to his co-religionists, Anglican Bishop Najib Atallah Cuba’ in, whose jurisdiction embraces Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, ex pressed the wish that the “highly appreciated" visit of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) IN COUNCIL POST. Ameri can-born Bishop John E. Tay lor, O.M.I., of Stockholm, Sweden, has been named to a new seat on the Second Vatican Council’s commission on the Sacraments. Born in East St. Louis, Ill., 40 years ago, Bishop Taylor went to Denmark in 1958 to begin work to open a mission to Greenland. He was conse crated bishop in Stockholm’s city hall in 1962.