Newspaper Page Text
4
w
e
4
t
4
4
PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964
HISTORIAN SA YS:
Religious Liberty
Declaration Due
STAMPS COMMEMORATE POPE'S PILGRIMAGE. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
issued postage stamps in four denominations to mark the historic pilgrimage of Pope
Paul VI to the Holy Land. The Pontiff landed in Jordan to begin his visits to the holy
places. All the stamps bear the likenesses of Pope Paul VI and King Hussein of Jordan.
The 14 fils stamp, upper left, has a reproduction of the Mosque of El-Aksa; the 35 fils
stamp, upper right, the Dome of the Rock; the 50 fils stamp, lower left, the Basilica of
the Holy Sepulchre, and the 80 fils stamp, lower right, a scene in Nazareth. (NC Photos)
POPE DECLARES
Pilgrimage Added Another
‘Dimension’ To His Office
SAN FRANCISCO (NC)—
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis said
here that the Catholic Church
must make an "authoritative
and unequivocal" declaration
of its support for religious lib
erty.
The noted Church historian
said non-Catholics are looking
for such a statement by the
ecumenical council and only if
it is forthcoming will Catho
lics be able to participate fully
in the movement for Christian
unity.
MSGR. ELLIS preached be
fore a congregation of more
than 1,200 persons, many of
them non-Cathollcs, at a Chair
of Unity Octave Mass in Old
St. Mary's church here. A pro
fessor of history at the Catho
lic University of America for
30 years, Msgr. Ellis recently
Joined the faculty of the Uni
versity of San Francisco,
He said the Church must en
dorse the principle of freedom
of conscience in religion in a
statement from "the highest
doctrinal authority in the
Church."
NOTING THAT the council's
second session did not take
conclusive action on the relig
ious freedom issue, he said:
'There is all the more reason
why you and I must pray and
work during the interval be
tween now and the opening of the
council's third session in Sep
tember, 1964, to impress upon
our bishops how ardently we de
sire this indispensable aid to
Best Wishes
St. Mary's Parish
Insured Savings
Home Financing
Citizens
S avingfs
Main Office
705 Broad Street
Watt Hewn Branch
Shorter Are. A Divides
the cause of Christian unity,
He said U. S. Catholic Bis
hops have supported the prin
ciple of religious liberty from
the time of Bishop John Car-
roll up to the present.
HOWEVER, HE said, in some
so-called Catholic countries
with a tradition of Church-State
union it has been a different
story. For that reason, he add
ed, "many outside the fold of
the Church of Rome are still
uneasy concerning what might
happen to their religious rights
were Catholics to become a ma
jority of the population."
Msgr. Ellis noted that Catho
lics, Protestants and Orthodox
have all been guilty at one time
or another of religious persecu
tion. "No religious group in
the United States, for example,
has known historically speaking
what it means to be the object
of hatred, discrimination and
suspicion more than Roman
Catholics," he said.
WHILE ANTI - CATHOLIC
prejudice in the U. S. is "now
greatly dissipated," he said,
"Catholics must not forget that
many outside the Church re
member France's St. Bartho
lomew's Day Massacre of 1572,
the acts of the Spanish Inquisi
tion, and the more recent dis
crimination shown toward all
who were not Catholics in a
number of countries where the
Latin tradition prevails.
'Thus, if the ecumenical
movement is to be given a
chance for genuine fulfillment
the Church must meet the in
sistent demand of other Chris
tians for an authoritative and
unequivocal statement on free
dom for every man to decide
his religious commitment ac
cording to the dictates of his
conscience."
IN SEEKING unity, Msgr.El
lis said, Christians must com
bine prayer and work with
"complete candor toward the
darker pages of our histories”.
"We should have a spirit of
humility like that shown by
Pope Paul VI on Sept. 29, 1963,
in his sermon at the opening of
the second session of Vatican
Council II, when he humbly
begged the pardon of repre
sentatives of the Orthodox and
Protestant communions for any
injury that the Catholic Church
may have done to them in the
past," he said.
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope
Paul VI has revealed that the
enthusiasm of the crowds along
the route of his pilgrimage in the
Holy Land brought home to him
"another dimension" of the of
fice he holds.
He described it as "that uni
versal fatherhood which the
coronation ceremony expresses
in its hieratic language when it
proclaims the new Pope 'guide
of the world — rectorem mun-
di.* "
THE POPE described his new
experience in a Speech to dip-
ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Legislation designed to pro
cure and protect the civil rights
of all citizens was urged by in
a resolution approved by the
board of directors of the Arch-
diocesen Council of Catholic
Men at their quarterly meeting
in Marietta. The resolution
states:
Whereas, the outstanding
social problem facing this
country today is that of obtain
ing equal opportunity for mem
bers of all racial and ethnic
groups; and
WHEREAS, the Catholic Bi
shops of the United States have
repeatedly proclaimed that the
quest for interracial justice
embodies a moral and religious
issue, and have called upon all
Catholic lay organizations to
work for the realization of in
terracial justice; and
Whereas, there is now pend
ing before the legislative bodies
of our nation, our state and some
CAPETOWN, So. Africa
(RNS)* — Catholic Archbishop
Denis E. Hurley of Durban, in
a slashing attack on the govern
ment's apartheid (racial segre
gation) policy, warned that a
day of reckoning is bound to
come unless South Africa faces
up to what he called "a crisis
of the Christian conscience."
He called on Christians to
engage in a vigorous crusade
aimed at reforming the coun
try’s social and racial patterns.
At the same time be cautioned
that instead of boycotting South
Africa, opponents of apartheid
in other countries should
"overwhelm it with business"
so that integration could become
"a paying proposition."
DELIVERING THE major ad
dress at the annual conference
of the South African Institute of
Race Relations, he told a packed
multiracial audience that
"white South Africa must de
cide whether it is to face a
reckoning of revenge or frater
nal recognition."
"The hunger in the heart of
the African, the Colored and
the Asian is not for the bread
lomats accredited to the Holy
renewal of personal contact af
ter centuries of separation "is
not already the announcement
and the premonition of develop
ments which with God's help
might lead one day to the union
so strongly desired?'*
Pope Paul noted that this pil
grimage had had "an unexpect
ed reverberation among public
authorities and in public opin
ion." He asked the reason for
this worldwide interest.
HIS ANSWER was in the form
of another question. He asked:
of our cities, legislation de
signed to promote and protect
the civil rights and opportunit
ies of all citizens regardless
of race;
Now therefore, be it resolved
that we do hereby urge and
entreat the Congress of the
United States, the General As
sembly of the State of Georgia,
and our local governing
authorities to promptly enact
legislation designed to procure
and protect the civil rights of
all of our citizens, of whatever
race, and to afford each citizen
an equal opportunity to realize
his God-given dignity.
RESOLVED further that a
copy of this resolution be for
warded by the Secretary to each
member of the Georgia Con
gressional delegation, to each
member of the General As
sembly of Georgia and to mem
bers of appropriate local
governing bodies.
of the white man, nor for oc
casional recognition, but for
everyday acceptance of his hu
man dignity," he declared amid
prolonged applause.
SOUTH AFRICA'S population,
in round figures, numbers 3,100
000 whites, 11,000,000 Bantu
(Natives), 500,000 Indians and
1,250,000 Coloreds of mixed
racial stock.
Scoring attempts to justify
racial segregation, Archbishop
Hurley said that for South Africa
to try to sell apartheid to the
West was like "trying to sell
bows and arrows to the Ame
rican Army."
"THE EVIL OF apartheid,"
he said, "is that it refuses
recognition of human dignity,
— by every cruel refinement of
law, custom and convention — to
men and women created with
an Inborn hunger for recogni
tion and acceptance by their
fellowmen."
The archbishop said that in
adhering to apartheid, "a policy
that is decades out of date and
threatens to leave (the country)
far behind in history,"
"Was there not in this spon
taneous homage rendered the
chief of the Catholic Church the
encouraging sign of a desire, of
an expectation, of an aspiration
of the men of our time toward
the moral and spiritual values
they see represented in the per
son of the Pope?"
He added: "As for us — and
we say it in the simplicity of
our heart — we seem to feel
our fatherhood expanding to the
dimensions of the world in wait
ing.
"AND JUST AS the greeting
of Rome on our return gave us
with new intensity the measure
of the mysterious bond that
unites the Pope to his diocese,
so the ovations of the crowds
we met on our pilgrimage made
us experience with Inexpressi
ble emotion another dimension
of the trust we are clothed with,
that universal fatherhood which
the coronation liturgy express
es in its hieratic language when
it proclaims the new pope 'guide
of the world *— rectorem mun-
di.’
"Not that this formula must
be understood —thatgoes with
out saying — in the sense given
it by the bygone epoch when it
was conceived and in part ap
plied. But it points out very
well, beyond the historic and
psychological changes, the per
manent character of a mission
that transcends all frontiers to
embrace humanity, and toward
which humanity in certain pri
vileged moments instinctively
turns as toward the pole of
unity, of truth, of longed-for
peace."
POPE PAUL pointed to one
such privileged moment in re
cent history. "We have exper
ienced together, dear gentle
men, under the pontificate of
our great predecessor, John
XXIII, one of those privileged
instants. And here, in the wake
of that unforgettable Pontiff,
without having sought it, we have
just been witnesses in our turn
of one of those vast manifesta
tions of popular approval which
set the innermost fibre of our
soul tingling."
The Pope's speech was given
in reply to an address of homage
by the dean of the diplomatic
corps, Belgian Ambassador
Prosper Poswick. The diplo
mats had asked for an audience
with the Pope to welcome him
back from his pilgrimage.
Urges Use
Of Laymen
MANCHESTER, England fl4C)
—A Benedictine monk said here
that bishops who employed lay
men as secretaries and laymen
to edit pastoral letters would
help bridge the gulf between the
clergy and laity.
Father Christopher Delaney,
O.S.B , of Buckfast Abbey, De
von, said in an address to the
Newman Association that lay
men also should be put in charge
of diocesan finances and that
bishops should have doctors ad
vising them on medico-moral
problems.
'There should be," he said,
in addition, "brighter and bet
ter presbyteries, so that people
will be encouraged to come to
them, rather than be discour
aged by a frosty housekeeper
and a forbidding parlor resemb
ling a dentist’s waiting room."
Julian Harrison, Inc.
£«&« S»uicm . . . c7L;', Q or a fur.
1312 Turner McCall Boulevard
Rome, Georgia
Phone*: Office 232-6504
GLASS
SERVICE CO.
GLASS
224 N. 5TH. AVE.
ROME, GEORGIA
BEST WISHES
COCA COLA
BOTTLING CO
OF ROME, GA.
Archdiocesan Men
Urge Legislation
PRELATE WARNS
S. Africa Facing
Apartheid Crisis
COUNCIL TOLD
Church, State Too Close;
Anticlericalism Results
ROME (NC)-It has been con
firmed here that a statement
by Basque priests presented to
the ecumenical council blamed
widespread anticlericalism in
Spain on the excessively close
ties between Church and State
there.
The hundreds of priest who
signed the document urged the
council to end participation of
the Spanish government in the
appointment of bishops, saying
this is the basic reason for the
hierarchy's lack of freedom in
carrying out its work.
THE STATEMENT claimed
that disregard of men’s rights
by Spain's officially Catholic
government, which is supported
by most Spanish Bishops, has
led to the loss of the Church's
prestige, estranged many
Catholics from it and created
grave problems of conscience
for priests.
The priests also listed a
number of political and econo
mic evils which, it said, the
bishops should not ignore.
The signers—who work in
the northern Spanish provinces
of Alava, Guipuzcoa, Navarre
and Vizcaya — noted that the
anticlericalism which has
grown up since the regime of
Francisco Franco came to po-
wer^? years ago has been miti
gated in recent years by the
efforts of the ecumenical coun
cil, Pope John XXIII and Pope
Paul VI, and by the increased
"pastoral and evangelical" ac
tivities of the Spanish clergy.
THE STATEMENT was pre
sented to the council and the
Papal Secretariat of State by
four Spanish-born bishops from
the Basque area who head Sees
outside that country, although
two of the m live there. The
priests said these prelates had
given their declaration to the
council so as not to embarrass
heads of Spanish dioceses who
have to maintain good relations
with the government.
The bishops are Bishop Igna
cio Larranaga Lasa, O.F.M.
Cap., of Pingliang, China, who
is exiled from his See and now
lives in Fuenterrabia, Spain:
Bishop Leon Olano y Urteaga,
O.F.M. Cap., former Apostolic
Vicar of Guam who now lives
In San Sebastian, Spain; Bishop
Martin Elorza Legaristl, Or
dinary of the independent pre-
lature of Moyobamba, Peru; and
Bishop Carlos Anasagasti, O.
F.M., Apostolic Vicar of El
Beni, Bolivia.
The document declared:
"During the past 27 years
a great gulf has been opened
between the Church and the
people entrusted to our care.
The faith of even the most fer
vent believers has been infect
ed with a strong andclerical-
ism. Church authorities do not
inspire in them the same res-
pect...They do not refrain from
airing their protests."
The priests continued:
"One of the chief causes,
though not the only one, of
the gulf opened between the
Church and the people is the
fact that the Church in Spain
appears to be excessively linked
to the political regime. Thus the
Church is held responsible for
the actions of the state. In the
opinion of the people, this link
...restrains the freedom of the
hierarchy, which finds itself
forced to remain significantly
silent in the face of an obvious
and systematic transgression of
law."
The priests then asked the
council to end government par
ticipation in the appointment
of bishops, saying:
"SINCE IN the council you
will soon deal with Church-State
relations, we ask that there be
established at the earliest pos
sible date, on behalf of the
Church throughout the world,
freedom in the naming of bis
hops, ending any nomination of
bishops by the civil power.This
is the fundamental cause of the
lack of freedom of the hier
archy in the exercise of its
ministry."
The concordate between the
Holy See and Spain, signed in
1953, confirms a 1941 agree
ment under whose terms the
apostolic nuncio obtains the ap
proval of the government prior
to sending a list of candidates
to the Holy See for dioceses
which are sent to the govern
ment so that the chief of state
may officially choose one of
them. The agreement also gua
rantees full freedom in carrying
out their work.
The statement said that in
their country recently anti
clericalism’s "impact has been
counteracted by 1) the publi
cation of Mater et Magistra, 2)
by Pacem in Terris, 3) by the
orientation of the (ecumenical)
council, 4) John XXIII, 5) Paul
VI, 6) by the greater pastoral
and evangelical orientation the
clergy has begun to follow in
nearly all the dioceses of Spain,
7) by the publication in Spain
of pastoral documents of social
impact and the determined at-
tions of the Cardinal Primate
(Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel
of Toledo) in defense of Catho
lic labor organizations, a just
press law and true trade union
groups."
THE BASQUE priests stated:
‘Trampling on men’s rights
by a non-Christian government
does not in any way harm the
prestige of the Chruch. But when
this happens in a government
which is officially Catholic, a
government which has the sup
port of the larger part of the
hierarchy, the Church loses
prestige, the members of the
Chruch withdraw, the whole
world is scandalized and grave
problems of conscience are
created for priests personally
and in their pastoral work."
The declaration listed "some
of the realities of the Spanish
state which the people feel the
hierarchy should not keep silent
about." These were;
• A totalitarian political'
system with a single party head
ed by a minister of die govern
ment. The suppression of other
parties, even those which took
part in the Civil War (1936-
1939) on the side of the winners.
a The rights of the human
person conferred by the Spanish
Charter are not being applied,
nor is judicial action being al
lowed (as the nation’s Supreme
Court proclaimed in a particu
lar case) due to the absolute
lact of legislation and regula
tions concerning the proclaimed
principles.
• There is no opposition
press...There is a rigid cen
sorship and a state monopoly
of information, except for that
strictly agreed to in the con
cordat on behalf of the Church.
There is no law of the press...
despite repeated promises by
the Ministry of Information.
• Strikes are declared to
be illegal and a crime.
• The rights of groups and
ethnic minorities are neither
recognized nor duly res
pected."
India Abortion
NEW DELHI. India (NC)—
Abortion may be legalized in
India if the birth rate continues
at a high level, the country's
deputy education minister, Mrs.
Sundaram Ramachandran, said'
at a family planning seminar
here.
- - «Uligv —■—
document has not been ser
directly to our own prelates
No displeasure or lack of con
sideration was intended, bt
only the desire to avoid th
difficult situations in their
relations with civil authority.’
ANDREWS MOTOR CO.
411 Second Av#.
ROME, GEORGIA
Chrysler & Imperial
Fine Cars - Fine Service - Fine Deals
Telephone 232-6567
PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. INC.
OF ROME, GEORGIA
HIGHWAY 53, NORTH • ROME, GEORGIA
TELEPHONE: 232-9788
iUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ^
PSICOLA
fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Sa, Jt Will, P..U
Best Wishes St. Mary’s Parish
DENNIS HODGES
OFFICE SUPPLY CO.
114-116 E. 1st Ave.
Rome, Ga.
BEST WISHES
ST. MARY’S PARISH
R
0ME
Ne
ws
T
RIBUNE