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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. 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