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s PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964 NATIONAL PRESS Cardinal Says Communism Must Live With Church WASHINGTON (NC) —Fran- zlskus Cardinal Koening of Vienna told member* of the National Press Club here (April 6) he believes communist nations will eventually learn to live with the Catholic Church. “We have only one world and we must live together/' he said. THE AUSTRIAN Cardinal, whose own country is dedicated to neutrality betweeiTthe Eas tern and Western blocks, said that “in time” some practical solution: will be found, even if the official anti-religious pol icy of the communists does not change. “The official policy of the communists states that religion should be eliminated because if is against social progress/* said Cardinal Koenig, “But evolution shows that the eli mination of religion is imposs ible. Some of the Soviet lea ders are beginning to realize it is impossible/' AS AN example, he said the government of Hungary will eventually be forced to find some compromise between its official policy and the religion to which most of its citizens- adhere. The Cardinal, who has serv ed as a Vatican emissary to Hungary in negotiations re garding the freedom of Jozsef Cardinal Mlndszenty, said the eventual release of the Hun garian Primate “depends upon what Hungary is willing to do/* especially by permitting the Holy See to fill some vacant Sees in that country and allow ing religious education “to a certain extent/* HE SAID Cardinal Minds- zfcnty “is inclined in a way to stay there but ready to leave th country if the Pope wants him to.’’ On other Issues Koenig said: Cardinal delegate visits Pontiff Donates To Alaskan Aid ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NC)— The Apostolic Delegate in the United States carried personal ly to the people of Alaska the blessings of Pope Paul VI and a token contribution of $10,000 for relief work. Archbishop Egidlo Vagnozzl came here from Washington, D. C„ (April 3) and made an inspection tour of damage in the earthquake stricken area here and in Kodiak and Seward. THE prelate also appeared (April 5) on local television. He said he was sent by Pope Paul to “evidence the Pontiff’s con cern and affectionfor the people of Alaska in these trying days/* “It is comforting to see the spirit of the people surfing re construction/* said the Arch bishop. “The Important thing ■TAKE CARE’ is to go back to work, not to lose faith in the future of Alaska and its possibilities/' Archbishop Vagnozzl pre sented the papal relief contri bution to Bishop Dermot 0* Flanagan of Juneau. The Bish op had flown down to Seattle, Wash., to meet the papal dele gate and accompanied him on the visit here. IN ANCHORAGE, th* Arch bishop went (April 6) to Provi dence Hospital, which cared for most of th* Injured in this area despite moderately severe damage to its facilities, The Apostolic Delegate, ac companied by Sister Barbara Ellen, hospital administrator, offered Mass in the hosplul chapel and then visited the ser iously injured, bringing words of comfort and encouragement, Russians Denounce Anti-Semitic Book $ee editorial, page 4) BERLIN )C) —An anti relig ious book filled with assults against Jews has been denounc ed by th* Ideological Comm les ion of the Soviet Communist party. A statement adopted by the commission was published in Pravda, the Moscow organ of the communist party. Accord ing to a copy of Pravda rece ived here, the book was attack ed not because itassulted Jews, but rather because it “feeds anti-Soviet Insinuations." THE BOOK, earlier cri ticized by communist parties in the West, is entitled “Judaism Without Embellishment. It was produced by the Ukrainian Aca- 1 demy of Sciences. The ideological commission said the book contained state ments and illustrations that “may be Interpreted in a spirit of anti-Semitism. . .and merely feed anti-Soviet insinuations of our ideological foes, who are trying at all costs to create a so-called Jewish question." The Commission praised what it called the author's zeal “to disclose the reactionary essence of the Jewish relig ion," but it said he had gone too far and cautioned press and publishing groups to approach such material “most thorough ly** in th* future, THE CONDEMNATION came from the same commission which met last December to adopt a program for an intensi fied struggle against religion. (Th* book was criticized in Washington, D. C. (April 6) at a meeting of 24 major Jewish organizations convened to pro test anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Sen. Abraham Riblcoff of Connecticut called the book “a beastly anti-Semitic volume" which is part of the called which is part of the Soviet propaganda drive against the Jewish religion.) —That the election of a non- Italian Pope “will probably not come at the next election. —That he could not believe rumors" that the coming third session of the Vatican council would be the final one. He said a fourth session might besuffl- flclent to end the work of the council Fathers. —That the College of Cardi nals should reflect the propor tional numbers of Catholics in different countries. —That “'early in the next session" the council wouldfor- mally vote its approval of re ligious liberty for all people. — That the decentralization of Church authority in the Ro man Curia is “very nec essary," and that in time it will be accomplished. Cardinal Koelng is in Washington to participate in the 175th anniversary program og Georgetown University. He will also receive an honorary de gree from the Catholic Uni versity of America. “Th* fault may lie in the fact that Pope John was urging for the winding up of the cen tral commission by the end of June, 1962, So that actually there was no proper executive body to curtlal the spate of material which flowed in right at the beginning," he said, “If there had been someth ing at the time like the pre sent coordinating commission, the problems which followed later and were the cause of so many difficulties among the council commissions would have been avoided.'* CARDINAL Koenig took ex ception with those who claimed that council debates have been .too long and repetitious. While it is true, he said, that some timetable might have been set, the speeches nevertheless reflected the desire of Pope John and Pope Paul for free and open debate. Even long de bates, he said, helped to clari fy public opinion. Cardinal Koenig, one of sev eral visitor* this year to mark Georgetown's 175th anniver sary, is now on a speaking tour of th* United States. He was presented with a commemora tive medal of the occasion by Georgetown's president, Fath er Edward B. Bunn, S, J. VATICAN ANNOUNCES World Prayer Day For Vocations Set VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first world Day of Prayer for religious vocations will be ob served April 12—Good Shep herd Sunday— Vatican Radio declared in a broadcast ad dressed to Catholics in all parts of the globe. It said the observance was announced by Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican Secretary of State, in a lett er Jan. 23 to the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, “which is the Holy See's department concerned with training menfor the priest hood." THE STATION said the ob servance was strongly desir ed by Pope Paul VI “to unite the prayers of the whole world in one great effort, and to make mankind more conscious of the problem of ecclesiastical vo cations." "In particular, it is hoped," Vatican Radio added, “that parents will realize how noble it is for one of their family to STUDENT AUDIENCE Catholic University Ideal Hailed By Pope CYO ORATORICAL CONTEST WINNERS—Among the winners of the National CYO Oratorical Contest, held in Washington were Pat Marz, 16, of Houston, Tex as, first prize in the teenage boys' division and Susan Schemenauer, 17, of Toledo, Ohio, first in the teenage girls* division. They are shown with Msgr. Frederick J. Stevenson, national di rector of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) and Walter D. Hyle Jr., national com mander of the Catholic War 1 Veterans, donor of the trophies and scholarships. HAUNTED SENTRY-BOX Ghost Defeats Australians MALACCA, Malaya (NC)— This is the story about a Ca tholic church, a Moslem spirit -doctor, and a ghost that de feated the Australian Army. The story, as the Australians sadly admit, is true. IT ALL started when the com mandant of the Australian Army base of Terendak, near this city, decided to build a Catholic chapel for his soldiers. The site chosen was a level place at the base of a hill. There was only one trouble: Right next to the building site were two graves, said to be those of Malayan heroes, and a small temple which, the com mandant was assured by local residents, was the dwelling of the heroes’ souls. NOW THE moved, but temple had to be the commandant didn't want to offend tne native "bomoh,'' a spirit-doctor con sidered a fake by many or thodox Moslems, and asked him to move the ghosts to some other habitation. The big day arrived. The bomoh drove up in a car carry ing a large box. As the Aus tralians welted expectantly, the bomoh set the box on the ground, opened its lid, lit some candles and began chanting incantations. A few minutes of this and the ghosts were safely in the box. The lid was put on, the box placed in the car, and with a sigh of relief the commandant watched the bomoh drive off, THAT SHOULD have been the end of the story. But that's when it really began. Armies everywhere reserve the right of administrative con fusion. In this case, someone neglected to tell the guard at the OF JEWS, CHRISTIANS Goldberg Condemns Soviet Persecution be called to the priesthood, so that they might encourage the seed of vocation in their home." ALL OVER the world, th* sta tion said, “priests will be en couraged to explain the nat ure of the religious calling and young men will be asked to answer the divine appeal, and to answer it in the face of all difficulties." Vatican Radio noted that a Vo cation Day has been celebrated in the Italian diocese since April, 1961, when the obser vance was approved by the late Pope John XXIII. IT SAID “the good results achieved in all the Italian dio ceses led to the extention of Vo cation Day to the whole world," adding that priests everywhere will celebrate special Masses for its success. April 12 is known as Good Shepherd Sunday because the Gospel that day relates the par able of the Good Shepherd. WASHINGTON (NC) — Asso ciate Justice Arthur J. Gold berg of the Supreme Court said here all men of good will should speak out against religious per secution in the Soviet Union. Goldberg spoke (April 6) to a protest meeting sponsored here by 24 Jewish organizations assembled to raise their voices against Russia's treatment of Jews. Soviet Jewry was descri bed as th* most severely limit ed of. the religious groups in the USSR. GOLDBERG ,told the confer ence: “We are*hot and cannot be unmindful of the plight of the great body of people in the Sov iet Union whose human right to freedom of religious exer cise is substantially curtailed. “The discrimination against Jews by the government of the Soviet Union is an aspect of overall discrimination against all religious groups." But he said the evidence is “overwhelming" that Jews are more limited than others and that discrimination against them has reached “the propor tions of virulent anti-Semi tism." “THE TRAGIC experience of mankind with th* cancer of anti- Semitism so fresh in the minds of all makes it imperative that those who believe in the dignity of man and in human right* speak out in vigorous protest," he said. Goldberg, in stressing th* brotherhood of man, touched upon the controversial Rolf Hochhuth drama accusing Pope Pius XII of falling to speak out against nazi persecution of Jews. “I believe that the dramatist did not do justice to that great and good Pontiff, Pope Plus XII. Jews are and ever should be grateful for what the Pope and the Catholic Church did to re scue innocent Jewish victims of nazi Insanity and barbar ism," he said. Pius X Nurse Miss Elizabeth Shannon, R. N„ of the Public Health Ser vice will take over home econo mics classes at St. Plus X for six days. gate oi the camp about the bomoh and his box. The car stopped at the gate. The guard said he'd have to look in the box. THE BOMOH protested: there are two ghosts in the boxl Ha, ha, said the guard, let's look in the box. But the ghosts may escapel The guard was firm. He had to look in the box. You might have known it. When the lid was lifted the bomoh cried out in dismay and pointed at the guard's red sen try box. One of the ghosts, he said, had escaped and was lod ged in the sentry box. ONCE AGAIN the candles and incantations were resorted to, but the angered ghost refused to budge. There was only one thing to do. With considerable embarrassment, and some un kind words muttered under his breath, the commandant agreed to have the sentry box moved back to the hill. If you ever go to the Aus tralian Army base ofTerendak, be sure to admire the new Ca tholic chapel there. But, please, don't ask them what that red sentry box is doing all by it self halfway up the hill. They wouldn't like it, VATICAN CITY—A Catholic university offers a solution to the age-old question of the re lation of knowledge which comes from faith and that which comes from reason, Pope Paul VI told more than 8,000 stud ents from Milan's Catholic Uni versity of the Sacred Heart. The students came down to Rome to visit their former Archbishop of Milan, now the Pope and Patriarch of the West. POPE Paul celebrated Mass for them in St. Peter's at eight o'clock in the morning (April 6). After reading the Gospel of the day, the Pope spoke to the stu dents at length on the nature and the task of Catholic uni versities. A Catholic university is the institution in which there is answered, he said, “the ques tion of the relation between the two teaching bodies, the eccles iastical and the worldly, that which is founded on divine thought and that founded on hu man thought—one stemming from faith and the other from reason." Catholic universities do not solve the problem by denying the legitimacy of one or the other areas of knowledge, the Pope said. What they do, he ex plained, is solve such a problem by “denying that there is an ob jective, lrreconsliable opposi tion between the two truths, faith and science. . . “IT. IS an age-old question which the Catholic university does not solve by severing one from of thought, the purely re ligious, from the other, the strictly rational, as if they were two Irreconcilable and uncom- munlcable moments of the hu man mind, like foreigners speaking a different langu age. . /' Instead, Pop* Paul went on, a Catholic university discovers and examines “the respective competences and the reciprocal inter-relations' of the two sources of human knowledge. THE POPE noted the “exis tence of this dualism, that is to say of the two different sour ces of human knowledge, will always be realized by those who accept Christian Revelation as true and also who recognize as certain the logical conclusion of scientific research. It will as sume, in cultural cycles, dif ferent expressions— always lively, always dramatic and al ways fruitiful—for those who are teachers and students at a- Catholic university." The Pope concluded by urging all those present to remain close thought, nor an impedi ment to scientific research, nor an unnecessary burden for streamlined modern spiritua lity. Rather it is a light, a voice, a discovery which ex pands the sould and makes life and the world understandable. Faith is the happiness of know ledge, of the knowledge of truth. Shared Time PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — Shared time programs at the three public technical high schools here have been prais ed by both public and Catholic school officials. Since last Sep tember, 111 Catholic high school tenth graders have been spending half of each school day in the public; technical schools. The number is expected to be doubled next fall, according to Msgr. Edward T. Hughes, su perintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. BYBEBT • MINTINO • IITHOOIAPHINO" Tllnlty 1-4727 Strtlui Alltali Slttt till CDMPANY 330 FOIRIST IOAD. N. I. ATLANTA, OIOROIA STUDENTS from Our Lady's Day School are shown enjoying an Easter Egg Hunt at Drexel High School. The 15 children were accompanied by their teacher, Sister Mary Simeon, RSM and seven parents. Mrs. Reese, Drexel’s art instruc tor, helped the visitors to model ornaments. 1964 PILGRIMAGE SHRINES of EUROPE July 21 to August 11, Sponsored By The Georgia Bulletin RESERVATIONS WRITE TO: CATHOLIC TRAVEL OFFICE DUPONT CIRCLE BUILDING WASHINGTON 6, D.C. Killarney . Dublin • AyUsford Paris • Versailles * Lisieux • Lourdes Rome • Assisi • Lisbon • Fatima All-Inclusive Rate 8897.00 Rev. John J. Mulroy Pastor St. Joseph's Athens, Georgia (Spiritual Director) Pope Paul VI RATE INCLUDES: Air transportation Jet Economy Service on group fare, comfortable hotels, twin-bedded room* with bath, all meals, sightseeing as specified in the itinerary, me®^ n g*» transfers, and entrance fees. Travel By © airlines